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July 4th
1776 ~ The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.
1845 ~ Henry David Thoreau began a two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond near Concord, Mass. 1855 ~ The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems Leaves of Grass was published. 1885 ~ Birthday of Louis B. Mayer, Movie Executive (one of the M’s in MGM). 1934 ~ Death of Marie Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of he Nobel Prize in Physics 1903. 1971 ~ Birthday of Koko, the sign-language gorilla. 1976 ~ The U.S. celebrated its Bicentennial. 1976 ~ Israeli commandos rescued 100 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda. 1982 ~ Birthday of Hannah Harper, Porn Actress. 2006 ~ North Korea tested four short-range, one medium-range, and a long-range missle over the Sea of Japan. |
July 5th
1810 ~ Birthday of Phineas Taylor "P. T." Barnum, Circus Owner.
1826 ~ Death of Sir Stamford Raffles, British statesman, the "Father of Singapore". 1911 ~ Birthday of Georges Pompidou, President of France. 1937 ~ Spam was introduced the Hormel Foods Corporation. 1948 ~ British National Health Service (NHS) Act enacted. 1951 ~ William Shockley invented the junction transistor. 1972 ~ Birthday of Letha Weapons, Porn Actress. 1975 ~ Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles' championship. 1989 ~ Oliver North received a $150,000 fine and a suspended prison term for his part in the Iran-Contra affair. 1996 ~ Birthday of Dolly the sheep, first cloned mammal. |
July 6th
1935 ~ Birthday of Tenzin Gyatso, 14th and current Dalai Lama.
1946 ~ Birthday of Sylvester Stallone, Actor, The Italian Stallion. 1957 ~ Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title. 1964 ~ A Hard Day's Night, the first Beatles film, premiered. 1971 ~ Death of Louis Armstrong, Jazz Musician. 1973 ~ Death of Otto Klemperer, German Conductor. 1974 ~ The radio program A Prairie Home Companion was first broadcast. 1989 ~ The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea was destroyed by explosions and fires killing 167 oil workers. 1997 ~ The rover Sojourner rolled onto the Martian landscape to begin inspecting soil and rocks. 1998 ~ Death of Roy Rogers, Cowboy Actor & Singer. |
July 7th
1860 ~ Birthday of Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer.
1887 ~ Birthday of Marc Chagall, Russian-born Painter. 1898 ~ The U.S. annexed Hawaii as a territory. 1907 ~ Birthday of Robert Heinlein, Science Fiction Writer. 1930 ~ Death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish Writer. 1940 ~ Birthday of Ringo Starr, Beatle. 1947 ~ The Roswell UFO incident. 1980 ~ Sharia law established in Iran. 1981 ~ President Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the Supreme Court. 2005 ~ Terrorist bombings in London killed 52 victims and four suicide bombers. |
July 8th
1822 ~ Death of Percy Shelley, English poet.
1882 ~ Birthday of Percy Grainger, Australian Composer. 1889 ~ In the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match, John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain. 1889 ~ The first issue of the Wall Street Journal published. 1950 ~ General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of UN forces in Korea. 1983 ~ Birthday of Elizabeth Del Mar, Porn Actress. 1986 ~ Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria despite a controversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes. 1994 ~ Death of Kim Il-sung, North Korean despot. 1997 ~ The Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland were invited to join NATO. 1997 ~ Mayo Clinic researchers warned that the dieting-drug "fen-phen" could cause severe heart and lung damage. |
July 9th
1896 ~ William Jennings Bryan delivered his “Cross of Gold” speech.
1879 ~ Birthday of Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Pines of Rome, Ancient Airs and Dances). 1900 ~ Queen Victoria gave royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia, uniting separate colonies under one federal government. 1911 ~ Birthday of John A. Wheeler, American physicist (coined the terms black hole and wormhole). 1916 ~ Birthday of Edward Heath, P.M. of the UK 1973 ~ The Bahamas' last day as a British colony. 1974 ~ Death of Earl Warren, Governor of California, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. 1995 ~ The Grateful Dead played their last concert, at Soldier Field in Chicago. 1997 ~ Mike Tyson's boxing license was suspended and he was fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield's ear in a televised match. 2001 ~ The Big Bang Theory of the origin of the universe received substantial support. |
July 10th
1839 ~ Birthday of Adolphus Busch, German-born Brewer.
1856 ~ Birthday of Nikola Tesla, Croatian physicist. 1940 ~ The Luftwaffe began the Battle of Britain. 1962 ~ The world's first active communications satellite, Telstar, and first privately sponsored space launch. 1985 ~ The Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior was sunk in Auckland Harbor by French agents. 1989 ~ Death of Mel Blanc, Voice Actor ( Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Beaky Buzzard, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Barney Rubble, Mr. Spacely). 1997 ~ Scientists reported their DNA analysis findings which support the Out of Africa hypothesis of human evolution. 2002 ~ At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents was sold for $76.2 million. 2003 ~ Death of Lord Shawcross, U.K. chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. 2011 ~ After 168 years, the British tabloid News of the World published its last edition. |
July 11th
1798 ~ The U.S. Marine Corps was re-created by an act of Congress.
1859 ~ Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" was published. 1899 ~ Birthday of E. B. White, American Writer. (Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan.) 1914 ~ Babe Ruth made his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox. 1920 ~ Birthday of Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor. 1937 ~ Death of George Gershwin, American Composer. 1977 ~ The Gay News and its editor Denis Lemon were found guilty of blasphemous libel. 1994 ~ Death of Savannah, Porn Star. 1979 ~ Skylab deorbited. 1989 ~ Death of Sir Laurence Olivier, Actor. |
July 12th
1536 ~ Death of Erasmus, Dutch Writer & Philosopher.
1690 ~ William of Orange's army won the Battle of the Boyne. 1730 ~ Birthday of Josiah Wedgwood, English Potter. 1773 ~ Death of Johann Joachim Quantz, German Flutist & Composer. 1862 ~ Medal of Honor authorized by the U.S. Congress. 1943~ Birthday of Christine McVie, British singer, musician, & songwriter (Fleetwood Mac). 1943 ~ Turning point of CITADEL (Battle of Kursk). 1962~ The Rolling Stones perform their first public concert. 1984 ~ Walter Mondale named Geraldine Ferraro his Vice Presidential running mate. 1990~ Russian republic president Boris Yeltsin resigned from the Communist Party. |
July 13th
100 BC ~ Birthday of Julius Caesar, Soldier & Politician.
1837 ~ Queen Victoria moved into Buckingham Palace – the first monarch to live there. 1908 ~ Women first included in modern Olympic competition. 1923 ~ The first Hollywood Sign was dedicated. It read "HOLLYWOODLAND". 1940 ~ Birthday of Patrick Stewart, English actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation). 1955 ~ Ruth Ellis became the last woman in England to be executed. 1960 ~ John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Los Angeles. 1973 ~ Alexander Butterfield revealed the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in. 1977 ~ A 25-hour blackout hit New York City. 1985 ~ Live Aid, an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, Australia, was held to raise money for Africa's starving people. |
July 14th
1789 ~ Citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille. Generally recognized as the beginning of the French Revolution.
1798 ~ The Sedition Act made it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government. 1862 ~ Birthday of Gustav Klimt, Austrian Painter & Graphic Artist. 1881 ~ Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett. 1887 ~ Death of Alfred Krupp, German munitions manufacturer. 1912 ~ Birthday of Woody Guthrie, American folk singer. 1913 ~ Birthday of Gerald Ford, U.S. President. 1965 ~ Mariner 4 flyby of Mars took the first close-up photos of another planet. 2000 ~ A Florida jury ordered five major tobacco companies to pay smokers $145 billion in punitive damages. (The verdict was later overturned by the Florida Supreme Court.). 2007 ~ Russia withdrew from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. |
July 15th
1099 ~ The Crusaders of the First Crusade took Jerusalem.
1606 ~ Birthday of Rembrandt Van Rijn, Dutch artist. 1799 ~ French Captain Pierre Bouchard found the Rosetta Stone. 1870 ~ Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union. 1918 ~ WWI: Second Battle of the Marne began. 1926 ~ Birthday of Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine Dictator. 1954 ~ First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner. 1995 ~ Bosnian Serbs force Muslims out of Srebrenica. 2002 ~ John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban", pleaded guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. 2006 ~ Death of Robert H. Brooks, founder of Hooters of America. |
July 16th
622 ~ Start of the Islamic calendar.
1872 ~ Birthday of Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who led the expedition which was the first to reach the South Pole. 1918 ~ At Ekaterinburg, Russia, Bolsheviks executed Czar Nicholas II and his family. 1945 ~ Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Harry Truman Josef Stalin meet at Potsdam. 1945 ~ The U.S. detonated the first nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico. 1955 ~ The original Disneyland park opened. 1969 ~ Apollo 11 was launched from Cape Kennedy to become the first manned mission to land on the moon. 1980 ~ Birthday of Jesse Jane, Porn Actress. 1980 ~ Birthday of Justine Joli, Porn Actress. 1994 ~ Death of Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate. |
July 17th
1790 ~ Death of Adam Smith, Scottish Economist.
1899 ~ Birthday of James Cagney, Actor. 1947 ~ Birthday of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (formerly Parker Bowles), former British royal mistress and now wife of Prince Charles. 1962 ~ Tha nuclear test shot Little Feller I became the last American atmospheric detonation at the Nevada Test Site. 1975 ~ An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations. 1979 ~ Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled into exile in Miami. 1989 ~ First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. 2003 ~ Death of Dr. David Kelly, U.N. Weapons Inspector. 2005 ~ Death of Joe Vialls, Australian conspiracy theorist and internet journalist. 2005 ~ Death of Edward Heath, UK PM. |
July 18th
1887 ~ Birthday of Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Politician & Traitor.
1909 ~ Birthday of Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Diplomat & President. 1918 ~ Birthday of Nelson Mandela, former President of SA, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1993. 1922 ~ Birthday of Thomas Kuhn, Philosopher of Science. 1925 ~ Adolf Hitler’s "Mein Kampf" was published. 1927 ~ Birthday of Kurt Masur, Conductor. 1942 ~ The Messerschmitt Me-262 was test flown using only its jets for the first time. 1969 ~ After a party, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a wooden bridge into a pond, and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, died. 1973 ~ Death of Jack Hawkins, English film actor. 2001 ~ In Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derailment occurred in a tunnel, sparking a fire that lasted days and virtually shut down downtown. 2005 ~ Eric Rudolph was sentenced to life in prison for an abortion clinic bombing that killed an off-duty police officer. |
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