On July 8
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly July 8 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Jul 5 – Jul 11)
Full-scale war between China and Japan erupted after the Marco Polo Bridge (Lugou Bridge) Incident near Beijing on 7 July 1937, when a clash between Japanese and Chinese troops escalated into a Japanese invasion of the Chinese heartland.
On 6 July 1885 the French chemist Louis Pasteur, with physicians Jacques-Joseph Grancher and Alfred Vulpian, administered an experimental rabies vaccine to nine-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been severely bitten by a rabid dog days…
In July 1995, during the final stages of the Bosnian War, units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska under General Ratko Mladic overran the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, which the United Nations had declared a 'safe area'…
On 5 July 1996, scientists at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland, produced Dolly, the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell.
The African Union (AU) was formally launched on 9 July 2002 in Durban, South Africa, succeeding the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) that had been founded in 1963.
On 10 July 2008 Apple opened the App Store with around 500 applications, providing a single, curated platform where outside developers could distribute software directly to iPhone users and share in the revenue.
On 6 July 2018 the United States imposed 25% tariffs on 34 billion US dollars of Chinese imports, the first phase of a broader package, and China retaliated immediately with equivalent duties on American goods such as soybeans, pork and…
On 17 January 1893 a Committee of Safety dominated by American and European business interests, backed by the landing of US Marines from the USS Boston ordered by minister John L.