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On July 8, 1950, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea.
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Also on July 8, 1951, Anjelica Huston was born...
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On July 9th, 1776 The Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.
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On July 10, 1940, during World War II, the 114-day Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces began attacking southern England by air. By late October, Britain managed to repel the Luftwaffe, which suffered heavy losses.
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Also on July 10, 1980, Jessica Simpson was born...
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Also on July 12th, 1974- John Ehrlichman, a former aide to President Richard Nixon, and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist.
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Also on July 13, 1977, a 25-hour blackout hit the New York City area after lightning struck upstate power lines.
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July 14
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http://content.answers.com/main/cont...bs/3551888.jpg A famous American saying goes, "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" Tom Carvel set up the first permanent ice-cream stand in 1934, when the truck from which he had been selling the frozen treat had a flat tire near a pottery store in New York. He sold his ice cream from that spot — off the back of his truck — for two years, until he finally bought the store in 1936 and turned it into an ice-cream parlor. That same year, he developed a formula for soft serve ice cream. In 1947, Carvel set up his first franchise, and, soon after, he ran a series of franchising seminars, nicknamed "Sundae School." Carvel was born on this date in 1906. |
Also on July 14th, 1789- During the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside.
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You mean to say, that for the past 12 years, I've been celebrating Bastille Day a day too late?
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On July 15th, 1916- William Boeing founded Pacific Aero Products, the forerunner of the Boeing Co., in Seattle.
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Also on July 15, 1963, Brigitte Nielsen was born...
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Also on July 17, 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind.
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Also on July 18th, 1984- A gunman opened fire at a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif., killing 21 people before being shot dead by police.
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Also on July 19th, 1969- Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.
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On July 20, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.
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On July 21, 1925, the ''monkey trial'' ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.)
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July 21
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What American high school student hasn't at one time found The Old Man and the Sea on his English class syllabus? In an effort to understand the meaning behind the story, most of these same high school students read the annotated notes, which were usually longer than the book itself. Ernest Hemingway won a Pulitzer Prize for the book in 1953, and a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 — the latter, for the body of his work, but especially for his novella about a fisherman who struggles to bring in a giant marlin. Hemingway, who was born on this date in 1899, said of the meaning behind the tale, "There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The sharks are all sharks, no better and no worse... What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know." http://img2.allposters.com/images/LIFPOD/1049395.jpg "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." — Ernest Hemingway |
On July 22, 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents in Chicago.
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July 22
This Day in History...
They're alike as two peas in a pod. Gregor Mendel wouldn't have said that. Born on this date in 1822, Mendel was a monk who liked to spend his spare time experimenting with garden peas and other plants. He planted and grew some 30,000 different pea plants, analyzing their height, size, color and pod shape. He cross-pollinated them and noted the results. By observing and analyzing, he determined that hereditary factors and genes are responsible for many of the characteristics of the different kinds of peas. Though he expected to prove that a plant was a merging of both parent plants — in other words, a tall plant and a short plant would produce a medium-sized one — he, in fact, determined that sometimes the physical characteristics of one of the plants were dominant, while those of the other parent plant were recessive. http://content.answers.com/main/cont...bs/3990141.jpg |
On July 23, 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to World War I
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On July 24, 1959, during a visit to the Soviet Union, Vice President Richard M. Nixon got into a discussion at a U.S. exhibition with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that was dubbed the ''kitchen debate.''
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July 24
This Day in History...
* Detroit: La Ville d'Etroit, or "city of the strait," was founded by Antoine de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, a French fur trader (1701) * Brigham Young: seeking a safe haven, the Mormon leader and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake, in what is now Utah (1847) * kitchen debate: US vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev debated the merits of capitalism vs. communism in a replica of an American kitchen, set up at the American National Exhibition in Moscow (1959) * Watergate: the US Supreme Court ordered President Richard Nixon to turn over incriminating subpoenaed White House recordings (1974) * Lance Armstrong: American cyclist won his record-breaking seventh consecutive Tour de France (2005) |
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