Month: July 2024

432 – St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1910 – Pioneering Dutch aviator Clement van Maasdijk gives a flying demonstration
1925 – Unemployment Insurance Act passed in Britain
1943 – Transport #58 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
1981 – Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Jagielski is fired
1983 – Brooks Robinson, Juan Marichal, George Kell and Walter Alston are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
1987 – Battle between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed
1991 – US Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
1992 – Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, killing all 113 passengers and crew members on board the Airbus A310
2020 – Eurozone economic activity falls 11.9% for April-June with Spain the worst at -18.5%, its deepest in modern times

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1601 – Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius
1878 – German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election
1902 – Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)
1928 – George Eastman shows first amateur color motion pictures to guests at his New York house including Thomas Edison
1932 – X Summer Olympic Games open in Los Angeles, California
1945 – After delivering the atomic bomb across the Pacific, cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-58. 880 of the crew die, many after being attacked by sharks, inspiring the movie Jaws
1954 – 5th British Empire Games and Commonwealth Games open in Vancouver, Canada
1966 – Beatles’ “Yesterday… and Today” album goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks
1983 – Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, California
1984 – Soap Opera “Santa Barbara” premieres on NBC TV

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1629 – French colonist Samuel de Champlain surrenders Montreal to British privateers led by David Kirke after a blockade of the colony
1910 – JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory
1923 – Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
1951 – 38th Tour de France won by Hugo Koblet of Switzerland
1968 – Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
1974 – Episcopal Church ordains female priests
1988 – South African government bans anti-apartheid film “Cry Freedom”
1994 – American minister and anti-abortionist Paul Jennings Hill murders Dr. John Britton and Britton’s bodyguard, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel James Barrett, outside of an abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida
2013 – British Senior Open Men’s Golf, Royal Birkdale: American Mark Wiebe wins in a playoff with Bernhard Langer of Germany
2021 – Australian swimmer Emma McKeon wins the blue riband 100m freestyle gold medal in OR 51.96 at the Tokyo Olympics; her 8th career Olympic medal

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1586 – Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to England
1914 – Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia – first declaration of war of Word War I
1937 – Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire
1944 – Adolf Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy
1973 – France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll, in the South Pacific
1977 – Roy Wilkins turns over NAACP leadership to Benjamin Hooks
1989 – Cards’ Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50
1992 – Groundbreaking of Fla Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium
2013 – 39 people are killed after a bus veers off a bridge in Avellino Province, Italy
2018 – Carr Fire reaches Redding, California, with death toll at 5 having burnt 80,000 acres

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1918 – Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, NY
1927 – Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park)
1947 – New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra starts a record 148 game errorless streak
1992 – Dimitri Lepikov, Vladimir Pychenko, Veniamin Taianovitch and Evgueni Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95)
1997 – Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.
1997 – British Senior Open Men’s Golf, Royal Portrush GC: Gary Player of South Africa wins with birdie on 2nd playoff hole against countryman John Bland
2003 – A group of 321 Filipino armed soldiers called “Magdalo” take over Oakwood Premier Ayala Center in Makati City to show Filipino people the alleged corruption of the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration
2005 – NASA postpones all Shuttle flights, pending an investigation into the foam-shedding problem on Discovery’s external tanks
2014 – Obama reaffirms Israel’s “right to defend itself”, but condemns civilian casualties in Gaza
2022 – 170-carat pink diamond the “Lulo Rose,” thought to be largest discovered in 300 years, announced found in Angola

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1656 – Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn declares he is insolvent after living beyond his means and spending too much on artwork and rare items. Leads to the most experimental and exuberantly creative period of his career.
1805 – Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die
1896 – Vitascope Hall, 1st permanent for-profit movie theatre, opens in New Orleans
1958 – Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV
1962 – Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher
1963 – US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1965 – Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1983 – Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io
2017 – 3 live king cobras reported found inside potato chip cans by customs officials in Los Angeles
2023 – Actor Kevin Spacey is cleared of sex assault charges at a court in London

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1759 – British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years’ War)
1900 – Gloucestershire captain Gilbert Jessop hits his second century (139 in 95 minutes) before lunch in same County Cricket match (104 previous day); Yorkshire wins by 40 runs
1908 – Ajinomoto Co. is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), patents a process for manufacturing it.
1914 – Serbia meets the deadlines of Austria-Hungary’s ultimatum and gives a conciliatory reply, though Serbia is mobilizing
1973 – George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert and album
1978 – John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image
1985 – USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1990 – Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman’s record (41:56.23)
2014 – Both Israel and Hamas review US Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal for an immediate ceasefire and meetings in Cairo
2018 – Liquid lake found on Mars under its South Pole by European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter reported in “Science”

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