Anne Askew (English poet and Protestant persecuted as a heretic and only woman on record to be tortured in the Tower of London-1546) died - July 16
Anne of Cleves (4th wife of Henry VIII of England) dies in Hever Castle at age 41 making her the last of Henry VIII's wives to die (1557) - July 16
Apollo 11 launches, making it the first manned space mission to land on the moon (1969) - July 16
Chuetsu-OKi Japan a 6.6 magnitude offshore earthquake causing 11 deaths and at least 1,000 injuries with 342 buildings destroyed (2007) - July 16
Emily Howard Stowe becomes the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada (1880) - 7/16
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince novel by J.K. Rowling is released (2005) - 7/16
JFK Jr along with his wife Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren die in a plane crash just off the coast of Massachusetts near Martha's Vineyard (1999) - July 16
Joe DiMaggio sets a Major League Baseball record with 56 consecutive games with a hit (1941) - July 16
Joshua Reynolds (English Painter) is born (1723) - July 16
Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son Baudouin, the heir apparent (1951) - 7/16
Manhattan Project tests a Plutonium-based nuclear weapon at the Trinity site in New Mexico (1945) - July 16
Mary Baker Eddy (Founder of Christian Science) is born (1861) - July 16
Mary Todd Lincoln (16th First Lady of the USA as the wife of Abraham Lincoln) dies in the Illinois home of her sister at age 63 (1882) - July 16
Millennium Park in Chicago opens (2004) - July 16
Mont Blanc tunnel linking France and Italy opens (1965) - July 16
Pope Innocent III dies suddenly at Perugia at age 44 (1216) - July 16
Shoemaker Levy comet collides with the planet Jupiter (1994) - July 16
Rafle du Velodrome d'Hiver (A French arrest and imprisonment without provisions in the Vel d'Hiv of around 13,000 Jews) occurs (1942) - July 16
Barbara Stanwyck (Academy Award winning American actress) is born (1907) - July 16
Bess Myerson (1st Jewish woman to win the Miss American Pagent) is born (1924) - July 16
Ginger Rogers (Academy Award winning American actress) is born (1911) - July 16
National Ice Cream Sundae Day - held the 3rd Sunday in July (2017) - July 16
July 17, 2017
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Docking (1975) - July 17
B-2 Spirit stealth bomber's first flight (1989) - July 17
Camilla, Duchess of Corwall (consort to Charles, Prince of Wales) is born (1947) - July 17
Catherine II of Russia takes the throne upon Peter III's (her husband) death (1762) - July 17
Charlotte Corday (a 25-year-old French aristocrat) is executed by guillotine for the murder of the Jacobin revolutionary politician, Jean-Paul Marat (1793) - July 17
John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, dies at the Battle of Costillion (1453) - July 17
Disneyland Park in Anaheim CA opens (1955) - July 17
The Great Train Wreck of 1856 occurs near Fort Washington PA killing 60 and injuring over 100 (1856) - July 17
Cascade Complex Wildland fire in Idaho begins on July 17 and isn't fully contained until Sept. 25 with over 302 thousand acres burned (2007) - 7/17
Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse results in the death of 114 people and injurs over 200 more during a tea dance (1981) - July 17
Little Feller I was the last above ground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site (1962) - July 17
Martyrs of Compiegne (Carmelite Nuns) are beheaded in the last days of the French Revolution (1794) - July 17
Papua New Guinea earthquake and tsunami results in over two thousand deaths (1998) - July 17
Port Chicago Disaster (deadly explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, CA-1944) - July 17
RMS Carpathia (ship that saved 706 Titanic survivors) is sunk by a German torpedo (1918) - July 17
Russian Royal Family, Romanovs, murdered by Bolsheviks 1918 and canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church 1981 - July 17
TAM Airways Flight 3054 crash results in 199 dead making it Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date (2007) - July 17
TWA Flight 800 (enroute to CDG from JFK) explodes in mid-air and crashes in the Atlantic ocean near East Moriches, NY with all 230 onboard killed (1996) - 7/17
The Scillitan Martrys (12 North African Christians) are executed in ancient Carthage for their beliefs (180) - July 17
Jakarta Bombings in Indonesia involve suicide bombers attacking the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels within 5 minutes of each other killing 7 and injuring over 50 (2009) - 7/17
Lituanica Plane Crash occurs after the pilots successfully crossed the Atlantic only to perish near Soldin Germany under mysterious circumstances (1933) - 7/17
July 18, 2017
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf is first published (1925) - July 18
Antoine Watteau (French Painter) dies in France at age 36 from tuberculous laryngitis (1721) - July 18
British European Airways Flight 548 crashes two minutes after takeoff from Heathrow Airport London killing 118 (1972) - July 18
Chappaquiddick Incident occurs when Ted Kennedy accidentally drives his car off a guardless bridge killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne (1969) - July 18
The Florence Cathedral Campenile (Bell Tower) di Giotto is founded by Giotto di Bondone (1334) - July 18
Burmese Martyrs' Day commemorating several of Burma's independence leaders gunned down (1947) - July 19
Holbrook AZ Meteroite Fall of 1912 - July 19
Joe Walker - X-15 Flight 90 - flew to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet-1963) - July 19
Lady Jane Grey is replaced as Queen of England by Mary I after only 9 days (1553) - July 19
Tudor Warship of Henry VIII "Mary Rose" sinks (1545) - 7/19
Stava Tailings Dam Collapse destroys the village and kills 268 in the water's path (1985) - July 19
Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 crashed mid-air with a Cessna (1967) - July 19
Salem Witch Trials - Nine women are found guilty and executed upon William Stoughton's order (1692) - July 19
United Airlines Flight 232 crashed killing 110 of its 285 passengers (1989) - July 19
Frank McCourt (Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes) dies from cancer in a Manhattan hospice (2009) - July 19
Shark Awareness Day - July 19
Baryonyx walkeri (dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous age) skeleton is discovered by amateur fossil hunter William Walker in Surrey England (1983) - July 19
July 20, 2017
King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem (1951) - July 20
Alexander the Great (son of King Philip II) is born in Pella, the capital of the Kingdom of Macedon (356 BC) - July 20
Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives (1921) - July 20
Apollo 11 lands on the moon (1969) - July 20
Carlo Giuliani (Italian demonstrator) is shot and killed by police during the G8 Summit held in Genoa (2001) - July 20
Colombia declares its independence from Spain (1810) - July 20
Ford ships its first car (Model A) in 1903 - July 20
Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings by the IRA injure over 50 people and kill 11 humans and 7 horses total (1982) - July 20
Bogata declares its independence from Spain (1810) - July 20
Johnstown PA Flood took 85 lives and caused over $350 million in damages (1977) - July 20
KLM DC2 crashes in the Alpine San Bernardino Pass near Pian San Giacomo killing all aboard (1934) - July 20
Kurt Sitte, head of the Physics Department at the Israel Institute of Technology, is arrested for espionage (1960) - July 20
London Stock Exchange (Paternoster Square) goes public (2001) - July 20
Minneapolis Teamsters Strike results in police opening fire and killing two teamsters and injuring over 50 (1934) - 7/20
Pere Marquette excursion train of 800 passengers collides with a freight train near Salem killing 31 and injuring 101 (1907) - July 20
Princess Alexandra of Hanover (daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco) is born (1999) - July 20
Edward I of England breaches Stirling Castle, the last rebel stronghold in Scotland (1304) - July 20
Viking I (NASA Orbiter) landsS on Mars (1976) - 7/20
USS George Washington nuclear submarine successfully launches a Polaris A1 Ballistic Missile from underwater (1960) - July 20
A mass shooting occurs inside of a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises (2012) - July 20
Lollipop Day - July 20
July 21, 2017
Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed after 11 years of construction (1970) - July 21
Caroline of Brunswick (Consort to George IV of England) is barred from entering Westminster Abbey during her husband's coronation (1821) - 7/21
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowlings 7th and final book in the Harry Potter series) is published (2007) - 7/21
Ernest Hemingway (American Nobel Laureate) is born (1899) - July 21
Herostratus burned down the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus in his quest for fame (356 BC) - July 21
The James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American West (1873) - July 21
Leopold I of Belgium becomes king (1831) - July 21
London has four attempted bomb Attacks occurring two weeks after the July 7 2005 bombings (2005) - July 21
Robert "Rabbie" Burns (Scottish poet-the Bard of Ayreshire) dies in Dumfries at age 37 probably from a streptococcal infection from a tooth pulled the year before (1796) - 7/21
Fully Restored USS Constitution (originally launched in 1797, and the oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat in the world) sets sail again (1997) - July 21
Vostok Station in Antartica records the world's lowest reliably measured temperature on Earth (89.2C and -129F-1983) - July 21
The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago (1919) - 7/21
Apollo 11 - Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to step on the moon (1969) - 7/21
Wild Bill Hickok shoots Davis Tutt, Jr to death in a "quick draw" duel (1865) - July 21
WorldCom files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection making it the largest such filing in US history until Lehman Brothers filed in 2008 (2002) - July 21
July 22, 2017
Battle of Falkirk (Edward I defeats William Wallace-1298) - July 22
Eastbound Blue Water Bridge (between Port Huron, MI and Point Edward, ON) is opened (1967) - July 22
Carl Sandburg (American Poet) dies (1967) - July 22
Charles VII of France (King during time of Joan of Arc) dies (1461) - July 22
Saint Mary Magdalen Feast Day - July 22
Florenz Ziegfeld (American Theatrical Producer) dies from pleurisy at age 65 in Hollywood, CA (1932) - July 22
Godfrey of Bouillon elected first Defender of the Holy Sepulcher of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099) - 7/22
Jean Charles de Menezes mistakenly shot by British police as a suspected terrorist (2005) - July 22
John Dillinger (American gangster and public enemy #1) was shot and killed by the FBI (1934) - July 22
King David Hotel (Headquarters of the British Mandatory authorities of Palestine) is bombed (1946) - 7/22
Mariner I (NASA Venus flyby spacecraft) is destroyed a few seconds after launch (1962) - 7/22
Napoleon II of France (son of Napoleon I and Marie Louise of Austria) dies (1832) - July 22
Cleveland Day - Cleveland OH is founded (1796) - 7/22
Prince George of Cambridge, the oldest child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, is born (2013) - July 22
Sadam Hussein's sons Uday, Qusay and Mustapha along with a bodyguard are killed when US Forces attack their hideout (2003) - July 22
July 23, 2017
Ulysses S. Grant (18th President of the United States) died (1885) - July 23
Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew wed at Westminster Abbey (1983) - July 23
12th Street Riots (One of the worst riots in US History with 43 killed, 343 injured and 1400 buildings burned) occurs in Detroit, MI (1967) - July 23
Air Canada Flight 143 ran completely out of fuel at 41,000 feet, but the crew made a successful glide into Gimli Industrial Park Airport (1983) - July 23
Andrew Philip Cunanan (American spree killer who murdered 5 people including Gianni Versace) commits suicide to avoid capture by FBI (1997) - July 23
El Al experiences its first and only hijacking (Boeing 707 10 crew and 48 passengers taken over by PFLP-1968) - July 23
Landsat I (the first Earth-resources satellite) is launched (1972) - July 23
Mohammed VI becomes King of Morocco (1999) - July 23
Vanessa Williams resigns as Miss America 1984 (1984) - July 23
Raymond Chandler (American crime story author) is born (1888) - July 23
Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered (1995) - July 23
Sharm el-Sheikh Resort is bombed (2005) - July 23
Parents' Day - 4th Sunday in July (2017) - 7/23
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