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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:30 am
July 18th 1982 – 268 campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt's Guatemala.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:31 am
July 18th 1984 – McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: in a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:32 am
July 18th 1986 – A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:32 am
July 18th 1992 – The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:32 am
July 18th 1994 – The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentinian Jewish Communal Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:33 am
July 18th 1995 – On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:33 am
July 18th 1996 – Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/18/10 at 2:33 am
July 18th 1996 – Battle of Mullaitivu. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1200 Army soldiers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:05 pm
July 19th 711 – Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete – Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:06 pm
July 19th 1333 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill – The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:06 pm
July 19th 1544 – Italian War of 1542: the first Siege of Boulogne begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:06 pm
July 19th 1545 – The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:06 pm
July 19th 1553 – Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only nine days of reign.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:20 pm
July 19th 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:20 pm
July 19th 1692 – Salem Witch Trials: five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:20 pm
July 19th 1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:21 pm
July 19th 1760 – A formal request to found what will become Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:22 pm
July 19th 1832 – The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:22 pm
July 19th 1843 – Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:22 pm
July 19th 1848 – Women's rights: a two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York; there the "Bloomers" are introduced.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:22 pm
July 19th 1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid – At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:23 pm
July 19th 1864 – Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking – The Qing Dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:23 pm
July 19th 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:23 pm
July 19th 1879 – Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:23 pm
July 19th 1912 – A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:24 pm
July 19th 1916 – World War I: Battle of Fromelles – British and Australian troops attack German trenches in a prelude to the Battle of the Somme.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:24 pm
July 19th 1919 – Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen riot and burn down Luton Town Hall.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:24 pm
July 19th 1940 – World War II: Battle of Cape Spada – The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:24 pm
July 19th 1940 – World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:25 pm
July 19th 1942 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic – German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:25 pm
July 19th 1947 – The Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of is cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members are assassinated by Galon U Saw.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:25 pm
July 19th 1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:26 pm
July 19th 1964 – Vietnam War: at a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:26 pm
July 19th 1976 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:27 pm
July 19th 1979 – The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:27 pm
July 19th 1983 – The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:27 pm
July 19th 1985 – The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:27 pm
July 19th 1989 – United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/19/10 at 1:28 pm
July 19th 1992 – Anti-Mafia Judge Paolo Borsellino is killed by a Mafia car bomb in Palermo, Italy together with five police officers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Frank on 07/20/10 at 9:45 am
July 20, 1969
Man first landed on the moon (Apollo 11) and Neil Armstrong uttered his famous phrase "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:38 pm
July 20, 1969
Man first landed on the moon (Apollo 11) and Neil Armstrong uttered his famous phrase "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"
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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:39 pm
July 20th 70 – First Jewish-Roman War: Siege of Jerusalem - Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:39 pm
July 20th 911 – Rollo lays siege to Chartres.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:39 pm
July 20th 1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle – King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:39 pm
July 20th 1402 – Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara – Timur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:42 pm
July 20th 1656 – Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:43 pm
July 20th 1738 – North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:43 pm
July 20th 1810 – Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:43 pm
July 20th 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek – Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:44 pm
July 20th 1866 – Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Lissa – The Austrian Navy , led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:44 pm
July 20th 1871 – British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:44 pm
July 20th 1877 – Rioting in Baltimore, Maryland, by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers is put down by the state militia, resulting in nine deaths.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:45 pm
July 20th 1881 – Indian Wars:Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford, North Dakota
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:45 pm
July 20th 1885 – The Football Association legalises professionalism in football under pressure from the British Football Association.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:45 pm
July 20th 1894 – The troops sent by Grover Cleveland to Chicago to end the Pullman Strike are recalled.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:47 pm
July 20th 1898 – Spanish-American War: A boiler explodes on the USS Iowa off the coast of Santiago de Cuba.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:47 pm
July 20th 1903 – Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:47 pm
July 20th 1907 – A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan, kills 30 and injures 70.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:48 pm
July 20th 1916 – World War I: In Armenia, Russian troops capture Gumiskhanek.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:48 pm
July 20th 1917 – World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:48 pm
July 20th 1918 – World War I: German troops cross the Marne.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:49 pm
July 20th 1921 – Air mail service begins between New York City and San Francisco.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:49 pm
July 20th 1921 – Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:50 pm
July 20th 1922 – The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:50 pm
July 20th 1924 – theeran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice-consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:50 pm
July 20th 1926 – A convention of the Southern Methodist Church votes to allow women to become ministers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:51 pm
July 20th 1928 – The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:51 pm
July 20th 1929 – Soviet troops attempt to cross the Amur River into Manchuria near Blagoveschensk as tensions mount between the Soviet Union and the Republic of China.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:53 pm
July 20th 1932 – In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:53 pm
July 20th 1932 – Crowds in the capitals of Bolivia and Paraguay demand their governments declare war on the other after fighting on their border.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:54 pm
July 20th 1933 – Vice-Chancellor of Germany Franz von Papen and Vatican Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli sign a concordat on behalf of their respective nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:54 pm
July 20th 1933 – In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:54 pm
July 20th 1933 – Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:54 pm
July 20th 1934 – Labor unrest in the U.S., as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:55 pm
July 20th 1934 – 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:55 pm
July 20th 1935 – Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:56 pm
July 20th 1936 – The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:56 pm
July 20th 1938 – The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:56 pm
July 20th 1940 – Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:57 pm
July 20th 1940 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Hatch Act of 1939, limiting political activity by Federal government employees.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:57 pm
July 20th 1941 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:59 pm
July 20th 1942 – World War II: The first unit of the Women's Army Corps begins training in Des Moines, Iowa.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 1:59 pm
July 20th 1944 – World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the 20 July plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:00 pm
July 20th 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt wins the Democratic Party nomination for the fourth and final time at the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:00 pm
July 20th 1944 – Fifty are hurt in rioting in front of the presidential palace in Mexico City.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:00 pm
July 20th 1945 – The US Congress approves the Bretton Woods Agreement.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:00 pm
July 20th 1946 – World War II: The US Congress's Pearl Harbor Committee says Franklin D. Roosevelt is completely blameless for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and calls for a unified command structure in the armed forces.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:01 pm
July 20th 1947 – Police in Burma arrest former Prime Minister U Saw and 19 others on charges of assassinating Prime Minister U Aung San and seven members of his cabinet.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:01 pm
July 20th 1947 – The Viceroy of India says the people of the North-West Frontier Province overwhelmingly voted the previous day to join Pakistan rather than India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:02 pm
July 20th 1948 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman issues a peacetime military draft in the United States amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:02 pm
July 20th 1948 – In New York City, twelve leaders of the Communist Party USA are indicted under the Smith Act including William Z. Foster and Gus Hall.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:02 pm
July 20th 1949 – Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:02 pm
July 20th 1950 – Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:03 pm
July 20th 1951 – King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:03 pm
July 20th 1953 – The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:03 pm
July 20th 1954 – Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:04 pm
July 20th 1954 – At Geneva, Switzerland, an armistice is signed that ends fighting in Vietnam and divides the country along the 17th parallel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:04 pm
July 20th 1959 – The Organization for European Economic Cooperation admits Spain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:04 pm
July 20th 1960 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:05 pm
July 20th 1960 – The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:05 pm
July 20th 1960 – Belgium defends its intervention in the Congo to the United Nations Security Council while the government of the Congo appeals to the Soviet Union to send troops to push back the Belgians. The governments of the United States and France and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization warn the
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:05 pm
July 20th 1960 – The head of the Physics Department at the Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is arrested for espionage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:06 pm
July 20th 1961 – French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:06 pm
July 20th 1964 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attack the capital of Dinh Tuong Province, Cai Be, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of which are children).
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:06 pm
July 20th 1964 – The National Movement of the Revolution is instituted as the sole legal political party in the Republic of Congo.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:06 pm
July 20th 1965 – Turkish prime minister Suat Hayri Urguplu returns from a visit to Moscow and announces the Soviet Union will provide aid to his country.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:06 pm
July 20th 1968 – Special Olympics founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:08 pm
July 20th 1969 – A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, 6 days after the beginning of the "Football War"
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:09 pm
July 20th 1971 – The Soviet Union says it will support the People's Republic of China's admission to the United Nations
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:09 pm
July 20th 1973 – The US Senate passes the War Powers Act.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:09 pm
July 20th 1973 – Vietnam War: In testimony by Assistant Secretary of Defense Jerry Friedheim to the US Senate Committee on Armed Services, the US Defense Department admits it lied to US Congress about bombing Cambodia .
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:09 pm
July 20th 1973 – Palestianian terrorists hijack a Japan Airlines jet en route from Amsterdam to Japan and force it down in Dubai.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:10 pm
July 20th 1973 – First coast-to-coast black-owned and operated radio network: The National Black Network (NBN) begins operations.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:10 pm
July 20th 1974 – Turkish occupation of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a "coup d' etat", organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios. NATO's Council praises the United States and the United Kingdom for attempts to settle the dispute. Syria and Egypt put their militaries on alert.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:10 pm
July 20th 1975 – India expels three reporters from The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek because they refused to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:11 pm
July 20th 1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:12 pm
July 20th 1976 – Vietnam War: The U.S. military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:12 pm
July 20th 1976 – Hank Aaron hits his 755th home run, the final home run of his career.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:13 pm
July 20th 1977 – Johnstown is hit by a flash flood that kills eighty and causes $350 million in damage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:13 pm
July 20th 1977 – The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:14 pm
July 20th 1980 – The United Nations Security Council votes 14-0 that member states should not recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:14 pm
July 20th 1982 – Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regents Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:14 pm
July 20th 1983 – The Israeli cabinet votes to withdraw troops from Beirut but to remain in southern Lebanon.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:14 pm
July 20th 1984 – Officials of the Miss America pageant ask Vanessa Lynn Williams to quit after Penthouse publishes nude photos of her.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:15 pm
July 20th 1985 – The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:17 pm
July 20th 1986 – In South Africa, police fire tear gas into a church service for families of those held under the government's emergency decrees.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:17 pm
July 20th 1987 – UN Security Council Resolution 598, condemning the Iran–Iraq War and demanding cease-fire, is unanimously adopted.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:17 pm
July 20th 1989 – Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at Washington, D.C.'s Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institution's Corcoran Gallery cancels it.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:17 pm
July 20th 1989 – Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:18 pm
July 20th 1992 – Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:18 pm
July 20th 1992 – The first post-Soviet monetary reform in Latvia ended, as the Soviet rouble lost its status as legal tender.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:18 pm
July 20th 1994 – Israel's Shimon Peres visits Jordan, the highest ranking Israeli official to do so
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:18 pm
July 20th 1994 – Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:19 pm
July 20th 1996 – In Spain, an ETA bomb at Reus Airport injures 53
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:19 pm
July 20th 1998 – Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:19 pm
July 20th 1999 – Falun Gong is banned in the People's Republic of China, and a large scale crackdown of the practice is launched.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:19 pm
July 20th 2000 – In Zimbabwe, Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members for the first time in a decade.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:19 pm
July 20th 2000 – Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:20 pm
July 20th 2001 – The London Stock Exchange Group plc which owns the London Stock Exchange, goes public.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:20 pm
July 20th 2001 – Italy: The 27th Annual G8 summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, is shot by police.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:20 pm
July 20th 2002 – South America: A fire in a discotheque in Lima, Peru kills over twenty-five.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:20 pm
July 20th 2003 – France: Sixteen people are injured after two bombs explode outside a tax office in Nice.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:20 pm
July 20th 2006 – Ethiopian invasion of Somalia Ethiopian troops enter Somalian territory.
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Written By: Frank on 07/20/10 at 2:32 pm
http://www.tierraunica.com/.a/6a00e551962103883300e553c8fce68834-800wi
An incredible event
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/10 at 2:36 pm
An incredible event
I can remember watching it on tv, in black and white.
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Written By: Frank on 07/20/10 at 5:49 pm
I can remember watching it on tv, in black and white.
I did the same, and it was late at night here, if I recall. I had permission to stay up that late.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:47 am
July 21st 356 BC – Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:47 am
July 21st 285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:48 am
July 21st 365 – A tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The tsunami is caused by an earthquake estimated to be 8.0 on the Richter Scale. 5,000 people perished in Alexandria, and 45,000 more died outside the city.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:48 am
July 21st 1403 – Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:48 am
July 21st 1545 – The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:50 am
July 21st 1568 – Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:50 am
July 21st 1718 – The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:50 am
July 21st 1774 – Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:50 am
July 21st 1831 – Inauguration of Léopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:50 am
July 21st 1861 – American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run – at Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:52 am
July 21st 1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:52 am
July 21st 1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:52 am
July 21st 1877 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:52 am
July 21st 1904 – Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brille in Ostend, Belgium.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:52 am
July 21st 1918 – U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts. This is the first time that the United States is shelled since the Mexican-American War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:53 am
July 21st 1919 – The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:56 am
July 21st 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:56 am
July 21st 1925 – Sir Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to break the 150 mph (241 km/h) land barrier at Pendine Sands in Wales. He drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:56 am
July 21st 1944 – World War II: Battle of Guam – American troops land on Guam starting the battle. It would end on August 10.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:56 am
July 21st 1944 – World War II: Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:56 am
July 21st 1949 – The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 11:56 am
July 21st 1954 – First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 12:01 pm
July 21st 1959 – Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 12:01 pm
July 21st 1960 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and becomes the world's first woman prime minister.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 12:02 pm
July 21st 1961 – Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission – Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 12:02 pm
July 21st 1969 – Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 12:02 pm
July 21st 1970 – After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 12:02 pm
July 21st 1972 – Bloody Friday bombings by the Provisional IRA around Belfast, Northern Ireland – 22 bombs are detonated, killing 9 and seriously injuring 130.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 12:02 pm
July 21st 1973 – In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in 1972's Munich Olympics Massacre.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 12:07 pm
July 21st 1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 12:07 pm
July 21st 1977 – The start of the four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 12:07 pm
July 21st 1983 – The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−129 °F).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 12:07 pm
July 21st 1994 – Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving the way for him to become Prime Minister after the 1997 general election.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 12:08 pm
July 21st 1995 – Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 12:08 pm
July 21st 1997 – The fully restored USS Constitution (aka Old Ironsides) celebrates her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 12:08 pm
July 21st 2004 – The United Kingdom government publishes Delivering Security in a Changing World, a paper detailing wide-ranging reform of the country's armed forces.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 12:08 pm
July 21st 2005 – Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London's public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/21/10 at 12:08 pm
July 21st 2008 – Bosnian-Serb war criminal Radovan Karadžić is arrested in Serbia and is indicted by the UN's ICTY tribunal.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:06 pm
July 22nd 838 – Battle of Anzen: the Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:06 pm
July 22nd 1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:07 pm
July 22nd 1298 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk – King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:07 pm
July 22nd 1456 – Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade – John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:07 pm
July 22nd 1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair – A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:08 pm
July 22nd 1499 – Battle of Dornach – The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:08 pm
July 22nd 1587 – Colony of Roanoke: a second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:08 pm
July 22nd 1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:08 pm
July 22nd 1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:09 pm
July 22nd 1796 – Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:09 pm
July 22nd 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Battle of Cape Finisterre – an inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:09 pm
July 22nd 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War – Battle of Salamanca – British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:09 pm
July 22nd 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:10 pm
July 22nd 1894 – The first ever motorized racing event is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The race is won by Comte Jules-Albert de Dion.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:11 pm
July 22nd 1916 – In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:11 pm
July 22nd 1933 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:11 pm
July 22nd 1934 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:11 pm
July 22nd 1937 – New Deal: the United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:11 pm
July 22nd 1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:14 pm
July 22nd 1942 – Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:14 pm
July 22nd 1943 – World War II: Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:15 pm
July 22nd 1944 – The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:15 pm
July 22nd 1946 – King David Hotel bombing: the Irgun Jewish terrorist group bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration, killing 90.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:16 pm
July 22nd 1951 – Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, "Gypsy") are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:16 pm
July 22nd 1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:16 pm
July 22nd 1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:17 pm
July 22nd 1977 – Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:17 pm
July 22nd 1983 – Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:18 pm
July 22nd 1992 – Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:18 pm
July 22nd 1993 – Great Flood of 1993: levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:18 pm
July 22nd 1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:18 pm
July 22nd 2002 – Israel kills Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:19 pm
July 22nd 2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/22/10 at 12:19 pm
July 22nd 2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:12 pm
July 23rd 1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:13 pm
July 23rd 1793 – Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:13 pm
July 23rd 1862 – American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:13 pm
July 23rd 1840 – The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:13 pm
July 23rd 1833 – Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:14 pm
July 23rd 1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:15 pm
July 23rd 1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:16 pm
July 23rd 1874 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:16 pm
July 23rd 1881 – The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, the world's oldest international sport federation, is founded.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:16 pm
July 23rd 1881 – The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:16 pm
July 23rd 1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:16 pm
July 23rd 1914 – Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia will reject those demands and Austria will declare war on July 28.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:17 pm
July 23rd 1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:18 pm
July 23rd 1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:19 pm
July 23rd 1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:19 pm
July 23rd 1936 – In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:19 pm
July 23rd 1940 – The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:19 pm
July 23rd 1942 – The Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:19 pm
July 23rd 1942 – World War II: Operation Edelweiss begins.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:20 pm
July 23rd 1945 – The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:20 pm
July 23rd 1952 – The European Coal and Steel community is established.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:21 pm
July 23rd 1952 – General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:21 pm
July 23rd 1956 – The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:21 pm
July 23rd 1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:21 pm
July 23rd 1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:22 pm
July 23rd 1962 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:22 pm
July 23rd 1967 – 12th Street Riot: in Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It will leave 43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:22 pm
July 23rd 1968 – Glenville Shootout: in Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:23 pm
July 23rd 1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:23 pm
July 23rd 1970 – Qaboos ibn Sa’id becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa’id ibn Taimur initiating massive reforms ;modernisation programs and end to a decade long civil war.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:23 pm
July 23rd 1972 – The United States launch Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:23 pm
July 23rd 1982 – The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/10 at 1:23 pm
July 23rd 1983 – The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. In the subsequent government-organised pogrom of Black July, about 1,000 Tamils are slaughtered, some 400,000 Tamils flee to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, India and many find refuge in Europe and Canada.