History of July

During the month of July the following events have happened in our world's history.

July 01, 1535 - Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason
July 01, 1690 - Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats former Roman Catholic king James II in the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland
July 01, 1776 - 1st vote on the Declaration of Independence
July 01, 1823 - United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico.
July 01, 1847 - Amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers his second asteroid Hebe
July 01, 1847 - 1st adhesive US postage stamps go on sale
July 01, 1847 - US issues its 1st postage stamps.
July 01, 1850 - At least 626 ships lying at anchor around SF Bay
July 01, 1861 - 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington and Mason Streets S.F.
July 01, 1862 - Congress outlaws polygamy; bad news for Utah.
July 01, 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg Pa.; Lee's northward advance halted.
July 01, 1867 - Dominion of Canada formed from N.Bruns. N.Scotia Ontario & Qu‚bec.
July 01, 1873 - Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province.
July 01, 1898 - Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
July 01, 1899 - SF City Hall turned over to city after 29 years of building
July 01, 1916 - Eisenhower married Mary ``Mamie'' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo
July 01, 1919 - 1st class postage drops to 2› from 3›.
July 01, 1932 - NY Gov FDR nominated for president at the Dem Convention in Chicago
July 01, 1941 - 1st coml TV license granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS) NYC
July 01, 1941 - DiMaggio ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak
July 01, 1943 - 1st withholding tax from paychecks
July 01, 1944 - Bretton Woods Conference starts establishing IMF and World Bank.
July 01, 1959 - World Refugee Year
July 01, 1960 - Italian Somalia gains independence unites with Somali Republic.
July 01, 1960 - Ghana becomes a republic.
July 01, 1961 - Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii
July 01, 1962 - Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days).
July 01, 1963 - Beatles record "She Loves You"
July 01, 1966 - Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART
July 01, 1966 - Medicare goes into effect.
July 01, 1968 - US Britain USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
July 01, 1969 - Charles Philip Arthur George invested as the Prince of Wales
July 01, 1971 - Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?)
July 01, 1973 - Caribbean Day
July 01, 1975 - WEDway PeopleMover inaugurated
July 01, 1977 - Virginia Wade beats Betty Stove for Wimbeldon's woman's singles
July 01, 1982 - Kosmos 1383 1st search and rescue satellite launched.
July 01, 1982 - More than 2000 Unification Church couples married at NY MSG
July 01, 1987 - NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes the 1st 24 hour all sports radio replacing WHN's country music WYNY-FM adopts country music format
July 02, 1566 - French astrologer physician & prophet Nostradamus dies in Salon
July 02, 1644 - Battle of Marston Moor; Parliamentary forces defeat royalists.
July 02, 1644 - William Gascoigne introducer of telescopic sights is killed at 24
July 02, 1776 - Continental Congress passes resolution saying `these United Colonies Care & of right ought to be Free & Independent States'
July 02, 1858 - partial emancipation of Russian serfs.
July 02, 1881 - Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker Garfield died the following September
July 02, 1890 - Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies.
July 02, 1900 - 1st flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1).
July 02, 1906 - Yanks win by forfeit for their 1st time
July 02, 1926 - US Army Air Corps created
July 02, 1933 - Carl Hubbell shutsout Cards 1-0 in 18 innings
July 02, 1937 - Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean
July 02, 1941 - DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak
July 02, 1955 - Lawrence Welk Show premiers on ABC television
July 02, 1957 - 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor completed-The Seawolf
July 02, 1957 - 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched Grayback
July 02, 1961 - Maris hits his 29th & 30th of 61 homers
July 02, 1961 - Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death in Ketchum Idaho
July 02, 1964 - Pres Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
July 02, 1976 - Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
July 02, 1977 - Sweden's Bjorn Borg won Wimbeldon men's singles over Jimmy Connors
July 02, 1978 - Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start
July 02, 1982 - Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
July 02, 1985 - Proto launched on its way to Halley's Comet
July 02, 1986 - The Supreme Court upheld affirmative action in 2 rulings
July 02, 1987 - Chorus Line Director Michael Bennet dead of aids at 44
July 02, 1987 - Accused Nazi Karl Linnas died of heart failure in Russia
July 03, 1608 - City of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain
July 03, 1775 - Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge Mass.
July 03, 1819 - 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
July 03, 1841 - John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by the irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus.
July 03, 1848 - slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands).
July 03, 1861 - Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
July 03, 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends in a major victory for the North
July 03, 1890 - Idaho becomes 43rd state.
July 03, 1898 - US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago Cuba
July 03, 1915 - US military forces occupy Haiti remain until 1934.
July 03, 1939 - Lou Gehrig day Gehrig makes 'luckiest man' speech
July 03, 1950 - 1st time American & North Korean forces clash in the Korean War
July 03, 1962 - Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule
July 03, 1974 - Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3.
July 03, 1976 - Israel launches rescue of passengers & Air France crew members being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers
July 03, 1980 - 73 096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0
July 03, 1982 - Martina Navratilova deats Chris Evert Lloyd at Wimbeldon
July 03, 1983 - Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (36.25 kph for 100 m).
July 03, 1984 - Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
July 03, 1984 - Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island.
July 03, 1985 - CBS announced it would buy back 21 percent of its own stock
July 03, 1986 - Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty
July 04, 1054 - Brightest known super-nova starts shining for 23 days
July 04, 1057 - Crab Nebula supernova recorded by Chinese & Japanese astronomers.
July 04, 1776 - Declaration of Independence -- US gains independence from Britain.
July 04, 1802 - US Milt Academy officially opened at West Point NY
July 04, 1819 - William Herschel makes last telescopic observation comet of 1819.
July 04, 1826 - 2nd & 3rd presidents-John Adams & Thomas Jefferson die
July 04, 1828 - 1st US passenger railroad was begun Baltimore & Ohio
July 04, 1831 - James Monroe the fifth president died
July 04, 1845 - Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
July 04, 1862 - Lewis Carroll began inventing the story of Alice in Wonderland for his friend Alice Pleasance Liddell during a boating trip
July 04, 1863 - Boise Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
July 04, 1873 - Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
July 04, 1876 - 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
July 04, 1882 - Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF.
July 04, 1884 - Statue of Liberty was presented to US in Paris
July 04, 1889 - Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting.
July 04, 1894 - Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the 1st US autos
July 04, 1894 - Republic of Hawaii established.
July 04, 1900 - Aphelion Passage
July 04, 1903 - Pacific Cable (SF Hawaii Guam Phil) opens FDR sends message
July 04, 1933 - Work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge
July 04, 1939 - Yankees retire 1st uniform #4 Lou Gehrig 1st Old Timers Day
July 04, 1942 - 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW2)
July 04, 1946 - Philippines gains independence from US
July 04, 1959 - America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
July 04, 1960 - Mickey Mantle hits career homer # 300
July 04, 1960 - America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
July 04, 1965 - Mariner 4 flies past Mars sends 1st close-up photos.
July 04, 1966 - LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
July 04, 1967 - Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
July 04, 1976 - Raid on Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
July 04, 1982 - Fourth Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 returns to Earth
July 04, 1982 - Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe for championship at Wimbeldon
July 04, 1983 - Yankee Dave Righetti no hits the Red Sox
July 04, 1984 - Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m.
July 04, 1985 - Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
July 04, 1987 - Martina Navaratalova wins her 6th straight Wimbeldon
July 05, 1266 - Tynwald Day on Isle of Man.
July 05, 1687 - Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA is published by Royal Society in England.
July 05, 1753 - Tynwald Day (Isle of Man)
July 05, 1808 - Battle of Buenos Aires.
July 05, 1811 - Venezuela-1st South American country to gain independence from Spain
July 05, 1830 - France invades Algeria begins a 40 year conquest
July 05, 1859 - Capt. N.C. Brooks discovers Midway Islands.
July 05, 1865 - William Booth founded Salvation Army in London
July 05, 1935 - 1st Hawaii Calls radio program is broadcast.
July 05, 1935 - President FDR signs Natl Labor Relations Act
July 05, 1937 - Joe DiMaggio 1st grand slammer
July 05, 1938 - Herb Caen's 1st column in SF Chronicle
July 05, 1940 - Diplomatic relations broken between Britain & Vichy govt in France
July 05, 1944 - 1st rocket airplane flown
July 05, 1946 - Louis Reard's Bikini swimsuit design debuts at a fashion show Paris
July 05, 1947 - Larry Doby signs with Cleveland Indians-1st black player in AL
July 05, 1948 - Carole Landis dies at age 29
July 05, 1950 - Law of Return passes allowing all Jews rights to live in Israel
July 05, 1950 - Pvt Kenneth Shadrick of Skin Fork WVa-1st US fatality in Korean War
July 05, 1951 - Junction transistor invention announced Murray Hill NJ
July 05, 1962 - Mantle hits 2 homers enroute to 4 consecutive homers
July 05, 1971 - Voting age lowered to 18 by 26th amendment.
July 05, 1975 - Cape Verdes Islands independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
July 05, 1978 - Soyuz 30 is launched
July 05, 1984 - Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old `exclusionary rule'-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
July 05, 1986 - Nancy Reagan cuts red white & blue ribbon reopening Statue of Liberty
July 05, 1987 - Australian Pat Cash wins Wimbledon-upsets No 1 seed Ivan Lendl
July 06, 1476 - Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller of Konigsberg) dies.
July 06, 1687 - Newton publishes 'Principia'
July 06, 1699 - Capt. William Kidd arrested in Boston.
July 06, 1854 - 1st Republican state convention
July 06, 1885 - 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being by Louis Pasteur
July 06, 1892 - Striking steelworkers in Homestead Pa. fire on scabs killing 7.
July 06, 1919 - R-34 lands in NY 1st airship to cross Atlantic
July 06, 1920 - Yanks score team record 14 runs in 1 inning vs Senators
July 06, 1928 - 1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY).
July 06, 1932 - 1st class postage back up to 3› from 2›.
July 06, 1933 - 1st All-Star baseball game AL wins 5-2
July 06, 1961 - Soviets launch Titov in Vostok 2; 17 orbits; 25hr/18 min.
July 06, 1962 - Mantle hits his 3rd & 4th consecutive homer
July 06, 1964 - Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day).
July 06, 1975 - Comoros gain independence from France (most of them).
July 06, 1976 - Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station.
July 07, 1668 - Isaac Newton receives his M.Afrom Trinity College Cambridge.
July 07, 1754 - Kings College in NYC opens. School later renamed Columbia College
July 07, 1838 - Central American federation is dissolved.
July 07, 1846 - US annexs Calif
July 07, 1865 - 4 people hunged in Wash DC convicted of conspiring with John W Booth
July 07, 1891 - Travelers cheque patented
July 07, 1898 - US annexes Hawaii
July 07, 1908 - Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay
July 07, 1930 - Construction began on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
July 07, 1941 - US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
July 07, 1946 - Mother Frances X Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
July 07, 1949 - `Dragnet' premiers on NBC radio. A TV series in 1951 & in 1967
July 07, 1958 - Pres Eisenhower signs Alaska statehood bill
July 07, 1967 - Vivian Leigh dies at 53
July 07, 1971 - Apollo 15 returned 12d /7 hr/11 min/53 sec.
July 07, 1973 - Veronica Lake dies at 58
July 07, 1978 - Solomon Is gains independence from Britain (National Day).
July 07, 1980 - 1st solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel.
July 07, 1980 - Az Judge Sandra Day O'Connor 1 female nominated on Supreme Court
July 07, 1986 - Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
July 07, 1987 - Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 & 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7
July 07, 1987 - Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition vote to admit women
July 08, 1663 - King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island
July 08, 1709 - Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes.
July 08, 1776 - Col. John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Dec of Ind
July 08, 1777 - Vt becomes 1st state abolishing slavery adopts male sufferage
July 08, 1796 - 1st American Passport issued by US State Dept
July 08, 1835 - Liberty Bell cracks (again).
July 08, 1889 - John L. Sullivan wins by KO in 75 rounds in last bareknuckle bout.
July 08, 1889 - Vol 1 # 1 of "The Wall Street Journal" published
July 08, 1891 - Future president Harding marries Florence K. DeWolfe in Marion Ohio
July 08, 1896 - William Jennings Bryan 'cross of gold' speech at Dem convention
July 08, 1897 - Harbor Hospital formally opens
July 08, 1905 - Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
July 08, 1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
July 08, 1909 - 1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights.
July 08, 1912 - Pitcher Rube Marquard loses after winning 19 straight games
July 08, 1947 - Demolition began in NYC for new permanent headquarters of UN
July 08, 1950 - Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea
July 08, 1950 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief UN forces in Korea
July 08, 1959 - Maj. Dale & Master Sgt Ovnand 1st American fatalities in Vietnam War
July 08, 1974 - Yank Shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 innings
July 08, 1975 - Pres Ford announced he'd seek Republican nomination for pres
July 08, 1977 - Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs).
July 08, 1978 - Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus.
July 09, 1540 - England's King Henry VIII 6-month marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled
July 09, 1595 - Johannes Kepler discovers inscribed perfect geometric solid "construction of universe."
July 09, 1776 - Dec of Ind read aloud to Gen. Washington's troops in NY
July 09, 1816 - Argentina declares independence from Spain.
July 09, 1846 - Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (SF) for US
July 09, 1850 - Bab (Bah '¡ prophet) executed in Tabriz Iran.
July 09, 1850 - Zachary Taylor 12th pres of US died in White House served 16 months
July 09, 1918 - 101 killed in worst US train wreck in Nashville Tenn
July 09, 1932 - Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) formed.
July 09, 1932 - Yanks Ben Chapman hits 2 inside the park HRs tying record
July 09, 1933 - Frankford Yellowjackets sold rechristened Philadelphia Eagles.
July 09, 1951 - Pres Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
July 09, 1953 - 1st helicopter passenger service NY city
July 09, 1957 - Announcement of discovery of element 102 - nobelium
July 09, 1976 - Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe
July 09, 1979 - Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter.
July 09, 1980 - Walt Disney's "The Fox & The Hound" is released
July 10, 1832 - Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US
July 10, 1847 - Urbain J.J. Leverrier & John Couch Adams codiscoverers of Neptune meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel.
July 10, 1850 - VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death
July 10, 1890 - Wyoming becomes 44th state.
July 10, 1910 - Johann Galle discoverer of Neptune with telescope dies.
July 10, 1919 - Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
July 10, 1925 - Jury selection took place in John T. Scopes evolution trial
July 10, 1925 - USSR's official news agency TASS established
July 10, 1932 - Jack Burnett gets 9 hits in 1 18 inning game
July 10, 1933 - 1st police radio system operated Eastchester Twp NY
July 10, 1940 - Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air
July 10, 1943 - US & Britain invade Sicily in WWII
July 10, 1945 - Robert Goddard died.
July 10, 1949 - 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced - Toledo Oh
July 10, 1951 - Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
July 10, 1962 - Telstar 1st geosynchronous communications satellite launched.
July 10, 1966 - Orbiter 1 Launched to moon.
July 10, 1973 - Bahamas became independent after 3 centuries of British rule
July 10, 1980 - Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I. Queen
July 10, 1982 - Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze.
July 10, 1985 - Coca-Cola Co. announces it would resume selling old formula Coke
July 10, 1985 - French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand.
July 11, 1533 - Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
July 11, 1798 - US Marine Corps was created by an act of Congress
July 11, 1804 - VP Aaron Burr kills Alex Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken
July 11, 1864 - Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Wash D.C.
July 11, 1909 - Simon Newcomb celestial mechanics authority dies.
July 11, 1921 - Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day).
July 11, 1934 - Pres FDR became 1st pres to travel through Panama Canal
July 11, 1936 - Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan Bronx & Queens opened
July 11, 1939 - Yanks host 7th All Star Game McCarthy starts 6 Yanks AL wins 3-1
July 11, 1955 - New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colo
July 11, 1962 - 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
July 11, 1962 - Cosmonaut Micolaev set longevity space flight record-4 days
July 11, 1974 - House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
July 11, 1974 - World Football League plays 1st games.
July 11, 1977 - Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
July 11, 1979 - US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates.
July 11, 1980 - American hostage Richard I. Queen freed by Iran
July 11, 1982 - Italain soccer team wins 1st World Cup in 44 years
July 11, 1985 - Astros' Nolan Ryan 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
July 11, 1986 - Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M Sara.
July 12, 1543 - England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th & last wife).
July 12, 1689 - Orangeman's Day-Battle of Boyne Protestant victory in Ireland
July 12, 1812 - US forces led by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812).
July 12, 1862 - Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
July 12, 1927 - Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs
July 12, 1928 - 1st televised tennis match.
July 12, 1933 - Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33› per hour).
July 12, 1934 - US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
July 12, 1951 - Yankee Allie Reynolds no hits Indians 1-0
July 12, 1957 - 1st President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower
July 12, 1960 - Echo I 1st passive satellite launched.
July 12, 1960 - USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs.
July 12, 1962 - Cosmonaut Popovich in space 1st time 2 manned craft in space
July 12, 1967 - 5th Mayor's Trophy Game Mets beat Yanks 4-0
July 12, 1975 - Sao Tom‚ e Pr¡ncipe gains independence from Portugal (Nat'l Day).
July 12, 1977 - 1st free flight test of Enterprise.
July 12, 1978 - Sun Bank Building opens
July 12, 1979 - Kiribati (Gilbert & Ellice Is.) gains independence from Britain.
July 12, 1979 - Minnie Ripperton dies of cancer at 30
July 12, 1984 - Geraldine Ferraro NY became 1st woman major-party VP candidate
July 12, 1985 - Drs discover a cancerous growth in Pres Reagan's large intestine
July 13, 1762 - James Bradley 3rd Astronomer Royal dies.
July 13, 1787 - Congress establishes NW Territory.
July 13, 1787 - Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60 000 pop
July 13, 1854 - US forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte Nicaragua
July 13, 1865 - Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west"
July 13, 1898 - SF Ferry Building at foot of Market Street opens
July 13, 1919 - 1st lighter-than-air transatlantic flight completed.
July 13, 1934 - Babe Ruth hits #700 against Detroit
July 13, 1960 - Yankees host 29th All Star game AL lost 6-0
July 13, 1973 - Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs beating KC 5-0
July 13, 1977 - NYC experiences a 25 hr black-out
July 13, 1984 - Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m.
July 13, 1985 - Yankees retire Roger Maris (#9) & Elston Howard (#32) uniforms
July 14, 1771 - Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in Cal
July 14, 1789 - Bastille Day - citizens of Paris storm Bastille prison
July 14, 1798 - Sedition Act prohibits "false scandalous & malicious" writing against US govt
July 14, 1850 - 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
July 14, 1853 - Com Perry requests trade relations with Japan
July 14, 1865 - 1st ascent of Matterhorn
July 14, 1881 - Billy the Kid killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Ft Sumner NM
July 14, 1921 - Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham Mass.
July 14, 1927 - 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
July 14, 1950 - RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
July 14, 1951 - Citation 1st horse to win $1 000 000 in races
July 14, 1953 - 1st national monument dedicated to a Negro - GW Carver
July 14, 1958 - Iraqi army Iraq overthrew monarchy
July 14, 1959 - 1st atomic powered cruiser the Long Beach Quincy Mass
July 14, 1961 - Astro's Eddie Matthews hits HR #500
July 14, 1962 - Brave's Hank Aaron hits HR #500
July 14, 1965 - US Mariner IV 1st Mars probe passes at 6 100 miles
July 14, 1966 - Richard Speck kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
July 14, 1968 - Houston Astro Don Wilson strikesout 18 beats Reds 6-1
July 14, 1969 - Futbol War between El Salvador and Honduras begins.
July 14, 1975 - EPCOT Center plans announced
July 14, 1983 - Reps. Daniel Crane R Ill. & Gerry Studds D-Mass. admitted having had sexual relations with congressional pages.
July 14, 1986 - Richard W. Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
July 14, 1987 - Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
July 15, 1662 - Charles II grants a charter to establish Royal Society in London.
July 15, 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte captured.
July 15, 1867 - SF Merchant's Exchange opens
July 15, 1870 - Georgia readmitted to US after Civil War.
July 15, 1870 - NW Territories created & Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province.
July 15, 1918 - St. Vladimir's Day
July 15, 1920 - Ruth ties his record of 29 homers in a season
July 15, 1929 - 1st airport hotel opens - Oakland Ca
July 15, 1940 - 1st betatron placed in operation Urbana Il
July 15, 1943 - Diligenti quintuplets born in Buenos Aires Argentina
July 15, 1944 - Greenwich Observatory is damaged by World War II flying bomb.
July 15, 1952 - 1st helicopter transatlantic flight began
July 15, 1954 - 1st coml jet transport airplane built in US tested (Boeing 707)
July 15, 1958 - US troops occupy Lebanon stay 3 months.
July 15, 1960 - Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle
July 15, 1975 - Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later.
July 16, 1212 - Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain.
July 16, 1548 - La Paz Bolivia is founded.
July 16, 1769 - Father Serra founds Mission San Diego 1st mission in Calif
July 16, 1790 - Congress establishes Dist of Columbia
July 16, 1861 - 1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run
July 16, 1894 - many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners.
July 16, 1920 - Ruth sets season home run record with 30 enroute to 54
July 16, 1927 - Augusto Sandino begins war against US occupation of Nicaragua.
July 16, 1935 - 1st automatic parking meter in US installed Oklahoma City Ok
July 16, 1945 - 1st atomic blast Trinity Site Alamogordo NM
July 16, 1946 - Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)
July 16, 1947 - Bobo Newsom won his 200th game 1st as a Yankee & Yanks 18th straight In the night cap Vic Rashi extended streak to 19
July 16, 1969 - Apollo 11 1st manned ship to land on the moon is launched.
July 17, 1821 - Spain ceded Florida to US
July 17, 1841 - British humor magazine `Punch' 1st published.
July 17, 1850 - Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
July 17, 1879 - 1st railroad opens in Hawaii
July 17, 1898 - Spanish American War-Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba.
July 17, 1917 - British royal family adopts the name `Windsor.'
July 17, 1919 - Yanks 21 hits Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17 on squeeze play
July 17, 1923 - Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
July 17, 1935 - Variety's famous headline `Sticks Nix Hick Pix.'
July 17, 1938 - Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for Los Angeles.
July 17, 1941 - Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak ends
July 17, 1945 - Potsdam Conference (FDR Stalin Churchill) holds 1st meeting.
July 17, 1948 - Rep of Korea founded.
July 17, 1954 - construction begins on Disneyland....
July 17, 1955 - Disneyland opens its doors in Anaheim Cal
July 17, 1959 - Tibet abolishes serfdom
July 17, 1961 - Roger Maris loses a HR due to a rain-out in the 5th
July 17, 1962 - Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354 300 ft).
July 17, 1969 - Apollo/Soyuz the 1st US/USSR linkup in space
July 17, 1975 - Apollo-Soyus; 1st US/USSR linkup in space
July 17, 1978 - Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend him
July 17, 1980 - Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president
July 17, 1981 - Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse kill 114 injure 200
July 17, 1981 - Humbar Estuary Bridge UK world's longest span (1.4 km) is opened.
July 17, 1984 - Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7.
July 18, 0064 - Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle)
July 18, 1536 - Pope's authority declared void in England.
July 18, 1872 - Britain introduces secret ballot voting
July 18, 1927 - Ty Cobb's 4000th career hit
July 18, 1931 - 1st air-conditioned ship launched - "Mariposa"
July 18, 1932 - US & Canada signed a treaty to develop St. Lawrence Seaway.
July 18, 1936 - Spanish Civil War begans Gen. Francisco Franco led uprising
July 18, 1938 - Douglas `Wrong Way' Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
July 18, 1940 - 1st successful helicopter flight Stratford Ct
July 18, 1947 - Tigers shut out Yanks 2-0 ending a 19 game win streak
July 18, 1947 - US receives UN trusteeship over Pacific Is
July 18, 1954 - Joe Adcock records 18 total bases (4 homers & a double)
July 18, 1955 - 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
July 18, 1966 - Carl Sagan turns one billion seconds old
July 18, 1966 - Gemini 10 launched.
July 18, 1968 - Intel is incorporated.
July 18, 1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne & Sen Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge
July 18, 1978 - Billy Martin suspends Reggie Jackson for not bunting.
July 18, 1980 - Rohini 1 1st Indian satellite is launched.
July 18, 1984 - Walter F. Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF. Also Gunman opens fire at McDonald's in San Ysidro Cal killing 21
July 18, 1984 - Svetlana Savitskaya accompanies Vladimir Dzhanibekov on EVA outside Salyut 7 becoming 1st woman to walk in space.
July 18, 1986 - Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
July 18, 1987 - Yanks Don Mattingly ties Major League record of HRs in 8 cons games
July 19, 1848 - 1st Women's Rights Convention Seneca Falls NY
July 19, 1877 - 1st Wimbledon tennis championships held.
July 19, 1880 - SF Public Library starts lending books
July 19, 1909 - Neil Ball turns an unassisted triple play at 1st
July 19, 1935 - 1st parking meters installed in Oklahoma City.
July 19, 1939 - 1st use of Fiberglas sutures RP Scholz St Louis Mo
July 19, 1949 - Laos becomes associated state within French Union.
July 19, 1955 - Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum.
July 19, 1957 - 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired Yucca Flat Nevada
July 19, 1961 - 1st in-flight movie is shown (on TWA).
July 19, 1963 - Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km.
July 19, 1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne dies at 28
July 19, 1977 - Yanks host 48th All Star Game NL wins 7-5
July 19, 1978 - Yanks start a 14 1/2 game comeback with 2-0 win
July 19, 1979 - Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza.
July 19, 1987 - Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games
July 20, 1810 - Columbia gains independence
July 20, 1859 - Admission fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50›)
July 20, 1871 - British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province.
July 20, 1878 - 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii.
July 20, 1923 - Yanks hit into a triple play but beat A's 9-2
July 20, 1941 - Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17
July 20, 1944 - US invaded Japanese-occupied Guam in WWII
July 20, 1949 - Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
July 20, 1956 - Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike outs
July 20, 1960 - USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space.
July 20, 1960 - 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
July 20, 1969 - 1st men on the Moon Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin Apollo 11
July 20, 1970 - 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island
July 20, 1976 - US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia 1st Martian landing.
July 20, 1977 - Voyager 2 launched.
July 20, 1984 - Uwe Hohn of E Germany throws javelin a record 104.80 m.
July 20, 1987 - Don Mattingly ties major league fielding record with 22 put outs
July 21, 1831 - Belgium gains independence from Netherlands (Natl Day).
July 21, 1861 - 1st major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run Va.; South wins.
July 21, 1867 - City Gardens on Folsom opens
July 21, 1873 - World's 1st train robbery by Jesse James
July 21, 1898 - Spain cedes Guam to US
July 21, 1921 - Indians 9 & Yankees 7 doubles for a record 16 doubles
July 21, 1925 - John Scopes found guilty in Tenn for teaching evolution
July 21, 1940 - Soviet Union annexes Estonia Latvia Lithuania.
July 21, 1944 - US forces return to Guam after Japanese occupation.
July 21, 1954 - at Geneva France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam.
July 21, 1955 - 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched - Seawolf
July 21, 1959 - 1st atomic powered merchant ship Savannah christened Camden NJ
July 21, 1961 - Mercury 4 is launched into sub-orbital flight
July 21, 1961 - Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty bell) with Grissom.
July 21, 1965 - Gemini 5 launched atop Titan V with Cooper & Conrad
July 21, 1966 - Gemini X returns to Earth
July 21, 1969 - Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 a.m. (GMT).
July 21, 1975 - Billy Martin fired as manager of Tx Rangers
July 21, 1976 - Legionnaire's Disease kills 29 in Phila
July 21, 1984 - 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US
July 21, 1986 - Pleasure Island plans unveiled
July 22, 1298 - English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk.
July 22, 1826 - Giuseppe Piazzi discoverer of 1st asteroid dies.
July 22, 1864 - Battle of Atlanta; Gen. Sherman defeats Confederate defenders.
July 22, 1925 - Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher
July 22, 1933 - Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight.
July 22, 1934 - John Dillinger shot & killed in Chicago movie theatre
July 22, 1952 - Polish constitution adopted (National Day).
July 22, 1955 - 1st US Vice-President to preside over cabinet meeting - R Nixon
July 22, 1972 - Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus.
July 23, 1798 - Napoleon captures Alexandria Egypt.
July 23, 1803 - Robert Emmett's insurrection in Dublin.
July 23, 1829 - Typewriter patented
July 23, 1852 - 1st interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio
July 23, 1866 - Cincinatti Baseball club (The Reds) established
July 23, 1877 - 1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii is completed
July 23, 1904 - Ice cream cone invented
July 23, 1937 - Isolation of pituitary hormone announced
July 23, 1944 - US forces invaded japanese-held Tinian in WWII
July 23, 1947 - 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets Quonset Point RI
July 23, 1952 - Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day).
July 23, 1968 - PLO's 1st hijacking of an EL AL plane
July 23, 1972 - ERTS 1 (Earth Resources Technology Satellite) later called LANDSAT - launched to start its multi-spectral scans of Earth
July 23, 1980 - Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6.
July 24, 1673 - Edmund Halley enters Queen's College Oxford as an undergraduate.
July 24, 1701 - French make 1st landing at site of Detroit.
July 24, 1704 - Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain
July 24, 1847 - Mormon leader Brigham Young & followers arrive at Salt Lake City Ut
July 24, 1862 - Martin Van Buren 8th pres dies in Kinderhook N.Y.
July 24, 1866 - Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union.
July 24, 1925 - Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS fined $100 & costs
July 24, 1929 - Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounced war
July 24, 1937 - Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
July 24, 1946 - US detonates atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll
July 24, 1952 - Pres Truman announced a settlement in a 53-day steel strike.
July 24, 1959 - VP Nixon argued with Khrushchev known as the `Kitchen Debate'
July 24, 1967 - Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Quebec libre! Long live free Quebec!'
July 24, 1969 - Apollo 11 returns to Earth
July 24, 1975 - Apollo 18 returns to Earth
July 24, 1978 - Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after 'the one is a born liar the other a convicted one' comment about Steinbrenner & Jackson
July 25, 1593 - France's King Henri IV a Protestant converted to Roman Catholicism.
July 25, 1729 - NC becomes royal colony.
July 25, 1814 - Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British.
July 25, 1866 - US Grant named 1st general of Army
July 25, 1868 - Wyoming Territory created.
July 25, 1903 - Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
July 25, 1909 - Louis Bl‚riot makes 1st airplane flight across the English Channel.
July 25, 1920 - Red Sox turn a triple play but Ruth's 35 HR leads Yanks 8-2 win
July 25, 1943 - Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
July 25, 1952 - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created.
July 25, 1956 - Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after collided with the Stockholm
July 25, 1956 - Andrea Dorea sinks off Nantucket Island after collision.
July 25, 1961 - Maris hits home runs 37 38 39 & 40 in a double header
July 25, 1963 - US Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty
July 25, 1966 - Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
July 25, 1967 - Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
July 25, 1973 - USSR launches Mars 5
July 25, 1973 - USSR launches Mars 5
July 25, 1978 - Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
July 25, 1981 - Voyager 2 encounters Saturn.
July 25, 1984 - Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became 1st woman to walk in space
July 25, 1986 - Movie director Vincente Minnelli died in Los Angeles at age 76.
July 25, 1987 - USSR launches Kosmos 1870 15-ton earth-study satellite.
July 26, 1775 - Benjamin Franklin becomes 1st Postmaster General.
July 26, 1788 - NY becomes 11th state to ratify constitution.
July 26, 1788 - Sydney Australia settled by British colonists.
July 26, 1835 - 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
July 26, 1847 - Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society
July 26, 1887 - 1st Esperanto book published.
July 26, 1908 - Federal Bureau of Investigation established
July 26, 1928 - Yanks score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1
July 26, 1939 - Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRa
July 26, 1945 - Churchill resigns as Britain's prime minister
July 26, 1947 - Department of Defense established
July 26, 1948 - 1st black host of a network show - CBS' Bob Howard Show
July 26, 1952 - Argentina's 1st lady Eva Peron dies in Buenos Aires at 33
July 26, 1952 - Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand slammer
July 26, 1953 - Fidel Castro began revolution against Batista
July 26, 1953 - Korean War Armistice
July 26, 1956 - Egypt seizes Suez Canal
July 26, 1957 - Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200
July 26, 1957 - USSR launchs 1st intercontinental multi-stage ballistic missle.
July 26, 1963 - US Syncom 2 1st synchronous communications satellite launched
July 26, 1963 - US launches Sycom 2 the 1st geosynchronous satellite
July 26, 1964 - Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy
July 26, 1965 - Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day).
July 26, 1967 - Twins beat Yankees 3-2 in 18
July 26, 1971 - Apollo 15 launched to the moon.
July 26, 1971 - US launches Apollo 15 to the Moon
July 26, 1974 - USSR's Soyuz failed to dock with Salyut 3.
July 26, 1975 - Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
July 26, 1982 - Canada's Anik D1 comsat launched by US delta rocket.
July 26, 1984 - Soyuz T-12? is launched with a female cosmonaut
July 27, 1501 - Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
July 27, 1689 - Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie.
July 27, 1694 - Bank of England is chartered.
July 27, 1836 - Adelaide South Australia founded.
July 27, 1866 - Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1 686 miles long)
July 27, 1940 - Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts.
July 27, 1947 - Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak
July 27, 1953 - Korean War ends
July 27, 1955 - Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation.
July 27, 1962 - Mariner 2 launched to venus; flyby mission.
July 27, 1969 - Pioneer 10 Launched.
July 28, 1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe.
July 28, 1750 - Bach dies
July 28, 1821 - Peru gains independence
July 28, 1830 - revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe.
July 28, 1849 - Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF 120 days out of N.Y.
July 28, 1851 - total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
July 28, 1862 - Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill Mo.
July 28, 1866 - Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
July 28, 1868 - 14th Amendment ratified citizenship to exslaves.
July 28, 1900 - Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Conn
July 28, 1906 - Yankees turn a triple play beating Cleveland 6-4
July 28, 1914 - Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia - World War I began
July 28, 1915 - US forces invade Haiti stay until 1924.
July 28, 1931 - Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd National Anthem
July 28, 1932 - President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment.
July 28, 1933 - 1st Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee) NYC
July 28, 1940 - Yankee Charle Keller hits 3 HRs
July 28, 1951 - Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
July 28, 1964 - US Ranger 7 launched for lunar impact between Mare Nubium
July 28, 1964 - Ranger 7 launched toward the moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures.
July 28, 1964 - US launches Ranger 7 to the Moon
July 28, 1973 - Skylab 3's astronauts are launched
July 28, 1976 - 242 000 killed in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) earthquake.
July 28, 1976 - Eldon Joersz & Geo. Morgan set world air speed record of 3 530 kph.
July 28, 1978 - At Old Timer's Game it is announced Martin will again manage Yankees
July 29, 1824 - Peruvian National Day
July 29, 1835 - 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begun.
July 29, 1858 - 1st commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
July 29, 1899 - 1st motorcycle race Manhattan Beach N.Y.
July 29, 1900 - Italian king Umberto I assassinated.
July 29, 1914 - 1st transcontinental phone link made Between NYC & SF
July 29, 1915 - US marines land in Haiti stay until 1924.
July 29, 1920 - 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
July 29, 1928 - Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
July 29, 1952 - 1st transpacific non-stop flight by jet
July 29, 1957 - International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN
July 29, 1957 - Jack Paar's Tonight show premiers
July 29, 1958 - Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running
July 29, 1958 - Pres Eisenhower signs into law NASA & Space Act of 1958.
July 29, 1965 - Gemini 5 returned after 12 d/7 hr/11 min/53 sec.
July 29, 1978 - Pioneer 11 transmitted images of Saturn & its rings.
July 29, 1981 - Prince Charles & Lady Diana wed
July 29, 1985 - 19th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 is launched
July 30, 1619 - House of Burgesses Virginia formed 1st elective US governing body
July 30, 1836 - 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
July 30, 1946 - 1st rocket to attain 100-mile altitude White Sands NM
July 30, 1956 - Motto of US "In God We Trust" authorized
July 30, 1971 - US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium.
July 30, 1980 - Vanuatu (then New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain France.
July 30, 1983 - Weightlifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg.
July 30, 1983 - STS-8 3rd flight of Challenger. 1st night launch & land.
July 30, 1984 - STS-14 1st flight of Discovery.
July 31, 1498 - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad.
July 31, 1556 - St. Ignatius of Loyola founder of Society of Jesus died in Rome.
July 31, 1588 - English fleet attacks Spanish armada
July 31, 1777 - Marquis de Lafayette 19 made major-general of Continental Army
July 31, 1790 - 1st US patent granted to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
July 31, 1813 - British invade Plattsburgh NY
July 31, 1875 - 17th pres Andrew Johnson dies in Tennessee at 66
July 31, 1938 - Yanks suspend Jake Powell after he said on Chicago radio 'he'd hit every colored person in Chicago over the head with a club'
July 31, 1948 - President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport) NY
July 31, 1964 - Ranger 7 transmits the 1st lunar close-up photos before impact
July 31, 1964 - US Ranger 7 takes 4 316 pictures before crashing on moon.
July 31, 1970 - Chet Huntley retires from NBC ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report'
July 31, 1972 - Democratic VP candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew
July 31, 1977 - Son of Sam shot to death 20-year-old Stacy Moskowitz
July 31, 1978 - Yanks now 7 1/2 out of 1st picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks
July 31, 1980 - Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
July 31, 1981 - Leader of Panama Gen. Omar Torrijos killed in a plane crash.
July 31, 1981 - 7-week-old major league baseball strike ended.
July 31, 1984 - US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics