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07-23-15, 09:25 AM | #871 |
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1940 - "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins.
1943 - Battle of Kursk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks).
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1885: Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant) dies, age 63, at Wilton, New York. With his customary tenacity in spite of his throat cancer, he had just completed his autobiography Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant,
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07-24-15, 07:03 AM | #873 |
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1938 - Instant coffee invented.
1967 - Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana.
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07-24-15, 11:35 AM | #874 |
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1915: On July 24, 1915 the SS Eastland rolled over while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew were killed in what was to become the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great LAkes.
Following the disaster, the Eastland was salvaged and sold to the United States Navy. After restorations and modifications the Eastland was designated as a gunboat and renamed the USS Wilmette. She was used primarily as a training vessel on the Great Lakes, and was scrapped following WW II.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Eastland
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07-25-15, 08:53 AM | #875 |
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1603 - James VI of Scotland is crowned James I of English uniting kingdoms of England and Scotland.
1814 - George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive. 1943 - Benito Mussolini dismissed as Italian Premier and arrested on authority King Victor Emmanuel II. 1944 - World War II: Operation Spring - one of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed. 1978 - Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby is born at Oldham General Hospital England. 1997 - Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos.
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07-26-15, 06:19 AM | #876 |
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1953 - Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime.
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07-27-15, 08:31 AM | #877 |
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27 of July of 1940: "Eh... What's up, doc?" Bugs Bunny is officially born! Warner Bros. had already done cartoons (Merry Melodies) with a hare/bunny character before, but the final and official final drawing of the character was debuted in 1940, The Wild Hare cartoon.
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07-27-15, 02:48 PM | #879 |
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1586 - Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia.
1866 - Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long).
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07-28-15, 05:58 AM | #880 |
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1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to England.
1914 - Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia - first declaration of war of WWI. 2005 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
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07-29-15, 01:23 PM | #881 |
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1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1949 - Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends.
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07-30-15, 03:36 AM | #882 |
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1940-A bombing lull ends the first phase of the Battle of Britain.
1967-General William Westmoreland claims that he is winning the war in Vietnam, but needs more men. 2003-The last of the uniquely shaped "old style" Volkswagen Beetles rolls off the assembly line in Mexico.
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07-30-15, 05:45 AM | #883 |
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1869 - The Charles, considered the world’s first "oil tanker", departs from the United States headed for Europe with a bulk capacity of 7,000 barrels of oil.
1935 - 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution. 1945 - Philippines Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die.
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07-31-15, 10:28 AM | #884 |
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30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
1961 - Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant. 2007 - Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
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07-31-15, 12:41 PM | #885 |
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1930: the radio show The Shadow makes its debut:
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