Tomorrow's Holidays in July 8

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2014 — Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amid rising tensions following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers. ↗
• 2011 — Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program. ↗
• 1994 — Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung. ↗
• 1988 — The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing... ↗
• 1982 — Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1998 — Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, American actor and rapper
• 1996 — Braidon Burns, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 — Virgil van Dijk, Dutch footballer
• 1989 — Yarden Gerbi, Israeli world champion and Olympic bronze medalist judoka
• 1989 — Tor Marius Gromstad, Norwegian footballer (d. 2012)