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July 8: Islamic New Year (2024, 1446 AH)

John Clarke

• 1663 – Baptist minister John Clarke (pictured) was granted the Rhode Island Royal Charter, described as the "grandest instrument of human liberty ever constructed".
• 1874 – Members of the North-West Mounted Police at Fort Dufferin began their March West, their first journey——to the Canadian Prairies.
• 1947 – Following reports of the capture of a "flying disc" by, U.S. Army Air Forces personnel near Roswell, New Mexico, the military stated that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon.
• 1966 – King Mwambutsa IV of Burundi was deposed in a coup d'état by his son, Prince Charles Ndizi.
• 2014 – German citizen Lars Mittank disappeared from Varna Airport, Bulgaria; his last known movements were widely watched on YouTube.