07-08-2005, 05:41 AM
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July 8th
1497 ~ Vasco da Gama set sail on his first direct voyage to India.
1663 ~ Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Charter to Rhode Island.
1695 ~ Death of Christiaan Huygens, Dutch Scientist.
1822 ~ Death of Percy Shelley, English poet.
1838 ~ Birthday of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German Inventor.
1882 ~ Birthday of Percy Grainger, Australian Composer.
1889 ~ In the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match, John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain.
1889 ~ The first issue of the Wall Street Journal published.
1969 ~ CICS was made available for the IBM 360 mainframe computer.
1997 ~ Mayo Clinic researchers warned that the dieting-drug "fen-phen" could cause severe heart and lung damage.
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