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# Posted: 28 Jul 2008 21:47
5th July
Birthdays...
1675 - Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials
1810 - P.T. Barnum, American circus owner (d. 1891)
1853 - Cecil Rhodes, British founder of Rhodesia (d. 1902)
In history...
1865 - The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England.
1937 - Spam, the luncheon meat, was introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
1946 - The bikini is introduced in Paris, France.
1954 - The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin
1975 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title
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# Posted: 29 Jul 2008 05:30
6th July
Birthdays...
1796 - Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
1868 - Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1935)
1925 - Bill Haley, American singer (d. 1981)
1927 - Alan Freeman, British DJ known by his nickname 'Fluff' (d. 2006)
1958 - Jennifer Saunders, English actress
In history...
1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England.
1535 - Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII
1785 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies.
1942 - Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
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# Posted: 29 Jul 2008 06:55
7th July
Birthdays....
1860 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911)
1940 - Ringo Starr, English drummer and singer (The Beatles)
1941 - Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
In history...
1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heres25 years after her death.
1863 - United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $100
1928 - Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. It is described as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped"
2007 - Worldwide performances by charity event Live Earth.
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# Posted: 29 Jul 2008 12:14
8th July
Birthdays..
1882 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (d. 1961)
1933 - Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982)
1960 - Mal Meninga, Australian rugby league footballer
In History...
1497 - Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India.
1876 - White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
1999 - Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida.
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# Posted: 29 Jul 2008 18:07
9th July
Birthdays....
1511 - Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway
1819 - Elias Howe, American inventor
1901 - Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist
1946 - Bon Scott, Australian singer (AC/DC)
In History...
1540 - Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
1922 - Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
1991 - South Africa is readmitted into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion.
2002 - The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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# Posted: 29 Jul 2008 22:03
10th July
Birthdays...
1509 - John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564)
1871 - Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
1903 - John Wyndham, British author (d. 1969)
1945 - Virginia Wade, British tennis player
In history...
1553 - Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
1958 - Alaska, highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, at 524 m high.
1985 - Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents.
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# Posted: 30 Jul 2008 13:29
11th July
Birthdays-
1366 - Anne of Bohemia, consort of Richard II of England
1851 - Millie and Christine McCoy, Conjoined twins
1916 - Reg Varney, English actor
1966 - *BADWORD* Molloy, Australian comedian
In History-
1776 - Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.
1848 - Waterloo railway station in London opens.
1914 - Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major league baseball.
2006 - 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
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# Posted: 30 Jul 2008 20:36
12th July
Birthdays...
1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (d. 1960)
1958 - Jennifer Saunders, British actress
In history....
1543 - King Henry VIII of EnA boring day reallygland marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace.
1790 - The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Assembly.
1962 - The Rolling Stones perform their first ever concert, at the Marquee Club in London
A boring day really
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# Posted: 30 Jul 2008 21:47
13th July
Birthday--
1745 - Robert Calder, British naval officer
1901 - Eric Portman, English stage and film actor
1950 - George "Pinky" Nelson, American astronaut
In History--
1919 - The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
1941 - World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).
1985 - The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow.
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# Posted: 31 Jul 2008 21:43
14th July:
Birthdays --
1602: Jules Mazarin, French statesman
1796: Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist
1862: Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter
1904: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish Yiddish author
1910: William Hanna, American cartoonist
1912: Woody Guthrie, American folk musician
1913: Gerald Ford, Former (38th) American President
1918: Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director
In history --
1099: Jerusalem captured in First Crusade
1789: The French revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille prison
1798: In the US, the Sedition Act becomes law making it a federal crime to criticize the US government. Although never tested in court, it is assumed to be unconstitutional.
1867: Alfred Nobel demonstrates his new invention, dynamite, for the first time
1958: Iraq becomes a republic after the assassination of King Faisal
1958: Iraqi monarchy overthrown by Arab nationalists
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# Posted: 31 Jul 2008 22:08
15th July
Birthdays...
1573 - Inigo Jones, English architect (d. 1652)
1911 - Edward Shackleton, English explorer (d. 1994)
1914 - Hammond Innes, English writer (d. 1998)
1931 - Clive Cussler, American author
In history...
1799 - The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1815 - Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon
1979 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his famous "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation."
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# Posted: 31 Jul 2008 22:13
16th July:
Birthdays --
1907: Barbra Stanwick, American film actress
1911: Ginger Rogers, American film actress/dancer
In history --
1661: The Bank of Stockholm issues Europe's first bank notes
1945: First atomic bomb test, in New Mexico, USA
1965: The Mont Blanc road tunnel, linking France and Italy, opens
1969: Apollo 11, the first manned Moon landing, launched
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# Posted: 31 Jul 2008 22:39
17th July
Birthdays--
1899 - James Cagney, American actor
1902 - Christina Stead, Australian novelist
1940 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian
1944 - Mark Burgess, Former New Zealand Cricketer
In History--
1917 - King George V of the United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British royal family will bear the surname Windsor.
1955 - Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
1976 - The opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
1997 - The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
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# Posted: 1 Aug 2008 07:33
18th July
Birthdays...
1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, English author (d. 1863)
1918 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1957 - Nick Faldo, English golfer
In history...
64 - Great fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. The Emperor Nero reportedly plays his lyre and sings while watching the blaze from a safe distance.
1936 - In Morocco, Franco starts a coup d'état against the legitimacy of the Spanish government. This will lead to the Spanish Civil War.
1969 - After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies
1976 - Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1984 - Beverly Lynn Burns becomes first woman Boeing 747 airline captain.
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# Posted: 1 Aug 2008 14:59
19th July
Birthdays--
1670 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer
1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic
1949 - Ivar Kants, Australian actor
1981 - Nikki Osborne, Australian actress
In History--
1553 - Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days.
1692 - Salem Witch Trials: Five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
1879 - Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.
1989 - United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers.
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# Posted: 1 Aug 2008 19:19
20th July
Birthdays....
356 BC - Alexander the Great, Macedonian-Greek king and military leader (d. 323 BC)
1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountain climber (d. 2008)
1938 - Dame Diana Rigg, English actress
In history...
1712 - The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain.
1926 - A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.
1944 - World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the July 20 Plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter.
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# Posted: 1 Aug 2008 22:53
21st July:
Birthdays --
1816: Paul von Reuter, News agency founder
1899: Ernest Hemmingway, US novelist and Nobel prize winner
1922: Norman Jewison, Canadian born film director
In history --
1944: American marines capture the western Pacific island of Guam
1959: Savannah', the worlds first nuclear powered merchant ship, is launched
1969: Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the Moon
1983: Authorities end Martial Law in Poland
1985: South African government declares State of Emergency
1990: Rock concert in East Berlin, celebrating the removal of the wall, attended by 150,000
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# Posted: 2 Aug 2008 20:11
22nd July
Birthdays...
1210 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1238)
1890 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American Kennedy family matriarch (d. 1995)
1955 - Willem Dafoe, American actor
2002 - Prince Felix of Denmark
In History...
1298 - Wars of Scottish Independence
1805 - Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition
1942 - Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
1983 - Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
2002 - Israel assassinates Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm
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# Posted: 2 Aug 2008 20:22
23rd July
Birthdays...
1892 - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1975)
1947 - David Essex, English singer
1973 - Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern
In history...
1903 - The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
1986 - In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
1995 - Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later
2008 - Cape Verde joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member
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# Posted: 2 Aug 2008 20:33
23rd July
Birthdays...
1892 - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1975)
1947 - David Essex, English singer
1973 - Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern
In history...
1903 - The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
1986 - In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
1995 - Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later
2008 - Cape Verde joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member
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# Posted: 6 Aug 2008 04:18
24th July
Birthdays..
1802 - Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (d. 1870)
1895 - Robert Graves, English author (d. 1985)
1897 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared 1937)
1969 - Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer
1998 - Bindi Irwin, Australian entertainer and daughter of Steve Irwin
In history..
1487 - Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer.
1567 - Mary Queen of Scots is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI.
1935 - The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
2008 - Iraq is banned from competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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# Posted: 6 Aug 2008 07:11
25th July
Birthdays...
1016 - Casimir I, Duke of Poland (d. c. 1058)
1848 - Arthur Balfour, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
1930 - Annie Ross, British jazz singer
In history...
306 - Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
1603 - James VI of Scotland is crowned the first king of Great Britain.
1797 - Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
1837 - The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London
1920 - Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place
1978 - Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born
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# Posted: 6 Aug 2008 14:33
July 26th:
Birthdays --
1856: George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright
1894: Aldous Huxley, English novelist
1928: Stanley Kubrick, British director
In history--
1908: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) formed
1956: President Nasser of Egypt nationalises the Suez Canal Company
1957: USA test launch first ICBM
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# Posted: 6 Aug 2008 21:43
27th July
Birthdays...
1768 - Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
1824 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (d. 1895)
1958 - Christopher Dean, English figure skater
In history...
1949 - Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
1974 - Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon: obstruction of justice
1987 - First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreckage begins by RMS Titanic, Inc.
1996 - Centennial Olympic Park bombing: In Atlanta, Georgia, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. Alice Hawthorne was killed, and a cameraman suffered a heart attack fleeing the scene. 111 injured.
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# Posted: 8 Aug 2008 18:38
28th July
Birthdays
1866 - Beatrix Potter
1901 - Rudy Vallee
1907 - Earl Tupper
1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
1943 - Richard Wright
Deaths
1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac
1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach
1794 - Maximilien Robespierre
In history:-
1540 Henry VIII marries his fifth wife Catherine Howard
1914 - World War I begins
1945 - A US Army B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building
1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson increases number of US troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000
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# Posted: 8 Aug 2008 20:49 - Edited by: Mellibean
oops dont worry forget this entry i edited it out, just move on please
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# Posted: 8 Aug 2008 21:06 - Edited by: CalypsoBelle
29th July:
Birthdays --
1883: Benito Mussolini, Italian leader
1905: Dag Hammarskjold, Former UN Secretary-general
Deaths --
1890: Vincent Van Gogh, painter, dies in Auvers, France
1974: Cass Elliot, singer (Mamas and Papas), chokes to death in London at 32
1983: Raymond Massey, actor (Dr Kildare), dies of pneumonia at 86
1983: David Niven, actor (Rugues), dies in Switzerland at 73
In history --
1588: British general Drake defeats the Spanish Armada off the coast of Plymouth
1928: Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
1948: King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London
1965: Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
1975: Military staged coup in Nigeria
1975: Ford became 1st US President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
1981: Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diana Spencer
1985: 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
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# Posted: 8 Aug 2008 21:41
30th July
Birthdays...
1818 - Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)
1898 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
1940 - Sir Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor1958
Daley Thompson, English decathlete
In history...
1932 - Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short
1954 - Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer.
1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
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# Posted: 9 Aug 2008 11:04
31st July
BIRTHDAYS
1527 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
1911 - George Liberace
1943 - Lobo
1951 - Evonne Goolagong
1965 - J. K. Rowling
DEATHS
1099 - El Cid
1964 - Jim Reeves
1993 - King Baudouin I of Belgium
IN HISTORY:-
1498 - Christopher Columbus discovers the island of Trinidad
1856 - Christchurch, NZ is chartered as a city
1941 - Holocaust begins Adolf Hitler instructed Hermann Göring to submit a general plan for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question
1964 - Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon
1975 - Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing
2007 - the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland comes to an end at midnight.
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# Posted: 9 Aug 2008 18:59
1st August:
Birthdays --
1933: Dom Deluise, American film actor
1936: Yves Saint-Laurent, designer
Deaths --
527: Justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27)
1137: Louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37)
1714: Anne Stuart, Queen of England (1702-14)
In history --
1498: Christopher Columbus reaches the mainland of North America
1774: Joseph Priestley isolates oxygen for the first time
1793: The metric unit of mass, the kilogram, is introduced in France
1798: The English navy, under Nelson, defeats the French at the Battle of the Nile
1914: Germany declares war on the Soviet Union, Italy declares itself neutral.
1975: Helsinki Agreement, on human rights, signed by over 35 nations
1976: Trinidad and Tobago independence
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