On July 8, 2000, Venus Williams wins at Wimbledon for the first time.

Kim Il-Sung, the communist dictator of North Korea since 1948, dies of a heart attack at the age of 82.

A battalion of the U.

Col. Carlos Castillo Armas is elected president of the junta that overthrew the administration of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in late June 1954.

The day after the U.N.

On July 8, 1918, Ernest Hemingway, an 18-year-old ambulance driver for the American Red Cross, is struck by a mortar shell while serving on the Italian front, along the Piave delta, in World War I.

Pioneering Automatic Cannon Patent Precedes Civil War Innovations by Nearly a Decade

Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, representing the U.

Through peace and war the sky was the limit for Zeppelin airships, named after their German inventor – until the Hindenburg disaster put an end to the dream.

Revolutionary Vaccination: How a Harvard Doctor Battled Smallpox and Fought for Vaccine Purity