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A Time Capsule of Significant Events in History for Virtually Everyday of the Year! You will definitely want to share this page with your friends and relatives. Sit back and take a day-by-day journey through history of the events (both inspiring and tragic) that have impacted and shaped our lives. Bookmark This Page!

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July on this day...
Day Year Event
1 1898 Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.
1943 1st withholding tax from paychecks.
1961 Lady Diane Spencer (Princess Di) consort of England, birthday.
  1971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?).
  1991 Michael Landon actor (Bonanza), dies at 54 from cancer.
2 1955 "Lawrence Welk Show" premiers on ABC.
  1956 Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" & "Don't Be Cruel".
3 1958 "The Andy Williams Show" premiers on ABC (later on CBS & NBC).
  1971 Jim Morrison rocker (Doors), dies of heart failure in Paris.
  1989 The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million (10 days).
  1991 Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7.45 karat diamond ring.
4 1776 Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain.
5 1841 Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency.
  1946 Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show.
6 1946 Sylvester Stallone NYC, birthday, actor/director (Rocky, Rambo, Cobra).
  1958 Alaska becomes the 49th state.
7 1891 Travelers cheque patented.
  1930 Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam.
  1937 Japanese & Chinese troops clash, which will become WW II.
8 1969 US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam.
9 1956 Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand.
  1980 Walt Disney's "The Fox & The Hound" released.
10 1892 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio).
  1989 Mel Blanc voice of cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny), dies at 81.
11 1798 US Marine Corps created by an act of Congress.
12 1957 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower.
  1970 Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky.
13 1976 Courtmartial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct).
14 1868 Tape measure enclosed in a circular case patented, AJ Fellows, Ct.
  1975 EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced.
  1987 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million.
15 1929 1st airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca.
  1968 "One Life to Live" premieres on TV.
16 1969 Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on the Moon, launched.
  1981 Harry Chapin dies at 39, of a heart attack when his car is rear-ended.
  1999 John F. Kennedy Jr. dies at age 38, in small plane crash near Hyannis Port.
17 1955 Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County.
  1967 Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act.
18 1940 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct.
19 1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit.
20 1947 Carlos Santana birthday, Mexico, musician (Santana-Black Magic Woman).
  1969 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11.
21 1873 Jesse James, 1st train robbery.
  1969 Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT).
22 1934 John Dillinger shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago.
  1991 Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978.
23 1925 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers.
24 1862 Martin Van Buren 8th pres, dies in Kinderhook NY.
  1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth.
  1979 Archie Duncan actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65.
  1980 Peter Sellers dies at 54.
25 1944 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262).
26 1863 Sam Houston president of Texas, dies at 70.
  1943 Mick Jagger birthday, Rolling Stones, never gathers moss.
27 1990 Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop.
28 1933 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC.
  1945 US Army bomber crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die.
  1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released.
  1977 1st oil flow through the Alaska pipeline.
29 1928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released.
  1981 Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diana Spencer.
  1983 "Friday Night Videos" premiers on NBC TV.
30 1863 Henry Ford birthday, Dearborn Township, Mich, auto maker (Ford).
  1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger birthday, Austria, body builder (Terminator).
  1948 Professional wrestling premiers on prime-time network TV (DuMont).
  1956 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized.
31 1875 Andrew Johnson 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at 66.
  1922 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn).

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August on this day...
Day Year Event
1 1831 London Bridge opens.
  1960 Chubby Checker releases "The Twist".
  1981 MTV premiers at 12:01 AM.
2 1876 Wild Bill Hickok shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's.
  1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted.
  1990 Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait.
3 1949 Basketball Assoc of America & National Basketball League merge to form the National Basketball Association.
  1966 Lenny Bruce comedian, dies of a morphine overdose.
  1977 Radio Shack issues a press release introducing the TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered.
  1981 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike.
  1983 Carolyn Jones actress (Morticia-Addams Family), dies at 54 of cancer.
4 1830 Plans for the city of Chicago laid out.
  1892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass.
  1916 US agrees to buy Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.
5 1914 1st traffic light installed (Euclid Ave. & E. 105th St, Cleveland).
  1924 Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts.
  1945 Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan).
  1962 Marilyn Monroe found dead at 36 of apparent self-inflicted drug overdose.
  1962 Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement & illeagally leaving S Africa.
  1964 US begins bombing North Vietnam.
  1981 Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck 2 days ago.
  1984 Richard Burton actor (Cleopatra), dies at 58 of cerebral hemorrhage.
6 1962 Jamaica gains independence from Britain.
7 1957 Oliver Hardy comedian of Laurel & Hardy, dies at 65.
  1983 Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T.
8 1974 Pres Richard M Nixon announced he'd resign his office 12PM 08/09.
  1988 Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in NYC.
9 1930 Betty Boop debutes in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes.
  1945 US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki.
  1969 Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders.
  1974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres.
  1975 1st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7.
10 1945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged.
  1948 Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC.
  1977 Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" the 44 caliber killer.
11 1866 World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport, RI).
  1934 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay.
12 1972 Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam.
  1982 Henry Fonda actor (On Golden Pond), dies at 77 from heart disease.
13 1907 1st taxicab (NYC).
  1961 Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day).
  1977 1st test glide of the shuttle.
14 1958 Gladys L Presley mom of Elvis, dies at 46.
15 1935 Wiley Post & Will Rogers killed in plane crash in Alaska.
  1939 "Wizard of Oz" premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood.
  1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm).
16 1898 Roller coaster patented.
  1948 Babe Ruth Baseball legend, dies in NY at 53.
  1954 Sports Illustrated publishes it's 1st issue.
  1977 Elvis Presley dies of heart ailment at Graceland at 42.
  1984 LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges.
17 1962 Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr.
18 1988 Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million.
19 1888 1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins.
20 1896 Dial telephone patented.
  1955 1st airplane to exceed 1,800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca.
21 1959 Hawaii becomes 50th US state.
22 1902 Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car.
  1911 Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre.
23 1904 Automobile tire chain patented.
  1926 Rodolpho Alfonzo Rafaello Pietro Filiberto Guglieimi Di Valentina D'Antonguolla (Rudolph Valentino), silent movie idol, dies in NY at 31.
24 1853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY).
  1869 Waffle iron invented.
  1989 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life, for gambling.
  1998 EG Marshall actor - "The Defenders", "Nixon", "Absolute Power", dies at 88.
25 1789 Mary Ball Washington mother of George, dies.
  1981 Mark Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years.
26 1974 Charles Lindbergh dies at 72 in his Hawaiian home.
27 1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35.
28 1907 United Parcel Service (UPS) begins service, in Seattle.
  1963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial.
  1981 National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis & Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men.
29 1964 Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released.
  1966 Beatles last public concert, (Candlestick Park, SF).
  1967 Final TV episode of "The Fugitive".
  1987 Lee Marvin dies in Tucson, Ariz at 63.
30 1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show.
31 1997 Princess Diana killed in car crash in Paris.

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