COUNTDOWN!!......

42 (or 43)

On July 7th......

1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.

1668 "Isaac Newton received an MA from Trinity College, Cambridge."

1813 John Macarthur ships 36 bales of wool from New South Wales to England

1891 Travelers cheque patented

1911 "Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record 25 minutes for Wimbledon championship"

1940 Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr) of The Beatles is born in Liverpool

1967 "Vivian Leigh Scarlet in Gone with the Wind, dies at 53"

1969 Former Rolling Stones guitarist, Brian Jones, drowned after taking a cocktail of drink and drugs, an inquest is told.

1976 British Grandmother missing. Ugandan authorities deny knowledge of the whereabouts of missing British-Israeli citizen Dora Bloch.

1981 "The first solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel"

1982 "David Moorcroft of UK sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41"

1984 "Flora Robson actress, dies in her sleep at 82"

1985 Tennis unknown Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at the age of 17.

1998 At least 19 people are killed in riots in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, following the death of the opposition leader.

2001 Two people are stabbed and many more injured in running battles between white and Asian gangs in Bradford.

2002 "A scandal broke out in the United Kingdom when news reports alleged MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader."

2005 A series of bomb attacks on London's transport network kills more than 30 people and injures about 700 others.

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On July 8th.....

1099 "First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on."

1889 "At the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match, John L. Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain after 75 rounds."

1889 Wall Street Journal begins publishing

1911 Nan Aspinwall is first woman to make solo transcontinental trip by horse

1950 Leroy Deans awarded first Order of Purple Heart in Korea

1965 Ronald Biggs who was serving a 30-year prison sentence for his part in the Great Train Robbery escapes from Wandsworth prison.

1967 "Billie Jean King concludes Wimbledon sweep (singles, doubles & mixed)"

1969 US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam

1971 British troops shoot Londonderry rioters. Two men have been killed by the British army in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

1977 Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs)

1979 Voyager 2 takes first ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14)

1990 Italy beats England in soccer's World Cup consolation game

1993 Egypt executes 7 Islamic extremists for attacks on foreign tourists

1996 Three young children and four adults are attacked by a man with a machete at an infant school in Wolverhampton.

2000 The latest story about boy wizard Harry Potter (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) has broken all publishing records.

2003 Conjoined Iranian twins who volunteered to go ahead with a major operation to separate them both die during surgery.

2005 The G8 summit in Gleneagles ends with a deal to boost aid for developing countries by $50bn.

2007 "Wimbledon, Jamie Murray becomes first British winner of Wimbledon in 20 years, when he won the Mixed Doubles event with his partner, Jelena Jankovi of Serbia."

2009 MARKUS LIEBHERR RESCUES SOUTHAMPTON FOOTBALL CLUB

2012 Andy Murray is first British player to reach Wimbledon Mens Singles Final since 1938

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On July 9th....

0455 Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire

1540 England's King Henry VIII 6-month marriage to Anne of Cleves annulled

1872 "Doughnut cutter patented by John Blondel, Thomaston, Me"

1877 The All-England Croquet Club at Wimbledon staged the world's first lawn tennis championship

1887 "The first paper napkins are introduced at a dinner at a British hotel by John Dickenson, a stationery manufacturer."

1900 Queen Victoria gives royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.

1910 Walter Brookins becomes first to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude

1917 "British warship ""Vanguard"" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 800"

1918 "101 killed & 171 injured in worst US train wreck, Nashville, Tenn"

1947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth & Lt Philip Mountbatten's engagement

1967 "A team of mountaineers successfully climb the Old Man of Hoy, the expedition is televised by BBC television in a unique live outside broadcast."

1973 Prince Charles enjoys the Bahamas' last day as a British colony.

1979 Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter

1982 Michael Fagan breaks into Buckingham Palace and spends ten minutes talking to the Queen in her bedroom.

1982 Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster

1984 A massive fire devastates large parts of York Minster causing an estimated £1m damage.

1988 "Barbara Woodhouse dog trainer, dies at 78 of a stroke"

1991 The closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International loses about 20 local councils up to £30m in investments.

2001 A Californian University throws more light on why the Big Bang theory works after nearly 40 years of world-wide research.

2010 "Queen Elizabeth to become a great-grandmother for first time. Grandson Peter Phillips and his wife, Autumn, are expecting in December 2010"

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On July 10th....

0048 "BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia."

0988 The City of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.

1212 The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.

1460 "Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton."

1553 Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.

1584 "William I of Orange was assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Grard."

1690 Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeats Anglo-Dutch fleet

1692 Bridget Bishop first Salem witch hung

1778 Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1866 "Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass"

1892 "The first concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)"

1925 Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.

1925 USSR's official news agency TASS established

1940 The German air force, the Luftwaffe, attacks shipping convoys off the south-east coast of England at the start of the Battle of Britain.

1943 British, Canadian and American troops invade the Mediterranean island of Sicily - largely unopposed.

1947 "200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China"

1951 "Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin."

1951 Randolph Turpin becomes the middleweight boxing champion after defeating Sugar Ray Robinson.

1962 "Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit."

1965 "Rolling Stones score their first #1, ""I Can't Get No Satisfaction"""

1966 Orbiter 1 launched to Moon

1972 "Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India"

1972 The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw is involved in secret talks with the provisional IRA in London.

1973 Bahamas gain independence after 300 yrs of British rule (Nat'l Day)

1976 One US and three UK mercenaries executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.

1985 The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior is blown up in Auckland harbour, New Zealand.

1989 "Mel Blanc voice of cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny), dies at 81"

1991 Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.

1991 South African cricket team readmitted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) following the end of Apartheid.

1996 The battered bodies of Lin Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan are found near their home in Kent.

1998 Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.

2000 One in four British homes is now using the internet according to figures released by the government.

2000 "A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline."

2002 "At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for 49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Kenneth Thomson."

2003 "A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong."

2010 A 9-year-old boy fatally shot his 2-year-old brother while playing with a gun in Los Angeles

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On July 11th.....

1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII

1735 Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.

1776 Captain James Cook begins third voyage.

1789 Jacques Necker dismissed as Finance Minister for France sparking the Storming of the Bastille.

1804 "Former U S Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton is mortally wounded at age 49 in a duel at Weehawken, N J with Vice President Aaron Burr, now 48, who has heard of insults directed at him by Hamilton and demanded satisfaction

1848 The Waterloo railway station in London opens.

1859 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published.

1882 The British Mediterranean fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.

1960 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.

1962 Fred Baldasare is first to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)

1969 "David Bowie releases ""Space Oddity"

1973 "A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 people of the 134 on-board."

1977 The Gay News and its editor is found guilty of blasphemous libel in the first case of its kind for more than fifty years.

1979 The space laboratory, Skylab I, plunges to Earth scattering debris across the southern Indian Ocean and the sparsely populated Australian desert.

1983 "A Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives."

1987 "According to the United Nations, the world population crossed the 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) mark."

1987 Veterans return to the scene of the bloodiest battle of World War I to commemorate its 70th anniversary.

1987 "Thomas F Waddell founder of Gay olympics, dies of AIDS at 50"

1989 "Sir Laurence Olivier acting great, dies at 82"

1990 "NYC police arrest ""Dartman"" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)"

1991 "A Nationair DC-8 crashed during an emergency landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 261. The Canadian charter was ferrying Hajj pilgrims on behalf of Nigeria Airways."

1991 Labour MP Terry Fields is sentenced to 60 days in prison for refusing to pay his poll tax.

1995 A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people. (11th July seems a bad date for plane crashes......Mike)

1995 The Bosnian Serb army seizes control of the United Nations "safe area" of Srebrenica after Dutch peacekeepers are forced to withdraw.

2000 The World Aids Conference in South Africa announces trials for a new HIV vaccine will begin in Britain.

2006 "209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India."

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On July 12th.....

0927 "a gathering of kings from throughout Great Britain led by King Athelstan of England at Eamont Bridge, those present include Constantn mac eda, Owain map Dyfnwal, Hywel Dda, and Ealdred son of Eadulf."

1450 Jack Cade slain in a revolt against British King Henry VI

1817 "The first flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland)"

1859 "Paper bag manufacturing machine patented by William Goodale, Mass"

1928 the first televised tennis match

1932 Hedley Verity establishes a first-class record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.

1932 "Lambeth Bridge, London, opened by King George V

1941 Military treaty is signed between U.S.S.R. and Britain.

1942 "In village Podhum, near Rijeka. Italian fascists shot 91 men aged from 15 to 60 years, took 889 people to concentration camps, burned 515 buildings, and took all cattle from the village. Although the perpetrators of this crime were known, they were never prosecuted."

1948 The first jets to fly across the Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires)

1960 "Etch A Sketch, the drawing toy goes on sale."

1960 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs

1962 "Rolling Stones first performance (Marquee Club, London)"

1962 The first time 2 manned crafts in space (USSR)

1974 The manager of Liverpool football club, Bill Shankly, is retiring from his post.

1982 "Kenneth More actor, dies of Parkinson disease at 67"

1986 Dozens are injured in the second consecutive night of violence in Portadown, County Armagh, in Northern Ireland.

1990 Boris Yeltsin resigns from the Soviet Communist Party, bringing the radical-conservative split into the open.

1998 Three young brothers are murdered in a loyalist arson attack as the stand-off between Orangemen and police at Drumcree continues.

2000 The British Foreign Office is severely criticised over plans to back a new dam in Turkey.

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On July 13th....

1174 "William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England."

1568 Dean of St Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer

1772 "HMS Resolution, under the command of Captain James Cook, sets sail from Plymouth

1820 "Commencement of the trial in Stirling for High Treason of the Radicals captured at the Battle of Bonnymuir. Two of the accused, John Baird and Andrew Hardie, were subsequently executed on 8 September 1820."

1882 "200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia"

1908 Women compete in modern Olympics for the first time.

1919 "The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight."

1922 "The France II, the world's largest sailing vessel, is wrecked off the coast of New Caledonia."

1955 Convicted murderer Ruth Ellis is hanged at Holloway Prison, London.

1960 Democratic Natl convention nominates Sen John F Kennedy for president

1971 Ten army officers involved in an aborted coup in Morocco have been executed.

1978 "Ford Motor Company President Lee Iacocca is fired by chairman Henry Ford II, ending a long dispute between the men."

1985 The Live Aid concert for the starving in Africa, the world's biggest rock festival held in London and Philadelphia, raises £30m.

1987 "Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials"

1993 Officials in Manchester bidding to hold the 2000 Olympic Games have been told their chances are "very, very high".

2001 The family of a mentally ill man shot dead by police in Liverpool last night demands a public inquiry.

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On July 14th....

1223 "In France, Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France."

1789 French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners.

1791 "The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England."

1850 The first public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration

1865 "First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom died on the descent."

1868 "Tape measure enclosed in a circular case patented, AJ Fellows, Ct"

1881 "On a ranch near old Fort Sumner, New Mexico, the infamous Western outlaw known as ""Billy the Kid"" was shot to death by Pat Garrett, the sheriff of Lincoln County"

1955 "2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascot racetrack"

1957 "Soviet steamer ""Eshghbad"" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270"

1958 A military revolt in Iraq overthrows the monarchy and prompts King Hussein of Jordan to call for British and US military help to avert a similar rebellion in his country.

1965 Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.

1966 Richard Speck rapes & kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory

1967 Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing

1969 "Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer game against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18, taking effect on July 20."

1971 Suicide note reveals murder confession. Police in Cheshire call off the hunt for the murderer of three French tourists after another body is found.

1973 Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to the Everly Brothers

1989 About 500 people are involved in scuffles as Parisians celebrate the bicentenary of the French Revolution.

1991 British troops protecting the Kurdish population in Iraq begin to pull out amid fears of reprisal.

1995 The MP3 format was named.

2001 Six days of crisis talks to save the Northern Ireland peace process end in deadlock.

2002 "During Bastille Day celebrations, French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed."

2005 "Europe holds a two minute silence at 12:00 BST in remembrance of the 7/7 bombings of London"

2006 "The verdict in the Italian Football Match Fixing Scandal was delivered- Juventus were relegated, Lazio, Fiorentina and AC Milan were spared relegation."

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On July 15th.....

0410 Poland & Lithuania defeat Teutonic Knights at Tannenberg

0971 Swithin's remains were dug up and moved to a shrine in Winchester Cathedral by Bishop Ethelwold. Miraculous cures were associated with the event. The date became St Swithin's Day.

1099 First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.

1207 John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.

1381 "John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II

1662 Charles II grants charter to establish Royal Society in London

1799 "Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta, by French Captain Pierre-Franois Bouchard."

1815 Napolon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon.

1869 "Margarine is patented in Paris, for use by French Navy"

1895 Archie MacLaren scores County Championship record cricket innings of 424 for Lancashire against Somerset at Taunton.

1916 "In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing)."

1927 "Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna."

1933 Wiley Post began first solo flight around the world

1941 Florey & Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Pencillin)

1949 "Czech tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny & Vladimir Cernik, defect to US"

1953 "John Reginald Christie, British serial killer executed."

1954 "First flight of the Boeing 707, the first American jet passenger airliner."

1958 "Julia Lennon mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident"

1966 A West Indian refused a job at Euston Station will now be employed there after managers overturn a ban on black workers.

1970 Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in first world female soccer championship

1971 The British Government endorses a cull of baby seals in the Wash.

1973 "Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide"

1974 Christine Chubbuck becomes the first person to commit suicide on-air.

1976 36-hr kidnap of 26 schoolchildren & their bus driver in California

1995 First item sold on Amazon.com

1995 Thousands of Muslim refugees flee the captured "safe area" of Srebrenica - forced out by the Bosnian Serbs.

1996 A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.

1997 Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace is shot dead on the steps of his Miami mansion.

2000 Police camera action violates human rights. Two men caught on camera for dangerous driving escape prosecution in a landmark case.

2004 "The BBC airs the documentary The Secret Agent, exposing racism by members of the British National Party."

2005 "Jack Nicklaus plays his last hole of competitive golf during The Open Championship at Hole 18 at St Andrews, finishing with a birdie."

2007 Lewis Gordon Pugh becomes the first person to swim at the North Pole.

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On July 16th....

0622 "Mohammed (570-632) while meditating near Mecca in 610 AD, had visions from Allah to write the Koran. He escaped from his enemies in Mecca on July 16, 622 and went to Medina. Mohammed's journey (hejira) on this date would mark the birth of Islam. He raised an army while spreading his beliefs, and returned to conquer Mecca in 630 AD."

1439 Kissing is banned in England

1661 The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.

1894 Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England

1918 "Nicholas II Russian tsar, and family are executed"

1926 The first underwater color photographs appeared in " National Geographic" magazine

1936 "The first x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY"

1945 "" Fat Boy", the experimental, plutonium bomb, exploded at 5:30 a.m. in the first U.S. test of an atomic bomb. The mushroom-shaped cloud rose to a height of 41,000 feet above the New Mexico desert at Alamogordo Air Base. All life in a one-mile radius ceased to exist."

1945 Allied leaders gather at Potsdam. Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman, Josef Stalin discuss the fate of a defeated Germany.

1948 "The city of Nazareth, hometown of Jesus, capitulated to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel led by Ben Dunkelman, after little more than token resistance, during 1948 Arab-Israeli War."

1950 "The largest crowd in sporting history -- 199,854 -- watched the World Cup soccer finals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Uruguay defeated Brazil."

1951 "King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favour of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium."

1951 The novel Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger published.

1955 Stirling Moss wins the British Grand Prix at the Aintree track near Liverpool - the first time an Englishman has triumphed in the race.

1965 The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France with Italy opens.

1969 "Apollo 11, carrying first men to land on the Moon, launched"

1970 Home Secretary Reginald Maudling declares a state of emergency to deal with strikes at UK ports.

1983 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident

1987 "The two biggest British airlines, British Airways and British Caledonian are to merge and create a carrier to compete with the giant American air corporations."

1993 Britain's internal security service, MI5, holds the first photocall in its 84-year history.

1994 The planet Jupiter is hit by fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.

1999 "John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy."

2001 The Labour Government is defeated in the House of Commons for the first time since it came to power in 1997.

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On July 17th....

0180 Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.

0924 "Edward the Elder of Wessex and Mercia dies and is succeeded by his son Athelstan, 29, who will reign until 940, continuing his father's conquest of the Danelaw north of the Thames-Lea line from the Vikings who have been in Britain since 787"

1203 Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault; the Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile.

1453 "Hundred Years' War: Battle of Castillon - The French under Jean Bureau utterly defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury, who is killed in the battle in Gascony"

1695 "Establishment of the Bank of Scotland under an Act of the Scottish Parliament,The Three Estates."

1762 Catherine II becomes tzar of Russia upon the accidental murder of Peter III of Russia.

1815 "Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces."

1841 "British magazine ""Punch"" first published in London"

1856 "The Great Train Wreck of 1856, occurs in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania killing over 60 people."

1858 Salving of the Lutine bell. The bell is subsequently hung in Lloyd's of London.

1897 "Klondike gold rush begins when first successful prospectors arrive in Seattle, Washington."

1917 British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor

1918 "By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by Cheka, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his immediate family, and retainers were murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia."

1918 "SS Carpathia. One of the more well known names, more from assisting the Titanic than from her own sinking, she was of 13,603 tons and built for Cunard by Swan and Hunter on the Tyne in 1902. She was attacked by the German submarine U55, 170 miles west of Bishops Rock, while outward bound to Boston, USA, from Liverpool, a service which had been decided would continue to be maintained in wartime conditions. She was hit by three torpdeoes. Five engine room staff were killed directly by the impact and explosions but 215 crew and all 57 passengers were saved and rescued by the sloop HMS Snowdrop."

1933 "After successfully crossing the Atlantic ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances."

1938 "Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland"

1944 "Napalm incendiary bombs were dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. L, France"

1955 "Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California"

1959 "Billie Holiday blues singer, dies of liver failure at 44 in NYC"

1959 "Dr Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old)"

1964 "British speed pioneer Sir Donald Campbell sets a new land speed world record of 429mph in his car, Bluebird."

1968 "Beatles animated film ""Yellow Submarine"" premieres in London"

1972 The first 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico

1973 King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.

1974 John Lennon is ordered to leave the US in 60 days

1974 The first quadraphonic studio in UK is open by the Moody Blues

1974 An explosion in the Tower of London leaves one person dead and 41 injured.

1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.

1975 Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce

1976 The opening ceremony of the 21st Olympic games in Montreal is marred by the withdrawal of 25 African countries.

1979 The left-wing Sandinistas take control of the Nicaragua after 46 years of dictatorial rule by the Somoza family.

1979 Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo

1980 Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president

1981 "Humber Estuary Bridge, UK, world's longest span (1.4 km), opens"

1981 "Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: Two skywalks filled with people at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri collapse into a crowded atrium lobby during a ""tea dance,"" killing 114."

1987 Former Guinness director Thomas Ward is ordered to repay £5.2m to the brewing giants.

1990 Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq

1996 "Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound Boeing 747 carrying TWA flight 800 explodes, killing all 230 on board."

1997 The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.

2000 British supermarket Tesco is to revive imperial measures in its stores.

2007 TAM Linhas Areas Flight 3054 crashed upon landing during rain in So Paulo. This is Brazil's worst aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths.

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On July 18th....

0390 "BC - Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia - A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome."

0064 Great fire of Rome: A fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control while Emperor Nero reportedly plays his lyre and sings while watching the blaze from a safe distance.

1536 The authority of the Pope is declared void in England.

1872 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland introduces voting by secret ballot.

1925 Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.

1940 "The first successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct"

1942 "Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, first jet fighter, takes first flight"

1944 World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.

1953 Rock star Elvis Presley made his first recording in Sun Studios.

1966 "Launch of Gemini 10 with LCDR John W. Young, USN as Command Pilot. Mission involved 43 orbits at an altitude of 412.2 nautical miles and lasted 2 days, 22 hours, and 46 minutes. Recovery was by HS-3 helicopter from USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7)."

1966 US police have charged a seaman with the murder of eight student nurses in their hostel in Chicago.

1969 "After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond and his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies."

1973 "British actor Jack Hawkins actor, dies at 62"

1974 "World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed"

1976 "Gymnast Nadia Comaneci, age 14, scores first ever perfect 10 at the Olympics."

1981 Nearly 200 people are in hospital in Dublin after a hunger strike demonstration turned violent.

1984 "McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police."

1990 Two teenage girls from the Midlands are arrested for drug smuggling in Thailand.

1997 8000 low-caste Indians riot in Mumbai (Bombay) following a funeral for 10 children who had been killed by police.

1998 "A 23-foot tidal wave kills nearly 3,000 people in Papua New Guinea."

2000 Police confirm the body they found in a West Sussex field yesterday is that of missing eight-year old Sarah Payne.

2001 "In Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derails in a tunnel, sparking a fire that lasted for days and virtually brought downtown Baltimore to a standstill."

2003 A body believed to be that of government scientist Dr David Kelly is found in Oxfordshire - an inquiry will be held into his death.

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On July 19th....

0711 Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.

1333 "Battle of Halidon Hill at Berwick where an English army under Edward III and Edward Balliol defeated the Scots forces led by Sir Archibald Douglas. English archers devastated the Scottish army and inflicted terrible losses, including six earls, seventy barons and over 500 knights"

1545 The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth.

1553 Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days.

1692 "Salem Witch Trials: Five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts."

1843 "Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world."

1877 The first Wimbledon tennis championships held

1879 Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.

1918 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)

1919 "Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall."

1940 "Adolf Hitler makes a peace offer to Britain, which Winston Churchill immediately rejects."

1940 World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.

1941 "British PM Winston Churchill launched his ""V for Victory"" campaign"

1943 Allied air forces raid Rome during WW II

1961 The first in-flight movie shown (TWA)

1965 The former leader of the Republic of South Korea, Syngman Rhee, has died in exile in the US state of Hawaii at the age of 90.

1976 British fishermen are urging the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Crosland, to secure a 50-mile fishing zone around the UK.

1983 A gigantic new dinosaur skeleton is unveiled to the media at the Natural History Museum in London

1984 The first female to captain a 747 across the Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)

1985 "The Val di Stava dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy."

1989 "United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers."

1991 Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape

1996 Bosnian Serb President and wanted war criminal Radovan Karadzic is forced out of office.

1997 The IRA makes a surprise announcement of a ceasefire in Northern Ireland - the second in three years.

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On July 20th.....

0514 Pope Hormisdas assumes Roman Catholic Church.

1712 The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain.

1773 "Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)"

1872 Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... the radio is born

1881 "Indian Wars:Sioux Chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to US troops at Fort Buford, North Dakota"

1885 The Football Association legalises professionalism in football under pressure from the British Football Association.

1903 Ford Motor Company shipped its first car.

1926 A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.

1928 "The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians."

1932 "In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House."

1933 "In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism.

1937 "Two black men accused of stabbing a policeman are taken by a mob from the county jail in Tallahassee, Florida and lynched."

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

1946 World War II: The US Congress's Pearl Harbor Committee says Franklin D. Roosevelt was completely blameless for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and calls for a unified command structure in the armed forces.

1951 King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.

1952 Emil Zatopek of Czechoslovakia sets the pace at the start of the Olympic Games in Finland by breaking the 10,000 metres record.

1954 Tennis Champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident

1960 "The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time."

1960 USSR recovered 2 dogs; first living organisms to return from space

1960 In Ceylon Sirimavo Bandaranaike makes history when she becomes the first-ever female head of government.

1968 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV

1969 "At 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, nearly 240,000 miles from earth, spoke to millions listening at home"

1974 Thousands of Turkish troops invade northern Cyprus after last-minute talks in the Greek capital, Athens, fail to reach a solution.

1975 "India expels three reporters from The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek because they refused to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship."

1976 "US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, first Martian landing"

1982 Eight soldiers on ceremonial duty are killed in two IRA bomb blasts in Hyde Park and Regent's Park.

1990 An IRA bomb blows a 10-foot hole in the London Stock Exchange.

1991 Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant

2000 "In Zimbabwe, Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members for the first time in a decade."

2000 Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him.

2000 "The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering."

2001 The London Stock Exchange goes public.

2002 "South America: A fire in a discotheque in Lima, Peru kills over twenty-five."

2003 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.

28 (or 29)

On July 21st....

0356 "BC - A young man called Herostratus set fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World."

1403 "Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England"

1588 English fleet defeats Spanish armada

1667 "The Treaties of Breda signed, ended the second Anglo-Dutch war after a Dutch fleet has broken the chain in England's Medway River, reached Chatham, and captured the flagship Royal Charles."

1796 "Robert Burns Scottish poet, dies"

1846 Mormons found first English settlement in Calif (San Joaquin Valley)

1865 "In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots Dave Tutt dead in what is regarded as the first true western showdown."

1873 "At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American West."

1954 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.

1969 American Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the Moon.

1972 "2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76 (Seville, Spain)"

1972 "Bloody Friday bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) around Belfast, Northern Ireland - 22 bomb explosions, 9 people killed and 130 people seriously injured."

1972 "In New York, 57 murders occur in 24 hours (Murder City?)"

1973 "In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in 1972's Munich Olympics Massacre."

1973 USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of the red planet

1974 Thousands of Greek-Cypriots in London protest about the disputed government of Cyprus.

1976 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Brit ambassador to Ireland is assassinated

1976 "The first outbreak of ""Legionnaire's Disease"" kills 29 in Phila"

1977 Start of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War.

1982 The flagship of the British taskforce to the Falklands, HMS Hermes, arrives back in Portsmouth.

1983 Storm cuts short Diana Ross' free concert in NY's Central Park

1994 The MP for Sedgefield, Tony Blair, is confirmed as the new leader of the Labour Party.

2004 "The United Kingdom government publishes Delivering Security in a Changing World, a paper detailing wide-ranging reform of the country's armed forces."

2005 London's underground network is plunged into chaos after explosions on two trains and a bus - exactly a fortnight after four suicide bomb blasts in the capital.

2007 Release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling the final book in the Harry Potter series.

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On July 22nd.....

1099 First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon elected first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.

1298 English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk

1484 "Battle of Lochmaben Fair - A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas captured."

1812 "Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain"

1933 "Wiley Post becomes first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes."

1934 "Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, ""Public Enemy No. 1"" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents."

1943 Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.

1950 "King Leopold, after 6 years in exile, returns to Belgium"

1962 "The first US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off"

1963 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson to retain heavywieght championship

1965 The leader of the Opposition, Alec Douglas-Home, surprises colleagues by resigning from his post.

1969 Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit

1972 Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus

1977 The disgraced deputy Prime Minister of China, Deng Xiaoping, returns to Chinese Government.

1983 Dick Smith makes first solo helicopter flight around the world

1987 A famous Palestinian cartoonist is shot in the face and critically wounded in London.

1990 Nick Faldo of England wins the British Open Golf championship

1991 British Prime Minister John Major launches a citizen's charter to improve public services.

1994 "O.J. Simpson pleads innocent to mmurdering his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman."

1999 The first version of MSN Messenger was released by Microsoft.

2003 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.

2005 Police say they shot a man dead at Stockwell Tube station in south London after he was challenged and refused to obey an order.

2011 Gunman disguised as a police officer opening fire on a youth camp on Utoeya island south of Oslo. at least 80 teens dead.

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On July 23rd.....

1599 Caravaggio's first public commission for paintings

1798 "Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt"

1803 "Irish nationalist Robert Emmet, 25, leads a rebellion against the British

1829 "William Austin Burt patents ""typographer"" (typewriter)"

1840 The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.

1881 "The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique, the world's oldest international sport federation, was founded."

1903 Ford Motor Company sold its first car.

1904 Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo

1926 Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.

1929 Fascist government in Italy ban the use of foreign words.

1940 """Blitz"" begins, all-night raid on London"

1942 World War II: Hitler signed the Operation Edelweiss.

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

1958 The first 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords

1962 Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.

1964 "Egyptian munition ship ""Star of Alexandria"" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage"

1965 "Beatles ""Help"" is released in the UK"

1966 England beat Argentina 1-0 in Quarter-Final of the World Cup

1967 "12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city (43 killed, 342 injured and ~1,400 buildings burned)."

1968 "The first and only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft took place when a 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers was taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel."

1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France

1973 "Ozark AL plane knocked out of the air by lightning, St Louis-36 die"

1974 The military government in Greece collapses and the former prime minister Constantine Karamanlis is invited to return.

1982 The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.

1983 "Around 3,000 Tamils were slaughtered by Shinhalese Buddhist majority in Sri Lanka and some 400,000 Tamils fled to neighboring Tamil Nadu, India and a lot found refuge in Europe and Canada. This incident, known as Black July led directly to beginning of civil war in Sri Lanka."

1984 A government report finds a cancer cluster near the controversial nuclear plant at Sellafield in Cumbria - but says it may not be linked to the plant.

1986 Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson marry at Westminster Abbey.

1995 Britain sends 1,200 troops to relieve the besieged Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.

2005 At least 88 people are killed in bomb attacks in the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh, hospital staff say.

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On July 24th.....

1411 "Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles on Scottish soil."

1487 "Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer."

1567 Mary Queen of Scots is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI.

1673 "Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate"

1704 Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain

1847 "After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer Day Utah state holiday and the Days of '47 Parade."

1929 "The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers)."

1959 "At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a ""Kitchen Debate."""

1961 A US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba

1965 "Bob Dylan release ""Like a Rolling Stone"""

1967 Beatles sign a petition in The Times to legalize marijuana

1967 "During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Qubec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians."

1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal

1969 British lecturer Gerald Brooke is returned to London after four years in a Soviet jail.

1974 Chris Chubbock newscaster shoots self on air

1974 The US Supreme Court orders President Nixon to surrender tape recordings of White House conversations about the Watergate affair.

1980 Peter Sellers dies at 54

1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai

1987 Former deputy chair of the Conservative Party Jeffrey Archer is awarded record libel damages at the High Court.

1991 U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of the solar system

2000 Loyalist paramilitary hitman Michael Stone is released from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.

2001 "Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, was sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, and became the only monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office."

2002 James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.

2005 Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.

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On July 25th....

0306 Constantine I proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.

0864 Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.

1603 James VI of Scotland is crowned first king of Great Britain.

1797 Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife Island (Spain).

1909 Louis Bleriot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes.

1934 Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.

1943 The Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, steps down as head of the armed forces and the government.

1946 The first bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show

1956 "’One hour before midnight on July 25, 1956, the Swedish ocean liner Stockholm collided with the Italian liner Andrea Doria off the coast of Nantucket,later the Andrea Doria sank"

1963 "US, Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty"

1969 Senator Edward Kennedy's political career is in doubt after he pleads guilty to leaving the scene of a crime following the Chappaquiddick car crash.

1972 US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphillis experiment

1978 The birth of the world's first "test tube baby" is announced in Manchester, England.

1984 Salyut 7 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.

1989 Diana Princess of Wales opens a new Aids centre in south-east London.

1992 The Olympic Games opens in Barcelona with all countries present for the first time in modern history.

1993 The latest UN ceasefire in Bosnia is broken with shelling from both sides in Sarajevo.

1993 "The St James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa."

2000 Concorde crashes minutes after take-off from Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris killing 113 people.

2007 Jeremy Clarkson and James May reached the North Pole by driving a Toyota Pick-up truck

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On July 26th.....

0811 "Battle of Pliska; Byzantine emperor Nicephorus I is slain, his heir Stauracius is seriously wounded."

0920 Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Lon against the Muslims at Pamplona.

1309 Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.

1803 "The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London."

1866 Canoe Club opens in England

1878 "In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself ""Black Bart"" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside."

1945 Churchill loses General Election. Clement Attlee is Britain's new prime minister after Labour win a sweeping victory over the Conservatives.

1952 Senora Eva Peron wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer, aged 33.

1953 "Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution."

1954 3 aircraft from USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) shoot down 2 Chinese fighters that fired on them while they were providing air cover for rescue operations for a U.K. airliner shot down by a Chinese aircraft.

1956 Egypt's president, Colonel Nasser, announces the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company to provide funding for the construction of the Aswan High Dam.

1963 Thousands of people are feared dead as a massive earthquake rocks the Yugoslavian city of Skopje.

1966 Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent.

1966 England beat Poland 2-1 in the semi-finals of the World Cup.

1969 "Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes first lady to solo sail the Pacific"

1983 A mother of 10 fails to prevent doctors prescribing contraception to under-16s without parental consent.

1994 A car bomb explodes outside the Israeli embassy in London injuring 14 people.

1999 """Eagles:Hell Freezers"" Over becomes the best selling music DVD"

2005 "Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days."