- 1789 – The United States War Department was established
- 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I)
- 1954 – Charles Mahoney becomes 1st US black to serve as a full UN delegate
- 1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first Transistor radios in Japan
- 1960 – Côte d’Ivoire became independent
- 1966 – Jimmy Wales, American founder of Wikipedia was born
- 1978 – United States President Jimmy Carter declared a federal emergency at Love Canal
- 1990 – At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by British reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90 i.e. 1234567890.
- 1998 – 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, killed 224 people and injured over 4,500
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