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*'''July 26'''
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**1603 - [[James VI]] of [[Scotland]] was crowned King James I of England. He then 'authorised' an [[English]] translation of the Scriptures, first published in 1611 and known as the 'Authorised Version', or in America as the 'King James Version' of the [[Bible]].
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** 1775 - [[Benjamin Franklin]] becomes the 1st Postmaster General.
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**1788 - [[New York]] becomes 11th state to ratify the [[United States Constitution|constitution]].
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**1971 - [[Apollo 15]] is launched to the [[Moon]].
  
 
*'''July 25'''
 
*'''July 25'''
 
** 1907 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell took some boys camping, in what was a precursor to the [[scouting]] movement.
 
** 1907 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell took some boys camping, in what was a precursor to the [[scouting]] movement.
  
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*'''July 24'''
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*'''July 16'''
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**1725 - Birth of [[John Newton]]. Newton is remembered today as the author of several enduring hymns, including 'Amazing Grace' and 'Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken.' Read about his amazing life [[John Newton|here]]!
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**1862 - '''Lewis Swift''' discovers '''Comet Swift-Tuttle'''.
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**1758 - [[George Washington]] admitted to Virginia House of Burgess on this day.  
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**1918 - [[Czar Nicholas II]], his wife and their five children were murdered by the [[Bolshevik]]s.
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**1783 - [[Simon Bolivar]] the [[Liberator]] of [[Venezuela]], [[Colombia]], [[Ecuador]], [[Panamá]], [[Peru]], [[Bolivia]] and champion of the union of [[America|American]] countries was born on this day.  
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**1942 - '''''Rafle du Vel'd'Hiv''''' ("Great Round-up of the Winter Velodrome"): The [[Vichy regime]] orders [[France|French]] police officers to arrest 13,000 [[Jews]] and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome in order for them to be sent to [[Nazi]] [[Holocaust|extermination camps]].
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**1945 - [[Manhattan Project]]: The [[United States]] successfully detonates a [[nuclear]] weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, [[New Mexico]].  
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** 1948 - The first [[terrorism|hijacking]] of a commercial aeroplane occurred: a Cathay Pacific seaplane flight from Macau to [[Hong Kong]].
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**1948 - [[1948 Arab-Israeli War|Arab-Israeli War]]: '''Nazareth''' liberated by [[Israel]]i troops during '''Operation Dekel.'''.
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**1969 - [[Apollo 11]] blasts off from [[NASA|Cape Kennedy]], [[Florida]], on the first manned mission to the surface of the [[moon]].
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**1970 - A '''State of Emergency''' is declared in [[Great Britain|Britain]] as [[docker]]s go on strike.
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**1979 - [[Saddam Hussein]] replaces '''Hasan al-Bakr''' as [[president]] of [[Iraq]].
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**1994 - Comet '''Shoemaker-Levy 9''' breaks up and impacts on the planet [[Jupiter]].
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*'''July 15'''
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*'''July 22'''
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**1099 - [[The Crusades|First Crusade]]: [[Christian]] soldiers regain the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in [[Jerusalem]].  
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**1822 - [[Gregor Mendel]], a monk who became a pioneer in [[heredity]] studies, was born today.
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**1381 - '''John Ball''', one of the leaders of [[England|England's]] '''Peasants' Revolt''', is executed.
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**1926 - [[Babe Ruth]] caught a baseball dropped from an airplane.
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**1691 - First recorded sighting of the Grizzly bear by a [[Europe]]an, Henry Kelsey, in Manitoba, [[Canada]].
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**1933 - Wiley Post became the first man to fly solo around the world.
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**1799 - '''Pierre-François Bouchard''' discovers the '''Rosetta Stone''' in [[Egypt]].
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**1934 - Notorious gangster [[John Dillinger]] was gunned down.
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**1815 - Following defeat at the [[Battle of Waterloo]], [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] is eventually captured trying to flee to the [[U.S.]] and forced to formally surrender to the [[Great Britain|British]].
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**1975 - [[Congress]] restored the citizenship of [[Robert E. Lee]].
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**1958 - [[Lebanon]]: 5,000 [[United States Marine Corps|United States Marines]] arrive in [[Beirut]] to provide support to its pro-Western government.  
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**1966 - '''British Railways''' abolishes its "colour bar" preventing black workers from being employed at Euston Station; the high profile case is a key factor leading to discrimination in the workplace being tackled by the Race Relations Act in 1968.
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**1999 - The [[United States]] government acknowledges for the first time that thousands of workers were made sick while making nuclear weapons and announces a plan to compensate many of them.
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Latest revision as of 08:17, July 27, 2007

  • July 26
    • 1603 - James VI of Scotland was crowned King James I of England. He then 'authorised' an English translation of the Scriptures, first published in 1611 and known as the 'Authorised Version', or in America as the 'King James Version' of the Bible.
    • 1775 - Benjamin Franklin becomes the 1st Postmaster General.
    • 1788 - New York becomes 11th state to ratify the constitution.
    • 1971 - Apollo 15 is launched to the Moon.
  • July 25
    • 1907 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell took some boys camping, in what was a precursor to the scouting movement.
  • July 22
    • 1822 - Gregor Mendel, a monk who became a pioneer in heredity studies, was born today.
    • 1926 - Babe Ruth caught a baseball dropped from an airplane.
    • 1933 - Wiley Post became the first man to fly solo around the world.
    • 1934 - Notorious gangster John Dillinger was gunned down.
    • 1975 - Congress restored the citizenship of Robert E. Lee.
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