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On This Day In History, July 19th

1903 The first Tour de France comes to an end
Maurice Garin became the first person to win the debut of the now annual bike race.

1900 Paris Metro opens
One of the densest metros in the world and the second largest metro in Europe, the first line of the Paris Metro opened during the World's Fair.

1870 Franco-Prussian War starts
The war involving France, under Napoleon and the Kingdom of Prussia, began with the French declaration of war. The war lasted for 9 months and ended with a German victory.

1848 Seneca Falls Convention begins
One of the first women's rights conventions to be held in American history, the two-day convention attracted 300 women and men who protested the social, economic, and political discrimination American women faced.

1553 Mary I replaces Lady Jane Grey as Queen of England
Also known as Bloody Mary due to her brutal persecution of Protestants, Mary I was the only child of Catherine of Aragon and Henry III.
 


Births On This Day, July 19th 🎂

1922 George McGovern
American politician, historian, author

1921 Harold Camping
American broadcaster, author

1834 Edgar Degas
French painter

1827 Mangal Pandey
Indian freedom fighter

1814 Samuel Colt
American inventor, and industrialist, founded the Colt Manufacturing Company

Deaths On This Day, July 19th 🪦

2012 Omar Suleiman
Egyptian politician, Vice President of Egypt

2002 Alan Lomax
American historian, author, scholar

1980 Hans Morgenthau
German philosopher

1543 Mary Boleyn
English sister of Anne Boleyn

1374 Petrarch
Italian scholar, poet
 
19th July

1545 The Mary Rose, the pride of Henry VIII's battle fleet, sank in the Solent with the loss of 700 lives. Despite it happening in full view of the French and English fleets, there is still debate as to why she sank.

1837 Isambard Kingdom Brunel's 236 ft steamship, the Great Western, was launched at Bristol. She was the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and was also the largest vessel in the world. On the same day in 1843, Brunel's 'SS Great Britain' the first Atlantic liner built of iron, was also launched. She is now restored and can be viewed at the Great Western Dockyard in Bristol.

1969 British rower John Fairfax arrived at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after becoming the first person to row across the Atlantic alone. He had left the Canary Islands on January 20th in a 24’ rowing boat and after 180 days and 4000 miles he had finished his journey. Three years later, with his girl friend, he rowed the 8000 miles from San Francisco to the Hayman Islands off the Queensland Coast.

2022 The UK recorded temperatures of over 40C (104F) for the first time. 40.3C was recorded at Coningsby in Lincolnshire, one of 34 locations to exceed the previous high of 38.7C that was set as recently as July 2019. Scotland also recorded its hottest day ever, with a temperature of 34.8C at Charterhall in the Borders. London's fire service had its busiest day since World War Two. In Wennington, east London, two rows of terraced houses, four other homes, 12 stables and five cars were destroyed by multiple fires and 15 areas around the UK declared major incidents.
 

1848
The 1st U.S. Women's Rights Convention was held in Seneca Falls, NY organized by women's rights pioneers, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott
1941
The 1st U.S. Army Flying School for black cadets was dedicated in Tuskegee, Alabama
1956
U.S. refuses to lend money to Egypt for construction of Aswan Dam
1980
The Summer Olympic Games in Moscow open, U.S.&66 other nations boycott it due to the Soviet-Afghan war
2001
Michael Brenant discovers skull of Sahelanthropus Tchadenses in Djurab Desert, Chad Its one of the oldest known species in the human family tree,6-7 million yrs old
 
20th July

1944 Hitler survived assassination attempt. Adolf Hitler escaped death af
ter a bomb exploded at 1242 local time at his headquarters in Rastenberg, East Prussia.

1957 Britons 'have never had it so good' The British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, made an optimistic speech telling fellow Conservatives that "most of our people have never had it so good".

1960 Ceylon chooses world's first woman Prime Minister, Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow of Ceylon's assassinated prime minister Solomon Bandaranaike.

1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus. Thousands of Turkish troops invaded northern Cyprus after last-minute talks in the Greek capital, Athens, failed to reach a solution. Tension had been running high in the Mediterranean island since a military coup five days ago in which President Archbishop Makarios, a Greek Cypriot, was deposed.
 
1881
Lakota Sioux Chief, Sitting Bull surrenders to U.S. Federal troops
1940
Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart,#1 single 'I'll Never Smile Again' recorded by Frank Sinatra, stays #1 for 12 weeks
1953
United Nations Economic&Social Council vote to make UNICEF{United Nations Childrens Fund} a permanent agency
1968
The 1st Special Olympics was held in Chicago for children& adults with intellectual disabilites
1976
Hank Aaron hits # 755 HR,his last one,against Calif Angels pitcher Dick Drage
2021
Leyna Bloom becomes Sports Illustrated's 1st transgender cover model in the magazine's 'Swimsuit Issue'
 
On This Day In History, July 21st

2011 STS-135 lands
This space shuttle was the 135th and the last space shuttle flight of the American Space Shuttle program.

1983 Lowest temperature ever measured on Earth
Vostok Station, a Russian station in Antarctica experienced the lowest temperatures ever measured in recorded human history. The temperatures fell to −128.6 °F (−89.2 °C)

1980 Mary Eugenia Charles is elected as PM of Dominica
Her election to office made her the first female and the longest PM of the Commonwealth of Dominica. She is also the first elected female head of state in the Americas.

1977 Libyan–Egyptian War begins
This short war between Libya and Egypt started with Libya striking Egyptian cities. The war lasted for 2 days with a ceasefire on July 24.

1969 First person walks on the Moon
Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. He stepped on the Moon's surface almost 7 hours after Apollo 11, the spacecraft that carried them landed on the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon. After stepping on the Moon, Armstrong uttered his famous words, "One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."

 

Births On This Day, July 21st 🎂

1948 Cat Stevens
English singer-songwriter, musician

1946 Ken Starr
American lawyer, judge

1911 Marshall McLuhan
Canadian author, theorist

1899 Ernest Hemingway
American writer, Nobel Prize laureate

1693 Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Deaths On This Day, July 21st 🪦

2004 Jerry Goldsmith
American composer, conductor

2001 Sivaji Ganesan
Indian actor

1982 Dave Garroway
American journalist

1944 Claus von Stauffenberg
German army officer, member of the 20 July plot

1796 Robert Burns
Scottish poet
 
21st July

1897 London's Tate Gallery, built on the site of the Millbank Prison, was opened, with 67 paintings.

1925 Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first man to break the 150 mph land barrier, at Pendine Sands in Wales when he drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph. His son, Donald Campbell, carried on the family tradition by later holding both land speed and water speed records.

1982 The flagship of the British task force to the Falklands, HMS Hermes, arrived back in Portsmouth.

2005 London's underground network was plunged into chaos after explosions on two trains and a bus - exactly a fortnight after four suicide bomb blasted the capital. All four bombs failed to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers were captured and convicted.
 
On This Day In History, July 22nd

2011 Lone wolf extremist goes on a massacre in Norway
Anders Behring Breivik an anti-Islamist extremist placed a car bomb in front of the Norwegian Prime Minister's office in Oslo. A few hours after the bomb exploded, killing 8 people and injuring about 200 others, Breivik opened fire at a youth summer camp on the island of Utøya killing 69 participants. This was the deadliest incident of violence in the Scandinavian country since the Second World War.

2003 Raid in Mosul
A raid on a compound near Mosul, Iraq by the United States Army 101st Airborne Division ended with the deaths of killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay and Qusay's 14-year-old son.

1983 First solo helicopter flight around the world
Australian Dick Smith became the first person to fly a helicopter around the world solo. He started his trip in August 1982 and it took him around a year to finish his trip.

1933 American aviator Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the Earth

Post landed on Floyd Bennett Field in New York 7 days after he departed alone from the same airfield in a Lockheed Vega aircraft known as Winnie Mae.

1894 World's first competitive motor race
The Paris–Rouen, Le Petit Journal Competition for Horseless Carriages was the world's first city-to-city motoring competition. Staring in Paris and ending in Rouen, the race was organized by the newspaper Le Petit Journal.

 
Births On This Day, July 22nd 🎂

1992 Selena Gomez
American actress, singer

1969 Despina Vandi
German/Greek singer, actress

1965 Shawn Michaels
American wrestler

1946 Danny Glover
American actor

1923 The Fabulous Moolah
American wrestler

Deaths On This Day, July 22nd 🪦

2007 Ulrich Mühe
German actor

1995 Harold Larwood
English cricketer

1950 William Lyon Mackenzie King
Canadian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada

1934 John Dillinger
American bank robber, murderer

1916 James Whitcomb Riley
American poet
 
July 22nd

1707, under the terms of the Treaty of Union, England and Scotland became a single state – the United Kingdom of Great Britain – and the parliaments at Westminster and Edinburgh were replaced by a single ‘Parliament of Great Britain’. The finalized ‘Articles of Union’ were signed at Whitehall on 22 July 1706 and formally presented to Queen Anne the following day. They were considered by the Scottish Parliament during October 1706-January 1707, and an Act was then passed declaring Scotland’s assent.

1812 The Duke of Wellington defeated the French in the Battle of Salamanca, in Spain.

1946 – Bread is rationed for the first time in Britain. Though the war ended in 1945 rationing continued in Britain for a further nine years to sustain an economy ravaged by war. On 21 July 1946, the Labour government introduced the rationing of bread, flour and flour confectionery.

2005 Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was mistaken for a terrorist suspect and was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station in south London as the hunt was intensified for those responsible for the London bombings on the 7th and 21st July.

2012 Bradley Wiggins, aged 32, became the first British cylist to win the Tour de France. He finished with a winning margin of 3 minutes and 21 seconds.

2013 The Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to a baby boy (George Alexander Louis)
 
On This Day In History, July 23rd

1995 Comet Hale–Bopp discovered
Also known as C/1995 O1 by the scientific community, this well-known comet was discovered independently by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp.

1992 Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia
The Republic of Abkhazia is a disputed territory of Georgia and is recognized as an independent state by only a handful of counties including Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nauru, and Tuvalu.

1982 International Whaling Commission bans commercial whale hunting
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) passed a resolution to restrict commercial whaling and ban it completely after 1986. 25 countries voted to put the restrictions and ban in place.

1972 Landsat 1 launched
The first satellite in the US's LANDSAT program, the Landsat discovered an uninhabited island off the eastern coast of Canada in 1976. The island is now called Landsat Island.

1962 First live transatlantic television signal
Telstar 1, a communications satellite relayed the world's first transatlantic television signal in the form of a show that featured Walter Cronkite.

 
Births On This Day, July 23rd 🎂

1989 Daniel Radcliffe
English actor

1980 Michelle Williams
American singer-songwriter, producer, actress

1976 Judit Polgár
Hungarian chess player

1957 Theo van Gogh
Dutch director

1892 Haile Selassie I
Ethiopian Emperor

Deaths On This Day, July 23rd 🪦

2013 Emile Griffith
Virgin Islander boxer

2011 Amy Winehouse
English singer-songwriter

1973 Eddie Rickenbacker
American pilot, Medal of Honor recipient

1951 Philippe Pétain
French general, politician, 119th Prime Minister of France

1885 Ulysses S. Grant
American general, politician, and 18th President of the United States
 
July 23rd:
1868
All England Lawn tennis Club is founded, name later changed to All England Croquet&Lawn Tennis Club
1872
African American inventor, Elijah McCoy granted patent lubicators for steam engines
1903
Chicago dentist, Ernst Pfennig becomes the 1st owner of Ford Model A two cylinder automobile
1966
Frank Sinatra's single' Strangers in the Night hits #1 on Billboard charts ,Grammy wins for Record of the Year, Best Male Vocal Performance. He hated the song
1973
Pres Nixon refuses to hand over Watergate tape conversations during the Watergate investigation
1984
Vanessa Williams 1st African American winner of Miss America resigns after Penthouse publishes unauthorized nude photos of her
2018
Japan records its highest temp at 105.98F in Kumagaya
 
24 July 1964
A riot broke out during a The Rolling Stones' gig at The Empress Ballroom in Blackpool, Lancashire.
Keith Richards noticed a man with his hands on the stage exhorting the crowd to spit, and warned him, but the spitting continued.
Richards is then reported to have stood on his hands and kicked him in the face, whereupon some of the 7000 fans started fighting.
Blackpool City Council later voted to ban The Stones from playing in the city. 44 years later, the 2008 council voted to lift the ban, but a spokesman for the group said they had no plans to return.
 
On This Day In History, July 25th

2007 India gets its first female president
Pratibha Patil, a politician stayed in office as the head of state of the South Asian country for 5 years.

1984 Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the First Woman to Walk in Space
The Soviet cosmonaut was part of the Soyuz T-12 mission, which docked at the Salyut 7 Space station. As part of the mission, she spent 3.5 hours in space testing tools. Savitskaya was also the second woman to go into space and the first to go to space twice.

1978 World's first test tube baby is born
Louise Joy Brown was the first person to be conceived using in-vitro fertilization or IVF technology, pioneered by doctors Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards.

1976 The famous Face on Mars photo is taken
Viking 1, the first space probe to successfully land on Mars took the famous photo of the Cydonia region on the Red Planet.

1956 Tunisia gains its independence from France
The northernmost African country, became a French protectorate in 1881, under the Treaty of Bardo. The path to independence in the country was marred by civil unrest and conflict and was led by Habib Bourguiba, who became the first president of the independent country.
 
Births On This Day, July 25th 🎂

1985 Nelson Piquet, Jr.
Brazilian race car driver

1951 Jack Thompson
American lawyer, activist

1941 Emmett Till
American murder victim

1920 Rosalind Franklin
English scientist

1750 Henry Knox
American general

Deaths On This Day, July 25th 🪦

2009 Harry Patch
British super-centenarian, the last survivor of the WWI trenches

1997 Ben Hogan
American golfer

1980 Vladimir Vysotsky
Russian singer-songwriter, actor, poet

1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English poet, philosopher

306 Constantius Chlorus
Roman Emperor
 
25th July

1554 Queen Mary I married Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral.

1909 Frenchman Louis Blériot won the Daily Mail prize for the first successful flight across the English Channel. He made the trip in 37 minutes, landing close to Dover Castle.

1959 A hovercraft, the SR.N1, designed by Christopher Cockerell, made its first English Channel crossing from Dover to Calais. The acronym SR.N1 stood for Saunders-Roe Nautical 1.

2002 The Queen opened the Commonwealth Games in Manchester. Around one million visitors are thought to have gone to Manchester to see the event live and the world television audience was estimated to top one billion.

2009 The last British survivor of the World War I trenches, Harry Patch, died, aged 111. He was honoured at a service at Wells Cathedral, in Somerset and was later buried in a private service at Monkton Coombe church near Bath. In 2007 he became the UK's oldest author when he collaborated with Richard van Emden to write The Last Fighting Tommy, a detailed account of his life.
 

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