Today in History

This day in History July 11th

1924 Round The World Flight
American flyers attempting around the world flight have arrived at Constantinople (now called Istanbul)

1924 Greenland Treaty Signed
Norway and Denmark have reached an agreement and signed a treaty on their respective interests in Greenland and also includes mechanisms for future disputes, this follows a long war of words between the two nations over Greenland.

1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that he would accept a nomination to run for president of the United States for the fourth time.

1953 Polio Vaccine Takes Off
The growing number of victims affected by Polio is encouraging parents to bring children to Polio Vaccination clinics around the country in ever-increasing numbers in the greatest mass inoculation in history hoping to stop the spread of the deadly disease (Infantile Paralysis). On the same day in 1977, the Medal of Freedom was awarded to Doctor Jonas E. Salk for his work on battling poliomyelitis / Polio.

1955 U.S.A. 'In God We Trust
President Eisenhower signed a bill requiring the use of the inscription 'In God We Trust' on all paper money.
 

1804
Vice President,Aaron Burr fatally wounds ex Sec of State, Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel
1960
author,Harper Lee's book'To Kill a Mockingbird' is published,won 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.After winning the award it was on the best selling charts for 40 weeks. The movie version came out in 1962 with actor Gregory Peck in his Oscar winning role as 'Atticus Finch"
1969
singer, David Bowie releases his single'Space Oddity' 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon
2019
the last models of Volkswagen Beetle are produced in Pueblo,Mexico ending worldwide production of the car after 80 yrs
 

This day in History July 12th

1924 U.S.A. Air Mail
The Post Office has announced it will now accept airmail letters for countries where the domestic later rate applies.

1963 England Moors Murderers
The infamous moors murderers begin their killing spree when 16 yr old Pauline Reade is abducted by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, the so-called "Moors Murderers," launching a series of cruel murders lasting over two years.

1967 U.S.A. Airline Strike
The strike by workers in the airline industry continues to affect 5 major airlines with little hope seen of an early settlement and some airlines are now laying workers off including Eastern Airlines.
 
1859
William Goodale receives patent for paper bag manufacturing machine
1940 Frederick Mc Kinley Jones receives patent for air condtioner unit for trucks which help change long haul carriages of food&blood
1970
archeologist/explorer,Thor Heyerdahle crosses the Atlantic Ocean on raft RA 11 arriving in Barbados 57 days after he left Morocco
2017
the world's largest iceberg breaks away from Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica,which was 6,000 sq km in length
 
This day in History July 13th

1977 A lightning strike strikes a substation on the Hudson River, tripping two circuit breakers in Westchester County, then a second lightning strike caused the loss of two 345,000 volt transmission lines causing a 25hrs blackout of the New York City area.

1985 The Live Aid Concert was a series of rock concerts held to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia around the world in cities including London, Philadelphia, Sydney, and Moscow.

1995 A heatwave that affects Illinois and Wisconsin starts when a heat advisory is issued in Chicago, Illinois, warning of an impending record-breaking heatwave. By the time the heatwave ends one week later, nearly 2,000 people are dead in Illinois and Wisconsin with temperatures being recorded in Chicago up to 106 degrees Fahrenheit.
 
1865
Horace Greely,founder/editor of NY Tribune supposedly said to his readers to 'Go West Young Men'
1923
Hollywoodland Sign was offically dedicated in the hills above Los Angeles.In 1949 after a renovation 'land' was dropped
1985
dual concerts held at London's Wembley Stadium,JFK Stadium in Philadelphia in effort to end deep famine in Africa with many top recording artists performing.The 2 concerts were shown live across the world,organizer was Irish rocker Bob Geldolf. He helped co ordinate the special edition of 'Do They Know Its Christmas" which raised $10 mill. It inspired U. S. artists to appear on Michael Jackson/Lionel Ritchie single'We Are The World' which eventually raised $40 mill
2018
the men's longest semi final tennis match in history at Wimbledon which took 6 hrs,36 min. South African,Kevin Curren defeated ,U.S player,John Isner 7-6,6-7,6-4,26-24
 
Tish said:
1967 U.S.A. Airline Strike
The strike by workers in the airline industry continues to affect 5 major airlines with little hope seen of an early settlement and some airlines are now laying workers off including Eastern Airlines.
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Living in Florida and the time. Had a cousin visiting from California and he got stuck with us for most of the summer. And had a neighbor who worked for Eastern Airlines, he spent 6 weeks sitting in his back yard drinking beer. I remember the strike well.
 
This day in History July 14th

1922 U.S.A. Monster Dirigible
A monster dirigible (ZR1) is under construction at the aircraft factory of Philadelphia Navy Yard, as parts are completed they are sent to Lakehurst New Jersey for assembly which will be the airship's home port. This dirigible will be the first of the Zeppelin type built in this country.

1933 Russia Typhus Epidemic
A typhus epidemic has broken out in the city of Moscow and hospitals are full and overflowing with victims of the disease.

1933 Austria Hitler
A newspaper in Austria made public that Adolf Hitler Nazi Chancellor of Germany and a sworn enemy of Jews is a Jew himself, there has been speculation for some time that this was the case but never publicly published.

1933 Germany Other Political Parties Banned
All other political parties are banned in Germany except for the Nazi Party.

1966 In one of the worst murder cases to date 8 student nurses are brutally murdered by Richard Speck at their group residence in Chicago, Illinois.
 
14th July

1865 British climber Edward Whymper led the first team of climbers to reach the summit of the Matterhorn in the Alps. As they made their way down, Douglas Hadow, aged 19, slipped and dragged two climbers and a guide after him. The rope snapped and they plunged to their deaths down a 4,000 precipice. The three others in the party were saved.

1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time, at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey.

1962 The Beatles played their first gig in Wales when they appeared at The Regent Dansette Theatre in Rhyl.

1967 Abortion was legalised in Britain.

2014 The Church of England General Synod approved women bishops.
 
1798
U. S. Congress approves the 'Sedition Act',law that prohibits printing false,scandulous,malcious writings about federal gov't.Those found guilty faced a fine and imprisonment
1868
Alvin J. Fellows patents the tape measure
1946
pediatrican,Dr Benjamin Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Childcare' book is published
 
This day in History July 15th

1922 England Chimney Sweep
The humble chimney sweep is being swept away by machines with the advent of giant vacuum cleaners which do the job quicker, cleaner, and cheaper than the traditional chimney sweep.

1933 China Yellow River Mass Flooding
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese peasants are homeless due to the Yellow River overrunning its dykes and flooding thousands of acres of land. Famine is now also affecting these men, women, and children and hundreds are now dying from starvation.

1945 Italy Declares War On Japan
Italy formally declared war on Japan, a former Axis partner.

1954 U.S.A. Boeing 707 Maiden Flight
America's first jet airliner the Boeing 707 took off from Renton Field in Renton, Washington on its maiden flight.

1965 Mars Mariner 4
The unmanned spacecraft Mariner 4 passes over Mars at an altitude of 6,000 feet and sends back to Earth the first close-up images of the red planet.
 
1869
margarine is patented by Hippolye Mega-Mouries for use by French Navy
1933
aviator,Willy Post begins his 1st solo flight around the world,took him 7 days,9hrs
1972
Elton John's 'Honky Chateau' becomes his 1st #1 album in U.S. featuring hit single'Rocket Man'
1999
scientists uncover a possible reason why SS Waratah,a luxury steamer with 211 passengers/crew disappeared 100 yrs ago.It was on its 2nd voyage leaving Colony of Natal headed for Durban,South Africa.A freak wave may have caused the boat to capsized causing the rudder to malfunction. This is backed up by research sonar imaging,no trace of the wreckage has ever been found
 
15th July

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

1685 Charles II's illegitimate son (the Duke of Monmouth) was executed for rebelling against James II. His head was then put back on his shoulders so that his portrait could be painted.

1996 Prince Charles and Princess Diana were granted a decree nisi. Princess Diana could no longer be addressed as Her Royal Highness but was to be known as Diana, Princess of Wales.
 
This day in History July 16th

1918 Russia Czar Nicholas II
Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks, bringing an end to the three-century-old Romanov dynasty.

1928 U.S.A. Farm Wages
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics part of the Department of Agriculture has reported that the wages for the farm industry are lower than last year's levels as the supply of farmworkers is more plentiful.

1945 U.S.A. Atomic Bomb
The world's first atomic bomb was detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

1955 UK Sterling Moss
Sterling Moss won his first Formula One Grand Prix race, the British Grand Prix in Aintree, Sterling Moss never won a World Championship, having finished second to Juan Manuel Fangio for four consecutive years.

1969 U.S.A. Apollo 11
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.
 
16th July

1439 Kissing was banned in England because of the Plague.

1557 The death, age 41, of Anne of Cleves, 4th wife of Henry VIII.

1964 The Rolling Stones had their first UK no 1 single with It's all over now.

1988 The Queen's cousin, Lord Harewood, brought in police to investigate the theft of the world's smallest horse, Pernod. a 27 inch high Shetland stallion.

1996 Diana, Princess of Wales, announced that she was severing links with more than 100 charities.
 
1790
U. S.Congress declared Washington,D.C. as permanent capitol of United States
1867
D.R. Aveill patents ready made paint
1951
J.D. Salinger's book'The Catcher in the Rye' is published
1999
John F. Kennedy,Jr, his wife Caroline Bessette Kennedy,her sister,Lauren were killed in plane crash off coast of Martha's Vineyard,Kennedy was pilot of Piper Saratoga aircraft.
The National Safety Board's finding,the crash was caused by an inexperienced pilot who became confused in the dark&lost control of plane.
 
This day in History July 17th

1954 "Operation Wetback" is launched by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to remove about four million illegal immigrants from the southwestern United States, with a focus on Mexican nationals. The operation began in California and Arizona sweeping northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day.

1955 Disneyland in Anaheim, California opens to invited guests only. More than 30,000 guests showed up to participate in one of the largest theme parks in the world at the time

1981 Hyatt Regency Hotel Bridge Collapse Kansas City

1997 F.W. Woolworth's, the original five-and-dime store that started in 1879, announced today that its last 400 stores would close.
 
1841
British humor/satrical magazine'Punch' is published,closes in 2002
1902
young engineer,Willis Carrier begins sketching his mechincal plans for the 1st modern air condtioner.He receives a patent in Jan'06 which changes the way we live.He received his patent in Jan '06
1945
At the Potsdam Conference in Potsdam, Germany, Pres. Harry Truman,British P.M. Winston Churchill,Russian leader, Joseph Stalin meet to decide how to punish Nazi Germany.They establish post-war order,peace treaty issues
2018
oldest evidence of bread made from wild grains is discovered by archeologists in a 14,000 yrd old dig in Black Desert in Jordan
 
This day in History July 18th

1925 Nazi leader Adolf Hitler publishes the first volume of his personal manifesto, Mein Kampf which was a bitter and turgid narrative filled with anti-Semitic outpourings, disdain for morality, worship of power, and the blueprints for his plan of Nazi world domination.

1936 The Spanish Civil War starts as a revolt by right-wing Spanish military officers in Morocco which spread to mainland Spain.

1969 A car driven by Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy plunged off a narrow wooden bridge into a tidal pond after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island

1976 The first perfect 10 ever recorded in Olympic gymnastics was achieved up by Romania's 4-foot-11, 88-pound Nadia Comaneci on the women's uneven parallel bars.
 
1932
United States&Canada sign treaty to develop St. Lawrence Seaway
1968
Intel Corp was founded by CEO,Andrew Grove in Santa Clara,Calif
1986
video footage of ocean liner, Titantic was publicly released for the 1st time.The videos were taken on the 1st manned expedition to the wreck.In 1985, Robert Ballard,Jean-Louis Michel of French Research Institute found the wreckage 12,500 feet below surface.The discovery started a new era of underwater exploration& scientific research,public's fascination with the Titantic.The blockbuster movie came out in 1997,won 11 Academy Awards
2019
One of the earliest mosques at 1,200 yrs old was discovered by archeologists in Israel's Niger Desert
 
This day in History July 19th

1923 Insulin Introduced.

1935 The first parking meter in the U.S. the Park-O-Meter invented by Carlton Magee, was installed in Oklahoma City by the Dual Parking Meter Company

1991 Mike Tyson is accused of the rape of Desiree Washington, a contestant in the Miss Black America pageant
 
19th July

1545 The Mary Rose, the pride of Henry VIII's battle fleet, sank in the Solent with the loss of 700 lives.

1837 Isambard Kingdom Brunel's 236ft 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.

1919 The UK held a Peace Day to celebrate the end of the First World War. In Luton the day ended with the mayor fleeing in disguise and the town hall burned down. The council had organised festivities - including a banquet that most former servicemen could not afford, while councillors dined free at ratepayer’s expense. People dragged pianos from a music store into the street, singing, dancing and allegedly playing Keep The Home Fires Burning.
 
1930
aviator/explorer,Richard E. Byrd,Lawrence Gould&their polar exploration team return to U.S. after 1st exploration of interior of Antarctica
1961
TWA becomes the 1st airline to show in flight movies,the 1st film shown on flight from NYC-LA was 'By Loved Possessed" starring Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist,Jr,Jason Robards
 


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