Events which occurred on the 8th of July.
Events

- 1921
- NASA Astronaut and United States Senator John Glenn is born.
- 1986
- Retired United States Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover dies.
- 1994
- NASA's space shuttle Columbia launches for mission STS-65.
- 1999
- NASA Astronaut Pete Conrad dies.
- 2011
- Atlantis launches on her final mission, STS-135.
- 2165
- The USS Vol'Rala recovers captives from a Ware repair station. The Columbia-class USS Buran and USS Shenlong enter service. USS Apollo & USS Soyuz are projected to launch in three months, USS Charybdis & USS Ares in spring 2166, and USS Phoenix & USS Valiant within two years. (ENT - Rise of the Federation novel: Live by the Code)
Appendices
Calendar of publication and production

- 1972
- TOS comic: "To Swiftly Go..." continues with the 8th installment, in Valiant and TV21 #41.
- 1980
- The 10th installment of TOS comic: "Aberration on Abaris" is published in daily newspapers by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
- 1981
- The 74th installment of TOS comic: "The Savage Within" is published.
- 1982
- The 130th installment of TOS comic: "The Wristwatch Plantation" is published.
- 1983
- The 5th installment of TOS comic: "Terminally Yours" is published.
- 2009
- TOS - Crew comic: "The Ends of Eternity" is released by IDW Publishing.
- 2015
- TOS - The Spectrum War comic: "Issue 1" is published.
External link
- 8 July article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.