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Also on July 21, 1930, the Veterans’ Administration of the United States was established...
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On July 22nd in 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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Also on July 22, 1926, Babe Ruth caught a baseball at Mitchell Field in New York. The ball had been dropped from an airplane flying at 250 feet...
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On July 23rd in 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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Also on July 23, 1904, the ice cream cone was invented by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, MO...
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On July 24th in 1959, during a visit to the Soviet Union, Vice President Richard M. Nixon got into a “kitchen debate” with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at a United States exhibition.
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Also on July 24, 1948, Soviet occupation forces in Germany blockaded West Berlin. The U.S.-British airlift began the following day...
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On July 25th in 1956, the Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, killing 51 people
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Also on July 25, 1861, the Crittenden Resolution, which called for the American Civil War to be fought to preserve the Union and not for slavery, was passed by the U.S. Congress...
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On June 12, 1898 the Philippines got its independence.
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On July 26, 1881, Thomas Edison and Patrick Kenny execute a patent application for a facsimile telegraph (U.S. Pat. 479,184)...
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Also on July 26th in 1947, President Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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On July 27, 1964, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson sent an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam...
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Also on July 27th in 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.
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On July 28th in 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. World War I began as declarations of war by other European nations quickly followed.
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Also on July 28, 1945, a U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York City's Empire State Building. 14 people were killed and 26 were injured...
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On July 29th in 1981, Britain’s Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.
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Also on July 29, 1914, the first transcontinental telephone service was inaugurated when two people held a conversation between New York, NY and San Francisco, CA...
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On July 30, 1974, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to impeach President Nixon for blocking the Watergate investigation and for abuse of power...
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Also on July 30th in 1945, the USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Only 316 out of 1,196 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters.
You can get a quick history lesson on this by watching the movie "Jaws." |
And in Mexico, on July 30th 2003, the last Volkswagen Beetle rolled of the assembly line.
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On July 31st in 1964, the American space probe Ranger 7 transmitted pictures of the moon’s surface.
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Also on July 31, 1792, the cornerstone of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, PA, was laid. It was the first building to be used only as a U.S. government building...
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