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THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2009

Today is Thursday, July 30, the 211th day of 2009. There are 154 days left in the year. 1733 _ Society of Freemasons opens first American lodge in Boston 1863 _ President 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 1956 _ U.S. motto ``In God We Trust" authorized 1966 _ Beatles' ``Yesterday & Today," album goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for five weeks 1971 _ Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162 1975 _ Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit 1976 _ Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball 1980 _ British New Hebrides becomes independent and takes name Vanuatu

Jul 29, 2009

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2009

Today is Wednesday, July 29, the 210th day of 2009. There are 155 days left in the year. 1588 _ Attacking Spanish Armada defeated and scattered by English defenders 1858 _ First commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed 1952 _ First nonstop transpacific flight by a jet 1957 _ International Atomic Energy Agency established by U.N. 1958 _ President Eisenhower signs NASA & Space Act of 1958 1968 _ Pope Paul VI reaffirms stand against artificial birth control 1973 _ Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy 1974 _ Second impeachment vote against Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee 1975 _ Ford became first U.S. pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz 1981 _ Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diana Spencer

Jul 28, 2009

TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2009

Today is Tuesday, July 28, the 209th day of 2009. There are 156 days left in the year. 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 1866 _ Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in U.S. 1900 _ Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut 1914 _ Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia ― WW I begins 1942 _ Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk, Russia 1943 _ Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns 1945 _ U.S. Senate ratifies U.N. charter 89-2 1951 _ Walt Disney's ``Alice In Wonderland" released

Jul 27, 2009

MONDAY, JULY 27, 2009

Today is Monday, July 27, the 208th day of 2009. 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 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 1955 _ Austria regains full independence after four-power occupation 1976 _ 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese 1991 _ TV Guide publishes its 2000th edition

Jul 26, 2009

SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2009

Today is Saturday, July 25, the 206th day of 2009. There are 159 days left in the year. 1871 _ Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa 1898 _ First U.S. troops land and occupy Puerto Rice at Guanica Bay 1918 _ Annette Adams sworn in as first woman district attorney of U.S. in California 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 1965 _ Folk-rock begins _ Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival 1985 _ Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS 1992 _ 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain

Jul 24, 2009

FRIDAY, JULY 24, 2009

Today is Friday, July 24, the 205th day of 2009. There are 160 days left in the year. 1651 _ Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Virginia 1783 _ Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia 1948 _ Soviets blockades Berlin from the west 1959 _ V.P. Nixon argued with Khrushchev, known as ``Kitchen Debate" 1961 _ Beginning of a trend, a U.S. commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba 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 1967 _ Charles de Gaulle says, ``Vive le Quebec libre! (Long live free Quebec!)" 1985 _ Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai

Jul 23, 2009

THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2009

Today is Thursday, July 23, the 204th day of 2009. 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 1965 ― Beatles ``Help" is released in the U.K. 1967 ― 43 killed in racial rebellion in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires) 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

Jul 22, 2009

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2009

Today is Wednesday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2009. 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 1939 _ First black woman judge (Jane Matilda Bolin-NYC) 1963 _ Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson to retain heavyweight championship 1967 _ Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour 1972 _ Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus 1983 _ Poland's P.M. Jaruzelski lifts martial law 1983 _ Dick Smith makes first solo helicopter flight around the world

Jul 21, 2009

TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2009

Today is Tuesday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2009. 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 1898 _ Spain cedes Guam to U.S. 1940 _ Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania 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) 1973 _ Hank Aaron becomes second major leaguer to hit 700 HRs 1978 _ World's strongest dog, 80-kg St. Bernard, pulls 2,909-kg load 27 meters 1990 _ Pink Floyds' ``The Wall" is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood

Jul 20, 2009

MONDAY, JULY 20, 2009

Today is Monday, July 20, the 201st day of 2009. There are 164 days left in the year. 1810 _ Colombia declared independence from Spain 1868 _ First use of tax stamps on cigarettes 1881 _ Sioux Indian leader, Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops 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 1960 _ USSR recovered two dogs; first living organisms to return from space 1969 _ First men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11 1991 _ Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant 1996 _ 26th Olympic Summer games opens in Atlanta, Ga.

Jul 19, 2009

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