This Week In #History ... July 4th - July 10th
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Jul 4
1708 Swedish King Karel XII beats Russians
1796 1st Independence Day celebration is held
1827 Slavery abolished in NY
1863 General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg
1894 Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B. Dole as president
1903 Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, President TR sends message
1914 1st U.S. motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
1925 44 die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses
1936 League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy
1944 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, U.S. fleet near Iwo Jima
1956 Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia
1966 Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos
1976 Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France
1996 HotMail, a free internet E-mail service begins
2010 An Iranian woman convicted of adultery is sentenced to death by stoning; Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi tries to stop this barbaric act
Jul 5
1643 1st recorded tornado in U.S. (Essex County, Massachusetts)
1811 Venezuela, 1st South American country to gain independence from Spain
1841 Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency
1865 Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department
1902 Australia won the one and only Test Cricket played at Sheffield
1914 Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia
1922 1st general election in Netherlands
1932 Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes premier/dictator of Portugal
1942 Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada
1951 Dr. William Shockley invents junction transistor at Murray Hill, New Jersey
1962 Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
1971 26th amendment certified, reduces voting age to 18
1982 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
1994 U.S. changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people back
2010 Israel restricts a blacklist of weapons, construction materials and other items but drops all other restrictions on the free flow of consumer goods into the Gaza strip
Jul 6
1483 England's King Richard III crowned
1669 LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River
1798 U.S. law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, ... and removed as alien enemies"
1858 Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
1893 British King George V marries princess Victoria of Teck (Queen Mary)
1908 Robert Peary's expedition sails from New York City for north pole
1919 British R-34 lands in New York, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hours)
1928 1st all-talking motion picture shown in New York (Lights of New York)
1939 German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises
1950 East Germany recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland
1957 Beatle John Lennon 1st meets Paul McCartney
1967 Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade
1979 IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp
1987 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
1997 Montreal Expos retire Andre Dawson's uniform #10
2010 A bill to allow same-sex civil unions is vetoed by Linda Lingle, U.S. governor of Hawaii
Jul 7
1456 Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted
1550 Chocolate introduced
1668 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
1802 1st comic book "The Wasp," is published
1891 Travelers checks patents
1900 Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory
1911 Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record
1923 University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II
1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
1958 William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows, New York
1967 Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1
1976 Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars
1986 Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
1997 Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open
2010 A heat wave in the U.S. and Canada kills 9 people
Jul 8
951 Paris is founded
1497 Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India
1654 1st Jewish colonist arrive in U.S. (Jacob Barsimson in Manhattan)
1776 John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Decleration of Independence in Philadelphia
1796 U.S. State Department issues 1st American passport
1862 Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret
1900 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids)
1911 Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse
1923 Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland
1933 Public Works Administration becomes effective
1943 4th day of battle at Kursk: General Model uses last tank reserve
1954 Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala
1963 U.S. bans all monetary transactions with Cuba
1975 Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated
1986 NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain and Quality Assurance
1997 NATO invites Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic to join
2010 At least 70 people are killed and 300 wounded in a series of bombings over the three-day Shia pilgrimage to the Musa Kadhim mausoleum in Iraq
Jul 9
1595 Johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe
1776 Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops, New York
1815 1st natural gas well in U.S. is discovered
1863 Union troops enter Port Hudson
1900 Australia accepts its constitution
1910 Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude
1918 Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal
1927 William T. Francis named minister to Liberia
1940 RAF bombs Germany
1951 President Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
1953 1st helicopter passenger service, New York City
1963 Federation of Malaysia forms
1972 1st tour of Paul McCartney and Wings, France
1980 Walt Disney's "Fox and The Hound," released
1987 1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime
1997 Mike Tyson is banned from boxing, for biting Holyfield's ear
2010 Google's internet content provider license is renewed by China; the company is allowed to continue operating in the country
Jul 10
552 Origin of Armenian calendar
1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes
1629 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in U.S. founded (Salem, MA)
1797 1st U.S. frigate, the "United States," is launched in Philadelphia
1862 U.S. begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad
1892 1st concrete-paved street built, Bellefountaine, Ohio
1905 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court
1917 Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing draft
1929 U.S. issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
1938 Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours
1947 200 die when train derails and fell into a river in Canton, China
1958 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
1966 U.S. launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon
1976 Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud)
1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
1997 Louise Woodward's trial begins in Massachusetts, Nanny murder trial
2010 The largest manhunt in U.K. recent history ends when gunman Raoul Moat shoots and kills himself in a 6-hour standoff with police