Historical Events on July 8 (Part 2)

Inception

2010 "Inception", directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, premieres in London

2010 During 1st round of the John Deere Classic, Paul Goydos becomes the 4th, and oldest player in PGA Tour history to shoot 59; round included 12 birdies and 6 pars
2011 Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program
2012 Roadside car bomb kills 14 civilians in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province

Election of Interest

2012 Tens of thousands protest over election corruption in Mexico City after Enrique Peña Nieto's win in the country's presidential election

2012 US Open Women's Golf, Blackwolf Run: Na Yeon Choi of South Korea wins her first major championship, 4 strokes ahead of compatriot Amy Yang

Wimbledon Men's Tennis

2012 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roger Federer wins 7th Wimbledon and 17th Grand Slam title; beats Andy Murray 4-6 7-5 6-3 6-4

2013 42 people killed, hundreds injured after the Egyptian army raids a sit-in protest in Cairo
2013 A dozen people are killed and injured after a hotel collapses in Hyderabad, India

FIFA World Cup

2014 FIFA World Cup: Germany defeat Brazil by a record 7-1 in the semi-finals to make it to the final; Miroslav Klose of Germany breaks the World Cup goal scoring record with 16 goals

Event of Interest

2014 Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu instructs his defence forces to "take their gloves off" against Hamas and to take any means necessary to "restore peace" to Israeli citizens

Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu

2015 The New York Stock Exchange stops trading for nearly four hours due to a technical error
2015 The NFL's Washington Redskins have their trademark vacated on the grounds it may cause offence to native Americans
2016 Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri is the first woman to be appointed artistic director at French fashion house Christian Dior
2017 British Lions tie 15-15 with New Zealand All Blacks in their 3rd rugby match to tie the series
2017 Unesco declares Asmara, capital of Eritrea, a world heritage site for its Art Deco buildings

Event of Interest

2018 British Brexit Secretary David Davis resigns in a stand against Theresa May's new softer Brexit policy

2018 Eritrea and Ethiopia announce re-establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries after almost 20 years in Asmara, Eritrea
2018 Four boys are the first to be rescued after 16 days, from Tham Luang cave, Thailand, by Thai and international rescue team
2018 South Korean golfer Sei Young Ki breaks LPGA 72-hole scoring record with 31 under-par 257, also first to better -30, in winning Thornberry Creek Classic
2019 Congolese general and rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court in the Hague
2019 Deutsche Bank begins laying off 18,000 employees worldwide as part of large overhaul of its operations
2019 US financier Jeffrey Epstein indicted on further charges of sex trafficking of minors
2020 Americans and Polynesians made contact around 1200 A.D. according to new genomic study in "Nature", people from eastern Polynesia had DNA from indigenous Colombia
2020 Australian city of Melbourne goes back into lockdown for six weeks after second outbreak of 700 active cases
2020 US government issues directive that more than 1 million international students will be stripped of their visas if their courses entirely online

Event of Interest

2021 A tiny Leonardo da Vinci sketch "Head of a Bear", the size of a post-it sells for £8.9 million ($12.2 m) at auction in London [1]

Painter, Scientist and Visionary Leonardo da Vinci

2021 Global known death toll from COVID-19 passes 4 million (equal to all deaths in battle since 1982) [1]
2021 Japan says the Olympics will be held without spectators as Tokyo announces state of emergency due to a surge in COVID-19
2021 MLB Padres relief pitcher Daniel Camarena gets his first hit, in his second career at bat - a grand slam - against Washington Nationals' Max Scherzer, in San Diego

Event of Interest

2021 US President Joe Biden says US troops will withdraw from Afghanistan by August 31, despite increased Taliban gains across the country

46th US President, Vice President and Senator Joe Biden

2021 Zaila Avant-garde, American student, age 14, from Harvey, Louisiana, wins Scripps National Spelling Bee title

Assassination

2022 Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzō Abe assassinated while giving a speech in Nara, Japan

Presidential Medal of Freedom

2022 Gymnast Simone Biles aged 25, becomes the youngest person to receive the US Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden [1]

2023 Airstrike on Sudanese district of Omdurman by the Sudanese army kills at least 22 people including women and children [1]

Elton John's Final Tour

2023 British singer-songwriter Elton John completes his international "Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Final Tour" at the Tele2 Arena in Stockholm, Sweden