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On July 8, 1950, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea.
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Also on July 8, 1951, Anjelica Huston was born...
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On July 9th, 1776 The Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.
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On July 10, 1940, during World War II, the 114-day Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces began attacking southern England by air. By late October, Britain managed to repel the Luftwaffe, which suffered heavy losses.
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Also on July 10, 1980, Jessica Simpson was born...
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Also on July 12th, 1974- John Ehrlichman, a former aide to President Richard Nixon, and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist.
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Also on July 13, 1977, a 25-hour blackout hit the New York City area after lightning struck upstate power lines.
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July 14
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http://content.answers.com/main/cont...bs/3551888.jpg A famous American saying goes, "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" Tom Carvel set up the first permanent ice-cream stand in 1934, when the truck from which he had been selling the frozen treat had a flat tire near a pottery store in New York. He sold his ice cream from that spot — off the back of his truck — for two years, until he finally bought the store in 1936 and turned it into an ice-cream parlor. That same year, he developed a formula for soft serve ice cream. In 1947, Carvel set up his first franchise, and, soon after, he ran a series of franchising seminars, nicknamed "Sundae School." Carvel was born on this date in 1906. |
Also on July 14th, 1789- During the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside.
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On July 15th, 1916- William Boeing founded Pacific Aero Products, the forerunner of the Boeing Co., in Seattle.
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Also on July 15, 1963, Brigitte Nielsen was born...
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Also on July 17, 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind.
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Also on July 18th, 1984- A gunman opened fire at a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif., killing 21 people before being shot dead by police.
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Also on July 19th, 1969- Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.
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On July 20, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.
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On July 21, 1925, the ''monkey trial'' ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.)
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July 21
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What American high school student hasn't at one time found The Old Man and the Sea on his English class syllabus? In an effort to understand the meaning behind the story, most of these same high school students read the annotated notes, which were usually longer than the book itself. Ernest Hemingway won a Pulitzer Prize for the book in 1953, and a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 — the latter, for the body of his work, but especially for his novella about a fisherman who struggles to bring in a giant marlin. Hemingway, who was born on this date in 1899, said of the meaning behind the tale, "There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The sharks are all sharks, no better and no worse... What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know." http://img2.allposters.com/images/LIFPOD/1049395.jpg "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." — Ernest Hemingway |
On July 22, 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents in Chicago.
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July 22
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They're alike as two peas in a pod. Gregor Mendel wouldn't have said that. Born on this date in 1822, Mendel was a monk who liked to spend his spare time experimenting with garden peas and other plants. He planted and grew some 30,000 different pea plants, analyzing their height, size, color and pod shape. He cross-pollinated them and noted the results. By observing and analyzing, he determined that hereditary factors and genes are responsible for many of the characteristics of the different kinds of peas. Though he expected to prove that a plant was a merging of both parent plants — in other words, a tall plant and a short plant would produce a medium-sized one — he, in fact, determined that sometimes the physical characteristics of one of the plants were dominant, while those of the other parent plant were recessive. http://content.answers.com/main/cont...bs/3990141.jpg |
On July 23, 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to World War I
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On July 24, 1959, during a visit to the Soviet Union, Vice President Richard M. Nixon got into a discussion at a U.S. exhibition with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that was dubbed the ''kitchen debate.''
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July 24
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* Detroit: La Ville d'Etroit, or "city of the strait," was founded by Antoine de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, a French fur trader (1701) * Brigham Young: seeking a safe haven, the Mormon leader and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake, in what is now Utah (1847) * kitchen debate: US vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev debated the merits of capitalism vs. communism in a replica of an American kitchen, set up at the American National Exhibition in Moscow (1959) * Watergate: the US Supreme Court ordered President Richard Nixon to turn over incriminating subpoenaed White House recordings (1974) * Lance Armstrong: American cyclist won his record-breaking seventh consecutive Tour de France (2005) |
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Also on July 25, 1956, the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, claiming the lives of 51 people.
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Also on July 25, 1956, the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, claiming the lives of 51 people.
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July 25
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http://content.answers.com/main/cont..._spotlight.jpg Even though K. R. Narayanan was an Untouchable in his country, he managed to rise to the highest ranks in India's government. A Dalit — someone from the poorest and least educated group in India — Narayanan was determined to get an education; he walked miles to school each day, often listening to lessons while standing outside the classroom because he hadn't paid the tuition fees. His brother borrowed schoolbooks and copied them for Narayanan, helping him to eventually graduate with a degree in English literature from the University of Travancore. On this date in 1997, Narayanan became the first Dalit president of India. "If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you." — Les Brown |
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Also on July 26th, 1948- President Harry S. Truman signed executive orders prohibiting discrimination in the U.S. armed forces and federal employment.
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the billboards in disco history so get out your white suit and do the hustle today :lol: ...c'mon all you history buffs...dance! ...where's that disco ball when we need it...oh and John Travolta in Saturday Night Live! ...in case you forgot how: |
On July 27, 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.
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On this date, July 28, 1982... 27 years ago, Christian singer/songwriter, Keith Green died at the age of 28.
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...also on July 28, 1952..."Alice In Wonderland" was released
..."we're all mad here" ~ alice in wonderland ..."If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" ...and if you don't mind me jumping into the future for a sec...here is Tim Burton's new "Alice In Wonderland" movie due out for release March of 2010 starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter: |
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July 29
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Easy come, easy go. On this date in 2005, astronomers announced the discovery of Eris, a heavenly body slightly larger than Pluto, and called it the 10th planet. The International Astronomical Union did a little further research and decided that both bodies were too small to be official planets, so Eris and Pluto were demoted to the official designation of dwarf planet. Along with its moon, Dysnomia, Eris is the most distant known object in orbit around the sun. The word "pluto" took on a new meaning with this move — it came to be defined as "to demote or devalue someone or something." "Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing." — Yoda, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones http://img2.allposters.com/images/SPA/1354.jpg |
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Only 316 out of 1,196 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters.
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On July 31st, 1914- The New York Stock Exchange closed due to the outbreak of World War I. Didn't open again until December.
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Also on July 31, 1951, Evonne Goolagong was born...
Evonne Goolagong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
July 31
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* Trinidad: island in the Caribbean was discovered by Christopher Columbus (1498) * Christchurch: became the first New Zealand city to be chartered (1856) * NYSE: closed due to the outbreak of World War I, but opened again four months later to help the war effort by selling bonds (1914) * K2: the world's second-highest peak, also known as Mount Godwin-Austen, was summited for the first time, by an Italian team (1954) |
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Also on August 1st, 1966- Charles Joseph Whitman shot and killed 14 people at the University of Texas before he was gunned down by police.
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...also, on august 2, Wild Bill (James Butler) Hickok was gunned down by Jack McCall, a desperado from Texas, in Saloon #10 at Deadwood, in the Dakota Territory on this day in 1876. Hickok was playing poker (with his back to the door) at the time of the shooting. McCall shot Wild Bill in the back, and was hanged for the shooting, never revealing his motive.
Hickok, a Union army spy, a scout for General Custer, a marshal for Abilene, Kansas, and a crack shot with a pistol, was handsome, longhaired, and a flamboyant gambler. Doc Pierce, who prepared Wild Bill for burial was quoted as saying, “Wild Bill was the prettiest corpse I have ever seen.” The poker hand Hickok was holding when he died consisted of a pair of black aces and a pair of black eights. This combination became known as the "dead man’s hand". ...a little photoshop of WildBillHickok and Calamity Jane and then the real thing: :rose: |
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On August 4th, 1790- The Coast Guard had its beginnings as the Revenue Cutter Service.
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Also on August 4, 1958, Mary Decker Slaney was born...
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Also on August 5th, 1864 Union Adm. David G. Farragut is said to have given his famous order "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" as he led his fleet against Mobile Bay, Ala., during the Civil War.
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On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, that instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare
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Also on August 6, 1976, Soleil Moon Frye was born...
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On Aug. 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on United States forces.
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Also on August 7, 1975, Charlize Theron was born...
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On August 8th 1974, President Richard Nixon announced he would resign following damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal.
On August 8th 1975 my brother and I, having saved the local newspaper from the event, replaced our dad's paper in the box. When he came home from work he stop at the end of the driveway, as usual, and picked up the paper. He came in the house sat down and began reading. My brother and I watched and watched... no reaction. ??? Finally when he got to the car ads he said "what the hecks going on here? This is last years paper!" Apparently he thought the front page thing was a one year review type article, but he was and avid car man and when he saw the car prices he knew something was up. |
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August 8
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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/75/21...4e2dc889_m.jpg Even if you're not a tennis fan, it would have been hard not to have been swept up, lob for lob, when Roger Federer faced Andy Roddick in last month's men's single finals at Wimbledon. The match took more than four hours, setting a new Grand Slam record of 30 games in the fifth set, which alone lasted 95 minutes. The 77 games played in the championship match made it the longest men's singles finals in Grand Slam history. Federer won the match and achieved a new record of playing in 20 Grand Slam finals, surpassing the record 19 previously held by Ivan Lendl. Happy birthday to tennis champ Roger Federer, who turns 28 today. Roger Federer moves like a whisper and executes like a wrecking ball. It is simply impossible to explain how he does what he does." — Nick Bollettieri |
On August 9th, 1969- Actress Sharon Tate and four other people were found murdered in Los Angeles; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his followers were later convicted of the crime.
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Also on August 9, 1957, Melanie Griffith was born...
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On Aug. 10, 1977, David Berkowitz, the suspect in the "Son of Sam" murders, was arrested.
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On August 10, 1959, Rosanna Arquette was born...
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On Aug. 11, 1965, deadly rioting and looting broke out in the predominantly black Watts section of Los Angeles.
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August 11
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On August 12th, 1944- Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was killed when an explosives-laden Navy plane blew up over England during World War II.
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Also on August 12, 1941, Jennifer Warren was born...
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August 12
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On this date in 1883, the world's last known quagga died in the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam, and scientists have been trying to bring it back ever since. The quagga looked a lot like a zebra but with stripes only on its front half (in that sense the opposite of an okapi, which has stripes only on its hindquarters). It was also brown in color. The Quagga Project has had some success in breeding back; Henry, born in 2005, is the closest we now have to a quagga. But there are also the aptly named zedonks and zorses and other members of the zebroid (zebra hybrid) family, which are generally sterile. "So you see! There's no end To the things you might know, Depending how far beyond Zebra you go!" — Dr. Seuss in On Beyond Zebra! http://img2.allposters.com/images/LP...4287_24-FB.jpg |
On Aug. 13, 1961, Berlin was divided as East Germany sealed off the border between the city's eastern and western sectors in order to halt the flight of refugees.
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August 13
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Good E-V-E-ning. Master film director Alfred Hitchcock was born on this date in 1899. With many of his dramas of suspense and intrigue becoming classics of the cinema, Hitchcock was one of the best-known directors never to have received an Oscar for directing. Suspicion (1941), Rear Window (1954), North By Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), and The Birds (1963) are just a few of his films that have chilled fans over the decades. Hitchcock branched out to television in the mid-1950s, with his weekly suspense show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. It made a popular tune of Charles Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette," which was used as the theme music. In 1980, Queen Elizabeth II knighted Hitchcock, a native of London. He died later that year. "Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh." — Ingrid Bergman http://img2.allposters.com/images/MMPH/188541.jpg |
It VJ day! I always thought that had something to do with vaginas but nope-
On Aug. 14, 1945, President Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II. |
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August 14
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Earvin "Magic" Johnson was, at 6 ft., 9 inches (2.06 m), the tallest point guard in NBA history. He spent his entire 13-year professional career with the Los Angeles Lakers, and during his time with them achieved virtually every goal a pro hoopster can hope for. He played on five championship teams, won the MVP and the Finals MVP three times each, was a 12-time All-Star and played on the All-NBA first team nine times. And he even took home an Olympic gold medal as part of the Dream Team in 1992. Johnson's nickname came from the magic he performed on the court and it was given to him when he was still in high school. A sportswriter who watched the 15-year-old make 36 points, 16 rebounds and 16 assists referred to him by the name "Magic" Johnson, and the moniker stuck. Happy birthday to basketball legend Magic Johnson, who turns 50 today. "Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds." — Larry Bird http://img2.allposters.com/images/PHOTOFILE/AADQ010.jpg |
On August 15th, 1969 The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York.
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On Aug. 16, 1977, singer Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tenn., at age 42.
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August 16
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Say the words "Sports Illustrated" to the average man on the street, and he'll think "swimsuit issue." But to the more than 20 million American adults who read the magazine weekly, SI is also about the different sporting events that occur during the other 51 weeks of the year. In the early 1950s, Time publisher Henry Luce — himself not an avid sports fan — decided the time was right for a magazine dedicated to sports. Against the advice of his editors and business consultants, he pushed forward the idea and, on this date in 1954, the first issue of Sports Illustrated magazine was published with Milwaukee Braves third baseman Eddie Mathews on the cover. The journal didn't take off immediately; it took twelve years to turn a profit. But the in-depth sports reporting, wealth of color photos and annual SI awards helped to push sales. And the annual swimsuit issue didn't hurt. "Sports do not build character. They reveal it." — Heywood Broun http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/si_o...0816_large.jpg |
On August 17th, 1987 Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, died at Spandau prison in West Berlin at age 93, having apparently committed suicide by strangling himself with an electrical cord. He had been the only inmate at Spandau for 21 years.On August 17th,
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