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On this date, 7-19-1903, Maurice Garin wins the first ever Tour de France.
The 1903 Tour de France was the first cycling race set up and sponsored by the newspaper L'Auto, ancestor of the current daily, L'Équipe. It ran from 1 to 19 July in six stages over 2,428 km (1,509 mi), and was won by Maurice Garin.[1]
On this date, 7-19-1848, The first women's rights convention, called The Seneca Falls Convention, begins. Famous speakers included Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Amy Post, and Frederick Douglass.
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention.[1] It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman".[2][3] Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 18...
On this date, 7-19-1692, Sarah Good(39), Rebecca Nurse(71), Elizabeth Howe(57), Susannah Martin(71), and Sarah Wildes(65) were all executed for practicing witchcraft.
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than two hundred people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men)...
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July 19 is the 200th day of the year (201st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 165 days remain until the end of the year.
On this date, 7-10-2005, Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, killing over 75 people and causing over $3 billion dollars in damage.
Hurricane Dennis was an early-forming major hurricane in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico during the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Dennis was the fourth named storm, second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the season. Forming in July, the hurricane became the strongest Atlan...
On this date, 7-10-1991, L'Express Airlines Flight 508 crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport(now Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 people on board.
On July 10, 1991, a L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C99, flying as Flight 508 originating in New Orleans, and in transit from Mobile to Birmingham, crashed while attempting to make an ILS approach to Runway 5 (since renumbered to Runway 6) at Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham–Shuttleswort...
On this date, 7-10-1925, Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution.
The Scopes Trial, formally The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it un...
On this date, 7-10-1913, The temperature in Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature ever to be recorded on Earth.
Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California–Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park boundaries include Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern section of Eureka Valley and most of Saline Valley. The park occupies an i...
On this date, 7-10-1890, Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
Wyoming (/waɪˈoʊmɪŋ/ (listen)) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. The 10th largest state by area, it is also the least populous and least densely populated state in the contiguous United States.[a]
Happy Birthday Shout-Outs Go To: George M. Dallas(would have been 230 years old), Camille Pissarro(w.h.b. 192), Adolphus Busch(w.h.b. 183), Nikola Tesla(w.h.b. 166), Mary McLeod Bethune(w.h.b. 147), Ima Hogg(w.h.b. 140), Jack 'Legs' Diamond(w.h.b. 125), John Gilbert(w.h.b. 125), Lili Damita(w.h.b. 118), Blind Boy Fuller(w.h.b. 118), Joe Shuster(w.h.b. 108), Reg Smythe(w.h.b. 105), David Brinkley(w.h.b. 102), Harvey Ball(w.h.b. 101), Jeff Donnell(w.h.b. 101), Eunice Kennedy Shriver(w.h.b. 101), 'The Raging Bull' Jake LaMotta(w.h.b. 100), Bobo Brazil(w.h.b. 98), Fred Gwynne(w.h.b. 96), Don Bolles(w.h.b. 94), Neile Adams(90), Jerry Nelson(w.h.b. 88), Mavis Staples(83), Ronnie James Dio(w.h.b. 80), Sixto Rodriguez(80), Arthur Ashe(w.h.b. 79), Ron Glass(w.h.b. 77), Hal McRae(77), Virginia Wade(77), Arlo Guthrie(75), Phyllis Smith(71), Andre Dawson(68), Neil Tennant(68), Béla Fleck(64), Sandy West(w.h.b. 63), Urban Meyer(58), Gary LeVox(52), Peter Serafinowicz(50), Sofía Vergara(50), Stefán Karl Stefánsson(w.h.b. 47), Adrian Grenier(46), Chiwetel Ejiofor(45), Adam Petty(w.h.b. 42), Claudia Leitte(42), Jessica Simpson(42), Antonio Brown(34), Perrie Edwards(29), Isabela Merced(21),
July 10 is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 174 days remain until the end of the year.
On this date, 7-6-2013, A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was a scheduled transpacific passenger flight originating from Incheon International Airport near Seoul, South Korea. On the morning of July 6, 2013, the Boeing 777-200ER crashed on final approach into San Francisco International Airport in the United States. Of the 307 pe...
On this date, 7-6-1957, Althea Gibson wins Wimbledon, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
Althea Neale Gibson (August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003) was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first African American to win a Grand Slam title (the French Championships...
On this date, 7-6-1944, The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
The Hartford circus fire, which occurred on July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, was one of the worst fire disasters in United States history.[3] The fire occurred during an afternoon performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus that was attended by 6,000 to 8,000 people. The fire...
On this date, 7-6-1933, The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park as part of the 1933 World's Fair. The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also known as the "Midsummer Classic", is an annual professional baseball game sanctioned by Major League Baseball (MLB) and contested between the all-stars from the American League (AL) and National League (NL). All-Stars are selected by fans for starting fi...
Happy Birthday Shout-Outs Go To: John Paul Jones(would have been 275 years old), Annette Kellerman(w.h.b. 135), Frida Kahlo(w.h.b. 115), June Gale(w.h.b. 111), Sebastian Cabot(w.h.b. 104), Nancy Reagan(w.h.b. 101), Merv Griffin(w.h.b. 97), Bill Haley(w.h.b. 97), Janet Leigh(w.h.b. 95), Della Reese(w.h.b. 91), Dalai Lama(87), Ned Beatty(w.h.b. 85), Gene Chandler aka The Duke Of Earl(85), George W. Bush(76), Fred Dryer(76), Sylvester Stallone(76), Brad Park(74), Geoffrey Rush(71), Willie Randolph(68), Robin Antin(61), Inspectah Deck(52), Larsa Pippen(48), 50 Cent(47), Tia Mowry(44), Tamera Mowry(44), Kevin Hart(43), Joell Ortiz(42), Eva Green(42), Pau Gasol(42), Nnamdi Asomugha(41), Brandon Jacobs(40), Cody Fern(34), Manny Machado(30), Zion Williamson(22), Klailea Bennett(19), Dylan Kingwell(18),
July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 178 days remain until the end of the year.
On this date, 6-7-2013, n 6-7-2013, A gunman opens fire at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, after setting a house on fire nearby, killing five people in total.
On June 7, 2013, a killing spree by a lone shooter occurred in Santa Monica, California. Its catalyst was a domestic dispute and subsequent fire at a home, followed by a series of shootings near and on the Santa Monica College campus. Six people were killed, including the suspect, and four injured.[...
On this date, 6-7-1993, NBA player and 3 time Olympic medalist Dražen Petrović died in a car accident in Germany, at the age of 28.
Dražen Petrović (Croatian pronunciation: [drǎʒen pětroʋitɕ]; 22 October 1964 – 7 June 1993) was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s, before joining the National Basket...
On this date, 6-7-1975, Sony launches Betamax in the U.S., the first videocassette recorder format.
Betamax (also known as Beta, as in its logo) is a consumer-level analog recording and cassette format of magnetic tape for video, commonly known as a video cassette recorder. It was developed by Sony and was released in Japan on May 10, 1975,[1] followed by the US in November of the same year.
On this date, 6-7-1937, Actress Jean Harlow died from complications due to kidney failure, at the age of 26.
Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter; March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American actress. Known for her portrayal of "bad girl" characters, she was the leading s*x symbol of the early 1930s and one of the defining figures of the pre-Code era of American cinema.[1] Often nicknamed the "Bl...
On this date, 6-7-1900, American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
Caroline Amelia Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911), often referred to by Carrie, Carry Nation,[1] or Hatchet Granny, was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition. Nation is noted for attacking alcohol-serving establishments (most o...
On this date, 6-7-1892, Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate...
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June 7 is the 158th day of the year (159th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 207 days remain until the end of the year.
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May 25 is the 145th day of the year (146th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 220 days remain until the end of the year.
On this date, 5-24-1994, Four men are convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993; each one is sentenced to 240 years in prison.
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, carried out on February 26, 1993, when a truck bomb detonated below the North Tower of the complex. The 1,336 lb (606 kg) urea nitrate–hydrogen gas enhanced device[1] was intended to send the N...
On this date, 5-24-1962, Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule, becoming the sixth human to fly in space.
Mercury-Atlas 7, launched May 24, 1962, was the fourth crewed flight of Project Mercury. The spacecraft, named Aurora 7, was piloted by astronaut Scott Carpenter. He was the sixth human to fly in space. The mission used Mercury spacecraft No. 18 and Atlas launch vehicle No. 107-D.
On this date, 5-24-1956, The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
The Eurovision Song Contest (French: Concours Eurovision de la chanson), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing primarily European....
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