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
Parents' Day - 4th Sunday in July (2017) - 7/23
July 24, 2017
Machu Picchu is rediscovered by Hiriam Bingham (1911) - 7/24
Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate in favor of her son who became James VI of Scotland (1567) - 7/24
SS Eastland rolls over in the Chicago River while still tied to the dock with the capsize resulting in a loss of 845 lives (1915) - July 24
US F-4C Phantom on temporary assignment in Vietnam became the first American aircraft to be downed by an enemy SAM (1965) - July 24
Apollo 11 safely splashes down in the Pacific Ocean (1969) - July 24
Brigham Young and 148 Mormon Pioneers arrive in Salt Lake Valley, UT (1847) - July 24
The Dust Bowl reaches peak temperatures (109F in Chicago and 104F in Milwaukee-1935) - July 24
El Capitan, a Yosemite Valley cliff, experiences its first BASE jump by two men who both experienced broken bones (1966) - July 24
George Brett, in a Royals against the Yankees Major League Baseball game, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident" (1983) - 7/24
The Menin Gate (a war Memorial for missing soldiers of WWI erected in Flanders Belgium) is unveiled (1927) - 7/24
Peter Sellers (British actor) suffers a massive heart attack in his London Dorchester Hotel room and dies at age 54 (1980) - July 24
Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha, former Tsar of Bulgaria, takes an oath of office as Prime Minister of Bulgaria (2001) - July 24
Simon Bolivar Day in Ecuador (marking Bolivar's birth in 1783) - July 24
Tennessee is the first state to be readmitted into the Union after it seceded during the civil war (1866) - July 24
German V2 rocket makes its first launch from Kennedy Space Center (1950) - July 24
Coffee Day - July 24
Tequila Day - July 24
July 25, 2017
SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm and after 11 hours it finally sinks 46 of its passengers died (1956) - July 25
Air France Flight 4590 (a Concorde flight from CDG International airport) crashed in Gonesse France shortly after takeoff (2000) - July 25
Operation Crossroads Baker nuclear underwater test (1946) - July 25
Alfred Drake (American actor and singer) dies of heart failure after a long fight with cancer at age 77 in New York City (1992) - July 25
Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel (consort to Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, son of George III) is born (1797) - July 25
Engelbert Dollfuss (Chancellor of of Austria) is shot to death by eight Austrian Nazis (1934) - July 25
Henry II of France has his coronation at Reims (1547) - July 25
James I of England (James VI of Scotland, first Scottish King to also rule England) is crowned at Westminster Abbey (1603) - 7/25
Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (consort to Duke of Connaught, 7th son of Queen Victoria) is born (1860) - July 25
Randy Pausch (Carnegie Mellon professor best known for his upbeat lecture "The Last lecture: Really Achieving your Childhood Dreams") dies from pancreatic cancer (2008) - 7/25
St. James (James, son of Zebedee) one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and brother of John the Apostle has his feast day - July 25
Vincente Minelli (Academy Award-winning director who was husband to Judy Garland and father of Liza Minelli) dies from emphysema at age 83 (1986) - July 25
Hot Fudge Sundae Day - July 25
Louise Brown (the world's first IVF "test tube baby") is born just before midnight in Manchester England (1978) - July 25
Wikileaks publishes the Afghan War Diary with 91,731 documents covering January 2004 thru December 2009 (2010) - July 25
July 26, 2017
Eva Peron (Argentina's first lady from 1946 until her death) died (1952) - July 26
Skopje Macedonia earthquake kills 1100 people (1963) - July 26
USS Indianapolis delivers the atomic warhead for Hiroshima's "Little Boy" bomb to Tinian Island (1945) - 7/26
Apollo 15 (9th manned mission of the NASA program) launches from Kennedy Space Center (1971) - July 26
Liberia claims its independence from the United States (1847) - July 26
Independence Day - Maldives from the UK (1965) - July 26
New York ratifies the Constitution becoming the 11th state to join the union (1788) - 7/26
Sam Houston (19th Century American statesman, politican and soldier) dies in Huntsville, TX at age 70 from pneumonia (1863) - July 26
Potsdam Declaration is released by the US, Britain and China announcing terms for Japan's unconditional surrender for WWII (1945) - July 26
Short Creek Raid occurs as action taken against Mormon Fundamentalists by the Arizona state police and US National Guard (1953) - July 26
STS 114 Mission - Launch of Discovery is NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia disaster in 2003 (2005) - July 26
Surrey Iron Railway (England) opens, making it the first public railway (1803) - July 26
Syncom 2 - world's first geosynchronous satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral FL (1963) - July 26
Truman issues Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military (1948) - 7/26
William Jennings Bryan (Best known as the Scopes Trial prosecuting attorney) dies five days after the trial ends (1925) - July 26
Mumbai India receives over 37" of rain causing the Maharashtra floods in which at least 1000 people died (2005) - July 26
Sam Houston (19th Century American statesman, politican and soldier) dies in Huntsville, TX at age 70 from pneumonia (1863) - July 26
Aloha Airlines begins service out of Honolulu International Airport as Trans-Pacific Airlines (1946) - 7/26
July 27, 2017
Alexandre Dumas, fils (French writer, author and playwright who was the son of Alexandre Dumas, pere) is born (1824) - July 27
Bob Hope (English born American comedian) dies at age 100 in Los Angeles, CA (2003) - July 27
Centennial Olympic Park is bombed during Atlanta Olympics (1996) - July 27
Charlotte Corday (assassin of Jean-Paul Marat) is born (1768) - July 27
De Havilland Comet makes its maiden flight (1949) - 7/27
Pakistan Floods start after monsoon rains (300mm/12" in 36 hours) flood the Indus River leaving 4 million Pakistanis with food shortages and killing over 1,600 (2010) - 7/27
The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC (1995)
Peggy Flemming (American Olympic gold medal figure skater) is born (1948) - July 27
Two Phoenix TV News helicopters collide while covering a police pursuit of a truck - no survivors (2007) - July 27
Titanic - first expedited salvaging of the wreck begins by RMS Titanic, Inc. (1987) - July 27
Saint Pantaleon (Christian physician and healer) is martyred in Nicomedia during the Diocletian persecution (303 AD) - July 27
The Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time (1866) - July 27
July 28, 2017
Antonio Vivaldi (Venetian priest and a Baroque music composer) dies from an internal infection at age 63 (1741) - July 28
Beatrix Potter (English author and illustrator best known for Peter Rabbit) is born (1866) - July 28
Birmingham Tornado touches down in a residential area of England causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 (2005) - July 28
Catherine Howard (age 20) marries Henry VIII (age 50) as his fifth wife (1540) - July 28
City of Miami, FL is founded (1896) - 7/28
Cyrano de Bergerac (French dramatist and duelist best known for works woven around his life story) dies at age 36 from unknown causes (1655) - July 28
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (daughter of Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna) is born (1860) - July 28
The Great Tangshan earthquake in China becomes the largest natural disaster of the 20th century by death toll (1976) - July 28
Peru declares its independence from Spain (1821) - July 28
Johann Sebastian Bach (German composer of the Baroque period) dies at age 65 possibly from a stroke (1750) - 7/28
Quecreek Mine Rescue took place when nine miners are trapped underground for 78 hours (2002) 7/24-28
Thomas Cromwell, first Earl of Essex and Henry VIII's chief minister, is executed for treason (1540) - July 28
B-25D bomber crashes into the Empire State building between 79th and 80th floors 14 people killed (1945) - July 28
Kennewick Man is the name for the skeletal remains of a prehistoric man found near Kennewick, WA (1996) - 7/28
Maximillian Robespierre is guillotined in France (1794) - July 28
System Administrator Appreciation Day - observed on the Last Friday of July (2017) - July 28
July 29, 2017
Charles, Prince of Wales, marries Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral (1981) - July 29
James VI of Scotland (only son of Mary Queen of Scots) is crowned king at only 1 year of age at Stirling Castle (1567) - July 29
Mary Stuart marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley at Holyrood Palace (1565) - 7/29
Arc de Triomphe in Paris is inaugurated (1836) - July 29
Charles X of France (brother of Louis XVI) abdicates in favor of his grandson, the duc de Bordeaux and leaves for England (1830) - 7/29
David Niven (British film actor) dies from ALS at age 73 (1983) - July 29
Discovery of Eris (largest known dwarf planet in our solar system and 9th largest body known to orbit the sun) is announced by astronomers (2005) - July 29
Annibale de Gasparis discovers 15 Eunomia (the largest of the stony S-type asteroids and largest member of the Eunomia family of asteroids-1851) - 7/29
Summer Olympics are held in London after a twelve year hiatus (1948) - July 29
Raymond Massey (Canadian born American actor) dies of pneumonia at age 86 in Los Angeles, CA (1983) - July 29
Tom Snyder (American news anchor) dies of complications from Leukemia at age 71 (2007) - July 29
Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Gaetano Bresci in Monza (1900) - July 29
July 30, 2017
John Brumby becomes the 45th Premier of Victoria Australia (2007) - July 30
Jimmy Hoffa (American Teamsters Union Leader) disappears (1975) - July 30
Second Qana massacre during the 2006 Lebanon War in which 28 civilians were killed (2006) - July 30
All Nippon Airways Flight 58 crashes while enroute from Sapporo to Tokyo - all 162 aboard perish (1971) - July 30
Bacon's Rebellion occurs in the American Virginia Colony when Nathaniel Bacon leads an uprising in protest against Native American raids (1676) - 7/30
Claudette Colbert (French-born American Academy award-winning stage and film actress) dies in Barbados at age 92 (1996) - 7/30
Elvis Presley gives his first paid public concert at the Overland Park Shell in Memphis, TN (1954) - July 30
Emily Bronte (English novelist best known for Wuthering Heights) is born (1818) - July 30
Flowers and Trees (1st Academy Award winning cartoon and 1st cartoon short to use Technicolor) is released (1932) - July 30
Ingmar Bergman (Swedish Film Director) dies peacefully in his sleep at age 89 (2007) - July 30
Lynn Fontanne (British-born American actress of stage and screen) dies at age 95 in Genesee Depot, WI (1983) - 7/30
Maria Theresa of Spain (consort to Louis XIV of France) dies at Versailles, France from a tumor at age 44 (1683) - July 30
Maria Anna Mozart (Older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) is born (1751) - July 30
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) is signed into law by George W. Bush (2002) - July 30
Catherine Palace is presented to Empress Elizabeth of Russia (1756) - July 30
Apollo 15 Lunar Rover landing (1971) - July 30
Thredbo Alpine Village in Australia had two lodges collapse during a landslide (1997) - July 30
Baltimore, MD is founded (1729) - 7/30
Father-In-Law Day - July 30
National Cheesecake Day - July 30
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