This Week In #History ... July 19th - July 24th
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Jul 19
1195 Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia
1551 Treaty of Karlsburg: arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as king of Hungary/Transsylvania
1674 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer
1848 1st U.S. women's rights convention (Seneca Falls New York)
1877 1st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64)
1902 New York Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw
1913 Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs", Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
1926 2nd French government of Herriot, forms
1939 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R P Scholz, St. Louis, Missouri
1950 French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh
1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza
1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle
1994 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles)
2010 A Tel Aviv judge orders safe deposit boxes at a Zurich bank opened; the boxes may contain drawings and manuscripts by writer Franz Kafka
Jul 20
1031 Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France
1609 Emperor Rudolf II grants Silezische protestants freedom of religion
1836 Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension
1858 Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents ) (New York beats Brooklyn 22-18)
1872 Mahlon Loomis patents wireless radio
1903 Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X
1913 Turkish troop take Adrianopel and Erdine from Bulgaria
1922 Togo made a mandate of League of Nations
1933 Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler
1942 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training
1949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
1960 U.S.S.R. recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
1969 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
1976 U.S. Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
1985 Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
1994 O. J. Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife's klller
2005 Canada becomes the 4th country to permit same-sex marriage
Jul 21
365 Alexandria hit by Earthquake; about 50,000 die
1595 Alvara Mendana discovers Marquesas Island
1774 Peace of Kutsjuk Kainardji (end Russian-Turkish War)
1831 Belgium gains independence from Netherlands, Leopold I made king
1897 Tate Gallery opens in England
1900 Pope Leo XIII encyclical to Greek-Melkite rite
1919 Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg and Amsterdam
1928 1st woman to win an olympic gold medal - Halina Knonpacka of Poland
1941 Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp
1947 Indonesia begins 1st political election
1955 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf
1966 Gemini X returns to Earth
1976 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Philadelphia
1984 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in U.S.
1996 Wayne Gretzky signs a 2 year deal with New York Rangers
2008 Radovan Karadzic arrested on war crimes after a 12 year manhunt
Jul 22
1456 Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats sultan Murad II
1489 Treaty of Frankfurt
1587 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC
1796 Cleveland, Ohio, founded by General Moses Cleaveland
1901 Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro
1912 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes
1923 Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508)
1933 Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight
1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp
1952 Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution
1962 1st U.S. Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off
1975 House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee
1988 500 U.S. scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
1994 23rd and last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter, since July 16th
2009 A solar eclipse, the longest in history, lasts up to 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds, over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean
2010 The Stonehenge World Heritage Site announces the discovery of a possible new henge, the biggest discovery at a major monument in over 50 years
Jul 23
636 Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire
1215 Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
1431 Council of Basel opens
1664 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of New York, arrive in Boston
1827 1st U.S. swim school opens (Boston Mass)
1864 Battle of Woodstock, Virginia
1900 Pan-African Congress meets in London
1914 Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I
1921 Chinese Communist Party forms under Henk Sneevliet
1931 France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics
1940 "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins
1952 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day)
1965 Beatles "Help" is released in UK
1972 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
1980 Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya
1990 South Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1997 Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin and Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them
2010 Venezuela severs diplomatic relations with Columbia after Columbia states that Venezuela is a 'haven for guerillas'
Jul 24
1577 Treason of Don Juan in Brussels
1683 1st settlers from Germany to U.S., leave aboard Concord
1793 France passes 1st copyright law
1847 Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, New York City
1870 1st trans-U.S. rail service begins
1900 Race riot in New Orleans
1910 Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull
1923 Allied Powers and Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne
1934 1st ptarmigan hatched and reared in captivity, Ithaca, New York
1944 Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
1952 President Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1961 Beginning of a trend, a U.S. commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth
1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson
1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
1994 Asociacon de Estados del Caribe (AEC) forms
2010 Rallies to release Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman facing execution for adultery, occur in Paris, New York City, Ottowa and elsewhere