{"id":513555,"date":"2025-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/july-8th-anniversaries\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T04:00:00","slug":"july-8th-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/style\/anniversaries\/july-8th-anniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"July 8th anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Santo Domingo.-<\/strong> The anniversaries of July 6 are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left a mark on world history. Below is the main anniversary of July 6:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>World Allergy Day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saints&#8217; Day:<\/strong> Saint Priscilla and Saint Innocent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>National: Anniversaries of July 8th<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1801: Toussaint Louverture proclaims a constitution on the island of Santo Domingo, confronting the French empire and condemning slavery.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1824: The agrarian reform law is enacted, distributing land from large landowners, including the Church, among peasants.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1857: Two governments in the country: one in Santo Domingo with Buenaventura B\u00e1ez and another provisional one in the Cibao with Pedro Santana.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1865: Spanish troops begin to withdraw weapons and logistical material from the port, belonging to the Dominican army.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1923: Founding of the Nursing Home in Santiago, today San Vicente de Pa\u00fal Hospital.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1961: The 14th of June Movement announces its intention to become a political party; the PRD warns that they will not align with extremist groups.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1962: The Council of State creates a tribunal to confiscate the assets of the Trujillo family; CASC prepares its first congress.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1970: The National Assembly proclaims Joaqu\u00edn Balaguer and Carlos Rafael Goico Morales as winners of the elections.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1978: African Swine Fever is officially detected in the country.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1997: President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez participates in the XVIII CARICOM Summit, ending international isolation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: The Dominican ambassador to the OAS responds to Haitian accusations regarding the National Regularization Plan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021: The Central Electoral Board includes the PRD and Fuerza del Pueblo on ballots despite not exceeding 5% of the vote; pilots in the \u201cAir Coca\u00efne\u201d case are acquitted in France.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>International:<\/strong> <strong>July 8th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1808: The Bayonne Statute, imposed by Napoleon on Spain to unify laws, comes into effect.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1846: Commodore John Montgomery takes possession of San Francisco for the U.S.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1853: The U.S. intervenes militarily in Japan to open borders to trade.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1893: Mexico and British Honduras sign a treaty recognizing British sovereignty in Belize.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1969: Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam begins.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1973: Egypt expels Russian military advisors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1984: Bolivia suspends foreign debt payments following a general strike.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1989: Carlos Sa\u00fal Menem is elected president of Argentina.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1994: More than one million Rwandans flee to Zaire due to genocide.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2006: A Mexican judge dismisses genocide charges against Luis Echeverr\u00eda.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2011: Plane crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo causes 74 deaths.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2013: U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees begin forced furloughs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018: Freedom is granted and then revoked for former Brazilian president Lula da Silva.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019: Hispanic population in the U.S. reaches 59.9 million.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020: Alexander Vindman announces his retirement from the U.S. Army.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021: Arrests in Haiti for the assassination of President Jovenel Mo\u00efse; political crisis over prime minister dispute.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023: Texas installs a floating wall to curb immigration at the border with Mexico.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Births:<\/strong> <strong>July 8th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1827: Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, German ruler.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1857: Alfred Binet, French psychologist, graphologist, and pedagogue.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1881: Cecilio Acosta, Venezuelan writer, journalist, lawyer, philosopher, and humanist.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1943: Ri Chun-hee, North Korean journalist and television news anchor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1977: Milo Ventimiglia, American actor, director, and producer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2006: James Wharton, Australian racing driver.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Deaths: <\/strong><strong>July 8th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1538: Diego de Almagro, Spanish conquistador and explorer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1985: Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French actor, theater director, filmmaker, and screenwriter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2006: Salvador Pittaluga Nivar, Dominican journalist and lawyer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010: Juan Carlos Rousselot, Argentine journalist, radio and television presenter, and politician.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022: Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- The anniversaries of July 6 are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left a mark on world history. Below is the main anniversary of July 6: Saints&#8217; Day: Saint Priscilla and Saint Innocent. National: Anniversaries of July 8th International: July 8th Anniversaries Births: July 8th Anniversaries Deaths: July 8th Anniversaries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40918],"tags":[40231],"class_list":{"0":"post-513555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-anniversaries","7":"tag-dominican-republic"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-29B9","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Anniversaries"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}