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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.).
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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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