Today in History

16th July

1377 The Coronation of Richard II, aged 10. He was king of England until he was deposed in 1399.

1439 King Henry VI of England was desperate to save his country against a force he was near powerless to stop. As the body count increased and the crisis worsened, his administration struck back by introducing a ban…on kissing. England fought the Bubonic Plague, also known as the Black Death.

1945 The leaders of the three Allied nations (Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman and Josef Stalin) gathered in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

1969 The Apollo 11 mission, carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, launched on its historic journey to the Moon.
 

1790
Congress declares Washington, DC as the permanent captial of United States
1880
Dr. Emily Snow becomes the 1st woman to practice medicine in Canada
1935
1st automatic parking meter in the U.S. is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1951
author, J.D. Salingers' novel' Catcher in the Rye' is published by Little Brown & Co, the book has sold over 65 million copies
1969
Apollo 11 with U.S. astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin &Michael Collins 1st to land on the moon
Aldrin is the remaining astronaut still alive age 95
1999
JOhn F. Kennedy, Jr, his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy,her sister in law, Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off coast of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. John was the pilot of the Piper Saratoga aircraft
2017
Swiss tennis player, Roger Federer wins his record setting 8th Wimbledon men's title, defeating Marin Cilic, 6-3,6-1, 6-4
 
July 17th

1717 King George I sailed down the River Thames for a concert, in a barge with 50 musicians. It was the premiere of Frideric Handel's Water Music which George I was said to have enjoyed so much that he made the exhausted musicians play the three suites three times over the course of the outing.
 
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, and actress

1918 Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by 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 19th

1903 The first Tour de France comes to an end
Maurice Garin became the first person to win the debut of the now annual bike race.

1900 Paris Metro opens
One of the densest metros in the world and the second largest metro in Europe, the first line of the Paris Metro opened during the World's Fair.

1870 Franco-Prussian War starts
The war involving France, under Napoleon and the Kingdom of Prussia began with French declaration of war. The war lasted for 9 months and ended with a German victory.

1848 Seneca Falls Convention begins
One of the first women's rights convention to be held in American history, the two-day convention attracted 300 women and men who protested the social, economic, and political discrimination American women faced.

1553 Mary I replaces Lady Jane Grey as Queen of England
Also known as Bloody Mary due to her brutal persecution of Protestants, Mary I was the only child of Catherine of Aragon and Henry III.
 
Births On This Day, July 19th 🎂

1922 George McGovern
American politician, historian, and author

1921 Harold Camping
American broadcaster, author

1834 Edgar Degas
French painter

1827 Mangal Pandey
Indian freedom fighter

1814 Samuel Colt
American inventor and industrialist who founded the Colt Manufacturing Company

Deaths On This Day, July 19th 🪦

2012 Omar Suleiman
Egyptian politician, Vice President of Egypt

2002 Alan Lomax
American historian, author, scholar

1980 Hans Morgenthau
German philosopher

1543 Mary Boleyn
English sister of Anne Boleyn

1374 Petrarch
Italian scholar, poet
 
July 19th


1919 Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen, unhappy with unemployment and other grievances, rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall. During the riot people broke into Farmers Music Shop and dragged pianos into the streets for dancing and singing, including, ironically 'Keep the home fires burning'. The mayor at the time, Henry Impey was smuggled out of Luton never to return.
 
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On This Day In History, July 20th

2012 Aurora shooting
A gunman, James Holmes, opened fire in a movie theater 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 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.

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.
 
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
 
July 20th

1837
www.beautifulbritain.co.uk
London’s first railway station opened, in Euston Grove. The new Euston station was described as ‘mightier than the pyramids of Egypt’.
 
On This Day In History, July 21t

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 on 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 space craft that carried them, landed on the Sea of Traquility 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
 
July 21st

1545 French invaded the Isle of Wight. However the French had little local knowledge and as the attacks were expected, local forces reached the high grounds of Bembridge Down to oppose them. The French had a long history of attacking the Island and this was their last attempt at capture.
 
21st July

1403 In the Battle of Shrewsbury, King Henry IV defeated rebels led by Henry 'Hotspur' Percy from Northumberland. For the first time on English soil, massed troops of archers faced each and demonstrated "the deadliness of the longbow".

1925 Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first man to break the 150 mph land barrier, at Pendine Sands, Wales when he drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph.

1931 A Bill proposing the sterilisation of the mentally defective was defeated in the House of Commons.

1972 'Bloody Friday' bombings by the Provisional IRA around Belfast in Northern Ireland killed 9 and seriously injuring 130. In all, 22 bombs were detonated.

1974 Cyprus conflict spilled into London. Thousands of Greek-Cypriots in London protested about the disputed government of Cyprus.

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

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