This Month In History!

July...
1099: Jerusalem captured in First Crusade.
1533: King Henry VIII of England is excommunicated.
1535: Sir Thomas Moore beheaded for treason on Tower Hill, London.
1588: British general Drake defeats the Spanish Armada off the coast of Plymouth.
1608: Quebec, Canada founded by Samuel Champlain.
1661: The Bank of Stockholm issues Europe's first bank notes.
1694: Parliament creates The Bank of England.
1776: The United States adopt the Declaration of Independence.
1795: The 'Marseillaise' is adopted as the French national anthem.
1798: In the US, the Sedition Act becomes law, making it a federal crime to criticize the US government. Although never tested in court, it is assumed to be unconstitutional.
1824: World's first opinion poll held in the United States.
1837: Queen Victoria becomes the first British monarch to live in Buckingham Palace.
1851: First ever photograph of a total eclipse of the Sun made.
1858: Fingerprints first used as a means of identification, in France.
1862: The United States Medal of Honour is created.
1863: Beginning of the New York draft riots, regarded as the worst in United States history.
1867: Alfred Nobel demonstrates his new invention, dynamite, for the first time.
1881: American outlaw Billy the Kid is shot to death.
1885: First anti rabies vaccine used, developed by Louis Pasteur.
1890: Electric chair used for the first time in the United States.
1895: First motion picture is shown in Paris by the Lumiere brothers.
1900: Paris subway, the Metro, opens.
1903: The first ever 'Tour de France' cycle race ends.
1908: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) formed.
1909: Louis Bleriot becomes the first man to cross the Channel (between England and France) by plane.
1914: The first World War begins when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
1916: American airline manufacturer Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing), opens its doors.
1925: Insulin successfully used for the first time to treat a patient.
1928: First colour TV transmission, made by John Logie Baird.
1935: The first ever 'Penguin' paperback books goes on sale.
1937: Amelia Earhart, the US aviator, disappears somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.
1940: Channel Islands occupied by German forces.
1943: Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, forced to resign.
1945: First atomic bomb test, in New Mexico, USA.
1946: Bikini swimsuit first demonstrated at a Paris fashion show.
1946: The Philippine Islands granted independence by the United States.
1948: Berlin Airlift, supplying Berlin's zones by air.
1953: The Korean war comes to an end, with the signing of the armistice.
1954: K2 summit reached for the first time by an Italian team.
1955: Disneyland opens in Los Angeles, CA.
1957: USA test launch first ICBM.
1959: Savannah, the world’s first nuclear powered merchant ship, is launched.
1962: Telstar, the first private communications satellite, launches.
1969: Apollo 11, the first manned Moon landing, launched.
1975: The US and USSR launch the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project spacecraft.
1979: Debris from the US Skylab space station fall on Australia.
1984: First flight of space shuttle 'Discovery.'
1985: The Live Aid concerts held to raise money for famine victims in Africa.
1990: Boris Yeltsin resigns from the Soviet Communist Party, spelling the end of communism in Russia.
1990: Rock concert in East Berlin, celebrating the removal of the wall, attended by 150,000.
1991: Warsaw Pact officially disbanded.
1995: U.S. establishes diplomatic relations with Vietnam.


Written By: Gamestar
Edited By: Thyross
Coded By: Dr Henry