07-12-2011, 07:24 PM
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July 13th
100 BC ~ Birthday of Julius Caesar, Soldier & Politician.
1837 ~ Queen Victoria moved into Buckingham Palace – the first monarch to live there.
1908 ~ Women first included in modern Olympic competition.
1923 ~ The first Hollywood Sign was dedicated. It read "HOLLYWOODLAND".
1940 ~ Birthday of Patrick Stewart, English actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation).
1955 ~ Ruth Ellis became the last woman in England to be executed.
1960 ~ John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Los Angeles.
1973 ~ Alexander Butterfield revealed the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
1977 ~ A 25-hour blackout hit New York City.
1985 ~ Live Aid, an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, Australia, was held to raise money for Africa's starving people.
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