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