Hello.
Welcome to your weekend. We are glad you are here!
So, here we are in July and as Summer slips forward the week can sometimes feel stressful, packed, and exhausting. Hey, we get it.
That’s why we like to slow things down a little bit on Saturday mornings with a “scroll down memory lane.” It’s a simple look back at events that happened on this day in history before you head out to create new history today. So, grab your favorite sippin’ drink and let’s scroll!
Today is Saturday, July 8th, the 189th day of the year.
On this day:
In 1856, the machine gun was patented by Charles E. Barnes of Lowell, Massachusetts.
In 1958, the soundtrack to “Oklahoma!” received the first-ever gold record from the Recording Industry Association of America.
In 1992, “Melrose Place” first aired on Fox.
In 1994, OJ Simpson was ordered to stand trial to face charges of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman.
In 1997, the government and the Mayo Clinic issue a warning that combination diet drug fen-phen may cause heart and lung damage.
In 1999, astronaut Charles “Pete” Conrad Junior, the third man to walk on the moon, died after a motorcycle accident. He was 69.
In 2000, J.K. Rowling’s book, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” was released in the US. It was the fourth “Harry Potter” book.
In 2000, Venus Williams became the first black woman Wimbledon champion since Althea Gibson in 1957-58.
In 2003, a surgical procedure to separate 29-year-old conjoined twins Laleh and Ladan Bijani ended unsuccessfully. Doctors in Singapore worked around-the-clock for two days to separate the Iranian women, but at the end of the surgery, they both died of massive bleeding.
In 2010, NBA star LeBron James announced his plans to sign with the Miami Heat in a one-hour TV special.
In 2011, former First Lady Betty Ford died at the age of 93.
In 2012, Academy Award-winning actor Ernest Borgnine died at the age of 95.
In 2018, At least nine people were hurt in the annual Running of the Bulls in Spain. Red Cross officials reported that five people were hospitalized after the first running and four people were hospitalized after the second running.
In 2019, Jeffrey Epstein was indited on charges of sex trafficking of minors.
In 2020, the U.S. government announced more than one million international students would be stripped of their visas if they took completely online courses. This came at a time many schools and Universities switched to online classes amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In 2022, the former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, was assassinated while giving a campaign speech.
In 2022, Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles became the youngest person to receive the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden.
And that brings us here to this day.
Whatever plans you have for your own 7.8.2023 here’s hoping there are moments along the way to record on the pages of your own personal history books.
Thanks for stopping by!
