This Week In #History ... July 25th - July 31st
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Jul 25
1261 Byzantium Emperor Michael VIII recaptures Constantinople
1570 Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army
1670 Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna
1814 George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive
1860 1st U.S. intercollegiate billiard match, Harvard vs. Yales
1898 1st U.S. troops land and occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
1909 France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel
1918 Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of U.S., California
1933 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
1946 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
1957 Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
1965 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
1973 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 5
1983 1st non-human primate, baboon, conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
1992 Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr. Mudd
2000 A Concorde jet crashes outside of Paris after takeoff killing 113 passengers
2010 U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner declares his interest in allowing the set of tax cuts in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to expire at the end of 2010
Jul 26
1267 Inquistion forms in Rome under pope Clement IV
1499 Alonso dhe Ojeda discovers Curacao Island
1656 Rembrandt declares he is insolvent
1775 1st Postmaster General: Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office
1835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
1887 1st Esperanto book published
1908 Predecessor of the FBI is created by the Department of Justice
1915 International School for Wijsbegeerte forms
1926 National Bar Association incorporates
1939 Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive home runs
1945 Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister
1953 Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime
1963 U.S. Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1971 Apollo 15 launched (Scott and Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon
1983 Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io
1990 President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
1998 Giant Eagle LPGA Classic
2010 Over 92,000 classified documents detailing incidents related to the war in Afghanistan are released by Wikileaks; this is the largest leak in U.S military history
Jul 27
1214 1st battle of Bouvines - King Philips II vs Emperor Otto IV
1298 Albert I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1501 Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
1713 Russia and Turkey sign peace treaty
1836 Adelaide, South Australia founded
1888 Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile
1909 Orville Wright tests 1st U.S. Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s
1918 Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in U.S., launched to carry oil, New York
1922 International Geographical Union forms in Brussels
1932 Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death
1944 U.S. regains possession of Guam from Japanese
1953 1st insulin isolated by F Banting and C Best in Toronto
1962 Martin Luther King, Jr. jailed in Albany, Georgia
1976 Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested, Lockheed Affair
1986 Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France
1993 Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed
2010 Photographic negatives purchased at a garage sale prove to be early works by American photographer Ansel Adams
Jul 28
1148 Crusaders attack Damascus
1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe
1717 Prussian king Frederik Willem I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs
1858 Nadar takes 1st airborne photo, in a balloon
1868 14th Amendment ratified, grants citizenship to ex-slaves
1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
1914 World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
1926 U.S. and Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal
1933 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), New York City
1943 Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
1971 Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie"
1980 Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaunde Terry becomes president
1991 Dennis Martinez pitches the 15th perfect game in baseball history
2005 IRA issues a statement ordering the end to the armed campaign against the British
2010 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California, responds to a fiscal state of emergency by requiring most state employees to take three days of unpaid leave per month
Jul 29
626 Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople
1030 Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim)
1585 Friese academy opens
1751 1st international world title prize fight - Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 minutes in England
1858 1st commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan signed
1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, New York
1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
1914 1st transcontinental phone link made between New York City and SF
1923 Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
1936 RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road and comedy)
1944 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours
1949 BBC radio begins broadcasting
1958 President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958
1966 Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock New York
1974 Episcopal Church ordained female priests
1983 Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
1994 Parliamentary election in Aruba
2010 Monsoon rains delay salvage of the wreckage of Airblue Flight 202 which crashed in the Margalla Hills outside Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people onboard
Jul 30
1178 Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy
1619 House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective U.S. governing body
1715 Spanish gold and silver fleet disappears off St. Lucie, Florida
1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
1836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
1874 1st baseball teams to play outside U.S., Boston-Philadelphia in British Isles
1898 Will Kieth Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
1909 Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
1928 George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures
1935 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1956 U.S. motto, In God We Trust, authorized
1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
1971 U.S. Apollo 15 (Scott and Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
1980 Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain and France
1989 Chile amends its constitution
1997 Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
2010 Two U.S. embassy cars are set on fire in Kabul after a U.S. vehicle collides with a civilian vehicle
Jul 31
1498 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad
1620 Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America
1737 Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court
1790 1st U.S. patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
1809 1st practical U.S. railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Philadelphia
1876 U.S. Coast Guard officers' training school established New Bedford, Massachusetts
1893 Henry Perky patents shredded wheat
1910 Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration
1919 Germany accepts Weimar Constitution
1922 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn)
1932 George Washington quarter goes into circulation
1940 Riech's commissar Seyss-Inquart bans homosexuals
1953 Department of Health, Education and Welfare created
1962 Federation of Malaysia forms
1971 Apollo 15 astronauts take 6 hour electric car ride on Moon
1981 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of National Bar Association
1990 Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence
2010 Floods in Pakistan kill over 900 people, and the death toll is expected to rise further