This date in history

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1778 Liberty Bell returns home to Philadelphia after the British departure.

1929 President Paul von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WWI

1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island.

1942 PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk.

1950 North Korean troops reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders US Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict.

1954 1st atomic power station opens - Obninsk, near Moscow in Russia.

1957 The British Medical Research Council publishes a report suggesting a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.

1993 Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song "It's Not Easy Being Green" to President Clinton.

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1776 Final draft of Declaration of Independence submitted to Continental Congress.

1904 SS Norge runs aground and sinks off Rockall, North Atlantic, more than 635 die, largest maritime loss of life until Titanic.

1910 1st airship with passengers makes its maiden voyage; the Zeppelin LZ7-Deutscheland and gets stuck in some trees in Mount Limberg, Lower Saxony, injuring one crew member.

1914 Assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie by Bosnian-Serb assassin Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, setting off chain of alliances that begin WWI

1919 Treaty of Versailles, ending WWI and establishing the League of Nations, is signed in France.

1922 The Irish Civil War starts when Irish Free State forces attack anti-treaty republicans in Dublin.

1934 Adolf Hitler flies to Essen, Germany for "Night of Long Knives"

1948 British begin airlift “Operation Plainfare” to West Berlin.

1950 North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea in opening phase of the Korean War.

1965 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

1973 New Zealand ship HMNZS Otago sails for Mururoa nuclear test zone after France’s refusal to accept an International Court of Justice injunction against its atmospheric nuclear testing.

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1943 Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe.

1949 US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II

1952 USS Oriskany becomes 1st aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn.

1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes after an 83-day filibuster in the US Senate.

1966 Vietnam War: US planes bomb the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi and the port city of Haiphong for the first time.

1994 US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees.

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29 June 1194, Sverre Sigurdsson begins his reign as King of Norway. His reign would last until his death on March 9, 1202. Before he became king, he was ordained a priest when he lived on the Faroes Islands.


1236, Christian forces under King Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon take Cordoba, ending the Islamic rule that began in 711.


1613, The original Globe Theatre in London, where many of Shakespeare’s plays were performed, is destroyed by a fire that was caused by a cannon shot during a performance of Henry VIII.


1852, Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Senator and Secretary of State under President John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, dies of tuberculosis at the age of 75.


1944. The exact moment that the fuel tanks of the B-24 Liberator “Little Warrior” from 861st Bomb Squadron explodes.


1974, Isabel Perón is secretly sworn in as the first female president of Argentina. She also has the distinction of being the first female president of any country.


1974: Russian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, while on tour with the Mariinsky Ballet, defects to Canada from the Soviet Union while in Toronto.


2007, Apple releases its first cell phone, the iconic iPhone.

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1704 First trial for piracy by the British Admiralty Court outside of Britain finds Captain John Quelch and five crew guilty, sentenced to hang the same day.

1865 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty.

1894 London's Tower Bridge opens across the Thames.

1905 In Russia, the "Potemkin" arrives at Odessa, where sailors take the bodies of dead crewman ashore; sailors join civilians in revolutionary actions of the '1905 Revolution'

1908 A giant fireball, most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet flattens 80 million trees near the Stony Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, in the largest impact event in recorded history.

1916 British General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits" the day before the Battle of the Somme began.

1934 "Night of Long Knives" - Adolf Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party.

1938 Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1

1939 Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde.

1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (700,227 tons)

1971 Crew of Russian space mission Soyuz 11 found dead upon arrival on earth (only people to die in space)

1972 Ulster Defence Association (UDA) begin to organise its own 'no-go' areas (this is a response to the continuation of Republican 'no-go' areas and fears about concessions to the IRA)

1997 British lease on the New Territories in Hong Kong, established by the Second Convention of Peking, expires.

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30 June 1882, Charles Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of President James A. Garfield. Guiteau was upset that Garfield had rejected job requests that he made.


1864, During the U.S. Civil War, President Lincoln signs the Yosemite Valley Grant Act, giving California the Yosemite Valley “upon the express conditions that the premises shall be held for public use, resort, and recreation.”



1865, the guilty verdict was announced for eight individuals accused of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Four of the individuals were hanged, while three went to prison for life, and the final defendant was sentenced to six years.


1915, The East Oregonian publishes this photo of an armored car in France next to a boy plowing a field with some horses.


1934, The Night of the Long Knives, also known as Operation Hummingbird, begins in Nazi Germany. German dictator Adolf Hitler orders the purge of political rivals, killing SA leadership and others.


1936, Author Margaret Mitchell's iconic novel Gone with the Wind is first published. Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937. It was her only book ever published. It was turned into a movie in 1939.


1944, Bretteville, France. A Morris light reconnaissance car and other vehicles passing through town.


1944, Tessel, Normandy. Driver mechanic George Couser from 91 Anti-Tank Regiment in a jeep with his pet dog.


1949, a JB-2 Loon is launched from Balao-class submarine USS Cusk (SSG-348).


1953: The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.


1997, Hong Kong is returned to China after the 99-year lease from the United Kingdom ends British rule.

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1 July 1863, The Battle of Gettysburg begins during the U.S. Civil War. The battle resulted in the largest number of casualties of the war and is said to be a turning point for the Union due to their decisive victory.


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1898, Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.


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1916, British Empire and French forces launch a major offensive against the German lines along the River Somme. The four-and-a-half months of heavy fighting that follow generate a million casualties — an average of 7,000 per day for 140 days straight.


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1937: German dictator Adolf Hitler has outspoken Nazi critic Pastor Martin Niemoller arrested. Niemoller is best known for his poem, "First they came for the..." He survives World War II and dies in Wiesbaden, West Germany in 1984.


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1980, O Canada officially becomes Canada's national anthem after the National Anthem Act received royal assent. It became effective on this day as part of Dominion Day.


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1982, Dominion Day is renamed Canada Day. It celebrates the Constitution Act, of July, 1, 1867. The act united the three colonies of the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into a single Dominion within the British Empire.

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1776 1st vote on Declaration of Independence for Britain's North American colonies.

1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Lee's northward advance halted.

1867 The Dominion of Canada is formed, comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec, with John A. Macdonald serving as the first Prime Minister.

1908 "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal becomes the worldwide standard for help.

1916 Coca-Cola brings current coke formula to the market.

1916 First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men.

1944 German officer Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel.

1944 Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Sign peace, idiots!"

1946 US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)

1950 1st 407 US soldiers flown to South Korea.

1968 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

1971 Britain and Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands.

1997 United Kingdom returns Hong Kong and the New Territories to the People's Republic of China.

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1863 2nd day of the Battle of Gettysburg (US Civil War)

1900 First flight LZ-1, of a dirigible airship designed by Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin, at Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.

1926 US Army Air Corps created; Distinguished Flying Cross authorized, to award "heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight"

1937 Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear flying over the Pacific Ocean en route to Howland Island. Noonan is declared dead the following year, and Earhart is declared the year after (1939)

1957 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback.

1966 1st French nuclear test on Mururoa atoll.

1976 Formal reunification of North and South Vietnam.

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1863 Battle of Gettysburg, largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union during the US Civil War.

1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800 kph (500 mph) rocket plane to Adolf Hitler.

1940 British Royal Navy damages the French fleet in Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, to prevent Germany seizing it.

1943 British Liberator bomber sinks German U-628 in Bay of Biscay.

1970 The British Army impose curfew on Falls Road area of Belfast as they search for weapons; coming under attack from the Official IRA (OIRA) and republican rioters.

1996 UK House of Commons announces that the Stone of Scone, aka the Stone of Destiny, used in the coronation of Scottish (and subsequently English and British monarchs), will be returned to Scotland after 700 years in Westminster Abbey.

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4 July 1754, a 22-year-old Virginia militia officer named George Washington (yes, that George Washington) surrenders Fort Necessity to the French. Guess ol’ George was already colluding with the French.


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1863, Union troops capture the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg after a 44-day siege. The victory leaves Union forces in control of the Mississippi River. "The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea," remarks Lincoln.


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1914, In the July Crisis, Kaiser Wilhelm declares himself entirely ready for settling accounts with Serbia.


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1917, HM King George V at Wytschaete Ridge.


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1923, Barnstormer B.H. De Lay, who is also one of Hollywood's best-regarded air stuntmen, is killed when his plane crashes during an airshow in front of thousands in Santa Monica, California


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1939, New York Yankee Lou Gehrig announces his retirement, giving his famous "Luckiest man on the face of the Earth" speech on Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day. He was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) on June 19, 1939, his 36th birthday.


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1944, American Airforce personnel, celebrating Independence Day. BEER BBQ AND GUNS!






1946, The Philippines gains its full independence from the United States after 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers.


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1947, The Indian Independence bill is presented in the British House of Commons. It called for the independence of the Provinces of British India into the sovereign countries of India and Pakistan.


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1961, K-19—the Soviet navy’s first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine—suffered a complete loss of reactor coolant during its initial patrol while off the southeastern coast of Greenland, sending dangerously-radioactive steam into every compartment of the boat.


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1976, Israeli commandos raid Uganda's Entebbe airport to free 105 hostages being held there by terrorists. Three of the captives along with the mission's commander die in the rescue.


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1986, a Marine mechanic stole an A-4M Skyhawk for a 45 minute joyride during which time he performed several aerobatic maneuvers. He had wanted to be a fighter pilot but an injury prevented him from qualifying. His stunt cost him four months in the brig.

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1776 US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Great Britain.

1826 Past presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, President John Quincy Adams calls "visible and palpable remarks of Divine Favor"

1840 The Cunard Line's 700 ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the first transatlantic crossing with a scheduled end.

1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris.

1934 Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.

1940 British Navy bombards neutral French battle fleet at Mers El Kébir, near Oran, French Algeria to prevent Axis powers from taking the ships; 1267 French serviceman die, one ship sunk and 5 more damaged.

1944 1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy.

1945 Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson gives Britain's agreement to use the atomic bomb against Japan at the Combined Policy Committee in Washington D. C.

1970 The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, continues throughout the day; a man is killed by the British Army.

1976 Israel launches hostage rescue mission of 106 Air France crew and passengers held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers. Three hostages die along with all the hijackers, numerous Ugandan soldiers and Yonatan Netanyahu, an Israeli soldier.

1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life imprisonment in France.

2017 North Korea tests first successful intercontinental ballistic missile into Sea of Japan.

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1687: Isaac Newton first published his Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work setting out his mathematical principles of natural philosophy...I have yet to finish vol. 1 after half a century of trying!?

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5 July 1946, The bikini goes on sale after debuting at a fashion show in Paris, France. Louis Réard designed it and named it after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

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1940 Diplomatic relations broken between Britain and Vichy government in France.

1942 Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada.

1943 Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel: Nazi German Panzer Divisions assault begins what becomes the largest tank battle in history.

1943 Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biscay.

1986 Nancy Reagan cuts a red, white and blue ribbon to reopen Statue of Liberty after refurbishment.

1994 Amazon.com founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos.