This Day in History

Gravdigr · 07-25-2016, 01:32 PM

July 25

315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.

1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned 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.

1609 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.

1722 – Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.

1755 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick.

1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.

1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).

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

1861 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.

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

1898 – The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.

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

1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.

1946 – Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.

1946 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.

1956 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.

1959 – SR.N1, a hovercraft, crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over two hours.

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

1969 - Neil Young appeared with Crosby, Stills and Nash for the first time, at The Fillmore East, in New York. Young was initially asked to help out with live material only, but ended up joining the group on and off for the next 30 years.

1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.

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

1980 - AC/DC released their sixth (Wikipedia says seventh) studio album Back In Black, the first AC/DC album recorded without former lead singer Bon Scott who died on 19 February 1980 at the age of 33. The album has sold an estimated 49 million copies worldwide to date, making it the second highest-selling album of all time, and the best-selling hard rock or heavy metal album.

2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 passengers.

2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.

Births

1750 – Henry Knox; 1844 – Thomas Eakins

; 1875 – Jim Corbett; 1894 – Walter Brennan; 1908 – Jack Gilford; 1914 – Woody Strode; 1915 – Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.; 1923 – Estelle Getty; 1941 – Manny Charlton

; 1941 – Nate Thurmond; 1948 – Steve Goodman

; 1951 – Verdine White

; 1954 – Walter Payton; 1965 – Illeana Douglas; 1967 – Matt LeBlanc; 1976 – Tera Patrick (porn actress); 1982 – Brad Renfro; 1985 – Nelson Piquet Jr.

Deaths

1834 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge; 1934 – François Coty (Coty beauty products); 1982 – Hal Foster (created comic strip Prince Valiant); 1984 – Big Mama Thornton♪ ♫; 1986 – Vincente Minnelli; 1989 – Steve Rubell (co-owner Studio 54); 1995 – Charlie Rich♪ ♫; 1997 – Ben Hogan; 2003 – John Schlesinger (director Midnight Cowboy); 2008 – Randy Pausch

Gravdigr · 07-26-2016, 12:30 PM

July 26

1469 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Edgecote Moor, pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England, takes place.

1775 – The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.

1788 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.

1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends; At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.

1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).

1943 - Basil and Eva Jagger have a son, whom they name Michael, he will go by the name 'Mick'.

1944 – World War II: The Soviet Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.

1945 – The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.

HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War.

The United States Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb (Little Boy).

1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.

1953 – Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement.

1971 – Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle.

1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

1990 – The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.

2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.

2006 - The guitar on which Sir Paul McCartney learned his first chords sold for £330,000 at an auction at London's Abbey Road Studios. The Rex acoustic guitar helped McCartney persuade John Lennon to let him join his band, The Quarrymen, in 1957.

The final edition of Top Of The Pops was recorded at BBC Television Centre in London. Just under 200 members of the public were in the audience for the show which was co-hosted by veteran disc jockey Sir Jimmy Savile, its very first presenter. Classic performances from the Spice Girls, Wham, Madonna, Beyonce Knowles and Robbie Williams featured in the show alongside The Rolling Stones who were the very first band to appear on Top of the Pops on New Year's Day in 1964.

Births

1739 – George Clinton (no, not that one, this one was the 4th VPOTUS); 1856 – George Bernard Shaw; 1875 – Carl Jung; 1894 – Aldous Huxley; 1895 – Gracie Allen; 1903 – Estes Kefauver; 1904 – Edwin Albert Link (invented the flight simulator); 1909 – Vivian Vance ('Ethyl Mertz' on I love Lucy); 1921 – Jean Shepherd (narrated & wrote script for A Christmas Story); 1922 – Blake Edwards; 1922 – Jason Robards; 1923 – Jan Berenstain (create Berenstain Bears); 1923 – Biff Elliot (first actor to portray 'Mike Hammer', in I, The Jury); 1926 – James Best ('Roscoe P. Coltrane'); 1928 – Stanley Kubrick; 1929 – Joe Jackson (Jackson Family patriarch, not the New Wave dweeb); 1940 – Dobie Gray♪ ♫; 1941 – Darlene Love♪ ♫; 1943 – Peter Hyams; 1943 – Mick Jagger♪ ♫; 1945 – Helen Mirren; 1949 – Roger Taylor

; 1956 – Dorothy Hamill; 1957 – Nana Visitor; 1959 – Kevin Spacey; 1961 – Gary Cherone♪ ♫; 1964 – Sandra Bullock; 1965 – Jeremy Piven; 1967 – Jason Statham; 1973 – Kate Beckinsale; 1973 – Chris Pirillo (computer nerd); 1993 – Taylor Momsen

Deaths

1533 – Atahualpa; 1863 – Sam Houston; 1925 – William Jennings Bryan; 1932 – Fred Duesenberg; 1952 – Eva Perón; 1971 – Diane Arbus; 1984 – Ed Gein; 1992 – Mary Wells♪ ♫; 1995 – George W. Romney (Mitt's father); 2004 – William A. Mitchell (created Pop Rocks and Cool Whip); 2013 – JJ Cale♪ ♫

, George P. Mitchell (hydraulic fracturing pioneer); 2015 – Vic Firth

, Ann Rule

07-25-2016, 01:32 PM	#1
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	July 25 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. 1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned 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. 1609 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there. 1722 – Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border. 1755 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick. 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement. 1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain). 1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on July 25, 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London. 1861 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery. 1893 – The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time. 1898 – The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico. 1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes. 1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front. 1946 – Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll. 1946 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team. 1956 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51. 1959 – SR.N1, a hovercraft, crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over two hours. 1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music. 1969 - Neil Young appeared with Crosby, Stills and Nash for the first time, at The Fillmore East, in New York. Young was initially asked to help out with live material only, but ended up joining the group on and off for the next 30 years. 1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo. 1978 – Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born. 1980 - AC/DC released their sixth (Wikipedia says seventh) studio album Back In Black, the first AC/DC album recorded without former lead singer Bon Scott who died on 19 February 1980 at the age of 33. The album has sold an estimated 49 million copies worldwide to date, making it the second highest-selling album of all time, and the best-selling hard rock or heavy metal album. 2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 passengers. 2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. Births 1750 – Henry Knox; 1844 – Thomas Eakins; 1875 – Jim Corbett; 1894 – Walter Brennan; 1908 – Jack Gilford; 1914 – Woody Strode; 1915 – Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.; 1923 – Estelle Getty; 1941 – Manny Charlton; 1941 – Nate Thurmond; 1948 – Steve Goodman; 1951 – Verdine White; 1954 – Walter Payton; 1965 – Illeana Douglas; 1967 – Matt LeBlanc; 1976 – Tera Patrick (porn actress); 1982 – Brad Renfro; 1985 – Nelson Piquet Jr. Deaths 1834 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge; 1934 – François Coty (Coty beauty products); 1982 – Hal Foster (created comic strip Prince Valiant); 1984 – Big Mama Thornton♪ ♫; 1986 – Vincente Minnelli; 1989 – Steve Rubell (co-owner Studio 54); 1995 – Charlie Rich♪ ♫; 1997 – Ben Hogan; 2003 – John Schlesinger (director Midnight Cowboy); 2008 – Randy Pausch __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

07-26-2016, 12:30 PM	#2
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	July 26 1469 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Edgecote Moor, pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England, takes place. 1775 – The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. 1788 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States. 1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends; At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces. 1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation). 1943 - Basil and Eva Jagger have a son, whom they name Michael, he will go by the name 'Mick'. 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, capturing it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation. 1945 – The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power. HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War. The United States Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb (Little Boy). 1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council. 1953 – Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement. 1971 – Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle. 1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. 1990 – The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush. 2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003. 2006 - The guitar on which Sir Paul McCartney learned his first chords sold for £330,000 at an auction at London's Abbey Road Studios. The Rex acoustic guitar helped McCartney persuade John Lennon to let him join his band, The Quarrymen, in 1957. The final edition of Top Of The Pops was recorded at BBC Television Centre in London. Just under 200 members of the public were in the audience for the show which was co-hosted by veteran disc jockey Sir Jimmy Savile, its very first presenter. Classic performances from the Spice Girls, Wham, Madonna, Beyonce Knowles and Robbie Williams featured in the show alongside The Rolling Stones who were the very first band to appear on Top of the Pops on New Year's Day in 1964. Births 1739 – George Clinton (no, not that one, this one was the 4th VPOTUS); 1856 – George Bernard Shaw; 1875 – Carl Jung; 1894 – Aldous Huxley; 1895 – Gracie Allen; 1903 – Estes Kefauver; 1904 – Edwin Albert Link (invented the flight simulator); 1909 – Vivian Vance ('Ethyl Mertz' on I love Lucy); 1921 – Jean Shepherd (narrated & wrote script for A Christmas Story); 1922 – Blake Edwards; 1922 – Jason Robards; 1923 – Jan Berenstain (create Berenstain Bears); 1923 – Biff Elliot (first actor to portray 'Mike Hammer', in I, The Jury); 1926 – James Best ('Roscoe P. Coltrane'); 1928 – Stanley Kubrick; 1929 – Joe Jackson (Jackson Family patriarch, not the New Wave dweeb); 1940 – Dobie Gray♪ ♫; 1941 – Darlene Love♪ ♫; 1943 – Peter Hyams; 1943 – Mick Jagger♪ ♫; 1945 – Helen Mirren; 1949 – Roger Taylor; 1956 – Dorothy Hamill; 1957 – Nana Visitor; 1959 – Kevin Spacey; 1961 – Gary Cherone♪ ♫; 1964 – Sandra Bullock; 1965 – Jeremy Piven; 1967 – Jason Statham; 1973 – Kate Beckinsale; 1973 – Chris Pirillo (computer nerd); 1993 – Taylor Momsen Deaths 1533 – Atahualpa; 1863 – Sam Houston; 1925 – William Jennings Bryan; 1932 – Fred Duesenberg; 1952 – Eva Perón; 1971 – Diane Arbus; 1984 – Ed Gein; 1992 – Mary Wells♪ ♫; 1995 – George W. Romney (Mitt's father); 2004 – William A. Mitchell (created Pop Rocks and Cool Whip); 2013 – JJ Cale♪ ♫, George P. Mitchell (hydraulic fracturing pioneer); 2015 – Vic Firth, Ann Rule __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

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