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Month In History July 1st to 30th
1 July 1963 Zip Code Introduced in the United States
2 July 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed into law by President Johnson.
3 July 1998 Rolls Royce Sold To Volkswagen
4 July 1776 United States Declaration of Independence Signed
5 July 1946 The Bikini swimsuit ( a daring 2 piece swimming costume for ladies ) was introduced by French designer Louis Reard at a popular swimming pool in Paris.
6 July 1942 Anne Frank and her family take refuge in a secret sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse to escape being sent to Nazi concentration camps
7 July 1930 Construction begins on the Hoover Dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River
8 July 1947 The Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) issue a press release stating that personnel had recovered a crashed "flying disc" from a ranch near Roswell
9 July 1999 Pete Sampras wins in three straight sets beating Andre Agassi for his sixth Men's Wimbledon title in seven years and beating the previous record of Bjorn Borg.
10 July 1985 The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior is sunk when French agents plant a bomb on the hull of the boat
11 July 2008 Oil hits an all time high of $147 a barrel following further missile testing by Iran in the middle east and concerns over oil supplies should tensions increase further between Iran and Israel over Iran's Nuclear program.
12 July 1967 Race Riots began in Newark, New Jersey, after a black cab driver was arrested and beaten by police.
13 July 1977 A lightening strike strikes a substation on the Hudson River, tripping two circuit breakers in Westchester County, then a second lightning strike caused the loss of two 345,000 volt transmission lines causing a 25hrs blackout of the New York City area.
14 July 1966 In one of the worst murder cases to date 8 student nurses are brutally murdered by Richard Speck at their group residence in Chicago, Illinois.
15 July 1976 School Bus Kidnapped Chowchilla, California
16 July 1969 Apollo 11 astronauts were launched into space on a Saturn 5 rocket launched from Cape Kennedy at 9:32 a.m. hoping to be the first men to land on the moon. )
17 July 1954 "Operation Wetback" is launched by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to remove about four million illegal immigrants from the southwestern United States, with a focus on Mexican nationals. The operation began in California and Arizona sweeping northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day.
18 July 1976 The first perfect 10 ever recorded in Olympic gymnastics was achieved up by Romania's 4-foot-11, 88-pound Nadia Comaneci on the women's uneven parallel bars.
19 July 1935 The first parking meter in the U.S. the Park-O-Meter invented by Carlton Magee, was installed in Oklahoma City by the Dual Parking Meter Company.br />
20 July 1969 The Apollo 11 astronauts made history when the first man is landed on the moon by the United States and Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon leaving the first human footprints in its dusty soil.
21 July 2002 Worldcom files for bankruptcy protection
22 July 2009 The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, ( when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun ) lasting up to 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds, occurs off the coast of Southeast Asia.
23 July 1976 First Cases Of Legionnaires Disease
24 July 1969 Apollo 11, the U.S. spacecraft that had taken the first astronauts to the surface of the moon, safely returns to Earth
25 July 1952 Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.
26 July 1956 Suez Crisis Begins
27 July 1974 The House of Representatives charges President Richard M. Nixon with the first of three articles of impeachment for obstruction of justice
28 July 1932 Federal troops under the order of President Hoover forcibly dispersed the "Bonus Army" of ( 17,000 World War I veterans ) who had gathered in Washington, D.C.
29 July 1976 The so called "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag and fires five shots at Donna Lauria and Jody Valenti of the Bronx while they are sitting in a car. Lauria died and Valenti was seriously wounded in the first in a series of shootings by the serial killer, who terrorized New York City over the course of the next year.
30 July 1965 The Social Security Act of 1965 was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson which established the nation's Medicare and Medicaid programs, financed by higher Social Security payroll taxes.
January
January
1937 Federal Old Age Pensions started,
1942 United Nations established,
1929 Influenza Epidemic death toll over 200,000,
1914 Henry Ford introduces $5.00 per day wages,
2007 Apple introduces the Apple iPhone,
1952 "Today" Program Begins on NBC,
1966 Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister of India,
1920 Prohibition takes effect,
2008 Black Monday in worldwide stock markets,
1935 First Canned Beer Sold,
1926 John Logie Baird first public demonstration of a television system, 1951 Nevada Nuclear Test begin In Nevada
1986 The space shuttle Challenger explodes,
1969 The Beatles make their last public performance
February
February
1925 Sears Roebuck opens its first store,
1949 First 45 RPM vinyl record released,
1959 Barbie Doll invented by Ruth Handler,
2004 Facebook is founded by Mark Zuckerberg,
1910 Boy Scouts of America incorporated,
1952 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Queen,
1990 Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years,
1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre,
1879 1st Woolworth 5 Cents store opened,
1991 Gulf War Ends
March
March
1936 Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) is completed,
1965 "The Sound of Music" starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer has its world premiere in New York,
1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States,
1876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention the telephone,
1974 Work on the 800 mile long Alaska Oil pipeline begins,
1931 Nevada Legalizes Gambling,
1995 Sarin gas terrorist attack on the Japanese Subway, 1981 Prince Charles and Diana Wedding,
1963 The Beatles' first album "Please Please Me" is released in England,
1973 Pink Floyd release the album "Dark Side of the Moon,"
1980 Mount St. Helen's Erupts 1961 U.S. President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps
April
April
2005 Pope John Paul II Dies,
2010 Apple Releases iPad,
1968 Martin Luther King Jr. murdered,
1865 Robert E. Lee surrenders,
1954 Bill Haley and the Comets record "Rock Around the Clock,"
1999 Columbine High School Shooting,
2010 Deepwater Horizon explodes in the Gulf of Mexico,
1989 Student Protest Tiananmen Square,
1985 The Coca-Cola Company announced New Coke,
1956 Elvis Presley has his first number one hit with "Heartbreak Hotel,"
1994 Nelson Mandela voted as President of South Africa
May
May
1931 The Empire State Building in New York officially opens,
1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes British Prime Minister,
1937 The German airship Hindenburg (the largest dirigible ever built) burst into flames,
1945 VE Day/Victory In Europe Declared,
1948 The independent state of Israel is proclaimed as British rule in Palestine came to an end,
1954 The United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education,
1977 First of the Star Wars films opens,
1911 The first ever running of the Indianapolis 500
June
June
1938 Superman appears for the first time in D.C. Comics,
1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released by the Beatles,
1989 Tiananmen Square Protests end when Chinese troops kill hundreds,
1944 World War II Operation Overlord/D-Day,
1994 O.J. Simpson police car chase following the murder of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson,
1982 The Falkland Islands War ends,
1975 The summer blockbuster movie "Jaws" is released,
1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the GI Bill,
1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway has its official opening,
1997 First Harry Potter book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" released in the UK
July
July
1776 United States Declaration of Independence signed,
1996 The first cloning of an animal Dolly the Sheep,
1985 The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior is sunk,
2008 Oil hits an all time high of $147 a barrel,
1954 "Operation Wetback" is launched by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service,
1923 Insulin introduced,
1969 Apollo 11 astronauts make history when the first man lands on the moon,
1956 Suez Crisis begins 1971 Voting Age in the United States is lowered to 18
August
August
1990 Iraq Invades Kuwait,
1914 Germany and France declare war,
1989 The US Savings and Loan Crisis,
1974 Richard Nixon announces his resignation,
1945 Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki,
1945 Truman announces Japanese surrender,
1981 IBM releases its first Personal Computer,
1914 Panama Canal opens,
1969 Woodstock Music Festival,
1968 Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia,
2005 Hurricane Katrina strikes New Orleans
September
September
1939 Britain and France declare war on Germany,
1956 Elvis Presley appears on Ed Sullivan's show,
2001 9/11 Attacks on World Trade Center and Pentagon,
1975 Inflation hits 26% in the UK,
1960 Chubby Checker has a number 1 record with The Twist,
1937 J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" published,
1908 First factory-built Ford Model T completed,
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first female U.S. Supreme Court justice in history
October
October
1927 Work begins on Mount Rushmore,
1947 US minimum wage of 40 cents per hour,
1973 Sydney Opera House opens,
1966 Aberfan Disaster,
1929 Wall Street crash (Black Monday)
November
November
1938 Seabiscuit race against War Admiral at Pimlico,
1969 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) established,
1979 U.S. embassy in Tehran 90 hostages taken,
1960 Senator John F. Kennedy wins the election for the president of the United States,
1989 Berlin Wall comes down allowing East and West Berlin to visit,
1926 U.S. Route 66 established,
1990 Sir Tim Berners-Lee formal proposal for the World Wide Web
December
December
1990 Channel Tunnel links UK to Europe,
1984 Bhopal Chemical Accident,
1954 First Burger King is opened in Miami, 1941 US enters World War II,
1939 Gone With The Wind premieres,
1983 Harrods Department Store bombing,
1997 The film "Titanic" opened in American theaters,
2004 A tsunami caused by an earthquake under the Indian Ocean leaves 216,000 dead in 13 countries