Seriously thoughtful On this day ...

[TenaciousBadger]

July 24

1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".

1935 – The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (44°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [Judging by pooh's standards this was still balmy weather...]

2005 – Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France. [och the controversy, och the drama...]

2010 – Over 80,000 people from around the world record their daily lives for submission to the YouTube documentary Life In A Day.

[Otherwise, some battles here and there, Mary Queen of Scots being deposed, some ships sinking, treaties and pacts, Charles the Gaulle angering the Canadian government, mudslides in Japan, some Olympic swimming, former Tsars becoming Prime Ministers, the Tamil Tigers making a nuisance of themselves... you know, the usual.
A day in the life ]

Births:

1783 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan military commander (d. 1830)

1897 – Amelia Earhart, American aviator (d. 1937)

.. and many other people

[TenaciousBadger]

July 25

306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.

1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned as king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.

1837 – The first commercial use of an electric telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.

1893 – The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.

1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes.

1920 – Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.

1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.

1978 – Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.

2000 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.

2007 – Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.

[To all this we can add, kings being crowned and arches being built, battles being fought and Spanish cities being founded in the New World, battles were waged, Mussolini was forced to resign, France does a bit of conquering and Napoleonic fighting, the Tamil prisoners being killed by fellow Sinhalese prisoners, other massacres, coup d'etats and bomb attacks taking place, etc]

(source: wikipedia)

[TenaciousBadger]

BIG EDIT: Everything below happened on July 28 not 27. I suffered a serious time warp

July 27 or rather July 28

1794 – Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.

1821 – José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.

1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.

1976 – The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.

1996 – The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.

2001 – Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships.

2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.

2005 – Tornadoes touch down in a residential areas in south Birmingham and Coventry England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.

Births
1866 – Beatrix Potter, English author (d. 1943)

1922 – Jacques Piccard, Belgian-born Swiss undersea explorer (d. 2008)

1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)

(source: Wikipedia)

[orlok]

Originally Posted by TenaciousBadger

2005 – Tornadoes touch down in a residential areas in south Birmingham and Coventry England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.

Remember these well, living just down the road...

Also around that time we had an earthquake, which I felt as I was awake and in front of the PC at about 2am in the morning when it hit.

Both most unusual for the UK, in that they were big enough to notice and do some damage.

[TenaciousBadger]

Hi, my name is TB and I think I got drunk on too much tea and as a result confused July 27 with July 28 .

Mistake amended.... I hope.

I'll stick to coffee from now on.

Yeah, that sounds like a good idea... Ov vey!

[TenaciousBadger]

July 29 (triple checked)

615 – Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at age 12. (great Mayan ruler who reigned for 68 years!!!!!)

1567 – James VI (future James I) is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.

1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

1900 – In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.

1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.

1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.

1976 – In New York City, David Berkowitz (aka the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.

1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).

2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.

Births:

1805 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political scientist (d. 1859)

1883 – Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator (d. 1945)

(source: Wikpedia)

[GeoffC]

August 1st .... Happy Birthday Weather Forecasts ....

On 1 August 1861 the Times newspaper (UK) published the first ever weather forecast.

The forecast was put together by Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who led the meteorological department in the Board of Trade which was later renamed the Met Office.

[astrangerhere]

August 1, 1915 - Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" is first published in the Atlantic Monthly.

[James_Wilde]

Whatever happened to August 6, 1945, Hiroshima day, and August 9, 1945, Nagasaki day?

Or have they appeared on the previous 11 pages?

[Sweetpea]

August 24, 1957: Stephen Fry was born in Hampstead, London.