What to remember about July 8th…
- 1654 Jacob Barsimson departs Holland for New Amsterdam (New York); first known Jewish settler to arrive in the colonies
- 1776 Liberty Bell is rung at Pennsylvania State House (later Independence Hall) to announce the Declaration of Independence
- 1853 Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay with 4 Black Ships, ends 200 years of Japanese isolationism
- 1863 Confederate forces surrender Port Hudson, Louisiana
- 1876 Hamburg Massacre; 7 black Republicans murdered by white mob in Democrat campaign for South Carolina’s “Redemption”
- 1891 Future President Warren G. Harding marries divorcee Florence Mabel King DeWolfe in Marion, Ohio
- 1947 U.S. Air Force releases statement that a “flying disk” had crashed and was recovered near Roswell, New Mexico; opinions vary
- 1960 U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage after being shot down over the USSR
- 1960 Havana Sugar Kings baseball team moves to New Jersey because of Cuban nationalization of all U.S.-owned enterprises
- 2010 Solar Impulse piloted by André Borschberg completes 1st 24-hour flight by a solar-powered aircraft
- 2011 NASA launches Atlantis on the final mission of the Space Shuttle program
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