1656 – Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn declares he is insolvent
1822 – Secret meeting of Simón Bolívar and Jose de San Martin
1847 – The Liberian Declaration of Independence is signed making Liberia a sovereign nation, independent from the American Colonization Society
1866 – Canoe Club opens in England
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)
1928 – Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1945 – Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva depart Kirtland Army Air Field to transport the plutonium core for the Fat Man bomb (bombing of Nagasaki) to the island of Tinian where the bomb is assembled
1952 – Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer
1991 – CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders
2019 – Australian cricket captain Meg Lanning records T20 International world record individual score of 133 off 63 balls in 93-run win against England at Chelmsford; Southern Stars clinch Women’s Ashes
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 25th July 2020
1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the City of Santiago de Cali
1585 – Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics
1795 – The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid
1814 – Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy’s Lane); Americans defeat British
1860 – 1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yale)
1956 – Jordan attacks UN Palestine force
1957 – Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
1985 – Uganda suspends constitution following coup
1992 – Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr Mudd
2018 – Liquid lake found on Mars under its South Pole by European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter reported in “Science”
Historical Events for 24th July 2020
1877 – 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers
1944 – US troops land on Tinian
1950 – V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
1957 – KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 – Test Cricket debuts against NZ for Dexter, Illingworth and Subba Row
1974 – “Death Wish”, based on the novel by Brian Garfield, directed by Michael Winner and starring Charles Bronson is released in the US
1983 – “Mame” opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances
1987 – USSR performs underground nuclear Test
2007 – Libya frees all six of the Medics in the HIV trial in Libya
2011 – Copa América Final, River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires: Diego Forlán scores twice as Uruguay beats Paraguay, 3–0 to earn their 15th title
Historical Events for 23rd July 2020
636 – Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire
1949 – Test Cricket debut of England’s Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days
1956 – Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
1973 – US President Richard Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
1976 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 – Israeli government rejects Sadat’s call for return of 2 Sinai areas
1990 – South Africa workers’ union leader Billy Nair arrested
1994 – Goodwill Games open in St Petersburg
1995 – British Open Men’s Golf, St. Andrews: Controversial American John Daly wins his 2nd major title by 4 strokes in a 4-hole playoff with Costantino Rocca of Italy
2000 – 87th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)
Historical Events for 22nd July 2020
1925 – NY Yankees buy future Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Leo Durocher from Hartford Senators (Eastern League)
1937 – US Senate rejects FDR’s proposal to enlarge Supreme Court
1950 – Frank Worrell completes 261 v England at Trent Bridge
1958 – US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1965 – Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Home as leader of the British Conservative party
1969 – USSR launches Sputnik 50 and Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
1981 – Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome, Italy court to life
1990 – British Open Men’s Golf, St Andrews: Englishman Nick Faldo wins the 2nd of his 3 Open Championships by 5 strokes from runners-up Mark McNulty and Payne Stewart
1994 – 23rd and last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (since July 16th)
2014 – News broadcaster Al Jazeera claim that its office in Gaza is under attack by the Israeli Defence Force
Historical Events for 21st July 2020
285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler
1940 – VARA-management accepts Rost of Tonningens demands
1960 – Country of Katanga forms in Africa
1961 – Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom
1974 – US House Judiciary approves two Articles of Impeachment against President Richard Nixon
1978 – “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” film, based on the Beatles’ album of the same name, premieres in NYC
1996 – “The Daily Show” hosted by Craig Kilborn premieres on Comedy Central in the US
2002 – British Open Men’s Golf, Muirfield: Ernie Els of South Africa wins first of 2 Open titles in a playoff from Australians Stuart Appleby and Steve Elkington, and Frenchman Thomas Levet
2019 – Puerto Rico’s governor Ricardo Rosselló says he won’t seek re-election after widespread protests over misogynistic and homophobic comments in his leaked online chats
2019 – Marvel announces 10 new superhero films at Comic Con including Blade with Mahershala Ali, Natalie Portman as a female Thor and first Asian American super hero film Shang-Chi
Historical Events for 20th July 2020
1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle – King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold of the war
1749 – Earl of Chesterfield says “Idleness is only refuge of weak minds”
1907 – A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more
1944 – General Eisenhower visits Montgomery’s headquarter in Normandy
1961 – French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte
1968 – Iron Butterfly’s “In-a-gadda-da-vida” becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117
1989 – 93°F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona
1998 – Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and other aid groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban
2001 – “Spirited Away ” written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki is released in Japan (Academy Award Best Animated Feature 2003)
2015 – British Open Men’s Golf, St. Andrews: American Zach Johnson wins in a 4-hole play-off with Australian Marc Leishman and Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa
Historical Events for 19th July 2020
1551 – Treaty of Karlsburg: arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as King of Hungary/Transsylvania
1909 – Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball completes the first modern MLB unassisted triple play in the Indians’ 6-1 win over the Boston Red Sox
1944 – Danish resistance fails in assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen
1971 – Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees
1975 – Apollo and Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
1990 – Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California
1991 – Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington)
1992 – “Price” closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 47 performances
2001 – 34th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
2013 – 20 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Diyala, Iraq
Historical Events for 18th July 2020
1323 – Pope John XXII proclaims theologian Thomas Aquinas a saint in Avignon
1896 – Indian born K S Ranjitsinhji completes an unbeaten 154 on Test cricket debut for England in 2nd Test against Australia at Old Trafford
1921 – Babe Ruth achieves 139 home runs and becomes the all-time home run leader in Major League Baseball, taking the title from Roger Connor
1930 – SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland
1944 – British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range, Normandy
1947 – King George VI signs Indian Independence Act
1960 – Premier Kishi of Japan resigns
1975 – Jury can’t decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play)
1980 – Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn’t include women
2012 – Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People’s Army
Historical Events for 17th July 2020
1712 – Great Britain, Portugal and France sign ceasefire [or 19th]
1791 – Members of the French National Guard under command of General Lafayette open fire on crowd of radical Jacobins at Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing up to 50 people
1864 – CSA President Davis replaces General Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
1922 – Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
1936 – Spanish generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola lead a right-wing uprising, starting the Spanish Civil War
1980 – Bolivian military coup; General Garcia Meza becomes president
1981 – Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut
1993 – Graeme Obree breaks the world hour cycling record, riding 51.596km on Old Faithful at the Hamar velodrome in Norway
2004 – Former South African President Nelson Mandela calls for commitment by the world to take action against AIDS
2007 – TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. Brazil’s deadliest aviation accident to date with estimated 199 deaths.