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- 1898
- West New York is incorporated in New Jersey.
- 1921
- King George V Dock is completed in London.
- 1938
- The Pilsen kahal is established in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia.
- 1968
- General Santos becomes a city on Mindanao in the Philippines.
- 2010
- Uljin Airport opens as a flight training center near Uljin County, South Korea, after plans for a commercial airport are scrapped for lack of demand.
- 2022
- The Montebelluna junction opens in Veneto.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on July 8, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on July 8 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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