the day in the history

June 30th

1629 The settlers of Salem, Mass. appointed Samuel Skelton as their pastor, by ballot. Their church covenant, afterward composed by Skelton, established Salem as the first non-separating congregational Puritan Church in New England.
1780 Benjamin Randall organized a fellowship of churches known as Free Will Baptists in New Hampshire. It became one of the early branches of the National Association of Free Will Baptists, which was formed in 1935.
1909 In Rome, the Catholic Pontifical Biblical Commission issued a decree interpreting the first 11 chapters of Genesis as history, not myth.
1973 In Korea, the Far Eastern Broadcasting Co. began transmitting the Gospel from HLAZ, its first radio station in this country. FBEC is active today through radio missions outreach, and focuses its work among the islands of Eastern Asia and the Pacific.
1974 Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr., and a church deacon were slain by a crazed gunman in Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her son, the assassinated civil rights leader, once preached.

1971: Space mission ends in tragedy

Three Russian cosmonauts are found dead in their Soyuz 11space capsule after it made what looked like a perfect landing in Kazakhstan.

A Red Cross convoy took the hostages home 1985: Beirut ordeal ends for US hostages
All 39 Americans being held captive by the Shia Muslim Amal militia in Lebanon are released, after almost three weeks in captivity.

Total eclipse of the sun 1954: Three continents see eclipse of sun
Millions of people turn to look at the darkening skies as a total eclipse of the sun spreads from America through Europe and on to Asia.

Baroness Thatcher 1992: Thatcher takes her place in Lords
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher takes her place in the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.

1997: Hong Kong handed over to Chinese control

Hong Kong has been handed back to the Chinese authorities - ending more than 150 years of British control.

Harold 'Kim' Philby 1963: Philby confirmed as 'third man'
Former Foreign Office official Harold Philby is confirmed as the "third man" in the Burgess and Maclean case.

Yasser Arafat returning to the Gaza Strip 1994: Yasser Arafat ends 27-year exile
The chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, Yasser Arafat, returns to the Gaza Strip after 27 years in exile.

Morgan Grenfell headquarters 1987: Stock-broker guilty of corruption
One of the City's top investment bankers receives the first conviction for insider dealing since it became illegal.

Photo of millionaire author Ken Follet 2000: Labour luvvie launches attack on PM
Millionaire novelist Ken Follett levels blistering personal criticism at Prime Minister Tony Blair.

BATTLE OF THE SOMME BEGINS:
July 1, 1916


At 7:30 a.m., the British launch a massive offensive against German forces in the Somme River region of France. During the preceding week, 250,000 Allied shells had pounded German positions near the Somme, and 100,000 British soldiers poured out of their trenches and into no-man's-land on July 1, expecting to find the way cleared for them. However, scores of heavy German machine guns had survived the artillery onslaught, and the infantry were massacred. By the end of the day, 20,000 British soldiers were dead and 40,000 wounded. It was the single heaviest day of casualties in British military history. The disastrous Battle of the Somme stretched on for more than four months, with the Allies advancing a total of just five miles.

july 1st

1535 Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason
1690 Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (Now celebrated on July 12 as "The Battle of the Orange" )
1776 1st vote on the Declaration of Independence
1795 John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court
1816 Fr frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of G‚ricault's "Raft of the Medusa"
1823 United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico
1847 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5 Franklin & 10 Washington, NYC
1847 Amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 2nd asteroid Hebe
1847 K L Hencke discovers asteroid #6 Hebe
1850 At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay
1859 1st intercollegiate baseball game, Amherst beats Williams 66-32
1859 Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St Louis
1861 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington & Mason St, SF
1862 Congress outlaws polygamy (1st time); bad news for Utah
1862 Day 7 of the 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill
1862 Lincoln appoints Isaac Newton sec of agriculture-no kidding!
Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance,
tobacco & on incomes over $600 (progressive rate)
1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Pa; Lee's northward advance halted
1863 Free city delivery of mail begins in 49 US cities; postage 3/« oz
1867 Dominion of Canada formed (New Bruns, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Qu‚bec)
1869 US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens
1870 James W Smith of SC is 1st black to enter West Point
1873 Henry Flipper of Ga is 2nd black to enter West Point
1873 Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province
1874 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000
1875 Universal Postal Union established
1881 1st international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St Stephen, NB
1881 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens
1884 V Knorre discovers asteroid #238 Hypatia
1889 Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti
1889 US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens
1893 SF Bay City Club opens 1st US bicycle race track, made of wood
1897 The Bronx acquires Hutton Square
1898 Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
1899 Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels
1899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (BG)
1904 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St Louis
1910 Chicago's Comiskey Park opens
1910 Union of South Africa becomes a dominion
1915 Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service
1915 Australian Survey Corps becomes part of the Military Forces
1916 Eisenhower marries Mary `Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo
1917 Race riots in East St Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)
1917 Reds Fred Toney pitches completes doubleheader victories over Pirates
1919 1st class postage drops from 3 to 2
1920 Wash Senator Walter Johnson no-hits Boston Red Sox, 1-0
1924 Through regular transcontinental airmail service established, NYC-SF
1925 Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK
1931 Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15
1931 Phillies Chuck Klein hits for the cycle vs Chicago Cubs
1932 NY Gov FDR nominated for president at the Dem Convention in Chicago
1933 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1590 Tsiolkovskaja.
1934 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY
1941 1st coml TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC
1941 Bulova Watch Co. pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial
1941 Joe Dimaggio on way to 56, ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hit streak
1943 1st withholding tax from paychecks
1944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank
1946 Rajah cedes Sarawak to the British crown
1946 US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)
1947 Brit Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office
1948 NYC subway fare goes to 10, bus fare to 7 & combo fare at 12
1949 Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France
1950 NYC bus fare rises to 10 equal to subway fare, combo fare at 15
1951 Cleve Indian Bob Feller, 3rd no-hitter beats Det Tigers, 2-1
1956 Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on The Steve Allen Show
1959 World Refugee Year begins
1960 Ghana becomes a republic
1960 Italian Somalia gains independence, unites with Somali Republic
1961 Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii
1962 Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days)
1963 Beatles record "She Loves You" & "I'll Get You"
1963 US postal service institutes the (Zone Improvement Plan) zip code
1966 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART
1966 Medicare goes into effect
1967 BBC starts their World Radio Club
1967 Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," goes #1 for 15 weeks
1968 John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You are Here)
1968 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
1969 Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales
1969 John & Yoko are hospitilized after a car crash
1971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?)
1972 Ms. magazine begins publishing
1973 1st US-China basketball game, US collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61
1974 Monmouthshire renamed Gwent & becomes part of Wales
1975 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2680
1975 WEDway People Mover inaugurated
1976 Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of US Conference of Mayors
1977 Virginia Wade beats Betty Stove for Wimbeldon's woman's singles
1978 Former Pres Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974
1978 Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing
1979 Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6" of snow
1980 Steve Overt runs world record 3:48.8 mile in Oslo
1981 Laurel Canyon Calif murders (4 die, 1 wounded)
1981 Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3
1982 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1982 Challenger moves overland to Dryden
1982 Kosmos 1383, 1st search & rescue satellite, launched
1982 Over 2000 Unification Church couples marry at NY MSG
1987 Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in Oct by senate
1987 NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes 1st 24 hour all sports radio
1987 WHN-AM in New York City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD)
replacing WHN's country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
1989 Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad
1989 NFL owners vote unanimously to form the WLAF
1989 Yanks beat Milwaukee Brewers 4-1, score is changed to 5-1 after the
game is over. Umpire rules Roberto Kelly scored before a doubleplay
1990 Despite Andy Hawkins no-hitting the White Sox, Yankees lose 4-0
1990 German Democratic Republic accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency
1990 In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal

1950 First US soldiers flown to South Korea
On this day, the first U.S. troops - 407 in total -- were sent to South Korea as the U.S. 24th infantry division.


1946 Atomic bomb exploded near Bikini Atoll
On this day, the United States exploded a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll, an island in the Pacific Ocean.

President Lyndon B Johnson 1964: President Johnson signs Civil Rights Bill

"Let us close the springs of racial poison" - US President Lyndon B Johnson makes a huge step on the road to equal rights for all Americans.

Moors murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady 1987: Brady to help search for Moors victims
Moors murderer Ian Brady offers to assist police searches of Saddleworth Moor for the first time since his conviction.

Barry George 2001: Dando killer jailed for life
Barry George is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of television presenter Jill Dando.

The scene of the IRA killings 1992: IRA murders 'informers'
The IRA admits killing three men found by the army at different roadsides in south Armagh.

Photograph of the Hammersmith Grove shops where the weapons were found 1970: Police snatch London gun cache
Police seize a large cache of arms in west London in one of the biggest raids in Britain for years.

july 2nd

311 St Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0195 "Plan 9 From Outer Space," one of the worse films ever, premieres
1644 Battle of Marston Moor; Parliamentary forces defeat royalists
1776 Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are & of right
ought to be Free & Independent States"
1777 Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery
1787 de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered
1808 Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam
1843 An alligator falls from the sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm
1847 Envelope bearing the 1st US 10 stamps, still exists today
1858 Partial emancipation of Russian serfs
1862 Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges
1863 Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)
1864 Gen Early & Confederate forces reach Winchester
1864 Statuary Hall in US Capitol established
1867 1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC
1881 Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker
1885 Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear
1890 Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies
1894 Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers
1900 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1st airship LZ-1, flies
1902 John J McGraw becomes manager of NY Giants (stays for 30 years)
1906 Yanks win by forfeit, for their 1st time
1921 1st million dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier)
1926 US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized
1927 1st American to win Wimbeldon in 20 years (Helen Wills Moody)
1932 FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech
1933 Carl Hubbell shuts-out Cards 1-0 in 18 innings without a walk
1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1357 Khama
1935 Great Britain boxers beat US team in 1st intl Golden Gloves
1937 Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean
1937 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1429 Pemba & #1456 Saldanha
1938 Helen Wills Moody (US) wins her 8th & final Wimbeldon singles
1940 Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated
1941 DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56)
1943 Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning & beat Yankees 12-0
1943 Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane
1949 "Red Barber's Clubhouse" sports show premiers on CBS (later NBC) TV
1955 "Lawrence Welk Show" premiers on ABC
1956 Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" & "Don't Be Cruel"
1957 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor completed-The Seawolf
1957 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
1961 Maris hits 29th & 30th en route to 61 homers
1964 Celia Black records Beatle's "Its For You," McCartney plays piano
1964 Pres Johnson signs Civil Rights Act
1966 Billie Jean King wins her 1st of 6 Wimbeldon single titles
1967 Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) &
1st amateur to US Women's open golf tournament
1969 Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi form the rock group Mountain
1974 Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81)
1976 Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam
1976 Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
1977 Sweden's Bj"orn B"rg won Wimbeldon men's singles over Jimmy Connors
1978 Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start
1980 Grateful Dead's Bob Weir & Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement
1981 L E Gonzalez discovers asteroid #3495 Colchagua
1982 Larry Walters using lawn chair & 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000'
1982 Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
1985 European Space Agency launches Giotto to Halley's Comet
1985 Proto launched to Halley's Comet
1986 Supreme Court upheld affirmative action in 2 rulings
1988 Steffi Graff beats Martina Navratilova for Wimbeldon crown
1990 Imelda Marcos & Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering

july 2nd

1995 Thailand: Banharn Silpa-archa's party wins election
New elections took place on this day, after the government of Chuan Leekpai collapsed amid accusations of wrongdoing in a government land reform project. The leader of Chart Thai (Thai Nation Party), Banharn Silpa-archa, became prime minister. Within the year, however, Silpa-archa's government faced accusations of corruption among his appointees. This prompted an investigation into bribery, abuse of authority, and questionable bank loans. In 1996, after a no-confidence debate in parliament, Silpa-archa resigned as prime minister. The New Aspiration Party (NAP) came out ahead and its leader, Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, became the next Thai prime minister.


1976 Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam
The two Vietnams, divided by the Geneva Conference of 1954, were united as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on this day. Formal unification followed North Vietnam's capture of the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon in April of 1975. The city was renamed Ho Chi Minh City, with officials from the former North Vietnam assuming the reins of government.


1972 India & Pakistan sign peace accord
A peace accord between India and Pakistan was signed on this day by Pakistan's then prime minister, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Indira Gandhi, his Indian counterpart, in Simla, India. The two countries agreed to renounce the use of force as a means of settling their disputes. The accord also called for the withdrawal of troops from their mutual borders.

July 2
1850 - The gas mask was patented on this day. It was an invention of B.J. Lane of Cambridge, MA.
1867 - New York City's first elevated railroad officially opened for business. Commuters soon called the mode of transportation the El.

1921 - The first prize fight offering a million-dollar gate was broadcast on radio. Jack Dempsey knocked out George Carpentier in the fourth round of the bout in Jersey City, NJ.

1929 - Ruby Keeler starred in Flo Ziegfeld's production of Show Girl which opened in New York City. Critics liked the show.

1933 - Baseball great Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants hurled 18 innings of shutout ball to lead the Giants to a 1-0 win over St. Louis in the first half of a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds in New York. The Giants took the nightcap, as well, by an identical 1-0 score.

1939 - The Aldrich Family debuted on NBC radio. Mother Aldrich was heard to call, "Hen-ree! Henry Aldrich!" Mrs. Aldrich was named Alice; Mr. Aldrich was Sam; Henry's sister was Mary; Henry's mischief-making friend was Homer Brown; and Henry's girlfriend was Kathleen. Henry, of course was, well, Henry.

1942 - Jo Stafford joined Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra for Manhattan Serenade, which was recorded for Victor Records. The recording session, you may have guessed, took place in Manhattan.

1946 - CBS signed the Old Redhead, Arthur Godfrey to do a weekly nighttime radio show. Godfrey was soon hosting one of radio's top shows, Talent Scouts.

1951 - NBC radio presented Bob and Ray (Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding) on a network radio show. The comedians had previously been heard on WHDH Radio in Boston, MA.

1955 - "Ah one anna two..." ABC Television premiered The Lawrence Welk Show. In Welk's 24-piece band was the 'Champagne Lady', Alice Lon.

1956 - Elvis Presley recorded Hound Dog and Don't Be Cruel for his new record label home, RCA Victor. In addition, Elvis recorded Any Way You Want Me for later release.

1963 - The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Mia Farrow, opened (off-Broadway). Farrow got good reviews from the critics and a new show biz career was underway.

1966 - MAD magazine, featuring that lovable madcap dweeb, Alfred E. "What Me Worry?" Neuman, was promoting rental cars and shaving cream on postal stamps! Fifteen years later, the U.S. Congress, which didn't find the stunt very funny, introduced ad stamp legislation of its own to relieve the post office deficit.

1984 - Epic Records set a record as two million copies of the Jacksons' new album, Victory, were shipped to stores. It was the first time that such a large shipment had been initially sent to retailers. The LP arrived just days before Michael and his brothers started their hugely successful Victory Tour.

1985 - Joe Niekro earned win #200 in his career by leading the Houston Astros to a 3-2 victory over the San Diego Padres in the Astrodome. Joe, famous for the knuckle ball, has a brother, Phil, who also threw the wacky pitch.

1988 - Michael Jackson became the first artist to have five number one singles from one album when Dirty Diana went to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. The other four chart-toppers from Bad were I Just Can't Stop Loving You, Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel and Man in the Mirror.

1997 - Men in Black opened in the U.S. It's a fun-filled sci-fi tale about a secret organization that's been keeping track of extra-terrestrial aliens on Earth for over 40 years. This organization so secret that when you retire, your memory of it is erased! Agents Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) and Jay (Will Smith) expose a plot by intergalactic terrorist Edgar (Vincent D'Onofrio) who has beamed (or whatever) to Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies. Complex, but hilarious, but action packed. Audiences beamed (or whatever) to theatres the first weekend, spending $51.07 million on the movie.

1987: Nazi war criminal gets life

The former chief of Gestapo in Lyon, Klaus Barbie, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a Lyon court.

Dan-Air De Havilland Comet 1970: Holiday jet goes missing over Spain
A charter flight from Manchester has gone missing with 105 holiday-makers on board.

Kaesong where the talks will take place 1951: Ridgway agrees to ceasefire talks
Talks to end the Korean war will begin later in July after terms were accepted by General Matthew Ridgway, supreme commander to the UN in the Far-East.

Jim Morrison 1971: Doors' singer Jim Morrison found dead
The lead singer of American rock group The Doors dies of heart failure in Paris, aged 27.

Photo of the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London 1966: Arrests in London after Vietnam rally
Demonstrators in London are arrested after their protest against the Vietnam War turns violent.

2000: Livingstone to take on government
In his first speech as Mayor of London Ken Livingstone announces that he will stand up to the government.

1956: Commonwealth heads honoured
The prime ministers of India and New Zealand are made Freemen of the City of London.

july 03

683 St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1608 City of Qu‚bec founded by Samuel de Champlain
1754 George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War)
1775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
1778 British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa
1806 Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
1814 Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada
1816 French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross
incompetence kills 150 in calm seas
1819 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
1839 1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students
1841 John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown
planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus
1848 Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)
1852 Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif)
1861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
1863 Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North
1886 1st NY Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine
1888 NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak
1890 Idaho admitted as 43rd US state
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Black Peter" (BG)
1898 Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe
1898 US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba
1911 Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day
1912 NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak
1913 Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird
known to have crossed the Atlantic
1915 US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934
1916 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die)
1920 Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England
1930 Veterans Administration created
1932 1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2
1932 John McGraw retires from baseball
1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1367 Nongoma
1934 FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL
1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler
1939 Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech
1940 British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa
1944 Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore
1947 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC
1947 Cleveland Indians purchase Larry Dolby, the 1st black in the AL
1950 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in the Korean War
1958 "The Andy Williams Show" premiers on ABC (later on CBS & NBC)
1962 Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5)
1965 Phillies Dick Allen & Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice
1966 Brave pitcher Tony Cloninger, is 1st NL to hit 2 grand slams in a game
1966 Race riots in Omaha Nebraska
1967 "News at 10" premieres on English TV
1968 Cleve Indian Luis Tiant strikes out 19 Minn Twins
1969 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI
1970 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival
1970 Calif Angels Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0
1970 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3702
1973 Brothers Jim & Gaylord Perry face each other for only time, Tigers
beat Indians 5-4, as Gaylord loses
1974 Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1976 Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers being
held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers
1978 Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio
station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words"
1980 73,096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0
1981 NYC transit fare rises from 60 to 75, new brass Y-cut-out token
1982 Martina Navratilova defeats Chris Evert Lloyd at Wimbeldon
1983 Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (9.93 s for 100 m)
1983 John McEnroe regains men's singles title at Wimbledon
1984 Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island
1984 Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
1985 CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover
1986 Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty
1987 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic
1987 NY Met Darryl Strawberry threatens teammates Wally Backman & Lee
Mazzilli for criticizing his play
1988 US Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
1989 Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3k steeplechase rec (8:05.39) in Stockholm
1989 Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions
1989 The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million (10 days)
1991 Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7.45 karat diamond ring

july 03

1756 English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'One who lives anddies in error, or in dissent from our Church, may yet be saved; but one who lives and diesin sin must perish.'
1894 Birth of Don R. Falkenberg, founder in 1923 of the Mid-West Businessmen's Councilof the Pocket Testament League. In 1967 the name of this evangelical agency was changed toBible Literature International.
1907 Pope St. Pius X, in his encyclical 'Lamentabili,' formally condemned the'modernist' intellectual movement, as it exhibited itself in the Catholic Church.
1959 Pope John XXIII, in his encyclical 'Ad Petri Cathedram,' expressed the hope thatnon-Catholic Christians would see in the upcoming Vatical II Ecumenical Council 'a warminvitation to seek and find unity.'
1979 Thirty-four years after the end of World War II, the West German government votedto continue prosecution of Nazi war criminals by removing the statute of limitations onmurder

July 3

1819 - This was a great day for those folks who liked to save for a rainy day. The first bank in the U.S. opened in New York City. Business was brisk with $2,807 deposited in the Bank for Savings.
1871 - The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company introduced the first narrow-gauge locomotive. It was called the Montezuma.

1878 - John Wise of Lancaster, PA was the pilot for the maiden flight of a dirigible.

1890 - The Spud State, the Potato State, the Gem State are all synonymous with Idaho, which entered the United States of America on this day. The capital of the 43rd state is Boise. The official state bird is the mountain bluebird; the state flower is the syringa ... or lilac, to the non-botanists among us.

1912 - Rube Marquard set a baseball pitching record. The hurler and his New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-1, earning Marquard his 19th consecutive win.

1922 - Readers were introduced to Fruit Garden and Home magazine. In two years, the publication would be renamed Better Homes and Gardens.

1934 - The first payment by the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was made to Lydia Losiger of East Peoria, IL.

1937 - Del Mar race track opened in sunny Del Mar, California.

1939 - Chic Young's comic strip character, Blondie was first heard on CBS radio. Later, the popular comic strip would become a TV favorite, as well.

1941 - Cab Calloway and his orchestra recorded the standard, St. James Infirmary, for Okeh Records.

1945 - Victor Borge was first heard on NBC radio. The network gave the comedian/pianist the summer replacement slot for Fibber McGee and Molly.

1945 - The first civilian passenger car built since February 1942 was driven off the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Detroit, MI. Automotive production had been diverted to military production for the war (WWII) effort.

1953 - Harry Belafonte was shown with actress Janet Leigh and film star Tony Curtis on the cover of Ebony magazine. It was the first time a black person and two Caucasians were seen together on a U.S. magazine cover.

1971 - The Newport Jazz Festival's reputation was tarnished as gate crashers stormed the stage. The unruly mob forced the show to leave Newport, Rhode Island and move to New York City. Oh, and the artist the crowd got unruly over? Not Bob Dylan, not Miles Davis, but Dionne Warwick! She was singing What the World Needs Now is Love at the time of the incident.

1973 - Clint Holmes received a gold record for his hit single, Playground in My Mind.

1976 - Brian Wilson rejoined The Beach Boys, who were appearing at Angels Stadium in Anaheim, CA (before 74,000 fans). Wilson had been out of the group's road tour schedule for 12 years.

1976 - 103 hostages were rescued by an Israeli commando unit in a raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda. 106 hostages had been taken from a hijacked Air France airliner on its way to Paris from Tel Aviv. Seven pro-Palestinian guerrilla hijackers, 20 Ugandan soldiers and 3 hostages were killed in the raid.

1982 - Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies connected for hit #3,786. It moved Rose into second place in the career-hits column of the record books. Rose was second only to Ty Cobb whose major-league record was 4,191 hits. Rose was 41 years old at the time. Three years later he surpassed Cobb's mark.

1985 - Kevin Curren whipped #1-seeded John McEnroe at the Wimbledon tennis championships. McEnroe had been attempting to become the first American to earn three consecutive men's titles at Wimbledon.

1986 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, considered by many to be the world's greatest ballet dancer, became a U.S. citizen in ceremonies at Ellis Island, New York Harbor.

1988 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan issued a statement to the world, and an apology to the Iranian people, "I am saddened to report that it appears that in a proper defensive action by the USS Vincennes this morning in the Persian Gulf, an Iranian airliner was shot down over the Strait of Hormuz ... We greatly regret any loss of life ..." (290 died when the Vincennes fired upon Iran Air Flight 655, mistaking the plane for a hostile F-14 fighter plane.)

1996 - "Earth, take a good look. It could be your last." Independence Day was shown for the first time to U.S. audiences. Gigantic alien spacecraft are parked in orbit around the Earth, getting set to attack major points around the globe. The weirdos from outer space wipe out New York, Los Angeles, and Washington just for practice. Survivors come up with a plan to fight back ... and just do manage to save the planet. The movie was a blockbuster, doing $50.23 million in its debut weekend. How could it miss with a star-studded cast including Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Robert Loggia, Randy Quaid, Margaret Colin, James Rebhorn and Harvey Fierstein!

1950 South Korean forces mistakenly attacked
On this day, at the beginning of the Korean War, U.S. and Australian Air Forces mistakenly attacked their ally, the South Korean military.


1922 Indonesian Taman Siswa formed
Although the Dutch had banned political activity in Indonesia, on this day Ki Hajar Dewantoro founded the Taman Siswa organization to promote national education for Indonesians. This marked the beginning of the formation of many nationalist organizations that were opposed to Dutch colonial rule

Today in 1863, General Pemberton surrendered the Mississippi port city of Vicksburg to General Grant, prompting Lincoln to remark that " . . . the Father of Waters flows once again untroubled to the Sea."

At the same time, nearly half way across the continent, in a Debacle know as Pickett's charge, General Pickett lead his division, supported by Isaac Trimble and James Johnston Pettigrew in an assault on the Army of the Potomac's position on Cemetary Ridge south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. These two events were the beginning of the end for the southern Confederacy.

1976: Israelis rescue Entebbe hostages

In a dramatic raid Israeli commandos fly to Uganda and to save 100 hostages held by pro-Palestinian hijackers at Entebbe airport.

Ration book is stamped 1954: Housewives celebrate end of rationing
Fourteen years of food rationing in Britain is over as restrictions on the sale and purchase of meat, and bacon in particular, are lifted.

Photograph of John Major 1995: Major wins Conservative leadership
The Prime Minister, John Major, wins his battle to remain leader of the Conservative party.

Alec Rose 1968: Alec Rose sails home
Round-the-world yachtsman Alec Rose receives a hero's welcome as he sails into Portsmouth after his 354-day trip.

Photo of former Manchester United manager Tommy Docherty 1977: Manchester United sack manager
Manchester United manager Tommy Docherty is sacked by the club's directors.

1985: Teenage genius gets a first
Child prodigy Ruth Lawrence achieves a starred first in Mathematics at Oxford University.

July 4th

who can forget today was the day america luckily won independence from their english masters

July 4th

1054 Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)
1636 City of Providence, Rhode Island form
1653 Barebones Parliment goes into session in England
1789 1st US tariff act
1802 US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
1817 Construction on Erie Canal begins
1819 William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
1827 Slavery abolished in NY
1828 Construction begins on Band O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
1829 Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)
1832 "America" 1st sung publicly
1836 Wisconsin Territory formed
1845 Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
1845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
1862 Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell
1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
1865 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published
1866 Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying « of Portland, Me
1873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
1874 Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
1875 White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
1881 Brooker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute
1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF
1883 Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr
1884 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
1886 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
1888 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz
1889 Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
1893 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #369 Aeria
1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH
1894 Republic of Hawaii established
1898 "La Bourgogne" collides with "Cromartyshire", 560 drown
1898 French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark "Cromartyshire", 50 die
1898 US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
1903 Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message
1905 Phila A's beat Boston Red Sox 4-2 in 20 inning game
1908 NY Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn
1910 Jack Johnson KOs James Jeffries in 15 rounds, ending come-back try
1911 Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 & ends a 40 game hit streak
1912 Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0
1914 1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
1918 Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa
1919 Cincinnati Reds are 10« games back in NL, & win the World Series
1919 Jack Dempsey beats Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship
1919 M Wolf discovers asteroid #914 Palisana
1925 44 die when the Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses
1925 Yanks Lefty Grove beats A's Herb Pennock 1-0 in 15 innings
1929 AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down
1933 Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
1938 1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5
1939 Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game
1939 Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day
1941 Howard Florey & Norman Heatley meet for the 1st time, 11 days later
they successfully recreate pencillin
1942 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
1946 Philippines gains independence from US
1950 Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own consitution)
1954 West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern
1956 Independence National Historical Park established in Philadelphia
1956 US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland
1959 America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
1959 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
1960 America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
1960 Mickey Mantle hits career homer # 300
1962 Island Records begins
1966 LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
1967 Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
1967 Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader
1969 "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in the UK
1969 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin
1969 Ann Jones defeats Billie Jean King for Wimbeldon Ladies championship
1970 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ
1970 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of
Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
1973 In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who
"offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth"
1975 Bundy victim (?) Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah
1976 Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
1977 Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher
1977 Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
1978 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3332
1978 Memphis firefighters halt 3-day strike under a court order
1982 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB
1982 Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe for his last Wimbeldon championship
1983 Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox
1984 Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m
1985 Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
1987 Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission
1987 Martina Navratilova wins 6th straight Wimbeldon defeats Steffi Graf
1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" convicted by a French court
1988 Steffan Edberg beats Boris Becker for Wimbeldon crown
1988 US navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
1990 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star
Spangled Banner & Gettysburg Address