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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:39 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:40 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:40 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:40 am
1346 – Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:40 am
1405 – Chinese explorer Zheng He led a massive fleet of 317 ships from Suzhou on a trade mission to India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:41 am
1476 – Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:41 am
1576 – Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:41 am
1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:41 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:41 am
1740 – Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:42 am
1750 – Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:42 am
1776 – Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:42 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:42 am
1796 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:42 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:42 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:42 am
1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:43 am
1833 – Noongar warrior Yagan, wanted for leading attacks on white colonists in Western Australia, was killed, becoming a symbol of the unjust and sometimes brutal treatment of the indigenous peoples of Australia by colonial settlers.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:43 am
1848 – Waterloo railway station in London opens.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:43 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:44 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:44 am
1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:45 am
1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:45 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:45 am
1895 – The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:45 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:45 am
1906 – The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:45 am
1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major league baseball.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:46 am
1919 – The eight-hour working day and free Sunday become law in the Netherlands.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:46 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:46 am
1921 – A truce is called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:47 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:47 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:47 am
1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:47 am
1930 – Australian cricketer Don Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:47 am
1936 – The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:48 am
1936 – The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:49 am
1936 – The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
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Now known as the Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Bridge.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:49 am
1940 – French World War I hero Philippe Pétain (pictured) became Chief of State of Vichy France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:50 am
1940 – French World War I hero Philippe Pétain (pictured) became Chief of State of Vichy France.
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Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:50 am
1943 – In a massive ethnic cleansing operation, units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army attacked various Polish villages in the Volhynia region of present-day Ukraine, killing the Polish civilians and burning those settlements to the ground.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:50 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:51 am
1947 – The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:51 am
1950 – Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:51 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:51 am
1960 – Independence of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:52 am
1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:53 am
1960 – Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:53 am
1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:53 am
1971 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:54 am
1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:54 am
1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
Is chess a sport?
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:55 am
1973 – Varig Flight 820 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 07/11/11 at 10:55 am
1977 – Martin Luther King Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:55 am
1978 – A tanker truck loaded with 23 tons of highly flammable liquid propylene caught fire and exploded in Alcanar, Spain, killing 217 people and severely burning 200 others.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:56 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:56 am
1983 – A Boeing 737 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:56 am
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 07/11/11 at 10:56 am
1990 – Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:56 am
1991 – A Nationair DC-8 crashes during an emergency landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 261.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:57 am
1995 – A Cubana de Aviación Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:58 am
1995 – Over 8,000 Bosnian men and children (all 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 07/11/11 at 10:58 am
2006 – 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 10:59 am
1533 - Clement VII excommunicated Henry VIII for divorcing Catherine of Aragon, andafterward marrying Anne Boleyn. Two years later, Henry broke with Rome and established theAnglican communion as the national religion of England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 11:00 am
1656 - Ann Austin and Mary Fisher became the first Quakers to arrive in America Ä andwere promptly arrested. Five weeks later, they were deported back to England.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 11:00 am
1952 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Teach me, LordJesus,... not to be hungering for the "strange and peculiar" when the common, ordinary, andregular, rightly taken, will suffice to feed and satisfy the soul.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 11:00 am
1955 - American Presbyterian missionary Francis Schaeffer observed in a letter: 'No priceis too high to have a free conscience before God.'
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/11/11 at 11:00 am
1967 - The Vatican reported that Albania had closed its last Roman Catholic church.(Albania is a tiny Balkan country with an area only the size of Maryland.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:41 pm
927 – Æthelstan, King of England, secures a pledge from Constantine II of Scotland that the latter will not ally with Viking kings, beginning the process of unifying Great Britain.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:42 pm
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 07/12/11 at 3:42 pm
1543 – King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:42 pm
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 07/12/11 at 3:42 pm
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 07/12/11 at 3:42 pm
1690 – Battle of the Boyne (Julian calendar) – The armies of William III defeat those of the former James II.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:43 pm
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 07/12/11 at 3:43 pm
1789 – French revolutionary and radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gave a speech, following hearing the news that France's financial minister Jacques Necker has been dismissed. The speech called the citizens to arms, which lead to the falling of the Bastille two days later.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:43 pm
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 07/12/11 at 3:43 pm
1804 – Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies a day after being shot in a duel.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:43 pm
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 07/12/11 at 3:43 pm
1812 – War of 1812: the United States invade Canada at Windsor, Ontario.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:44 pm
1843 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, allegedly receives a revelation wherein Jesus Christ proclaims anyone who rejects polygamy will suffer damnation and will not "be permitted to enter into my glory".
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:44 pm
1862 – The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:44 pm
1879 – The National Guards Unit of Bulgaria is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:45 pm
1913 – Second Balkan War: Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:45 pm
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 07/12/11 at 3:45 pm
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 07/12/11 at 3:46 pm
1920 – The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed. Soviet Russia recognises independent Lithuania.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:46 pm
1932 – Hedley Verity takes a cricket world record 10 wickets for 10 runs in a county match for Yorkshire
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:47 pm
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 07/12/11 at 3:48 pm
1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the explusion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:48 pm
1960 – Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:48 pm
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 07/12/11 at 3:49 pm
1962 – The Rolling Stones perform their first ever concert, at the Marquee Club in London.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:49 pm
1967 – The Newark riots began in Newark, New Jersey.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:50 pm
1970 – A fire consumes the wooden home of Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt and irretrievably destroys about 90 percent of his output.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:50 pm
1971 – The Australian Aboriginal flag is flown for the first time.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:50 pm
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 07/12/11 at 3:51 pm
1975 – São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:51 pm
1979 – The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from Great Britain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:51 pm
1979 – Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park Chicago, IL
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:51 pm
2006 – The Hezbollah initiate Operation True Promise.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/12/11 at 3:51 pm
2007 – U.S. Army Apache helicopters perform airstrikes in Baghdad, Iraq; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 2:56 am
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 07/13/11 at 2:56 am
1260 – the Livonian Order suffered its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the battle of Durbe against the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 2:56 am
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 07/13/11 at 2:56 am
1573 – Eighty Years' War: the Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 2:57 am
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 07/13/11 at 2:57 am
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 07/13/11 at 2:57 am
1793 – Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 2:57 am
1794 – The Battle of the Vosges is fought between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 2:58 am
1814 – The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, is established.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 2:58 am
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 07/13/11 at 2:58 am
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 07/13/11 at 2:58 am
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 07/13/11 at 2:58 am
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 07/13/11 at 2:58 am
1905 – The verdict in the six-month long Smarthavicharam trial of Kuriyedath Thathri is pronounced, leading to the excommunication of 65 men of various castes.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 2:59 am
1919 – The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 2:59 am
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 07/13/11 at 2:59 am
1941 – World War II: Montenegrins start a popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak), the first one in Axis-controlled countries.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 3:00 am
1962 – In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 3:00 am
1973 – Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 3:00 am
1977 – New York City, amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences a blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 3:00 am
1985 – The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 3:00 am
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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 3:00 am
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 07/13/11 at 3:00 am
2004 – The Flag of Montenegro is adopted.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 3:01 am
2008 – War in Afghanistan: Taliban guerrillas attack NATO troops near the village of Wanat in the Waygal district in Afghanistan's far eastern province of Nuristan.
Subject: Re: Today in History....
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 6:21 am
1105 - Death of Rashi (b.1040), medieval Jewish Bible scholar. His name is a Hebrewacrostic for Rabbi Shelomoh ben Isaac. Rashi was the leading rabbinic commentator in hisday on the Old Testament and Talmud.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 6:21 am
1769 - Birth of Thomas Kelly, Irish Episcopal clergyman and author of 765 hymns,including 'Praise the Savior, Ye Who Know Him.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 6:21 am
1778 - Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'It is perhapsthe highest triumph we can obtain over bigotry when we are able to bear with bigotsthemselves.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 6:22 am
1815 - President John Adams wrote in a letter: 'The Hebrews have done more to civilizemen than any other nation. If I were an atheist,... I should still believe fate had ordainedthe Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 6:22 am
1886 - Birth of Father Edward Flanagan, American Catholic parish priest. Believing therewas 'no such thing as a bad boy,' in 1922 he organized Boys Town near Omaha, Nebraska.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 6:23 am
1978 - BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 6:28 am
1934 - Babe Ruth hits HR #700 against Detroit
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Written By: Howard on 07/13/11 at 6:51 am
1977 – New York City, amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences a blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.
I was 3 years old.
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Written By: Howard on 07/13/11 at 6:51 am
1985 – The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/13/11 at 7:00 am
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I have an ex-work colleague who was there!
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:24 pm
1099 – First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:24 pm
1149 – The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:24 pm
1207 – King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:25 pm
1240 – Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: a Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:25 pm
1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:25 pm
1410 – Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald – the allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:26 pm
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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:26 pm
1741 – Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:26 pm
1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:26 pm
1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:27 pm
1806 – Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:27 pm
1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:28 pm
1823 – A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:28 pm
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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:28 pm
1870 – Reconstruction era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:29 pm
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.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:29 pm
1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:29 pm
1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:29 pm
1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:30 pm
1918 – World War I: the Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:31 pm
1920 – The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:31 pm
1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:31 pm
1954 – First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:31 pm
1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:32 pm
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 07/15/11 at 2:32 pm
1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:32 pm
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 07/15/11 at 2:32 pm
1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called "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" but in which he never uses the word malaise
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:32 pm
1980 – A massive storm tears through western Wisconsin, causing US$160 million in damage.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:32 pm
1983 – A terrorist attack is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/15/11 at 2:33 pm
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 07/15/11 at 2:33 pm
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 07/15/11 at 2:34 pm
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 07/15/11 at 2:34 pm
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 07/15/11 at 2:34 pm
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 07/15/11 at 2:34 pm
2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes in northwestern Iran, killing all 153 aboard.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:01 am
622 – The epoch of the Islamic calendar occurred, marking the year that Muhammad began his Hijra from Mecca to Medina.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:01 am
1054 – Three Roman legates break 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 the start of the East-West Schism.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:01 am
1212 – Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: after Pope Innocent III calls 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 defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:01 am
1377 – Coronation of Richard II of England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:02 am
1377 – Coronation of Richard II of England.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:03 am
1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:03 am
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 07/16/11 at 2:03 am
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 07/16/11 at 2:03 am
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 07/16/11 at 2:04 am
1782 – Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail made its premiere, after which Emperor Joseph II (pictured) made the apocryphal complaint that it had "too many notes".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:04 am
1782 – Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail made its premiere, after which Emperor Joseph II (pictured) made the apocryphal complaint that it had "too many notes".
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:05 am
1790 – The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:05 am
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 07/16/11 at 2:05 am
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 First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:05 am
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 07/16/11 at 2:06 am
1880 – Emily Stowe becomes the first female physician licensed to practice medicine in Canada.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:06 am
1909 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:06 am
1910 – John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:06 am
1915 – Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to England during the first World War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:06 am
1927 – Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:06 am
1931 – Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie signed the nation's first constitution, the first time in history that an absolute ruler voluntarily shared sovereignty with his subjects.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:07 am
1935 – The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:07 am
1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:08 am
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 07/16/11 at 2:08 am
1945 – World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph 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 07/16/11 at 2:08 am
1945 – World War II: The Heavy Cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. This would be the last time the Indianapolis would be seen by the Mainland she would be torpedoed by the Japanese Submarine I-58 on July 30 and sink with 880 out of 1,196 crewmen.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:09 am
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 07/16/11 at 2:09 am
1948 – Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:09 am
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 07/16/11 at 2:09 am
1950 – Korean War: A Korean People's Army unit massacred twenty-one U.S. Army prisoners of war.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:10 am
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 07/16/11 at 2:10 am
1951 – The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:10 am
1956 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:10 am
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 07/16/11 at 2:10 am
1960 – USS George Washington a modified Skipjack class submarine successfully test fires the first ballistic missile while submerged.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:10 am
1965 – South Vietnamese Colonel Pham Ngoc Thao—an undetected communist spy—was hunted down and killed after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyen Khanh.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:11 am
1965 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:11 am
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 07/16/11 at 2:11 am
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 07/16/11 at 2:11 am
1979 – Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:12 am
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 07/16/11 at 2:12 am
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 07/16/11 at 2:12 am
1990 – The Luzon Earthquake strikes in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippines, with an intensity of 7.7.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:13 am
1990 – The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:13 am
1993 – The Slackware operating system is first released.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:13 am
1994 – Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:13 am
1999 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are also killed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:13 am
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 07/16/11 at 2:13 am
2007 – 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake: an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing 8 people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:14 am
1054 - The 'Great Schism' between the Western and Eastern churches began over rivalclaims of universal pre-eminence. (In 1965, 911 years later, Pope Paul VI and PatriarchAthenagoras I met to declare an end to the schism.)
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:14 am
1769 - Spanish Franciscan missionary Father Junipero Serra founded the San Diego deAlcala mission in California -- the first permanent Spanish settlement on America's westcoast.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:14 am
1863 - Birth of Howard E. Smith, American church organist and composer of the melody tothe popular hymn, 'Love Lifted Me.'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:15 am
1931 - Death of C. T. Studd, 69, pioneer English missionary. He was one of the 'CambridgeSeven,' and worked on the mission field in China, India and Central Africa.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/16/11 at 2:15 am
1944 - German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letterfrom prison: 'One has to live for some time in a community to understand how Christ is"formed" in it (Gal 4:19).'
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/11 at 12:17 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:18 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:18 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:18 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:18 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:18 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:19 am
1762 – Peter III (pictured) was killed while in custody at Ropsha, a few days after he was deposed as Emperor of Russia and replaced by his wife Catherine II.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/11 at 12:19 am
1762 – Peter III (pictured) was killed while in custody at Ropsha, a few days after he was deposed as Emperor of Russia and replaced by his wife Catherine II.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/11 at 12:20 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:20 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:20 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:20 am
1856 – The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, kills over 60 people.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/11 at 12:20 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:21 am
1899 – The Nippon Electric Company was founded as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/11 at 12:21 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:21 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:21 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:21 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:22 am
1936 – Nationalist rebels attempted a coup d'état against the Second Spanish Republic, sparking the Spanish Civil War.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/11 at 12:22 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:22 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:23 am
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 07/17/11 at 12:23 am
1948 – The South Korean constitution is proclaimed.
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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/17/11 at 12:23 am
1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.