This Day in History

July 8th in History

Commodore Perry reaches Japan! Ferdinand von Zeppelin and John D. Rockefeller are born; Percy Bysshe Shelley and Ernest Borgnine die. Happy Peter and Fevronia Day!

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Quote of the Day

“Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.”

Jean de la Fontaine, fabulist born July 8, 1621