| 77583 | July 8 | Event | 1760 – French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche: British forces defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France. |
| 77584 | July 8 | Event | 1775 – The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America. |
| 77585 | July 8 | Event | 1776 – Liberty Bell is rung with reading of Declaration of Independence of the United States. |
| 77586 | July 8 | Event | 1808 – Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain. |
| 77587 | July 8 | Event | 1822 – Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom. |
| 77588 | July 8 | Event | 1853 – U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Edo bay with a treaty requesting trade. |
| 77589 | July 8 | Event | 1859 – King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway. |
| 77590 | July 8 | Event | 1864 – Ikedaya Incident: The Choshu Han shishi's planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya. |
| 77591 | July 8 | Event | 1874 – The Mounties begin their March West. |
| 77592 | July 8 | Event | 1876 – White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina. |
| 77593 | July 8 | Event | 1879 – Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole. |
| 77594 | July 8 | Event | 1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published. |
| 77595 | July 8 | Event | 1892 – St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892. |
| 77596 | July 8 | Event | 1898 – The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip. |
| 77597 | July 8 | Event | 1912 – Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves. |
| 77598 | July 8 | Event | 1932 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22. |
| 77599 | July 8 | Event | 1933 – The first rugby union test match between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa is played at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town. |
| 77600 | July 8 | Event | 1937 – Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad. |
| 77601 | July 8 | Event | 1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident. |
| 77602 | July 8 | Event | 1948 – The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF). |
| 77603 | July 8 | Event | 1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union. |
| 77604 | July 8 | Event | 1962 – Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement. |
| 77605 | July 8 | Event | 1966 – King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi. |
| 77606 | July 8 | Event | 1968 – The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 77607 | July 8 | Event | 1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975. |
| 77608 | July 8 | Event | 1982 – Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail. |
| 77609 | July 8 | Event | 1988 – The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more. |
| 77610 | July 8 | Event | 1994 – Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung. |
| 77581 | July 8 | Event | 1730 – An estimated magnitude 8.7 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages more than 1,000 km (620 mi) of Chile's coastline. |
| 77582 | July 8 | Event | 1758 – French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York. |