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The plane that flew on the 15th July 1954 was the Boeing 367-80 (dash-80), the precurser of the 707. The first 707 did not fly till 1957.
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July 18th
1817 ~ Death of Jane Austen, English Novelist.
1887 ~ Birthday of Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Politician & Traitor.
1918 ~ Birthday of Nelson Mandela, former President of SA, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1993.
1922 ~ Birthday of Thomas Kuhn, Philosopher of Science.
1925 ~ Adolf Hitler’s "Mein Kampf" was published.
1927 ~ Birthday of Kurt Masur, Conductor.
1942 ~ The Messerschmitt Me-262 was test flown using only its jets for the first time.
1968 ~ The Intel Corporation was founded in Santa Clara, California.
1969 ~ After a party, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a wooden bridge into, into a pond, and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, died.
2001 ~ In Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derailment occurred in a tunnel, sparking a fire that lasted days and virtually shut down downtown.
2005 ~ Eric Rudolph was sentenced to life in prison for an abortion clinic bombing that killed an off-duty police officer.
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July 19th
1692 ~ Five women were hanged following the Salem Witch Trials for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
1834 ~ Birthday of Edgar Degas, Impressionist Painter.
1848 ~ America’s first women's rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, N.Y. and "Bloomers" were introduced.
1870 ~ The Franco-Prussian war began.
1898 ~ Birthday of Herbert Marcuse, Communist Philosopher.
1941 ~ Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign in Europe.
1947 ~ Death of Aung San, Burmese nationalist. Aung San's daughter, Aung San Suu Kyi, is now the leader of the Burmese opposition to the current military regime.
1996 ~ Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic was forced out of office.
2003 ~ Death of Bill Bright, evangelist, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ.
2008 ~ Death of Anastasia Blue, Porn actress.
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July 21st
1796 ~ Death of Robert Burns, Scottish Poet.
1861 ~ First Battle of Bull Run - the first major battle of the American Civil War began.
1911 ~ Birthday of Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Communications Theorist.
1925 ~ In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
1948 ~ Birthday of Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English Singer.
1954 ~ France surrendered North Vietnam to the Viet Minh.
1970 ~ The Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed at the end of eleven years of construction
1994 ~ Tony Blair was declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party.
2006 ~ Death Ta Mok, Khmer Rouge war criminal.
2008 ~ Radovan Karadžić was arrested in Serbia and indicted by the UN's ICTY tribunal for War Crimes.
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July 22nd
1822 ~ Birthday of Br. Gregor Mendel, Austrian Geneticist.
1887 ~ Birthday of Gustav Hertz, German Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1925.
1898 ~ Birthday of Alexander Calder, American Artist.
1933 ~ Wiley Post becomes first man to fly solo around the world.
1934 ~ John Dillinger was shot to death by FBI agents in Chicago.
1967 ~ Death of Carl Sandburg, Poet.
1977 ~ Deng Xiaoping, returned to Chinese Government.
1992 ~ Pablo Escobar, fearing extradition to the U.S., escaped from his luxury prison.
1998 ~ Death of Alan Shepard, Astronaut.
2003 ~ Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were killed when U.S. forces stormed a villa in Mosul, Iraq.
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July 24th
1898 ~ Birthday of Amelia Earhart, American Aviatrix.
1924 ~ The World Chess Federation, FIDE, was founded in Paris.
1943 ~ The RAF Bomber Command bombed Hamburg by night, USAAF 8th Air Force Bomber Command by day. By the end of the operation, 9,000 tons of explosive & incendiary bombs created a firestorm which killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
1959 ~ Khrushchev and Nixon had a war of words in the “Kitchen Debate”.
1967 ~ During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declared in Montreal "Vive le Québec libre!" (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
1974 ~ Death of James Chadwick, English physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1935.
1980 ~ Birthday of Gauge, Porn actress.
1980 ~ Death of Peter Sellers, Actor.
1985 ~ Birthday of Teagan Presley, Porn actress.
2005 ~ Lance Armstrong closed out his effective cycling career with a seventh consecutive Tour de France victory.
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July 25th
1834 ~ Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet. (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner & Kubla Khan )
1909 ~ Louis Bleriot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine. Calais to Dover in 37 minutes.
1917 ~ Sir Thomas Whyte introduced the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1848 ~ Birthday of Arthur Balfour, UK PM, remembered for issuing the British declaration of support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1946 ~ Crossroads Baker, a 21-kiloton nuclear weapon was detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini atoll.
1956 ~ 51 people died when the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm.
1976 ~ Birthday of Tera Patrick, Porn actress.
1978 ~ Louise Brown, the first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization, was born in Oldham, England.
1984 ~ Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
2000 ~ An Air France Concorde crashed just after takeoff from Paris, killing 113.
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July 26th
1856 ~ Birthday of George Bernard Shaw, Author, Playwright, awarded t he Nobel Prize in Literature 1925.
1875 ~ Birthday of Carl Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist.
1882 ~ Richard Parsifal" premiered at Bayreuth.
1898 ~ Birthday of Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft engineer and designer.
1928 ~ Birthday of Stanley Kubrick, Movie Director.
1943 ~ Birthday of Mick Jagger, English Musician. (Rolling Stones)
1947 ~ U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act into law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
1953 ~ Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution began.
1956 ~ Egyptian leader Gamal Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.
1991 ~ Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman, was arrested for allegedly masturbating at a Sarasota, Florida adult theatre.
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Hmmmm, Sarasota eh?
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July 27th
1904 ~ Birthday of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1921 ~ Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announced the discovery of the hormone insulin. He shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine for this.
1949 ~ Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
1953 ~ The Korean War stopped. The U.S., People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea signed an armistice agreement.
1974 ~ The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Nixon: Obstruction of Justice.
1980 ~ Death of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran.
1984 ~ Death of James Mason, English actor.
1990 ~ Belarus declared independence from the Soviet Union.
2003 ~ Death of Bob Hope, English-born Entertainer.
2002 ~ A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine; the largest ever air show disaster.
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July 28th
1741 ~ Death of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Composer.
1750 ~ Death of Johann Sebastian Bach, German Composer.
1794 ~ Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine.
1866 ~ Birthday of Beatrix Potter, English Author. (The Tale of Peter Rabbit)
1868 ~ The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed Congress, which integrated Due Process & Equal Protection into the constitution.
1904 ~ Birthday of Pavel Cherenkov, Soviet Physicist, awarded one third the Nobel Prize in Physics 1958.
1914 ~ World War I began as Austria declared war on Serbia.
1996 ~ The remains of a prehistoric man, Kennewick Man, was discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
1998 ~ Monica Lewinsky was given blanket immunity from prosecution in exchange for grand jury testimony in the investigation of her relationship with President Bill Clinton.
2004 ~ Death of Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS, awarded one third the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962.
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