1790 – Henry James Pye appointed British Poet Laureate by King George III
1911 – 96°F (35.6°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1945 – Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva arrive on the Pacific island of Tinian with the plutonium core used to assemble the Fat Man bomb used in the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9
1974 – 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil)
1977 – Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin Hooks
1978 – At Old Timer’s Game it’s announced Martin will again manage Yankees
1979 – France performs nuclear Test
1979 – Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 HR game
2002 – 89th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)
2012 – Ye Shiwen of China sets world record in the women’s 400m individual medley in 4:28.43
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 27th July 2018
1563 – French army recaptures Le Havre
1789 – US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department
1920 – Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America’s Cup
1944 – US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy
1955 – Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation since WWII
1967 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1968 – Race Riot in Gary Indiana
1991 – TV Guide publishes its 2000th edition
1992 – Nelson Mandela says a general strike will go ahead to protest for the removal of South African President F. W. de Klerk from power and for free elections
1997 – “Candide” closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 103 performances
Historical Events for 26th July 2018
1588 – English Admiral John Hawkins knighted for his actions against the Armada
1803 – The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world’s first public railway, opens in south London
1835 – 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
1947 – 46th Men’s French Championships: Jozsef Asboth beats Eric Sturgess (8-6, 7-5, 6-4)
1963 – US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1987 – 74th Tour de France won by Stephen Roche of Ireland
1991 – Expo’s Mark Gardner no hits Dodgers for 9 innings, but loses in 10th
2013 – 57 people are killed in a market bombing in Parachinar, Pakistan
2017 – Great Britain announces it will ban gasoline and diesel cars by 2040
2017 – US President Donald Trump announces policy to ban transgendered people from the military, overturning Obama era changes
Historical Events for 25th July 2018
1547 – Henry II of France is crowned
1593 – France’s Protestant King Henry IV converts to Roman Catholic faith
1868 – US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah and Idaho)
1938 – Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany
1957 – Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
1958 – The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
1960 – Companie Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
1964 – “Here’s Love” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 338 performances
1965 – Bob Dylan is booed by sections of the crowd at the Newport Folk Festival for performing with an electric guitar, beginning of folk-rock
1993 – Tour de France: Spaniard Miguel Induráin makes it 3 straight Tour titles; Djamolidine Abdoujaparov points winner
Historical Events for 24th July 2018
1534 – Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France
1909 – Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates
1940 – Linthorst Homan, de Quay and Einthoven form Dutch Union
1952 – US President Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1957 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 – Test Cricket debuts against NZ for Dexter, Illingworth and Subba Row
1990 – Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus
1993 – NY Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight
2012 – John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills
2017 – Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner says he did not collude with Russia after meeting with Senate investigators
Historical Events for 23rd July 2018
1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words
1937 – Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
1943 – Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
1965 – The Beatles’ “Help” is released in UK
1967 – First successful liver transplant, on 19 month old Julie Rodriguez by Dr Starzl at the University of Colorado
1975 – LA Dodgers W Crawford and Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1978 – Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 78th pitcher to win 200
1980 – River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
1989 – Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith, Arkansas
1994 – Dancer Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
Historical Events for 22nd July 2018
1912 – 5th Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden closes
1942 – 4th Soviet army forms with 80 tanks
1943 – US forces led by General George Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily
1961 – WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1972 – 59th Tour de France won by Eddy Merckx of Belgium
1973 – US Open Women’s Golf, CC of Rochester: Susie Maxwell Berning wins by 5 from Gloria Ehret and Shelley Hamlin for her third national title
1987 – Said Aouita of Morocco sets 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome
1990 – 119th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St Andrews Scotland
2004 – 37th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
2014 – News broadcaster Al Jazeera claim that its office in Gaza is under attack by the Israeli Defence Force
Historical Events for 21st July 2018
905 – Holy Roman Catholic emperor Louis III captured
1730 – States of Holland put death penalty on “sodomy”
1941 – Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp
1957 – Marilynn Smith/Fay Crocker wins Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1961 – Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom
1964 – Last Dutch whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan
1974 – US Open Women’s Golf, La Grange CC: Sandra Haynie wins by 1 shot from Beth Stone and Carol Mann
1983 – Polish government ends 19 months of martial law
1989 – Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors
1996 – 125th British Golf Open: Tom Lehman shoots a 271 at Royal Lytham
Historical Events for 20th July 2018
1876 – 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins
1878 – 2nd Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Frank Hadow beats S Gore (7-5- 6-1 9-7)
1910 – Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption
1922 – French and British Togoland made seperate mandates within League of Nations
1942 – Legion of Merit Medal authorized by US congress
1944 – Canadian Cameron Highlanders conquer St Andre
1958 – King Hussein of Jordan breaks off diplomatic relations with UAR
1975 – India expels three reporters from “The Times”, “The Daily Telegraph”, and “Newsweek” because they refuse to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship
1982 – Hyde Park and Regent’s Park bombings: 11 British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in London
1985 – Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
Historical Events for 19th July 2018
64 – Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire
1760 – The formal request to found the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders
1848 – 1st US women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
1923 – WRC-AM in Washington, D.C. begins radio transmissions
1966 – Governor James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
1977 – Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kill 76
1979 – 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 tons of oil spill
1989 – United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112
1990 – Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California
2017 – US Senator John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer