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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/10 at 7:02 am
July 10th 1892 - First concrete-paved street built in Bellefountaine, Ohio
Is it still there today?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/10/10 at 7:03 am
July 10th 1914 - Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from the Baltimore Orioles
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:37 am
July 11th 472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in the Old St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:37 am
July 11th 911 – Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:37 am
July 11th 1302 – Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) – a coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's royal army.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:38 am
July 11th 1346 – Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:38 am
July 11th 1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:38 am
July 11th 1476 – Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:39 am
July 11th 1576 – Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:39 am
July 11th 1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:39 am
July 11th 1735 – Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:39 am
July 11th 1740 – Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:40 am
July 11th 1750 – Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:41 am
July 11th 1776 – Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:41 am
July 11th 1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:41 am
July 11th 1796 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:53 am
July 11th 1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:54 am
July 11th 1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovered another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:54 am
July 11th 1804 – Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:54 am
July 11th 1833 – Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:55 am
July 11th 1848 – Waterloo railway station in London opens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:55 am
July 11th 1859 – A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:55 am
July 11th 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C..
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:56 am
July 11th 1882 – The British Mediterranean fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:57 am
July 11th 1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:57 am
July 11th 1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:57 am
July 11th 1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state power in Nicaragua.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:58 am
July 11th 1895 – The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:58 am
July 11th 1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:58 am
July 11th 1906 – The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:58 am
July 11th 1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major league baseball.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 2:58 am
July 11th 1919 – The eight-hour working day and free Sunday become law in the Netherlands.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:00 am
July 11th 1920 – In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:00 am
July 11th 1921 – A truce is called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:00 am
July 11th 1921 – Former U.S. President William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:00 am
July 11th 1921 – The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:01 am
July 11th 1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:02 am
July 11th 1929 – The Gillingham Fair fire disaster kills 15 in England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:02 am
July 11th 1936 – The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:02 am
July 11th 1940 – World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:02 am
July 11th 1943 – Massacres of Poles in Volhynia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:03 am
July 11th 1943 – World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily – German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:03 am
July 11th 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:03 am
July 11th 1947 – The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:03 am
July 11th 1950 – Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:04 am
July 11th 1957 – Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:05 am
July 11th 1960 – Independence of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:06 am
July 11th 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:06 am
July 11th 1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:06 am
July 11th 1971 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:08 am
July 11th 1972 – The World Chess Championship 1972 first game starts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:08 am
July 11th 1973 – A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on-board.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:08 am
July 11th 1977 – Martin Luther King Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:08 am
July 11th 1978 – Los Alfaques Disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:09 am
July 11th 1979 – America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:09 am
July 11th 1983 – A Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:10 am
July 11th 1987 – According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) mark.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:10 am
July 11th 1990 – Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:11 am
July 11th 1991 – A Nationair DC-8 crashes during an emergency landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 261. The Canadian charter flight was ferrying Hajj pilgrims on behalf of Nigeria Airways.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:11 am
July 11th 1995 – Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:11 am
July 11th 1995 – A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:11 am
July 11th 1995 – Over 8000 Bosnian men and children (mostly Bosniaks) are killed by Serbian troops commanded by Ratko Mladic in Potočari near Srebrenica Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/10 at 3:12 am
July 11th 2006 – 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:20 pm
July 12th 1191 – Third Crusade: Saladin's garrison surrenders to Conrad of Montferrat, ending the two-year siege of Acre.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:21 pm
July 12th 1543 – King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:21 pm
July 12th 1562 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatan, burns the sacred books of the Maya.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:21 pm
July 12th 1580 – The Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, is published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:21 pm
July 12th 1690 – Battle of the Boyne (Gregorian calendar) – The armies of William III defeat those of the former James II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:22 pm
July 12th 1691 – Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar) – The decisive victory of William III of England's forces in Ireland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:22 pm
July 12th 1790 – The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:22 pm
July 12th 1804 – Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a duel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:23 pm
July 12th 1806 – Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:23 pm
July 12th 1812 – War of 1812: the United States invade Canada at Windsor, Ontario.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:23 pm
July 12th 1862 – The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:23 pm
July 12th 1917 – The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:24 pm
July 12th 1918 – The Japanese Imperial Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:24 pm
July 12th 1920 – The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed. Soviet Russia recognises independent Lithuania.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:24 pm
July 12th 1943 – World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka – German and Soviet forces engage in the largest tank engagement of all time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:25 pm
July 12th 1960 – Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:25 pm
July 12th 1961 – Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams. Half of Pune is submerged, more than 100,000 families need to be relocated and the death tally exceeds 2,000.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:27 pm
July 12th 1962 – The Rolling Stones perform their first ever concert, at the Marquee Club in London.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:27 pm
July 12th 1967 – The Newark riots began in Newark, New Jersey.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:27 pm
July 12th 1973 – A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:28 pm
July 12th 1975 – São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:28 pm
July 12th 1979 – The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from Great Britain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:28 pm
July 12th 1979 – Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park Chicago, IL
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/10 at 12:28 pm
July 12th 2006 – The Hezbollah initiate Operation True Promise.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:30 pm
July 13th 1174 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:30 pm
July 13th 1558 – Battle of Gravelines: in France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul de Thermes at Gravelines.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:31 pm
July 13th 1573 – Eighty Years' War: the Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:31 pm
July 13th 1643 – English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down – In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:31 pm
July 13th 1787 – The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:31 pm
July 13th 1794 – The Battle of the Vosges is fought between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:31 pm
July 13th 1830 – The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:32 pm
July 13th 1854 – In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:32 pm
July 13th 1863 – New York Draft Riots: in New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:32 pm
July 13th 1878 – Treaty of Berlin: the European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman empire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:33 pm
July 13th 1919 – The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:33 pm
July 13th 1923 – The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:33 pm
July 13th 1941 – World War II: Montenegrins start a popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:34 pm
July 13th 1973 – Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:34 pm
July 13th 1977 – New York City, amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences a blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to wide-spread fires and looting.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:34 pm
July 13th 1985 – The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:34 pm
July 13th 1985 – United States Vice President George H.W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:34 pm
July 13th 1990 – An earthquake with its epicentre in Afghanistan results in the greatest number of fatalities in a mountaineering accident in High Asian mountains when an avalanche kills 43 climbers in Camp I on Pik Lenina (Lenin Peak).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/10 at 12:36 pm
July 13th 1865 - PT Barnum's museum burns down
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 07/13/10 at 7:09 pm
1985, July 13th
Live-Aid (concert) occurred.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Howard on 07/14/10 at 7:10 am
1985, July 13th
Live-Aid (concert) occurred.
Wow,the 25th anniversary.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 07/14/10 at 10:56 am
Wow,the 25th anniversary.
Yah, can't believe it's already 25 years. Great concert and raised lots of $$..
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: nally on 07/15/10 at 12:00 am
Yah, can't believe it's already 25 years. Great concert and raised lots of $$..
Yep, and while it was going on, I had my 5th birthday party at home with friends and family.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:14 am
Yah, can't believe it's already 25 years. Great concert and raised lots of $$..
I remember watching some of it live on tv.
Subject: Re: Yesterday in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:15 am
July 14th 1789 – French Revolution: citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:17 am
July 15th 1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:17 am
July 15th 1207 – John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:18 am
July 15th 1240 – Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:18 am
July 15th 1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:18 am
July 15th 1410 – Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald: allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:18 am
July 15th 1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:21 am
July 15th 1741 – Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:21 am
July 15th 1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:21 am
July 15th 1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:21 am
July 15th 1806 – Pike expedition: near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:22 am
July 15th 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:23 am
July 15th 1823 – A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:23 am
July 15th 1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:23 am
July 15th 1870 – Reconstruction era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:24 am
July 15th 1870 – Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:24 am
July 15th 1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:24 am
July 15th 1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:24 am
July 15th 1918 – World War I: the Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:25 am
July 15th 1920 – The Polish Parliament establishes Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:26 am
July 15th 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:26 am
July 15th 1929 – First weekly radio broadcast of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:26 am
July 15th 1934 – Continental Airlines commences operations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:27 am
July 15th 1954 – First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:27 am
July 15th 1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
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July 15th 1959 – The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:27 am
July 15th 1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek Junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:28 am
July 15th 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his famous "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation."
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:28 am
July 15th 1983 – The Orly airport attack in Paris leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:28 am
July 15th 1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:30 am
July 15th 1997 – In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:30 am
July 15th 2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:30 am
July 15th 2002 – Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/10 at 3:30 am
July 15th 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:00 am
July 16th 622 – The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:01 am
July 16th 1054 – Three Roman legates fracture relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing an invalidly-issued Papal Bull of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Historians frequently describe the event as starting the East-West Schism.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:01 am
July 16th 1212 – Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: After Pope Innocent III called European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Pedro II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeated those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and medieval history of Spain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:01 am
July 16th 1377 – Coronation of Richard II of England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:02 am
July 16th 1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:02 am
July 16th 1683 – Manchu Qing Dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:02 am
July 16th 1769 – Father Junipero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolves into the city of San Diego.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:02 am
July 16th 1779 – American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:03 am
July 16th 1782 – First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:03 am
July 16th 1790 – The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after the signing of the Residence Act.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:03 am
July 16th 1809 – The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:03 am
July 16th 1861 – American Civil War: At the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25 mile march into Virginia for what will become the The First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:06 am
July 16th 1862 – American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:06 am
July 16th 1880 – Emily Stowe becomes the first female physician licensed to practice medicine in Canada.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:06 am
July 16th 1915 – Henry James became a British citizen, to dramatize his commitment to England during the first World War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:06 am
July 16th 1918 – Czar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, their children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei, the family doctor, their servants and their pet dog are shot by the Bolsheviks, who had held them captive for 2 months in the basement of a house in Ekaterinberg, Russia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:09 am
July 16th 1931 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
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July 16th 1935 – The world's first parking meter is installed in the Oklahoma capital, Oklahoma City.
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July 16th 1941 – Joe DiMaggio hit safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that is an enduring MLB record.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:10 am
July 16th 1942 – Holocaust: Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv): the government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:12 am
July 16th 1945 – World War II: The leaders of the three Allied nations, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Harry S Truman and leader of the Soviet Union Josef Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:12 am
July 16th 1945 – Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:12 am
July 16th 1948 – Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War's Operation Dekel.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:12 am
July 16th 1948 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:13 am
July 16th 1951 – King Léopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:13 am
July 16th 1951 – J.D. Salinger novel The Catcher in the Rye published by Little, Brown and Company
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:14 am
July 16th 1951 – J.D. Salinger novel The Catcher in the Rye published by Little, Brown and Company
I always thought it was the mid 50's not early 50's for it's publishing date.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:15 am
July 16th 1951 – Cary Grant presses his hands and shoes into wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:15 am
July 16th 1957 – United States Marine major John Glenn flies a F8U Crusader supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds, setting a new transcontinental speed record.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:15 am
July 16th 1960 – USS George Washington (SSBN-598) a modified Skipjack class submarine successfully test fires the first Ballistic missile while submerged.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:15 am
July 16th 1965 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:16 am
July 16th 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the Moon is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:16 am
July 16th 1973 – Watergate Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:18 am
July 16th 1979 – Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:18 am
July 16th 1981 – Mahathir bin Mohamad becomes Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister; his 22 years in office, ending with retirement on 31 October 2003, made him Asia's longest-serving political leader.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:18 am
July 16th 1983 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:18 am
July 16th 1990 – Luzon Earthquake stroke in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippineswith an intensity of 7.7.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:20 am
July 16th 1994 – Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:20 am
July 16th 1999 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies in a plane mishap over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, along with his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:20 am
July 16th 2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/10 at 3:20 am
July 16th 2007 – 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake: an earthquake 6.8 in magnitude and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off Japan's Niigata coast, killing 8 people, with at least 800 injured, and damaging a nuclear power plant.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:45 am
July 17th 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:46 am
July 17th 1203 – The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault. The Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:46 am
July 17th 1402 – Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor, assumes the throne over the Ming Dynasty of China.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:46 am
July 17th 1453 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Castillon: The French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:47 am
July 17th 1586 – A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defence, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:47 am
July 17th 1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:47 am
July 17th 1762 – Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:48 am
July 17th 1771 – Bloody Falls Massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, travelling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:50 am
July 17th 1791 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:50 am
July 17th 1794 – The sixteen Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne are executed 10 days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:50 am
July 17th 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:50 am
July 17th 1856 – The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania kills over 60 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:51 am
July 17th 1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston. It was the first dental school in the U.S.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:51 am
July 17th 1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:51 am
July 17th 1917 – King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:52 am
July 17th 1917 – King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor.
I wonder why?
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:52 am
July 17th 1918 – On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:52 am
July 17th 1918 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; 5 lives are lost.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:53 am
July 17th 1933 – After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:53 am
July 17th 1936 – Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:53 am
July 17th 1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:54 am
July 17th 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad commences in modern-day Volgograd.
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July 17th 1944 – Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California, killing 320.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:54 am
July 17th 1944 – World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:54 am
July 17th 1945 – World War II: Potsdam Conference – at Potsdam, U.S. President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the three main Allied leaders, begin their final summit of the war. The meeting would end on August 2.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:55 am
July 17th 1948 – The South Korean constitution is proclaimed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:55 am
July 17th 1955 – Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:55 am
July 17th 1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:56 am
July 17th 1968 – A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:56 am
July 17th 1973 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:56 am
July 17th 1975 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:56 am
July 17th 1976 – History of East Timor: East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:57 am
July 17th 1976 – The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:57 am
July 17th 1979 – Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:57 am
July 17th 1981 – The opening of the Humber Bridge by HM The Queen in England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:57 am
July 17th 1981 – A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:58 am
July 17th 1989 – First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:59 am
July 17th 1996 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 12:59 am
July 17th 1997 – The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 1:00 am
July 17th 1998 – Papua New Guinea earthquake: A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 3,183, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 1:00 am
July 17th 1998 – A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 1:00 am
July 17th 2002 – Apple Inc. premiers iCal at Macworld Expo, therefore the date that appears default on Dock
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 1:00 am
July 17th 2007 – TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. This is Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 1:01 am
July 17th 2007 – Trans-Neptunian Object 2007 OR10 is discovered.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/10 at 1:01 am
July 17th 2009 – Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4 foreigners.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:24 am
July 18th 390 BC – Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia – a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:24 am
July 18th 64 – Great fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:24 am
July 18th 1290 – King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:25 am
July 18th 1334 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:25 am
July 18th 1389 – Kingdom of France and Kingdom of England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, in inaugurating a 13 year peace; the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years War
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:25 am
July 18th 1656 – Polish-Lithuanian forces clash with Sweden and its Brandenburg allies in the start of what is to be known as The Battle of Warsaw which ends in a decisive Swedish victory.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:26 am
July 18th 1857 – Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:26 am
July 18th 1862 – First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:27 am
July 18th 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Wagner/Morris Island – the first formal African American military unit, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, fails in their assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:27 am
July 18th 1870 – The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:28 am
July 18th 1914 – The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving definite status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:28 am
July 18th 1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:28 am
July 18th 1936 – In Spanish Morocco, military rebels attempt a coup d'état against the legitimacy of the Spanish government. This will lead to the Spanish Civil War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:28 am
July 18th 1942 – World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:29 am
July 18th 1944 – World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:29 am
July 18th 1965 – Russian satellite Zond 3 launched.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:29 am
July 18th 1966 – Gemini 10 launched.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:29 am
July 18th 1968 – The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:29 am
July 18th 1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:30 am
July 18th 1976 – Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.