What events in history happened on July 8th?
1709 - Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava: Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.
1889 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
1948 - The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
1969 - IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer.
1999 - Allen Lee Davis is executed by electric chair by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida.
2003 - 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.
For more, check out the wikipedia article or BBC's 'On This Day'
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