July 27th
 

1844 ~ Death of John Dalton, English Chemist.

1882 ~ Birthday of Geoffrey de Havilland, British Aircraft Designer.

1904 ~ Birthday of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1921 ~ Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announced the discovery of the hormone insulin.

1946 ~ Death of Gertrude Stein, American Writer & Cult Figure.

1949 ~ Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.

1953 ~ The Korean War ended. The United States, People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea signed an armistice agreement.

1974 ~ The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Nixon: Obstruction of Justice.

1990 ~ Belarus declared independence from the Soviet Union.

2003 ~ Death of Bob Hope, English-born Entertainer.

July 28th
 

1540 ~ Thomas Cromwell was executed on order of Henry VIII on charges of treason. Henry married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.

1741 ~ Death of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Composer.

1750 ~ Death of Johann Sebastian Bach, German Composer.

1794 ~ Maximilien Robespierre was guillotined in front of a cheering crowd.

1866 ~ Birthday of Beatrix Potter, English Author. (The Tale of Peter Rabbit)

1904 ~ Birthday of Pavel Cherenkov, Russian Physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1945 ~ A US Army bomber accidentally crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26.

1973 ~ Watkins Glen, NY concert attended by 600,000 to see The Band, The Allman Brothers Band, and the Grateful Dead.

1996 ~ The remains of a prehistoric man, Kennewick Man, was discovered near Kennewick, Washington.

2004 ~ Death of Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS, Nobel Prize laureate.

On July 28, 1755, the British announced that my ancestors, the Acadians, were to be deported from Nova Scotia. Maudits Anglais... ;)

Vive l'Acadie! J'sont r'venus!

July 29th
 

1588 ~ The Spanish Armada was defeated by the English navy off the coast of Gravelines, France.

1856 ~ Death of Robert Schumann, Composer.

1890 ~ Death of Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter.

1905 ~ Birthday of Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General.

1907 ~ Sir Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts movement with the first scout camp at Brownsea Island.

1958 ~ The U.S. Congress created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

1974 ~ Death of Mama Cass Elliot, Musician.

1975 ~ Death of James Blish, Science Fiction Writer.

1993 ~ The Israeli Supreme Court acquitted accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges.

1996 ~ The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act was struck down as too broad in U.S. federal court.

July 30th
 

1718 ~ Birthday of William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania.

1729 ~ Baltimore, Maryland was founded.

1818 ~ Birthday of Birthday of Emily Brontë, English Novelist.

1898 ~ Birthday of Henry Moore, Sculptor.

1930 ~ In Montevideo, Uruguay won the first Football World Cup.

1941 ~ Birthday of Paul Anka, Singer and Composer.

1966 ~ At Wembley Stadium, host England won the first televised Football World Cup, beating Germany 4 to 2.

1974 ~ Cyprus Crisis: Greek, Turkish and U.K. foreign ministers signed a peace agreement for Cyprus.

1974 ~ Watergate Scandal: US President Richard Nixon released subpoenaed tape recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court.

2003 ~ The last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle manufactured in Mexico.

July 31st
 

1099 ~ Death of El Cid , Spanish warrior.

1498 ~ Discovery of Trinidad by Christopher Columbus.

1556 ~ Death of Ignatius Loyola, Spanish priest, founder of the Jesuits.

1856 ~ Christchurch, New Zealand chartered as a city.

1886 ~ Death of Franz Liszt, Hungarian Composer.

1912 ~ Birthday of Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in economics.

1917 ~ The Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) started in Flanders. With casualties from both sides exceeding 550,000, the name Passcheddaele has come to be used as a synonym for pointless slaughter.

"...I died in Hell
(they called it Passchendaele) my wound was slight
and I was hobbling back; and then a shell
burst slick upon the duckboards; so I fell
into the bottomless mud, and lost the light"

Siegfried Sassoon


1941 ~ Hermann Göring ordered SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."

1964 ~ Ranger program: Ranger 7 sent back the first close-up photographs of the moon.

1999 ~ NASA intentionally crashed the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.

August 1st
 

10 B.C. ~ Birthday of Claudius, Roman Emperor.

1774 ~ The element oxygen was discovered by Joseph Priestley.

1779 ~ Birthday of Birthday of Francis Scott Key, Composer of The Star-Spangled Banner

1819 ~ Birthday of Herman Melville, Writer.

1834 ~ Slavery was abolished in the British Empire.

1894 ~ The First Sino-Japanese War began between Japan and China over Korea.

1932 ~ Birthday of Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League.

1944 ~ Anne Frank made the last entry in her diary.

1957 ~ The United States and Canada formed the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).

1977 ~ Death of Gary Powers, American Spy Plane Pilot.

August 2nd
 

216 B.C. ~ In the Battle of Cannae , Hannibal destroyed the Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Publius Terentius Varro in a masterpiece of tactical warfare.

1776 ~ Delegates to the Continental Congress began to sign the Declaration of Independence.

1876 ~ Death of James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, Gunfighter.

1921 ~ Death of Enrico Caruso, Italian Tenor.

1922 ~ Death of Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor.

1932 ~ Birthday of Peter O'Toole, Actor. (Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter).

1934 ~ Adolf Hitler became Führer of Germany.

1943 ~ PT-109 , commanded by Lieutenant John F. Kennedy rammed and sunk.

1976 ~ Death of Fritz Lang, Film Director.( Metropolis, M, Frau im Mond)

1990 ~ Iraq invaded Kuwait, leading to the Gulf War.

August 3rd

1492 ~ Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

1900 ~ Birthday of John T. Scopes, defendant in the Monkey Trial .

1904 ~ Birthday of Clifford D. Simak, Science Fiction Author.

1914 ~ First World War: Germany declared war against France.

1924 ~ Death of Joseph Conrad, Polish-born Writer. (Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim)

1924 ~ Birthday of Leon Uris, American Writer. (Exodus, QB VII)

1958 ~ Nuclear submarine USS Nautilus traveled beneath the Arctic ice cap.

1972 ~ U.S. Senate ratified the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

1977 ~ Death of Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus.

1983 ~ New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield accidentally killed a seagull during a baseball game and was charged by police for his "act of cruelty to animals".

August 4th
 

1704 ~ An Anglo-Dutch force seized the rock of Gibraltar.

1753 ~ A young Virginia planter named George Washington became a Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the secret fraternity of Freemasonry .

1789 ~ The feudal system was abolished in France.

1792 ~ Birthday of Percy Shelley, Poet.

1840 ~ Birthday of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Sexologist.

1875 ~ Death of Hans Christian Andersen, Writer.

1901 ~ Birthday of Louis Armstrong, Jazz Musician.

1902 ~ The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opened.

1944 ~ Anne Frank & her family betrayed to the Gestapo.

1984 ~ The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso .

also the birthday of the us coast guard. started in 1790, the coast guard is one of the oldest organizations of the federal government and was the nation's only armed force on the sea until the navy department was established in 1798.

(hope you don't mind, jseal, that i occasionally add a tidbit to this thread)

wyndhy,

Not at all. Doing so makes for a more interesting thread. :thumb:

cool. :)

August 5th
 

1305 ~ William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance to England, was captured near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.

1583 ~ Sir Humphrey Gilbert established the first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland.

1884 ~ The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid.

1895 ~ Death of Friedrich Engels, Socialist Philosopher.

1930 ~ Birthday of Neil Armstrong, Astronaut.

1962 ~ Death of Marilyn Monroe, Actress.

1963 ~ The U.S., U.K., and U.S.S.R. signed a nuclear test ban treaty.

1981 ~ Ronald Reagan fired striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order to return to work.

1984 ~ Death of Sir Richard Burton, Actor.

2000 ~ Death of Sir Alec Guinness, Actor.

August 6th
 

1637 ~ Death of Ben Jonson, English Writer.

1809 ~ Birthday of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet.

1881 ~ Birthday of Alexander Fleming, scientist.

1911 ~ Birthday of Lucille Ball, Actress, Comedienne.

1943 ~ Birthday of Jon Postel, creator of DNS.

1945 ~ World War II: A nuclear bomb codenamed Little Boy was dropped on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:15 a.m., killing 80,000.

1962 ~ Jamaica became independent.

1990 ~ Gulf War: The UN Security Council ordered a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

1991 ~ Tim Berners-Lee released his idea for the "World Wide Web".

1991 ~ Death of Harry Reasoner, Reporter