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June 29
This Day in History...
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=952&rendTypeId=4 During a performance of William Shakespeare's Henry VIII on this day in 1613, the Globe Theatre was destroyed within an hour after its thatch was accidentally set aflame by a cannon marking the king's entrance onstage. Historic Events:
Today's Birthday: http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=65632&rendTypeId=4 Born this day in 1945 was Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, a member of a prominent Sri Lankan political family who became prime minister and then president in 1994—the first woman to serve as the country's president. Other Notables:
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On June 30, 1870, Ada H. Kepley of Effingham, IL, became America's first female law school graduate...
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On July 1, 1867, Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain...
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On July 2, 1926. the U. S. Army Air Corps was created...
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Jul 3 1989
Television actor Jim Backus, known to millions as Thurston Howell III from Gilligan's island, dies in Los Angeles of Parkinson's disease. |
On July 4, 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act, which went into effect the following year...
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On July 4, 1865, Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland under the pen name Lewis Carroll.
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Jul 4 1054
A supernova suddenly appears in the constellation Taurus. It is so bright that for the first 23 days it is visible during the day. Then it gradually fades away, finally disappearing after a year or so. Today the remnants of this star are the Crab Nebula. |
On July 5, 1946, the bikini bathing suit, designed by Louis Reard, made its debut during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris...
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On July 6, 1535, Sir Thomas More was executed in England for treason...
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On July 7, 1807, Napoleon I of France and Czar Alexander I of Russia signed a treaty at Tilset ending war between their empires...
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On July 8, 1889, The Wall Street Journal was first published...
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July 9
boxer Mike Tyson was banned from ring and fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield's ear (1997)
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On July 10, 1962, the Telstar communications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL...
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On July 11, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, NJ...
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On July 12, 100 BC, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was born...
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On July 12, 1967, a six-day riot erupted in Newark, NJ leaving 23 people dead causing $10 million in property damage, and scarred the city in ways it has yet to recover from.
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Oh ,and: War of 1812: The United States invade Canada at Windsor, Ontario on July 12th |
On July 13, 1977, a blackout lasting 25 hours hit the New York City area...
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On July 14, 1966, eight student nurses were murdered by Richard Speck in a Chicago dormitory...
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July 15
This Day in History...
Mariner 4, an unmanned space probe launched by NASA in 1964, flew by Mars and returned close-up pictures of its surface on this day in 1965, the pictures proving that the planet's rumoured canals were actually illusions. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=425&rendTypeId=4 Craters in southern Amazonis Planitia on Mars http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/midres/m04_05b.gif Historic Events:
Today's Birthday: Born this day in 1606 was Dutch painter and printmaker Rembrandt—one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, known for his exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=3732&rendTypeId=4 Portrait historié as Isaac and Rebecca (better known as The Jewish Bride), oil on canvas by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1667; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Other Notables:
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On June 16, 1969, Apollo II blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon...
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July 16th
A Capital City
http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/thc/5a5100...0/5a51187r.jpg Washington, D.C. views. Panoramic View of Washington, including U.S Capitol, Theodor Horydczak, photographer, circa 1920-1950. Washington as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959 On July 16, 1790, the Residence Act, which stipulated that the president select a site on the Potomac River as the permanent capital of the United States following a ten-year temporary residence in Philadelphia, was signed into law. In a proclamation issued on January 24, 1791, President George Washington announced the permanent location of the new capital, an area of land at the confluence of the Potomac and Eastern Branch (Anacostia) rivers that would eventually become the District of Columbia. Soon after, Washington commissioned French engineer Pierre-Charles L'Enfant to create a plan for the city. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasure...es/tlc0290.jpg Plan of the City Intended for the Permanent Seat of the Government, by Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Manuscript map on paper, 1791. American Treasures of the Library of Congress L'Enfant arrived in Georgetown on March 9, 1791, and submitted his report and plan to the president in August. It is believed that this plan is the one preserved in the Library of Congress. L'Enfant's plan was greatly influenced by the traditions of Baroque landscape architecture and his projections of a future city population of 800,000. Its scheme of broad radiating avenues connecting significant focal points, its open spaces, and its grid pattern of streets oriented north, south, east, and west is still the gold standard against which all modern land use proposals for the Nation's capital are considered. The glorious vistas and dramatic landscape of today's Washington are a result of L'Enfant's careful planning. From the steps of the U.S. Capitol one can gaze down the mall to the Washington Monument and on to the Lincoln Memorial. |
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May it prosper and cater to the masses. |
On July 17, 1821, Spain ceded Florida to the United States...
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July 18
This Day in History...
The first volume of Mein Kampf, the political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler that became the bible of Nazism in Germany's Third Reich, was published this day in 1925, and two years later the second volume appeared. Historic Events:
Today's Birthday... http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=75567&rendTypeId=4 South African black nationalist and statesman Nelson Mandela, whose long imprisonment (1962–90) and ascension to the presidency (1994–99) symbolized the aspirations of his country's black majority, was born this day in 1918. Other Notables:
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July 18
On this day in 1817, Jane Austen died, at the age of forty-one. She had been increasingly ill over the previous year and a half, probably from a hormonal disorder like Addison's Disease.
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...usten_1870.jpg Born: 16 December 1775 Steventon, Hampshire, England Died: 18 July 1817 (age 41) Winchester, Hampshire, England http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Chawton%29.jpg "Cottage" where Jane Austen lived during the last 8 years of her life (today a museum). |
On July 19, 1553, 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as Queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. King Henry VIII's daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen...
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On July 20, 1976, America's Viking I robot spacecraft made a first-ever landing on Mars...
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On July 21, 1944, American forces landed on Guam during World War II...
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On July 22, 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater...
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On July 23, 1952, Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser launched a successful coup against King Farouk...
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On July 24, 1866, Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War...
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I heard the news today ...on July 24, 1965 the Beach Boys released their song "California Girls"
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On July 25, 1952, Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States...
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On July 26, 1947, President Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
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On July 27, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee voted 27 - 11 to recommend President Nixon's impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a "course of conduct" designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case...
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On this day in 1890, Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in a wheat field outside Auvers-sur-Oise, in France; he died two days later, at the age of thirty-seven.
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On July 28, 1945, a U. S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building, killing 14 people...
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On July 29, 1890, artist Vincent van Gogh, 37, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers-sur-Oise, France...
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