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July 13th
100 BC ~ Birthday of Julius Caesar, Soldier & Politician.
1793 ~ French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, who was executed four days later.
1837 ~ Queen Victoria moved into Buckingham Palace – the first monarch to live there.
1908 ~ Women first included in modern Olympic competition.
1951 ~ Death of Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian Composer.
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.
1982 ~ Montreal was host to the first baseball All-Star Game outside the U.S.
1985 ~ Live Aid, an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, Australia, was held to raise money for Africa's starving people.
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07-14-2006, 05:41 AM
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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.
1887 ~ Death of Alfred Krupp, German munitions manufacturer.
1912 ~ Birthday of Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic.
1913 ~ Birthday of Gerald Ford, U.S. President.
1933 ~ Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
1965 ~ Mariner 4 flyby of Mars took the first close-up photos of another planet.
2000 ~ A Florida jury ordered five tobacco companies to pay smokers a record $145 billion in punitive damages.
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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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07-16-2006, 08:12 AM
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July 16th
622 ~ Start of the Islamic calendar.
1790 ~ The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the U.S. Federal Government.
1872 ~ Birthday of Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who led the expedition which was the first to reach the South Pole.
1918 ~ At Ekaterinburg, 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.
1948 ~ Birthday of Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli Violinist.
1969 ~ Apollo 11 was launched from Cape Kennedy to become the first manned mission to land on the moon.
1981 ~ Death of Harry Chapin, American Singer & Songwriter.
1989 ~ Death of Herbert von Karajan, Austrian Conductor.
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07-17-2006, 05:33 AM
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July 17th
1790 ~ Death of Adam Smith, Scottish Economist.
1899 ~ Birthday of James Cagney, Actor.
1935 ~ Birthday of Donald Sutherland, Actor.
1947 ~ Birthday of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (formerly Parker Bowles), former British royal mistress and now wife of Prince Charles.
1955 ~ Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.
1961 ~ Death of Baseball hall-of-famer Ty Cobb.
1962 ~ The Small Boy nuclear test shot Little Feller I became the last 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.
2003 ~ Death of Dr. David Kelly, U.N. Weapons Inspector.
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07-18-2006, 05:18 AM
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July 18th
1817 ~ Death of Jane Austen, English Novelist.
1887 ~ Birthday of Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Politician & Traitor.
1909 ~ Birthday of Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Diplomat & President.
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.
2001 ~ In Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derailment occurred in a tunnel, sparking a fire that lasted days and virtually shut down downtown Baltimore.
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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07-19-2006, 05:33 AM
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July 19th
1374 ~ Death of Petrarch, Italian Poet & early Humanist.
1834 ~ Birthday of Edgar Degas, Impressionist Painter.
1848 ~ The two day Women's Rights Convention opened in Seneca Falls, New York and the "Bloomers" were introduced.
1870 ~ The Franco-Prussian war began.
1898 ~ Birthday of Herbert Marcuse, Communist Philosopher.
1941 ~ Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign in Europe.
1947 ~ Death of Aung San, Burmese nationalist. Aung San's daughter, Aung San Suu Kyi, is now the leader of the Burmese opposition to the current military regime.
1993 ~ President Clinton announced a compromise allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, but only if they refrained from homosexual activity.
1996 ~ Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic was forced out of office.
2003 ~ Death of Bill Bright, evangelist, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ.
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07-20-2006, 05:42 AM
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July 20th
1933 ~ In London, 500,000 marched against anti-Semitism.
1938 ~ Birthday of Dame Diana Rigg, Actress (The Avengers, In This House of Brede).
1938 ~ Birthday of Natalie Wood, Actress (From Here to Eternity, Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story).
1944 ~ Adolf Hitler was only slightly wounded when a bomb exploded at his Rastenburg headquarters.
1946 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives voted 265-79 to put control of atomic energy in the hands of a civilian body, the Atomic Energy Commission, rather than leave the military in control.
1960 ~ Ceylon elected Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first female head of government.
1969 ~ Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on its surface.
1982 ~ The Provisional IRA detonated two bombs in Hyde Park and Regents Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, and wounding forty-seven people.
1999 ~ After 38 years at the bottom of the Atlantic, astronaut Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule was lifted to the surface.
2004 ~ The UN General Assembly passed a resolution demanding that Israel tear down the barrier it was building to seal off the West Bank.
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07-21-2006, 05:18 AM
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July 21st
1796 ~ Death of Robert Burns, Scottish Poet.
1899 ~ Birthday of Ernest Hemingway, American Author.
1861 ~ First Battle of Bull Run - the first major battle of the American Civil War began.
1911 ~ Birthday of Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Communications Theorist.
1920 ~ Birthday of Isaac Stern, Ukrainian born Violinist.
1925 ~ In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
1948 ~ Birthday of Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English Singer.
1954 ~ France surrendered North Vietnam to the Viet Minh.
1970 ~ The Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed at the end of eleven years of construction
1994 ~ Tony Blair was declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party.
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07-22-2006, 11:06 AM
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July 22nd
1822 ~ Birthday of Br. Gregor Mendel, Austrian Geneticist.
1887 ~ Birthday of Gustav Hertz, German Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1925.
1898 ~ Birthday of Alexander Calder, American Artist.
1934 ~ John Dillinger was shot to death by FBI agents in Chicago.
1946 ~ The Irgun bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British administration, killing ninety.
1967 ~ Death of Carl Sandburg, Poet.
1977 ~ Deng Xiaoping returns to Chinese Government.
1992 ~ Pablo Escobar, fearing extradition to the U.S., escaped from his luxury prison.
1998 ~ Death of Alan Shepard, Astronaut.
2003 ~ Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were killed when U.S. forces stormed a villa in Mosul, Iraq.
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July 23rd
1757 ~ Death of Domenico Scarlatti, Italian Composer.
1892 ~ Birthday of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia.
1914 ~ Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
1942 ~ The Treblinka extermination camp opened.
1952 ~ Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk I.
1962 ~ Telstar relayed the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.
1972 ~ The U.S. launched Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite.
1982 ~ The International Whaling Commission voted a moratorium on commercial whaling by 1985-86.
1984 ~ Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine.
1986 ~ Prince Andrew, Duke of York married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
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July 24th
1783 ~ Birthday of Simón Bolívar, South American liberator.
1802 ~ Birthday of Alexandre Dumas, French writer. (The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers)
1898 ~ Birthday of Amelia Earhart, American Aviatrix.
1943 ~ Operation Gomorrah: The RAF Bomber Command bombed Hamburg by night, USAAF 8th Air Force Bomber Command by day. By the end of the operation, 9,000 tons of explosive & incendiary bombs created a firestorm which killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
1959 ~ Khrushchev and Nixon have war of words in the “Kitchen Debate”.
1967 ~ During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declared in Montreal "Vive le Québec libre!" (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
1969 ~ The Apollo 11 astronauts, two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon, splashed down safely in the Pacific.
1974 ~ Death of James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1980 ~ Death of Peter Sellers, Actor.
2005 ~ Lance Armstrong closed out his cycling career with a seventh consecutive Tour de France victory.
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July 25th
1797 ~ Horatio Nelson lost more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife Island.
1834 ~ Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet. (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner & Kubla Khan )
1907 ~ Korea became a protectorate of Japan.
1909 ~ Louis Bleriot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine. Calais to Dover in 37 minutes.
1917 ~ Sir Thomas Whyte introduced the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1952 ~ Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.
1956 ~ 51 people died when the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm.
1978 ~ Louise Brown, the first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization, was born in Oldham, England.
1984 ~ Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
2000 ~ An Air France Concorde crashed just after takeoff from Paris, killing 113.
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July 26th
1822 ~ Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín met in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
1856 ~ Birthday of George Bernard Shaw, Author, Playwright, awarded t he Nobel Prize in Literature 1925.
1875 ~ Birthday of Carl Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist.
1898 ~ Birthday of Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft engineer and designer.
1928 ~ Birthday of Stanley Kubrick, Movie Director.
1941 ~ In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the seizure of all Japanese assets in the U.S.
1943 ~ Birthday of Mick Jagger, English Musician. (Rolling Stones)
1947 ~ .S. President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act into law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
1956 ~ Egyptian leader Gamal Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.
1991 ~ Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman, was arrested for allegedly masturbating at a Sarasota, Florida adult theatre.
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July 27th
1844 ~ Death of John Dalton, English Chemist.
1904 ~ Birthday of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1921 ~ Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announced the discovery of the hormone insulin.
1946 ~ Death of Gertrude Stein, American Writer & Cult Figure.
1949 ~ Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
1953 ~ The Korean War stopped. The U.S., People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea signed an armistice agreement.
1974 ~ The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Nixon: Obstruction of Justice.
1980 ~ Death of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran.
1990 ~ Belarus declared independence from the Soviet Union.
2003 ~ Death of Bob Hope, English-born Entertainer.
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