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On This Day In History, July 13th

1985 Live Aid benefit concert
Held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia, the concert raised millions in benefit of those affected by famine in Ethiopia. Over a billion people tuned in around the world to watch the show.

1977 Ethiopian-Somali War begins
The Somali National Army invaded the disputed Ogaden region between Somalia and Ethiopia. The war lasted for 9 months and ended with a Somalian retreat

1977 Kinney, Minnesota declares its secession from the U.S.
Frustrated by its failing water system, Kinney, Minnesota declared the creation of the Republic of Kinney and sent a letter of secession to the U.S. Secretary of State.

1937 Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is founded
The now-international doughnut company was founded by Kentuckian Vernon Rudolph.

1814 National military police of Italy created
The Carabinieri was established by the Royal Patents as a policing force with jurisdiction over the military and civilians.
 


Births On This Day, July 13th 🎂

1979 Craig Bellamy
Welsh footballer

1950 Ma Ying-jeou
Taiwanese politician

1942 Harrison Ford
American actor

1940 Patrick Stewart
English actor

1821 Nathan Bedford Forrest
American Confederate Army General

Deaths On This Day, July 13th 🪦

2010 George Steinbrenner
American businessman

1976 Joachim Peiper
German SS officer

1954 Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter

1946 Alfred Stieglitz
American photographer

1024 Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
 
On This Day In History, July 14th

2016 Terrorist Attack in Nice, France Kills 85 and Injures More than 300 People
The attack took place during Bastille Day Celebrations when a 19-tonne truck was driven into the crowd. The attacker was eventually shot by the police.

1965 Mars flyby of Mariner 4
The American spacecraft became the first to take pictures of another planet and send them back to Earth.

1958 Coup in Iraq
Abd al-Karim Qasim, a brigadier in the Iraqi Army staged a military coup in Iraq, overthrowing the Hashemite monarchy. The Iraqi King Faisal II, the Crown Prince Abd al-Ilah, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Said were assassinated during the coup. Qasim took over the position of Prime Minister, which he held until 1963. The coup also led to the dissolution of the Arab Federation of Jordan and Iraq.

1957 First female parliamentarian in the Arab world is elected to office
Egyptian Rawya Ateya became the first woman to be elected to the National Assembly.

1789 Storming of the Bastille
Bastille, a prison housing only 7 prisoners at the time, was stormed by a crowd calling for the closure of the prison. The storming became the central event of the French Revolution.
 


Births On This Day, July 14th 🎂

1918 Ingmar Bergman
Swedish director

1913 Gerald Ford
American politician, 38th President of the United States

1912 Woody Guthrie
American singer-songwriter, musician

1911 Terry-Thomas
British actor

1862 Gustav Klimt
Austrian painter, graphic artist

Deaths On This Day, July 14th 🪦

2001 Guy de Lussigny
French painter

1965 Adlai Stevenson
American politician, 31st Governor of Illinois

1910 Marius Petipa
French/Russian dancer, choreographer

1881 Billy the Kid
American criminal

1223 Philip II of France
 
1891
U.S. inventor, John T Smith patents the corkboard
1934
NYT erroneously predicted Babe Ruth's 700 HR record would be broken
On April 8, 1974, Atlanta Brave's player, Hank Aaron did so
1951
in his last race, Triple Crown champ, Citation wins Hollywood Gold Cup by 4 lengths to become American racing 1st millionaire horse
1969
U.S. Bill's of $500,1,000,5,000,10,000 are officially withdrawn from circulation
1986
Richard Miller becomes the 1st FBI agent agent convicted of espionage. He passed secret documents to the Russians. He was sentenced to 20 yrs in prison but only served 3, he died in 2013
2014
Church of England votes in favor allowing women to become bishops
 
On This Day In History, July 16th

1995 Amazon.com Sells its First Book
The e-commerce website was first founded in 1995 by Jeff Bezos as an online bookstore. The first book sold by the Internet giant was Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter.

1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter
The Jupiter orbiting comet collided with Jupiter. It was the first time in recorded history that astronomers had observed a collision between two celestial objects.

1981 Mahathir bin Mohamad takes office for the first time
Mohmad took office as the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia and remained in the position until 2003, becoming Malaysia's longest-serving prime minister and Asia's longest-serving politician.

1979 Iraqi president, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns
The fourth president of Iraq resigned from his post citing health reasons and promoted his Vice President, Saddam Hussein to the post of President.

1951 The Catcher in the Rye is published
The book, written by J.D. Salinger is considered to be one of the top 100 works of fiction of the 20th century.
 

Births On This Day, July 16th 🎂

1967 Will Ferrell
American comedian, actor

1947 Assata Shakur
American activist, criminal

1907 Orville Redenbacher
American farmer, businessman

1872 Roald Amundsen
Norwegian explorer

1862 Ida B. Wells
American civil rights activist

Deaths On This Day, July 16th 🪦

1960 Albert Kesselring
German field marshal

1915 Ellen G. White
American author, co-founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church

1882 Mary Todd Lincoln
American wife of Abraham Lincoln, 17th First Lady of the United States

1747 Giuseppe Crespi
Italian painter

1557 Anne of Cleves
 
16th July

1439 Kissing was banned in England because of the Plague.

1945 The world's first atomic weapon was tested by the US at Alamogordo Air Base in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

1945 The leaders of the three Allied nations gathered in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

1969 The Apollo 11 space rocket took off successfully from Cape Kennedy, Florida, at the start of the first attempt to land a man on the Moon. An estimated one million people gathered from all over the state to see the giant Saturn 5 booster rocket blast off.

1987 The two biggest airlines in the UK (One time rivals British Caledonian and British Airways) announced they would be merged in order to compete with America's giant air corporations.
 
On This Day In History, July 17th

1998 The Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC) is adopted
The ICC is the first international judicial body that has the power to try individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

1989 The Stealth Bomber makes its debut
The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit made its first public flight from Palmdale, California.

1976 Indonesia annexes East Timor and declares it its 27th province
This was the culmination of an 8-month-long Indonesian invasion and occupation of the Southeast Asian country that began just after East Timor declared its independence from Portugal in November 1975.

1955 Disneyland opens its doors for the first time
The popular theme park (“The Happiest Place on Earth”) was opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.

1945 The Potsdam Conference begins
The heads of the US, the UK, and the USSR met in Potsdam to discuss the terms of the German and Japanese surrenders, and to make post-war plans.
 
Births On This Day, July 17th 🎂

1954 Angela Merkel
German politician, Chancellor of Germany

1952 David Hasselhoff
American actor, singer

1947 Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
1939 Ali Khamenei
Iranian politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of Iran

1899 James Cagney
American actor

Deaths On This Day, July 17th 🪦

2009 Walter Cronkite
American journalist

1967 John Coltrane
American saxophonist, composer

1959 Billie Holiday
American singer-songwriter, actress

1912 Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist, engineer

1790 Adam Smith
Scottish philosopher, economist
 
On This Day In History, July 18th

2013 Government of Detroit declares bankruptcy
The city, which was up to $20 billion in debt, became the largest municipal entity in the United States to declare bankruptcy.

1993 Agathe Uwilingiyimana elected as Prime Minister of Rwanda
Rwanda's only female prime minister's tenure was cut short when she was assassinated at the outset of the Rwandan genocide.

1968 Intel is founded
Founded in Santa Clara, California, the Intel Corporation is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer.

1925 Mein Kampf is published
Adolf Hitler's autobiographical book was written while he served his sentence for treason in prison.

1870 The first Vatican Council, also known as Vatican I, decrees the doctrine of Papal infallibility
The doctrine claims that the Pope cannot err when speaking on issues of morality and/ or faith.
 

Births On This Day, July 18th 🎂

1980 Kristen Bell
American actress

1950 Jack Layton
Canadian politician

1950 Richard Branson
English businessman founded Virgin Group

1921 John Glenn
American astronaut, politician

1918 Nelson Mandela
South African politician, President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths On This Day, July 18th 🪦

1988 Nico
German singer-songwriter, model, actress

1918 Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by the Rhine

1872 Benito Juárez
Mexican lawyer, politician, 25th President of Mexico

1817 Jane Austen
English author

1792 John Paul Jones
American navy commander
 
On This Day In History, July 20th

2012 Aurora shooting
A gunman, James Holmes, opened fire in a movie theatre during the premier of the Dark Night Rises in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others.

1976 Viking I lands on Mars
Part of the Viking program, Viking I became the first American spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and to complete its mission.

1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
Also known as Cyprus Peace Operation or Operation Attila, the invasion was a response to a coup in Cyprus.

1969 Apollo 11 lands on the Moon
Carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, who would become the first humans to walk on the Moon, the spacecraft safely landed on the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon.

1969 Football War ends
A ceasefire came into effect between Honduras and El Salvador after the two countries fought a brief war over immigration El Salvador to Honduras. The hostilities occurred during North American trials of the FIFA World Cup.
 

Births On This Day, July 20th 🎂

1978 Elliott Yamin
American singer-songwriter

1966 Enrique Peña Nieto
Mexican politician

1947 Carlos Santana
Mexican/American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1919 Edmund Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer, explorer

1304 Petrarch
Italian scholar, poet

Deaths On This Day, July 20th 🪦

2013 Helen Thomas
American journalist

2011 Lucian Freud
English painter

1973 Bruce Lee
American actor, martial artist

1937 Guglielmo Marconi
Italian businessman, inventor, developed Marconi's law, Nobel Prize laureate

1923 Pancho Villa
Mexican general
 
On This Day In History, July 21st

2011 STS-135 lands
This space shuttle was the 135th and the last space shuttle flight of the American Space Shuttle program.

1983 Lowest temperature ever measured on Earth
Vostok Station, a Russian station in Antarctica experienced the lowest temperatures ever measured in recorded human history. The temperatures fell to −128.6 °F (−89.2 °C)

1980 Mary Eugenia Charles is elected as PM of Dominica
Her election to office made her the first female and the longest PM of the Commonwealth of Dominica. She is also the first elected female head of state in the Americas.

1977 Libyan–Egyptian War begins
This short war between Libya and Egypt started with Libya striking Egyptian cities. The war lasted for 2 days with a ceasefire on July 24.

1969 First person walks on the Moon
Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. He stepped on the Moon's surface almost 7 hours after Apollo 11, the spacecraft that carried them, landed on the Sea of Tranquillity on the Moon. After stepping on the Moon, Armstrong uttered his famous words, "One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."
 

Births On This Day, July 21st 🎂

1948 Cat Stevens
English singer-songwriter, musician

1946 Ken Starr
American lawyer, judge

1911 Marshall McLuhan
Canadian author, theorist

1899 Ernest Hemingway
American writer, Nobel Prize laureate

1693 Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom


Deaths On This Day, July 21st 🪦

2004 Jerry Goldsmith
American composer, conductor

2001 Sivaji Ganesan
Indian actor

1982 Dave Garroway
American journalist

1944 Claus von Stauffenberg
German army officer, member of the 20 July plot

1796 Robert Burns
Scottish poet
 
21st July

1545 The French invaded the Isle of Wight. However they had little local knowledge and as the attacks were expected, local forces reached the high grounds of Bembridge Down to oppose them. The event is commemorated by a plaque that reads, ’During the last invasion of this country, hundreds of French troops landed on the foreshore nearby. This armed invasion was bloodily defeated and repulsed by local militia 21st July 1545’.

1588 The Armada - an invasion fleet sent by Philip II of Spain - is sighted off the coast of Cornwall.

1897 London's Tate Gallery, built on the site of the Millbank Prison, was opened, with 67 paintings.

1976 The British Ambassador to Ireland, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, was killed by a terrorist car bomb in Dublin.

1982 The flagship of the British taskforce to the Falklands, HMS Hermes, arrived back in Portsmouth. Thousands of relatives and friends crowded the dockside to welcome home the 1,700 crew, Royal Marines and survivors of the destroyed HMS Sheffield.

2005 London's underground network was plunged into chaos after explosions on two trains and a bus - exactly a fortnight after four suicide bomb blasted the capital. All four bombs failed to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers were captured and convicte
 
1853
Central Park in NYC was created when NYS Legislature puts aside more than 750 acres of land on Mnahattan Island
1925
schoolteacher, John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in 'Scopes Monkey Trial' in Dayton,Tenn fined $100
1930
U.S. Veterans Adminstration forms
1979
National Women's Hall Of Fame honoring American women is dedicated in Seneca Falls, NY
2007
The 7th final book in the 'Harry Potter' series' Harry Potter&The Deathly Hallows' by JK Rowling is published. 11 million copies were sold worldwide in 24 hrs. The movie version was made into 2 parts 2010,2011
2021
the world's fastest train debuts a Chinese state owned maglev bullet train with speeds of 373 mph in Qaindao, China
 
On This Day In History, July 22nd

2011 Lone wolf extremist goes on a massacre in Norway
Anders Behring Breivik an anti-Islamist extremist placed a car bomb in front of the Norwegian Prime Minister's office in Oslo. A few hours after the bomb exploded, killing 8 people and injuring about 200 others, Breivik opened fire at a youth summer camp on the island of Utøya killing 69 participants. This was the deadliest incident of violence in the Scandinavian country since the Second World War.

2003 Raid in Mosul
A raid on a compound near Mosul, Iraq by United States Army 101st Airborne Division ended with the deaths of Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay and Qusay's 14-year-old son.

1983 First solo helicopter flight around the world
Australian Dick Smith became the first person to fly a helicopter around the world solo. He started his trip in August 1982 and it took him around a year to finish his trip.

1933 American aviator Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the Earth
Post landed on Floyd Bennett Field in New York 7 days after he departed alone from the same airfield in a Lockheed Vega aircraft known as Winnie Mae.

1894 World's first competitive motor race
The Paris–Rouen, Le Petit Journal Competition for Horseless Carriages was the world's first city-to-city motoring competition. Staring in Paris and ending in Rouen, the race was organized by the newspaper Le Petit Journal.
 
Births On This Day, July 22nd 🎂

1992 Selena Gomez
American actress, singer

1969 Despina Vandi
German/Greek singer, actress

1965 Shawn Michaels
American wrestler

1946 Danny Glover
American actor

1923 The Fabulous Moolah
American wrestler

Deaths On This Day, July 22nd 🪦

2007 Ulrich Mühe
German actor

1995 Harold Larwood
English cricketer

1950 William Lyon Mackenzie King
Canadian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada

1934 John Dillinger
American bank robber, murderer

1916 James Whitcomb Riley
American poet
 
On This Day In History, July 23rd

1995 Comet Hale–Bopp discovered
Also known as C/1995 O1 by the scientific community, this well-known comet was discovered independently by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp.

1992 Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia
The Republic of Abkhazia is a disputed territory of Georgia and is recognized as an independent state by only a handful of countries including Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nauru, and Tuvalu.

1982 International Whaling Commission bans commercial whale hunting
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) passed a resolution to restrict commercial whaling and ban it completely after 1986. 25 countries voted to put the restrictions and ban in place.

1972 Landsat 1 launched
The first satellite in the US's LANDSAT program, the Landsat discovered an uninhabited island off the eastern coast of Canada in 1976. The island is now called Landsat Island.

1962 First live transatlantic television signal
Telstar 1, a communications satellite relayed the world's first transatlantic television signal in the form of a show that featured Walter Cronkite.
 
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 Honor 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 Bonnie Prince Charle landed at Eriskay in the Hebrides, Scotland, to lay claim to the British throne.

1940 Britain's 'Local Defence Volunteers' become the 'Home Guard' after Winston Churchill coins the name.

1955 British speed enthusiast Donald Campbell broke the world water speed record on Ullswater, in the Lake District, when his jet-propelled hydroplane - Bluebird, reached 202.32mph.

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.

1986 Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson married at Westminster Abbey.

1995 Britain sent 1,200 troops to relieve the besieged Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.
 
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 was 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, a 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 scientists 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 States
 

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