9-Jul-1789 – In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstituted itself as the National Constituent Assembly and began preparations for a French constitution.
9-Jul- 1793 – The Act against Slavery was passed in Upper Canada and the importation of slaves into Lower Canada was prohibited.
9-Jul- 1815 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord became the first Prime Minister of France.
9-Jul- 1816 – Argentina declared independence from Spain.
9-Jul- 1863 – American Civil War: the Siege of Port Hudson ended.
9-Jul- 1877 – The inaugural Wimbledon Championships began.
9-Jul- 1900 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gave Royal Assent to an Act creating Australia, thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
9-Jul- 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Governor of Shanxi province in North China ordered the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
9-Jul- 1914 - 1st US duplicate auction bridge championship was held at Lake Placid, NY.
9-Jul- 1916 - 1st cargo submarine which crossed Atlantic arrived in US from Germany.
9-Jul- 1922 – Johnny Weissmuller swam the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
9-Jul- 1953 - 1st helicopter passenger service (NYC) was started.
9-Jul-1961 – Turkish voters approved the Turkish Constitution of 1961 in a referendum.
9-Jul- 1962 – The Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test was conducted by the United States.
9-Jul- 1995 – The Navaly church bombing was carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
9-Jul- 2008 – Iran conducted the Great Prophet III missile test and war games exercise.
9-Jul- 2011 – South Sudan gained independence and seceded from Sudan.
8-Jul- 1497 – Vasco da Gama set sail on the first direct European voyage to India.
8-Jul- 1579 – Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
8-Jul- 1730 – An estimated magnitude 8.7 earthquake caused a tsunami that damaged more than 1,000 km (620 mi) of Chile's coastline.
8-Jul-1933 – The first rugby union test match between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa was played at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town.
8-Jul- 1937 – Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan signed the Treaty of Saadabad.
8-Jul- 1947 – Reports were broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
8-Jul-1948 – The United States Air Force accepted its first female recruit into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
8-Jul- 1970 – Richard Nixon delivered a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
8-Jul-1994 – Kim Jong-il began to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
8-Jul- 2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
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