July 31 Events

2010 Floods in Pakistan kill over 900 people, and the death toll is expected to rise further
1997 A's trade Mark McGwire to St. Louis Cardinals07940601
1994 102.7 degrees F (39.3 degrees C) in Pleschen, East-Germany
1994 28th Curtis Cup: Draw, 9-9
1994 Arcen Limburg averages 71.6 degrees F (22.0 degrees C) in July: record
1994 Helen Alfredss wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
1994 Netherlands averages 21.4 degrees C; their warmest July since 1783
1994 Phil Rizzuto (Yankees) and Steve Carlton enter the Hall of Fame
1994 Sergei Bubka ploe vaults his 35th world record (6.14 m)
1994 Stockholms avgs 21.5 degrees C; their warmest July since 1855
1994 U.N. votes 12-0 (2 abstentions) to authorize use of force against Haiti
1993 A's trade Rickey Henderson to Blue Jays
1993 Allman Bros guitarist Dickey Betts arrested for shoving 2 cops
1993 Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg
1993 Prince Ronald "Ronnie" Mutebi crowned king of Uganda
1992 Jeff Rouse swims world record/OR 100m backstroke (53.86 sec)
1992 Kieren John Perkins swims world record/OR 1500m free style (14:43.4)
1992 Tamas Darnyi swims world record/Olympics 200m backstroke (1:59.36)
1992 Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die
1992 Yang Wenyi swims world record/OR 50m freestyle (24.79 sec)
1991 Russia and U.S. sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact
1991 Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
1990 Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence
1990 Nolan Ryan becomes 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games
1989 Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to Mets
1988 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open
1988 Jose Canseco is 1st to hit 30 home runs in 1st 3 years
1988 Miami Dolphins beat San Francisco 49ers 27-21 in London
1988 Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame
1987 "Living Daylights" premieres in U.S.
1987 Battle between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed
1987 Eddie Murray hits his 300th home run
1987 Guns and Roses song "Appetite for Destruction" is released
1987 Oriole Eddie Murray hits his 299th and 300th career home runs
1987 Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle
1984 Leeza Gibbon's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
1984 U.S. men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics
1984 Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed
1983 38th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jan Stephenson
1983 B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, and W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame
1983 Dutch July avg temp is 20.1 degrees C; warmest July since 1852
1982 46 kids and 7 adults die as 2 buses and several cars collide in France
1982 Car/bus collision near Beaune, France, 53 die
1982 Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF)
1982 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test
1981 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends
1981 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of National Bar Association
1980 John Phillips of Mamas and Papas is arrested on drug charges
1980 Rangers snap Orioles pitcher Steve Stone's 14-game winning streak
1980 Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
1980 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1979 "But Never Jam Today" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 7 performances
1978 Gunman shoots his way into Iraqi Embassy in Paris
1978 New York Yankees now 7 out of 1st, picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks
1978 Pete Rose ties NL record hitting streak at 44
1977 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Pocono Northeast Golf Classic
1977 E Henry Knoche, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1977 John F. Blake promoted from acting to deputy director of CIA
1976 Seychelles Independence, Independence day
1976 Waldemar Cierpinski runs Olympic marathon (2:09:55.0)
1973 ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to New York Nets
1973 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later
1973 Frank Hayes scores 106 on Test Cricket debut vs. WI as England lose
1972 Dick Allen is 7th to hit 2 inside-the-park homers in a game
1972 Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic Vice Presidential candidate
1971 Apollo 15 astronauts take 6 hour electric car ride on Moon
1971 Deventer Soccer team Go Ahead Eagles forms
1970 37th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Kansas City 24, All Stars 3 (69,940)
1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
1969 KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 Mariner 6 flies past Mars
1969 National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1968 Beatles close Apple Boutique, giving clothes away for free
1967 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence
1966 Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark
1966 Charles Whitman wounds 46 and kills 5 at University of Texas
1965 Cigarette Ads banned on British TV
1964 Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor
1964 George Lascelles marries Patricia Tuckwell
1964 Rolling Stone concert in Ireland halts after 12 minutes due to riot
1964 U.S. Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon
1963 Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina
1963 Cleveland ties record of 4 consecutive home runs (Held, Ramos, Francona, Brown)
1963 Indians' Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona, and Larry Brown hit consecutive home runs in one inning (vs California Angels)
1962 Federation of Malaysia forms
1962 Statham is Test crickets' leading wkt-taker (229), beating Lindwall
1961 31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston
1961 Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant
1960 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
1960 KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast
1960 Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1959 1st exhibit of bongos at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
1958 Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet
1956 Laker takes 10-53 in Australia's 2nd innings, 19-90 for match
1955 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Battle Creek Golf Open
1955 KRNT (now KCCI) TV channel 8 in Des Moines, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 WHIS (now WVVA) TV channel 6 in Bluefield, WV (NBC) 1st broadcast
1954 Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 home runs, 1 double)
1953 Department of Health, Education and Welfare created
1949 Lightning strikes a baseball field in Florida, kills SS and 3rd baseman
1948 "Brigadoon" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 581 performances
1948 President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), New York
1944 Last deportation train out Mechelen departs to Auschwitz
1944 Transport nr 77 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 U.S. troops occupy Sansapor New-Guinea
1943 Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to nazi Germany
1942 German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1942 U boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton
1941 U boats sink 21 allied ships this month: 94,000 ton
1940 38 U boats sinks this month (196,000 ton)
1940 Riech's commissar Seyss-Inquart bans homosexuals
1938 New York Yankees suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over head with a club"
1937 Politburo enables Operative Order 00447: execute 193,000 Russians
1936 Tokyo, Japan is awarded the 1940 Olympics, later cancelled
1935 3rd Dutch government of Colijn sworn in
1934 29th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats USA in Wimbledon (4-1)
1934 St. Louis Cardinals defeat Cincinnati Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean and Tony Freitos go the distant
1932 27th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (3-2)
1932 Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Philadelphia A's beat Indians 1-0
1932 George Washington quarter goes into circulation
1932 German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%)
1930 Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yankees beat Red Sox 14-13
1929 Aristide Briand becomes premier of France
1925 Last allied occupying troops leave Ruhrgebied
1925 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England
1923 Belgian Chamber discusses bilinguality at Ghent University
1922 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn)
1922 Italy's general strike against fascist violence
1919 Germany accepts Weimar Constitution
1917 3rd battle of Ypres begins
1914 German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize
1914 Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo
1912 RBC soccer team forms in Roosendaal
1912 U.S. government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights
1911 Hungarian education is only taught in German
1910 Chicago Cub King Cole no-hits St. Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game
1910 Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration
1909 Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
1905 Matumbi rebellion at Samanga German East Africa
1901 Abraham Kuyper becomes premier of Netherlands
1900 Boer Generals Prinsloo and Roux surrenders in Brandwater Basin
1899 Albert Trott hits Monty Noble over the Pavilion at Lord's
1893 Henry Perky patents shredded wheat
1876 U.S. Coast Guard officers' training school established New Bedford, Massachusetts
1874 Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as President of Georgetown U
1864 Ulysses S. Grant is named General of Volunteers
1861 9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam: world record
1855 Hottest July in Stockholm since at least 1756 (21.4 degrees C avg)
1852 Hottest July in Netherlands since at least 1783 (68.4 degrees F (20.2 degrees C) avg)
1849 Benjamin Chambers patents breech loading cannon
1830 Charles X of France resigns by force
1813 British invade Plattsburgh, New York
1809 1st practical U.S. railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Philadelphia
1794 All Jacobijnse clubs together in Haarlem
1792 Cornerstone laid for 1st U.S. government building: U.S. Mint in Philadelphia
1790 1st U.S. patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
1777 Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army
1774 Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen
1751 Fire in Stockholm destroys 1,000 houses
1737 Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court
1718 Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish
1667 Peace of Breda: 2nd English war-Suriname vs New-Netherlands ends
1664 Pierre Corneille's "Othon," premieres in Paris
1658 Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor
1653 Fronde-leaders surrender in Bordeaux
1620 Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America
1588 English fleet beats Spanish Armada
1498 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad
1291 Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine
904 Saraceens hijacker Leo van Tripoli occupies and plunders Thessalonica
768 [Philip] begins and ends his reign as Catholic Pope
432 St. Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope

July 30 Events

2010 Two U.S. embassy cars are set on fire in Kabul after a U.S. vehicle collides with a civilian vehicle
1997 Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
1996 Tommy Lasoda retires as Los Angeles Dodger manager
1995 Becky Iverson wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic
1995 Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win vs. WI
1995 Lara completes 5th Test Cricket century, 145 at Old Trafford
1995 Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter basaeball's Hall of Fame
1994 Record 103.8 degrees F (39.9 degrees C) in Preschen Lausitz Germany
1992 Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65)
1991 MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
1991 Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
1990 5 Bank of Credit and Commerce members found guilty of money
1990 Graham Gooch scores 123 vs. India to follow up 1st innings 333
1990 Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die
1990 George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of New York Yankees
1989 Chile amends its constitution
1989 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
1988 Cincinnati Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month
1988 Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m
1988 James Ogilvy, under English princess Alexandra, marries Julia Rawlinson
1988 John Franco saves record 13th game of July
1988 Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO
1988 King Hussein dissolves Jordan's House of Representatives
1988 Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hours, 4 minutes)
1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-51-I mission
1985 Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
1984 Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
1984 Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant
1984 Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV
1983 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, California
1983 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of U.S.S.R. jerks a record 261 kg
1982 Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats
1982 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test
1981 Belgian Senate accept laws against racism
1981 Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms," premieres in London
1980 Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke
1980 Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain and France
1978 Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits and NL-record-tying 8 home runs
1978 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1976 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
1976 Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
1975 Simon Gray's "Otherwise Engaged," premieres in London
1975 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit
1974 House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd and last charge of "high crimes and misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up
1973 Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0
1972 "Ain't Supposed to Die Death" closes at Barrymore New York City after 325 performances
1972 Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
1971 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289)
1971 George Harrison releases "Bangladesh"
1971 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162
1971 U.S. Apollo 15 (Scott and Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
1970 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield, Connecticut
1969 Astros Denis Menke and Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets
1969 Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
1969 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos)
1968 Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away
1968 Washington Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years
1967 Clifford Ann Creed/Margie Masters wins Yankee Ladies' Team Golf Champ
1967 Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)
1966 Beatles' "Yesterday... and Today," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks
1966 England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open
1966 U.S. airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam
1965 Charles Ives' "From the Steeples and the Mountains," premieres
1965 Duke Ellington's "Golden Brown and the Green Apple," premieres
1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
1965 Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants
1964 U.S. naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam
1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
1962 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1962 All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels)
1961 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL
1961 Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1960 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
1959 In his major league debut, San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
1956 U.S. motto, In God We Trust, authorized
1955 Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France
1954 Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles
1954 Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
1952 Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid
1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
1948 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6)
1948 Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
1947 Cincinnati Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to New York Giants 5-4
1946 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico
1945 Philippines Sea: U.S. cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die
1944 Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire and Villebaudon Normandy
1944 U.S. 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy
1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
1943 U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano
1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1942 German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1942 German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands
1941 German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU and SGP in Netherlands
1939 Belgium Sylvere Maes wins 33rd Tour de France
1938 General Metaxas names himself premier of Greece
1937 Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base and registers no put outs
1935 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
1933 28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2)
1932 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1930 1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio
1930 Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo
1928 George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures
1926 Albanian boundaries deduced
1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
1917 Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting
1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, New Jersey
1914 Austrian-Hungary and Russia proclaim general mobilization
1914 French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
1914 John French appointed British supreme commander
1913 Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War
1909 John A. Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
1909 Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
1908 Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
1905 Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms
1902 Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (New York City)
1898 Will Kieth Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty"
1878 German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election
1878 Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties
1874 1st baseball teams to play outside U.S., Boston-Philadelphia in British Isles
1870 Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100
1866 Race riot in New Orleans
1865 Pope Pius IX visits Suriname
1864 Battle of the Crater: General Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg
1864 Confederate troops attack Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in fire
1863 President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
1844 1st U.S. yacht club organized, New York Yacht Club
1839 Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
1836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
1826 Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed
1824 Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris
1822 James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church
1809 English invasion army lands in Walcheren
1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
1775 Captain Cook with Resolution returns to England
1739 Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, New Jersey
1733 Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston
1729 City of Baltimore founded
1715 Spanish gold and silver fleet disappears off St. Lucie, Florida
1678 English troops lands in Flanders
1655 Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram
1653 Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland
1650 Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam
1646 English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions
1626 Earthquake hits Naples; 10,000 die
1619 House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective U.S. governing body
1618 Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht
1601 Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius
1537 Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire
1419 Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague and throw Catholic councillors out the windows
1178 Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy
657 St. Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I
579 Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

July 29 Events

2010 Monsoon rains delay salvage of the wreckage of Airblue Flight 202 which crashed in the Margalla Hills outside Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people onboard
1997 U.S. Senior Golf Open ends at Olympia Fields Golf Club Illinois
1995 Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis
1995 Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14
1994 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin
1994 Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8 year jail sentenced
1994 H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election
1994 India army kills 27 Moslem militants
1994 Parliamentary election in Aruba
1993 Cincinnati Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession
1993 Walter Koenig, Checkov-Star Trek, suffers a mild heart attack
1993 Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible
1992 "Chinese Coffee" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 18 performances
1992 Evgueni Sadovyi swims world record/OR 400m freestyle (3:45.00)
1992 Ray Sharkey, actor, Wiseguys, arrested for narcotic possession
1991 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium, Mets beat Cubs 6-0
1991 Yankee Stadium fans throw cups and blowup dolls at Jose Canseco
1990 26th Curtis Cup: U.S. wins 14-4
1990 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats U.S.S.R. in Atlanta Georgia (2-1)
1990 36th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Beth Daniel
1990 Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game
1990 South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference
1989 Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan
1989 Phillies retire Steve Carlton's # 32
1989 Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases
1989 White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher and Sam Sosa
1988 FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989
1988 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
1988 Last U.S. Playboy Club, Lansing, Michigan, closes
1988 South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"
1988 Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling
1988 Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home
1987 Ben and Jerry's and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
1986 Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed
1986 Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire vs. Lancashire
1986 New York jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
1984 12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster
1984 23rd Summer Olympics opens in Los Angeles
1983 "Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV
1983 Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
1982 Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson
1981 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated
1981 Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris
1981 Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer
1979 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott
1978 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, New York
1978 Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h 40m
1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings
1978 On Old Timer's Day, New York Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as New York Yankee manager in 1980 and Bob Lemon will become General Manager
1976 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test
1975 Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
1975 Military coup by General Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired
1974 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee
1974 Episcopal Church ordained female priests
1974 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 St. Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base
1973 $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from New York, Hilton
1973 Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
1972 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1970 6 days of race rioting in Hartford, Connecticut
1969 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
1968 Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
1968 Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
1968 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
1968 Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited
1968 Washington D.C. Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs. Cleveland
1967 Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134
1967 Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage
1966 Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock New York
1966 Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup
1965 Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
1965 Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
1965 Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
1965 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1961 Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games
1961 Wallis and Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory
1958 President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958
1958 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running
1957 Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1957 International Atomic Energy Agency formed by U.N.
1957 Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres
1956 11th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius
1956 Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
1956 WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting
1955 Smokey Burgess hits 3 home runs to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5
1955 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test
1953 U.S. bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok
1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1950 Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run
1949 Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends
1949 BBC radio begins broadcasting
1948 King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London
1947 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg, Virginia
1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine
1944 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours
1944 Frank McCormick (Reds) home run off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH
1944 U.S. 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches
1943 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg
1943 Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam
1942 Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd
1940 Urk soccer team forms
1938 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears
1938 Olympic National Park forms
1937 Japanese troops occupies Peking and Tientsin
1936 RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road and comedy)
1934 17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville NY
1930 115 degrees F (46 degrees C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)
1930 Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
1929 Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France
1928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
1928 Cleveland Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yankees 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record with 24 singles in 1 game
1927 1st iron lung installed, Bellevue hospital, New York
1927 Bellevue Hospital in New York installs 1st iron lung
1927 Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire vs. Northants
1924 Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship
1923 Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
1923 KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany
1921 Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 innings
1921 New rules of language assumed, equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium
1920 1st transcontinental airmail flight from New York to SF
1920 Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
1916 Postal check and Girodienst establishes
1915 Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam home run
1914 1st transcontinental phone link made between New York City and SF
1914 Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade
1914 British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover
1914 Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary
1913 Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied
1911 Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St. Louis Browns, 5-0
1910 JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory
1908 St. Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Philadelphia Athletics
1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
1902 Union of Orthodox Rabbis of U.S. and Canada forms
1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, New York
1899 Southern California Golf Association forms
1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
1864 3rd and last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
1864 Battle of Macon, Georgia (Stoneman's Raid)
1858 1st commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed
1858 U.S. citizens allowed to live anywhere in Japan
1844 New York Yacht Club forms
1786 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette
1783 Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000
1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
1751 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 minutes in England
1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane
1696 French king Louis XIV and Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace
1693 Battle at Neerwinden: French beats English/Dutch army
1676 Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians
1655 Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam
1634 Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curacao
1588 Attacking Spanish Armada defeated and scattered by English defenders
1588 Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England
1585 Friese academy opens
1579 Antwerp request union with of Utrecht
1579 King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez and princess van Eboli
1565 Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
1563 League of High Nobles routes King Philip II
1560 Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden
1179 Lando Sittino proclaimed (anti-)pope Innocent III
1030 Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim)
1014 Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies
626 Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople
362 Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws

July 28 Events

2010 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, responds to a fiscal state of emergency by requiring most state employees to take three days of unpaid leave per month
2005 IRA issues a statement ordering the end to the armed campaign against the British
2004 Democrats nominate John Kerry as their Presidential candidate
1998 After months of wrangling, Lewinsky and Starr announce a full immunity agreement for Lewinsky and her parents
1997 Mark Messier signs with Vancouver Canucks
1997 Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion
1996 New York Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th home run
1996 Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Micelob Light Heartland Golf Classic
1995 Art Modell's rep begins secrets talks to move team to Baltimore
1994 Baseball players decide to strike on Aug 12, 1994
1994 Last steel beam is placed on Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1994 Texas Ranger Kenny Rogers pitches baseball's 12th perfect game
1993 Mariner Ken Griffey, Jr. is 3rd to hit home runs in 8 straight games
1992 Ground breaking of Florida Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium
1991 "Gypsy" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 105 performances
1991 12th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus
1991 29th Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Nottingham England (2-1)
1991 Buffalo Bills beat Philadelphia Eagles, 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley
1991 Dennis Martinez pitches the 15th perfect game in baseball history
1991 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Bay State Golf Classic
1991 Miguel Indurain of Spain wins Tour de France bicycle race
1990 Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru
1989 Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run home runs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 home runs in an inning. Also ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning
1989 Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50
1989 NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, announce new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz
1988 IBM announces price hike on older models
1988 Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years
1988 Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank
1988 Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson
1988 Yankees' Tommy John makes 3 errors on 1 play yet beats Brewers 16-3
1987 42nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Laura Davies
1987 Angel Cordero, Jr. becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races
1986 Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed
1986 NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated
1985 13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
1985 Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru
1985 L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, and H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame
1984 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1983 AL President Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision and allows
1983 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1983 George Brett's 2 run home run against Yankees on July 24 (pine tar game)
1983 NASA launches Telstar-3A
1980 Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaunde Terry becomes president
1979 Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 home run game
1979 France performs nuclear Test
1978 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in New York
1978 At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees
1978 Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time
1978 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1977 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska
1977 Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks
1977 Test Cricket debut of Ian Botham vs. Australia Trent Bridge, 5-74 1st innings
1976 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake
1976 8.2 and 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China (240-750,000 die)
1976 Eldon Joersz and Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph
1976 White Sox John Odom (5 inn) and Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's
1974 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck, Belem, Brazil
1974 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
1973 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1973 Jane Blalock/Sandra Palmer wins Lady Angelo's 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1973 Skylab 3's astronauts, Bean, Garriott and Lousma, launched
1972 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162)
1971 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning
1971 Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie"
1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam
1964 England all out 611 in reply to Australia's 8-656 Match a draw
1964 Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1962 19 die in a train crash in Steelton, Pennsylvania
1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
1960 Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
1959 Great Britain starts using postal codes
1959 Hawaii's 1st U.S. election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
1957 Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance, Steve Allen Show
1957 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1957 White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game
1954 Ernest Blochs 4th string quartet, premieres
1952 Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell, as Cincinnati Reds manager
1951 "Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 1077 performances
1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
1948 I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die
1947 Iuliu Maniu's Boer party becomes forbidden in Romania
1945 Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building
1945 Japanese premier Suzuki disregards U.S. ultimatum to surrender
1945 U.S. Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Building, 14 die
1945 U.S. Senate ratifies United Nations charter 89-2
1944 Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy
1944 U.S. 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France
1943 Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
1943 President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces end of coffee rationing in U.S.
1942 Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto
1942 Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland
1940 Radio Orange, London begins
1940 Yankee Charlie Keller hits 3 home runs to beat White Sox 10-9
1939 5th Dutch government of Colijn falls
1938 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead
1938 Bradman scores 202 Australia vs. Somerset, 225 minutes, 32 fours
1937 Eddie Paynter scores 322 for Lancashire against Sussex
1937 Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire
1935 Belgium's Romain Maes, wins Tour de France
1934 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Orofino, Idaho (state record)
1933 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), New York City
1933 NFL divides into (2) 5 team divisions
1933 Spain recognizes the U.S.S.R.
1932 Battle between unemployed war veterans and federal troops, 4 die
1932 President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment
1931 Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem
1931 White Sox score 11 in 8th to beat Yankees 14-12
1930 114 degrees F (46 degrees C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record)
1929 Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Michigan)
1928 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam
1926 U.S. and Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal
1919 Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam
1917 Silent Parade in New York City to protest murders of blacks in race riots
1915 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (New York City) protesting lynchings
1915 U.S. forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924
1914 Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox)
1914 Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow
1914 World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
1913 12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
1911 96 degrees F (35.6 degrees C) in De Bilt Netherlands
1906 Yankees turn triple-play, beat Cleveland 6-4
1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
1898 Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender
1898 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Retired Colourman"
1896 City of Miami incorporated
1886 English Salisbury government forms
1883 Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000
1882 Opera "Parsifal" is produced (Beirut)
1868 14th Amendment ratified, grants citizenship to ex-slaves
1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in U.S.
1864 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia
1864 Battle of Atlanta Georgia (Ezra Church)-second sortie US700 CS4642
1862 Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo
1858 Nadar takes 1st airborne photo, in a balloon
1858 William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India
1851 Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
1849 Memmon is 1st clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of New York
1830 Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe
1821 Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1808 Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey
1742 Prussia and Austria sign peace treaty
1741 Captain Bering discovers Mount St. Elias, Alaska
1717 Prussian king Frederik Willem I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs
1708 Monarch Amengkurat II [Sunan Mas] of Mataram gives himself up to VOC
1696 De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance
1683 Anne Stuart marries prince Georges of Denmark
1635 Spanish marshal Piccolomini conquerors Schenkenschans
1609 Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda
1588 Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I
1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe
1579 Cardinal Granvelle returns to Madrid
1540 English King Henry VIII marries Catharine Howard, his 5th wife
1434 Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon
1402 Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur Lenk beats sultan Bajezid I
1148 Crusaders attack Damascus
754 Pope Stephen II, III, makes Pippin de Korte, King of France
388 Battle at Aquileja: Emperor Theodosius beats emperor Magnus Maximis

July 27 Events

2010 Photographic negatives purchased at a garage sale prove to be early works by American photographer Ansel Adams
1997 "Candide," closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 103 performances
1997 "Victor/Victoria" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 738 performances
1997 Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser's #16
1997 Franklin Quest Senior Golf Championship
1997 Stewart Cink wins golfs Greater Hartford Open (267)
1997 Tammie Green wins Giant Eagle LPGA Classic
1996 Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured
1996 David Sales makes 210 on 1st class cricket debut for Northants vs. Worcs
1993 Detroit Tiger Fryman hits for cycle but loses 12-7 to Yankees
1993 Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high
1993 Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed
1993 NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million
1993 New York Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games
1992 Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Rep National Convention
1992 Dimitri Lepikov, Vladimir Pychenko, Veniamin Taianovitch and Evgueni
1992 Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95)
1991 Rocker Jani Lane, Warrant-Cherry Pie, marries model Bobbie Brown
1991 TV Guide publishes it's 2000th edition
1990 Graham Gooch scores 333 vs. India at Lord's
1990 Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 minutes in county cricket, world record
1990 Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop
1989 Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)
1988 Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years
1988 General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma
1988 Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer
1988 Tommy John commits rec 3 errors on 1 play as Yankees rout Brewers 16-3
1987 John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies in Israel
1987 Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive
1986 14th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
1986 24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague, Czechoslovakia (3-0)
1986 Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France
1984 Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single vs. Philadelphia
1983 104 degrees F (40.3 degrees C) in Garmersdorf (German record)
1983 Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal
1982 California catches A's Rickey Henderson stealing 3 times
1982 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 1st visit to U.S. in almost 11 years
1982 Menken and Ashman's musical "Little Shop of Horrors," premieres in New York City
1980 Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead
1980 Sally Little wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1979 "Broadway Opry '79" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 6 performances
1979 France performs nuclear Test
1978 Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd to hit 2 bases-loaded triples (vs Yankees)
1978 Portuguese President Eanes fires premier Soares
1977 John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in U.S.
1976 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese
1976 Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested, Lockheed Affair
1975 Carol Mann wins LPGA George Washington Ladies Golf Classic
1974 House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment
1974 Kanhai and Jameson add 465 for 2nd wicket, Warwickshire vs. Gloucs
1973 40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103)
1973 Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners
1972 NHL star Maurice "Rocket" Richard signs with WHL Quebec Nordiques
1970 Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game
1970 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1970 L Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, and Jesse Haines enter Hall of Fame
1969 15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1969 Pioneer 10 launched
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open
1968 Race Riot in Gary, Indiana
1967 Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns
1967 Helmond Sport soccer team forms
1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson sets up commission to study cause of urban violence
1967 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1965 Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government
1965 President Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking
1963 Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1963 General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria
1962 Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission
1962 Martin Luther King, Jr. jailed in Albany, Georgia
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1960 Vice President Nixon nominated for President at Republican convention in Chicago
1959 Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India vs. England on debut
1959 William Shea announces he plans to have a baseball team in New York City in 1961
1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open
1957 St. James' Theater in London closes
1956 Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's 1st innings at Manchester
1955 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation
1955 Bulgaria shoots down a plane heading for Israel (58 die)
1955 Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die
1954 36th PGA Championship: Chick Herbert at Keller Golf Club St. Paul Minnesota
1954 Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries
1953 1st insulin isolated by F Banting and C Best in Toronto
1953 North Korea and United Nations sign armistice
1953 Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory
1953 Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, and Bill Klem and Tom Connolly are inducted into Hall of Fame
1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (2:23:03.2)
1950 President Truman promises aid to Taiwan
1949 1st jet-propelled airline, De Havilland Comet, flies
1948 Australia set 404 to win vs. England at Headingley
1948 Bradman's 29th and last Test Cricket century, part of winning 3-404
1948 Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt
1947 Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak
1946 Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs
1945 Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from New York Yankees
1945 U.S. Communist Party forms
1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat, Gloster Meteor
1944 Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp
1944 U.S. regains possession of Guam from Japanese
1944 U.S. troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy
1943 772 British bombers attack Hamburg
1941 103 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
1941 German army enters Ukraine
1941 Japanese forces land in Indo-China
1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
1940 Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare"
1937 32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1)
1935 Floods at Yangtzee Jiang and Hoangh, kills 200,000
1934 French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms
1932 Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death
1931 Chilean president Carlos Ibanez forced out
1931 Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr and SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops
1930 Andre Leducq wins Tour de France
1929 Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished
1928 AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms
1927 Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries widow Betty Carver
1927 Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park)
1924 8th Olympic games closes in Paris
1922 International Geographical Union forms in Brussels
1921 2nd government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
1921 Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolates insulin at University of Toronto
1920 Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation
1920 Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup
1919 Chicago race riot, 15 whites and 23 blacks killed, 500 injured
1918 Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in U.S., launched to carry oil, New York
1914 Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade
1913 Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France
1909 Orville Wright tests 1st U.S. Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s
1898 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dancing Men"
1897 14.75" (37.5 cm) of rainfall, Jewell, Maryland (state 24-hhourr record)
1897 Dutch government of Pierson/Goeman Borgesius resigns
1891 Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as Governor of Suriname
1888 Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile
1880 A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil
1880 Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr. Watson is wounded, breaks out
1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
1864 Battle of Darbytown, Virginia (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains)
1862 Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die
1862 Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico
1861 Battle of Mathias Point, Virginia - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing
1861 Battle of St. Augustine Springs, New Mexico Terr
1861 Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico
1861 Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army
1844 Fire destroys U.S. mint at Charlotte, North Carolina
1839 Chartist riots break out in Birmingham England
1837 U.S. Mint opens in Charlotte, North Carolina
1836 Adelaide, South Australia founded
1830 Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X
1816 U.S. troops destroy Ft. Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
1809 Battle at Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army
1795 Spain and France sign peace treaty
1794 Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris
1789 Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs, State Department
1714 Battle at Hango (Hangut): Russians beat Swedish fleet
1714 English Queen Anne fires premier Robert Haley
1713 Russia and Turkey sign peace treaty
1694 Bank of England granted 12 year charter by Act of Parliament
1689 Battle of Killicrankie, Viscount Dundee defeats Whig General MacKay
1689 Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie
1663 English parliament accepts Staple Act
1661 Parliament confirms Navigation Act
1655 Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery
1655 Netherlands and Brandenburg sign military treaty
1643 Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough
1641 Prince Frederik Henry captures castle of Gennep
1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
1563 French army recaptures Le Havre
1501 Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
1365 Isabella of England marries Enguerrand of Coucy at Windsor
1360 Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland
1298 Albert I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1298 Roman Catholics German King Albrecht I von Habsburg installed
1280 Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China
1230 Treaty of San-Germano between Emperor Frederik II and Pope Gregory IX
1214 1st battle of Bouvines - King Philips II vs Emperor Otto IV
432 St. Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

July 26 Events

2010 Over 92,000 classified documents detailing incidents related to the war in Afghanistan are released by Wikileaks; this is the largest leak in U.S military history
2005 Shuttle Discovery STS-114 launches, first flight since Columbia disaster
1998 19th U.S. Senior Golf Open ends at Riviera CC, Pacific Palisades, California
1998 Giant Eagle LPGA Classic
1994 Cambodia's Red Khmer surprise attack on train, kills 13
1994 Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed
1993 Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed
1993 Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km
1992 "Man of La Mancha" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 108 performances
1992 47th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1992 England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Is war
1992 Kiss Guitarist Paul Stanley weds Pamela Bowen
1992 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for 23rd consecutive seasons
1992 Rocker Paul Stanley (Kiss) weds model Pamela Bowen
1991 CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders
1991 Expo's Mark Gardner no hits Dodgers for 9 innings, but loses in 10th
1990 General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode
1990 President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
1990 Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Reds-Padres game
1990 U.S. beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games
1988 Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies and New York Mets end that game at 2:13 AM
1987 Catfish Hunter Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball HOF
1987 Stephen Roche wins Tour de France
1986 Lebanese kidnappers released Reverend Lawrence Martin Jenco
1984 Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single
1984 Kuhn announces Vida Blue is suspended due to cocaine conviction
1984 Pitcher Vida Blue suspended for rest of 1984 due to drug use
1983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8
1983 Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czechoslovakia sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28)
1983 Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io
1982 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by U.S. Delta rocket
1982 Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada, crowned 31st Miss Universe
1981 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela
1981 36th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley
1981 New York Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant
1979 Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, Texas (national record)
1978 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1978 Johnny Bench hits his 300th career home run
1977 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test
1975 Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
1974 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 U.S.S.R.'s Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3
1973 Peter Shaffers "Equus," premieres in London
1971 Apollo 15 launched (Scott and Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon
1970 Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive home runs of Phillies Steve Carlton
1969 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific
1967 Twins beat Yankees 3-2 in 18
1966 WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, New Hampshire (NBC) begins broadcasting
1965 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open
1964 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy
1964 Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die
1963 Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+
1963 U.S. Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1962 Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba
1962 Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets home run record of 31 by a pitcher
1960 Italian government of Fanfani forms
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1958 Army launches 4th U.S. successful satellite, Explorer IV
1957 Mickey Mantle hits career home run # 200
1957 U.S.S.R. launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
1956 Egypt seizes Suez Canal
1955 37th PGA Championship: Doug Ford at Meadowbrook CC Detroit
1955 Last day as Test Cricket umpire for Frank Chester
1955 Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers
1954 WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1953 Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime
1952 King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday]
1952 Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer
1951 Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
1950 Dodgers' Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits home runs twice in a game
1950 KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites
1949 WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1948 "Babe Ruth Story," premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance
1948 1st black host of a network show-CBS' Bob Howard Show
1948 Leo Durocher returns to Ebbets Field as a New York Giant
1948 President Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in armed forces
1947 Department of Defense forms
1947 National Security Act establishes CIA
1946 President Truman orders desegregation of all U.S. forces
1945 After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes PM
1945 Declaration of Potsdam: US/Brit/China demands Japanese surrender
1945 Japanese government disregards U.S. ultimatum
1945 U.S. cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb
1945 Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister
1944 Japanese suicide attack on U.S. lines in Guam
1944 Russian troops arrive in Weichsel
1944 U.S. offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St. Gilles
1943 120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record)
1943 Otto Skorzeny's commando group arrives in Rome
1942 RAF bombs Hamburg
1942 RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism
1941 "Camp Amersfoort" opened by Germany occupiers
1941 1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague
1941 U.S. embargo on oil-export to Japan
1939 Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive home runs
1938 1st radio broadcast of "Young Widder Brown" on NBC
1933 Joe Dimaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League
1928 Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1928 Yankees score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1
1926 National Bar Association incorporates
1926 Philippines government asks U.S. to plebiscite for independence
1918 Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites and 1 black killed)
1917 J. Edgar Hoover gets job on ministry of Justice
1915 International School for Wijsbegeerte forms
1914 Austrian-Hungary condemns Serbian ultimatum
1914 German chief of staff/General von Moltke states ultimatum on Belgium
1908 Predecessor of the FBI is created by the Department of Justice
1902 Australia beat England by 3 runs at Old Trafford
1897 37.5 cm rainfall at Jewell, Maryland (state record)
1891 Henry James' "American," premieres in London
1887 1st Esperanto book published
1881 French marines occupy Tunisian harbor city Sfax
1866 Canoe Club opens in England
1865 Patrick Francis Healy is 1st black awarded PhD (Louvain Belgium)
1864 Riot at McCook's to Lovejoy Station GA, US600 CS---
1864 Riot at Stoneman's to Macon GA, US1000 CS---
1864 Battle at Ezra Chapel (Church), Georgia [Hood's Third Sortie]
1863 Battle of Salineville OH, John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrender
1858 Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament
1848 1st Woman's Rights Convention, Senecca Falls, New York
1847 Liberia declares independence from American Colonization Society
1847 Moses Garrish Farmer builds 1st miniature train for children to ride
1835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
1832 HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo
1826 Vilnus Lithuanian riots cause death of many Jews
1822 Secret meeting of Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin
1805 Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die
1790 U.S. passes Assumption bill making U.S. responsible for state debts
1788 New York becomes 11th state to ratify constitution
1788 Sydney, Australia settled by British colonists
1775 1st Postmaster General: Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office
1760 Austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz Silezie
1759 French troops vacate Ticonderoga NY
1758 British battle fleet under General James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg
1757 Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats duke of Cumberland
1678 England and Netherlands signs treaty: sending ultimatum to France
1663 France annexes Venaissin
1656 Rembrandt declares he is insolvent
1588 John Hawkins becomes a knight
1579 Francis Drake leaves San Francisco to cross Pacific Ocean
1576 Muitende Spanish troops conquer Aalst
1529 Francisco Pizarro appointed governor of Peru
1524 James I (12) becomes king of Scotland
1519 Pizarro receives royal charter for South American west coast
1499 Alonso dhe Ojeda discovers Curacao Island
1497 "Edward IV's son" Perkin Warbecks army lands in Cork
1267 Inquistion forms in Rome under pope Clement IV
811 Battle at Pliska: Bulgarian under monarch Krum beat Byzantine

July 25 Events

2010 U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner declares his interest in allowing the set of tax cuts in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to expire at the end of 2010
2009 Dozens are killed and injured when wildfires spread across France, Spain, Sardinia and Greece
2000 A Concorde jet crashes outside of Paris after takeoff killing 113 passengers
1999 54th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship
1997 Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby
1997 Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian
1997 Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas, Texas
1997 Quarterback Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs
1997 Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling
1997 Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in New York City
1996 Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs. United States
1994 Jordan and Israeli end 46 year state of war
1993 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1993 48th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten
1993 Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44)
1993 Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon
1993 Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France
1992 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain
1992 Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr. Mudd
1991 Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles)
1991 Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' home run in Yankee Stadium
1991 Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use
1990 "Les Miserables," opens at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
1990 Kansas City Royal George Brett hits for the cycle
1990 Nadezhda Ryashkina of U.S.S.R. sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)
1990 Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game
1990 U.S. Ambassador tells Iraq, U.S. won't take sides in Iraq - Kuwait dispute
1990 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1989 Brandi Sherwood, of Idaho, crowned 7th Miss Teen USA
1988 Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA
1988 Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France
1987 Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt
1987 U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
1986 Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
1985 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1985 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1985 Uganda suspends constitution following coup
1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
1983 1st non-human primate, baboon, conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
1983 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
1982 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)
1982 37th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson
1982 France performs nuclear Test
1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
1980 Train crash at Winsum, 9 die
1980 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1979 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record)
1978 Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
1978 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games
1978 John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image
1976 Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01)
1976 Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1975 "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres
1973 George Harrison pays 1,000,000 pounds tax on his Bangladesh concert and album
1973 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 5
1972 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad
1972 All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cincinnati Reds)
1971 Judy Kimball wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open
1970 "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1
1969 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (Fillmore East, New York)
1969 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival
1969 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
1968 Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth
1967 Construction begins on San Francisco MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
1966 Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone
1966 Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..."
1966 Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River
1966 Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"
1966 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1965 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
1965 Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament
1964 "Here's Love" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 338 performances
1964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 14 weeks
1964 Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford
1964 Race riot in Rochester, New York
1963 Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
1963 U.S., Russia and England sign nuclear Test ban treaty
1962 House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex
1961 Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 and 40 in a doubleheader
1960 Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
1960 U.S. Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate
1957 Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
1957 Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England vs. WI Headingley
1957 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1956 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston
1956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm
1956 Jordan attacks United Nations Palestine force
1954 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open
1953 New York City transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens
1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day)
1952 Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing U.S. commonwealth
1949 St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Brooklyn 14-1
1947 U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense
1947 U.S. Department of Army created
1946 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
1946 U.S. detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini, 5th atomic explosion
1944 Japanse banzai-attack on Guam
1944 1st jet fighter used in combat, Messerschmitt 262
1944 Allied jailbreak at St-Lo, behind German lines
1944 U.S. troop march into Guam
1944 USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-Lo
1943 1st warship named for a Black person, USS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
1943 Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
1943 Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl
1943 RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam
1942 German troops occupy Rostov
1942 German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
1941 Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory)
1940 John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours 46 minutes in the Mississippi River
1939 5th and last Dutch government of Colijn, forms
1939 New York Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win
1938 Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany
1938 Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet)
1936 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx
1934 Failed nazi coup in Austria
1933 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
1930 Philadelphia Athletics triple steal in 1st and 4th innings vs Cleveland
1923 German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1
1922 AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA and WFAN)
1920 Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th home run leads Yankees to 8-2 win
1918 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of U.S., California
1918 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks and 2 whites killed)
1916 Explosion at Lake Erie and Cleveland Waterworks
1914 Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"
1914 Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66 He made 69
1913 Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game
1913 Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies
1912 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
1909 France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel
1903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
1902 James J. Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1900 Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match
1898 1st U.S. troops land and occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
1871 Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
1868 U.S. Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah and Idaho)
1866 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office
1866 David Faragut appointed as 1st Admiral of U.S. Navy
1866 U.S. Grant named 1st general of Army
1863 Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia
1861 Washington D.C. - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union and uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery
1861 Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico Terr - Rebels attack Union troops
1860 1st U.S. intercollegiate billiard match, Harvard vs. Yales
1850 Gold discovered in Oregon, Rogue River
1848 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian
1835 Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine
1832 1st railroad accident in U.S., Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies
1822 General Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st emperor of Mexico
1814 Battle of Niagara Falls, Lundy's Lane, ; Americans defeat British
1814 George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive
1799 French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir
1792 Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion"
1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)
1729 North Carolina becomes a royal colony
1689 France declares war on England
1670 Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna
1670 Don Juan Domingo Zuniga y Fonseca becomes Governor-General of Southern Netherlands
1670 Vienna Austria expels Jews
1652 Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1593 France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic
1585 Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics
1570 Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army
1564 Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand II as RC emperor
1521 About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent
1519 San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba
1511 Portugese assault on city Malakka attack
1360 Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
1261 Byzantium Emperor Michael VIII recaptures Constantinople
1215 Frederik II (20) crowned king of German
1139 Count Alfonso I of Portugal becomes king
841 Battle at Fontenay: Louis and Charles beat their brother Lotharius I

July 24 Events

2010 Rallies to release Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman facing execution for adultery, occur in Paris, New York City, Ottowa and elsewhere
2005 Lance Armstrong retires after winning his 7th straight Tours de France
1994 32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1994 49th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1994 Asociacon de Estados del Caribe (AEC) forms
1994 Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India
1994 Miguel Indurain wins Tour de France
1993 Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown
1993 Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans
1993 New York Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight
1993 Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32)
1992 Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, eff 3/1/93
1992 Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die
1991 Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign
1991 University of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
1990 Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus
1990 U.S. warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait
1989 Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America
1988 43rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann
1988 U.S. and Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1987 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released
1987 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test
1986 San Francisco Federal jury convicts Navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage
1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
1984 Seve Ballesteros wins British Open
1983 "Mame" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 41 performances
1983 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czechoslovakia beats Germany in Zurich, Switzerland (2-1)
1983 Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
1983 Pine Tar Game: Brett's home run disallowed against Yankees (overturned)
1983 Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
1982 "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" closes at E O'Neill New York City after 63 performances
1982 KHJ (LA) and KFRC (SF) become 2nd and 3rd stereo AM stations
1981 Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran
1979 President Carter names Paul Volcker, President of Federal Reserves
1979 Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th home run
1978 "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premieres in New York City
1978 Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe
1978 Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games
1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson
1977 32nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1977 Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881
1977 Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen
1976 John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes
1975 Apollo 18 returns to Earth
1974 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
1973 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC
1973 All star MVP: Bobby Bonds for the San Francisco Giants
1972 Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16
1971 WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule
1970 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth
1969 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game
1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army on appeal
1968 Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances
1967 49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colorado
1967 Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana
1967 Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Quebec libre! Long live free Quebec!'
1967 Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City
1967 Norway requests European Common Market membership
1967 Race riots in Cambridge Maryland
1967 Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game
1966 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron
1966 Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open
1965 "Flora, the Red Menace" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 87 performances
1965 Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"
1965 Casey Stengel resigns as manager of New York Mets
1965 Rock group "Animals" 1st time on British charts
1963 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1963 Dutch government of Marijnen forms
1961 Beginning of a trend, a U.S. commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
1961 Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show
1961 Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader
1960 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron
1959 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
1959 Vice President Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"
1958 14 people named 1st life peers in U.K.
1958 Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again
1958 Test Cricket debuts against New Zealand for Dexter, Illingworth and Subba Row
1957 KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1956 Brendan Behan's "Quare Fellow," premieres in London
1956 Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City
1955 Ali Sastroamidjojo of Government resigns in Indonesia
1955 Betty Jameson/Mary Faulk wins Virg Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1953 KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, California (ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 112 degrees F (44 degrees C), Louisville, Georgia (state record)
1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6)
1952 President Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1950 V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
1949 Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 home runs to beat Senators, 7-5
1948 4 Duluth Minnesota Dukes (St. Louis Cardinals Class C farm team) die in crash
1948 Soviets blockades Berlin from west
1946 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash
1946 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1945 U.S. destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam
1944 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions
1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
1944 U.S. troops land on Tinian
1943 RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)
1942 Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army," premieres in New York City
1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China
1941 Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania
1941 Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game
1940 1st illegal "Newsletter of Pieter It Hen" publishes in Netherlands
1940 Linthorst Homan, de Quay and Einthoven forms Dutch Union
1936 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Minden, Nebraska (state record)
1936 121 degrees F (49 degrees C), near Alton, Kansas (state record)
1936 General Mola and Cabanellas form Spanish anti-govt
1935 1st greeting telegram sent in Britain
1934 1st ptarmigan hatched and reared in captivity, Ithaca, New York
1933 German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe
1933 #1726 Hoffmeister, #2136 Jugta, #2158, #3957 Sugie and #4589 McDowell
1931 George Gunn gets 183 and son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings
1931 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6)
1929 New York to San Francisco foot race ends (2 months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde
1929 President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tennessee High School, fined $100 and costs
1923 Allied Powers and Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne
1921 Belgium's Leon Scieur wins Tour de France
1919 Race Riot in Washington D.C. (6 killed, 100 wounded)
1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die
1911 Hiram Bingham discovers Lost City of the Incas
1911 Cleve's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3
1910 Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull
1909 Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates
1908 John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record)
1905 Treaty of Bjorko: Emperor Wilhelm II/czar Nicholas II
1902 Trumper a century before lunch 4th Test Cricket vs. England
1900 Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed
1893 For only time in history of U.S. Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago
1886 China takes British protectorate of Burma
1883 Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt
1877 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers
1870 1st trans-U.S. rail service begins
1866 Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union
1864 Battle of Winchester, Virginia US1200 CS600
1863 Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia
1861 Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)Virginia - CS General Wise retreats
1851 Window tax abolished in Britain
1847 Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah
1847 Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, New York City
1833 HMS Beagle departs Maldonado Uruguay
1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson
1799 William Clark (of Lewis and Clark) is willed the slave York
1793 France passes 1st copyright law
1783 Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
1758 George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King James VIII
1712 Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army
1704 English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft. Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit
1692 French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein)
1683 1st settlers from Germany to U.S., leave aboard Concord
1673 Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
1651 Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va
1581 States of Holland/Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange
1577 Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur
1577 Treason of Don Juan in Brussels
1567 Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate and 1-year-old James VI becomes King of Scotland
1554 Queen Maria of England marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem
1534 Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France
1487 Citizens of Leeuwarden Netherlands rebel against ban on foreign beer

July 23 Events

2010 Venezuela severs diplomatic relations with Columbia after Columbia states that Venezuela is a 'haven for guerillas'
2000 129th British Golf Open: at Royal Lytham
2000 55th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship
1997 Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin and Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them
1995 "Hamlet" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 121 performances
1995 124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St. Andrews Scotland
1995 Miguel Indurains wins his 5th Tour de France
1995 Tracy Kerdyk wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1994 All 40,000 ceiling tiles in Kingdome must be replaced
1994 Amy Osmond, of Utah, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
1994 Dancer Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
1994 Don Mattingly becomes 6th New York Yankee to get 2,000 hits
1994 Goodwill Games open in St. Petersburg
1994 Longest baseball rain delay (3:39) as Giants beat Mets 4-2 in New York City
1994 Space shuttle STS-65: Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days 55 minutes
1993 Boon completes 17th Test Cricket century, 107 at Headingley
1993 British Aerospace 147 crash at Yinchuan, 55 killed
1993 Chinese B737 crash at Yinchuan, at least 66 killed
1993 New York Yankee Mark Hutton is 1st Australian to be a starting pitcher, He beats Angels 5-2; Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays 3 way tie for 1st
1992 Emperor Haile Selassie, Ras Tafari Makonnen, of Ethiopia's, funeral
1991 James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession
1991 Rob Dibble back from 3-game suspension, is ejected for throwing at and hitting Cubs baserunner Doug Dascenzo Cubs win, 8-5
1990 Rosie Jones, (St. Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America
1990 South Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1989 118th British Golf Open: Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon
1989 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1989 FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC and CBS for 1st time, America's Most Wanted
1989 Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas
1988 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton
1987 Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record)
1987 Red Sox waive Bill Buckner, the goat of last years World Series
1987 Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39)
1986 Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson
1986 King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres
1984 Kansas City Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save
1984 Suzette Charles, New Jersey, 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984
1984 Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude
1982 FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo
1982 International Whaling Comn votes for total ban on coml whaling (starting 1985)
1980 Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya
1980 River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
1980 Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6
1979 George Brett gets his 1,000th hit
1978 33rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1978 Israeli government rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas
1978 Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 78th pitcher to win 200
1978 Reggie Jackson returns and helps Yankees win their 5th straight
1977 Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges
1976 42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895)
1976 Baltimore Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game
1976 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1976 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1976 Wings release "Let 'em In"
1975 Alan Ayckbourn's "Absent Friends," premieres in London
1975 Los Angeles Dodgers W Crawford and Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch home runs
1974 45th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-2 at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pitts
1974 Greek military dictatorship collapses
1973 Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St. Louis-36 die
1973 Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan and Prime Minister of Oman
1973 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1973 President Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
1972 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France
1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic
1969 40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Washington D.C.
1969 All star MVP: Willie McCovey for the San Francisco Giants
1969 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1968 Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt
1968 PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane
1968 Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed
1967 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
1966 Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens
1966 John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m)
1966 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"
1965 Beatles "Help" is released in UK
1965 Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park
1964 A's Bert Campaneris home runs on 1st pitch, hits a 2nd home run on 2nd at bat
1964 Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage
1961 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1961 Bricusse and Newley's musical "Stop the world I want to ...," premieres
1960 15th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1959 Vice President Richard Nixon begins visit on U.S.S.R.
1958 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords
1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
1956 Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg inducted into Hall of Fame
1955 New York Yankees Bob Cerv and E Howard are 1st to hit consecutive pinch home runs
1952 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day)
1949 Test Cricket debut of Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days
1948 Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President
1947 1st (U.S. Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, Rhode Island
1946 Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel
1945 Marshal Henri Petain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial
1944 Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 home runs in a doubleheader
1944 Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin
1944 Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland
1944 U.S. forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II
1944 U.S. troops occupy Pisa, Italy
1943 Battle of Koersk, U.S.S.R. ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
1943 U.S. 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini
1942 German troops conquer Rostow
1942 Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad
1940 "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins
1938 Bradman scores 103 in 178 minutes on a Headingley sticky, 3rd Test
1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
1934 Bradman completes 304 at Headingley, 430 minutes, 43 fours 2 sixes
1931 Ashmore and Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia
1931 France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics
1930 Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed
1930 Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with home runs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th)
1926 Belgian NMBS/SNCFB forms
1926 France government of Poincare, forms
1925 New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers
1921 Chinese Communist Party forms under Henk Sneevliet
1921 Edward Gourdin of U.S., sets then long jump record at 25' 2 3/4"
1920 British East Africa renamed Kenya and becomes a British crown colony
1917 Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes
1914 Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I
1913 Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine
1907 7th Davis Cup: Australasia beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
1906 Pogroms against Jews in Oddessa
1904 Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo
1903 Ford Motor sells 1st Model A car
1900 Pan-African Congress meets in London
1890 Jack Barrett carries his cricket bat for Australia at Lord's (67)
1888 John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire
1886 Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge
1880 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1877 1st U.S. municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations
1877 1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed
1870 Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eugenie as Regent of France
1866 Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms
1864 Battle of Woodstock, Virginia
1863 Alexandra Park opens in North London
1858 Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
1852 1st interment in U.S. National Cemetery at Presidio
1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians and U.S.
1850 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of New York takes office
1848 Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts
1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada
1834 HMS Beagle anchors in Bay of Valparaiso
1829 William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter)
1827 1st U.S. swim school opens (Boston Mass)
1812 Battle of Mogilev Russia-Napolean fights Czar Alexander I
1803 Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin
1798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
1764 James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation
1745 Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides
1726 Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia
1664 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of New York, arrive in Boston
1645 Aleksei Mihailovitch Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar
1599 Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings
1594 Groningen surrenders to earl Mauritius/Willem Louis
1572 Willem van Oranges troops occupy Roermond on the Spanjaarden
1558 Battle at Grevelingen: Gen/earl Lamoraal van Egmont beat France
1540 Turkey recognizes Janos Sigismund Zapolyai as vassal-king of Hungary
1532 Karel I and evangelical monarchy signs Peace of Neurenberg
1453 Battle at Gavere: Philip the Good beats Gentse rebellion
1431 Council of Basel opens
1431 G Cesarini opens Counsel of Basel (Ferrara/Florence)
1403 Battle of Shrewsbury fought by Percys against King Henry IV
1298 Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany
1298 Rindfleish Persecutions-Jewish community Wurzburg Germany annihilated
1253 Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III
1215 Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
1148 Crusaders attack Damascus
685 John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
636 Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire