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WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2008

Today is Wednesday, July 2, the 184th day of 2008. 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" 1777 _ Vermont becomes first American colony to abolish slavery 1787 _ De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered 1843 _ An alligator falls from the sky during a Charleston, S.C., thunderstorm 1858 _ Partial emancipation of Russian serfs 1900 _ Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin first airship LZ-1, flies 1956 _ Elvis Presley records ``Hound Dog" and ``Don't Be Cruel" 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, 2008

TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2008

Today is Tuesday, July 1, the 183rd day of 2008. 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 1881 _ First international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St Stephen, NB 1949 _ Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France 1966 _ Medicare goes into effect 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 1982 _ 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC 1944 _ Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank 1997 _ China regains sovereignty of Hong Kong

Jun 30, 2008

MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2008

Today is Monday, June 30, the 182nd day of 2008. There are 184 days left in the year. 1834 _ Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) 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 1936 _ ``Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published 1936 _ 40 hour work week law approved (federal) 1950 _ President Truman orders U.S. troops into Korea 1962 _ Rwanda and Burundi become independent 1970 _ Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City 1981 _ China's Communist Party condemns the late Mao Tse-tung's policy

Jun 29, 2008

SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 2008

Today is Saturday, June 28, the 180th day of 2008. There are 186 days left in the year. 1245 _ first Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens 1820 _ Tomato is proven nonpoisonous 1838 _ Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey 1859 _ First dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England) 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 1945 _ Polish Provisional Government of National Unity set up by Soviets 1950 _ North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea

Jun 27, 2008

FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2008

Today is Friday, June 27, the 179th day of 2008. There are 187 days left in the year. 1693 - First woman's magazine ``The Ladies' Mercury" published (London) 1929 _ First color TV demo (NYC) 1950 _ U.N. Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea 1950 _ President Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict 1950 _ U.S. sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam 1954 _ First atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia) 1955 _ First automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois) 1986 _ World Court rules U.S. aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal 1986 _ In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce 1990 _ Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help their earthquake victims

Jun 26, 2008

THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008

Today is Thursday, June 26, the 178th day of 2008. There are 188 days left in the year. 1797 _ Charles Newbold patents first cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil! 1900 _ Dr. Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever 1919 _ First issue of NY Daily News published 1945 _ U.N. Charter signed by 50 nations in S.F. 1960 _ British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain 1960 _ Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day) 1963 _ Kennedy visits W. Berlin ``Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) 1968 _ Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by U.S. 1974 _ Liz Taylor's fifth divorce (Richard Burton) 1978 _ Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France

Jun 25, 2008

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008

Today is Wednesday, June 25, the 177th day of 2008. There are 189 days left in the year. 1178 _ Five Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon 1630 _ Fork introduced to American dining by Gov. Winthrop 1638 _ A lunar eclipse becomes the first astronomical event recorded in U.S. 1868 _ Fla., Al., La., Ga., N.C. and S.C. readmitted to U.S. 1876 _ Custer & 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne at Little Big Horn 1938 _ Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40c per hour 1950 _ Korean War begins; N. Korea invades S. Korea 1951 _ First color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to four cities 1961 _ Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees) 1991 _ Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia

Jun 24, 2008

TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2008

Today is Tuesday, June 24, the 176th day of 2008. There are 190 days left in the year. 1314 _ Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England 1322 _ Jews are expelled from France 1441 _ Eton College founded by Henry VI 1662 _ Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day) 1793 _ First republican constitution in France adopted 1894 _ Decision to begin modern Olympics every four years 1932 _ Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand 1963 _ Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain 1970 _ Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1977 _ IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976

Jun 23, 2008

MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2008

Today is Monday, June 23, the 175th day of 2008. There are 191 days left in the year. 1775 _ First regatta held on Thames, England 1848 _ Bloody insurrection of workers in Paris 1944 _ Thomas Mann becomes a U.S. citizen 1947 _ Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress 1949 _ First 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School 1956 _ Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt 1972 _ Nixon and Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate 1985 _ Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die 1989 _ The movie ``Batman" premiers 1990 _ TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as TV personality of the year

Jun 22, 2008

SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2008

Today is Saturday, June 21, the 173rd day of 2008. There are 193 days left in the year. 1633 _ Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to ``abjure, curse, and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views 1788 _ U.S. Constitution goes into effect as N.H. is ninth to ratify 1869 _ The opera ``Die Meistersinger" is produced (Munich) 1887 _ Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria 1939 _ Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 1945 _ Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to U.S. during WW II 1948 _ First stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I 1970 _ Brazil wins last Jules Rimet Trophy, soccer championship 1977 _ Former White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman enters prison 1987 _ Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendant

Jun 20, 2008

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