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1. In 1847, John Sutter discovered gold in the area that would become Sacramento, sparking the famous California Gold Rush.
2. The first recorded baseball game in California was played on July 8, 1854, between the San Francisco Eagles and the Sacramento Lions.
3. On July 8, 1904, famed composer and conductor John Philip Sousa led his band in a performance at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
4. In 1970, California enacted the first "no-fault" divorce law in the United States, allowing couples to divorce without having to prove that one party was at fault.
5. On July 8, 2011, NASA's space shuttle Atlantis launched on its final mission, STS-135, marking the end of NASA's 30-year space shuttle program.
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