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July 4th
1776 ~ The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.
1845 ~ Henry David Thoreau began a two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond near Concord, Mass.
1855 ~ The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems Leaves of Grass was published.
1885 ~ Birthday of Louis B. Mayer, Movie Executive (one of the M’s in MGM).
1934 ~ Death of Marie Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of he Nobel Prize in Physics 1903.
1971 ~ Birthday of Koko, the sign-language gorilla.
1976 ~ The U.S. celebrated its Bicentennial.
1976 ~ Israeli commandos rescued 100 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda.
1982 ~ Birthday of Hannah Harper, Porn Actress.
2006 ~ North Korea tested four short-range, one medium-range, and a long-range missle over the Sea of Japan.
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07-07-2011, 08:16 PM
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07-08-2011, 08:12 PM
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July 9th
1896 ~ William Jennings Bryan delivered his “Cross of Gold” speech.
1879 ~ Birthday of Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Pines of Rome, Ancient Airs and Dances).
1900 ~ Queen Victoria gave royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia, uniting separate colonies under one federal government.
1911 ~ Birthday of John A. Wheeler, American physicist (coined the terms black hole and wormhole).
1916 ~ Birthday of Edward Heath, P.M. of the UK
1973 ~ The Bahamas' last day as a British colony.
1974 ~ Death of Earl Warren, Governor of California, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1995 ~ The Grateful Dead played their last concert, at Soldier Field in Chicago.
1997 ~ Mike Tyson's boxing license was suspended and he was fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield's ear in a televised match.
2001 ~ The Big Bang Theory of the origin of the universe received substantial support.
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07-09-2011, 07:11 PM
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July 10th
1839 ~ Birthday of Adolphus Busch, German-born Brewer.
1856 ~ Birthday of Nikola Tesla, Croatian physicist.
1940 ~ The Luftwaffe began the Battle of Britain.
1962 ~ The world's first active communications satellite, Telstar, and first privately sponsored space launch.
1985 ~ The Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior was sunk in Auckland Harbor by French agents.
1989 ~ Death of Mel Blanc, Voice Actor ( Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Beaky Buzzard, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Barney Rubble, Mr. Spacely).
1997 ~ Scientists reported their DNA analysis findings which support the Out of Africa hypothesis of human evolution.
2002 ~ At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents was sold for $76.2 million.
2003 ~ Death of Lord Shawcross, U.K. chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
2011 ~ After 168 years, the British tabloid News of the World published its last edition.
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July 11th
1798 ~ The U.S. Marine Corps was re-created by an act of Congress.
1859 ~ Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" was published.
1899 ~ Birthday of E. B. White, American Writer. (Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan.)
1914 ~ Babe Ruth made his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox.
1920 ~ Birthday of Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor.
1937 ~ Death of George Gershwin, American Composer.
1977 ~ The Gay News and its editor Denis Lemon were found guilty of blasphemous libel.
1994 ~ Death of Savannah, Porn Star.
1979 ~ Skylab deorbited.
1989 ~ Death of Sir Laurence Olivier, Actor.
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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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July 14th
1789 ~ Citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille. Generally recognized as the beginning of the French Revolution.
1798 ~ The Sedition Act made it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government.
1862 ~ Birthday of Gustav Klimt, Austrian Painter & Graphic Artist.
1881 ~ Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett.
1887 ~ Death of Alfred Krupp, German munitions manufacturer.
1912 ~ Birthday of Woody Guthrie, American folk singer.
1913 ~ Birthday of Gerald Ford, U.S. President.
1965 ~ Mariner 4 flyby of Mars took the first close-up photos of another planet.
2000 ~ A Florida jury ordered five major tobacco companies to pay smokers $145 billion in punitive damages. (The verdict was later overturned by the Florida Supreme Court.).
2007 ~ Russia withdrew from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
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July 18th
1887 ~ Birthday of Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Politician & Traitor.
1909 ~ Birthday of Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Diplomat & President.
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.
1969 ~ After a party, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car off a wooden bridge into a pond, and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, died.
1973 ~ Death of Jack Hawkins, English film actor.
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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