Today in History

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 Honour recipient

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

1885 Ulysses S. Grant
American general, politician, 18th President of the United States
 

23rd July

1745 Charles Stuart, the 'Young Pretender' landed in the Outer Hebrides in his attempt to win back the throne for the Stuarts.

1974 Greek military rule gave in to democracy. The military government in Greece collapsed and the former prime minister Constantine Karamanlis was invited to return.

1984 A government report into cancer levels near the controversial nuclear plant at Sellafield in Cumbria confirmed suspicions of higher than-normal levels of leukaemia in the area, but said it could not definitely link this to the nuclear plant itself.

1986 Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson married at Westminster Abbey.

1995 Britain sent 1,200 troops to relieve the besieged Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.
 
1829
William Austin Burt patents America's 1st typewriter, the typographer
1868
All England Lawn Tennis Club founded in 1877, name later changed to All England Croquet& Lawn Tennis Club. This is where the 3rd Grand Slam tournament, Wimbledon is played every summer
1956
Bell X-2 rocket sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050km/h
1966
Frank Sinatra's single' Strangers in the Night' hits #1 on the Easy Listening Music Chart stays there for 7 weeks. It would win 2 Grammys: Record of the Year, Best Male Vocal Performance
1995
Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye a yr later
2019
U. S. Senate passes the 9/11 1st Responders Bill, championed by comedian, Jon Stewart to ensure the fund never runs out of money
 
On This Day In History, July 24th

2013 Santiago de Compostela derailment
A high-speed train traveling from Madrid to Ferrol derailed on a curve killing 79 people and injuring over 100.

1977 The 4-day long Libyan-Egyptian War comes to an end
The border war began with thousands of Libyans marching towards Egypt's borders.

1959 Kitchen debate between Nixon and Khrushchev
A series of debates, now popularly called the kitchen debates, occurred between U.S. Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev in Moscow. Nixon was visiting a house built as part of an exhibit in the American National Exhibition.

1923 The Treaty of Lausanne is signed between Turkey and the countries that formed the Allied Powers in the First World War
Under the treaty,Turkey had to give up all the territorial claims made by the Ottoman Empire and agree to new borders.

1911 Rediscovery of Machu Picchu
The 15th century, largely forgotten Inca site in Peru was rediscovered by American Hiram Bingham III.
 
Births On This Day, July 24th 🎂

1969 Jennifer Lopez
American actress, singer, dancer, businesswoman

1900 Zelda Fitzgerald
American author

1897 Amelia Earhart
American pilot, author

1802 Alexandre Dumas
French writer

1783 Simón Bolívar
Venezuelan commander

Deaths On This Day, July 24th 🪦

2012 Robert Ledley
American scientist, invented the full-body CT scanner

2012 John Atta Mills
Ghanaian politician, 3rd President of Ghana

2010 Alex Higgins
Irish snooker player

1980 Peter Sellers
English film actor, comedian, singer

1862 Martin Van Buren
American politician, 8th President of the United
 
24 Jul 1967
The Beatles meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose lecture on Transcendental Meditation â„¢ they had gone to hear at the Hilton Hotel in London. TM involved the silent repetition of a word or sound to produce a state of mind that reduces stress, calms the mind, and energizes both mind and body. The Maharishi invited The Beatles to travel with him to Bangor, in North Wales, to attend more lectures. They accepted his invitation.
 
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, and poet

1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English poet, philosopher

306 Constantius Chlorus
Roman Emperor
 
25th July
1814 The chief engineer at the Killingworth colliery, George Stephenson, unveiled Blücher, his steam powered locomotive that could haul eight carriages loaded with 30 tons of coal at the break-neck speed of 4 mph. Stephenson was born in Wylam, Northumberland in a house which was shared with three other families.
 
25th July

1865 Dr James Barry, a distinguished and outspoken Army surgeon, died in London aged 73. Known for clashing with superiors, championing hygiene and performing life-saving operations across the British Empire, Barry had carved out a formidable medical career.
But in death, an astonishing secret came to light.

James Barry was born Margaret Ann Bulkley in Cork in the south of Ireland around 1789. Margaret Ann Bulkley was an intelligent child, clever enough to become a doctor. Unfortunately, only men were allowed to study medicine at this time. In 1809, Margaret took on a new identity as James Barry and became a medical student at Edinburgh University. James qualified as a doctor in 1812 and worked at St Thomas's Hospital in London for six months. In 1813 he became an army surgeon and travelled all over the world, to places like South Africa and the West Indies.

James Barry died in 1865 and only then did people discover that he had started life as Margaret Bulkley

1943 The Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, stepped down as head of the armed forces and the government.

1959 A hovercraft, the SR.N1, designed by Christopher Cockerell, made its first English Channel crossing from Dover to Calais.

2000 Concorde crashed just minutes after take-off, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground.
 
1883
The ship 'Marco Polo' once the fastest clipper in the world, runs aground in Prince Edward Island
1944
Operation Cobra: U.S. forces begin major offensive in Normandy with an bombardment
1964
The Beatles album' A Hard Day's Night' hits #1 on the music charts, stays there for 14 weeks
1985
a spokeswoman for actor, Rock Hudson confirms he has AIDS,he died on Oct 2,1985, age 59
2016
Verizon announces the purchase of Yahoo for $4.83 billion
2024
singer/ songwriter, Bill Joel performs his 150th& last show at Madison Square Gardens in NYC. He had been performing there for 10yr residency, once a month concert
 
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, and 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
 

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