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July 5th
1853 ~ Birthday of Cecil Rhodes, South African Politician.
1937 ~ Spam was introduced the Hormel Foods Corporation. 1948 ~ British National Health Service (NHS) Act enacted. 1951 ~ William Shockley invented the junction transistor. 1961 ~ Birthday of Isabelle Poulenard, French soprano. 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. 2012 ~ The Shard in London was inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 1,020 ft. |
July 6th
1935 ~ Birthday of Tenzin Gyatso, 14th and current Dalai Lama.
1935 ~ Birthday of Candy Barr, first American Porn Star. 1946 ~ Birthday of George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States. 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. 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. 1980 ~ Sharia law established in Iran. 1981 ~ President Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the Supreme Court. 2003 ~ NASA Opportunity rover was launched. 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 ~ The first issue of the Wall Street Journal published. 1950 ~ General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of UN forces in Korea. 1979 ~ Death of Sin-Itiro Tomonaga , Japanese physicist, awarded a third of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics. 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. 2011 ~ The Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program. |
July 9th
1797 ~ Death of Edmund Burke, British philosopher and statesman.
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 1989 ~ Two bombs exploded in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others. 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. 1925 ~ The "Monkey Trial" of John Scopes began in Dayton, Tennessee. 1940 ~ The Luftwaffe began the Battle of Britain. 1962 ~ The world's first active communications satellite, Telstar, and first privately sponsored space launch. 1979 ~ Death of Arthur Fiedler, American conductor. 1985 ~ The Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior was sunk in Auckland Harbor by French agents. 198 ~ Death of Mel Blanc, Voice actor. 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. |
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. 1994 ~ Death of Savannah, Porn Star. 1979 ~ Skylab deorbited. 1989 ~ Death of Sir Laurence Olivier, Actor. 1995 ~ Bosnian Serbs capture the city of Srebrenica. |
July 12th
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). 1955~ Birthday of Bambi Woods, former Porn actress, best known for her appearance as the title character in the 1978 film "Debbie Does Dallas". 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. 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. 1995 ~ Death of Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish toy manufacturer. The man who brought us Legos. |
Julius Caesar. He saw, he conk'ed her, he came.
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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. 1911 ~ Birthday of Terry-Thomas, British comic actor. 1912 ~ Birthday of Woody Guthrie, American folk singer. 1918 ~ Birthday of Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and theatre director. 1933 ~ Gleichschaltung: All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed. 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.). |
July 15th
1099 ~ The Crusaders of the First Crusade took Jerusalem.
1606 ~ Birthday of Rembrandt Van Rijn, Dutch artist. 1796 ~ Birthday of Thomas Bulfinch, American Mythologist. 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. 1954 ~ First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner. 1965 ~ Birthday of David Miliband, British politician. 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. |
July 16th
622 ~ Start of the Islamic calendar.
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 Justine Joli, Porn actress. 1980 ~ Birthday of Jesse Jane, Porn actress. 1989 ~ Death of Herbert von Karajan, Austrian Conductor. 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. 1997 ~ The F.W. Woolworth Company went out of business after 117 years. 2003 ~ Death of Dr. David Kelly, U.N. Weapons Inspector. 2005 ~ Death of Edward Heath, UK PM. 2009 ~ Death of Walter Cronkite, Broadcast journalist. |
July 18th
1817 ~ Death of Jane Austen, English Novelist.
1887 ~ Birthday of Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Politician & Traitor. 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. 1968 ~ The Intel Corporation was founded in Santa Clara, California. 1969 ~ After a party, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a wooden bridge into, into a pond, and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, died. 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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