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July 2

1566  French astrologer, physician,  and prophet, Nostradamus died.

1865  William Booth began the Salvation Army with a revival meeting at Whitechapel in London.

1881  President James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau; he died on September 19.

1890  Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.

1937  Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to fly around the world.

1964  President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.

1976  In Gregg versus Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was not uninherently cruel or unusual.

1997  Actor James Stewart died in Beverly Hills, CA.

2002  Steve Fossett became the first to cicumnavigate the globe solo in a balloon.

July 4                                              Independence Day

1776  The U.S. declared independence from Great Britain.

1826  Former Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died.

1831  Former President James Monroe died.

1845  Henry David Thoreau moved into his shack on Waldon Pond.

1862  Lewis Carroll first told the story of Alice's Adventures Underground to the Liddell sisters.

1884  The Statue of Liberty was presented to the United States in Paris.

1895  Katherine Lee Bates published America the Beautiful.

1909  Ramabai's revival in India spread to Chile.

1939  Lou Gehrig, stricken with ALS, made his farewell at Yankee Stadium.

1976  The United States celebrated its bicentennial.

1997  The U.S. Pathfinder probe landed on Mars.

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July 7

1456  Twenty-five years after her execution, Pope Calixtus III annuled the heresy charges brought against Joan of Arc.

1846  Commodore John D. Sloat occupied Monterey and declared California annexed to the United States.

1851  Charles A. Findley, the founding father of American Gospel music, was born.

1898  The United States annexed Hawaii.

1946  Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized, becoming the first American saint.

1981  President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court.

2005  52 people were killed and hundreds injured in London where terrorists bombed subways and a bus.

July 9

1816  Argentina finally declared independence from Spain.

1850  Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the U.S., died after only 16 months in office.

1872  The doughnut cutter was patented by John F. Blondel of Thomaston, ME.

1896  William Jennings Bryan delivered his "Cross of Gold" speech at the Democratic National Convention.

1900  The British Parliament proclaimed that as of January 1, 1901, the six Australian colonies would be united as the Commonwealth of Australia.

1942  Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in Amsterdam.

1974  Former Chief Justice Earl Warren died in Washington, D.C.

1997  Boxer Mike Tyson was temporarily banned from boxing for biting Evander Holyfield's ear.

2002  Baseball's All Star Game ended in a tie after 11 innings.  Both sides had run out of pitchers.

July 11

1533  Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII.

1804  Former Vice President Aaron Burr fatally wounded Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.  He died the following afternoon.

1864  Confederate General Jubal A. Early and his troops attacked Washington, D.C.  They retreated the next day, ending the Confederate threat to occupy the capital.

1914  Babe Ruth made his major league baseball debut as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.

1977  The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work to advance civil rights.

1989  Sir Laurence Olivier died.

1995  The United States and Vietnam established diplomatic relations.

July 13

1793  French revolutionary Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by royalist sympathizer Charlotte Corday.

1863  The draft riots, protesting unfair conscription in the Civil War, began in New York City.

1865  P.T. Barnum's American Museum, which had featured Tom Thumb, and the original Siamese twins Chang and Eng, was destroyed by fire.

1930  The first World Cup soccer competition, began in Montevideo, Uraguay.

1943  The Battle of Kursk, the largest battle in history -- involving some 6,000 tanks, 2,000,000 troops, and 4,000 aircraft -- ended in German defeat.

1977  A 25 hour blackout hit New York City, engendering widespread rioting and looting.

2003  Iraq's interim governing counsel was inaugurated.

July 15

1869  Margarine was patented in France by Hippolyte Mege Mouries.

1870  Georgia became the last of the Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union.

1918  The Second Battle of the Marne began World War I.

1940  The world's tallest man (8 feet, 11.1 inches), Robert Wadlow, died.

1948  John J. Pershing, whose leadership in World War I earned him the title General of the Armies of the United States, died in Washington, D.C.

1975  The Russian Soyuz and the American Apollo launched.  The Apollo-Soyuz mission was the first international manned spaceflight.

July 17

209  B.C.E.  The Chinese made the earliest recording of a confirmed total eclipse.

1821  Spain ceded Florida to the United States.

1898  Spain surrendered  to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, ending the Spanish-American War.

1917  The British Royal family changed its name from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor amid anti--German sentiment during World War I.

1938  "Wrong Way Corrigan" took off from New York, purportedly aiming for California and landing in Ireland.

1945  President Harry Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met at the opening of the Potsdam Conference.

1955  Disneyland opened in Anaheim, CA.

1975  The American Apollo and the Soviet Soyuz spacecrafts linked up for the first time.

1998  The last Russian Czar Nicholas II was buried 80 years after he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.

2009  Walter Cronkite, the first news anchor, died at the age of 92.

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July 18

    64  A great fire began ultimately destroyed most of Rome.  The Emperor Nero blamed it on Christians and began the first Roman persecution of them.

1925  The first volume of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was published.

1936  The Spanish Civil War began.

1947  President Harry S. Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act.

1976  Fourteen year old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comanechi earned the first perfect score, a ten, at the Olympics and went on to score six more tens and three gold medals.

1999  New York Yankee David Cone pitched the 16th perfect game in baseball history.

July 20

1810  Columbia declared independence from Spain.

1881  Fugitive Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull surrendered to federal troops.

1951  King Abdullah I of Jordan was assassinated.

1960  Sirima Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) became the world's first woman Prime Minister.

1969  Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon.

1985  Treasure hunters found the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha, which sank off the coast of Key West, FL, in 1622 during a hurricane.  The ship contained over $400 million in coins and silver ingots.

July 22

1620  The Pilgrims, led by John Robinson, began their emigration to the New World.

1796  Cleveland, OH was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.

1933  Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world.

1934  John Dillinger was shot to death outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.

1937  Franklin D. Roosevelt's "court packing" scheme was rejected by the U.S. Senate.

1975  Congress restored Conferate General Robert E. Lee's U.S. citizenship.

1990  Greg LeMond won his third Tour de France.  A Minnesota native, LeMond was the first American to win the great French cycling race.

2003  Saddam Hussein's sons, Udav and Ousav, were killed in a firefight

July 24

1847  Brigham Young and the first members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) arrived at the Great Salt Lake.

1862  Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States, died in Kinderhook, NY.

1866  Tennessee became the first Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.

1937  Charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case were dropped.

1974  The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon had to turn over White House tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.

2002  Nine coal miners were trapped in a mine in PA.  All were rescued three days later.

2005  Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France for a record breaking seventh time.

July 26                                                            Parent's Day

1788  New York became the 11th state in the United States.

1847  Liberia became Africa's first republic.

1908  The Office of the Chief Examiner, which in 1935 became the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI, was created.

1947  President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Joints Chiefs of Staff.

1952  Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires, at age 33.

1952  King Farouk I abdicated after a coup led by Gamal Abdal Nasser.

1953  Fidel Castro was among a group of rebelling anti-Batistas who unsuccessfully attacked an army barracks.