This day in history.....

June 29th


1613: The original Globe Theatre in London burns down accidentally when a cannon discharged during a performance of William Shakespeare's Henry VIII sets fire to the building's thatched roof.


1916: For his role in seeking German help for the Easter Rebellion in Ireland, Irish nationalist and longtime British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is executed by Britain for treason.


1940: Painter Paul Klee dies at age 60, succumbing to the skin and muscle disease that forced him to adopt a simpler style in his final works.

1954: The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission refuses to reinstate the security clearance of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb," citing his past ties to Communists.


1956: At the U.S. Olympic Trials in Los Angeles, Glenn Davis breaks the 50-second barrier in the 400-meter hurdles on the same day that Charles Dumas becomes the first man to high jump seven feet.

1956: The U.S. Congress passes the Federal Highway Act, which provides for the construction of 68,000 km (42,500 mi) of interstate highways, based on a plan announced by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in June 1954.
 
July 10th


1890: Wyoming is admitted to the Union as the 44th state.


1892: The violent strike of steelworkers at Carnegie Steel's Homestead works ends when the state militia disperses the strikers. Four days earlier, company guards had shot into the picketers, starting a riot.

1913: The National Weather Service records a temperature of 57°C (134° F) in California's Death Valley, the highest temperature ever measured in the United States.


1925: The so-called Monkey Trial of teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution begins in Dayton, Tennessee. The trial matches nationally famous lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan.


1953: Four months after the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet leaders arrest Lavrenty Beria, his longtime head of security. Beria is executed later that year for treason.


1999: After playing to a scoreless tie through regulation and overtime, the U.S. women's soccer team defeats China in a shootout, 5 goals to 4, to win their second World Cup.
 
July 11th


1766: Olaudah Equiano, author of one of the first autobiographical slave narratives, buys his freedom from slavery in the West Indies.


1804: Former U.S. vice president Aaron Burr shoots his political rival Alexander Hamilton, the former treasury secretary, in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. Hamilton dies the next day.


1905: W. E. B. Du Bois, Monroe Trotter, and other prominent African Americans meet in Niagara Falls to found the Niagara Movement to demand full citizenship rights for African Americans.


1979: Skylab, the first American space station, reenters the Earth's atmosphere after over six years in space, disintegrating over the Indian Ocean and Australia.

1987: The world population reaches 5 billion, double the number of people on the planet in 1950.


1996: The UN War Crimes Tribunal issues international arrest warrants for Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. The tribunal indicted the two on charges of war crimes and genocide in 1995.
 
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.
 
*Here ya go Inky, now there's something to see. :kiss:


July 17th


1453: The Hundred Years' War between England and France ends with the English defeat at the Battle of Castillon in France.


1941: After hitting in a record 56 consecutive games, Joe DiMaggio is held hitless by the Cleveland Indians. The next day, he begins another hitting streak of 16 games.


1945: Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meet at the beginning of the Potsdam Conference, which will determine the details of the Allied occupation of Germany.


1948: The States' Rights Party, a group of southern Democrats who oppose the civil rights program of the Democratic Party, nominates South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond for president at their convention.


1955: Disneyland, created by Walt Disney, opens in Anaheim, California.

1975: American and Soviet spacecraft link in space for the first time when the American Apollo spacecraft docks onto the Soviet Soyuz 19.

1979: As Sandinista rebels prepare to take over Nicaragua, dictator Anastasio Somoza flees the country, ending his family's 43-year reign in the country.
 
July 18th


1863: Nearly half of the men in the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry, one of the first black U.S. Army regiments, are killed or wounded in an assault on Confederate Fort Wagner in South Carolina.


1936: Led by generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola, a rebellion of the army against the Spanish Second Republic begins the Spanish Civil War.


1969: Senator Edward Kennedy drives his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. Although his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowns, he fails to report the accident until the following morning.


1999: Golfer Paul Lawrie wins the British Open despite beginning the last round 10 shots behind, after Jean Van de Velde blows a three-shot lead on the final hole.


64: Two-thirds of the city of Rome burns. The emperor Nero rebuilds the city afterward but remains unpopular and is driven from Rome four years later.
 
July 20th


1871: The province of British Columbia joins the Dominion of Canada.


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 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 30

1619: The Virginia House of Burgesses, the first representative assembly in the American colonies, opens in Jamestown, Virginia.

1866: During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, over thirty African Americans are killed in New Orleans by whites rioting against extending voting rights to blacks.


1935: The first Penguin paperback book is published, an early step in the paperback revolution that would take off after World War II.

1963: The Soviet news service reports that British intelligence officer Kim Philby, recently revealed as a longtime Soviet spy, has defected to the USSR.


1965: President Lyndon Johnson signs legislation creating the Medicare system, which establishes limited medical benefits for people 65 years of age or over.
 
August 1st


1291: The cantons of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden form a protective confederation that will become the nation of Switzerland.

1834: The Emancipation Act abolishes slavery throughout the British Empire.


1944: With Soviet armies approaching the city from the east, the resistance movement in Warsaw, Poland, begins an uprising against the German occupation. The Germans crush the rebellion by October.


1954: The Yangtze River floods in China, killing 40,000 people and forcing 10 million others to leave their homes.


1978: Baseball player Pete Rose's hitting streak of 44 consecutive games, which tied the National League record, comes to an end.


1981: Music Television (MTV) debuts on the air with the video of the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star."
 
August 2nd


1622: Nathaniel Butter and William Sheffard publish Newes from Most Parts of Christendom, the first regular newspaper printed in England. Because of political restrictions, it covers mainly foreign news.


1876: Frontier lawman Wild Bill Hickok is shot from behind while playing poker in a Deadwood, South Dakota, saloon. Hickock's final hand, pairs of aces and eights, becomes known as the "dead man's hand."


1923: President Warren G. Harding dies in San Francisco, four days after collapsing from an embolysm. Vice President Calvin Coolidge is sworn in to succeed him the next day.


1939: Albert Einstein, representing fellow physicists who have discovered that an atomic bomb could be built from uranium, urges President Franklin D. Roosevelt to promote such research before Germany does.


1943: A Japanese destroyer rams a U.S. Navy PT boat commanded by John F. Kennedy. Kennedy and the other survivors swim for hours to a nearby island and are rescued four days later.


1990: Shortly after midnight, 150,000 Iraqi troops invade neighboring Kuwait, capturing the capital city by dawn. The Iraqis will be driven from Kuwait in February at the end of the Persian Gulf War.
 
Aug 4th




1809: Prince Metternich, who will dominate European affairs for much of the next four decades, becomes foreign minister of the Austrian Habsburg empire.


1914: Britain enters World War I by declaring war on Germany after Germany refuses to honor the neutrality of Belgium.


1944: In Amsterdam, Nazi officers arrest 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank and four other Jews in the annex where they have been hiding for two years. Frank will die in the Belsen concentration camp the next year.


1964: Over a month after their disappearance was reported, the bodies of three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman, are unearthed in Philadelphia, Mississippi.


1964: U.S. warships in the Gulf of Tonkin report an attack by North Vietnam. The unconfirmed report, along with an earlier encounter, leads Congress to approve U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
 
August 9th


1848: The Free-Soil Party, a third party organized to oppose the further extension of slavery into American territories, nominates former president Martin Van Buren for president.


1870: The British Parliament passes the Married Women's Property Act, which grants women limited control over property they bring into a marriage and income they earn outside the home.


1945: The U.S. bomber Bock's Car drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, destroying a third of the city and killing 40,000 people, according to U.S. estimates. Japan's government surrenders 5 days later.


1971: The British government in Northern Ireland begins the practice, known as internment, of imprisoning suspected antigovernment guerrillas without trial.


1974: President Richard Nixon, facing impeachment by Congress for his role in Watergate, resigns at noon. Vice President Gerald Ford is sworn in to succeed him.


378: In the battle of Adrianople, Gothic horsemen destroy the attacking Roman forces led by Emperor Valens. The Goths kill an estimated 20,000 of the 30,000 Romans, including Valens.
 
August 16th


1819: In what becomes known as the Peterloo Massacre, 11 people die when government calvary troops attack a large crowd demonstrating for economic and political reform in Manchester, England.


1906: An earthquake measuring at 8.6 on the Richter scale virtually destroys the city of Valparaiso, Chile, killing thousands of people.


1948: Baseball slugger Babe Ruth dies at the age of 53 in New York City.


1960: The island of Cyprus, led by its newly elected president, Archbishop Makarios, declares its independence from Britain.


1977: Singer Elvis Presley, age 42, is found dead at his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.


1981: American swimmer Mary T. Meagher sets a world record of 57.93 sec for the 100-meter butterfly, three days after setting the world 200-meter butterfly mark.
 
August 20th


1794: At the Battle of Fallen Timbers on the Ohio frontier, General Anthony Wayne shatters an army of recalcitrant Native Americans, thereby clearing the way for settlement of the Old Northwest.


1940: Exiled Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico City by a Spanish Communist, under the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.


1968: In response to the reforms in Czechoslavakia known as Prague Spring, Warsaw Pact forces led by the Soviet Union invade Czechoslavakia to reestablish a state loyal to the Soviets.

1977: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which will explore the outer planets before leaving the solar system, carrying with it a phonograph record of human civilization.

1980: Austrian Reinhold Messner becomes the first solo climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest.


1988: Iran and Iraq agree to an United Nations-sponsored cease fire, ending their eight-year war.
 
August 24th


1572: King Charles IX of France, under the influence of his mother, Catherine de Médicis, orders the mass killing of Huguenots, as the Protestants in France were known, in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.


1814: In the last months of the War of 1812, British forces invade Washington, D.C., where they set fire to the Capitol and the White House.


1940: Australian-born British pathologist Howard Florey and German-born British biochemist Ernst Chain announce in The Lancet that they have developed penicillin for general clinical use as an antibiotic.


1989: Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti suspends Cincinnati Reds manager and former star player Pete Rose for life for gambling on baseball.


1992: Hurricane Andrew devastates southern Florida, causing $20 billion of property damage and killing 41 people.


79: Italian volcano Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying the cities of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabaie in ashes and mud.
 
Mare said:
1989: Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti suspends Cincinnati Reds manager and former star player Pete Rose for life for gambling on baseball.
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In light of todays stars juicing and setting records, gambling seems minor...To me at least....
 
Sept. 5th


1774: Delegates from all of the 13 American colonies except Georgia meet as the First Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


1877: Oglala Sioux leader Crazy Horse is killed by a U.S. soldier while in custody, allegedly after he resists his confinement.


1905: Russia and Japan sign the Treaty of Portsmouth in New Hampshire, ending the Russo-Japanese War. The treaty gives the victorious Japanese a territorial stake on the Asian mainland.


1916: D. W. Griffith's epic motion picture Intolerance opens in New York City.


1957: Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, based on Kerouac's friendship with Neal Cassidy, is published. The novel becomes one of the best known works of the Beat Generation.


1972: At the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, Palestinian terrorists murder 11 members of the Israeli Olympic delegation in a hostage-taking attempt that ends in a firefight with German police.
 
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