Today in History

Births On This Day, July 5th 🎂

1983 Zheng Jie
Chinese tennis player

1975 Ai Sugiyama
Japanese tennis player

1911 Georges Pompidou
French politician, Prime Minister, and President of France

1853 Cecil Rhodes
English/South African businessman, and politician, founded De Beers

1810 P. T. Barnum
American businessman, founded Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus

Deaths On This Day, July 5th 🪦

2011 Cy Twombly
American/Italian painter, sculptor

2006 Kenneth Lay
American businessman

1945 John Curtin
Australian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia

1826 Stamford Raffles
British statesman

1819 William Cornwallis
English Admiral
 

5th July

1610 John Guy, English merchant adventurer and politician, set sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists, bound for Newfoundland. He became the first Proprietary Governor of Newfoundland and led the first attempt to establish a colony on the island.

1948 Britain's National Health Service came into operation when Aneurin Bevan, the health secretary, launched the NHS at Park Hospital in Davyhulme (today known as Trafford General Hospital). It was the climax of a hugely ambitious plan to bring good healthcare to all.

1975 Ashe's Wimbledon win made history. American tennis player Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles' championship. Ashe beat defending champion Jimmy Connors three sets to one on Centre Court.

1979 Queen Elizabeth II presided over the 1000th annual open-air sitting of the Isle of Man's Parliament, Tynwald. The ancient rituals of the Manx National Day began as soon as the Queen arrived at Ronaldsway Airport when she was given a piece of silver fern to ward off evil spirits

2012 The Shard, Europe's tallest building to date and 'a gleaming feat of glass and gravity-defying engineering', was officially unveiled in London. It stands at 309.6 metres tall, cost £1.5bn and was 12 years in the making.
 
On This Day In History, July 6th

2013 Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash lands at San Francisco International Airport
The plane was en route to San Francisco from Incheon International Airport, South Korea. The crash, which killed 3 people and injured at least 190 others, was the first fatal incident involving a Boeing 777 since it came on the market in 1995.

2006 Nathula Pass, a trading post between India and China opens for business
The trading post had been closed since the Sino-Indian War of 1962. Part of the Silk Road, the pass connects Tibet with the Indian state of Sikkim.

1975 Comoros becomes independent
The Comoros Islands gained independence after about 137 years of French rule. Their official name is the Union of the Comoros.

1964 Malawi gains its independence from Britain
Between 1953 and 1963, the Southeast African country was part of a British-controlled federation called the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. After the dissolution of the federation and independence, Nyasaland changed its name to Malawi.

1912 King Gustaf V officially opens the fifth Summer Olympics in Stockholm
The international multi-event sports meet was the first such event in history to introduce the photo finish and automatic timing devices for track competitions. 28 countries, including Japan, participated in the games, making it the first time representatives from all 6 continents were present at an Olympics.
 

Births On This Day, July 6th 🎂

1946 George W. Bush
American politician, 43rd President of the United States

1935 14th Dalai Lama
Tibetan Spiritual leader since 1950

1921 Nancy Reagan
American actress, 40th First Lady of the United States

1907 Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter

1781 Stamford Raffles
British statesman

Deaths On This Day, July 6 🪦

1971 Louis Armstrong
American trumpeter, singer

1962 William Faulkner
American author, Nobel Prize laureate

1893 Guy de Maupassant
French writer

1835 John Marshall
American jurist, 4th Chief Justice of the United States

1553 Edward VI of England
 
1785
U.S. Congress approves U,S. currency as the 'dollar' and adopts decimal coinage
1858
Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
1942
Anne Frank&her family go into hiding in After House in Amsterdam
1968
At Wimbledon Tennis Championship Women's final, Billie Jean King defeated Judy Teagart 9-7, 7-5. The 1st time prize money was offered,King won 750 British pounds= $980 U.S
1983
U.S. Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
2009
Jadranka Kosor becomes 1st woman Prime Minister of Croatia after her predecessor, Ivo Sander resigns. She served from 2009-2011
 
6th July

1189 Richard I (Richard the Lionheart) aged 31 years, ascended to the English throne.

1483 England's King Richard III was crowned. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field was the decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses.

1535 Sir Thomas More was beheaded on London's Tower Hill for refusing to accept Henry VIII as head of the church.

1919 The first airship to cross the Atlantic, the British-built R34, arrived in New York.

1957 Future Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney were introduced to each other when Lennon's band, the Quarrymen, performed at the St. Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton, Merseyside.

1978 Three bags of horse manure were hurled from the public gallery in the House of Commons during a debate on Scottish Home Rule. Yana Mintoff, daughter of the Prime Minister of Malta, was later arrested and fined.

2005 The International Olympic Committee announced that the 2012 Olympic Games would be held in London.
 
On This Day In History, July 7th

1991 Brioni Declaration is signed
The agreement was signed by Slovenia, Croatia, and Yugoslavia on the Brioni islands in Croatia. The agreement marked the end of hostilities that began with the Slovenian War of Independence. Also known as the Ten Day War, the conflict began after Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia.

1985 Boris Becker becomes the youngest person to win Wimbledon at age 17
The German tennis player beat American Kevin Curren.

1981 Sandra Day O'Connor is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
Appointed by President Ronald Reagan, O'Connor is the first woman to be appointed to the highest court in the United States.

1958 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law
Under the law, Alaska became the 49th state of the United States of America on January 3, 1959.

1947 Roswell UFO sighting
An object crashed into a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico raising speculations that the object was an extraterrestrial spacecraft containing alien life forms.

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Births On This Day, July 7th 🎂

1940 Ringo Starr
British singer-songwriter, musician, actor

1933 David McCullough
American historian, author

1907 Robert A. Heinlein
American writer

1906 Satchel Paige
American baseball player

1860 Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer

Deaths On This Day, July 7th 🪦

2008 Bruce Conner
American painter, photographer, director

2006 Syd Barrett
English singer-songwriter, guitarist

1930 Arthur Conan Doyle
Scottish physician, author

1865 Mary Surratt
American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

1307 Edward I of England
 
On This Day In History, July 8th

2011 Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched for the last time
It was also the last flight of NASA's 30-year-long and successful Space Shuttle program. STS-135, as this final mission was called, was the program's 135th flight.

1994 Kim Jong-il takes office as the Supreme Leader of North Korea
Popularly known as "Dear Leader" in his country, Kim Jong-il took North Korea's highest office after the death of his father, Kim Il-sung. He ruled the country with an iron fist until his death in 2011, when his son, Kim Jong-un took his place. Kim Jong-il's tenure was marred by widespread human rights violations and severe famine in the country.

1889 Wall Street Journal published for the first time
Three financial reporters named Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser created The Wall Street Journal to supersede a previous periodical called the Customers' Afternoon Letter.

1497 Vasco da Gama sets off on a voyage to India from Lisbon with 4 ships
A year later, he reached the city of Calicut in southern India and became the first European to set foot in India by way of the sea.

1777 Vermont abolishes slavery
Vermont adopted its constitution that abolished slavery, becoming the first region in the now United States to abolish slavery. The constitution was adopted after Vermont declared independence from the British Empire.

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Births On This Day, July 8th 🎂

1908 Nelson Rockefeller
American politician, 41st Vice President of the United States

1907 George W. Romney
American businessman, politician

1839 John D. Rockefeller
American businessman, philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company

1838 Ferdinand von Zeppelin
German general, businessman

1836 Joseph Chamberlain
British politician

Deaths On This Day, July 8th 🪦

2011 Betty Ford
American wife of Gerald R. Ford, 40th First Lady of the United States

1973 Wilfred Rhodes
English cricketer

1967 Vivien Leigh
English actress

1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet

1695 Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist
 
9th July

1877 The first Wimbledon Lawn Tennis championship was held at its original site at Worple Road. The men's singles title was won by Spencer Gore - beating fellow British player W.C. Marshall in three sets.

1973 Prince Charles enjoyed the Bahamas' last day as a British colony. He had hosted a formal reception at Government House, Nassau, the previous night for dignitaries from 52 countries overseeing the end of over 300 years of British sovereignty.

1982 Queen Elizabeth II woke to find an intruder (Michael Fagan) sitting at the end of her bed, raising further concerns about poor Palace security.

1984 A massive fire, caused by a lightning strike, devastated large parts of York Minster causing an estimated £1m damage.

2008 A teenager, who thought movement in her underwear was caused by her vibrating mobile phone found a bat curled up asleep in her bra. Abbie Hawkins, aged 19, had been wearing the bra for five hours when she plucked up the courage to investigate. - 'I put my hand down my bra and pulled out a cuddly little bat. I felt quite sorry for it. Perhaps I should have left it there and given it a good home.' 🦇
 
On This Day In History, July 10th

1985 Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, sinks
The ship was in the harbor in New Zealand when it was bombed and sunk, killing Fernando Pereira, a photographer who was aboard the ship. It was found out later that French government operatives were responsible for the incident.

1967 New Zealand adopts the new currency
The New Zealand pound was replaced by the New Zealand dollar. The denominations of the new currency followed a decimal system.

1962 Telstar, the world's first communication satellite is launched into space
The satellite, made by a collaboration between organizations in the U.S., the U.K., and France, transmitted the first live television images in the world.

1940 Battle of Britain
The German air force or Luftwaffe launched an air campaign against England. It was one of the first battles during the Second World War fought entirely between air forces and it ended a few months later with a British victory.

1913 Death Valley, U.S experiences the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth
Measurements showed that the temperature had reached a whopping 134°F or 57°C!
 
Births On This Day, July 10th 🎂

1980 Jessica Simpson
American singer-songwriter, actress, fashion designer

1949 Sunil Gavaskar
Indian cricketer

1871 Marcel Proust
French writer

1856 Nikola Tesla
Serbian/American physicist, engineer

1509 John Calvin
French theologian, pastor

Deaths On This Day, July 10th 🪦

2015 Omar Sharif
Egyptian actor

1920 John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
Sri Lankan/English Admiral

1584 William the Silent
German son of William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg

649 Emperor Taizong of Tang

138 Hadrian
Roman Emperor
 
On This Day In History, July 11th

2010 FIFA World Cup Final is held in Johannesburg, South Africa
The Netherlands and Spain fought out for the prestigious football trophy. Spain won the match 1-0 and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

2006 Mumbai train bombings
Over 200 people were killed and about 700 people were injured in a series of bombings on Mumbai city trains.

1960 To Kill a Mockingbird is first published as Atticus
Harper Lee's classic and Pulitzer Prize-winning book is about racial inequality during the Great Depression.

1914 Major League Baseball debut of Babe Ruth
George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Jr., one of the world's most well-known professional baseball players started his major league baseball career with the Boston Red Sox.

1804 A duel between two leading American politicians claims the life of one
United States Vice President Aaron Burr and former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton ended a life-long feud with a duel. Hamilton was fatally wounded and died the next day.
 
Births On This Day, July 11th 🎂

1986 Yoann Gourcuff
French footballer

1975 Lil' Kim
American rapper, actress

1916 Gough Whitlam
Australian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia

1767 John Quincy Adams
American politician, 6th President of the United States

1274 Robert the Bruce
Scottish king

Deaths On This Day, July 11th 🪦

2010 Bob Sheppard
American sportscaster

2007 Lady Bird Johnson
American wife of Lyndon B. Johnson, 38th First Lady of the United States

1998 Panagiotis Kondylis
Greek writer, translator

1989 Laurence Olivier
English actor, director, producer

472 Anthemius
Roman Emperor
 
11th July


1576 Yorkshire born explorer Martin Frobisher sighted Greenland. In all he made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage. He was later knighted for his service in repelling the Spanish Armada.

1656, Ann Austin and Mary Fisher, two Englishwomen, become the first Quakers to immigrate to the American colonies when the ship carrying them lands at Boston. Shortly after arriving in Massachusetts, the two were arrested, jailed for five years and deported.

1859 Big Ben, in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, tolled for the first time. The Great Clock starts ticking on 31 May and the Great Bell's strikes are heard for the first time on 11 July. Later that year, Big Ben is found to be fractured again. Big Ben remains silent with the largest quarter bell striking the hourly chime.

1987 War veterans returned to the scene of the bloodiest battle of World War I to commemorate its 70th anniversary. The fields of Passchendaele in Belgium claimed the lives of 250,000 troops of the British Commonwealth between July and November 1917.

2013 Greenpeace protesters climbed to the summit of London's Shard - the tallest building in western Europe.Two of them then unfurled a blue flag with "Save the Arctic" written on it. Six climbers accessed the Shard by climbing on to the roof of London Bridge Station.
 
On This Day In History, July 12th

1984 Walter F. Mondale Names Geraldine A. Ferraro as Running Mate in Presidential Elections
New York Congressperson, Geraldine A. Ferraro, became the first woman to run for office on a major party ticket in the United States.

1975 São Tomé and Príncipe gain independence from Portuguese rule
The island nation was discovered and colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century. For over 200 years, its economy was run by African slaves who cultivated sugar, coffee, and cocoa. Manuel Pinto da Costa became the first president of the newly independent country.

1967 Race riots break out in Newark, New Jersey, killing 26 people and injuring several others
The violence began when two white policemen arrested a black cab driver.

1962 First performance of the Rolling Stones
The British rock band performed for the first time as a group at the Marquee Club in London.

1920 Moscow Peace Treaty is signed
Also known as the Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty, the treaty was signed between Lithuania and the Soviet Union. It recognized Lithuanian sovereignty in exchange for its neutrality and for safe passage for Russian troops to Poland.
 
Births On This Day, July 12th 🎂

1997 Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani activist

1937 Bill Cosby
American comedian, actor, producer, author

1904 Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate

1884 Amedeo Modigliani
Italian painter, sculptor

1817 Henry David Thoreau
American writer, philosopher

Deaths On This Day, July 12th 🪦

2013 Amar Bose
American sound engineer, entrepreneur

2010 Harvey Pekar
American author

1926 Gertrude Bell
British government administrator, writer, spy, archaeologist

1804 Alexander Hamilton
Nevisian/American economist, politician, philosopher, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury

1536 Desiderius Erasmus
Dutch theologian, priest
 
1804
former U.S. Sec of Treasury, Alexander Hamilton dies day after being shot by Vice Pres Aaron Burr in a pistol duel
1933
U.S. Congress passes 1st minumum wage law 33 cents/hr
1940
Frederick McKinley Jones receives patent for air conditioning unit for trucks
1970
explorer, Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic Ocean on raft, RA II,arriving in Barbados 57 days after he left Morocco
1984
Dem U. S. congresswoman, Geraldine Ferraro becomes the 1st woman vice president candidate in a political party.Walter Mondale, ex Vice Pres of U.S, chose her as his running mate . They lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan&George H.W. Bush. The Republicans won every state except for Minnesota, Mondale's home state. She later became the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights,when Bill Clinton was President
 
13 July 1978
Britain's BBC announces a ban on The Sex Pistol's single "No One Is Innocent", which features vocals performed by Ronnie Biggs, a British criminal notorious for his part in the Great Train Robbery of1963
 

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