What are some important events in history that happened in July?

Answer 1

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July 12, 2006 Israel invades Lebanon in response to Hezbollah's kidnapping of Israeli soldiers
July 12, 1994 Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for supreme court justice begins
July 12, 1993 7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed
July 12, 1990 Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party
July 12, 1988 U.S.S.R. launches Phobos II for Martian orbit
July 12, 1987 15th du Maurier Golf Classic: Jody Rosenthal
July 12, 1987 1st time in 20 years a delegation from U.S.S.R. lands in Israel
July 12, 1987 50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar
July 12, 1985 Doctors discover a cancerous growth in President Reagan's colon
July 12, 1985 STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown
July 12, 1984 Geraldine Ferraro, New York becomes 1st woman major-party VP candidate
July 12, 1983 Chad government troops reconquer Abeche
July 12, 1982 Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs
July 12, 1979 Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from U.K.
July 12, 1978 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
July 12, 1977 1st free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise
July 12, 1975 Sao Tome e Principe gains independence from Portugal (Natl Day)
July 12, 1974 John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights
July 12, 1971 Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders
July 12, 1970 Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway
July 12, 1968 Couve de Murville forms government in France
July 12, 1968 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
July 12, 1967 23 die in Newark race riot
July 12, 1967 Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested
July 12, 1967 Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship
July 12, 1966 10.51" (26.70 cm) of rainfall, Sandusky Ohio (state record)
July 12, 1966 Race riot in Chicago
July 12, 1966 U.S. Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia and Denver mints
July 12, 1962 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (U.S.S.R.)
July 12, 1960 Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence
July 12, 1960 Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched
July 12, 1960 U.S.S.R.'s Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
July 12, 1960 XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, California (IND) begins broadcasting
July 12, 1958 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
July 12, 1957 1st President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower
July 12, 1957 U.S. Surgeon Gen Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
July 12, 1954 Major League Baseball Players Association founded
July 12, 1954 President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system
July 12, 1952 East German SED decides to form German DR army
July 12, 1950 ILTF re-admit Germany and Japan in Davis Cup, Poland and Hungary withdraws
July 12, 1950 Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death
July 12, 1949 Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die
July 12, 1948 1st jets to fly across Atlantic, 6 RAF de Havilland Vampires
July 12, 1944 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
July 12, 1944 U.S. government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle
July 12, 1943 Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula)
July 12, 1943 National Committee Freies Deutschland forms
July 12, 1943 Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker
July 12, 1943 Russian offensive at Orel
July 12, 1943 Tank battle at Prochorowka - Russians beat Nazis, about 12,000 die
July 12, 1935 Belgium recognizes Soviet Union
July 12, 1934 U.S. Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
July 12, 1933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
July 12, 1928 1st televised tennis match
July 12, 1926 Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu
July 12, 1920 Lithuania and U.S.S.R. sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent rep
July 12, 1918 Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed
July 12, 1912 1st foreign feature film exhibited in U.S. - "Queen Elizabeth" - New York City
July 12, 1909 16th Amendment approved, power to tax incomes
July 12, 1906 Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France
July 12, 1902 Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
July 12, 1898 Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda, Sudan
July 12, 1882 1st ocean pier in U.S. completed, Washington, D.C.
July 12, 1878 Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500
July 12, 1874 Ontario Agricultural College founded
July 12, 1874 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "Gloria Scott"
July 12, 1862 Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
July 12, 1862 Federal troops occupy Helena, Arkansas
July 12, 1850 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States
July 12, 1812 U.S. forces led by Gen Hull invade Canada, War of 1812
July 12, 1801 Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French and Spanish
July 12, 1785 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands
July 12, 1776 Capt Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean
July 12, 1774 Citizens of Carlisle Penn, pass a Declaration of Independence
July 12, 1774 Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan
July 12, 1771 James Cook sails Endeavour back to Downs England
July 12, 1745 Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle
July 12, 1730 Lorenzo Corsini chosen as Pope Clemens XII
July 12, 1704 Stanislaw Leszcynski becomes king of part of Poland
July 12, 1700 Gelderland accepts Gregorian calendar; yesterday is June 30, 1701
July 12, 1691 Antonio Pignatelli elected as Pope Innocentius XII
July 12, 1691 Battle of Aughrim (Aghrim) England, William III beats James II
July 12, 1690 Battle of Boyne-King William III defeats catholic king James II
July 12, 1689 Orangeman's Day-Battle of Boyne, Protestant victory in Ireland
July 12, 1679 Britain's King Charles II ratified Habeas Corpus Act
July 12, 1630 New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, it is later known as Ellis Island
July 12, 1575 Willem van Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon
July 12, 1549 English boer army occupies Norwich
July 12, 1543 England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th and last wife)
July 12, 1542 French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupies Flanders
July 12, 1442 King Alfonso V of Aragon becomes king of Naples
July 12, 1290 Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I
July 12, 1191 Richard Coeur de Lion and Crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine
July 12, 1109 Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli
July 12, 526 St. Felix IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope

Answer 2

1754 - Kings College opened in New York City. It was renamed Columbia College 30 years later.

1846 - US annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.

1862 - The first railroad post office was tested on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad in Missouri.

1865 - Four people were hanged in Washington, DC, after being convicted of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate US President Lincoln.

1885 - G. Moore Peters patented the cartridge-loading machine.

1898 - The United States annexed Hawaii.

1917 - Aleksandr Kerensky formed a provisional government in Russia.

1920 - A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time on a US Navy airplane near Norfolk.

1930 - Construction began on Boulder Dam, later Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River.

1937 - Japanese forces invaded China.

1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the first American saint.

1949 - "Dragnet" was first heard on NBC radio.

1950 - The UN Security Council authorized military aid for South Korea.

1969 - Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure that made the French language equal to English throughout the national government.

1981 - US President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the US Supreme Court.

1983 - Eleven-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov.

1987 - Public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing began.

1998 - A jury in Santa Monica, convicted Mikail Markhasev of murdering Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby's only son, during a roadside robbery.

1999 - In Sierra Leone, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and rebel leader Foday Sankoh signed a pact to end the nation's civil war.

2000 - Cisco Systems Inc. announced that it would buy Netiverse Inc. for $210 million in stock. It was the 13th time Cisco had purchased a company in 2000.

2000 - Amazon.com announced that they had sold almost 400,000 copies of "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire," making it the biggest selling book in e-tailing history.

2003 - In Liberia, a team of U.S. military experts arrived at the U.S. embassy compound to assess whether to deploy troops as part of a peacekeeping force in the country.

2005 - In London, at least 66 people were killed and at least 700 were injured when several bombs were set off in subway cars and double-decker buses.

Answer 3

the 5th of July is known as the "5th of Yuly" by the new black panthers. an extremely racist and anti American black supremist organization
* 1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared. * 1946 - The bikini is introduced in Paris, France. * 1947 - Larry Doby signs a contract with the Cleveland Indians baseball team, becoming the first black player in the American League. (Jackie Robinson had broken the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National League 11 weeks earlier.) * 1948 - British National Health Service Act enacted. * 1950 - Korean War: Task Force Smith - First clash between American and North Korean forces. * 1950 - Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel. * 1951 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor. * 1954 - Elvis Presley has his first commercial recording session. He sang That's All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky. Widely considered to be the birth of Rock and Roll. * 1954 - The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin. * 1954 - Andhra pradesh High Court is established. * 1958 - First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest peak on the earth. * 1962 - Algeria becomes independent from France. * 1970 - Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto International Airport killing 108 people. * 1971 - Right to vote: the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon. * 1973 - Catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters. This explosion has become a classic incident studied in fire department training programs worldwide. * 1975 - Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title. * 1975 - Cape Verde gains its independence from Portugal. * 1977 - Military coup in Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto the very first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan overthrown. * 1982 - NBC's experiment in late-night news programming, NBC News Overnight, debuts. * 1987 - First instance of the LTTE using suicide attacks on Sri Lankan Army. The Black Tigers are born and in the following years continue to use it to deadly effect. * 1989 - Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. * 1994 - The United States announced it would refuse further unrestricted immigration from Haiti. * 1998 - Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation. * 2003 - SARS is declared to be contained by the WHO. * 2004 - First Indonesian presidential election by the nation. * 2006 - North Korea launched at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one long-range Taepodong-2 missile. * 2006 - Emergency United Nations Security Council meeting held at the U.N in New York City because of the North Korean missile tests a day before. Answers.com

Answer 4

Robert Altman was born