Unix Timestamp: 1089244800
Thursday, July 8. 2004, 12:00:00 AM UTC

The Swiss Solar Impulse project's solar powered plane remains aloft for 24 hours, a record for a solar powered craft. //www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/08/swiss-solar-plane-marks-hours-air/ (AP via Fox News)

The first 24-hour flight by a solar-powered plane is completed by the Solar Impulse.

Debris and bodies from Yemenia Flight 626, which crashed off the Comoros in the Indian Ocean, wash up on Mafia Island, Tanzania. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8140093.stm (BBC)

The Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousaf Raza Gillani denies any involvement in the 2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul. The Government of Afghanistan has hinted that it believes that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence had some involvement. //news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_re_as/afghan_explosion_24 (AP via Yahoo! News) //in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINISL19189120080708 (Reuters)

Leaders of the G8 nations meeting at the 34th G8 summit in Japan agree to a target of cutting world greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2050. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7494702.stm (BBC News)

Same-sex marriage in Canada: A British Columbia court rules that same-sex couples may get married in that province, effective immediately. BC becomes the second Canadian province, and second political division in the Western Hemisphere, to legalize same-sex marriage. This decision is similar to the Ontario decision on June 10, 2003. //cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2003/07/08/130210-cp.html

During a visit to the former slave-trading station on Goree Island, off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, U.S. President George W. Bush calls slavery one of the greatest crimes of history, but stops short of an official apology. //asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNewsstoryID=3054883

Sudan Airways Flight 39, with 117 people on board, crashes in Sudan the only survivor is a 2-year-old child.

Organization of African Unity disbanded, African Union created.

A major flash flood in Las Vegas sws hundreds of cars, smashes mobile homes and kills 2 people.

Martina Hingis becomes the youngest person in history (age 15 years and 282 days) to win at Wimbledon in the Ladies' Doubles event.

Amoco and Unocal Corporation announce restructuring plans that will eliminate 10,000 jobs in 1992 and 1993.

July 9–11 ndash The 16th G7 summit is held in Houston.

West Germany defeats Argentina 1–0 to win the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

Irish Republican Joe McDonnell dies at the Long Kesh Internment C after a 61-day hunger strike.

A wave of strikes begins in Lublin, Poland

Pope John Paul II visits Brazil 7 people are crushed to death in a crowd meeting him.

Zimbabwe recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).

Los Angeles passes its gay and lesbian civil rights bill.

The U.S. sells grain to the Soviet Union for $750 million.

Vietnam War: The very first U.S. troop withdrawals are made.

King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Ntare V, who is in turn deposed by prime minister Michel Micombero.

U.S. military personnel announce that U.S. casualties in Vietnam have risen to 1,387, including 399 dead and 17 MIA.

A mine explosion in Czechoslovakia leaves 108 dead.

The mountain Gasherbrum II is first ascended.

WWII: Harry S. Truman is informed that Japan will talk peace if it can retain the reign of the Emperor.ref name=nuclearfiles1940/

Turkish prime minister Refik Saydam died while working in office. For one day he is succeeded by Ahmet Fikri Tüzer

July 16- Massive flooding caused by 2 different hurricanes devastates western North Carolina.

Service of Reclamation within U.S. Geological Survey.

The Great Fire of 1892 devastates the city of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

The first issue of "The Wall Street Journal" is published.

Reichstadt Agreement: Russia and Austria-Hungary agree on partitioning the Balkan peninsula.

Peace treaty to end the Indian Rebellion.

U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Edo Bay with a request for a trade treaty.

The Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.

Louis XVIII returns to Paris, and is 'restored' as King of France (he had declared himself king on 8 June 1795, at the death of his nephew, 10-year-old Louis XVII, and had lived in Westphalia, Verona, Russia, and England).

Composer Joseph Haydn awarded an honorary doctorate of music at Oxford University.

American Revolution: The Liberty Bell rings for the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence.

Seven Years' War ndash French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche: British defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.

Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.

1730 Valparaiso earthquake in Chile.

Battle of Dynekilen: The Swedish fleet is defeated by a Danish-Norwegian fleet.

New Style) ndash Battle of Poltava: In the Ukraine, Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava (see above).

The Qing Dynasty Chinese admiral Shi Lang leads 300 ships with 20,000 troops out of Tongshan, Fujian and sails towards the Kingdom of Tungning, in modern-day Taiwan and Penghu, in order to quell the kingdom in the name of Qing.

The first documented tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

King Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to the American Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.ref name=Cassell's Chronology/

John Thurloe becomes Cromwell's head of intelligence.

da Verrazzano's expedition returns to Dieppe.

AugustndashSeptember ndash Marseille is besieged by Imperial forces under the Duke of Bourbon.

Vasco da Gama's fleet departs from Lisbon, beginning his expedition to India.

Three-year-old Magnus Eriksson is elected king of Sweden, thus uniting it with Norway. His mother Ingeborg of Norway is given a place in the regency in both Sweden and Norway.

At the navalBattle of Malta at Valletta, an Angevin fleet sent to help put down a rebellion on Malta is defeated by the fleet of Roger of Lauria.

The Major Occultation, or "Ghaybat el-Kubra" of Muhammad al-Mahdi