Today in History

moviequeen1 said:
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
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Or was it beer? I understand the difference can be hard to tell from archeological evidence. I prefer to think beer came first, certainly my first choice for grain consumption, well maybe second after whiskey...
 

This day in History July 20th

1923 Francisco Villa ( Pancho Villa ) is assassinated in Parral, Chihuahua, in his car and the assassins were never arrested.

1964 Violence has flared up again in Harlem New York during burial services for those killed during the earlier riots with 14 more hurt. African-American leaders in the community are urging calm but hooligans are continuing to cause damage to property in the area..

1969 The Apollo 11 astronauts made history when the first man is landed on the moon by the United States and Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon leaving the first human footprints in its dusty soil.

1980 The Moscow Summer Olympics begins minus the United States and 64 other countries who were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
 
1881
Sioux Indian Chief,Sitting Bull surrenders to U.S. federal troops
1921
Oklahoma congresswoman,Alice Mary Robertson becomes the 1st woman to preside over the floor of U. S. Congress She was a prominent educator,committed to Native American rights
1940
Billboard publishes its 1st Singles chart # 1 was 'I'll Never Smile Again' by bandleader Tommy Dorsey
1969
U. S. astronaut,Neil Armstrong steps from lunar module,Eagle onto the moon uttering his famous words'Thats One Small Step for Man,One Giant Leap for Mankind" a half a billion people around the world watched on TV
2020
scientists find evidence of volcanoes on Venus,shows planet isn't as dormant as previously thought
 

This day in History July 21st

1934 John Dillinger Public Enemy number ONE career was finally ended during a shoot-out with FBI agents who had been waiting outside a local Cinema following a tip-off.

1991 Jeffrey Dahmer is caught

2009 The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, ( when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun ) lasting up to 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds, occurs off the coast of Southeast Asia.
 
1853
Central Park in NYC is created when NYS legislature put aside 750 acres of land on Manhattan Island. Frederick Law Omstead,famed landscape architect did the landscape of this 1st U. S. public park
1983
The world's lowest ever natural temperature was recorded at Soviet Vostik Station in Antarctica
-89.2 degrees C{-128.6 F}
1997
The fully restored ship USS Constitution aka'Old Ironsides" celebrates her 200th birthday set sails for 1st time in 116 yrs
2007
"Harry Potter&The Deathly Hollows" the 7th&last book in the series,written by author JK Rowling is published worldwide 11 million copies sell in 24 hrs
 
This day in History July 22nd

1934 John Dillinger Public Enemy number ONE career was finally ended during a shoot-out with FBI agents who had been waiting outside a local Cinema following a tip-off.

1991 Jeffrey Dahmer is caught

2009 The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, ( when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun ) lasting up to 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds, occurs off the coast of Southeast Asia.
 
1893
Katherine Bates composes'America The Beautiful" in Colorado
1937
U. S. Senate rejects Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's proposal of expanding the Supreme Court
1995
Susan Smith is found guilty of drowning her 2 small sons, 3 yr old,Michael,14 month old, Alexander in South Carolina. She let the car roll into a nearby lake,with the boys strapped in their car seats,falsely claimed a black man had carjacked the car with the boys inside.At the time of this awful crime ,she was involved with the son of the owner of company she worked at,he did not want kids.He ended the affair couple days before the crime took place
Susan was sentenced to life in prison,she is eligible for parole in 2024
 
1829
William Austin Burt patents America's 1st typographer'typewriter'.His model sadly was destroyed in 1839 fire at the U. S. Patent office
1966
Frank Sinatra's album'Strangers in The Night' is #1 on U. S. music charts. The album won Grammys for'Record of the Yr',Best Male Vocal Performance'
1982
actor,Vic Morrow and 2 young child actors were killed on the last day of shooting movie';Twilight Zone' They were filming a Vietnam War battle scene,running away from the helicopter pursuing them.The pilot lost control of the low flying copter,because of special effects explosions on set,crashed into them. The 3 victim's families filed lawsuits against Warner Brothers,director John Landis,producer Stephen Speilberg ,settled out of court for undisclosed amounts
2019
U. S. Senate passes a bill championed by comedian Jon Stewart to ensure 9/11 First Responders Fund never runs out of money
 
This day in History July 24th

1969 Apollo 11, the U.S. spacecraft that had taken the first astronauts to the surface of the moon, safely returns to Earth

1990 Iraq Troops Mass On Border of Kuwait

2005 Lance Armstrong Wins 7th Tour De France
 
1880
the world's 1st commerical hydroelectric power plant begins generating electricity in Grand Rapids,Mich
1911
U. S. explorer/amateur archaeolgist, Hiram Bingham discovered the ancient Inca settlement of Machu Picchu,had been hidden NW of Cuzco in Peru.Today its a protected World Heritage Site,widely recognized as one of the great wonders of the world
1974
U. S. Supreme Court in 9-0 ruling President Richard Nixon had to turn over Watergate tapes
2019
Facebook agrees to pay $5 million to U.S. Federal Trade Commission for violating consumer privacy,largest fine ever
 
This day in History July 25th

1943 Benito Mussolini, the prime minister and dictator of Italy for 21 years, was forced from office

1952 Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

1978 Lesley Brown gave birth to the world's first test-tube baby ( in-vitro fertilization ) delivered by cesarean section in Oldham, England

2000 An Air France Concorde jet bound for New York crashes upon takeoff in Paris killing everyone onboard
 
1854
Walter Hunt received 1st U.S. patent for his invention of paper shirt collar
1946
at Club 50 in Atlantic City,NJ, Dean Martin&Jerry Lewis debut as a comedy team
1969
Ted Kennedy plead guilty for leaving scene 1 week after Chappaquiddick car crash that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
1985
spokeswoman for actor,Rock Hudson confirms he has AIDS,he died in Oct age 59.He was the 1st major U.S. celebrity to died of the disease
2016
Verizon announced purchase of Yahoo for $4.83 billion
 
This day in History July 26th

1956 Egypt Suez Crisis Begins
The Suez Crisis begins when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the British and French-owned Suez Canal hoping to charge tolls that would pay for the construction of the Aswan Dam on the Nile.

1931 U.S.A. Grasshopper Swarms
The Midwest and heartland of the United States are in the midst of a bad drought when swarms of grasshoppers descend on crops throughout the American heartland, devastating millions of acres.

1939 United Kingdom IRA Roundup
The British government is set for lightning strikes against the IRA (Irish Republican Army) to round up over 5,000 suspects to stop the sabotage and terrorist activities now that the new emergency government bill has been passed.

1941 U.S.A. Japanese Assets Seized
President Franklin Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets in the United States in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China.

1945 Great Britain Clement Attlee
Winston Churchill's Conservative party loses the general election to the Labour Party and Clement Attlee, the Labour leader, is sworn in as the new British leader, Attlee had campaigned on an enlarged system of social services that would be created as outlined in the wartime Beveridge Report.
 
26th July

1659 - Mary (Moll) Frith died on this day. She was a notorious female pickpocket, criminal and underworld character, known on the streets of 17th century London as Moll Cutpurse, for the purse strings she slashed.

1803 - The Surrey Iron Railway opened in south London. It was the world's first railway to be publicly subscribed by Act of Parliament as a railway throughout. The 9 mile track was a horse drawn plateway of approximately standard gauge.

1890 - From the roof of the General Post Office in Aldersgate, Marconi made the first public transmission of wireless (radiio) signals.

1958 - In Britain, debutantes were presented at the Royal Court for the last time.
 
1656
Dutch painter, Rembrandt van Rijn declared he's bankrupt
1775
U. S. Continental Congress creates the U. S Post Office with Benjamin Franklin as 1st postmaster in Philadelphia
1990
Pres. George H.W. Bush sings the Americans Disablities Act which is civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disablities.They have the same rights&opportunites like everybody else
2018
Sir Paul McCartney performs a secret concert at the Cavern Club in Liverpool,England where The Beatles first started
 
This day in History July 27th

1909 U.S.A. Orville Wright
The world's airplane record for two men was broken in a flight of one hour, twelve minutes, and forty seconds over fifty miles and at a speed averaging about forty miles an hour by Orville Wright and Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm, of the army signal corps, as a passenger.

1949 De-Havilland Comet First Flight
The 500-mile-an-hour jet engine De-Havilland Comet designed as a commercial jet airliner flew for the first time with a test pilot at the controls.

1953 Korea Armistice
An Armistice has been signed between Korea and Generals of the United Nations this is not a peace deal but a truce to end 37 months of fighting.

1974 Impeachment Charges Against Nixon
The House of Representatives charges President Richard M. Nixon with the first of three articles of impeachment for obstruction of justice.
 
1586
explorer, Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
1890
Dutch painter, Vincent Van Gogh shoots himself,dies 2 days later
1965
Pres. Lyndon Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking
2020
Google becomes the largest tech company allowing workers to work from home until July 2021
 
This day in History July 28th

1914 World War I Begins
Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by Gavrilo Princip, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, within one month countries across Europe had formed alliances and declared war on other alliances.

1920 Mexico Francisco Villa Surrenders
Francisco Villa the notorious bandit has surrendered unconditionally to the provisional government of Mexico.

1931 U.S.A. Monoplane Race
A race between two powerful monoplanes got underway today starting from New York, the race is to Istanbul over 5,500 miles away. They are also hoping to break the current long-distance record of 4,912 miles nonstop.

1932 "Bonus Army" World War I
Federal troops under the order of President Hoover forcibly dispersed the "Bonus Army" of (17,000 World War I veterans) who had gathered in Washington, D.C. on June 17th to demand money they weren't scheduled to receive until 1945. The troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur and Major George S. Patton are ordered to charge into the veterans and were sent to destroy the temporary shacks in the Bonus Army's camps in Hooverville on the Anacostia Flats forcing the marchers out. By the end of the day, hundreds of veterans were injured, and several were killed.

1945 Plane Crashes Into Empire State Building
A B-25 Mitchell bomber crashes into the 79th story of the Empire State Building killing 14 people. The freak accident was caused by heavy fog.
 
1866
metric system becomes legal measurement in U.S.
1943
Pres.Franklin Roosevelt announced the end of coffee rationing
1976
The Tangshan Earthquake in Northern China registered 8.2 killed over 240,000 people. It was the largest loss of life from earthquake in 20th century
 
This day in history July 29th

1945 I-58 Japanese submarine sinks the American cruiser Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen in the worst loss in the history of the U.S. navy.

1976 The so-called "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag and fires five shots at Donna Lauria and Jody Valenti of the Bronx while they are sitting in a car. Lauria died and Valenti was seriously wounded in the first in a series of shootings by the serial killer, who terrorized New York City over the course of the next year.

1981 Prince Charles marries Lady Diana at a royal ceremony at St. Paul's Cathedral
 
1836
Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France is completed
1907
Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
1958
Pres Dwight Eisenhower signed into law the National Aeronautics Space Adminstration{NASA} as a commitment to space program against the Soviet Union during the'Cold War'
1978
American swimmer, Penny Dean swims the English Channel in 7 hrs,40 min.The record was broken in 1995
2015
Microsoft launches Windows 10
 
This day in History July 30th

1920 U.S.A. California Census
The latest census on five California counties has been announced today in Washington:

El Dorado 6,246 Latest 2006 Census Info 2006 (178,066)

Glen County 11,850 Latest Census Info 2006 (28,061)

San Benito 8,895 Latest Census Info 2006 (55,842)

Siskiyo County 15,545 Latest Census Info 2006 (45,901)

Yolo County 17,105 Latest Census Info 2006 (188,085)

1931 New Long-Distance Flying Record
Russel Boardman and John Polando land their Monoplane in Istanbul, Turkey today in 49 hrs and 20 minutes since leaving New York setting a new long-distance nonstop world record.

1935 First Penguin Paperback
The first Penguin paperback book costing 6d is published in England and started the paperback revolution, many believed it would not be profitable but following the purchase of 63,000 books by Woolworth within 12 months one million Penguin books are sold.

1943 Germany Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler is informed that Italy is planning to negotiate surrender terms with the Allies in light of Mussolini's fall from power.

1953 U.S.A. Communist Leaders Arrested
The FBI has seized 6 communist leaders from the city of Philadelphia on charges of teaching and advocating the overthrow of the government, this brings the total of those arrested for similar offenses around the nation to 87.
 
30th July

1900 London Underground's Central Line was opened by the Prince of Wales, with a two pence (tuppence) fare for all destinations.

1963 Kim Philby, British intelligence officer from 1940 and Soviet agent from 1933, fled to the USSR.

1966 England won the Football World Cup in London, beating West Germany 4 - 2. This was England's first (and only) win since the tournament began in 1930.

1968 The Beatles closed the Apple Boutique and gave clothes away for free to passers-by.

2006 The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops was broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
 
1869
The Charles considered the world's 1st 'oil tanker' leaves United States headed to Europe with 7,000 barrels of oil
1965
Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law a health insurance program for elderly Americans known as 'Medicare' The ceremony happened at the Truman Library in Independence,Missouri.In 1945, Pres. Harry Truman tried to purpose this national program but was strongly opposed.LBJ wanted to recognize him for his efforts. Truman received the 1st Medicare Card as the Medicare's 1st beneficary In 1966 when the law went into effect 19 million enrolled
1974
House Judicary Comm votes on the 3rd&last charge of 'high crimes&misdemeanors' impeachment of Pres Nixon in Watergate coverup
2013
Wikileaks discloser,Bradley{later Chesea} Manning convicted of 17 espionage charges
 

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