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June 28th
1577 ~ Birthday of Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque Painter.
1712 ~ Birthday of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Franco-Swiss Philosopher.
1880 ~ The Australian bushranger Ned Kelly was captured at Glenrowan.
1906 ~ Birthday of Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics.
1914 ~ Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophia were killed by a Serbian nationalist, the casus belli of World War I.
1919 ~ The Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending World War I.
1926 ~ Birthday of Mel Brooks, Filmmaker.
1992 ~ Death of Mikhail Tal, eighth World Chess Champion.
1996 ~ The Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school.
2004 ~ Sovereignty returned to Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule.
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06-29-2006, 05:21 AM
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06-30-2006, 05:19 AM
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June 30th
1817 ~ Birthday of Joseph Dalton Hooker, Botanist & Champion of Charles Darwin.
1905 ~ During his annus mirabilis, Albert Einstein published the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies in which he introduced special relativity.
That must have been an exciting time to be a physicist!
1908 ~ Tunguska impact event occurred in Siberia.
1934 ~ Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany took place.
1936 ~ ''Gone with the Wind'' by Margaret Mitchell published.
1943 ~ Birthday of Florence Ballard, American Singer (The Supremes).
1960 ~ Congo gained independence from Belgium.
1971 ~ The crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft died when the landing capsule depressurized after separating from the main craft.
1985 ~ Birthday of Michael Phelps, American Swimmer.
1997 ~ The UK returns sovereignty over Hong Kong to the PRC.
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07-01-2006, 06:15 AM
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July 1st
1646 ~ Birthday of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German Mathematician & Philosopher.
1863 ~ The American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg began.
1906 ~ Birthday of Estée Lauder, Cosmetics Pioneer.
1916 ~ WWI: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 18,000 British soldiers were killed, and 40,000 wounded.
1925 ~ Death of Erik Satie, French Composer.
1963 ~ The British Government admitted that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
2000 ~ Death of Walter Matthau, Actor.
2000 ~ Vermont's civil unions law went into effect.
2004 ~ Cassini-Huygens was successfully inserted into orbit around Saturn.
2004 ~ Death of Marlon Brando, Actor.
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07-02-2006, 05:29 AM
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July 2nd
1714 ~ Birthday of Christoph Willibald Gluck, German Composer.
1906 ~ Birthday of Hans Bethe, German-born Physicist., awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1967.
1908 ~ Birthday of Thurgood Marshall, U. S. Supreme Court justice.
1932 ~ New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt became the Democratic nominee for president at their convention in Chicago.
1937 ~ Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.
1961 ~ Death of Ernest Hemingway, Author, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1954.
1976 ~ Reunification of North and South Vietnam as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1977 ~ Death of Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer.
1982 ~ Larry Walters attached 45 helium balloons to a lawn chair and ascended into history and to a height of 11,000 feet.
2002 ~ Steve Fossett became the first man to fly a balloon solo around the world.
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07-03-2006, 05:17 AM
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July 3rd
1608 ~ The city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1844 ~ The last pair of Great Auks was killed.
1854 ~ Birthday of Leoš Janáček, Czech Composer.
1863 ~ The final day of the battle of Gettysburg.
1883 ~ Birthday of Franz Kafka, Czech-born German author.
1935 ~ Death of André Citroën, Automobile Pioneer.
1938 ~ World speed record, 126 mph, set for a steam railway locomotive, by the Mallard.
1971 ~ Death of Jim Morrison, Singer (The Doors).
1986 ~ Death of Rudy Vallee, Singer, Actor, Bandleader, & Entertainer.
1988 ~ USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf.
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07-04-2006, 03:47 AM
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July 4th
1054 ~ A supernova was recorded by the Chinese near the star ζ Tauri. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
1807 ~ Birthday of Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian Patriot.
1845 ~ American writer 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.
1883 ~ Birthday of Rube Goldberg, Cartoonist.
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.
1946 ~ After 381 years, the Philippines became an independent nation.
1976 ~ The U.S. celebrated its Bicentennial.
1976 ~ Israeli commandos rescued 100 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda.
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07-05-2006, 05:10 PM
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July 5th
1810 ~ Birthday of Phineas Taylor "P. T." Barnum, Circus Owner.
1853 ~ Birthday of Cecil Rhodes, South African Politician.
1911 ~ Birthday of Georges Pompidou, President of France.
1948 ~ British National Health Service Act enacted.
1951 ~ William Shockley invented the junction transistor.
1969 ~ Death of Walter Gropius, German architect.
1971 ~ The voting age in the U.S. was reduced to 18 from 21.
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, the first cloned mammal.
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07-06-2006, 05:20 AM
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July 6th
1946 ~ Birthday of George W. Bush, 43rd President of the U.S.
1957 ~ Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title.
1962 ~ Death of William Faulkner, American Novelist.
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.
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07-07-2006, 05:21 AM
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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.
1958 ~ President Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Act.
1978 ~ The Solomon Islands gained independence from the U.K.
1981 ~ President Reagan announced his nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
2005 ~ Terrorist bombings in London killed 52 victims and four suicide bombers.
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07-08-2006, 05:22 AM
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July 8th.
1695 ~ Death of Christiaan Huygens, Dutch Scientist.
1776 ~ The first public reading of the Declaration of Independence.
1822 ~ Death of Percy Shelley, English poet.
1838 ~ Birthday of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German Inventor.
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.
1892 ~ St. John's, Newfoundland was devastated by the Great Fire of 1892.
1986 ~ Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria despite controversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes.
1997 ~ Mayo Clinic researchers warned that the dieting-drug "fen-phen" could cause severe heart and lung damage.
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July 9th
1896 ~ William Jennings Bryan delivered his Cross of Gold speech.
1900 ~ Queen Victoria gave royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia, uniting separate colonies under one federal government.
1916 ~ Birthday of Edward Heath, P.M. of the UK
1947 ~ The engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten was announced.
1974 ~ Death of Earl Warren, Governor of California, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1984 ~ York Minster was struck by lightning; the resulting fire destroyed the roof of the South Transept.
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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07-10-2006, 05:23 AM
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July 10th
18420 ~ Birthday of  Adolphus Busch, German-born Brewer.
1856 ~ Birthday of Nikola Tesla, Croatian physicist.
1895 ~ Birthday of Carl Orff, German Composer.
1940 ~ The Luftwaffe began the Battle of Britain.
1962 ~ The world's first active communications satellite, Telstar, was launched.
1979 ~ Death of Arthur Fiedler, American Conductor.
1985 ~ The Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior was sunk in Auckland Harbor by French agents.
1997 ~ Scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neanderthal skeleton which support the Out of Africa hypothesis of human evolution.
2002 ~ 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.
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July 11th
1798 ~ The U.S. Marine Corps was re-created by an act of Congress.
1857 ~ Birthday of Alfred Binet, French Psychologist.
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.
1937 ~ Death of George Gershwin, American Composer.
1979 ~ Skylab deorbited.
1971 ~ Death of John W. Campbell, Writer & Editor.
1989 ~ Death of Sir Laurence Olivier, Actor.
1995 ~ Bosnian Serbs capture the city of Srebrenica.
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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.
1817 ~ Birthday of Henry David Thoreau, American Writer & Philosopher.
1862 ~ Medal of Honor authorized by the U.S. Congress.
1933 ~ U.S. Congress passes the first federal minimum wage law in the U.S.
1943 ~ The largest tank engagement of WWII took place, part of the Battle of Kursk
1984 ~ Walter F. Mondale named Geraldine A. Ferraro his Vice Presidential running mate, making her the first woman to run on a major party ticket.
1990~ Boris Yeltsin resigns from the Soviet Communist Party.
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