This Week In #History ... July 19th - July 24th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Jul 19
1195 Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia
1551 Treaty of Karlsburg: arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as king of Hungary/Transsylvania
1674 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer
1848 1st U.S. women's rights convention (Seneca Falls New York)
1877 1st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64)
1902 New York Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw
1913 Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs", Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
1926 2nd French government of Herriot, forms
1939 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R P Scholz, St. Louis, Missouri
1950 French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh
1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza
1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle
1994 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles)
2010 A Tel Aviv judge orders safe deposit boxes at a Zurich bank opened; the boxes may contain drawings and manuscripts by writer Franz Kafka

Jul 20
1031 Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France
1609 Emperor Rudolf II grants Silezische protestants freedom of religion
1836 Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension
1858 Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents ) (New York beats Brooklyn 22-18)
1872 Mahlon Loomis patents wireless radio
1903 Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X
1913 Turkish troop take Adrianopel and Erdine from Bulgaria
1922 Togo made a mandate of League of Nations
1933 Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler
1942 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training
1949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
1960 U.S.S.R. recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
1969 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
1976 U.S. Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
1985 Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
1994 O. J. Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife's klller
2005 Canada becomes the 4th country to permit same-sex marriage

Jul 21
365 Alexandria hit by Earthquake; about 50,000 die
1595 Alvara Mendana discovers Marquesas Island
1774 Peace of Kutsjuk Kainardji (end Russian-Turkish War)
1831 Belgium gains independence from Netherlands, Leopold I made king
1897 Tate Gallery opens in England
1900 Pope Leo XIII encyclical to Greek-Melkite rite
1919 Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg and Amsterdam
1928 1st woman to win an olympic gold medal - Halina Knonpacka of Poland
1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp
1947 Indonesia begins 1st political election
1955 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf
1966 Gemini X returns to Earth
1976 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Philadelphia
1984 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in U.S.
1996 Wayne Gretzky signs a 2 year deal with New York Rangers
2008 Radovan Karadzic arrested on war crimes after a 12 year manhunt

Jul 22
1456 Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats sultan Murad II
1489 Treaty of Frankfurt
1587 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC
1796 Cleveland, Ohio, founded by General Moses Cleaveland
1901 Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro
1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes
1923 Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508)
1933 Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight
1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp
1952 Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution
1962 1st U.S. Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off
1975 House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee
1988 500 U.S. scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
1994 23rd and last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter, since July 16th
2009 A solar eclipse, the longest in history, lasts up to 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds, over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean
2010 The Stonehenge World Heritage Site announces the discovery of a possible new henge, the biggest discovery at a major monument in over 50 years

Jul 23
636 Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire
1215 Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
1431 Council of Basel opens
1664 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of New York, arrive in Boston
1827 1st U.S. swim school opens (Boston Mass)
1864 Battle of Woodstock, Virginia
1900 Pan-African Congress meets in London
1914 Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I
1921 Chinese Communist Party forms under Henk Sneevliet
1931 France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics
1940 "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins
1952 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day)
1965 Beatles "Help" is released in UK
1972 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
1980 Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya
1990 South Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1997 Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin and Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them
2010 Venezuela severs diplomatic relations with Columbia after Columbia states that Venezuela is a 'haven for guerillas'

Jul 24
1577 Treason of Don Juan in Brussels
1683 1st settlers from Germany to U.S., leave aboard Concord
1793 France passes 1st copyright law
1847 Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, New York City
1870 1st trans-U.S. rail service begins
1900 Race riot in New Orleans
1910 Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull
1923 Allied Powers and Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne
1934 1st ptarmigan hatched and reared in captivity, Ithaca, New York
1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
1952 President Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1961 Beginning of a trend, a U.S. commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth
1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson
1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
1994 Asociacon de Estados del Caribe (AEC) forms
2010 Rallies to release Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman facing execution for adultery, occur in Paris, New York City, Ottowa and elsewhere

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This Week In #History ... July 12 - 17th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

 Jul 12
1109 Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli
1543 England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th and last wife)
1689 Orangeman's Day - Battle of Boyne, Protestant victory in Ireland
1776 Captain Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean
1862 Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
1902 Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
1912 1st foreign feature film exhibited in U.S. - "Queen Elizabeth" - New York City
1920 Lithuania and U.S.S.R. sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent republic
1934 U.S. Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
1948 1st jets to fly across Atlantic, 6 RAF de Havilland Vampires
1957 U.S. Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
1970 Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway
1979 Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from U.K.
1988 U.S.S.R. launches Phobos II for Martian orbit
1996 Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million
2010 A new long-range unmanned plane named Taranis is unveiled by the U.K. Ministry of Defense

Jul 13
1772 Captain James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas
1832 Source of Mississippi River discovered, Henry R. Schoolcraft
1836 U.S. patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels
1898 Guglielmo Marconi patents radio
1908 4th modern Olympic games opens in London
1919 Race riots in Longview and Gregg counties Texas
1930 1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay
1939 Frank Sinatra made his recording debut
1945 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico
1960 U.S. Democratic convention nominates John F. Kennedy as presidential candidate
1970 Building begins of Amsterdam metro
1978 Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR
1988 Sting performs his 1st Rain Forest benefit concert
1997 Indonesian ferry sinks, killing at least 77
2010 The European Union announces that on January 1, 2011, it will make Estonia the seventeenth member of the euro

Jul 14
1420 Battle at Vitkov Zizka's hill (Prague): Taboriets beat Bohemia
1682 Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London
1798 1st direct federal tax on states-on dwellings, land and slaves
1853 1st U.S. World's fair opens, Crystal Palace New York
1891 John T. Smith patents corkboard
1914 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted, Dr. Robert Goddard
1927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
1933 Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness
1941 Cease fire of Joan of Arc, ends combat in Lebanon and Syria
1950 RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
1959 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach, Quincy Massachusetts
1967 Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing
1976 Jimmy Carter wins Democratic President nomination in New York City
1986 Richard W. Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
1997 Bomb in Algiers kills 21 and wounds 40
2010 Senior Rwandan opposition politician Andre Kagwa Rwisereka is found, after reported missing, with his head nearly severed off

Jul 15
1099 1st Crusaders capture and plunder Jerusalem
1205 Pope Innocent III states Jews are doomed to perpetual servitude and subjugation due to crucifixion of Jesus
1524 Emperor Karel I bans German national synode
1795 "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem
1815 Napoleon surrendered and is later exiled on St. Helena
1869 Margarine is patents by Hippolye Mega-Mouries for use by French Navy
1900 President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin
1912 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
1922 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in U.S., at New York zoo
1933 Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world
1942 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz
1952 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins
1962 Algeria becomes member of Arab League
1973 Paul Getty III kidnapped
1984 John Lennon releases "I'm Stepping Out"
1995 Birmingham Barracudas 1st CFL home game (vs Hamilton)
2010 Entire villages are burned to the ground and 40,000 people flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jul 16
622 Origin of Islamic Era (Muharram 1, 1 AH)
1429 Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans
1618 Captain John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain
1798 U.S. Public Health Service forms and U.S. Marine Hospital authorized
1861 Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought
1902 John McGraw named manager of New York Giants
1912 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B. A. Fiske
1920 China joins the League of Nations
1927 Augusto Sandino begins 5 -year war against U.S. occupation of Nicaragua
1936 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, New York
1945 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico
1951 Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published
1963 Amazon carries 190,000 m3/sec (record)
1972 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes 269th patriarch of Constantinople
1982 NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth
1990 New York City's Empire State Building catches fire - no fatalities
2005 6th Harry Potter book by J. K. Rowling is released: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2010 U.S.-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is placed on the U.S. 'terror blacklist'

Jul 17
1054 Emperor Henry III crowns his son Henry IV king
1453 1st battle at Castillon: French beat English troops
1774 Captain Cook arrives at New Hebrides (Vanuata)
1862 United army officially divides corps
1902 Orioles forfeit to St. Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL
1912 IAF (International Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
1919 Finland adopts constitution
1929 U.S.S.R. drops diplomatic relations with China
1942 Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1951 King Leopold II of Belgium gives up throne to son Boudouin I
1959 Dr. Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old)
1968 Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London
1979 Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza flees to Miami
1987 Iran and France break diplomatic relations
1998 Russia buries tsar Nicholas II and family, 80 years after they died
2010 South Korea develops a long-range cruise missile reportedly capable of striking North Korea, Japan, Russia and China 

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This Week In #History ... July 4th - July 10th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Jul 4
1708 Swedish King Karel XII beats Russians
1796 1st Independence Day celebration is held
1827 Slavery abolished in NY
1863 General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg
1894 Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B. Dole as president
1903 Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, President TR sends message
1914 1st U.S. motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
1925 44 die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses
1936 League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy
1944 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, U.S. fleet near Iwo Jima
1956 Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia
1966 Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos
1976 Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France
1996 HotMail, a free internet E-mail service begins
2010 An Iranian woman convicted of adultery is sentenced to death by stoning; Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi tries to stop this barbaric act

Jul 5
1643 1st recorded tornado in U.S. (Essex County, Massachusetts)
1811 Venezuela, 1st South American country to gain independence from Spain
1841 Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency
1865 Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department
1902 Australia won the one and only Test Cricket played at Sheffield
1914 Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia
1922 1st general election in Netherlands
1932 Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes premier/dictator of Portugal
1942 Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada
1951 Dr. William Shockley invents junction transistor at Murray Hill, New Jersey
1962 Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
1971 26th amendment certified, reduces voting age to 18
1982 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
1994 U.S. changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people back
2010 Israel restricts a blacklist of weapons, construction materials and other items but drops all other restrictions on the free flow of consumer goods into the Gaza strip

Jul 6
1483 England's King Richard III crowned
1669 LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River
1798 U.S. law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, ... and removed as alien enemies"
1858 Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
1893 British King George V marries princess Victoria of Teck (Queen Mary)
1908 Robert Peary's expedition sails from New York City for north pole
1919 British R-34 lands in New York, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hours)
1928 1st all-talking motion picture shown in New York (Lights of New York)
1939 German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises
1950 East Germany recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland
1957 Beatle John Lennon 1st meets Paul McCartney
1967 Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade
1979 IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp
1987 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
1997 Montreal Expos retire Andre Dawson's uniform #10
2010 A bill to allow same-sex civil unions is vetoed by Linda Lingle, U.S. governor of Hawaii

Jul 7
1456 Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted
1550 Chocolate introduced
1668 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
1802 1st comic book "The Wasp," is published
1891 Travelers checks patents
1900 Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory
1911 Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record
1923 University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II
1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
1958 William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows, New York
1967 Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1
1976 Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars
1986 Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
1997 Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open
2010 A heat wave in the U.S. and Canada kills 9 people

Jul 8
951 Paris is founded
1497 Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India
1654 1st Jewish colonist arrive in U.S. (Jacob Barsimson in Manhattan)
1776 John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Decleration of Independence in Philadelphia
1796 U.S. State Department issues 1st American passport
1862 Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret
1900 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids)
1911 Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse
1923 Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland
1933 Public Works Administration becomes effective
1943 4th day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve
1954 Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala
1963 U.S. bans all monetary transactions with Cuba
1975 Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated
1986 NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain and Quality Assurance
1997 NATO invites Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic to join
2010 At least 70 people are killed and 300 wounded in a series of bombings over the three-day Shia pilgrimage to the Musa Kadhim mausoleum in Iraq

Jul 9
1595 Johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe
1776 Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops, New York
1815 1st natural gas well in U.S. is discovered
1863 Union troops enter Port Hudson
1900 Australia accepts its constitution
1910 Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude
1918 Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal
1927 William T. Francis named minister to Liberia
1940 RAF bombs Germany
1951 President Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
1953 1st helicopter passenger service, New York City
1963 Federation of Malaysia forms
1972 1st tour of Paul McCartney and Wings, France
1980 Walt Disney's "Fox and The Hound," released
1987 1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime
1997 Mike Tyson is banned from boxing, for biting Holyfield's ear
2010 Google's internet content provider license is renewed by China; the company is allowed to continue operating in the country

Jul 10
552 Origin of Armenian calendar
1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes
1629 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in U.S. founded (Salem, MA)
1797 1st U.S. frigate, the "United States," is launched in Philadelphia
1862 U.S. begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad
1892 1st concrete-paved street built, Bellefountaine, Ohio
1905 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court
1917 Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing draft
1929 U.S. issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
1938 Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours
1947 200 die when train derails and fell into a river in Canton, China
1958 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
1966 U.S. launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon
1976 Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud)
1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
1997 Louise Woodward's trial begins in Massachusetts, Nanny murder trial
2010 The largest manhunt in U.K. recent history ends when gunman Raoul Moat shoots and kills himself in a 6-hour standoff with police

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This Week In #History ... June 27th - July 3rd

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Jun 27
1693 1st woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London)
1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn
1867 Bank of California opens doors
1909 Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Netherlands (Belgium count De Lambert)
1917 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service
1929 1st color TV demo, New York City
1939 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0)
1950 North Korean troops reach Seoul, United Nations ask members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict
1960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized, Cambridge Mass
1969 Honduras/El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match
1978 U.S. Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit
1986 In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce
2008 Bill Gates resigns from Microsoft to focus on his charity work
2010 The first democratic election in the history of Guinea is held

Jun 28
1245 1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens
1762 1st reported counterfeiting attempt, Boston
1820 Tomato is proven non-poisonous
1902 U.S. buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million
1909 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens
1919 Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed in France
1928 Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsuccessful)
1939 Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service, Dixie Clipper
1946 Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st President of Italy
1956 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago, Illinois
1968 Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers
1976 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs
1985 Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Tx
1997 TV evangelist Robert Schuller attacks a flight attendant
2009 Somali pirates released the entire crew of the Belgian the Pompei dredger, a ship seized on April 18, after a ransom was paid

Jun 29
1534 Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands, Canada
1776 Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay
1863 Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
1904 2 prehistoric bones found in Weerdingerveen, Drenthe
1913 2nd Balkan War begins-Bulgaria overthrows Greek/Serbian troops
1927 1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
1936 Empire State Building emanates high definition TV-343 lines
1946 Black Sabbath-Brits arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorist
1955 Argentine state of siege ends
1964 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "Cage" released
1972 Supreme Court rules (5-4) that Death Penalty is cruel and unusual
1983 Angel Cordero wins his 5,000th horse race
1994 Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan
2010 General Stanley McChrystal, leader of the U.S. war Afghanistan announces his retirement after making controversial statements in 'Rolling Stone' magazine

Jun 30
1397 Denmark, Norway and Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha
1607 Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published
1859 Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks, New Jersey, 326 die
1910 Russia absorbs Finland
1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
1930 1st round-the-world radio broadcast, Schenectady NY
1939 Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde
1953 1st Corvette manufactured
1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1971 Ohio becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th amendment
1981 China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy
1990 East and West Germany merge their economies
1998 Linda Tripp begins to testify before a grand jury about the Lewinsky case
2010 The 15th President of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III, is sworn in, as is the 15th Vice President of the Philippines, Jejomar Binay

Jul 1
70 Titus sets up batterig rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem
1097 1st Crusaders defeat Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea
1517 1st burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands
1674 Spain, France and Netherlands form Triple Alliance
1820 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published"
1867 Dominion of Canada forms (New Bruns, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec)
1903 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins
1913 Serbia and Greece declare war on Bulgaria
1923 1st permanent radio network-AT&T (WEAF New York and WMAF Mass)
1934 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, New York
1943 "Pay-as-you-go" - 1st withholding tax from paychecks
1950 1st 407 U.S. soldiers flown to South Korea
1960 No passports needed inside Benelux
1970 Jimi Hendrix 1st recording session (New York City)
1981 Prince Willem Alexander opens Willems Bridge in Rotterdam
1993 1 second is added to the clock
2010 In volume, BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill has overtaken Ixtoc I to become the worst oceanic oil spill in U.S. recorded history

Jul 2
1214 English king John begins siege around Lille France
1576 Muitende Spanish soldiers conquer Zierik Sea
1687 King James II disbands English parliament
1808 Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam
1900 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1st airship LZ-1, flies
1906 Yankees win by forfeit, for their 1st time
1916 Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism
1928 British parliament accept female sufferage
1935 Great Britain boxers beat U.S. team in 1st International Golden Gloves
1947 Military coup discovered in France
1957 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
1970 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam and Brussels
1979 Susan B. Anthony dollar is issued, 1st U.S. coin to honor a woman
1990 Panic in tunnel of Mecca, 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death
2010 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel states he will not apologize to Turkey for the Gaza flotilla clash, and that the injured will not receive any compensation

Jul 3
1187 Crusaders enter Tiberias
1608 Samuel de Champlain founded city of Quebec
1754 George Washington surrenders to French, Ft. Necessity (7 Years' War)
1819 1st savings bank in U.S. (Bank of Savings in New York City) opens its doors
1886 1st New York Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine
1898 American troops captured deserted Wake Island
1913 Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic)
1923 Harbor strike in Hull/Grimsby/Cardiff/Bristol over to London
1932 John McGraw retires from baseball
1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-628
1954 Food rationing ends in Britain
1962 Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains independence on 7/5)
1970 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival
1980 1st U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Roberto deVicenzo
1989 The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million (10 days)
1997 Mississippi becomes 1st state to settle tobacco suit
2010 A fuel tanker overturns and explodes in South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing over 230 people and injuring

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This Week In #History ... June 20th - 26th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Jun 20
1632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1782 Congress approves Great Seal of U.S. and eagle as it's symbol
1793 Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin
1863 1st bank chartered in U.S., National Bank of Davenport, Iowa
1895 1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
1901 Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a U.S. college
1909 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham and Eleanor Waring)
1919 Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria
1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
1943 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
1949 Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes
1960 Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France
1970 British government of Edward Heath forms, with Margaret Thatcher
1981 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection
1990 50,000 die in a 7.6 earthquake in Iran
1996 Space Shuttle STS-78, Columbia 20, launches into space
2010 Presidential elections take place in Poland after the death of President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash April 10, 2010

Jun 21
1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown
1633 Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views
1788 U.S. Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire is 9th to ratify
1893 1st Ferris wheel premieres at Chicago's Columbian Exposition
1907 E. W. Scripps founded United Press
1919 German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet
1932 Heavyweight Jack Sharkey TKOs Max Schmeling (New York City)
1941 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria
1948 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I
1956 Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
1964 Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 years later
1975 "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg opens
1985 American, Brazilian and West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele
1993 English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat
2001 Total solar eclipse in Madagascar - Atlantic Ocean (4m56s)
2010 Dhaka's University of Engineering and Technology in Bangladesh is shut down after a student rampage injures four people because of 2010 FIFA World Cup fever

Jun 22
1377 Richard II succeeds Edward III as king of England
1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
1772 Slavery outlawed in England
1812 Napoleon's Grand Army invades Russia
1870 1st Boardwalk in America invented
1910 1st Zeppelin with passengers sets afloat
1915 BMT, then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service
1931 RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms
1940 France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms
1954 Congress passes revised organic act for Virgin Islands
1962 1st test flight of Hoovercraft
1970 President Nixon signs 26th amendment, voting age lowered to 18
1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon
1990 Florida passes a law that prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit
2010 Kurdish rebels claim responsibility for a bus bomb in Istanbul, Turkey; five people were killed and twelve people injured

Jun 23
930 World's oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, established
1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
1775 1st regatta held on Thames, England
1848 Antoine Joseph Sax patents Saxophone
1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"
1902 Gioacchino Rossini's unveils monument to Santa-Croce
1917 Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000
1925 British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers
1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (U.S.) established
1947 Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress
1958 Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established
1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson and Alexei Kosygin hold 1st of 2 summit meetings in Glassboro, New Jersey
1979 Rock group, the Knack releases "My Sharona"
1989 Movie "Batman" premieres
1996 Nintendo 64 goes on sale in Japan
2010 At last count, 76 people are dead while hundreds have disappeared after a train crash in the Republic of Congo caused the train to fall into a ravine

Jun 24
1314 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
1441 Eton College founded by Henry VI
1540 Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
1817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
1894 Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
1901 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris
1914 King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent
1930 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
1941 Germans advanced into Russia and took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas
1957 "I Love Lucy," last airs on CBS-TV
1964 FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages
1975 Moon tremor perceived, hit by Taurid meteors
1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
1992 John Gotti begins life sentence in jail
1997 Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom
2010 Brazilian storms in Alagoas and Pernambuco states kill 46 people

Jun 25
1096 1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany
1580 Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published
1788 Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify U.S. constitution
1867 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio
1905 Warsaw and Lodz revolt against Russian occupation
1919 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13)
1929 President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam, Hoover Dam
1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 cents per hour
1947 Tennis shoe introduced
1953 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
1962 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms
1977 Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for 7th time
1989 1st U.S. postmark dedicated to Lesbian and Gay Pride
1991 Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia
1997 Christies auctions off Princess Di's clothing for $5.5 million
2010 Jean Leonard Rugambage, a Rwandan journalist, is shot dead in front of his home in Kigali; the exiled chief editor of Umuvugizi believes the government is responsible

Jun 26
1284 Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away (actually happened)
1498 Toothbrush invented
1857 Cawnpore England massacre
1870 1st section of Atlantic City Boardwalk opens
1902 Order of Merit instituted by King Edward VII
1910 1st federal corrupt election practices law passed
1919 N.Y. Daily News begins publishing
1927 Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth
1936 1st flight of Fw61 helicopter
1945 U.N. Charter signed by 50 nations in SF
1952 Nelson Mandela and 51 others infringe South Africa curfew
1960 Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France
1968 Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
1989 Canada updates coins with a new potrait of the Queen
1997 Galileo, Ganymede Observations, Orbit 9
2010 Leaders of the twenty largest economies meet for the 2010 G-20 Summit in Toronto, Canada

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