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On This Day In History, July 13th

1985 Live Aid benefit concert
Held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia, the concert raised millions in benefit of those affected by famine in Ethiopia. Over a billion people tuned in around the world to watch the show.

1977 Ethiopian-Somali War begins
The Somali National Army invaded the disputed Ogaden region between Somalia and Ethiopia. The war lasted for 9 months and ended with a Somalian retreat

1977 Kinney, Minnesota declares its secession from the U.S.
Frustrated by its failing water system, Kinney, Minnesota declared the creation of the Republic of Kinney and sent a letter of secession to the U.S. Secretary of State.

1937 Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is founded
The now-international doughnut company was founded by Kentuckian Vernon Rudolph.

1814 National military police of Italy created
The Carabinieri was established by the Royal Patents as a policing force with jurisdiction over the military and civilians.
 

Births On This Day, July 13th 🎂

1979 Craig Bellamy
Welsh footballer

1950 Ma Ying-jeou
Taiwanese politician

1942 Harrison Ford
American actor

1940 Patrick Stewart
English actor

1821 Nathan Bedford Forrest
American Confederate Army General

Deaths On This Day, July 13th 🪦

2010 George Steinbrenner
American businessman

1976 Joachim Peiper
German SS officer

1954 Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter

1946 Alfred Stieglitz
American photographer

1024 Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
 
13th July


1713 A treaty signed between Great Britain and Spain at Utrecht ceded Gibraltar to Britain in perpetuity.

1837 Queen Victoria became the first sovereign to move into Buckingham Palace. Eighteen-year-old Queen Victoria drove from Kensington Palace, to take possession of what was then variously known as The Queen's House, or Buckingham House.

1911 The night of the 1911 census. A suffragette hid in a broom cupboard in the House of Commons so that she could record The House of Commons as her address, ‘thus making my claim to the same right as men’.

1955 Nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged in Britain - executed at Holloway Prison for the murder of her lover David Blakely.

1983 The House of Commons voted 361-245 against the restoration of the death penalty.
 
1835
Swedish inventor, John Ericcson files for patent for his screw propeller design
1923
'The Hollywoodland' sign in Los Angeles was offically dedicated in the hills above Hollywood. The last 4 letters were dropped after renovation in 1949
1939
Frank Sinatra makes his recording debut with Harry James Orchestra, singing' From The Bottom of My Heart', Melancholy Mood
1985
"Live Aid concerts were held at same time at Wembley Stadium in London, JFK Stadium in Philadelphia which raised $70 million for Africa famine relief
2017
a ski lift worker in the Alps discovers bodies of a couple missing since 1942, Marcelin&his wife Francine Dumoulin .They disappeared as they were attending to their herd of cows,a melting glacier exposed their bodies. The couple left behind 7 children who were placed in different homes. The local authorites believe the couple fell into a crevasse which caused their deaths
 
On This Day In History, July 14th

2016 Terrorist Attack in Nice, France Kills 85 and Injures More than 300 People
The attack took place during Bastille Day Celebrations when a 19-tonne truck was driven into the crowd. The attacker was eventually shot by the police.

1965 Mars flyby of Mariner 4
The American spacecraft became the first to take pictures of another planet and send them back to Earth.

1958 Coup in Iraq
Abd al-Karim Qasim, a brigadier in the Iraqi Army staged a military coup in Iraq, overthrowing the Hashemite monarchy. The Iraqi King Faisal II, Crown Prince Abd al-Ilah, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Said were assassinated during the coup. Qasim took over the position of Prime Minister, which he held until 1963. The coup also led to the dissolution of the Arab Federation of Jordan and Iraq.

1957 First female parliamentarian in the Arab world is elected to office
Egyptian Rawya Ateya became the first woman to be elected to the National Assembly.

1789 Storming of the Bastille
Bastille, a prison housing only 7 prisoners at the time, was stormed by a crowd calling for the closure of the prison. The storming became the central event of the French Revolution.
 
Births On This Day, July 14th 🎂

1918 Ingmar Bergman
Swedish director

1913 Gerald Ford
American politician, 38th President of the United States

1912 Woody Guthrie
American singer-songwriter, musician

1911 Terry-Thomas
British actor

1862 Gustav Klimt
Austrian painter, graphic artist

Deaths On This Day, July 14th 🪦

2001 Guy de Lussigny
French painter

1965 Adlai Stevenson
American politician, 31st Governor of Illinois

1910 Marius Petipa
French/Russian dancer, choreographer

1881 Billy the Kid
American criminal

1223 Philip II of France
 
On This Day In History, July 15th

1997 Gianni Versace is murdered by serial killer Andrew Cunanan
The fashion designer was gunned down by Cunanan in front of his Miami, Florida home. Cunanan was thought to have killed at least 5 people before committing suicide.

1996 MSNBC is launched
The American news television channel was created by Microsoft and General Electric's NBC unit. The first show of the channel was hosted by Jodi Applegate.

1983 Orly Airport attack
A Turkish Airlines check-in counter was bombed at the Orly Airport in Paris, killing 8 people and injuring more than 50 people. The Armenian militant organization ASALA took responsibility for the attack.

1955 Mainau Declaration is signed by 18 Nobel laureates
The declaration against the use of nuclear weapons was initiated by German scientists Otto Hahn and Max Born.

1799 The Rosetta Stone is found
The ancient Egyptian rock inscribed with a decree by King Ptolemy V was found in the Egyptian port city of Rashid (Rosetta) by French Captain Pierre Bouchard.
 
Births On This Day, July 15th 🎂

1951 Jesse Ventura
American wrestler, actor, politician, 38th Governor of Minnesota

1950 Arianna Huffington
Greek/American author, columnist, founded The Huffington Post

1930 Jacques Derrida
French philosopher

1858 Emmeline Pankhurst
British political activist, suffragette

1606 Rembrandt
Dutch painter

Deaths On This Day, July 15th 🪦

1961 John Edward Brownlee
Canadian politician

1948 John J. Pershing
American general

1904 Anton Chekhov
Russian physician, author

1857 Carl Czerny
Austrian pianist, composer

1521 Juan Ponce de León
Spanish explorer, 1st Governor of Puerto Rico
 
15th July

1381 John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, was hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II. The revolt later came to be seen as a mark of the beginning of the end of serfdom in medieval England.

1815 Former Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland of HMS Bellerophon on 15 July 1815. Six weeks after his disastrous defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon faced an uncertain future. After his abdication, he was unwelcome in France, with his capture sought by Prussian and Austrian forces.

1953 Murderer John Christie, responsible for the deaths of at least six women in his home at 10, Rillington Place, London, was hanged.

1966 A West Indian, refused a job at Euston Station was later employed there after managers overturned a ban on black workers.

1995 Serbs forced Muslims out of Srebrenica. Thousands of Muslim refugees fled the captured "safe area" of Srebrenica forced out by the Bosnian Serbs. United Nations officials said it was the biggest "ethnic cleansing" operation since World War II. Some 40,000 women, children and elderly people were ordered to leave the compound at Potocari where they had been under the protection of Dutch peacekeepers.
 
Today is St. Swithun's Day. St Swithun’s Day (or ‘Swithin’ as he is also known) is the feast day of a ninth century Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester who died in 862 AD.
With his dying breath Swithun is said to have requested that his final resting place be outside, where his grave could easily be reached by both members of the parish and the rainfall from the heavens. Swithun’s wishes were met for over 100 years. However, in 971 when the monastic reform movement had been established and religion was once again at the forefront, Æthelwold of Winchester, the current Bishop of Winchester, and Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, decreed that Swithun was to be the patron saint of the restored Cathedral at Winchester where an impressive shrine was built for him.

Swithun’s body was removed from its simple grave and interred in the new Cathedral on 15 July 971. A shrine to the Saint remains in the modern Winchester Cathedral to this day.

According to legend, forty days of terrible weather followed, suggesting St Swithun was none too happy with the new arrangements! Ever since, it has been said that the weather on 15 July supposedly determines the weather for the next forty days, as noted in the popular Elizabethan verse:
“St Swithin’s day if thou dost rain
For forty days it will remain
St Swithin’s day if thou be fair
For forty days will rain na mair”
There is of course little proof to support the superstition.
 
On This Day In History, July 16th

1995 Amazon.com Sells its First Book
The e-commerce website was first founded in 1995 by Jeff Bezos as an online bookstore. The first book sold by the Internet giant was Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter.

1981 Mahathir bin Mohamad takes office for the first time
Mohmad took office as the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia and remained in the position until 2003, becoming Malaysia's longest-serving prime minister and Asia's longest-serving politician.

1979 Iraqi president, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns
The fourth president of Iraq resigned from his post citing health reasons and promoted his Vice President, Saddam Hussein to the post of President.

1951 The Catcher in the Rye is published
The book, written by J.D. Salinger is considered to be one of the top 100 works of fiction of the 20th century.

1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter
The Jupiter orbiting comet collided with Jupiter. It was the first time in recorded history that astronomers had observed a collision between two celestial objects.

 
Births On This Day, July 16th 🎂

1967 Will Ferrell
American comedian, actor

1947 Assata Shakur
American activist, criminal

1907 Orville Redenbacher
American farmer, businessman

1872 Roald Amundsen
Norwegian explorer

1862 Ida B. Wells
American civil rights activist

Deaths On This Day, July 16th 🪦

1960 Albert Kesselring
German field marshal

1915 Ellen G. White
American author, co-founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church

1882 Mary Todd Lincoln
American wife of Abraham Lincoln, 17th First Lady of the United States

1747 Giuseppe Crespi
Italian painter

1557 Anne of Cleves
 
16 July 1969
Apollo 11 astronauts were launched into space on a Saturn 5 rocket launched from Cape Kennedy at 9:32 a.m. hoping to be the first men to land on the moon.
The crew consisted of Neil Armstrong (Commander), Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin (Lunar Module Pilot), and Michael Collins (Command Module Pilot).
It's estimated more than a million people watched the launch at Cape Kennedy in Florida.
 
16th July

1377 The Coronation, at Westminster Abbey, of Richard II, aged 10.

1439 The English Parliament supposedly asked for permission to abstain from kissing the less-than-beloved King Henry VI of England. A new outbreak of the bubonic plague in England between 1438 and 1439 was particularly serious. By this point, while some people still believed that the Black Death was a form of divine punishment sent by God, a growing portion of society had made the connection between the spread of the disease and interpersonal contact. The "kiss of homage" is a traditional way of demonstrating respect and loyalty to the king or queen. Worried about the repercussions of such an event, members of Parliament drafted a rather long-winded letter to the king asking they be able to avoid risking his life through kissing. In a precursor to modern ideas of social distancing, they suggested they show their respect in writing instead.

1945 The leaders of the three Allied nations (Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman and Josef Stalin) gathered in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

1955 Stirling Moss won the British Grand Prix at the Aintree track near Liverpool - the first time an Englishman had triumphed in the race. His success in a variety of categories placed him among the world's elite and he is often called 'the greatest driver never to win the World Championship'.

1987 The two biggest airlines in the UK (One time rivals British Caledonian and British Airways) merged in order to compete with America's giant air corporations.
 
1790
U. S. Congress declares city of Washington in District of Columbia, to be become permanent capital of U.S.
1940
Adolph Hitler oreder preparations for the invasion of Great Britian' Operation Sealion'
1951
novel' Catcher in the Rye' by J D Salinger is published by Little, Brown&Co.Every yr 1 million copies are sold, overall it has sold 65 million copies
1969
Apollo 13 with NASA astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, "Buzz Aldrin' took off from Fla on their way to historic mission to the moon
1999
JOhn F.Kennedy, Jr, his wife Carolyn Bessette, her sister, Lauren Bessette were killed in plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The plane a Piper Saratoga was piloted by Jr, didn't have much experience as a pilot
2005
"Harry Potter&The Half Blood Prince', the 6th Harry Potter book by JD Rowling is published worldwide. It sold 9 million copies in 24 hrs
 
On This Day in History, July 17th

1998 The Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC) is adopted
The ICC is the first international judicial body that has the power to try individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.

1989 The Stealth Bomber makes its debut
The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit made its first public flight from Palmdale, California.

1976 Indonesia annexes East Timor and declares it its 27th province
This was the culmination of an 8-month-long Indonesian invasion and occupation of the Southeast Asian country that began just after East Timor declared its independence from Portugal in November 1975.

1955 Disneyland opens its doors for the first time
The popular theme park (“The Happiest Place on Earth”) was opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.

1945 The Potsdam Conference begins
The heads of the US, the UK, and the USSR met in Potsdam to discuss the terms of the German and Japanese surrenders, and to make post-war plans.
 
Births On This Day, July 17th 🎂

1954 Angela Merkel
German politician, Chancellor of Germany

1952 David Hasselhoff
American actor, singer

1947 Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
1939 Ali Khamenei
Iranian politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of Iran

1899 James Cagney
American actor

Deaths On This Day, July 17th 🪦

2009 Walter Cronkite
American journalist

1967 John Coltrane
American saxophonist, composer

1959 Billie Holiday
American singer-songwriter, actress

1912 Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist, engineer

1790 Adam Smith
Scottish philosopher, economist
 
On This Day In History, July 18th

2013 Government of Detroit declares bankruptcy
The city, which was up to $20 billion in debt, became the largest municipal entity in the United States to declare bankruptcy.

1993 Agathe Uwilingiyimana elected as Prime Minister of Rwanda
Rwanda's only female prime minister's tenure was cut short when she was assassinated at the outset of the Rwandan genocide.

1968 Intel is founded
Founded in Santa Clara, California, the Intel Corporation is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer.

1925 Mein Kampf is published
Adolf Hitler's autobiographical book was written while he served his sentence for treason in prison.

1870 The first Vatican Council, also known as Vatican I, decrees the doctrine of Papal infallibility
The doctrine claims that the Pope cannot err when speaking on issues of morality and/ or faith.
 
Births On This Day, July 18th 🎂

1980 Kristen Bell
American actress

1950 Jack Layton
Canadian politician

1950 Richard Branson
English businessman founded Virgin Group

1921 John Glenn
American astronaut, politician

1918 Nelson Mandela
South African politician, President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate


Deaths On This Day, July 18th 🪦

1988 Nico
German singer-songwriter, model, actress

1918 Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by the Rhine

1872 Benito Juárez
Mexican lawyer, politician, 25th President of Mexico

1817 Jane Austen
English author

1792 John Paul Jones
American navy commander
 

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