This site was created to easily navigate collection of various events in history. History is the study of the past, particularly the written record of the human race, but more generally including scientific and archaeological discoveries about the past. It is important to know dates and events in the past.

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July 8th, 2006	Death	June Allyson, American actress (born in 1917)
July 8th, 2006	Death	Peter Hawkins, British actor/voice actor (born in 1924)
July 8th, 2004	Death	Paula Danziger, American author (born in 1944)
July 8th, 2004	Death	Jean Lefebvre, French actor (born in 1922)
July 8th, 2003	Event	Sudan Airways Flight 39, with 116 people on board, crashes in Sudan; the only survivor is a two-year-old boy who subsequently dies as a result of his injuries.
July 8th, 2002	Death	Ward Kimball, American animator (born in 1914)
July 8th, 2001	Death	John O Shea, New Zealand film director (born in 1920)
July 8th, 1999	Event	Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida.
July 8th, 1999	Death	Pete Conrad, American astronaut (born in 1930)
July 8th, 1998	Birth	Jaden Smith, American actor

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