X** 07 01 99 99 00 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill. (1898)
X** 07 01 99 99 00 The beginning of the first international geophysical year (1957)
X** 07 01 99 99 00 lifting of proscription against wearing of tartans in Scotland (1782)
X** 07 02 99 99 00 At 9 am President Garfield is shot in a railroad station in Washington (1881)
X** 07 02 99 99 00 Continental Congress passed a resolution saying "These United Colonies are, and of right, out to be, free and independent states" (1776)
X** 07 02 99 99 00 President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act (1964)
X** 07 02 99 99 00 The Sherman Antitrust Act is passed (1890)
X** 07 02 99 99 00 The Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty is inherently neither cruel or unusual (1976)
X** 07 02 99 99 00 The United States Army Air Corps was created (1926)
X** 07 03 99 99 00 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors (1819)
X** 07 03 99 99 00 Idaho became the 43rd state (1890)
X** 07 03 99 99 00 Quebec is founded. (1608)
X** 07 03 99 99 00 The USS Vincennes shot down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 passengers and crew (1988)
X** 07 03 99 99 00 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass (1775)
X** 07 03 99 99 00 soldier in Paris strikes image of virgin Mary which then bleeds! (1518)
X** 07 04 99 99 00 Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia PA (1776)
X** 07 04 99 99 00 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the 1st US autos (1894)
X** 07 04 99 99 00 New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote (1776)
X** 07 04 99 99 00 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens. President Roosevelt sends a message to the Phillipines,then a message around the world in 12 minutes (1903)
X** 07 04 99 99 00 Statue of Liberty is given to U.S. to commemorate the French and American revolutions (1884)
X** 07 04 99 99 00 The song "America" written by Dr Samual Smith on scrap of paper and performed by Boston school children (1832)
X** 07 04 99 99 00 corner stone of Washington monument is laid by President Polk (1848)
X** 07 05 99 99 00 Crusaders take Jerusalem after 5 week siege. In rage they kill 10000 men women and children (1100)
X** 07 05 99 99 00 Duke of Monmouth's rebel army was defeated (1685)
X** 07 05 99 99 00 Pvt. Kenneth Shadrick of Skin Fork, W.VA. became the first fatality in the Korean War (1950)
X** 07 05 99 99 00 The 26th amendment giving voting rights to 18 year olds passes (1971)
X** 07 05 99 99 00 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England. (1865)
X** 07 06 99 99 00 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur (1885)
X** 07 06 99 99 00 First Class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents. (1932)
X** 07 06 99 99 00 Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba (1917)
X** 07 06 99 99 00 Louis Pasteur inoculates a human being for the first time, a small boy badly bitten by a dog (1885)
X** 07 06 99 99 00 Richard III and Anne are crowned king and queen of England (1483)
X** 07 06 99 99 00 The Republican Pary came into being at a convention in Jackson, MI (1854)
X** 07 06 99 99 00 preview of 1st all-talking motion picture took place in NYC (1928)
X** 07 07 99 99 00 By act of Congress a new "Great Seal of the United States" is recut based on the original design and the old seal, known as the "illegal seal", made illegally by the Secretary of State in 1841, is removed from use. (1884)
X** 07 07 99 99 00 Hawaii annexed to the US. (1898)
X** 07 07 99 99 00 The Land Grant Act passes Congress, allowing the establishment of land grant colleges and universities (such as CSU) (1862)
X** 07 07 99 99 00 US occupies Iceland (1941)
X** 07 07 99 99 00 a patent was granted for the travelers cheque. (1891)
X90 07 08 99 99 00 A very interesting date and time: 12:34:56 7/8/90
X** 07 08 99 99 00 1st American Passport issued by the US State Department. (1796)
X** 07 08 99 99 00 Edward II is crowned king of England (1307)
X** 07 08 99 99 00 First public reading, Declaration of Independence (1776)
X** 07 08 99 99 00 General Douglas McArthur is made commander of UN forces in Korea (1950)
X** 07 11 99 99 00 Confederate forces begin their assault on Washington, D.C. (1864)
X** 07 11 99 99 00 English fleet defeats the Spanish Fleet at Messina (1718)
X** 07 11 99 99 00 John Quincy Adams, 6th President (1825-1829) (1767)
X** 07 11 99 99 00 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII (1533)
X** 07 11 99 99 00 The Flemish infantry defeat the French cavalry in the "Battle of the Spurs" (1302)
X** 07 11 99 99 00 The U.S. Air Force Academy was dedicated at Lowry Air Base in Colorado (1955)
X** 07 11 99 99 00 The U.S. Marine Corps was offically created by Congress (1798)
X** 07 11 99 99 00 VP Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Sec. Alex. Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken, N.J. He dies the next day (1804)
X** 07 11 99 99 00 the second battle of the Somme begins (1916)
X** 07 12 99 99 00 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour). (1933)
X** 07 12 99 99 00 The United States Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor (1862)
X** 07 12 99 99 00 The United States, under General William Hull, invades Canada (1812)
X** 07 12 99 99 00 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned. (1934)
X** 07 12 99 99 00 William of Orange defeated Roman Catholic army of James II, establishing Protestant domination in Northern Ireland (1690)
X** 07 13 99 99 00 Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune said "Go west young man, go west" (1865)
X** 07 13 99 99 00 New York City was powerless for 25 hours from lightning storm. (1977)
X** 07 13 99 99 00 People riot in New York against law that says $300 lets one avoid the draft during which they burn an orphanage (1863)
X** 07 13 99 99 00 Women first compete in Olympic games (1908)
X** 07 14 99 99 00 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration. (1850)
X** 07 14 99 99 00 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese. (1853)
X** 07 14 99 99 00 George Washington refuses a letter from Gen. Howe addressed to George Washington Esq. rather than General Washington (1776)
X** 07 14 99 99 00 King Faisal II of Iraq is overthrown; the Iraqi army declares a Republic (1958)
X** 07 14 99 99 00 The Bastille is stormed in Paris, the French revolution begins (1789)
X** 07 14 99 99 00 the 1st ascent of the Matterhorn. (1865)
X** 07 15 99 99 00 National Health Insurance Act comes into force in Britain (1912)
X** 07 15 99 99 00 Rome taken and pillaged by Genseric (455)
X** 07 18 99 99 00 Rome burns for 9 days again, this time under Nero (64)
X** 07 18 99 99 00 Rome sacked and burned by Brennus the Gaul (390 BC)
X** 07 18 99 99 00 Senator Edward Kennedy drives his car off of a bridge and into a tidal pool on Martha's Vineyard. The passenger Mary Jo Kopechne drowns in the car. (1969)
X** 07 20 99 99 00 Kilauea begins a long eruption that as of May 1990 had not stopped. In the process over 650M cubic yards of lava will be released. (1986)
X** 07 20 99 99 00 a bridge near Moscow gives way under a procession of 200 Waldimar monks drowning 158 (1851)
X** 07 20 99 99 00 a group of German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and thereby end the war (1944)
X** 07 21 99 99 00 Belgium gains its independence from the Netherlands; King Leopold I is crowned (1830)
X** 07 21 99 99 00 The Savannah, the first atomic powered passenger ship, is launched (1959)
X** 07 21 99 99 00 The first train robbery is carried out by Jesse and Frank James at Adair Iowa. They got $3000. (1873)
X** 07 22 99 99 00 27 FBI men gun down Public Enemy Number One, John Dillinger, as he leaves a movie theater (1934)
X** 07 22 99 99 00 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean after crossing Canada (1793)
X** 07 23 99 99 00 Dr. Livingstone returns to England (1864)
X** 07 23 99 99 00 Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis, MO (1904)
X** 07 23 99 99 00 Parliamentary act to unite upper and lower Canada (1840)
X** 07 23 99 99 00 The Matrimonial Causes Act eases divorce in England and Wales (1937)
X** 07 23 99 99 00 The sultan of Muscat and Oman is deposed by his son (1970)
X** 07 23 99 99 00 Two canisters of CS gas (type used by Britain in Northern Ireland) are thrown into the House of Commons (1970)
X** 07 23 99 99 00 Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title because of photographs that were published in Penthouse magazine (1984)
X** 07 23 99 99 00 first interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio. (1852)
X** 07 24 99 99 00 Alabama dropped charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the "scottsboro Boys" case (1937)
X** 07 24 99 99 00 Brigham Young reaches the site of Salt Lake City (1847)
X** 07 24 99 99 00 British Window Tax is abolished (1851)
X** 07 24 99 99 00 the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial ends (he's found guilty). (1925)
X** 07 25 99 99 00 A treaty prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, in space or under water was initialed in Moscow (1963)
X** 07 25 99 99 00 Henry IV of France becomes Catholic (1593)
X** 07 25 99 99 00 James I of England is crowned (1603)
X** 07 27 99 99 00 House Judiciary Committee recommends President Nixon's impeachment (1974)
X** 07 27 99 99 00 Ray Brennan becomes the first person to die of Legionnaire's disease following an outbreak at a Philadelphia American Legion convention (1976)
X** 07 27 99 99 00 The Korean war armistice is signed at Panmunjom after over two years of meetings (1953)
X** 07 27 99 99 00 The bank of England is incorporated (1694)
X** 07 27 99 99 00 The highlanders defeat Mackay at Killiecrankie (1689)
X** 07 29 99 99 00 Hamburg is saved from the Hussites by presenting the children as supplicants. The Hussites were moved and gave children cherries. (1432)
X** 07 29 99 99 00 Mongolia has its first elections ever (1990)
X** 07 29 99 99 00 Pope Paul VI reaffirms Catholic Church's stand against artificial means of birth control (1968)
X** 07 29 99 99 00 The International Atomic Agency was formed (1957)
X** 07 29 99 99 00 The first oil arrives at Valdez through the Alaska pipeline (1977)
X** 07 29 99 99 00 Transcontinental telephone service, begins with a call New York to San Francisco (1914)
X** 07 29 99 99 00 fire on the aircraft carrier Forrestal kills 134 (1967)
X** 07 30 99 99 00 "In God We Trust" made U.S. motto (1956)
X** 07 30 99 99 00 Former Teamsters Pres. Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in Detroit. (1975)
X** 07 30 99 99 00 George Eastman gives first demonstration of color movies (1928)
X** 07 30 99 99 00 President Johnson signed into law the Medicare bill, which went into effect the next year (1965)
X** 07 30 99 99 00 The city of Baltimore was founded. (1929)
X** 07 30 99 99 00 the House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed. 1st elective governing body in a British colony (1619)
X** 07 31 99 99 00 1st US Patent granted (for a potash process). (1790)
X** 07 31 99 99 00 Christopher Columbus discovered the island of Trinidad. (1498)
X** 07 31 99 99 00 First storm warnings are published by British Meteorological department (1861)
X** 07 31 99 99 00 Flood in Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado, kills 139 (1976)
X** 07 31 99 99 00 Iranian pilgrams clash with riot police in Mecca killing over 400 people (1987)
X** 07 31 99 99 00 Marquis de Lafayette, a 19 year old French nobleman, is made a major general in the Continental army (1777)
X** 07 31 99 99 00 Saxophone (invented five years earlier) introduced into French military bands (1845)
X** 07 31 99 99 00 The last Playboy Club in the US closes. It was a franchised club in Lansing, Michigan (1988)
X** 08 06 99 99 00 Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's goverenment is overthrown by the President of Pakistan (1990)
X** 08 06 99 99 00 The French war with Morocco begins (1844)
X** 08 06 99 99 00 The Holy Roman Empire is formally ended (1806)
X** 08 06 99 99 00 The United Nations imposes strong Economic sanctions against Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait. The USSR, US and Red China are all in agreement for once. (1990)
X** 08 06 99 99 00 The electric chair was used for the first time at Auburn State (1890)Prison in New York.
X** 08 07 99 99 00 1st servicable steamboat, the Cleremont, goes on 1st voyage. (1807)
X** 08 07 99 99 00 George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart. (1782)
X** 08 07 99 99 00 The Gulf of Tonkin resolution passed, giving Pres. Johnson broad powers in dealing with North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces (1964)
X** 08 07 99 99 00 The revolving door is patented (1888)
X** 08 07 99 99 00 the accidental release of enriched uranium at a top secret fuel plant near Erwin, Tenn results in 1000 people being exposed to some abnormal levels of radiation (1979)
X88 08 08 99 99 00 Today the date is 8/8/88
X** 08 08 99 99 00 Benny Goodman's first paying job as a clarinet player (1923)
X** 08 20 99 99 00 The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invades Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization movement (1968)
X** 08 20 99 99 00 U.N. security council votes 14-0 (U.S. Abstaining) to censure Israel for declaring all of Jerusalem its capital (1980)
X** 08 20 99 99 00 Winston Churchill says of the RAF, "Never in the history of Human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." (1940)
X** 08 21 99 99 00 First peace time nuclear death (1945)
X** 08 21 99 99 00 Florida's first woman Chief of Police, Sue Wegner, was sworn in as chief of Mineola (1979)
X** 08 21 99 99 00 Hawaii became the 50th state. (1959)
X** 08 21 99 99 00 Nat Turner rebellion (1831)
X** 08 21 99 99 00 first of the Lincoln/Douglas debates (1858)
X** 08 22 99 99 00 England's King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of open rebellion (1775)
X** 08 22 99 99 00 England's King Richard III was killed, ending the War of the Roses. (1485)
X** 08 22 99 99 00 It was announced that the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre sometime the night before. It turned up in Italy two years later. (1911)
X** 08 22 99 99 00 John Fitch's steamboat completes it's tests, years before Fulton builds his steamboat (1787)
X** 08 22 99 99 00 Pope Paul VI, begins the first papal visit to Latin America (1968)
X** 08 22 99 99 00 St. Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness (565)
X** 08 22 99 99 00 The United States annexes New Mexico (1846)
X** 08 22 99 99 00 Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first president to ride in an automobile (1902)
X** 08 23 99 99 00 Alexander Goodunov, Soviet ballet dancer, defects to U.S. (1979)
X** 08 23 99 99 00 Christopher Columbus arrested for mistreating the natives of Haiti (1500)
X** 08 23 99 99 00 Fanny Farmer opens her school of cooking (1902)
X** 08 23 99 99 00 Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonagression treaty (1939)
X** 08 23 99 99 00 Ion Antonescu, Romanian Prime Minister, is overthrown making way for Romania to join the Allies in World War II (1944)
X** 08 23 99 99 00 Japan declares war on Germany (1914)
X** 08 23 99 99 00 Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, one of the first colleges for women in the U.S., graduates its first students (1838)
X** 08 23 99 99 00 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty. (1939)
X** 08 23 99 99 00 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for killing two men in a payroll holdup. In 1977 Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis vindicated them. (1927)
X** 08 23 99 99 00 Rome is take by the Visigoths (410)
X** 08 24 99 99 00 Monterey taken from Mexico by U.S. forces (1846)
X** 08 24 99 99 00 Movie camera patented (1891)
X** 08 24 99 99 00 Pompeii is buried. (79)
X** 08 24 99 99 00 The North Atlantic Treaty went into effect; parties agreed that an armed attack against one would be considered "an attack on all" (1949)
X** 08 24 99 99 00 The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, more than 30000 people killed in riots of French Catholics against Protestant Huguenots (1572)
X** 08 24 99 99 00 Vesuvius erupts covering Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae with 60ft of ash and mud (79)
X** 08 24 99 99 00 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal. (1909)
X** 08 24 99 99 00 the Waffle Iron is invented. (1869)
X** 08 25 99 99 00 1500 Iroquois Indians kill all 200 inhabitants of Montreal (1689)
X** 08 25 99 99 00 800 French immigrants arrived in Louisiana to found New Orleans (1718)
X** 08 25 99 99 00 Allied forces liberated Paris, ending four years of German occupation during World War II (1944)
X** 08 25 99 99 00 President Harry Truman calls in the army to seize control of the railroads to avert a national railroad strike (1950)
X** 08 25 99 99 00 The National Park Service is established as part of the Department of the Interior (1916)
X** 08 25 99 99 00 The ending of the General Council of Nicaea, which settled on the rules for computing the day for Easter (325)
X** 08 25 99 99 00 Uraguay declared independence from Brazil (1825)
X** 08 25 99 99 00 the skies of Northern and Central Colorado get an orange haze from smoke of the giant Yellowstone National Park forest fires that have burned over 300,000 acres (1988)
X** 08 26 99 99 00 Britain and China sign a peace treaty (1842)
X** 08 26 99 99 00 Cambridge Agreement pledged. Massachusetts Bay Co. stockholders agreed to emigrate to New England (1629)
X** 08 26 99 99 00 Edward III beats the French at the battle of Crecy (1346)
X** 08 26 99 99 00 John Fitch granted a US patent for his working steamboat. (1791)
X** 08 26 99 99 00 Julius Caesar arrives for the first time in England with 8000 troops (55 BC)
X** 08 26 99 99 00 The 19th amendment on women's suffrage becomes effective (1920)
X** 08 27 99 99 00 1st successful oil well drilled near Titusville, Penn. (1859)
X** 08 27 99 99 00 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agreed to outlaw war. (1928)
X** 08 27 99 99 00 Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons, killing 36000 people and was heard 3000 miles away (1883)
X** 08 27 99 99 00 Mrs. Fay Bridges became 1st woman to vote in a Florida election. (1920)
X** 08 28 99 99 00 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial (1963)
X** 08 28 99 99 00 More than 520 people died as an earthquake shook central Mexico. (1973)
X** 08 29 99 99 00 Rock Springs Massacre, Chinese killed by miners in Rock Springs, WY (1885)
X** 08 29 99 99 00 The Chinese-American dish chop suey was invented in N.Y.City. (1896)
X** 08 29 99 99 00 U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond ended a filibuster against a civil rights bill after talking for more than 24 hours (1957)
X** 08 30 99 99 00 75 cents per pound tariff set on opium (1842)
X** 08 30 99 99 00 Japan Stationery Co. sells first felt-tipped pen (1960)
X** 08 30 99 99 00 Union forces were defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run (1862)
X** 08 30 99 99 00 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected (1963)
X** 08 31 99 99 00 Mary Ann Nichols becomes the first victim of Jack the Ripper (1888)
X** 08 31 99 99 00 Non-aggression pact signed by U.S.S.R. & Afghanistan (1926)
X** 08 31 99 99 00 Solidarity Labor Union in Poland is founded. (1980)
X** 08 31 99 99 00 The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became independent within the British Commonwealth (1962)
X** 08 31 99 99 00 The Department of Housing and Urban Development was established. (1965)
X** 08 31 99 99 00 The first recorded major earthquake in U.S. history rocked Charleston, S.C., killing up to 110 people (1886)
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