1773 – 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mountains completed, Schoenbrunn, Ohio
1923 – Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
1944 – Frank McCormick (Reds) HR off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH
1953 – US bomber shot down by Soviet Air Defence Forces in the Sea of Japan, north of Vladivostok
1954 – Publication of “Fellowship of the Ring” 1st volume of “Lord of the Rings” by J. R. R. Tolkien by George Allen and Unwin in London
1955 – Smokey Burgess hits 3 HRs to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5
1965 – Beatles movie “Help” has Royal World Premiere at the London Pavilion Theatre in the West End of London; of Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon attend
1986 – Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed
1992 – American Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.16) at the World Championships in Perth, Australia, breaking his own record set in August 1991
2015 – Over 3,500 immigrants over 2 days attempt to enter the Channel Tunnel at Calais, to cross into Britain
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 28th July 2023
1696 – De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance
1893 – Vizcaya Bridge – largest transporter bridge in the world opens over the River Ibaizabal, designed by Basque architect Alberto de Palacio
1898 – Spanish American War: U.S. Army occupies Ponce and declares victory in Puerto Rico over Spanish forces
1900 – Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
1917 – Silent Parade organised by James Weldon Johnson of 10,000 African-Americans who march on 5th Ave in NYC to protest against lynching
1929 – 23rd Tour de France won by Maurice De Waele of Belgium
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
1959 – United Kingdom starts using postal codes
1977 – Roy Wilkins turns over NAACP leadership to Benjamin Hooks
2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland
Historical Events for 27th July 2023
1214 – Battle of Bouvines: King Philip II of France vs Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV and King John of England; as a result John lost Normandy and his other possessions in France (hence his nickname John “Lackland”)
1586 – Walter Raleigh brings the 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
1655 – Netherlands and Brandenburg sign military treaty
1954 – Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries
1976 – Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested (Lockheed Affair)
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
1993 – Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome, Milan and Vatican City, 5 killed
1997 – “Candide” closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 103 performances
2019 – At least 65 mourners killed in a gun attack at a funeral near Maiduguri, by suspected Boko Haram militants in north-east Nigeria
2021 – American gymnast and four-time Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles withdraws from the women’s team final at the Tokyo Games citing need to focus on her mental health; also misses individual finals
Historical Events for 26th July 2023
1822 – Secret meeting of Simón Bolívar and Jose de San Martin
1897 – 37.5 cm rainfall at Jewell, Maryland (state record)
1944 – Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam
1944 – Soviet troops arrive in Weichsel
1950 – Dodgers’ Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits HRs twice in a game
1957 – USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
1962 – Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher
1963 – Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+
1977 – USSR performs underground nuclear Test
2018 – Sir Paul McCartney performs a “secret” gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles began
Historical Events for 25th July 2023
1901 – Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps during the South African War
1907 – Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan
1942 – German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
1943 – 1st warship named after an African American launched – USS Leonard Roy Harmon, a Buckley class destroyer
1964 – Race riot in Rochester, NY
1966 – Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1970 – Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s song “(They Long to Be) Close to You” as sung by the Carpenters reaches #1
1993 – US Open Women’s Golf, Crooked Stick GC: Lauri Merten fires a final round 68 (−4) to win her lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Donna Andrews and Helen Alfredsson
1997 – Carroll O’Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian
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 2023
1701 – French trade rand soldier Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, later becomes the city of Detroit
1905 – International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: Laurence Doherty and Reggie Doherty beat Holcombe Ward and Beals Wright 8-10, 6-2, 6-2, 4-6, 8-6 to give British Isles an unassailable 3-0 lead over US (ends 5-0)
1927 – The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres
1929 – NY to San Francisco foot race ends (2½ months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde
1946 – 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League) die in a bus crash
1949 – 36th Tour de France won by Fausto Coppi of Italy
1974 – American newscaster Christine Chubbuck is the first person to commit suicide during a live TV broadcast at WXLT-TV
1979 – US President Jimmy Carter names Paul Volcker as Chairman of the Federal Reserve
1994 – Bodo kills 37 Muslims in Bashbari NE India
2013 – 80 people are killed and 140 are injured after a high-speed train derails in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Historical Events for 23rd July 2023
636 – Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire
1558 – Battle of Grevelingen: Lamoraal, Count of Egmont beat France
1902 – Dutch Excelsior soccer club is established in Rotterdam (Eerste Divisie winners 1973-4, 78-79, 2005-06)
1960 – US Open Women’s Golf, Worcester CC: Betsy Rawls wins her 4th Open title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Joyce Ziske
1962 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed
1967 – -27] 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
1974 – Greek military dictatorship collapses
1994 – American dancer, actor, and director Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
2018 – Japan records its highest ever temperature at 41.1 degrees (105.98F) in Kumagaya
2019 – At least 36 people killed by a mud landslide in Shuicheng county, Guizhou province, China
Historical Events for 22nd July 2023
1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair – a 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany’s brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured
1515 – First Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire – rise of the Habsburgs influence
1835 – Smolny Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia is consecrated, originally commissioned by Elizabeth of Russia
1933 – Wiley Post completes the 1st solo flight round the world, takes 7 days and 19 hours
1942 – 4th Soviet army forms with 80 tanks
1954 – WTHI TV channel 10 in Terre Haute, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1984 – 71st Tour de France won by Laurent Fignon of France
2018 – Lone gunman shooting kills 3 including gunman and injures 13 in Toronto, Canada
2019 – US President Donald Trump says US could win war in Afghanistan in a week “I just don’t want to kill 10 million people. If I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth”
2022 – Droupadi Murmu is the first tribal politician to be elected President of India (head of state, without executive powers)
Historical Events for 21st July 2023
1545 – The first landing of French troops onto the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion
1853 – Central Park in New York created when New York State Legislature puts aside more than 750 acres of land on Manhattan Island
1865 – In market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true western showdown
1944 – British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery
1952 – 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed
1954 – Geneva Accords for Indochina signed, dividing French colonial territories into the countries of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the State of Vietnam (South Vietnam), Cambodia, and Laos
1969 – Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
1973 – France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific
1975 – Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
1997 – NY Yank Mike Whiton held in Milwaukee on charges of sexual assault
Historical Events for 20th July 2023
1858 – Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)
1878 – 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii
1944 – US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen
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
2002 – Bartenders doing tricks with fire start a major fire in a night club in Lima, Peru that kills 25 and injures 100
2005 – Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent
2008 – 16th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Candace Parker win
2014 – The Israeli Defence Force enter Shuja’iyya, a populous neighbourhood of Gaza City, as part of their ground offensive focused on destroying tunnels crossing the Israel border
2020 – Announcement that a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) is able to trigger immune response and antibodies