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Also on June 27th in 1915, Ft. Yukon, Alaska (a little above 66º North Latitude) recorded a temperature of 100º Fahrenheit. It still stands as the record high temp for the state of Alaska. Frankly, I find that a little hard to believe. But today is 64º and tomorrow forecast at 76º so who knows.
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On June 28, 1951, "Amos ’n’ Andy" moved to CBS-TV from radio...
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On June 29th in 1995, the shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
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Also on June 29, 1767, the British Parliament approved the Townshend Revenue Acts. The acts imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea shipped to America...
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On June 30, 1953, the first Corvette rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line in Flint, MI. It sold for $3,250...
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On July 1, 1862, the U.S. Congress established the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
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On July 2, 1566, French astrologer, physician and prophet Nostradamus died...
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On July 3, 1972, Jim Morrison died in Paris...
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On July 4th in 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.
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Also on July 4, 1957, the U.S. Postal Service issued the 4¢ Flag stamp...
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On July 5, 1916, Adelina and August Van Buren started on the first successful transcontinental motorcycle tour to be attempted by two women. They started in New York City and arrived in San Diego, CA, on September 12, 1916...
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on the 4th of july, i know it was yesterday... people invented planking
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On July 6, 1919, a British dirigible landed in New York at Roosevelt Field. It completed the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship...
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Also on July 6th, in 1962 William Faulkner, author of As I Lay Dying, died.
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On July 7, 1949, "Dragnet" was first heard on NBC radio...
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Also on July 7th in 1981, President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court.
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On July 8, 1776, Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the U.S. Declaration of Independence to a crowd at Independence Square in Philadelphia...
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On July 9, 1847, a 10-hour work day was established for workers in the state of New Hampshire...
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On July 10, 1900, ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Recording Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine...
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On July 11, 1960, in Honolulu, HI, the first tournament held outside the continental U.S., sanctioned by the U.S. Golf Association, began...
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On July 12th in 1984, Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announced he had chosen U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running mate; Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.
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Also on July 12, 1912, the first foreign-made film to premiere in America, "Queen Elizabeth", was shown...
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On July 14th in 1965, the American space probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars, sending back photographs of the planet.
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Also on July 14, 1789, the French Revolution began with Parisians stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside...
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On July 15, 1870, Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union...
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Also on July 15th in 1918, the Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I.
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july 15th 1980 Johnny Bench hits his 314th home run as a catcher breaks Yogi Berra's record
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On July 16, 1926, the first underwater color photographs appeared in "National Geographic" magazine. The pictures had been taken near the Florida Keys...
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Hey Phil, what photo?
Also on July 16th in 1918, Russia’s Czar Nicholas II, his empress and their five children were executed by the Bolsheviks. |
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Also on July 16th, in 1945 the first atomic bomb exploded in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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On July 17, 1941, Brigadier General Soervell directed Architect G. Edwin Bergstrom to have basic plans and architectural perspectives for an office building that could house 40,000 War Department employees on his desk by the following Monday morning. The building became known as the Pentagon...
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Also on July 17th in 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind.
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On July 18, 1969, Mary Jo Kopechne died...
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Also on July 18th in 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as Gen. Francisco Franco led an uprising of army troops based in Spanish North Africa.
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On July 19, 1799, the Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was found in Egypt...
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Also on July 19th in 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his “V for Victory” campaign in Europe.
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On July 20th in 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon when he stepped out of the lunar module.
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Also on July 20, 1801, a 1,235 pound cheese ball was pressed at the farm of Elisha Brown, Jr. The ball of cheese was later loaded on a horse-driven wagon and presented to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson at the White House...
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On July 21st in 1925, the so-called “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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