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FRIDAY, JULY 30, 2010

Today is Friday, July 30, the 211th day of 2010. There are 154 days left in the year. 1733 ― Society of Freemasons opens first American lodge in Boston 1839 ― Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad 1863 ― Pres Lincoln issues ``eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot 1913 ― Conclusion of the Second Balkan War 1928 ― George Eastman demonstrates first color movie 1930 ― Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's first World Cup in Montevideo 1948 ― Professional wrestling premiers on prime-time network TV (DuMont) 1965 ― LBJ signs Medicare bill, which went into effect following year 1983 ― Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg 1990 ― George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of the NY Yankees

Jul 29, 2010

THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2010

Today is Thursday, July 29, the 210th day of 2010. 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 1957 ― International Atomic Energy Agency established by U.N. 1973 ― Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy 1974 ― Second impeachment vote against President Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee 1981 ― Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diana Spencer 1988 ― Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989 1988 ― South African government bans anti-apartheid film ``Cry Freedom" 1991 ― Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a seven-plus carat engagement ring

Jul 28, 2010

TUESDAY, JULY 27, 2010

Today is Wednesday, July 28, the 209th day of 2010. 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 1821 ― Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day) 1830 ― Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe 1851 ― Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph 1866 ― Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in U.S. 1915 ― 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (NYC) protesting lynching 1915 ― U.S. forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924 1942 ― Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Russia 1943 ― Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns

Jul 27, 2010

TUESDAY, JULY 27, 2010

Today is Tuesday, July 27, the 208th day of 2010. 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 1924 ― Eighth Olympic Games closes in Paris 1940 ― Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts 1941 ― Japanese forces land in Indochina 1944 ― U.S. regains possession of Guam from Japanese 1953 ― Armistice signed ending Korean War 1954 ― Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries 1962 ― Martin Luther King Jr. jailed in Albany, Ga. 1976 ― 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese

Jul 26, 2010

MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010

Today is Monday, July 26, the 207th day of 2010. 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 ― General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode 1991 ― Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie theater

Jul 25, 2010

SATURDAY, JULY 24, 2010

Today is Saturday, July 24, the 205th day of 2010. There are 160 days left in the year. 1704 ― Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain 1783 ― Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia 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" 1969 ― Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army on appeal 1974 ― Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes 1991 ― University of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of the solar system

Jul 23, 2010

FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2010

Today is Friday, July 23, the 204th day of 2010. 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) 1904 ― Ice cream cone created by Charles E. Menches during La Purchase Expo 1914 ― Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I 1931 ― France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 L.A. Olympics 1966 ― 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) 1978 ― Israeli cabinet rejects Sadat's call for return of two Sinai areas 1984 ― Vanessa Williams, first black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude

Jul 22, 2010

THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010

Today is Thursday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2010. There are 162 days left in the year. 1898 ― Belgian crew see first sunrise in 1,600 hours _ first to endure Antarctic winter 1917 ― Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian P.M. 1923 ― Walter Johnson becomes the first to strikeout 3,000 1937 ― Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court 1967 ― Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour 1969 ― Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit 1983 ― Dick Smith makes first solo helicopter flight around the world 1984 ― Kathy Whitworth wins a record 85th pro golf tournament 1988 ― 500 U.S. scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research 1991 ― Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978

Jul 21, 2010

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 2010

Today is Wednesday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2010. There are 163 days left in the year. 1588 ― English fleet defeats Spanish armada 1831 ― Belgium gains independence from Netherland, Leopold I made king 1873 ― Jesse James, first train robbery 1940 ― Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania 1944 ― U.S. forces free Guam of Japanese invaders 1954 ― At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North and South Vietnam 1969 ― Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT) 1976 ― First outbreak of ``Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Philadelphia 1980 ― Jean-Claude Droyer climbs the Eiffel Tower in 2 hours and 18 minutes 1990 ― Pink Floyds' ``The Wall" is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood

Jul 20, 2010

TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2010

Today is Tuesday, July 20, the 201st day of 2010. There are 164 days left in the year. 1872 ― Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... the radio is born 1940 ― Singles record charts first published by Billboard _ Tommy Dorsey No. 11 1944 ― President FDR nominated for an unprecedented fourth term at Democratic convention 1944 ― U.S. invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II 1944 ― Von Stauffenberg fails on an attempt on Hitler's life 1949 ― Israel's 19-month war of independence ends 1960 ― USSR recovered two dogs; first living organisms to return from space 1968 ― Iron Butterfly's ``In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes the first heavy metal song to hit the charts, it comes in at No. 117 1969 ― First men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11 1991 ― Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant

Jul 19, 2010
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