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Today is Tuesday, July 8, the 189th day of 2025. There are 176 days left in the year.<\/p>\n

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Today in History:<\/h4>\n

On July 8, 2000, Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport for her first Grand Slam title, becoming the first Black female champion at Wimbledon since Althea Gibson in 1958.<\/p>\n

Also on this date:<\/h4>\n

In 1776, Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, outside the State House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

In 1853, an expedition led by U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Edo Bay, Japan, on a mission to seek diplomatic and trade relations with the Japanese.<\/p>\n

In 1889, the first issue of The Wall Street Journal was published.<\/p>\n

In 1947, a New Mexico newspaper, the Roswell Daily Record, quoted officials at Roswell Army Air Field as saying they had recovered a \u201cflying saucer\u201d that crashed onto a ranch; officials then said it was actually a weather balloon.<\/p>\n

In 1950, President Harry S. Truman named Gen. Douglas MacArthur commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea. (Truman would fire MacArthur for insubordination nine months later.)<\/p>\n

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In 1972, the Nixon administration announced a deal to sell $750 million in grain to the Soviet Union. (However, the Soviets were also engaged in secretly buying subsidized American grain, resulting in what critics dubbed \u201cThe Great Grain Robbery.\u201d)<\/p>\n

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In 1994, Kim Il Sung, North Korea\u2019s communist leader since 1948, died at age 82.<\/p>\n

In 2011, the 135th and final space shuttle mission began when space shuttle Atlantis launched from Kennedy Space Center.<\/p>\n

In 2018, divers rescued four of the 12 boys who had been trapped in a flooded cave in northern Thailand with their soccer coach for more than two weeks. (The remaining eight boys and their coach were rescued over the next two days.)<\/p>\n

In 2021, President Joe Biden said the U.S. military operation in Afghanistan would end on Aug. 31; in a speech in the White House East Room, Biden made an impassioned argument for exiting the nearly 20-year war without sacrificing more America lives, but acknowledged that there would be no \u201cmission accomplished\u201d moment to celebrate.<\/p>\n

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In 2022, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech.<\/p>\n

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  • Actor Jeffrey Tambor is 82.<\/li>\n
  • Drummer Jaimoe Johanson (The Allman Brothers Band) is 82.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Kim Darby is 79.<\/li>\n
  • Children\u2019s musician Raffi is 78.<\/li>\n
  • Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck is 77.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Anjelica Huston is 75.<\/li>\n
  • Writer Anna Quindlen is 74.<\/li>\n
  • Author and politician Marianne Williamson is 74.<\/li>\n
  • Pro Football Hall of Famer Jack Lambert is 74.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Kevin Bacon is 68.<\/li>\n
  • Singer Joan Osborne is 64.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Lee Tergesen (TV: \u201cOz\u201d) is 61.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Billy Crudup is 58.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Michael Weatherly (TV: \u201cNCIS\u201d) is 58.<\/li>\n
  • Musician Beck is 56.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Kathleen Robertson is 53.<\/li>\n
  • Christian rock musician Stephen Mason (Jars of Clay) is 51.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Milo Ventimiglia (MEE\u2019-loh vehn-tih-MEEL\u2019-yuh) is 49.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Lance Gross (TV: \u201cTyler Perry\u2019s House of Payne\u201d) is 45.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Sophia Bush is 44.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Maya Hawke is 28.<\/li>\n
  • Actor Jaden Smith is 28.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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