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Today is Saturday, July 8, 2023.
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Allergy Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇹🇯 Tajikistan - Day of Disabled and Elderly.
🇲🇾 Malaysia - Penang State Governor's birthday.
🇺🇦 Ukraine - Family Day.
🇷🇺 Russia - Day of Family, Love and Loyalty.
🇱🇻 Latvia - Holiday of sea and fishermen.
👉 EVENTS:
- Mil. av. 52 — Paris (Luthesia) was founded.
— 1497 — the first sea expedition from Europe to India, led by Vasco da Gama, left Lisbon.
- 1618 - Maria de' Medici's servant was executed for "bewitching" the French princess.
- 1659 - Battle of Konotop.
- 1686 - Siege of Buda.
— 1709 — Northern War: Battle of Poltava.
- 1777 - Vermont became the first state to abolish slavery.
— 1796 — The US State Department issued the first US citizen passport.
— 1916 — the decision to involve 400 inhabitants of Turkestan and steppe regions in forced labor. The mass uprising of the Kazakh tribes was brutally suppressed.
- 1920 - The English colony of East Africa was named Kenya.
- 1969 - Vietnam War: The withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam begins, which is completed in three and a half years.
— 1974 — The Central Committee of the CPSU approved the construction project of the Baikal-Amur Railway (BAM).
— 1994 — the day diplomatic relations were established with the Republic of Uzbekistan and Kuwait.
- 1998 - Larry Page, the founder of Google, added the verb "To google" (Uzbek: гуглаш) to the list of words.
— 2008 — the Czech Republic became the 18th member of the European Space Agency.
— 2022 — Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated during an election campaign in Japan.