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TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2012

Today is Tuesday, July 31, the 213th day of 2012. There are 153 days left in the year. 1498 ― Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad 1777 ― Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army 1912 ― U.S. government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights (censorship) 1922 ― 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's first water skis (Minn.) 1925 ― Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England 1949 ― Lightning strikes a baseball field in Fla., kills the short stop and third baseman 1960 ― Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state 1980 ― Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36 1981 ― The 42-day-long, second major league baseball strike ends 1990 ― Nolan Ryan becomes the 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games

Jul 30, 2012

MONDAY, JULY 30, 2012

Today is Monday, July 30, the 212th day of 2012. There are 154 days left in the year. 1733 ― Society of Freemasons opens first American lodge in Boston 1792 ― 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for first time 1863 ― President Lincoln issues ``eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot 1928 ― George Eastman demonstrates first color movie 1930 ― Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's first World Cup in Montevideo 1942 ― German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia 1943 ― Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (``Girl Crazy”) 1966 ― Beatles' ``Yesterday... & Today," album goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for five weeks 1974 ― House of Reps recommends three articles of impeachment of Nixon 1976 ― Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball

Jul 29, 2012

SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2012

Today is Saturday, July 28, the 210th day of 2012. There are 156 days left in the year. 1586 ― Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe 1588 ― Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I 1866 ― Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in U.S. 1882 ― The opera ``Parsifal" is produced (Bayreuth) 1900 ― Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut 1943 ― Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns 1945 ― U.S. Senate ratifies U.N. Charter 89-2 1990 ― Blackout hits Chicago 1991 ― Miguel Indurain of Spain wins the Tour de France bicycle race 2061 ― 31st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

Jul 27, 2012

FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2012

Today is Friday, July 27, the 209th day of 2012. There are 157 days left in the year. 1501 ― Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral 1586 ― Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia 1694 ― Bank of England chartered 1919 ― Chicago race riot (15 whites and 23 blacks killed, 500 injured) 1940 ― Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts 1941 ― Japanese forces land in Indochina 1953 ― Armistice signed ending Korean War 1954 ― Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries 1976 ― 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese 1991 ― TV Guide publishes its 2,000th edition

Jul 26, 2012

THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2012

Today is Thursday, July 26, the 208th day of 2012. There are 158 days left in the year. 1848 ― First Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls, N.Y.) 1887 ― First Esperanto book published 1908 ― Federal Bureau of Investigation established 1945 ― Churchill resigns as Britain's P.M. 1947 ― National Security Act establishes the CIA 1953 ― Fidel Castro leads attack on Moncada Barracks, begins Cuban revolution 1956 ― Egypt seizes Suez Canal 1957 ― USSR launches first intercontinental multistage ballistic missile 1990 ― U.S. beats the Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at the Goodwill Games 1991 ― Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie theater

Jul 25, 2012

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 2012

Today is Wednesday, July 25, the 207th day of 2012. There are 159 days left in the year. 1593 ― France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic 1930 ― Philadelphia Athletics triple steal in the first and fourth innings vs. Cleveland 1940 ― John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours 46 minutes in the Mississippi River 1943 ― Benito Mussolini dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II 1944 ― First jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262) 1946 ― First bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show 1963 ― U.S., Russia and England sign nuclear test ban treaty 1984 ― Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became first woman to walk in space 1990 ― U.S. ambassador tells Iraq, U.S. won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute 1992 ― 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain

Jul 24, 2012

TUESDAY, JULY 24, 2012

Today is Tuesday, July 24, the 206th day of 2012. There are 160 days left in the year. 1683 ― First settlers from Germany to U.S., leave aboard the Concord 1701 ― French make first landing at site of Detroit 1824 ― Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of first public opinion poll; clear lead for Andrew Jackson 1847 ― Rotary-type printing press patented by Richard March Hoe, NYC 1948 ― Soviets blockades Berlin from the West 1959 ― V.P. Nixon argued with Khrushchev, known as ``Kitchen Debate" 1963 ― 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea 1965 ― Bob Dylan release ``Like a Rolling Stone" 1967 ― Beatles sign a petition in The Times to legalize marijuana 1991 ― University of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of the solar system

Jul 23, 2012

MONDAY, JULY 23, 2012

Today is Monday, July 23, the 205th day of 2012. There are 161 days left in the year. 636 ― Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire 1798 ― Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt 1829 ― William Austin Burt patents ``typographer" (typewriter) 1880 ― First commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich. 1904 ― Ice cream cone created by Charles E. Menches during La Purchase Expo 1940 ― ``Blitz" begins, all-night raid on London 1948 ― Progressive Party convention nominates Henry Wallace for president 1968 ― PLO's first hijacking of an El Al plane 1984 ― Vanessa Williams, first black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude 1986 ― Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson

Jul 22, 2012

SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2012

Today is Saturday, July 21, the 203rd day of 2012. There are 163 days left in the year. 1588 ― English fleet defeats Spanish armada 1831 ― Belgium gains independence from Netherland, Leopold I made king 1940 ― Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania 1969 ― Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 a.m. (GMT) 1973 ― USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2,600 km) of the red planet 1973 ― Hank Aaron becomes second major leaguer to hit 700 homeruns 1976 ― First outbreak of ``Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Philadelphia 1980 ― Jean-Claude Droyer climbs the Eiffel Tower in 2 hours 18 minutes 1984 ― First documented case of a robot killing a human in U.S. 1990 ― Pink Floyds' ``The Wall" is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood

Jul 20, 2012

FRIDAY, JULY 20, 2012

Today is Friday, July 20, the 202nd day of 2012. There are 164 days left in the year. 1402 ― Battle of Angora (Ankara); Tatars defeat Turkish Army 1791 ― King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution 1837 ― Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901 1867 ― President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska 1895 ― First female doctor of science earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin) 1963 ― U.S. and USSR agree to set up ``Hot Line" 1967 ― Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services 1968 ― Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds 1969 ― 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear 1990 ― Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of the U.S.

Jul 19, 2012

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