the day in the history

1743 "The New York Weekly Journal" published the first half-page newspaper ad.
1872 The Ballot Act was passed in Great Britain, providing for secret election ballots.
1939 General Francisco Franco of Spain revolted against the Republican government, commencing the Spanish Civil War.
1947 U.S. President Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which placed the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the Vice President.
1964 Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds, hits the only grand-slam home run of his career.
1970 Ron Hunt of the San Francisco Giants, was hit by a pitch for the 119th time in his career.
1984 A gunman opened fire at a McDonald's fast-food restaurant in San Ysidro, CA. He killed 21 people before being shot dead by police.
1985 Jack Nicklaus II, at 23 years old, made his playing debut on the pro golf tour at the Quad Cities Open in Coal Valley, IL.
1994 In Buenos Aires, a massive car bomb killed 96 people belonging to Argentinean Jewish organizations.
2000 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of marijuana. He was stopped for speeding and then failed to pass a sobriety test. Abdul-Jabbar was the leading scorer in National Basketball Association (NBA) history at the time.
2001 A train derailed, involving 60 cars, in a Baltimore train tunnel. The fire that resulted lasted for six days and virtually closed down downtown Baltimore for several days.

July 19th

514 St Symmachus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
532 Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle
1321 -BC- origin of Era of Menophres
1510 38 Jews are burned at the stake in Berlin Prussia
1553 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days
1816 Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
1848 1st women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, NY)
1860 1st railroad reaches Kansas
1862 Forrest's 1st raid
1870 France declares war on Prussia; the Franco-Prussian war begins
1875 Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC
1877 1st Wimbledon tennis championships held
1880 SF Public Library starts lending books
1882 J Palisa discovers asteroid #226 Weringia
1907 K Lohnert discovers asteroid #639 Latona
1909 1st baseman Neil Ball turns unassisted triple-play
1913 Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers
among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
1914 Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in the NL
1918 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)
1923 WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
1925 V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1059 Mussorgskia
1927 Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit
1928 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1305 Pongola
1939 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R.P. Scholz, St Louis, Mo
1941 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicted (Tuskegee Ala)
1941 British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
1941 President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee
1943 Allied air forces raid Rome during WW II
1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union
1952 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki
1955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum
1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
1957 Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)
1960 SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies
1961 1st in-flight movie shown (TWA)
1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
1963 Phila Phillies Roy Siever hits HR # 300
1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
1966 Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
1967 Race riots in Durham NC
1967 US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
1971 B Burnasheva discovers asteroid #2259 Sofievka
1973 Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial)
1974 Cleve Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0
1974 David Bowie's Diamond Dog tour ends in NYC
1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #3118
1975 Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
1976 Rock group Deep Purple disbands
1977 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2228 Soyuz-Apollo
1977 NL beats AL 7-5 in 48th All Star Game (Yankee Stadium, NY)
1978 Yanks start 14« game comeback with 2-0 win
1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill
1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza
1979 Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW
1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott
1980 David Bowie appears in role of Elephant Man in Denver
1980 Moscow Summer Olympics begin, US & others boycott
1982 David S Dodge becomes the 1st American hostage in Lebanon
1984 1st female to captain a 747 across the Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
1984 Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), won Democratic VP nomination
1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st schoolteacher to fly the space shuttle
1986 Caroline Kennedy weds Edwin A Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass
1986 Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with
Mickey Welch for 14th place on all time win list
1987 Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games
1989 United flight 232 crashes in Iowa
1990 BASF plant in Cincinnatti explodes in flames, 1 dies
1990 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion
1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif
Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing
Whitey Ford in most appearances as a NY Yankee
1991 Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape
1991 With NY Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better
2781 -BC- Presumed start of Egyptian calendar

July 19th

1649 In London, Edward Winslow, governor of the Plymouth Colony, helped organize theSociety for Propagating the Gospel in New England, for the purpose of converting theAmerican Indians to Christian faith.
1692 Five Massachusetts women were hanged for witchcraft. Fifteen young girls in theSalem community charged as many as 150 citizens in the area with witchcraft during thegreater part of this year.
1825 The American Unitarian Association was founded by members of the liberal wing ofthe Congregational churches in New England.
1835 Birth of Jesse Engle, pioneer missionary. In 1898 he led the first party of fivemissionaries to Africa under sponsorship of the Brethren in Christ Missions.
1904 Construction began on the Liverpool Cathedral in England. The cathedral wascompleted 20 years later and consecrated on this same date in 1924.

July 19th

1995 Taiwan's stock market drops
The day after China announced missile exercises just north of Taipei, Taiwan's stock market dropped 229 points, 4.2%.


1947 Assassination of Aung San
Aung San, one of the leaders of the Burmese independence movement, was assassinated on this day at the age of 32. At the time, he was serving as the prime minister of the provisional Burmese government. Six members of his cabinet were gunned down with him. Aung San had been one of the founding members of the All-Burma Students' Union, which fought against British rule in Burma during the 1930's. During World War II, he first fought with the Japanese, then led an armed revolt against them and joined the allied side. The British installed him as Burma's prime minister, pending the country's formal assumption of independence, which came less than six months after Aung San's death.

July 19th

1996 CELINE OPENS ATLANTA OLYMPICS
Atlanta Georgia - Montreal singer Céline Dion performs at the opening ceremonies of the Atlanta Centennial Olympics (XXVI Olympiad), singing 'The Power of the Dream,' commissioned for the occasion. The Canadian team joins 197 other nations, as Atlanta native and heavyweight boxer Evander Holyfield carries the Olympic torch into the stadium with a female Greek gold medalist from the 1992 Barcelona Games; they give the torch to Janet Evans, who hands off to Muhammad Ali for the official lighting of the flame.

1577 Also On This Day...
Frobisher Bay NWT -
Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 enters Frobisher Bay; explores islands and shores for gold; trades with Inuit; names Mount Warwick, no trace of kidnapped sailors lost the previous year. Here is an engraving of his crew mining ore for gold.

1994 Toronto Ontario - Rolling Stones play a surprise date at the RPM club to preview of their Voodoo Lounge tour; had been rehearsing at a private school and an empty hangar at Pearson Airport.
1990 Toronto Ontario - Johnny Wayne dies at 72; born in Toronto May 28, 1918; partner with Frank Schuster in the comedy team of Wayne and Shuster.
1990 Calgary Alberta - Peter Pocklington sells Palm Dairies Ltd. to Beatrice Foods Inc. of Toronto for an estimated $100 million.
1981 Douglas Point, Ontario - Ontario Hydro closes down Douglas Point and Rolphton nuclear power stations due to leaks in Douglas boiler.
1981 Toronto Ontario - Hailstones the size of tennis balls fall near Toronto, causing millions of dollars worth of damage.
1980 Moscow Russia - Canada joins the USA and other nations in protesting the invasion of Afganistan, by boycotting the 22nd Olympiad, opening today in Moscow; 81 other nations and 5,326 competitors attend; until August 3.
1978 Yukon - US and Canada start 10-year program to pave and rebuild Alaska and Haines highways.
1977 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa raises qualifying period for unemployment benefits from 8 weeks to 10-14 weeks; cuts benefit period to from 10 to 50 weeks.
1976 Hollywood California - NBC airs last episode of The Rich Little Show, TV variety program hosted by Ottawa-born comic.
1969 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- announces western Canadian wheat farmers will get $250 million in interest-free advance cash payments for their farm-stored grain; effective Aug. 1.
1965 Ottawa Ontario - Yukon and Northwest Territories represented for the first time at a federal-provincial conference.
1963 Ottawa Ontario - Julius Nyerere President of Tanzania visits Ottawa.
1958 Ottawa Ontario - Kwame Nkrumah Prime Minister of Ghana starts four-day visit to Montreal and Ottawa; addresses Parliament.
1958 Kelowna BC - Princess Margaret opens Okanagan Lake Bridge in Kelowna.
1952 Helsinki Finland - Canadian team attends the 15th Olympiad, opening today in Helsinki; 68 other nations and 4,925 competitors attend; until August 3; Canada will win one gold medal, George Genereux in Shooting.
1950 Korea - UN asks RCAF transport squadron to assist in United Nations airlift in Korea.
1948 Ottawa Ontario - John Bracken resigns as leader of the Progressive Conservatives; will be replaced by George Drew.
1945 Halifax Nova Scotia - End of Halifax ammunition dump crisis after day of terror.
1944 Normandy France - Canadians and British start Operation Goodwood/Atlantic, to secure Vaucelles and Colombelles, and prepare the break through to Falaise. General Dempsey, commander British 2nd Army, launches his Eighth Corps of three armoured divisions south of Caen; attacked by 1st SS Panzer Division and forced to halt; 7th Armoured Division fails to capture Verrières and Bourguebus Ridges; the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division under Maj. Gen. Charles Foulkes comes into line to join the 3rd and 2nd Armoured Brigades of the 2nd Canadian Corps under Lt. Gen. Guy Simonds, who fight on the Eighth's right with infantry; ordered to cross the Orne River into the southeastern suburbs of Caen, force the enemy out of his entrenched positions there, and then forge southward into open country. Their tanks are neutralized by German anti-tank fire and the infantry are decimated as they advance; they gain Colombelles and the Queen's Own captures Giberville. The rest of the 8th Brigade passes south, and by nightfall the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division has taken Cormelles and the eastern part of Vaucelles; the southern part of Caen is cleared; the Black Watch cross the Orne River, and advance to St-Andre-sur-Orne and the northern edge of Verrières Ridge.
1937 Ottawa Ontario - Bank of Canada issues Canada's first bilingual currency.
1933 Montreal Quebec - La Presse acquires newspaper La Patrie.
1921 Ontario - Official start of prohibition of manufacture, importation, and sale of liquor in Ontario.
1918 Canada - Start of Spanish flu epidemic that will kill over 30,000 people in Canada.
1908 Quebec Quebec - Start of festivities marking the 300th anniversary of Champlain's founding of Quebec.
1875 Ottawa Ontario - Passage of the Parliament of Canada Act, defining the powers and privileges of its members.
1844 Quebec Quebec - François-Xavier Garneau appointed city clerk of Quebec.
1840 Boston Massachusetts - Samuel Cunard's first steamship, the paddle steamer Britannia arrives at Boston from Halifax 14 days and 8 hours after leaving Liverpool, England; first scheduled transatlantic mail service by steamship, and a blow to the age of sailing ship; won the Admiralty contract to provide a fixed schedule mail service to Halifax and Boston in 1839, started the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, and launched Britannia in May.
1833 Montreal Quebec - City council adopts coat of arms with the four national flowers of France (fleur-de-lys), England (rose), Scotland (thistle), and Ireland (shamrock), and the motto 'Concordia Salus'.
1830 London England - Lord Aylmer appointed Governor of Lower Canada.
1826 Halifax Nova Scotia - First sailing regatta held in Halifax on the North West Arm; first regatta in Canada.
1821 Montreal Quebec - Start of excavation of the Lachine Canal.
1814 Prairie du Chien Wisconsin - Lt. Colonel William McKay captures Fort Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin; British now have base for potential 1815 attacks on St. Louis, Missouri, and down the Mississippi.
1812 Sacketts Harbor, NY - British launch unsuccessful attack on Sacketts Harbor during the War of 1812.
1766 Quebec Quebec - Jean-Olivier Briand becomes the 7th Bishop of Quebec.
1759 Youngstown, NY - English General Prates mistakenly steps in front of a mortar and is blown to pieces during the bombardment of the French at Fort Niagara; Sir William Johnson assumes command under protest of Lieutenant Colonel Eyre Massey, who argues he has seniority.
1701 Detroit Michigan - Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac 1658-1730 arrives at site of Detroit with his lieutenant Alphonse de Tonty c1659-1727 and 100 men.
1701 Oswego, NY - Iroquois deed hunting ground north of Lake Ontario and west of Lake Michigan to England.
1673 Kingston Ontario - Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 completes Fort Frontenac; fortified base for fur trade west of St. Lawrence Valley.
1654 Trois-Rivières Quebec - Marguerite Sedilot marries Jean Aubuchon at the age of 11 years, 5 months; youngest bride in Canadian history.
1629 Quebec Quebec - David & Lewis Kirke arrive in sight of Quebec; capture the party Champlain sent to warn relief ships.
1616 Quebec Quebec - Marguérite Vienne dies; first French woman in New France.
1611 Quebec Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 returns to Quebec.
1603 Gaspé Quebec - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 returns to Gaspé.

July 19th

0379: Death of St. Macrina the Younger



0532: Start of the Dionysian Pascal (Easter) Cycle



0711: Rodric, King of Spain, defeated by the Moors



1372: Treaty between Yann of Brittany and Edward III of England against Charles V of France



1380: The Earl of Buckingham lands at Calais for a raid thru France



1525: Dessau League formed



1545: A French force lands on the Isle of Wight, England



1551: Treaty of Karlsburg



1553: Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as Queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. King Henry the Eighth's daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen.



1588: Spanish Armada sighted from England



1660: Death of St. Vincent de Paul



1842: The British stiff upper lip was not to Felix Mendelssohn's liking. The likable composer wrote his mother on this day that Buckingham Palace was, as far as he was concerned, "the only friendly home in England."



1848: A pioneer women's rights convention called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia C. Mott convened in Seneca Falls, New York. "Bloomers," a radical departure in women's clothing, were introduced to the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y. They were named after Amelia Jenks Bloomer.



1870: The Franco-Prussian war began.



1941: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign in Europe.



1942: Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony received its American premiere when Toscanini and the NBC Symphony performed it live over the radio from New York. The score had been smuggled out of Russia on microfilm.



1943: Allied air forces raided Rome during World War Two.



1961:1st In-flight movie is shown (on TWA).



1969: John Fairfax of Britain arrived at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the first person to row across the Atlantic alone.



1975: The "Apollo" and "Soyuz" space capsules that were linked in orbit for two days separated.



1984: US Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro (Democrat, New York) won the Democratic nomination for vice president by acclamation at the party's convention in San Francisco.



1985: Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. (McAuliffe and six other crew members died when the "Challenger" exploded shortly after lift-off.)



1986: Colin Davis concluded 15 years as music director of Covent Garden the longest tenure ever with a staging of "Fidelio" so avant garde that it was booed.



1987: Residents of Balch Springs, Texas, gathered at the Seagoville Road Baptist Church to mourn the ten teen-agers who died when a flash flood engulfed a church bus and van two days earlier.



1988: Jesse Jackson brought his 1988 presidential campaign to an emotionally charged close at the Democratic national convention in Atlanta, telling the party faithful to unite because "the only time we win is when we come together."



1989: 112 people were killed when a United Air Lines DC-10 crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 184 other people survived.



1990: President Bush joined Republican predecessors Ronald Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon at ceremonies dedicating the Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California.


1990: Baseball's all-time hits leader Pete Rose was sentenced in Cincinnati to five months in prison for tax evasion.



1991: Nine days of combat between Tamil rebels and Sri Lankan soldiers left 78 soldiers and 600 rebels dead in the fiercest fighting since 1983.



1991: The South African government acknowledged that it had been giving money to the Inkatha Freedom Party, the main rival of the African National Congress.



1991: President Bush toured the Souda Bay U.S. naval base during a visit to Greece.



1992: Secretary of State James A. Baker the Third opened a fresh round of Mideast diplomacy, meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and other officials.



1992: In Palermo, Sicily, a car bomb claimed the life of chief prosecutor Paolo Borsellino.



1993: President Clinton fired FBI Director William Sessions, citing "serious questions" about Sessions' conduct and leadership.



1993: President Clinton announced a compromise allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, but only if they refrained from all homosexual activity, known as the "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" policy.



1993: Former U.S. House postmaster Robert Rota pleaded guilty to conspiring to embezzle public funds.



1994: Funeral services were held for North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung, who had died July 8 at age 82.



1994: A bomb ripped apart a Panama commuter plane, killing 21, including 12 Jews, a day after a car bomb destroyed a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 95 people.



1995: In the busiest trading day in history, the Dow Jones industrial average ended at 4,628.87, down 57.41, after plunging more than 130 points earlier in the session.



1995: President Clinton firmly rejected calls for dismantling affirmative action programs.



1995: A pair of House subcommittees held a joint hearing on the federal government's raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.



1996: Opening ceremonies were held in Atlanta for the 26th Summer Olympic Games.



1996: A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee recommended, with some conditions, that the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 be approved.



1996: Bosnian Serb official Radovan Karadzic yielded to international pressure to give up all political power.



1997: The Irish Republican Army declared a new cease-fire and opened the way for supporters to join peace talks with Northern Ireland's pro-British Protestants.



1997: Eleven armored carriers from NATO gathered in a show of force near the home of ousted Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, Bosnia's number-one war crimes suspect.



1998: Hundreds of Serb police battled secessionist guerrillas for control of the central Kosovo town of Orahovac.



1998: Seeking to break a 16-month deadlock, Israel and the Palestinians held their first high-level talks in months.


1999: Federal officials said radar data showed the plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. dropped 1,100 feet in just 14 seconds. Sen. Edward Kennedy released a statement saying, "We are filled with unspeakable grief and sadness by the loss of John and Carolyn and of Lauren Bessette."


2000: President Clinton uselessly shuttled between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his own experts during peace talks at Camp David after delaying his departure for an economic summit in Japan.

1974: Turkey invades Cyprus

Thousands of Turkish troops invade northern Cyprus after last-minute talks in the Greek capital, Athens, fail to reach a solution.

Adolf Hitler 1944: Hitler survives assassination attempt
Adolf Hitler escapes death after a third attempt on his life when a bomb explodes in Rastenberg

Photo of the aftermath of the Hyde Park bomb 1982: IRA bombs cause carnage in London
Eight soldiers on ceremonial duty are killed in two IRA bomb blasts in Hyde Park and Regent's Park.

Sirimavo Bandaranaike 1960: Ceylon elects world's first woman PM
Sirimavo Bandaranaike makes history when she is elected the first-ever female head of government.

Photo of the front of the London Stock Exchange 1990: IRA bombs Stock Exchange
An IRA bomb blows a 10-foot hole in the London Stock Exchange.

2003: BBC admits Kelly was 'main source'
The BBC confirms weapons expert Dr David Kelly, found dead two days ago, was the source for reports that the government "sexed up" an Iraq dossier.

1957: Britons 'have never had it so good'
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan tells a Conservative rally in Bedford "we have never had it so good" but calls on pay restraint to combat inflation.

July 20th

514 St Hormisdas begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1773 Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
1810 Colombia declared independence from Spain
1858 Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)
1861 Confederate state's congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Va
1864 Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign
1868 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes
1871 British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province
1872 Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... the radio is born
1876 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins
1878 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii
1881 Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops
1890 Snow & hail in Calais, ME
1894 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
1903 Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X
1906 Bkln Dodger Mal Eason no-hits St Louis Cards, 2-0
1911 Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
1912 Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game
1917 WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn
1922 Togo made a mandate of the League of Nations
1923 Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2
1930 106ø F (41ø C), Washington, DC (district record)
1934 118ø F (48ø C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record)
1938 Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws
1940 Singles record charts 1st published by Billboard-Tommy Dorsey #1
1941 Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17
1942 Legion of Merit Medal authorized by congress
1942 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines
1944 Pres FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention
1944 US invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II
1944 Von Stauffenberg fails on an attempt on Hitler's life
1949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
1950 "Arthur Murray Party" premiers on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)
1954 Tennis Champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident
1956 France recognizes Tunisia's independence
1956 Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs
1960 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
1960 USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
1964 1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's "Surf City"
1965 46.18 cm (18.18") of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record)
1967 Race riots in Memphis Tenn
1968 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV
Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes the 1st heavy metal
song to hit the charts, it comes in at #117
1969 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
1970 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island
1970 LA Angel Bill Singer no-hits Phillies, 5-0
1974 Turkey invades Cyprus
1976 US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
1977 Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pa, kills 80 & causing $350 mil damage
1979 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash
1982 Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks
1984 Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m
1985 Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
1987 Don Mattingly ties 1st base majors fielding record with 22 put-outs
1988 Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee
1989 93ø F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona
1990 Justice William Brennan resigns from the Supreme Court after 36 years
1991 Kirk Cameron marries Growing Pains co-star Chelsea Noble in upstate NY
1991 Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant
1996 26th Olympic Summer games opens in Atlanta, Georgia

20th July

1648 The Westminster Larger Catechism was adopted by the General Assembly of the Churchof Scotland at Edinburgh. This and the Shorter Catechism have both been in regular use amongPresbyterians, Baptists and Congregationalists ever since.
1726 Colonial clergyman Jonathan Edwards, 23, married Sarah Pierpont, 16. Theirmarriage prospered for over 30 years, before his premature death in 1758. Sarah herself diedonly six months later, at 48.
1877 Birth of Jesse Overholtzer, who in 1937 incorporated Child Evangelism Fellowshipin Chicago. Today the CEF mission agency works in over 60 countries worldwide.
1910 The Christian Endeavor Society of Missouri began a campaign to ban all motionpictures that depicted kissing between non-relatives.
1962 Pope John XXIII sent invitations to all 'separated Christian churches andcommunities,' asking each to send delegate-observers to the upcoming Vatican II EcumenicalCouncil in Rome.

July 20th

1801 - A 1,235 pound cheese ball was pressed at the farm of Elisha Brown, Jr. The huge ball of cheese was later loaded on a horse-driven wagon and presented to President Thomas Jefferson at the White House. Mr. Jefferson was heard to say, "That's one small bite for man, one giant cheese for mankind."
1859 - Brooklyn and New York played baseball at Fashion Park Race Course on Long Island, New York. The game marked the first time that admission had been charged for spectators to see a ball game. It cost $.50 to get in and the players on the field received no salary (until 1863). Hot dogs were $18.50, just like today.

1868 - Legislation that ordered U.S. tax stamps to be placed on all cigarette packs was passed this day.

1935 - NBC radio debuted G-men. The show was later renamed Gangbusters and stayed on the air until 1957.

1940 - Billboard magazine published its first listing of best-selling singles. 10 tunes were listed.

1942 - The first members of the WAACS, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began training at Fort Des Moines, IA. In 1943, the name was changed to WACS (Women's Army Corps) and the organization became a part of the U.S. Army. All WAACS were given the choice of joining the new WACS (and joining the army) or returning to civilian life (75% stayed on).

1947 - The National Football League ruled that no professional team could sign a player who had college eligibility remaining.

1958 - Pitcher Jim Bunning threw a no-hitter and led the Detroit Tigers to a baseball win over the Boston Red Sox. The no-hitter was the last by a Tiger pitcher until Jack Morris did the same 26 years later. This turned out to be a major-league record for time between no-hitters.

1961 - Stop the World, I Want to Get Off opened in London. The show went to Broadway in 1962.

1963 - Ray Conniff received two gold-record awards -- for the albums, Concert in Rhythm and Memories are Made of This -- on Columbia Records. Conniff recorded dozens of albums of easy listening music for the label. He had been a trombonist and arranger with Bunny Berigan, Bob Crosby, Harry James, Vaughn Monroe and Artie Shaw.

1983 - Frank Reynolds, anchor of the nightly ABC News, died at the age of 59. He was replaced by ABC News correspondent, Peter Jennings. Through his years at ABC, Reynolds was noted for being temperamental. That personality came through on the air from time to time. During the assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan, Reynolds scolded staff members while he was on camera. Reynolds had to retract previously broadcast statements that Reagan's Press Secretary James Brady had been killed in the attack. The misinformation embarrassed Reynolds, causing the on-air reaction.

1985 - Treasure hunters began hauling off $400 million in coins and silver ingots from the sea floor in the biggest underwater jackpot in history. The bounty came from the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha. The Spanish galleon sank 40 miles off the coast of Key West, Florida in 1622. It was located by treasure hunter Mel Fisher. The 40 tons of gold and silver and was the richest treasure find since the opening of King Tut's tomb in the 1930s.

1996 - Blue, the very first major-label (Curb Records) album by Country singer LeAnn Rimes (13 years old), debuted at number one on Billboard's Country music chart and number four on the Pop album chart. The title track from Blue went on to became a signature song for Rimes. The album went on to go multi-platinum.

1969: America lands man on the Moon

American Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the Moon.

Viet Minh soldier waves flag after victory at Dien Bien Phu 1954: Peace deal ends Indo-China war
Eight years of war come to an end as the French cede control of northern Vietnam to the Communist Viet Minh after signing the Geneva Accord.

Tony Blair and David Blunkett 1994: Labour chooses Blair
The MP for Sedgefield, Tony Blair, is confirmed as the new leader of the Labour Party.

Photograph of holiday-makers returning from Cyprus 1974: Cyprus conflict spills into London
Thousands of Greek-Cypriots in London protest about the disputed government of Cyprus.

Photo of HMS Hermes docking at Portsmouth 1982: Homecoming for HMS Hermes
The flagship of the British taskforce to the Falklands, HMS Hermes, arrives back in Portsmouth.

July 21st

230 St Pontianus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1588 English fleet defeats Spanish armada
1831 Belgium gains independence from Netherland, Leopold I made king
1836 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie & St John, Qu‚bec
1846 Mormons found 1st English settlement in Calif (San Joaquin Valley)
1861 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins
1867 City Gardens on Folsom opens
1873 Jesse James, 1st train robbery
1880 Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY
1896 National Federation of Afro-American Women & Colored Women's
League merge to form National Association of Colored Woman
1898 Spain cedes Guam to US
1900 Pope Leo XIII encyclical to the Greek-Melkite rite
1904 Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH
1919 Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)
1921 Indians (9) & Yankees (7) hit a record 16 doubles
1923 Phillies score 12 in 6th & beat Cubs 17-4
1928 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1096 Reunerta
1930 US Veterans Administration established
1931 Reno race track, becomes 1st in US to use daily double wagering
1934 113ø F (45ø C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)
1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1358 Gaika
1940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
1942 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Va
1944 US forces free Guam of Japanese invaders
1945 Detroit Tigers & Phila A's play 24 inning 1-1 tie
1946 J‚sus T Pi¤erol becomes 1st native born Puerto Rican governor
1949 Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13
1954 At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam
1955 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf
1956 Cin Red pitcher Brooks Lawrence loses after 13 straight wins
1957 1st black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson)
1959 1st atomic powered merchant ship, Savannah, christened, Camden NJ
1960 The country of Katanga forms in Africa
1961 Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom
1962 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany Ga
1965 Pakistan, Iran & Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact
1966 Gemini X returns to Earth
1969 Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
1969 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits
1972 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76 (Seville, Spain)
1972 In New York, 57 murders occur in 24 hours
1973 Hank Aaron becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 700 HRs
1973 USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of the red planet
1975 Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager
1975 NY Met Felix Milan hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays
1976 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Phila
1978 US Postal Service & unions agree on a contract averting mail strike
1978 World's strongest dog, 80-kg St Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m
1979 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2585 Irpedina & #3298
1979 National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, NY) dedicated
1980 Jean-Claude Droyer climbs the Eiffel Tower in 2 hrs 18 mins
1983 Polish govt ends 19 months of martial law
1983 Storm cuts short Diana Ross' free concert in NY's Central Park
1983 US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge
1984 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US
1984 Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
1986 Pleasure Island plans unveiled
1988 ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian)
1989 Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors
1989 Greg LeMond (US) wins Tour de France in fastest time
1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Carl "the Truth" Williams in 1:33 of 1st round
1990 Goodwill Games opens in Seattle Wash
1990 Pink Floyds' "The Wall" is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood

July 21st

1773 Clement XIV issued the brief, 'Dominus ac redemptor noster,' officially dissolvingthe Society of Jesus (Jesuits). This politically-based suppression afterward leftconspicuous gaps in Catholic education and foreign missions.
1829 Birth of public school teacher Priscilla Jane Owens. A Methodist who remained inBaltimore all her life, she left behind two enduring hymns: 'We Have an Anchor' and 'JesusSaves.'
1886 The cardinal's hat was conferred upon Elzear Alexandre Taschereau, 66, archbishopof Quebec. He was the first Canadian to be made a cardinal in the Catholic Church.
1925 Following a sensational 12-day trial, high school biology teacher John T. Scopeswas found guilty of teaching evolution in his Dayton, TN classroom and was fined $100.
1958 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'What the devil loves is thatvague cloud of unspecified guilt or unspecified virtue, by which he lures us into despairor presumption.'

July 21st

1733 - John Winthrop was granted the first honorary Doctor of Law Degree in the United States. The honor was bestowed on Mr. Winthrop by Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1873 - The first train robbery in America was pulled off by Jesse James and his gang. They took $3,000 from the Rock Island Express at Adair, IA. Stick 'em up. And don't try to grab my mask!

1930 - The Veterans' Administration of the United States was established this day.

1931 - Ted Husing was master of ceremonies for the very first CBS-TV program. The gala show featured singer Kate Smith, composer George Gershwin and New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker.

1944 - Harry S Truman accepted the Democratic party's nomination for vice president of the U.S. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected for a fourth term that year -- with Truman as his VP. On April 12, 1945, Roosevelt died and Truman became president.

1957 - Althea Gibson became the first black woman to win a major U.S. tennis title. She won the Women's National clay-court singles competition.

1958 - The last of Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts programs aired on CBS-TV. Many artists got their start on Talent Scouts, including Tony Bennett, Pat Boone, The McGuire Sisters and a singer named Connie Francis -- who not only sang, but played the accordion, as well.

1959 - A U.S. District Court judge in New York City ruled that Lady Chatterley's Lover was not a dirty book. The ruling was upheld in U.S. appeals court one year later. The book, incidentally, has been called a literary work of art. We recommend pages 21, 46 and 319.

1968 - Arnold Palmer became the first golfer to make a million dollars in career earnings after he tied for second place at the PGA Championship. Palmer accomplished the feat in just 13 years and 2 months as a professional golfer. He won 52 golf tournaments during that period.

1969 - Just one day after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Duke Ellington and a portion of his band performed a 10-minute composition on ABC-TV titled Moon Maiden. The work featured piano, drums, bass and vocals.

1973 - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown reached the top spot on the Billboard pop-singles chart, becoming Jim Croce's first big hit. Croce died in a plane crash two months later (September 20, 1973).

1985 - The 10 sexiest men in the U.S., according to Playgirl magazine, included comedian John Candy, New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Representative Jack Kemp.

1985 - Sandy Lyle became the first British golfer in 16 years to win the British Open golf title. Tony Jacklin was the previous winner from Great Britain (1969).

1985 - Race horse John Henry retired. The thoroughbred was originally purchased for $1,100. The 1984 Horse of the Year had career winnings of $6.5 million. John Henry won 39 of 83 races and was 10 years old when he retired.

1987 - TV personality Mary Hart of Entertainment Tonight made news as she had her legs insured by Lloyd's of London for $2 million.

1989 - Former president Ronald Reagan was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in recognition of his role as George Armstrong Custer in The Santa Fe Trail (1940) and as host of TV's Death Valley Days (1965-1966).

1990 - Some 250,000 people celebrated at the site where the Berlin Wall once stood in East Berlin. Included in the benefit concert was an all-star cast performing Pink Floyd's The Wall. Artists who performed: The Band, The Scorpions, Ute Lemper, Thomas Dolby, Sinead O'Connor, Joni Mitchel, James Galway, Brian Adams, Jerry Hall, Van Morrison, Marianne Faithfull, Albert Finney. Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters (organizer of the concert) performed together with his group The Bleeding Heart Band. "Organizing this show was certainly a lot of hard work," Waters said, "but it was excellent to work with Bryan Adams, Van Morrison, Cyndi Lauper and all the others."

1990 - As reported by This Week in Musical History and Rock Date Diary: The Radio One apologized to listeners after Madonna repeatedly cursed during a live concert broadcast from Wembley Stadium.

July 21st

1954 At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam
On this day, at the signing of the Geneva Conference, Vietnam was divided at the latitude of the 17th parallel, between the communist led northern half and the U.S. supported southern half. This temporary division was to last until the conclusion of elections. The elections never took place, instead civil war erupted, eventually joined by American intervention in support of the south. The country was not reunited until 1976. France had asked the other world powers to help draw up a plan for French withdrawal from the region and for the future of Vietnam. The meeting began in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 8 ,1954. Diplomats from France, the United Kingdom, the USSR, China, and the United States, as well as representatives from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, drafted a set of agreements which became known as the Geneva Accords. These agreements provided for the withdrawal of French troops to the south of Vietnam where they could be safely removed from the country. Viet Minh forces moved into the north. Vietnam was temporarily divided at the 17th parallel to allow for a cooling-off period and for warring factions among the Vietnamese to return to their native regions. H o Chi Minh maintained control of North Vietnam, or the DRV, while Emperor Bao Dai remained head of South Vietnam.


1952 Revolution of July 21st in Iran
On this day, leftist Tudeh supporters organized and fought street battles with both the police and military forces in Tehran. The uprising brought down the short-lived government of Ghavam, who was replaced by the previous Premier Mohamed Mossadegh.


1786 Tay Son leaders capture the capital of Vietnam (Dai Viet)
On this day, the Tay Son rebellion leader, Nguyen Hue, captured the capital Thang Long (now Hanoi) and set up what was to be known as the Tay Son dynasty. The Tay Son rebellion was the greatest of the numerous peasant uprisings of the 18th century. It destroyed the autonomous courts of the north and south and overthrew the restored Le dynasty.

July 21st

1896 CANADA'S FIRST FILM SHOWING
Ottawa Ontario - John C. Green shows the first display of Thomas Edison's Vitascope at the Ottawa Electric Railway Company's West End Park near the intersection of Holland Avenue and Carling Avenue in Ottawa; Canada's first motion picture showing.

1836 Also On This Day...
La Prairie Quebec -
Governor Archibald Acheson, Lord Gosford 1776-1849 rides on the first train of the Champlain & St. Lawrence with 300 other guests, pulled by the locomotive Dorchester over wooden rails; the 23 km portage road running from La Prairie opposite Montreal to St-Jean on the Richelieu is Canada's first public railway line; became part of the Montreal and Champlain Railroad in 1857; leased to the Grand Trunk in 1864; now part of the CN system.

1996 Chicoutimi Quebec - End of 72 hours of torrential rain in Chicoutimi Region; flooding and landslides kill 10, estimated $365 million in damage.
1996 Atlanta Georgia - Hamilton cyclist Clara Hughes wins Canada's first medal at the Summer Olympics, taking the bronze in the women's road race in a time of 2:36.44; Jeannie Longo of France wins gold, Italian Imelda Chiappa silver, just holding off Hughes; first ever medal for Canada in Olympic women's cycling, which made its debut in 1984. Hughes, 23, born and raised in Winnipeg.
1996 Atlanta Georgia - Calgary's Curtis Myden swims to a Canadian and Commonwealth record winning the bronze medal in the 400-metre individual medley at the 1996 Olympic Games; finishes in 4:16:28 seconds, about .7 of a second better than his previous personal best. Tom Dolan of the US takes gold, teammate Eric Namesnik silver.
1994 Watervliet New York - Dorothy Collins, singer, actor, dies of a heart attack at age 67; born Marjorie Chandler in Windsor, Ontario Nov. 18, 1926; began performing on TV's Your Hit Parade in the 1950's, singing "Be happy, go Lucky" for the sponsor, Lucky Strike cigarettes; later sang weekly top hits; in the 1960's, helped set up gags on unwitting victims for Allen Funt's Candid Camera; married to Raymond Scott 1952-55.
1991 Cooperstown New York - Chatham, Ontario, born Ferguson Jenkins admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame; first Canadian; won 284 games during 12 seasons; won 1971 Cy Young award as top National League pitcher.
1990 San Bernardino California - Robert Thomas Allen dies at age 79; won Leacock Medal twice: for The Grass is Never Greener; and Children, Wives and Other Wildlife.
1990 Montreal Quebec - 'Weird Al' Yankovic performs live at the Theatre St-Denis for the Just For Laughs comedy festival; taping for Showtime pay TV network.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - New Emergencies Act receives royal assent; War Measures Act of 1914 set aside; two other bills designed to weed out bogus refugee claimants also get royal assent.
1986 Halifax Nova Scotia - Premier John Buchanan hosts banquet with over 500 people to honour 72-year-old country singer Hank Snow, who was born in Liverpool, but moved to Nashville in the mid-1940's; proclaims Hank Snow Week in Nova Scotia.
1976 Ottawa Ontario - Canada signs $1 billion contract with Lockheed Aircraft for 18 long-range Orion patrol aircraft.
1975 Ottawa Ontario - Ottawa sets up Canadian Human Rights Commission; to stop discrimination by federal companies.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Canada decides to end all cease-fire monitoring activities in Vietnam.
1972 Ottawa Ontario - CRTC approves creation of a Global TV network;. licensed to serve five Ontario cities; Canada's third TV network today part of CanWest.
1967 Saskatchewan - Gardiner Dam on the South Saskatchewan River dedicated in honour of James Garfield Gardiner 1897-1972.
1963 Quebec - British freighter and Bermudan ore carrier collide in St. Lawrence; 18 dead, 15 missing and presumed dead.
1961 Inuvik NWT - John George Diefenbaker 1895-1979 opens government built Arctic town of Inuvik, North West Territories; to replace Aklavik as the central town of the district.
1944 Fleury Normandy - SS veterans of the 1st Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler attack the Essex Scottish Regiment and Les Fusiliers Mont Royal in heavy rain; Montreal's Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, helped by heavy artillery bombardment and support of two tank regiments, beats Germans back, but they keep Verrières Ridge; South Sasks and Essex Scottish suffer over 450 casualties in two days, and the 2nd Canadian Corps loses 1149 men over four days of fighting. Simonds blames Foulkes and tries to get him fired, but Crerar protects him. Pressure from US General Bradley, ready to launch Operation Cobra, had forced Montgomery to pressure the Canadians for action.
1935 Washington DC - US government apologizes to Canada; pays $50,000 to compensate for sinking of the rum runner I'm Alone in 1929.
1932 Ottawa Ontario - First Imperial Economic Conference opens in Ottawa; until Aug. 20.
1928 Thelon River, NWT - Four surveyors discover the bodies of English trapper Jack Hornby, his young cousin Edgar Christian, and their friend Adlard in a cabin on the Thelon River; inside the stove is Christian's diary detailing how they slowly starved to death over the winter and spring; Hornby died April 16, after weeks of suffering, Adlard died May 4, and Christian continued his diary until his final entry June 1, noting he is too weak to walk and cannot fetch wood for the stove. He then crawls into his bunk and dies.
1911 Regina Saskatchewan - Olivier-Elzéar Mathieu 1853-1929 appointed first Roman Catholic Bishop of Regina.
1904 Montreal Quebec - Completion of the first grain elevator in the port of Montreal.
1899 Queenston Ontario - Opening of new suspension bridge over Niagara River to Lewiston, New York.
1890 Calgary Alberta - Crowd of 2,500 attend sod-turning ceremony for Calgary and Edmonton Railway; last spike driven at Strathcona, south of Edmonton on July 27, 1891; cut the five-day stagecoach journey to a three hour train trip; C&E line taken over by Canadian Pacific Railway in 1903.
1797 Montreal Quebec - American spy David McLane publicly hanged, beheaded and disembowelled; first execution of its kind in Canada.
1793 Dean Channel BC - Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 arrives at the head of Dean Channel on the Pacific after descending the Bella Coola River.
1730 Quebec Quebec - Canada's population estimated at 33,682 French inhabitants.
1663 Quebec Quebec - Claude Allouez 1622-1689 appointed Vicar-General of the Quebec diocese by Bishop Laval, with responsibility for mission work around Great Lakes, and the central region of what is now the USA.
1576 Baffin Island NWT - Martin Frobisher c1539-1594 sails north into Frobisher Bay; thinks it is a passage to Asia; takes possession for England; names bay after himself

1977: Deng Xiaoping back in power

The disgraced deputy Prime Minister of China, Deng Xiaoping, returns to Chinese Government.

Uday and Qusay Hussein with their father 2003: Saddam's sons killed in gun battle
The United States says Uday and Qusay Hussein, the infamous sons of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, have been killed in a gun battle in northern Iraq.

Photograph of Naji Salim al-Ali 1987: Cartoonist shot in London street
A famous Palestinian cartoonist is shot in the face and critically wounded in London.

Photo of Alec Douglas-Home 1965: Sir Alec steps down from top of Tory tree
The leader of the Opposition, Alec Douglas-Home, surprises colleagues by resigning from his post.

Photo of the new Citizen's Charter logo 1991: Citizen's charter promises better services
British Prime Minister John Major launches a citizen's charter to improve public services.

933 - Caterina Jarboro became the first black prima donna of an opera company. She sang "Aida" at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.

1937 - Hal Kemp and his orchestra recorded "Got a Date with an Angel."

1963 - The Beatles' first U.S. album, "Introducing The Beatles," was released.

1967 - Vanilla Fudge made its concert debut in New York.

1968 - The Byrds' "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" album was released.

1969 - Aretha Franklin was arrested for disorderly conduct after creating a disturbance in a Detroit parking lot.

1972 - The variety show, "The Bobby Darin Amusement Company" premiered on CBS.

1972 - The Who's "Join Together" was released.

1977 - Elvis Costello's first album, "My Aim Is True," was released in Britain. It was later released in the U.S.

1977 - Tony Orlando announced his retirement from show business.

1979 - Little Richard, known as Reverend Richard Penniman, spoke at a revival meeting in North Richmond, CA. He warned the congregation about the evils of rock & roll music.

1996 - The parents of a teen-age murder victim sued the band Slayer contending that the band's lyrics were "satanic" and inspired 3 teen-age boys to rape, torture and stab the girl to death.

1376 - The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading rats out of town is said to have occurred on this date.

1587 - A second English colony was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. The colony vanished under mysterious circumstances.

1796 - Cleveland was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland.

1812 - English troops under the Duke of Wellington defeated the French at the Battle of Salamanca in Spain.

1916 - 10 people were killed when a bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, CA.

1926 - Babe Ruth caught a baseball at Mitchell Field in New York. The ball had been dropped from an airplane flying at 250 feet.

1933 - Wiley Post ended his around-the-world flight. He had traveled 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.

1934 - John Dillinger was mortally wounded by FBI agents at the Biograph Theatre in Chicago, IL.

1937 - The U.S. Senate rejected President Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.

1943 - American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily.

1946 - 90 people were killed when Jewish extremists blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.

1955 - U.S. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon chaired a cabinet meeting in Washington, DC. It was the first time that a Vice-President had carried out the task.

1965 - "Till Death Us Do Part" debuted on England's BBC-TV.

1975 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee had his U.S. citizenship restored by the U.S. Congress.

1991 - Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, charged she'd been raped by boxer Mike Tyson in an Indianapolis hotel room. Tyson was later convicted of rape and served 3 years in prison.

1991 - Police arrested Jeffrey Dahmer after finding the remains of 11 victims in his apartment in Milwaukee. Dahmer confessed to 17 murders and was sentenced to life in prison.

1992 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. He was killed by security forces in December 1993.

1998 - Iran tested medium-range missile, capable of reaching Israel or Saudi Arabia.

2000 - Astronomers at the University of Arizona announced that they had found a 17th moon orbiting Jupiter.

2003 - In northern Iraq, Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai died after a gunfight with U.S. forces.

2003 - In Paris, France, a fire broke out near the top of the Eiffel Tower. About 4,000 visitors were evacuated and no injuries were reported.

1974: Greek military rule gives in to democracy

The military government in Greece collapses and the former prime minister Constantine Karamanlis is invited to return.

Photograph of the Duke and Duchess of York kissing on Buckingham Palace balcony 1986: Prince Andrew weds Sarah Ferguson
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson marry at Westminster Abbey.

Photograph of UN soldier mobilizing in Sarajevo 1995: British forces sent to Sarajevo
Britain sends 1,200 troops to relieve the besieged Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.

1957: Bus dispute turns violent
There have been violent scenes around Britain as the strike by busmen in the English regions enters its fourth day.