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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...
DayYearEvent
11898Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.
 19431st withholding tax from paychecks.
 1961Lady Diane Spencer (Princess Di) consort of England, birthday.
 1971Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?).
 1991Michael Landon actor (Bonanza), dies at 54 from cancer.
21955"Lawrence Welk Show" premiers on ABC.
 1956Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" & "Don't Be Cruel".
31958"The Andy Williams Show" premiers on ABC (later on CBS & NBC).
 1971Jim Morrison rocker (Doors), dies of heart failure in Paris.
 1989The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million (10 days).
 1991Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7.45 karat diamond ring.
41776Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain.
51841Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency.
 1946Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show.
61946Sylvester Stallone NYC, birthday, actor/director (Rocky, Rambo, Cobra).
 1958Alaska becomes the 49th state.
71891Travelers cheque patented.
 1930Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam.
 1937Japanese & Chinese troops clash, which will become WW II.
81969US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam.
91956Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand.
 1980Walt Disney's "The Fox & The Hound" released.
1018921st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio).
 1989Mel Blanc voice of cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny), dies at 81.
111798US Marine Corps created by an act of Congress.
1219571st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower.
 1970Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky.
131976Courtmartial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct).
141868Tape measure enclosed in a circular case patented, AJ Fellows, Ct.
 1975EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced.
 1987Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million.
1519291st airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca.
 1968"One Life to Live" premieres on TV.
161969Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on the Moon, launched.
 1981Harry Chapin dies at 39, of a heart attack when his car is rear-ended.
 1999John F. Kennedy Jr. dies at age 38, in small plane crash near Hyannis Port.
171955Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County.
 1967Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act.
1819401st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct.
191969Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit.
201947Carlos Santana birthday, Mexico, musician (Santana-Black Magic Woman).
 19691st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11.
211873Jesse James, 1st train robbery.
 1969Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT).
221934John Dillinger shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago.
 1991Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978.
231925NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers.
241862Martin Van Buren 8th pres, dies in Kinderhook NY.
 1969Apollo 11 returns to Earth.
 1979Archie Duncan actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65.
 1980Peter Sellers dies at 54.
2519441st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262).
261863Sam Houston president of Texas, dies at 70.
 1943Mick Jagger birthday, Rolling Stones, never gathers moss.
271990Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop.
2819331st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC.
 1945US Army bomber crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die.
 1951Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released.
 19771st oil flow through the Alaska pipeline.
291928Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released.
 1981Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diana Spencer.
 1983"Friday Night Videos" premiers on NBC TV.
301863Henry Ford birthday, Dearborn Township, Mich, auto maker (Ford).
 1947Arnold Schwarzenegger birthday, Austria, body builder (Terminator).
 1948Professional wrestling premiers on prime-time network TV (DuMont).
 1956US motto "In God We Trust" authorized.
311875Andrew Johnson 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at 66.
 192218-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn).

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August on this day...
DayYearEvent
11831London Bridge opens.
 1960Chubby Checker releases "The Twist".
 1981MTV premiers at 12:01 AM.
21876Wild Bill Hickok shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's.
 19091st Lincoln head pennies minted.
 1990Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait.
31949Basketball Assoc of America & National Basketball League merge to form the National Basketball Association.
 1966Lenny Bruce comedian, dies of a morphine overdose.
 1977Radio Shack issues a press release introducing the TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered.
 1981Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike.
 1983Carolyn Jones actress (Morticia-Addams Family), dies at 54 of cancer.
41830Plans for the city of Chicago laid out.
 1892Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass.
 1916US agrees to buy Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.
519141st traffic light installed (Euclid Ave. & E. 105th St, Cleveland).
 1924Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts.
 1945Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan).
 1962Marilyn Monroe found dead at 36 of apparent self-inflicted drug overdose.
 1962Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement & illeagally leaving S Africa.
 1964US begins bombing North Vietnam.
 1981Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck 2 days ago.
 1984Richard Burton actor (Cleopatra), dies at 58 of cerebral hemorrhage.
61962Jamaica gains independence from Britain.
71957Oliver Hardy comedian of Laurel & Hardy, dies at 65.
 1983Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T.
81974Pres Richard M Nixon announced he'd resign his office 12PM 08/09.
 1988Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in NYC.
91930Betty Boop debutes in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes.
 1945US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki.
 1969Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders.
 1974Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres.
 19751st NFL game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston beats Saints 13-7.
101945Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged.
 1948Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC.
 1977Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" the 44 caliber killer.
111866World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport, RI).
 19341st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay.
121972Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam.
 1982Henry Fonda actor (On Golden Pond), dies at 77 from heart disease.
1319071st taxicab (NYC).
 1961Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day).
 19771st test glide of the shuttle.
141958Gladys L Presley mom of Elvis, dies at 46.
151935Wiley Post & Will Rogers killed in plane crash in Alaska.
 1939"Wizard of Oz" premiers at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood.
 1969Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm).
161898Roller coaster patented.
 1948Babe Ruth Baseball legend, dies in NY at 53.
 1954Sports Illustrated publishes it's 1st issue.
 1977Elvis Presley dies of heart ailment at Graceland at 42.
 1984LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges.
171962Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr.
181988Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million.
1918881st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins.
201896Dial telephone patented.
 19551st airplane to exceed 1,800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca.
211959Hawaii becomes 50th US state.
221902Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car.
 1911Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre.
231904Automobile tire chain patented.
 1926Rodolpho Alfonzo Rafaello Pietro Filiberto Guglieimi Di Valentina D'Antonguolla (Rudolph Valentino), silent movie idol, dies in NY at 31.
2418531st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY).
 1869Waffle iron invented.
 1989Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life, for gambling.
 1998EG Marshall actor - "The Defenders", "Nixon", "Absolute Power", dies at 88.
251789Mary Ball Washington mother of George, dies.
 1981Mark Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years.
261974Charles Lindbergh dies at 72 in his Hawaiian home.
271990Stevie Ray Vaughan blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35.
281907United Parcel Service (UPS) begins service, in Seattle.
 1963Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial.
 1981National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis & Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men.
291964Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released.
 1966Beatles last public concert, (Candlestick Park, SF).
 1967Final TV episode of "The Fugitive".
 1987Lee Marvin dies in Tucson, Ariz at 63.
301976Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show.
311997Princess Diana killed in car crash in Paris.

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