Today in History

On This Day In History, July 26th

1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 is signed into law
The law banned discrimination based on disability.

1965 Independence of Maldives
The Indian Ocean Island nation gained independence after 78 years of British rule.

1963 Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite is launched
Part of NASA's Syncom program, it was responsible for transmitting the first TV signal from a geosynchronous satellite, a manmade satellite whose orbital period around the Earth matches the Earth's rotation.

1945 Potsdam Declaration is signed
Also known as the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender, the declaration signed by the US, UK and China, detailed the terms of surrender for Japan after World War II.

1847 The country of Liberia is founded
This West African state was founded primarily by freed slaves from the United States. The Liberian constitution was based on the US's constitution and the capital, Monrovia, is named after James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States.
 


Births On This Day, July 26th 🎂

1943 Mick Jagger
English singer-songwriter, producer, actor

1928 Stanley Kubrick
American director

1894 Aldous Huxley
English author

1875 Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist

1856 George Bernard Shaw
Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths On This Day, July 26th 🪦

1995 George W. Romney
American businessman, politician

1952 Eva Perón
Argentinian actress, 25th First Lady of Argentina

1925 William Jennings Bryan
American politician, 41st United States Secretary of State

1863 Sam Houston
American soldier, politician, 1st President of the Republic of Texas

796 Offa of Mercia
 
July 27th:
1586
explorer, Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
1909
aviator, Orville Wright successfully tests Wright Military Flyer, the world's 1st military airplane. He made a record flight of 1hr 12 min flew for 40 miles
1940
Billboard Magazine begins to publish best seller charts
1953
North Korea&United Nations sign armistice to stop the fighting.It divides Korea at 38th parallel
1965
Pres. Lyndon Johnson signs a bill which requires cigarette makers to print on all of their cigarette packages the effects of smoking
1990
actress, Zsa Zsa Gabor begins her 3 day jail sentence for slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills, Calif
 

On this day in UK.

On This Day - events from British history : 27th July

2003
www.beautifulbritain.co.uk
The death of Bob Hope, the English-born American comedian and actor. Time flies!
 
On This Day In History, July 29th

2008 United States Congress apologizes for slavery
The U.S. House of Representatives publicly apologized for the institution of slavery and Jim Crow laws that discriminated against African Americans.

1981 Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer
The most talked about wedding of the year was watched on television by millions of people worldwide. The couple were married in St Paul's Cathedral, London, United Kingdom, and divorced 15 years later in 1996.

1957 The International Atomic Energy Agency is established
The independent agency aims to ban the use of nuclear energy for military purposes. American W. Sterling Cole served as the agency's first director general.

1948 The XIV Olympics opened in London, United Kingdom after a 12-year hiatus due to the Second World War
The last Summer Olympics before this were held in Berlin in 1936.

1836 The Arc de Triomphe is inaugurated in Paris, France
The famous monument honors those to dies while fighting for France during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. It was designed by Jean Chalgrin.
 
Births On This Day, July 29th 🎂

1981 Fernando Alonso
Spanish race car driver

1938 Peter Jennings
Canadian/American journalist

1905 Dag Hammarskjöld
Swedish diplomat, economist, author, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize Laureate

1883 Benito Mussolini
Italian politician, Dictator of Italy

1805 Alexis de Tocqueville
French historian, scientist

Deaths On This Day, July 29th 🪦

1983 Luis Buñuel
Spanish director, producer

1974 Erich Kästner
German author, poet

1970 John Barbirolli
English cellist, conductor

1890 Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter

1833 William Wilberforce
English politician, philanthropist
 
On This Day In History, July 30th

2002 Pretoria Accord signed
The Pretoria Accord was signed between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda as an attempt to end the Second Congo War

1980 The Israeli Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law and adds it to Israel's Basic Law
The law declared Jerusalem the unified capital of Israel.

1980 Vanuatu gains independence
The Republic of Vanuatu gained independence from France and the UK.

1932 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles
The tenth Summer Olympics was officially opened. This was the second time that the city of Los Angeles was hosting the multi-event international sports meet.
 
Births On This Day, July 30 🎂

1974 Hilary Swank
American actress

1970 Christopher Nolan
English/American director, screenwriter, producer

1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian/American bodybuilder, actor, politician, 38th Governor of California

1863 Henry Ford
American businessman founded the Ford Motor Company

1818 Emily Brontë
English novelist

Deaths On This Day, July 30 🪦

2007 Ingmar Bergman
Swedish director

1996 Claudette Colbert
American actress

1912 Emperor Meiji
of Japan

1898 Otto von Bismarck
German politician, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire

1718 William Penn
English businessman, founder of Pennsylvania
 
30th July

1935 Penguin paperbacks were launched to make books affordable to all, creating a revolution in publishing.

1938 The first edition of The Beano was published. It is the longest running British children's comic magazine, published by DC Thomson in Dundee.

1948 The British Nationality Act was passed, giving Commonwealth nationals the right to British citizenship.

1966 England, the host nation, won the football World Cup with a 4-2 defeat of West Germany at Wembley. A crowd of 93,000 spectators - including the Queen and Prince Philip - filled London's Wembley Stadium to watch the host nation play West Germany in the final game of the 1966 championships.

1974 Peace deal for Cyprus. The prime ministers of Greece and Turkey and the British Foreign Secretary signed a peace agreement to settle the Cyprus crisis. After five days of talks in Geneva, Constantine Karamanlis of Greece, Bulent Ecevit of Turkey and James Callaghan of the UK agreed a deal to end weeks of fighting on the Mediterranean island.

1991 Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti gave a huge free concert in London's Hyde Park to celebrate 30 years in opera.
 
1909
French chemist, Eugene Schueller creates, L'Oreal with his new range of hair dyes
1942
Pres Franklin Roosevelt signs bill creating United States Naval Reserve{Women's Reserve} known as WAVES
1965
Pres Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare Bill into law. It's a health insurance program for elderly Americans 65 yrs or older,it was an amendment to the Social Security Act of 1935.When it went into effect in 1966, 9 million people enrolled.In 1972, the program was extended to include eligible Americans under the age of 65 with certain disabilities
2021
According to new figures by Amazon, 1 out of 169 Americans are employed by the company. It's the 2nd largest employer,Walmart is the largest employing 1 out of 100
 
On This Day In History, July 21st

1998 The British government bans landmines
The move came after the public pressured the parliament to pass the Landmines Act.

1992 Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashed while approaching Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal.
All 113 people on board were killed in the crash.

1991 US and USSR sign Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
The treaty, also known as START I, limited the number of nuclear weapons and missiles the signatories could deploy. It came into force in December 1994 and expired 15 years later in 2009.

1981 First female president of the US National Bar Association is appointed
Arnette R. Hubbard became the first woman to preside over the US National Bar Association, the country's largest group of association of African-American lawyers and judges.

1917 Third Battle of Ypres begins
Also known as the Battle of Passchendaele, the battle was part of World War I and took place between July 31 and November 6 for control of the Belgian city of Ypres.
 

Births On This Day, July 31st 🎂

1965 J. K. Rowling
English author

1962 Wesley Snipes
American martial artist, actor, producer

1919 Primo Levi
Italian chemist, author

1912 Milton Friedman
American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

1884 Carl Friedrich Goerdeler
German politician

Deaths On This Day, July 31st 🪦

2012 Gore Vidal
American author, screenwriter, actor

1980 Mohammed Rafi
Indian actor, singer

1964 Jim Reeves
American singer-songwriter

1944 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer

1875 Andrew Johnson
American politician, 17th President of the United States
 
On This Day In History, August 1st

1981 Music Television is launched
The channel, popularly known as MTV was mostly known for showing music videos and for being hosted by Video Jockeys.

1980 Vigdís Finnbogadóttir takes office in Iceland
The Icelandic politician was the fourth president of Iceland and the world's first democratically elected female head of state. Her 16 years of Presidency also make her the longest-serving female head of state in the world.

1951 Japan Airlines (JAL) is founded
The flagship airline of Japan, JAL started operating on October 25, 1951

1936 The XI Summer Olympics are opened in Berlin by Adolf Hitler
Initially, Jews and people of African descent were to be barred from the games, however, a boycott was threatened by several countries and the German organizers relented. 18 African-American athletes, including James "Jesse" Owens and Matthew "Mack" Robinson, placed well in the track and field events, winning several medals.

1834 Slavery abolished in the British Empire
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into force a year after it was passed by the British Parliament. The act was repealed in 1998.
 
Births On This Day, August 1st 🎂

1942 Jerry Garcia
American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1932 Meena Kumari
Indian actress

1930 Pierre Bourdieu
French sociologist

1929 Hafizullah Amin
Afghan politician

1819 Herman Melville

Deaths On This Day, August 1st 🪦

2009 Corazon Aquino
Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines

1970 Frances Farmer
American actress

1944 Manuel L. Quezon
Filipino politician, 2nd President of the Philippines

1920 Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Indian lawyer, social reformer

1714 Anne, Queen of Great Britain
 
1779
English chemist, Joseph Priestly discovers oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state
1932
George Washington quarter goes into circulation in the U.S.
1944
Anne Frank's last diary entry, 3 days later she is arrested
1957
U.S.&Canada created NORAD{North American Air Defense Command}
1972
the 1st article exposing the Watergate Scandal by Washington Post reporters, Carl Bernstein&Bob Woodward appears in the paper
1996
author, George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy novel' A Game of Thrones' is published, later would become TV series on HBO
 
On This Day In History, August 2nd

1998 Second Congo War Begins
The deadliest war in Africa, the war and its aftermath has killed an estimated 5.4 million people. The war started with a mutiny in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and soon involved 9 African nations. It lasted for 5 years.

1990 Invasion of Kuwait begins
In 2 days Iraqi forces had overrun Kuwaiti forces and Saddam Hussein declared Kuwait as the 19th province of Iraq. The invasion lasted 7 months and ended after a UN-authorized coalition force led by the United States intervened.

1958 The Arab Federation is dissolved
The short-lived federation of Jordan and Iraq was dissolved after King Faisal of Iraq was deposed and assassinated during the 14 July Revolution.

1945 The Potsdam Conference which was convened to negotiate the terms of the end of WW II comes to an end
Representatives from the US, U.K., and Soviet Union participated in the conference.

1870 World's first underground railway opened
The Tower Subway beneath the River Thames in London opened its doors to passengers. The subway was closed within a few months because of bankruptcy. The tunnel is now used for utilities.
 
Births On This Day, August 2nd 🎂

1981 Alexander Emelianenko
Russian mixed martial artist

1964 Mary-Louise Parker
American actress

1932 Peter O'Toole
Irish actor

1892 Jack Warner
Canadian/American film producer

1820 John Tyndall
British physicist

Deaths On This Day, August 2nd 🪦

1997 Fela Kuti
Nigerian singer-songwriter, musician, activist

1934 Paul von Hindenburg
Prussian/German field marshal, politician, 2nd President of Germany

1923 Warren G. Harding
American politician, 29th President of the United States

1922 Alexander Graham Bell
Scottish/American engineer invented the Telephone

1921 Enrico Caruso
Italian tenor
 
On This Day In History, August 4th

1984 The Republic of Upper Volta is Renamed Burkina Faso
The West African country was first created in 1958 as a self-governing French colony. It gained its independence from the French in 1960. Between then and 1983, several coups dotted its political landscape. In 1983, a military coup installed Captain Thomas Sankara as the country's president. He changed the name of the country to Burkina Faso a year later on the coup's anniversary.

1983 The Military Stages a Coup in Upper Volta
A military coup in Upper Volta installed Thomas Sankara, a captain in the Upper Volta Army as its president. A year later, he changed the name of Upper Volta to Burkina Faso.

1944 Anne Frank is captured
One of the most well-known figures of the 20th century and a victim of the Holocaust, 14-year-old Frank and her family were captured and arrested by the Germans from their hiding place in Amsterdam.

1914 Britain declares war on Germany
Seen by many as the decision that began the First World War, Britain declared war on Germany after Germany refused to accept its ultimatum of getting out of Belgium.

1892 Abby and Andrew Borden are murdered
The bloody murders of the two Fall River, Massachusetts residents in their own homes gained media and public attention in the United States because their daughter Lizzie Borden was accused of the crime.
 
Births On This Day, August 4th 🎂

1961 Barack Obama
American politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate

1955 Alberto Gonzales
American politician, 80th United States Attorney General

1912 Raoul Wallenberg
Swedish diplomat

1901 Louis Armstrong
American trumpeter, singer

1900 Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Deaths On This Day, August 4th 🪦

2007 Raul Hilberg
Austrian/American political scientist, historian

1922 Enver Pasha
Ottoman military officer

1875 Hans Christian Andersen
Danish author, poet

1792 John Burgoyne
English general

1598 William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
English statesman
 
On This Day In History, August 5th

2009 General Abdel Aziz sworn in as President of Mauritania
General Abdel Aziz, who came to power in a coup in 2008, was sworn in as the President of Mauritania after elections in 2009.

1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is Signed
Also known as the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the document was signed by the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States in Moscow. The treaty, which came as a response to the heightening tensions due to the frequent testing of nuclear weapons by these 3 countries during the Cold War, banned the testing of nuclear weapons anywhere on land, over water or in space. Underground testing was still allowed under the treaty until it was also banned in 1996 after the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty came into force.

1962 Nelson Mandela is Arrested
The South African anti-apartheid activist and adherent of nonviolence was arrested by the government at Rivonia, a suburb of Johannesburg. After a year-long trial, Mandela was imprisoned at the infamous Robben Island prison where we spent the next 18 years. He was released from prison in 1990 after spending 28 years as a political prisoner. In the early 1990s, after intense international and domestic pressure, in part from the efforts of Mandela, the South African government started taking steps to end apartheid – a government policy of racial segregation and discrimination. As a result, Mandela was elected the country’s first black president in 1994.

1960 Burkina Faso gains its Independence
The landlocked West African country, known as Upper Vota until 1984, became a French protectorate in the late 19th century. In 1958, the Republic of Upper Volta was created as a self-governing French colony. After independence, Maurice Yaméogo became the first president of the country, whose name was changed to Burkina Faso in 1984.

1940 Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic is established
The Soviet Union added Latvia to the union as the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic.
 
Births On This Day, August 5th 🎂

1979 David Healy
Irish footballer

1968 Marine Le Pen
French politician

1930 Neil Armstrong
American pilot, engineer, astronaut, first person to walk on the moon

1906 John Huston
American director

1850 Guy de Maupassant
French writer

Deaths On This Day, August 5th 🪦

1991 Paul Brown
American football coach, executive

1984 Richard Burton
Welsh actor

1964 Art Ross
Canadian ice hockey player

1962 Marilyn Monroe
American model, actress, singer

1895 Friedrich Engels
German philosopher
 
On This Day In History, August 6th

2008 Coup in Mauritania
In the 6th coup in the North African country since 1978, President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was overthrown and General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, a career military officer, was installed in his place.

1965 Voting Rights Act Becomes Law in the United States
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act, which prohibited any discrimination in voting. The act enforces the 14th and 15th amendments to the US Constitution.

1962 Jamaican Independence
The Caribbean island country was first colonized by the Spanish in the early 16th century. In 1655, the British invaded Spanish Jamaica and made it a colony after the Spanish surrendered. Jamaica soon became one of the most profitable colonies of the British Empire, especially after sugarcane was brought to the island by the English. The Jamaica Independence Act of July 1962, which was a result of anti-colonial sentiments that were spreading throughout the globe, gave Jamaica full independence by leaving the Federation of the West Indies.

1945 US Bombs Hiroshima
In the first of the only two times nuclear weapons have been used in warfare, the United States dropped a nuclear bomb, nicknamed Little Boy on the industrial city of Hiroshima in Japan. Over 150,000 people were estimated killed by the resulting explosion. Japan joined the Second World War in December 1941 on the side of the Axis powers. After the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings 3 days later on August 9, Japan surrendered to the Allies and ended the Pacific War.

1926 First Woman to Swim Across the English Channel
Gertrude Ederle, an American Olympic swimmer swam across the English Channel a body of water between England and France, in 14 hours and 34 minutes. Only 5 other people, all men, had swum across the channel before Ederle.
 
Births On This Day, August 6th 🎂

1983 Robin van Persie
Dutch footballer

1928 Andy Warhol
American artist

1911 Lucille Ball
American actress

1881 Alexander Fleming
Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate

1809 Alfred, Lord Tennyson
English poet

Deaths On This Day, August 6th 🪦

1978 Pope Paul VI

1973 Fulgencio Batista
Cuban army officer, politician, 9th President of Cuba

1969 Theodor W. Adorno
German sociologist, philosopher

1931 Bix Beiderbecke
American pianist, composer

1637 Ben Jonson
English writer
 

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