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SATURDAY, JULY 7, 2012

Today is Saturday, July 7, the 189th day of 2012. There are 177 days left in the year. 1668 _ Isaac Newton receives M/A from Trinity College, Cambridge 1865 _ Four Lincoln assassination conspirators, including Mary Surratt, hanged 1891 _ Travelers cheque patented 1937 _ Japanese and Chinese troops clash, which will become WW II 1968 _ Rock group ``The Yardbirds" disband 1969 _ Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French and English languages 1981 _ Solar Challenger powered only by solar energy crosses English Channel 1983 _ Eleven-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR 1987 _ Lt. Colonel Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing 1988 _ Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)

Jul 6, 2012

FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2012

Today is Friday, July 6, the 188th day of 2012. There are 178 days left in the year. 1483 _ England's King Richard III crowned 1535 _ Sir Thomas More executed in England for treason 1687 _ Newton publishes ``Principia" 1776 _ Declaration of Independence announced on front page of the ``PA Evening Gazette" 1785 _ Congress resolves U.S. currency named ``dollar" and adopts decimal coinage 1885 _ First inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur 1923 _ Union of Soviet Socialist Republics formed 1933 _ First All-Star baseball game, AL wins 5-2 (Chicago's Comiskey Park) 1967 _ Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade 1983 _ Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less

Jul 5, 2012

THURSDAY, JULY 5, 2012

Today is Thursday, July 5, the 187th day of 2012. There are 179 days left in the year. 1687 ― Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England 1811 ― Venezuela becomes first South American country to gain independence from Spain 1841 ― Thomas Cook opens first travel agency 1932 ― Oliveira Salazar becomes dictator of fascist Portugal 1944 ― Harry Crosby takes first rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight 1962 ― Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule 1963 ― First Beatle tune to hit U.S. charts, Del Shannon ``From Me to You" at No. 87 1969 ― Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park 1983 ― Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, Va.) 1986 ― Nancy Reagan cuts red, white and blue ribbon; reopens Statue of Liberty

Jul 4, 2012

WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 2012

Today is Wednesday, July 4, the 186th day of 2012. There are 180 days left in the year. 1054 ― Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days) 1776 ― Declaration of Independence; U.S. gains independence from Britain 1865 ― First edition of ``Alice in Wonderland" is published 1876 ― First public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco 1884 ― Statue of Liberty presented to U.S. in Paris 1946 ― Philippines gains independence from U.S. 1966 ― LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act 1969 ― 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin 1976 ― Raid on Entebbe; Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers 1987 ― Nazi Klaus Barbie, ``Butcher of Lyon" convicted by a French court

Jul 3, 2012

TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2012

Today is Tuesday, July 3, the 185th day of 2012. There are 181 days left in the year. 1886 ― First NY Tribune printing using first commercial linotype machine 1898 ― Joshua Slocum completes first solo circumnavigation of the globe 1939 ― Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler 1950 ― First time U.S. and North Korean forces clash in the Korean War 1982 ― Martina Navratilova defeats Chris Evert Lloyd at Wimbledon 1983 ― Calvin Smith of U.S. becomes fastest man alive (9.93 seconds for 100 m) 1986 ― President Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty 1987 ― Two men became first hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic 1988 ― U.S. Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290 1991 ― Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7.45-karat diamond ring

Jul 2, 2012

MONDAY, JULY 2, 2012

Today is Monday, July 2, the 184th day of 2012. There are 182 days left in the year. 1535 ― Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason 1776 ― First vote on the Declaration of Independence 1862 ― Lincoln appoints Isaac Newton sec of agriculture ― no kidding! 1949 ― Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France 1959 ― World Refugee Year begins 1966 ― Medicare goes into effect 1968 ― U.S., Britain, USSR and 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty 1978 ― Former Pres Nixon makes first public speech since resigning in 1974 1982 ― 2,100 Unification Church couples wed in NYC 1997 ― China regains sovereignty of Hong Kong

Jul 1, 2012

SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 2012

Today is Saturday, June 30, the 182nd day of 2012. There are 184 days left in the year. 1859 ― Charles Blondin is first to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope 1894 ― Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid 1914 ― Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa 1934 ― ``Night of the Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party 1936 ― ``Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published 1936 ― 40 hour work week law approved 1948 ― Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs) 1950 ― President Truman orders U.S. troops into Korea 1972 ― First leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 1981 ― China's Communist Party condemns the late Mao Zedong's policy

Jun 29, 2012

FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2012

Today is Friday, June 29, the 181st day of 2012. There are 185 days left in the year. 1613 ― Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down 1858 ― Treaty of Algun, China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia 1913 ― Beginning of the Second Balkan War 1916 ― Boeing aircraft flies for first time 1946 ― British arrest 2,700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists 1949 ― South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages 1949 ― U.S. troops withdraw from Korea after WW II 1963 ― Beatles' first song ``From Me to You" hits the U.K. charts 1964 ― Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate 1972 ― Supreme Court-death penalty usually was ``cruel and unusual punishment"

Jun 28, 2012

THURSDAY, JUN 28, 2012

Today is Thursday, June 28, the 180th day of 2012. There are 186 days left in the year. 1820 ― Tomato is proven nonpoisonous 1838 ― Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey 1859 ― First dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England) 1905 ― Russian sailors mutiny aboard the battleship ``Potemkin" 1914 ― Assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia, in Sarajevo by a Serbian Nationalist, Gavrilo Princip. This incident precipitated a war with Serbia, eventually starting WW1 1919 ― Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed 1950 ― North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea 1971 ― Supreme Court overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali 1974 ― Wings release ``Band on the Run" & ``Zoo Gang" in U.K. 1975 ― Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill.)

Jun 27, 2012

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2012

Today is Wednesday, June 27, the 179th day of 2012. There are 187 days left in the year. 1693 ― First woman's magazine, ``The Ladies' Mercury," published (London) 1833 ― Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn 1929 ― First color TV demo (NYC) 1940 ― USSR returns to the Gregorian calendar 1950 ― President Truman orders air force and navy into Korean conflict 1950 ― U.N. Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea 1954 ― First atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia) 1955 ― First automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois) 1966 ― First sci-fi soap opera, ``Dark Shadows," premiers 1986 ― In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce

Jun 26, 2012

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