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FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011

Today is Friday, July 29, the 210th day of 2011. There are 155 days left in the year. 1588 ― Attacking Spanish Armada defeated and scattered by English defenders 1751 ― First international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M. Petit of France in 29 minutes in England 1858 ― First commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed 1948 ― King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic Games in London 1952 ― First nonstop transpacific flight by a jet 1957 ― International Atomic Energy Agency established by U.N. 1973 ― Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy 1974 ― Second impeachment vote against Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee 1988 ― FDIC bails out first Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion 1988 ― Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989

Jul 28, 2011

THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011

Today is Thursday, July 28, the 209th day of 2011. 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 1942 ― Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Russia 1943 ― Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns 1959 ― Hawaii's first U.S. election sends first Asian-Americans to Congress 1984 ― 23rd modern Olympic Games opens in Los Angeles 1991 ― Miguel Indurain of Spain wins the Tour de France bicycle race

Jul 27, 2011

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2011

Today is Wednesday, July 27, the 208th day of 2011. 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 1924 ― 8th Olympic games closes in Paris 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 1988 ― Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years

Jul 26, 2011

TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2011

Today is Tuesday, July 26, the 207th day of 2011. There are 158 days left in the year. 1790 ― U.S. passes Assumption bill making U.S. responsible for state debts 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. 1953 ― Fidel Castro leads attack on Moncada Barracks, begins Cuban revolution 1956 ― Egypt seizes Suez Canal 1957 ― USSR launches first intercontinental multistage ballistic missile 1963 ― U.S. Syncom 2, first geosynchronous communications satellite, launched 1990 ― General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode

Jul 25, 2011

MONDAY, JULY 25, 2011

Today is Monday, July 25, the 206th day of 2011. There are 159 days left in the year. 1799 ― French-Egyptian forces under Napoleon I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir 1871 ― Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa 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 1964 ― Beatles' ``Hard Day's Night, A," album goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 14 weeks 1975 ― ``A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premiers 1983 ― First nonhuman primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio 1984 ― Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became first woman to walk in space 1985 ― Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS

Jul 25, 2011

SATURDAY, JULY 23, 2011

Today is Saturday, July 23, the 204th day of 2011. 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 1968 ― PLO's first hijacking of an El Al plane 1974 ― Greek military dictatorship collapses 1984 ― Vanessa Williams, first black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude 1986 ― Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson 1989 ― Fox-TV tops ABC, NBC and CBS for first time (America's Most Wanted)

Jul 22, 2011

FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2011

Today is Friday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2011. There are 162 days left in the year. 1775 ― George Washington takes command of the troops 1898 ― Belgica crew see first sunrise in 1600 hours; first to endure Antarctic winter 1918 ― Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park 1923 ― Walter Johnson becomes the first to strikeout 3,000 1933 ― Wiley Post completes first round-the-world solo flight 1962 ― First US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off 1967 ― Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour 1983 ― Dick Smith makes first solo helicopter flight around the world 1988 ― 500 U.S. scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research 1991 ― Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978

Jul 21, 2011

THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2011

Today is Thursday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2011. 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 1949 ― Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 1954 ― At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North and South Vietnam 1969 ― Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 a.m. (GMT) 1972 ― In New York, 57 murders occur in 24 hours 1973 ― Hank Aaron becomes second major leaguer to hit 700 homeruns 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, 2011

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2011

Today is Wednesday, July 20, the 201st day of 2011. There are 164 days left in the year. 1858 ― Fee first charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (N.Y. beats Brooklyn 22-18) 1868 ― First use of tax stamps on cigarettes 1872 ― Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... the radio is born 1917 ― WW I draft lottery held; No. 258 is first drawn 1940 ― Singles record charts first published by Billboard; Tommy Dorsey No. 1 1944 ― President FDR nominated for an unprecedented fourth term at Democrats’ convention 1944 ― U.S. invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II 1944 ― Von Stauffenberg fails on an attempt on Hitler's life 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, 2011

TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2011

Today is Tuesday, July 19, the 200th day of 2011. There are 165 days left in the year. 2781 B.C. ― Presumed start of Egyptian calendar 1848 ― First women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, N.Y.) 1877 ― First Wimbledon Tennis Championships held 1913 ― Billboard publishes earliest known ``Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs"; Malinda's Wedding Day is No. 1 1941 ― British P.M. Winston Churchill launched his ``V for Victory" campaign 1957 ― First rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nev. 1975 ― Apollo and Soyuz linked in orbit for two days, separate 1980 ― 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; U.S. and others boycott 1984 ― Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.) wins Democratic V.P. nomination 1991 ― Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape

Jul 18, 2011

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