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astrangerhere · 07-12-2011, 11:01 AM

July 11, 1904 - Pablo Neruda is born

TenaciousBadger · 07-12-2011, 11:47 AM

July 12

1843 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, allegedly receives a revelation wherein Jesus Christ proclaims anyone who rejects polygamy will suffer damnation and will not "be permitted to enter into my glory".

1962 – The Rolling Stones perform their first ever concert, at the Marquee Club in London.

1971 – The Australian Aboriginal flag is flown for the first time.

(source: wikipedia)

astrangerhere · 07-13-2011, 07:29 AM

July 12, 1798 - William Wordsworth completes "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey."

TenaciousBadger · 07-13-2011, 03:26 PM

July 13

1793 – Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.

Immortalized in this iconic painting

1814 – The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, is established.

1985 – The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow.

1985 – Vice President George H.W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon. {

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2004 – The Flag of Montenegro is adopted.

100 BC – Julius Caesar, Roman military leader and politician was born on this day (d. 44 BC)

678 – Aisha, wife of the Prophet Muhammad (birth year unknown) died on this day

(source: wikipedia)

TenaciousBadger · 07-14-2011, 01:41 PM

July 14

1789 – French Revolution: citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.

!!!!!!!!!Happy Quatorze de Juillet to all our French members!!!!!!!

2000 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.

2002 – French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.

HomeInMyShoes · 07-15-2011, 09:34 AM

Things for July 15th that I found interesting.

1149 – The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem

1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.

1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.

1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.

1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.

1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation" but in which he never uses the word malaise

2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.

Billi · 07-15-2011, 09:48 AM

1606 - Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was born in Leiden (who happens to be one of my favourite painters)

astrangerhere · 07-15-2011, 12:13 PM

1919 - the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch is born in Dublin

TenaciousBadger · 07-16-2011, 09:03 AM

July 16

622 – The beginning of the Islamic calendar. (The first year was the year during which the emigration of the Islamic prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, known as the Hijra, occurred.)

1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.

1782 – First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail. (The Abduction from the Seraglio)

1910 – John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.

1915 – Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to England during the first World War.

1935 – The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

1951 – The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.

1965 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.

1979 – Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.

1999 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are also killed.

1872 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer bt (d. 1928)

(souce: wikipedia)

TenaciousBadger · 07-17-2011, 06:51 AM

July 17

1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston. It was the first dental school in the U.S.

1918 – On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

1944 – World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France.

1989 – First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.

1998 – A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crime against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.

1947 – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall wbt

(souce: wikipedia)

TenaciousBadger · 07-19-2011, 03:23 AM

July 19

64 – Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned

711 – Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete – Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic, starting the Moors' domination in the peninsula (officially until 1492).

1848 – Women's rights: a two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York; there the "Bloomers" are introduced.

1900 – The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.

1908 – Dutch football club Feyenoord was founded.

1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.

(source: wikipedia)

orlok · 07-19-2011, 05:15 AM

July 19...

1545 - One of Henry VIII's 'great ships', the Mary Rose, sank

1799 - The Rosetta Stone was discovered by one of Napoleon's soldiers

James_Wilde · 07-19-2011, 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orlok

July 19...

1799 - The Rosetta Stone was discovered by one of Napoleon's soldiers

Hold on, someone's already found it on July 15th. Look up the page a bit.

orlok · 07-19-2011, 10:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by James_Wilde

Hold on, someone's already found it on July 15th. Look up the page a bit.

Can't really comment on the previous post - this is where I got it from:

http://blog.oup.com/2010/07/rosetta-stone/

and

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-h...ta-stone-found

I did see another post in a blog that suggested the 15th, so who knows? What's a few days between friends

TenaciousBadger · 07-21-2011, 04:47 AM

July 21

365 – A tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The tsunami was caused by the Crete earthquake estimated to be 8.0 on the Richter Scale. 5,000 people perished in Alexandria, and 45,000 more died outside the city.

1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.

1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.

1969 – Space Race: Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission (July 20th in North America).

1970 – After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.

1983 – The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F). [Howzat for winter Sneaky?

]

2005 – Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London's public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.

(source: wikipedia)

07-13-2011, 03:26 PM	#154
TenaciousBadger Mrawr? Posts: 1,109 Karma: 15039064 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: kindle 3 wifi	July 13 1793 – Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction. Immortalized in this iconic painting 1814 – The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, is established. 1985 – The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow. 1985 – Vice President George H.W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon. {} 2004 – The Flag of Montenegro is adopted. 100 BC – Julius Caesar, Roman military leader and politician was born on this day (d. 44 BC) 678 – Aisha, wife of the Prophet Muhammad (birth year unknown) died on this day (source: wikipedia)

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astrangerhere Professor of Law Posts: 3,755 Karma: 68428716 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Chapel Hill, NC Device: Kobo Elipsa, Kobo Libra H20, Kobo Aura One, KoboMini	July 11, 1904 - Pablo Neruda is born

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TenaciousBadger Mrawr? Posts: 1,109 Karma: 15039064 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: kindle 3 wifi	July 12 1843 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, allegedly receives a revelation wherein Jesus Christ proclaims anyone who rejects polygamy will suffer damnation and will not "be permitted to enter into my glory". 1962 – The Rolling Stones perform their first ever concert, at the Marquee Club in London. 1971 – The Australian Aboriginal flag is flown for the first time. (source: wikipedia)

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astrangerhere Professor of Law Posts: 3,755 Karma: 68428716 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Chapel Hill, NC Device: Kobo Elipsa, Kobo Libra H20, Kobo Aura One, KoboMini	July 12, 1798 - William Wordsworth completes "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey."

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TenaciousBadger Mrawr? Posts: 1,109 Karma: 15039064 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: kindle 3 wifi	July 14 1789 – French Revolution: citizens of Paris storm the Bastille. *!!!!!!!!!Happy Quatorze de Juillet to all our French members!!!!!!!* 2000 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth. 2002 – French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.

07-15-2011, 09:34 AM	#156
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	Things for July 15th that I found interesting. 1149 – The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem 1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon. 1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage. 1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others. 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation" but in which he never uses the word malaise 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.

07-15-2011, 09:48 AM	#157
Billi Wizard Posts: 3,388 Karma: 14190103 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Berlin Device: Cybook, iRex, PB, Onyx	1606 - Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was born in Leiden (who happens to be one of my favourite painters)

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astrangerhere Professor of Law Posts: 3,755 Karma: 68428716 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Chapel Hill, NC Device: Kobo Elipsa, Kobo Libra H20, Kobo Aura One, KoboMini	1919 - the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch is born in Dublin

07-16-2011, 09:03 AM	#159
TenaciousBadger Mrawr? Posts: 1,109 Karma: 15039064 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: kindle 3 wifi	July 16 622 – The beginning of the Islamic calendar. (The first year was the year during which the emigration of the Islamic prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, known as the Hijra, occurred.) 1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. 1782 – First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail. (The Abduction from the Seraglio) 1910 – John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia. 1915 – Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to England during the first World War. 1935 – The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1951 – The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company. 1965 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens. 1979 – Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein. 1999 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are also killed. 1872 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer bt (d. 1928) (souce: wikipedia)

07-17-2011, 06:51 AM	#160
TenaciousBadger Mrawr? Posts: 1,109 Karma: 15039064 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: kindle 3 wifi	July 17 1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston. It was the first dental school in the U.S. 1918 – On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia. 1944 – World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France. 1989 – First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. 1998 – A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crime against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. 1947 – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall wbt (souce: wikipedia)

07-19-2011, 03:23 AM	#161
TenaciousBadger Mrawr? Posts: 1,109 Karma: 15039064 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: kindle 3 wifi	July 19 64 – Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned 711 – Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete – Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic, starting the Moors' domination in the peninsula (officially until 1492). 1848 – Women's rights: a two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York; there the "Bloomers" are introduced. 1900 – The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation. 1908 – Dutch football club Feyenoord was founded. 1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention. (source: wikipedia)

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07-19-2011, 05:15 AM	#162
orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	July 19... 1545 - One of Henry VIII's 'great ships', the Mary Rose, sank 1799 - The Rosetta Stone was discovered by one of Napoleon's soldiers

07-21-2011, 04:47 AM	#165
TenaciousBadger Mrawr? Posts: 1,109 Karma: 15039064 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: kindle 3 wifi	July 21 365 – A tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The tsunami was caused by the Crete earthquake estimated to be 8.0 on the Richter Scale. 5,000 people perished in Alexandria, and 45,000 more died outside the city. 1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown. 1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West. 1969 – Space Race: Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission (July 20th in North America). 1970 – After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed. 1983 – The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F). [Howzat for winter Sneaky? ] 2005 – Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London's public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms. (source: wikipedia)