This Day in History.

JULY 15th

1922 England Chimney Sweep: The humble chimney sweep is being swept away by machines with the advent of giant vacuum cleaners which do the job quicker, cleaner and cheaper than the traditional chimney sweep.

1933 China Yellow River Mass Flooding: Hundreds of thousands of Chinese peasants are homeless due to the Yellow River overrunning it's dykes and flooding thousands of acres of land. Famine is now also affecting these men, women and children and hundreds are now dying from starvation.

1945 Italy Declares War On Japan: Italy formally declared war on Japan, a former Axis partner.

1954 U.S.A. Boeing 707 Maiden Flight: America's first jet airliner the Boeing 707 took off from Renton Field in Renton, Washington on it's maiden flight.

1965 Mars Mariner 4: The unmanned spacecraft Mariner 4 passes over Mars at an altitude of 6,000 feet and sends back to Earth the first close-up images of the red planet.

1966 UK Colour Prejudice: Euston Station staffing 'colour bar' ends after complaints by a West Indian who was refused a job at Euston Station. It is thought a number of British Rail Stations still conduct an unofficial colour bar on staff.

1971 UK Seal Pups Cull Off Lincolnshire Coast: The Home Office has granted rights for five fishermen to kill 350 seal pups using high powered rifles off the Lincolnshire coast by the end of next week in a bid to stop overcrowding.

1971 U.S.A. Nixon To Visit China: President Richard Nixon announces on a live television and radio broadcast that he will visit communist China the following year. The trip became a starting point for improvements in U.S. Chinese relations.

1976 U.S.A. School Bus Kidnapped Chowchilla, California: An entire school bus of twenty six children and the driver are kidnapped in Chowchilla, California by three gunmen. They are then forced into a moving van which had been buried underground in a quarry in Livermore, California. The bus driver Ed Ray and some of the older children spent the next 16 hours digging their way out and emerge in the middle of the night and walked to a nearby guard shack at the entrance to the quarry. The quarry owner's son, Frederick Woods, and two friends, Richard and James Schoenfeld, are charged and found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

1979 U.S.A. President Jimmy Carter Blames OPEC: President Jimmy Carter In a live speech to the American people blamed the long period of recession in the US, on the effects of OPEC’s 1973 cuts in oil production and the increases in fuel prices which in turn fueled inflationary pressures.

1984 India Sikh Unrest in Punjab: Following Sikh unrest in Punjab and North Eastern India the government has given itself sweeping powers through the use of designating area's as Terrorist Affected which will allow them to set up special courts to try those believed to involved in terrorism.

1995 Bosnia Ethnic Cleansing: Ethnic Cleansing by Bosnian Serbs in the "SAFE AREA" of Srebrenica with tales of rape, massacres and psychological torture, the 40,000 women, children and elderly people who were under the protection of Dutch peacekeepers have been forced to flee what was set up as a "Safe Haven" because peacekeeping forces did not have the mandate to stop Serb forces taking over the town.

1996 U.S.A. MSNBC Launched: MSNBC a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC, a 24-hour all-news network, is launched on cable TV and the Internet.

1997 U.S.A. Gianni Versace Murdered: The Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot twice in the head on the steps outside his Miami mansion by Andrew Cunanan .

2002 U.S.A. Hormone Replacement Therapy HRT: Research by the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) has suggested that women who take HRT ( Prempro --- equine hormones, oestrogen and progestin) for menopausal symptoms were 26% more likely to devlop breast cancer and may be at increased risk of heart disease and stroke. Following the report the use of Hormone Replacement Therapy decreased by 50%, but many women still believe the benefits outweigh the risks.

2006 United Nations Sanctions Passed On North Korea: The UN Security Council imposed sanctions on North Korea after the country tested a long-range missile and several shorter-ranged missiles earlier in the month. The vote was unanimous.

2007 Peru General Strikes and Protests: Massive protests in the country of Peru continued in all major towns and cities. The protests, started as a national strike held by the Peruvian Education Worker’s Union as a sign of disapproval of the government at the time, after the first year of Alan Garcia’s presidency.

2008 Worldwide Oil Increases and Inflation Rates: As the increased cost of oil and energy filters through to the market inflation around the world increases causing concerns for governments and consumers. Inflation Rates
Russia 15.0% - Turkey 12.0% - India 11.0% - South Africa 11.7% - China 7.7% - Brazil 5.8% - Spain 5.0% - U.S.A. 4.9% - UK 4.6% - Germany 3.8% - Canada 2.4%
Gas Prices Per Gallon
Germany $9.30 - Spain $9.10 - England $8.96 - Brazil $6.38 - Canada $5.50 -
India $4.81 - South Africa $4.41 - U.S.A. $4.11 - Russia $3.90 - China $3.40

2009 Iran Plane Crash: A plane flying from Iran to Armenia crashed on this day killing all 168 passengers on board. The plane crashed unexpectedly only sixteen minutes after it took off.

JULY 18th

1922 U.S.A. Mineworkers Strike: President Harding has put in place plans to break the stranglehold of the mineworkers strike which is now effecting power stations and electricity across the country. Mines will begin operating with strikebreakers protected by federal troops. (MY COMMENT:That's how to handle unions)

1925 Germany Mein Kampf: Nazi leader Adolf Hitler publishes the first volume of his personal manifesto, Mein Kampf which was a bitter and turgid narrative filled with anti-Semitic outpourings, disdain for morality, worship of power, and the blueprints for his plan of Nazi world domination.

1936 Spain Spanish Civil War: The Spanish Civil War starts as a revolt by right wing Spanish military officers in Morocco which spreads to mainland Spain. From the Canary Islands, General Francisco Franco broadcasts a message calling for all army officers to join the uprising and overthrow Spain's leftist Republican government.

1948 France Juan Manuel Fangio: Possibly one of the greatest racing drivers (Juan Manuel Fangio) from Argentina started his career making his Formula One debut finishing 12th at the Grand Prix de l'ACF in France.

1969 U.S.A. Chappaquiddick: A car driven by Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy plunged off a narrow wooden bridge into a tidal pond after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Kennedy escaped the submerged car but his passenger a pretty blonde secretary (Mary Jo Kopechne) who was riding with him drowned in the accident. Kennedy was later convicted of leaving the scene of an accident.

1976 Canada Nadia Comaneci Perfect 10: The first perfect 10 ever recorded in Olympic gymnastics was achieved up by Romania's 4-foot-11, 88-pound Nadia Comaneci on the women's uneven parallel bars.

1981 Ireland Hunger Strike Protest: 10,000 take part in a march through Dublin in support of republican hunger strikers in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland.

1984 U.S.A. McDonalds Murders: 21 people were shot dead and 19 injured in a San Ysidro, California McDonald's by James Oliver Huberty who had told his wife as he was leaving with 3 guns (A 9mm Uzi semi-automatic), (Winchester pump-action twelve-gauge shotgun) ,(a 9mm Browning HP) that he was "hunting humans". The killings only ended when he was fatally shot by a SWAT team sniper.

1984 England Dockers Strike: With the dockers strike now in it's 10th day Truckers stuck on both sides of the English channel are blockading the passenger ferry ports in protest at the strike. The Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is expected to declare a nationwide state of emergency later this week if the dock workers and miners strike do not end and bring in troops to keep the country running.

1998 Papua New Guinea Tidal Wave: A tidal wave of 23ft runs along the coast of Papua New Guinea wiping out Low lying fishing villages that were completely washed away and killing over 3,000 people.

2003 U.S.A. Kobe Bryant: Basketball star Kobe Bryant is charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old hotel employee at a hotel in Edwards, Colorado. (Charge dropped because the woman did not want to go ahead with a trial.)

2005 U.S.A. Eric Robert Rudolph Sentenced: Eric Rudolph (Olympic Park Bomber) is sentenced in Birmingham, Ala., to life in prison for an abortion clinic bombing that killed an off-duty police officer and maimed a nurse.

2006 Iraq Japan Withdraws Troops: This day marks the final withdraw of Japanese troops from Iraq. The Japanese troops could only contribute on humanitarian and reconstruction fronts during their stay in Iraq because of their constitution, which disallows the use of force in international disputes.

2007 Brazil Plane Crash Sao Paulo: A plane crashed in Sao Paulo, Brazil on this day, killing up to 200 people. None of the 186 passengers on the plane survived as the plane crashed after losing control on the wet runway, hitting a fuel depot, exploding on impact.

2008 Nepal No President Elected: After deliberation, Nepal’s assembly was unable to elect a president on this day. This particular election was important because it came only months after the country abolished its monarchy. The lack of consensus also caused further delay within the assembly itself, because they need a president there to swear in a new prime minister.

2009 Space Space Shuttle Endeavour Docks With Space Station: The crew of the space shuttle Endeavour reached the International Space Station on this day. The addition of Endeavour’s crew to the orbit made that the greatest number of astronauts ever together in orbit, at a total of thirteen.

JULY 19th

1919 England Cenotaph Unveiled:The Cenotaph , a monument to those killed or wounded during the First World War, is unveiled in Whitehall, London, during the first Peace Day celebration.

1923 U.S.A. Insulin Introduced: With the introduction of Insulin which is not a cure but a remedy for Diabetes, the manufacturers and Medical Professionals are telling the public that Insulin will not cure diabetes but will save many lives caused by the disease and alleviate much of the suffering associated with the disease.

1935 U.S.A. First Parking Meter: The first parking meter in the U.S. the Park-O-Meter invented by Carlton Magee, was installed in Oklahoma City by the Dual Parking Meter Company.

1941 Great Britain "V For Victory": While Britain is at one of it's lowest points in World War II Churchill one of the most motivators and speech makers of his time launches the "V for Victory" campaign across Europe by telling those in Europe under Nazi control to use the letter "V" (for Victory) at every chance they got in speaking, writing and urges them to write in big letter the letter V to signify V for Victory and let the Germans know they still had spirit and believed they would overcome Nazi Rule.

1956 U.S.A. No Financial Aid For Aswan Dam: The United States withdraws it's offer of financial aid to Egypt to help with the construction of the Aswan Dam on the Nile River. The Soviet Union stepped in with aid which made a stronger alliance with the Soviet Union and was a contributing factor to the Suez Crisis later in 1956 .

1958 East Germany Releases 9 American Prisoners: East Germany released nine American's held prisoner since their helicopter strayed into East German Air Space on June 7 to Red Cross Workers.

1969 Space Apollo 11: Apollo 11 prepare for the next days historic event by going into orbit around the moon.

1978 U.S.A. Bans Latest Computer Technology Sale To Soviet Union: President Carter announced that a multi million dollar sale of the latest computer technology systems to the TASS News Agency will not be allowed to proceed, new export restrictions are also in place for other technology that might be used to gain knowledge of the latest computer systems including US Oil Producing Technology.

1979 Caribbean Super Tankers Collide: Two giant supertankers collide in the Caribbean Sea, killing 26 crew members and spilling 280,000 tons of crude oil.

1980 Soviet Union Olympic Games: The Moscow Summer Olympics begins minus the United States and 64 other countries who were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.

1985 U.S.A. Sharon Christa McAuliffe: Vice President George Bush announced that Sharon Christa McAuliffe, a teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, will be the first teacher to travel in space.

1989 U.S.A. Plane Crash Sioux City, Iowa: A United Airlines DC-10 bound for Chicago, crashed in Sioux City, Iowa, as the pilot attempted to make an emergency landing. Over half the passengers survived the crash.

1991 U.S.A. Mike Tyson Accused Of Rape: Mike Tyson is accused of the rape of Desiree Washington, a contestant in the Miss Black America pageant, in an Indianapolis, Indiana, hotel room. In February 1992, Tyson was convicted of rape and received a six-year sentence.

2000 U.S.A. Dot Com Bubble Continues It's Bust Cycle: The Dot Com Bubble based on the new Internet sector and related fields that had started to burst from it's highs on March 10th 2000 (NASDAQ 5,048.62 double it's value in just one year) . By March 16th had dropped nearly 10% and in July 19th was continuing it's downward spiral with closing of 4,055.

2006 U.S.A. President George W. Bush issues his first presidential veto: President George W. Bush issued his first presidential veto, rejecting H.R. 810, Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, a bill to ease restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
To put this in perspective below is a list of earlier presidents number of vetoes:
Woodrow Wilson 44 - Warren Harding 6 - Calvin Coolidge 50 - Herbert Hoover 37 -
Franklin Roosevelt 635 - Harry Truman 250 - Dwight Eisenhower 181 - John Kennedy 21 - Lyndon Johnson 30 - Richard Nixon 43 - Gerald Ford 66 - Jimmy Carter 31 -
Ronald Reagan 78 - George H. W. Bush 44 - Bill Clinton 37 - George W. Bush 10
(My Comment: FDR (d), Truman (d) & Eisenhower They had 12 (d) Congress & (2) Republican Congress)

JULY 20th

1923 Mexico Pancho Villa: Francisco Villa (Pancho Villa) is assassinated in Parral, Chihuahua, in his car and the assassins were never arrested.

1925 U.S.A. Still Explodes: An explosion in a New York apartment sends the owner crashing through the windows and onto the street 3 floors below has been traced to an illegal 8 gallon still that exploded.

1925 U.S.A. Wages $8.80 Per Week: The medium wage for women working in Alabama was approximately $8.80 per week. with most employed in manufacturing, clerical, domestic, or agricultural jobs.

1931 United Kingdom Help Germany: Prime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain is hosting one of the most important conferences since Versailles with 7 of the worlds most important statesman attending, The Conference is to try and help the war stricken Germany get free from the economic catastrophe it is currently facing.

1944 Germany Assassination Attempt Hitler: Adolf Hitler and 12 of his military and naval leaders were injured when a bomb exploded during a meeting at Hitler's headquarters in an assassination attempt on Hitler.

1948 U.S.A. Peacetime Military Draft: President Harry Truman issued a proclamation today calling for a peacetime military draft because of rising tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.

1950 India Conflict In China: India has again requested that communist China is given a seat on the United Nations Security Council as a first step to ending the conflict in Korea, The United States has again vetoed the idea.

1951 Jordan King Abdullah Assassinated: King Abdullah of Jordan was assassinated in Jerusalem by a Palestinian nationalist.

1952 Finland Emil Zatopek: Emil Zatopek of Czechoslovakia wins the 10,000 metre race at the 15th Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland.

1956 Egypt UK and U.S.A. Withdraw Funds For Aswan Dam: The UK and U.S.A. withdraw offers of aid for creation of the Aswan high dam in response to President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt forming closer relationships with the Soviet Union. President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced 5 days later he would nationalize the Suez Canal to provide revenue for the construction of the high Aswan dam leading to the Suez Crisis.

1960 Ceylon / Sri Lanka (From 1972) Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike: Ceylon has chosen the world's first women prime minister (Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike) the wife of the murdered former prime minister Solomon Bandaranaike (Sri Lanka Freedom Party).

1964 U.S.A. Harlem Riots: Violence has flared up again in Harlem New York during burial services for those killed during the earlier riots with 14 more hurt, Negro leaders in the community are urging calm but hooligans are continuing to cause damage to property in the area.

1969 Space First Man On The Moon: The Apollo 11 astronauts made history when the first man is landed on the moon by the United States and Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon leaving the first human footprints in its dusty soil. They raised their nation's flag and talked to their President on earth 240,000 miles away, and the famous words "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." was seen and heard by people around the globe.

1974 Cyprus Turkey Invades Northern Cyprus: Turkish troops invade northern Cyprus following on from the breakdown of talks, Greek warships have now put to sea and Greek and Turkish warships are now exchanging fire near Paphos, a port in south-western Cyprus.

1975 U.S.A. Oil Hits $13.00 a Barrel: Price controls on oil at $11.30 per barrel (current market price is $13.00 per barrel) to come into effect when the current oil price controls run out have been voted on by Congress and have been passed, but President Carter is likely to veto the bill which would allow gas to rise by 7 cents per gallon as he is concerned that the increased reliance on foreign imports by as much as 350,000 barrels per day would not be in the long term interests of America. The current price controls are due to expire at the end of August.

1976 Space Viking 1 Lands On Mars: On the seventh anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, the Viking 1 lander, an unmanned U.S. planetary probe, becomes the first spacecraft to successfully land on the surface of Mars.

1982 UK IRA Bombing Campaign: The IRA is continuing it's bombing campaign on the British mainland with two IRA bomb blasts in central London, one in Hyde Park, killing two soldiers and injuring 23 others and the other in Regents Park killing six soldiers and injuring a further 24.

1990 UK IRA Bombing Campaign: The IRA bombs the London Stock Exchange. The IRA did give a coded warning prior to the bomb detonation and no body was killed or injured.

1995 Canada Native Canadian Indians: Native Canadian Indians are blocking roads, threatening sit-ins and challenging government authorities, and many believe it is only a matter of time before bloodshed happens. They are angry that Government Departments are bypassing the Chiefs and going to local bands to negotiate treaty rights because they are not as strong.

1997 U.S.A. Deaf Illegal Mexican Immigrant Ring Broken: A crime ring using 60 smuggled deaf Mexicans into the United States to sell trinkets in the subways and airports of New York, Chicago, Boston and other cities has been broken after 2 of the deaf immigrant workers go to a police station and with sign language and interpreters give police the information they need to break the ring and place charges. The Mexicans are given immunity from prosecution and work visa's for helping police.

2001 Italy G8 Summit: The leaders of world's seven richest nations begin the G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy with a focus on reducing global poverty in third world countries.

2006 Malta Migrant Ship Refused Landing: After the country of Malta refused to let a Spanish ship carrying 51 African migrants dock, the country reached an agreement with Spain over the dispensation of the migrants.

2007 U.S.A. Terrorist Torture Banned: United States President George W. Bush signed an executive order that banned the torture of terror suspects. The order was intended to clarify the legal bounds that surround interrogation techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency after scandals surrounding the United States’ treatment of detainees suspected of terrorist activities.

2008 U.S.A. New Batman Movie "The Dark Knight": The Batman sequel, The Dark Knight, opened on this weekend. By the end of the weekend, the movie broke the record for the biggest opening weekend ever. The movie took in $155.4 million, beating the previous record set by Spider-Man 3 in 2007.

JULY 21st

1911 England Lloyd George: Lloyd George the chancellor of the exchequer and future prime minister recognized war might be the price of continued threats to the security of the country and its allies.

1925 U.S.A. The Monkey Trial: John T. Scopes convicted of violating Tennessee state law for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. In the "Monkey Trial" (The conviction was later overturned.)

1931 U.S.A. No Money For Teachers Pay: In the city of Chicago which has one of the most modern Opera Houses in the US, can not pay it's 14,000 teachers their salaries due to running out of money, School payrolls have now not been paid for 2 months and many of the teachers are facing severe hardship including losing their homes.

1944 Guam US Forces Land World War II: American marines land on Guam in the Mariana Islands, Pacific Ocean to gain back control of the island which had been taken by the Japanese shortly after the attacks on Pearl Harbor.

1950 U.S.A. Increasing Prices: Food prices and prices for other commodities have been increasing at alarming rate and a government investigation has blamed a number of factors causing the increases.
Hoarding due to concerns over the Korean War
Profiteering by companies
Increased costs of raw materials

1954 Vietnam France Surrenders North Vietnam in Indo-China War: The Indo-China war ends when France surrenders North Vietnam to the Communists, a peace accord signed in Geneva, Switzerland between communist North Vietnam Forces and France agrees Vietnam will be divided between north and south Vietnam along the 17th parallel.

1969 Space Apollo 11: Apollo 11 astronauts departed from the moon today after making history with man's first visit including walking on the moons surface and planting the American flag . It is estimated over 500 million people around the world watched history unfold.

1970 Egypt Aswan High Dam: The Aswan High Dam across the Nile River in Egypt is completed creating renewable energy and helping to stop the cycle of flooding and drought in the area.

1975 U.S.A. Postal Service Price Increases: An agreement has been reached by the Postal Service and the Postal Workers Union averting a strike threatened by 600,000 postal workers.

1980 U.S.A. Draft Registration: All 19 and 20 year old men are required to register for the Draft, this followed Proclamation 4771, Registration Under the Military Selective Service Act signed by President Jimmy Carter re-establishing the Selective Service registration requirement for all 18-26 year old male citizens born on or after January 1, 1960.

1987 Italy Ferrari F 40 Unveiled: To celebrate the 40 yrs of Ferrari production Enzo Ferrari unveiled the Ferrari F40 at the factory in Maranello, Italy.

1997 U.S.A. USS Constitution: Thousands watched as the USS Constitution, known as Old Ironsides, celebrated 200 years by sailing from Marblehead, Massachusetts, under its own power for the first time in 116 years.

2002 U.S.A. Oregon Biscuit Fire: The Biscuit Fire was a wildfire that scorched and burned almost a half million acres in Oregon’s beautiful Siskiyou National Forest started by lightning and was not completely contained until December 31 later that same year.

2002 U.S.A. Worldcom files for bankruptcy protection: WorldCom Inc. files for bankruptcy protection after disclosing it had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive accounting practices from 1999 - 2002 to mask its poor earnings and presenting a false picture of financial growth and profitability of the company.

2005 England Terrorist Attack London Underground: Terrorists attack the London underground system and London Busses by planting bombs on three subways and on one bus but unlike an earlier attack the bombs create only miner blasts as only the detonators explode and not the main bombs.

2006 Cambodia Ta Mok nicknamed “The Butcher” Dies:: Ta Mok, a key leader of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia died of natural causes while awaiting trial for committing genocide and crimes against humanity. Ta Mok had been nicknamed “The Butcher” and was an important leader in the brutal Khmer Rouge regime under which an estimated 1.7 million people died.

2007 India Pratibha Patil Elected: The seventy-two year old Pratibha Patil is elected to the presidency in India, and becomes the first woman president of the country. Although the presidency in India is largely ceremonial, she will have some responsibilities concerning the government and coalitions.

2007 England Final Harry Potter Book Published: The last and final Harry Potter book goes on sale
" Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" written by J. K. Rowling. 10 years after the first Harry Potter Book was published.

2008 Yemen Exposed Dinosaur Tracks: Exposed dinosaur tracks are discovered by scientists in Yemen. In the village of Madar, the tracks were once believed to belong to giant camels, but after scientists examined the tracks, they determined that they had belonged to a herd of eleven dinosaurs from 150 million years ago. This was the first discovery of this kind on the Arabian Peninsula.

2008 Serbia Radovan Karadzic Captured: A former political leader during the Bosnian War in the 1990s, Radovan Karadzic was finally captured in Serbia on this day. He had been on the run for over ten years after being indicted for war crimes and genocide. The capture was seen as a triumph for the new government in Serbia, as it looked to join the European Union.

I ADDED THIS 2011 USA Last shuttle Mission: The Atlantis Shuttle landed safe & sound, thus ending the Space Shuttle Program.
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JULY 22nd

1933 U.S.A. Wiley Post: Wiley Hardeman Post (Wiley Post) becomes the first man to fly solo around the world in his plywood monocoque aircraft, the Winnie Mae. He took 7 days, 19 hours -- 21 hours less than his previous record (Which he had set in 1931 with a navigator, Harold Gatty). Instead of a navigator he had installed an auto pilot device and a radio compass which were still in development, but which allowed him to make his solo journey.

1934 U.S.A. John Dillenger Shot: John Dillenger Public Enemy number ONE career was finally ended during a shoot out with FBI agents who had been waiting outside a local Cinema following a tip off.

1937 U.S.A. Supreme Court: President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed to add five new justices to the Supreme Court, this was because the Supreme Court were overturning many of his programs and he believed if he placed an additional 5 new justices chosen by him he would get his legislation through. Much to his dismay the Senate turned down his proposal.

1942 Poland Warsaw Ghetto: Himmler ordered Rudolph Hoess an SS major to clean up the Warsaw ghetto, the Jewish quarter enclosed by barbed wire and brick walls which was to be depopulated and the inhabitants transported to Treblinka.

1950 U.S.A. Save The Buffalo Bison Campaign: The American Buffalo/Bison which roamed the plains and numbered over 50 million are now down to a mere 4000 animals and concerns over extinction means more work and money is to be spent to save this important part of the American Heritage.

1964 Japan Tokyo Olympics: Plans are being put in place to show live feed from the Tokyo Olympic games to Television viewers in Canada and the United States using a new Comstat Satellite Syncom III which will be launched in August and hold a stationary or hovering orbit position above the Pacific Ocean.

1975 U.S.A. Personal Bankruptcy On The Increase: A growing number of people are filing for personal bankruptcy which is more than ever before, the reasons can be traced through to any number including
Inflation
Pay rises not matching expectations
Increased use of Credit Cards
Shop-A-Holics
Gas Price Increases.

1987 Soviet Union Nuclear Missile Ban: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev indicates that he is willing to negotiate a ban on intermediate-range nuclear missiles without conditions paving the way for the groundbreaking Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with the United States.

1991 U.S.A. Jeffrey Dahmer: Jeffrey Dahmer is caught and is considered one of the most sadistic serial killers in our time when Dahmer's apartment was searched, the extent of his horrors was revealed, it contained pictures of body parts and the apartment was littered with human remains including human heads in the refrigerator and freezer, there was also evidence to suggest that he had been practicing cannibalism with his victims bodies, he later confessed to 17 murders in all.

1992 Columbia Pablo Escobar: Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his own luxurious private prison, La Catedral. near Medellin. At one time Escabar had been listed as the seventh-richest man in the world on Forbes Magazine.

2002 Palestine Israeli Bomb Kills 15 people including nine children

22nd July 2002 : An Israeli F-16 has dropped a one-tonne guided bomb on an apartment block in Gaza City killing 15 including innocent children in an attack designed to kill Sheikh Salah Shahada a leading member of the militant group Hamas.

2003 Iraq Saddam Hussein’s Sons Killed

22nd July 2003 : Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s sons, Qusay and Uday Hussein, are killed after a three-hour firefight with U.S. forces in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul

2003 U.S.A. Memphis Summer Storm: A summer storm, dubbed the Memphis Summer Storm of 2003, strikes the region with 100 mph winds and rains. When it was over, four people were dead with several more dead and injured as a result of fires and other accidents that the storm caused. More than 300,000 area residents were also left without power.

2005 England Suspected Terrorist Shot 7 times: A suspected terrorist is shot dead by police at Stockwell underground station in south London. A few days later the man who police had killed was Jean Charles de Menezes a Brazillian Electrician who had nothing to do with terrorist activities , An apology was made by the British Prime Minister (Not Accepted by the family) and questions have been asked about the police's shoot-to-kill policy.

2008 U.S.A. Estelle Getty Dies: Estelle Getty, the comedian who played the popular role of Sophia Petrillo on the 1990s sitcom, Golden Girls, died on this day.

2009 Space Solar Eclipse: The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, (when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun) lasting up to 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds, occurs off the coast of Southeast Asia.

JULY 25th

1917 France Mata Hari: The exotic dancer Mata Hari is sentenced to execution by firing squad by a French court for spying on Germany's behalf during World War I.

1921 U.S.A. Rum Runners: Rum runners are now taunting US authorities by sitting outside of the three mile limit with flags and signs saying come and get it. At night they disappear under cover of darkness to areas not patrolled and small fishing boats unload the cargo and deliver the booze back to shore.

1939 England IRA Bomb: A bomb planted in a baggage room on a London Railway station by the IRA has injured 14 people many seriously, the bomb is believed to have been planted by the Irish Republican Army.

1943 Italy Benito Mussolini: Benito Mussolini, the prime minister and dictator of Italy for 21 years, was forced from office.

1952 Puerto Rico Self Governing Commonwealth Of US: After a number of years during which there were revolts including the Jayuya Uprising against the United States. Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

1956 U.S.A. Ocean Liners Collide: The Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria and the Swedish ocean liner Stockholm collide in a heavy Atlantic fog off the island of Nantucket on the New England coast.

1969 U.S.A. Senator Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to Chappaquiddick : Senator Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving the scene of a crime (Car accident on the island of Chappaquiddick where Mary Jo Kopechne drowned) and has been sentenced to a two-month suspended jail sentence. (My Comment: IMO for murder, I can believe it)

1973 Soviet Union Mars 5 Probe: The Soviet Union launched Mars 5, its second unmanned Mars probe on a six-month journey to the red planet.

1978 Great Britain First Test Tube Baby: Lesley Brown gave birth to the world's first test tube baby ( in-vitro fertilization ) delivered by caesarean section in Oldham, England. Dr. Patrick Steptoe and Dr. Robert Edwards developed the process to conceive a child in a laboratory and then plant in a uterus to develop normally.

1978 Great Britain Motability Scheme Launched: A new scheme in Britain (Motability scheme) to provide cars for disabled people is launched in Earl's Court, London. The scheme allows disabled people to use part of their mobility allowance to lease new, modified cars for the disabled.

1986 India Hindu Murder: Masked Sikhs stopped an inter city bus in Punjab State and ordered all Hindus off the bus , they then shot and murdered the Hindus in a hail of automatic gunfire.

1992 Spain Barcelona Olympics: After 20 years of Boycotts of the Olympic games the Barcelona Olympic Games becomes the first games with no major boycotts and a record number of 169 nations taking part in the opening parade.

1999 France Lance Armstrong: Just three years after being diagnosed with testicular cancer, American Lance Armstrong won the first of seven consecutive Tour de France victories .

2000 U.S.A. Dick Cheney: George Bush Chooses Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.

2000 France Concorde Crash: An Air France Concorde jet bound for New York crashes upon takeoff in Paris killing everyone onboard as well as four people on the ground.

2006 Georgia Russia / Georgia Tensions: On this day the country of Georgia deployed troops to the Kodori gorge, a strategic military location in the Abkhazia region. Both Russian and the Abkhaz government protested the move by Georgia citing it as a violation of the 1994 Moscow ceasefire.

2007 Canada Oil Pipe Breaks: An oil pipe in Vancouver, Canada burst when a construction crew accidentally dug into the pipeline on this day, creating a geyser of crude oil. Some fifty homes in the suburb were evacuated and the oil spilled for over twenty minutes before the flow to the pipe was turned off.

2007 Democratic Republic of Congo More Mountain Gorillas Killed: Four more mountain gorillas have been found shot in the Virunga National Park, home to 380 mountain gorillas over half the worlds population of this endangered species.

2009 England Last World War I Vet Dies: Britain’s last living World War I veteran died on this day. Harry Patch, a 111-year-old former plumber refused to talk about his war experiences until he reached the age of 100. For eleven years before his death he traveled around and received honors while speaking on his life experiences in the first world war.

JULY 26th

1931 U.S.A. Grasshopper Swarms: The Midwest and heartland of the United States are in the midst of a bad drought when swarms of grasshoppers descends on crops throughout the American heartland, devastating millions of acres.

1939 United Kingdom IRA Roundup: The British government is set for lightening strikes against the IRA (Irish Republican Army) to round up over 5,000 suspects to stop the sabotage and terrorist activities now that the new emergency government bill has been passed.

1941 U.S.A. Japanese Assets Seized: President Franklin Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets in the United States in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China.

1945 Great Britain Clement Attlee: Winston Churchill's Conservative party loses the general election to the Labour Party and Clement Attlee, the Labour leader, is sworn in as the new British leader, Attlee had campaigned on an enlarged system of social services would be created as outlined in the wartime Beveridge Report.

1952 Argentina Eva Peron: Eva Peron, died today of a prolonged illness she was known as Evita (Little Eva) to the people of Argentina.

1956 Egypt Suez Crisis Begins: The Suez Crisis begins when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the British and French-owned Suez Canal hoping to charge tolls that would pay for construction of of the Aswan dam on the Nile.

1963 Yugoslavia Earthquake Strikes Skopje: Skopje, Yugoslavia's 4th largest city was struck by an earthquake which reduced the city to ruins.

1978 South America Political Turmoil: The continuing turmoil in South American politics have many in the west concerned for democracy in the area, in just a short time we have seen:
A coup in Bolivia,
General Augusto Pinochet Junta in Chile ousting the only liberal member left,
In Paraguay the opposition party leader was snatched from the street and jailed after speaking out against the corruption of the ruling party.

1989 U.S.A. Student Indicted For Creating Computer Virus: Robert Tappan Morris a graduate student from Cornell University was indicted on a felony charge for releasing a computer virus that disrupted thousands of computers throughout the United States in the fall of 1988.

1996 U.S.A. IBM: IBM is given a contract by the Department of Energy to build the worlds most powerful custom supercomputer.

1999 U.S.A. Cary Stayner Arrested: A hotel handyman who worked at the Cedar Lodge guest house in Yosemite National Parkin has been arrested on suspicion of killing four women Carole Sund, Silvina Pelosso, Julie Sund and Joie Armstrong. He was found guilty for the murders of four women in Yosemite, California, and in 2002 sentenced to death.

2006 Liberia Power Restores in Monrovia After 15 years: This day marks the return of power to the Liberian capital of Monrovia after fifteen years without. The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf activated the streetlights, powered by a generator, for the first time after a fourteen-year civil war in the country.

2006 U.S.A. Andrea Yates: An earlier trial verdict of the murder of 5 children by their mother (Andrea Yates) which sentenced her to life imprisonment has been overturned, and in the latest verdict she has been cleared by reason of insanity of murdering her five children by drowning them in the bath.

2008 U.S.A. California Bans Transfats: California became the first state to pass a law banning the use of trans fats from being used by restaurants and retailers. The ban was set to start on January 1, 2010.

2009 India 1st Nuclear Submarine: India became one of six countries to launch a nuclear submarine. India built the ship with Russian help and the move is thought to have been designed to send a message to China, a country with an increasing naval presence near India.

JULY 27th

1909 U.S.A. Orville Wright: The world's airplane record for two men, was broken in a flight of one hour, twelve minutes and forty seconds over fifty miles and at a speed averaging about forty miles an hour by Orville Wright and Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm, of the army signal corps, as passenger.

1921 Canada Housing Shortage: Landlords in the city of Toronto are now charging prospective tenants $2.00 to view apartments in the city , this is in part due to the lack of accommodation available in the city.

1949 UK De-Havilland Comet First Flight: The 500-mile-an-hour jet engined De-Havilland Comet designed as a commercial jet airliner flew for the first time with a test pilot at the controls.

1953 Korea Armistice: An Armistice has been signed between Korea and Generals of the United Nations this is not a peace deal but a truce to end 37 months of fighting.

1974 U.S.A. Impeachment Charges Against Nixon: The House of Representatives charges President Richard M. Nixon with the first of three articles of impeachment for obstruction of justice.

1986 U.S.A. Tough New Anti Smoking Laws: A bill is to introduced to ban smoking on all public transport including trains, planes, busses and coaches with large fines up to $500 for those who break the law.

1996 U.S.A. Nail Bomb Olympics: In Atlanta, Georgia, a nail-laden pipe bomb is exploded in Centennial Olympic Park during the XXVI Summer Olympiad leaving 2 dead and many more injured.

2000 Fiji George Speight: The Rebel coup leader George Speight who led the coup to overthrow Fiji's democratically elected government in May by taking Fiji's Indian Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, and members of his multi-racial government hostage for 8 weeks has been arrested and will possibly face treason charges.

2002 Ukraine Fighter Jet Crash Kills 85: A fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators during an air show in Ukraine killing 85 people and injuring hundreds more.

2006 Switzerland WTO World Trade Organization Talks Break Down: The (WTO) World Trade Talks which had been started in 2001 break down with blame shared equally around the world.

2007 Mexico Mexico Drug Money: After a ninety day period, the unclaimed money that was seized from an alleged Mexican-Chinese drug trafficker, Zhenli Ye Gon’s home became the state’s property. Once in legal possession of the large sum of money, $205 million, Mexican officials would use the money to fund drug treatment programs, police equipment, and drug prosecution efforts.

2007 India India Nuclear Pact: A nuclear pact between the United States and India is officially confirmed on this day. This is the first of such agreements in thirty years due to sanctioning from the United States.

2008 China Olympic Village Opens: The Olympic Village in Beijing opened on this day, twelve days before the start of the 2008 Summer Olympics. The Olympic Village housed 16,000 athletes during the games.

2009 China / Taiwan Relations Improve: China’s president, Hu Jintao congratulated President Ma Yong-jeou of Taiwan after his win of the presidential election. This exchange marked the first time leaders of the two countries directly communicated in over sixty years.

JULY 28th

1914 Austria World War I Begins: Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by Gavrilo Princip, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, within one month countries across Europe had formed alliances and declared war on other alliances.
The main alliances in the early period of the war were: Entente Powers or the Allied Powers: consisted of British Empire, France, Russian Empire, Italy, United States. Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.

1920 Mexico Francisco Villa Surrenders: Francisco Villa the notorious bandit has surrendered unconditionally to the provisional government of Mexico.

1931 U.S.A. Monoplane Race: A race between two powerful monoplanes got under way today starting from New York, the race is to Istanbul over 5,500 miles away. They are also hoping to break the current long distance record of 4,912 miles non stop.

1932 U.S.A. "Bonus Army" World War I veterans: Federal troops under the order of President Hoover forcibly dispersed the "Bonus Army" of (17,000 World War I veterans) who had gathered in Washington, D.C. on June 17th to demand money they weren't scheduled to receive until 1945.

1945 U.S.A. Plane Crashes Into Empire State Building: A B-25 Mitchell bomber crashes into the into the 79th story of the Empire State Building killing 14 people. The freak accident was caused by heavy fog.

1956 U.S.A. Elvis Presley: Elvis Presley scores his second No. 1 hit with "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You." following his April number 1 "Heartbreak Hotel,".

1965 U.S.A. 50,000 Extra Troops To Vietnam: President Johnson informed fellow Americans that he is adding 50,000 troops to the U.S. forces currently in Vietnam, for a total of 125,000 soldiers.

1972 UK Dock Strike Begins: 42,000 registered dock workers begin a national strike over container companies using cheap labour and concerns over compulsory redundancies. After one week the government under Edward Heath proclaimed a state of emergency which allowed the use of the British Army to unload cargo.

1976 China Earthquake Kills 1/4 million people: An earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude on the Richter scale flattens Tangshan, a Chinese industrial city with a population of about one million people. The quake killed an estimated 242,000 people in Tangshan and surrounding areas making the earthquake one of the deadliest in recorded history.

1978 Lebanon Syrian Attacks: The United States, Canada and Great Britain have advised nationals to leave Lebanon as quickly as possible due to increased Syrian attacks on Lebanon Christians and are leaving only a skeleton staff in their Embassy.

1978 England Gold Reaches $200.00 Per Ounce: The Price of gold has reached an all time high on the Bullion Market of $200.00 per ounce , investors usually invest in gold during monetary instability and the steady decline in the value of the dollar has sent many US investors into the gold market.

1982 Israel Attack West Beirut: Israel Bombers and fighters are blasting large area's of West Beirut attacking any area or building they believe may house PLO Palestinian Liberation Army Guerillas, after nightfall the PLO Guerillas returned fire on Israeli positions using rockets and mortar fire.

1999 U.S.A. Y2K Compliance:: Federal Regulators from the SEC have given until August 1st for Brokerage firms to prove compliance with Y2K or a court order will be obtained to close them down on December 31st.

2004 U.S.A. John Kerry:: The Democratic National Convention in Boston Nominated John Kerry Democratic Nominee For President.

2005 Northern Ireland IRA Announces End Of Armed Struggle:: The IRA has formally ordered an end to its armed campaign and has announced the republican organisation will follow a democratic path ending more than 30 years of violence. The announcement is received on all sides as an important way forward following the Good Friday Agreement signed in 1997.

2006 Haiti Former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune Released: Yvon Neptune was released from prison in Haiti on this day. Neptune was a former Prime Minister of Haiti and was held in prison for two years without ever being convicted of a crime.

2008 Iraq Suicide Bombers:: On this day three suicide bombings took place in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 28 people and injuring 90 people. The suicide attacks were carried out by female bombers and were aimed at disrupting a Shia Muslim pilgrimage to the Kadhimiya shrine.

2009 Tanzania Taking You Back In Time Prints Banking For Women: A bank opened in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania that was aimed at helping women with their savings.