This day in history.....

July 12th


1906: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus, found guilty of treason in a case that divided French society at the turn of the century, is cleared of the charges. Soon after, he is awarded the Legion of Honor.

1974: Former Nixon White House adviser John D. Ehrlichman is convicted of a charge connected with his supervision of the "plumbers," a covert group aimed at stopping press leaks.

1984: Geraldine Ferraro becomes the first woman on a major-party presidential ticket in the U.S. when Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale chooses the New York congresswoman to be his running mate.

1990: Boris Yeltsin, chairman of the Russian congress of deputies, announces to a meeting of the Soviet Communist Party that he is resigning from the party.

1998: Led by two goals by midfielder Zinedine Zidane, host country France wins the soccer World Cup 3-0 over Brazil, the defending champion.
 
July 20th


1871: The province of British Columbia joins the Dominion of Canada.
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1881: Sioux leader Sitting Bull surrenders to the U.S. Army under a promise of amnesty.


1944: A bomb meant to assassinate German dictator Adolf Hitler explodes at his headquarters, killing four. Hitler survives, and the senior military staff who conspired against him are executed.


1954: An agreement between France and the Vietminh forces led by Ho Chi Minh ends the First Indochina War. The agreement calls for a temporary partition of the country into North and South Vietnam.

1969: U.S. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin land on the moon, where Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the moon's surface.


1989: The military regime of Myanmar puts Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the opposition movement to restore democracy in the country, under house arrest.
 
July 21st


1773: Pope Clement XIV dissolves the Jesuit order of priests. The ban remains in effect until 1814, when the Jesuits are revived by Pope Pius VII.


1861: Confederate general Thomas Jackson acquires his nickname "Stonewall" in the Confederate Army's convincing victory in the first Battle of Bull Run.


1925: A Tennessee jury finds high school teacher John Scopes guilty of teaching evolution, and he is fined $100.


1960: Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes prime minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the first woman prime minister in the world. She holds the position for the majority of the next two decades.


1970: Egypt completes the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River, a major Soviet-funded project that creates Lake Nasser and provides much of the country's electrical power.
 
Mare said:
July 21st


1925: A Tennessee jury finds high school teacher John Scopes guilty of teaching evolution, and he is fined $100. .
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Aah yes, the Scopes "Monkey" trial.... now THAT opened up a big'ol can of worms.
 
Mare said:
July 21st

1925: A Tennessee jury finds high school teacher John Scopes guilty of teaching evolution, and he is fined $100.
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Of course nowadays, if they don't teach evolution and/or try to teach anything else, they lose their job. Man, we sure have changed our collective minds on things, huh?

Mare said:
1861: Confederate general Thomas Jackson acquires his nickname "Stonewall" in the Confederate Army's convincing victory in the first Battle of Bull Run.
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Too little too soon sadly. My oh my how different things could have been. :crying4:
 
July 22

Mare's "D" Day!


1917: Aleksandr Kerensky is named prime minister of the Russian Provisional Government established after the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II. He only lasts in office until the Bolshevik revolution that fall.

1933: In his monoplane, the Winnie Mae, American aviator Wiley Post completes the first solo around-the-world flight. The flight takes him 7 days, 18 hr, 49 min.

1934: Bank robber John Dillinger, labeled by the FBI as "public enemy number one," is gunned down by federal agents as he leaves the Biograph Theater in Chicago.


1937: President Franklin Roosevelt suffers his first major legislative defeat when the U.S. Senate rejects his bid to expand the Supreme Court.


1977: The Chinese Communist Party expels the “Gang of Four,” who had tried to seize power after the death of Mao Zedong. Deng Xiaoping is reinstated as deputy premier.
 
July 23rd


1548: Mary, Queen of Scots, aged six, leaves Scotland for her arranged future marriage to the French dauphin Francis.


1858: The British government removes the restriction that prevents Jews from serving in Parliament, which allows Lionel Nathan Rothschild to join the House of Commons.


1900: The first Pan-African Congress in London, organized by Henry Sylvester Williams, draws delegates from Africa, North America, the Caribbean, and Europe. W. E. B. Du Bois gives the keynote address.

1952: The Free Officers, a revolutionary group led by Gamal Abdel Nasser, ousts Egypt's King Faruk I in a coup. Nasser himself comes to power two years later.


1967: A police raid of an after-hours bar in Detroit, Michigan, sparks rioting by African Americans in the city. Forty-three people are killed in the riots.

1996: Kerri Strug clinches the Olympic gold medal for the U.S. women's gymnastics team when she makes a final vault despite having torn ligaments in her ankle in a previous vault.
 
July24th


1701: The French trader Antoine de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, founds Detroit (originally La Ville d'Etroit, “city of the strait”) to control the fur trade in the region.


1847: American religious leader Brigham Young and his followers arrive in the Great Salt Lake Valley, where they found the settlement that becomes Salt Lake City.


1866: In an early step in Reconstruction, the process of rebuilding the United States after the Civil War, Tennessee becomes the first Confederate state readmitted to the Union after the war.


1959: Vice President Richard Nixon, while visiting a model kitchen in a U.S. exhibition in Moscow, holds an impromptu debate with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev about the merits of communism and capitalism.


1974: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President Richard Nixon must turn over his tapes of White House conversations regarding the Watergate scandal to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski.


1983: Tipped off by opposition manager Billy Martin, umpires nullify a home run hit by George Brett against the New York Yankees, ruling that the amount of pine tar on Brett's bat violates baseball rules.
 
Mare said:
1701: The French trader Antoine de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, founds Detroit (originally La Ville d'Etroit, “city of the strait”) to control the fur trade in the region.
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Many would say it's been all downhill since. :D
 
Steve McCroskey: Jacobs, I want to know absolutely everything that's happened up 'till now.

Jacobs: Well, let's see: First the earth cooled. And, then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died, and they turned into oil. And, then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And, Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it, he took her best summer dress out of the closet, and put it on, and went to town.
 
Also on July 24th
Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1783.

Not that I expect most of you know who he was :p
 
Witness: Striker was the squadron leader. He brought us in real low. But he couldn't handle it.
Prosecutor: Buddy couldn't handle it? Was Buddy one of your crew?
Witness: Right. Buddy was the bombardier. But it was Striker who couldn't handle it, and he went to pieces.
Prosecutor: *Andy* went to pieces?
Witness: No. Andy was the navigator. He was all right. Buddy went to pieces. It was awful how he came unglued.
Prosecutor: *Howie* came unglued?
Witness: Oh, no. Howie was a rock, the best tailgunner in the outfit. Buddy came unglued.
Prosecutor: And he bailed out?
Witness: No. Andy hung tough. Buddy bailed out. How he survived, it was a miracle.
Prosecutor: Then Howie survived?
Witness: No, 'fraid not. We lost Howie the next day.
Prosecutor: Over Macho Grande?
Witness: No. I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande.
 
Luis G said:
Simon Bolivar... not that I expect most of you know who he was :p
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Well I can tell you that right now you's gots a fricken commie bastardo running Venezuela!

Don't make U.S. come down there and straighten this shit out!

And don’t remind me you live in Mess-co

It takes a village to raise up a third world sub-continent!
 
July 25th


1261: Michael VIII Palaeologus recovers the city of Constantinople and is crowned Byzantine emperor there, restoring Greek control over the Byzantine Empire after a half century of Latin rule.


1895: Pierre Curie marries fellow chemist Marie Sklodowska. The two researchers will share the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903 for their work on radioactivity.


1929: Pope Pius XI makes the first public appearance by a pope outside the Vatican since 1870.


1978: Louise Joy Brown, the world's first "test-tube" baby, is born in England. She is the product of in vitro fertilization, in which the mother's egg is fertilized outside of her body.


1997: K. R. Narayanan is sworn in as president of India, becoming the first member of India's Dilit or "untouchable" caste to lead the country.


1999: American cyclist Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France, bicycle racing's top event, less than three years after being diagnosed with testicular cancer.
 
July 26th


1847: Liberia, a West African colony formed to resettle freed American slaves, declares its independence, becoming the first independent republic in Africa.

1945: A landslide victory for the opposition Labour Party in British elections near the end of World War II forces wartime prime minister Winston Churchill to resign. He is succeeded by Clement Attlee.

1948: U.S. president Harry Truman signs executive orders that require the racial integration of the American armed forces and ban discrimination in federal employment.

1952: Eva Perón, the popular wife, known as Evita, of Argentine president Juan Perón, dies of cancer at the age of 33.

1953: Rebel leader Fidel Castro leads a failed assault on Cuban army barracks in Santiago de Cuba. The date of the raid gives Castro's 26th of July guerrilla movement its name.

1956: Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser announces the nationalization of the Suez Canal. On July 31 Britain, France, and the United States retaliate with financial sanctions.
 
July 27th


1694: The Bank of England is founded by Parliament with capital of £1.2 million to fund the siege of Namur in the Spanish Netherlands. William Pateson is appointed the first governor.


1866: An operation organized by American financier Cyrus West Field completes the first Atlantic cable allowing regular telegraph communication between the United States and Europe.

1921: In search of a treatment for diabetes, Canadian physiologists Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best are the first to isolate the hormone insulin.


1940: Bugs Bunny makes his film debut in the Warner Brothers cartoon, "A Wild Hare," directed by Tex Avery.

1953: The United Nations, North Korea, and China sign an armistice agreement ending the Korean War and creating a demilitarized buffer zone between North and South Korea. South Korea refuses to sign the accord.


1996: On the same day that a bomb explodes in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, killing one person, Canada's Donovan Bailey wins the men's 100 meters, setting a new world record of 9.84 seconds.
 
July 28th



1750: German organist and composer Johann Sebastian Bach dies at the age of 65, after a failed eye operation.


1794: French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre, who had executed many others during the Reign of Terror, dies at the guillotine himself after revolutionary leaders tire of his extremism.


1868: The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, giving full citizenship to African Americans and applying civil rights protections to states and the federal government.


1932: Federal troops under General Douglas MacArthur drive the so-called Bonus Army, veterans of World War I who sought the payment of a delayed bonus, out of their encampment in Washington, D.C.

1945: A B-25 bomber, lost in low clouds, crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building, killing 14.


1976: Two earthquakes, one measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale, hit Tangshan, China, killing over 240,000 people.
 
1932: Federal troops under General Douglas MacArthur drive the so-called Bonus Army, veterans of World War I who sought the payment of a delayed bonus, out of their encampment in Washington, D.C.
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Sing it with me now...

And I'm proud to be an American
Where at least I know I'm free...

God bless the USA.
 
July 28th in History

July 28th in History
1851: First ever photograph of a total eclipse of the Sun made
1858: Fingerprints first used as a means of identification, in France
1914: The first World War begins when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia


July 28th birthdays
1866: Beatrix Potter, English author
1887: Marcel Duchamp, French artist

1943 - Richard Wright (Pink Floyd)
 
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