TODAY JULY 8 IN HISTORY
LEAD STORY
Paris celebrates 2,000th
birthday, 1951
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Liberty Bell tolls to
announce Declaration of
Independence, 1776
AUTOMOTIVE
Suzuki settles Consumer
Reports lawsuit after
eight-year legal battle ,
2004
CIVIL WAR
Confederates surrender
Port Hudson, Louisiana,
1863
COLD WAR
Colonel Castillo Armas
takes power in
Guatemala, 1954
CRIME
A spiteful son kills four
in a fit of rage , 1928
DISASTER
Torrential rains cause
flooding in Europe , 1997
GENERAL INTEREST
The Liberty Bell rings,
1776
Commodore Perry sails
into Tokyo Bay, 1853
MacArthur named
Korean commander , 1950
Pilot Francis Gary Powers
charged with espionage,
1960
North Korea's "Great
Leader" dies , 1994
HOLLYWOOD
Official Oscars chef
Wolfgang Puck born,
1949
LITERARY
Hemingway is wounded,
1918
MUSIC
"Lean On Me" begins its
first stay at #1 , 1972
OLD WEST
Soapy Smith killed in
Skagway, Alaska, 1898
PRESIDENTIAL
Warren Harding marries
Florence Mabel Kling
DeWolfe, 1891
SPORTS
Splendid Splinter homers
to win All-Star Game ,
1941
VIETNAM WAR
First Americans killed in
South Vietnam, 1959
Taylor resigns Saigon
post , 1965
WORLD WAR I
Ernest Hemingway
wounded on the Italian
front, 1918
WORLD WAR II
German general's diary
reveals Hitler's plans for
Russia, 1941
