07-15-2006, 05:20 AM
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July 15th
1099 ~ Jerusalem fell to the Crusaders.
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.
1926 ~ Birthday of Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine Dictator.
1954 ~ First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner.
1997 ~ Fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot to death outside his home in Miami.
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.
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