Today in History

TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2013

Today is Tuesday, July 23, 204th day of 2013. There are 161 days left in the year.636 ― Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire 1298 ― Jews are massacred at Wurzburg, Germany 1798 ― Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt 1829 ― William Austin Burt patents “typographer” (typewriter) 1904 ― Ice-cream cone created by Charles E. Menches during La Purchase Expo 1914 ― Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WWI 1931 ― France announces they can’t afford to send a team to 1932 L.A. Olympics1966 ― Napoleon XIV releases, “They’re coming to take me away, ha! ha!”1967 ― 43 killed in racial rebellion in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires) 1984 ― Vanessa Williams, first black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude

Jul 22, 2013

MONDAY, JULY 22, 2013

Today is Monday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2013. There are 162 days left in the year. 1898 ― Belgica crew see first sunrise in 1,600 hours; first to endure Antarctic winter1918 ― Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park1923 ― Walter Johnson becomes the first to strikeout 3,000 1933 ― Wiley Post completes first round-the-world solo flight 1939 ― First black woman judge (Jane Matilda Bolin-NYC) 1967 ― Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour1969 ― Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit1972 ― Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus1988 ― 500 U.S. scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research 1991 ― Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978

Jul 21, 2013

SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2013

Today is Saturday, July 20, the 201st day of 2013. There are 164 days left in the year.1810 ― Colombia declared independence from Spain 1858 ― Fee first charged to see a baseball game (50 cents); N.Y. beats Brooklyn 22-18) 1871 ― British Columbia becomes sixth Canadian province 1881 ― Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops 1922 ― Togo made a mandate of the League of Nations 1940 ― Singles record charts first published by Billboard; Tommy Dorsey is No. 1 1944 ― President FDR nominated for an unprecedented fourth term at Democratic convention 1944 ― U.S. invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II 1960 ― USSR recovered two dogs; first living organisms to return from space 1969 ― First men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11

Jul 19, 2013

FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2013

Today is Friday, July 19, the 200th day of 2013. There are 165 days left in the year. 532 ― Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle 1553 ― 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after nine days 1848 ― First women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, N.Y.) 1877 ― First Wimbledon tennis championships held 1927 ― Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit 1941 ― British P.M. Winston Churchill launched his “V for Victory” campaign 1961 ― First in-flight movie shown (TWA) 1976 ― Rock group Deep Purple disbands 1980 ― 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; U.S. and others boycott 1991 ― Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape

Jul 18, 2013

THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2013

Today is Thursday, July 18, the 199th day of 2013. There are 166 days left in the year.64 ― Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle) 390 B.C. ― Battle of Allia-Gauls inflict heavy casualties on Romans 1536 ― Pope's authority declared void in England 1872 ― Britain introduces secret ballot voting 1936 ― Spanish Civil War begins; Gen. Francisco Franco led uprising 1940 ― First successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Conn.1955 ― First electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially 1969 ― Mary Jo Kopechne and Sen. Edward Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge 1980 ― Rohini 1, first Indian satellite, launches into orbit 1987 ― Yankee Don Mattingly ties major league record of HRs in eight consecutive games 

Jul 17, 2013

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013

Today is Wednesday, July 17, the 198th day of 2013. There are 167 days left in the year.1841 ― British humor magazine “Punch” first published 1861 ― Congress authorizes paper money 1917 ― British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor 1935 ― Variety’s famous headline “Sticks Nix Hick Pix” 1948 ― Proclamation of the constitution of the Republic of Korea 1955 ― Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County 1959 ― Tibet abolishes serfdom1968 ― Revolt in Iraq1968 ― Beatle’s animated film “Yellow Submarine” premiers in London 1975 ― Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 make first U.S.-USSR linkup in space

Jul 16, 2013

TUESDAY, JULY 16, 2013

Today is Tuesday, July 16, the 197th day of 2013. There are 168 days left in the year.622 ― Origin of the Islamic Era (Muharram 1, 1 A.H.) 1212 ― Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain 1439 ― Kissing is banned in England 1894 ― Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan and England 1945 ― First atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico 1950 ― Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 for soccer's 4th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro 1951 ― Novel “Catcher in the Rye” by JD Salinger published 1960 ― 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer 1969 ― Apollo 11, carrying first men to land on the Moon, launched 1987 ― Don Mattingly hits his fourth grand slam of the season and ties A.L. record of homers in six straight games (on way to tie major league record of eight)

Jul 15, 2013

MONDAY, JULY 15, 2013

Today is Monday, July 15, the 196th day of 2013. There are 169 days left in the year.1662 ― Charles II grants charter to establish Royal Society in London 1815 ― Napoleon Bonaparte captured 1869 ― Margarine is patented in Paris, for use by French Navy1888 ― Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for first time in 1,000 years1893 ― Commodore Perry arrives in Japan 1937 ― Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China 1965 ― U.S. scientists display close-up photos of Mars from Mariner IV 1971 ― President Nixon announces he would visit People's Rep of China 1975 ― Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous two days later 1991 ― U.S. troops leave northern Iraq

Jul 14, 2013

SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

Today is Saturday, July 13, the 194th day of 2013. There are 171 days left in the year. 1793 _ French revolution writer Jean Paul Marat murdered by Charlotte Corday 1898 _ Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio 1908 _ Fourth modern Olympic games opens in London 1917 _ Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal 1930 _ Sarnoff reports in NY Times ``TV would be a theater in every home" 1960 _ Democratic National convention nominates Sen. John F. Kennedy for president 1977 _ NYC experiences 25-hour blackout 1978 _ BBC bans Sex Pistols’ ``No One Is Innocent" 1978 _ Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor Pres by Chairman Henry Ford II 1985 _ Live Aid, a rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney 

Jul 12, 2013

FRIDAY, JULY 12, 2013

Today is Friday, July 12, the 193rd day of 2013. There are 172 days left in the year.1543 _ England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (sixth and last wife)1817 _ First flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland) 1859 _ Paper bag manufacturing machine patented by William Goodale, Mass. 1906 _ Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France 1914 _ Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for the Red Sox 1933 _ Congress passes first minimum wage law (33 cents per hour) 1960 _ Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence 1960 _ USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with two dogs 1962 _ Rolling Stones’ first performance (Marquee Club, London) 1970 _ Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky

Jul 11, 2013

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