Calendar . Volume 02 | Issue 13

Volume 02, Issue 13

July 15

  • President Nixon announces plans to visit Red China in 1971.
  • The Democrats select Gov. Jimmy Carter as their Presidential Candidate in 1976.
  • Rembrandt van Rijn, is born on this day in 1606.

July 16

  • The Chicago Black Sox Trial begins in 1921.
  • The first atom bomb test took place in New Mexico in 1945.
  • The Nixon tapings were revealed.

July 17

  • Disneyland opened in 1955.
  • Isaac Watts born in 1674; Art Linkletter born in 1912
  • James Cagney born in 1904.
  • Methodist minister Majorie Matthews becomes the first woman bishop of an American Church in 1980.

July 18

  • Red Skelton born in 1913.
  • John Glenn born in 1921.
  • Singer Dion DiMucci (Dion and the Belmonts) born in 1939.
  • An unemployed security guard shoots and kills 20 people at a MacDonald’s in San Diego in 1984.

July 19

  • The first women’s rights convention convened in 1848.
  • V for Victory theme was introduced by Winston Churchill in 1941.

July 20

  • ‘Riot Act’ in England makes the gathering of twelve or more people illegal, 1715.
  • German Officers plant a bomb in Hitler’s quarters but miss Hitler, 1944.
  • Sir Edmund Hillary born, 1919.
  • Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, 1969.

July 21

  • Ernest Hemingway born, 1899.
  • Don Knotts born 1924.
  • Veterans Administration established, 1930.
  • The Confederate Army won the battle of Bull Run, 1861.
  • The first time a battleship was sunk by a plane, 1921.

July 22

  • John Dillinger killed in Chicago, 1934.
  • The Pilgrims set out from Holland headed for the New World, 1620.

July 23

  • Steve Brodie jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge and survived, 1886
  • The ice cream cone was invented, 1904.

July 24

  • New York Times reporter is jailed for refusing to turn over notes sought in a murder trial, 1978.
  • Amelia Earhart born, 1898.
  • Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) born in 1951.
  • Brigham Young and the first Mormons arrive in Salt Lake, Utah, 1847.

July 25

  • The first woman cosmonaut walks in space, 1984.
  • Actor Walter Brennan born, 1894.
  • Philosopher Eric Hoffer born, 1902.

July 26

  • New York becomes the eleventh state to ratify the U.S. Constitution, 1788.
  • FBI is established, 1908.
  • Egypt seizes and nationalizes the Suez Canal, 1956.
  • George Bernard Shaw born, 1856.
  • Carl Jung born, 1875.

July 27

  • Norman Lear born, 1922.
  • Atlantic telegraph cable between England and the United State is completed, 1866.
  • Korean War armistice signed ending fighting, 1953.
  • The Korean War Veterans Memorial dedicated, 1995.
  • Bugs Bunny makes his debut, 1940.

July 28

  • Army bomber crashes into Empire State Building killing 13 people, 1945.
  • 14th Amendment ratified, 1868.
  • WW 1 begins, 1914.
  • Jackie Kennedy born, 1929.
  • Rudy Vallee born, 1901.

July 29

  • Peter Jennings born, 1938.
  • English forces route the Spanish Armada, 1588.
  • Vincent van Gogh dies, 1890.
  • Prince Charles marries Lady Diana, 1981.
  • NASA created in 1957.

July 30

  • First representative assembly convened in America, 1619.
  • Henry Ford born, 1830.
  • MGM lion first roars, 1928.
  • Paul Anka born, 1941.
  • Arnold Schwargenegger born 1947.
  • The Supreme Court rules Nixon must turn over tapes to the special prosecutor. House committee votes 27-11 for impeachment, 1974.