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July 8

Head of a Bear

1709 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces under Charles XII were defeated by Russian troops led by Peter the Great at the Battle of Poltava.
1776 – The United States Declaration of Independence received its first formal public reading, in Philadelphia.
1950 – Korean War: American troops withdrew from Cheonan, in modern-day South Korea, after suffering heavy casualties from a North Korean attack.
2014 – German citizen Lars Mittank disappeared from Varna Airport, Bulgaria; his last known movements have been widely watched on YouTube.
2021 – Head of a Bear (pictured) sold at auction in London for a total of £8.8 million, a record for a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.

Qatr al-Nada (d. 900)
Saprang Kalayanamitr (b. 1948)
Etta Lemon (d. 1953)
Abul Kalam Qasmi (d. 2021)

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