 Welcome to the morning. It is now 620 on this Monday morning, July 8th, 2024. Let's find out what's happening on this date in history. This is the 190th day of 2024. There's 176 days remaining in the year. If you want to stay back in 1776, Colonel John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence outside the State House, now Independence Hall in Philadelphia. 1853, an expedition led by Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Japan on a mission to seek diplomatic and trade relations with the Japanese.