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July 27
At the GOP Convention 43 years ago tonight, Oregon Governor Mark Hatfield nominated Vice President Richard Nixon for the Presidency; 29 years ago today, the US House drew up articles of impeachment against President Nixon for obstructing justice in the Watergate case.
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July 28
1933,
The singing telegram started when the first person to receive one, singer Rudy Vallee, got it for his 32nd birthday. |
Born July 28, Terry Fox 1958-1981,
marathoner, was born on this day at Winnipeg in 1958. Terry lost a leg to bone cancer in 1977 and started his cross-Canada 'Marathon of Hope' in St. John's on April 12, 1980 to raise money to fight the disease. Before he had to end the marathon Sept 1 in Thunder Bay, when cancer was discovered in his lungs, he had run almost 5400 km, and raised over $1.7 million. He gave up his fight on June 28, 1981 in New Westminster, BC, but thousands of Canadians run every year in his memory. |
July 29...
1981: Charles and Diana marry
Thousands line the streets of London to glimpse Prince Charles and Lady Diana on their wedding day. |
July 29 in 1907 London England
- Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms the Boy Scout movement, with assistance from Canadian financier Lord Strathcona. |
July 30...
1966: England win football's World Cup for the first time since the tournament began in 1930.
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July 31...
The British Government announces a total ban on landmines, a month before the first anniversary of the death of Princess Diana. |
August 1st
"In 1995 an Egyptian newspaper reported the deaths of 6 people who had jumped in to a well........ to save a chicken!"
Fries with that?!?! (Thanks to Nubian and campingboy for keeping this going!!) |
August 2nd
"In 1964, North Vietnam fired on a U.S. destroyer sat in the Gulf of Tonkin...... and began the Vietnam War."
To my shame, I never realised it had gone on for SO long! :( DM |
August 3rd
1978: The Queen officially opened the 11th Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada.
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August 3rd
In 1925, a court in Indiana ordered a motorist who had run over & killed a pedestrian to spend an hour with the body.
Now that's what I call a punishment! |
August 3rd 1914, germany declares war on France
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August 4th
1964: FBI agents uncover the bodies of three missing civil rights workers at a dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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August 5th
In 1992 Jeff Porcaro, drummer with rock band Toto, died after inhaling pesticide fumes from his garden
I KNEW I didn't like gardening!! |
August 5th
1962: Marilyn Monroe found dead
Film actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her bed with an empty bottle of sleeping tablets by her side. |
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