1907 –<\/strong> Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first “Follies” on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.<\/p>\n 1919 –<\/strong> U.S. President Wilson returned from the Versailles Peace Conference in France.<\/p>\n 1947 –<\/strong> Demolition work began in New York City for the new permanent headquarters of the United Nations.<\/p>\n 1950 –<\/strong> General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea.<\/p>\n 1953 –<\/strong> Notre Dame announced that the next five years of its football games would be shown in theatres over closed-circuit TV.<\/p>\n 1960 –<\/strong> The Soviet Union charged Gary Powers with espionage. He was shot down in a U-2 spy plane.<\/p>\n 1963 –<\/strong> All Cuban-owned assets in the United States were frozen.<\/p>\n 1969 –<\/strong> The U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for the game “Twister.”<\/p>\n 1970 –<\/strong> The San Francisco Giant\u2019s Jim Ray Hart became the first National League player in 59 seasons to collect six runs batted (RBI) during a single inning.<\/p>\n 1981 –<\/strong> The Solar Challenger became the first solar-powered airplane to cross the English Channel.<\/p>\n 1986 –<\/strong> Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria despite controversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes.<\/p>\n 1997 –<\/strong> The Mayo Clinic and the U.S. government warned that the diet-drug combination known as “fen-phen” could cause serious heart and lung damage.<\/p>\n 1997 –<\/strong> NATO invited Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to join the alliance in 1999.<\/p>\n 2000 –<\/strong> J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” was released in the U.S. It was the fourth Harry Potter book.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013<\/strong> Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing all 117 people on board.<\/p>\n 2010 –<\/strong> The Solar Impulse completed the first 24-hour flight by a solar-powered plane.<\/p>\n 2011 \u2013<\/strong> Space Shuttle Atlantis<\/i> is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013<\/strong> Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amid rising tensions following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers.<\/p>\n History of 8 July 1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first “Follies” on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City. 1919 – U.S. President Wilson returned from the Versailles Peace Conference in France. 1947 – Demolition work began in New York City for the new permanent headquarters of the United Nations. 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