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WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010

Today is Wednesday, July 7, the 188th day of 2010. There are 177 days left in the year. 1668 _ Isaac Newton receives M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge 1863 _ First military draft by U.S. (exemptions cost $100) 1865 _ Four Lincoln assassination conspirators, including Mary Surratt, hanged 1891 _ Travelers check 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-English language 1980 _ Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor first female nominated to Supreme Court 1981 _ First solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel 1988 _ Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)

Jul 6, 2010

TUESDAY, JULY 6, 2010

Today is Tuesday, July 6, the 187th day of 2010. There are 178 days left in the year. 1483 _ England's King Richard III crowned 1535 _ Sir Thomas More executed in England for treason 1785 _ Congress resolves U.S. currency named ``dollar" and adopts decimal coinage 1885 _ First inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur 1908 _ Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for the north pole 1923 _ Union of Soviet Socialist Republics formed 1928 _ First all-talking motion picture shown, in N.Y. (Lights of N.Y.) 1945 _ Nicaragua becomes first nation to formally accept U.N. Charter 1967 _ Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade 1971 _ White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks

Jul 5, 2010

MONDAY, JULY 5, 2010

Today is Monday, July 5, the 186th day of 2010. There are 179 days left in the year. 1687 _ Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England 1811 _ Venezuela, first South American country to gain independence from Spain 1841 _ Thomas Cook opens first travel agency 1935 _ President Franklin Roosevelt signs the National Labor Relations Act 1946 _ Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show 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 _ Rod Laver wins his fourth Wimbledon championship 1969 _ Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park 1971 _ 26th amendment certified (reduces voting age to 18)

Jul 4, 2010

SATURDAY, JULY 3, 2010

Today is Saturday, July 3, the 184th day of 2010. There are 181 days left in the year. 1775 _ Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass. 1863 _ Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., ends, major victory for North 1886 _ First NY Tribune printing using first commercial linotype machine 1950 _ First time U.S. and North Korean forces clash in the Korean War 1974 _ Soyuz 14 carries two cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3 1976 _ Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew and passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers 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 1989 _ The movie ``Batman," set record of quickest $100 million (10 days) 1991 _ Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7.45 karat diamond ring

Jul 2, 2010

FRIDAY, JULY 2, 2010

Today is Friday, July 2, the 183rd day of 2010. There are 182 days left in the year. 1776 _ Continental Congress resolves ``These United Colonies are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States" 1787 _ De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered 1843 _ An alligator falls from the sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm 1858 _ Partial emancipation of Russian serfs 1932 _ FDR makes first presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech 1956 _ Elvis Presley records ``Hound Dog" & ``Don't Be Cruel" 1964 _ President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act 1976 _ Formal reunification of North and South Vietnam 1976 _ Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual 1990 _ Imelda Marcos and Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering

Jul 1, 2010

THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2010

Today is Thursday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2010. There are 183 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 1944 _ Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank 1949 _ Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France 1967 _ Beatles' ``Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," goes No. 1 for 15 weeks 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 1990 _ German Democratic Republic accepts the Deutsche mark as its currency 1997 _ China regains sovereignty of Hong Kong

Jun 30, 2010

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2010

Today is Wednesday, June 30, the 181st day of 2010. There are 184 days left in the year. 1607 _ Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published 1859 _ Charles Blondin is first to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope 1893 _ Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered 1894 _ Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid 1908 _ Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska Event) 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 workweek law approved (federal) 1950 _ President Truman orders U.S. troops into Korea 1981 _ China's Communist Party condemns the late Mao Zedong's policy

Jun 29, 2010

TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2010

Today is Tuesday, June 29, the 180th day of 2010. There are 185 days left in the year. 1613 _ Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down 1913 _ Beginning of the Second Balkan War 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 _ First draft of Star Trek's pilot ``The Cage" released 1964 _ Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate 1966 _ U.S. bombs fuel storage facilities near N. Vietnamese cities 1967_ Israel removes barricades, reunifying Jerusalem 1972 _ Supreme Court _ death penalty usually was ``cruel and unusual punishment"

Jun 28, 2010

MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010

Today is Monday, June 28, the 179th day of 2010. There are 186 days left in the year. 1245 _ first Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens 1820 _ Tomato is proven nonpoisonous 1894 _ Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday 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 1965 _ First U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Johnson 1968 _ Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers 1971 _ Supreme Court overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali

Jun 27, 2010

SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 2010

Today is Saturday, June 26, the 177th day of 2010. There are 188 days left in the year. 1483 _ Richard III usurps English throne 1945 _ U.N. Charter signed by 50 nations in S.F. 1963 _ Kennedy visits W. Berlin ``Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) 1964 _ Beatles release ``A Hard Day's Night" album 1968 _ Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by U.S. 1974 _ Liz Taylor's fifth divorce (Richard Burton) 1975 _ Indian P.M. Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency 1982 _ U.S. vetoes U.N. Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces 1989 _ Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson marry for the second time 1990 _ 122 degrees Fahrenheit in Phoenix, Ariz.

Jun 25, 2010

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