A bit of July 28th history…

1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to England

1794 - French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of “the Terror” guillotined in Paris(pictured) 

1858 - 1st use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made

1868 - 14th Amendment is ratified - due process of law

1914 - Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia - 1st declaration of war of WWI

1932 - US President Hoover uses federal troops to evict the Bonus Army (WWI veterans and their families) from their encampment, 4 die

On July 28, 1868, Secretary of State William Seward issued a proclamation certifying without reservation that the Fourteenth Amendment was a part of the United States Constitution.  Continue reading.

One of America's most prominent first ladies, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was born on July 28, 1929.   Continue reading. 

On July 28, 1932, veterans known as the "Bonus Army",  who had gathered in the nation's capital to demand certain benefits for their military service during World War I, were confronted by Federal troops on the orders of President Herbert Hoover.  Continue reading.

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A bit of July 27th history…

1586 - Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia

1789 - US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs, now referred to as State Department

1866 - Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid - 1686 miles long

1890 - Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh shoots himself, dies of injuries 2 days later (pictured)

1921 - Insulin is isolated

1940 - Bugs Bunny first debuts in “Wild Hare”

1953 -  North Korea and the United Nations sign armistice to stop fighting and divide Korea at the 38th parallel

1965 - Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act was signed into law - requires health warnings on all cigarette packages

2003 - It was reported by the BBC that there was no monster in Loch Ness; The investigation used 600 separate sonar beams and satellite navigation technology to trawl the Loch 

Architect Cyrus Lazelle Warner Eidlitz was born on July 27, 1853, in New York City.  Continue reading.

On July 27, 1946, American avant-garde writer and art connoisseur Gertrude Stein died in France.  Continue reading.

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A bit of July 26th history…

1609 - English mathematician Thomas Harriot is the 1st person to draw a map of the Moon by looking through a telescope

1775 - US Continental Congress creates United States Post Office in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin

1947 - US President Truman signs National Security Act establishing Department of Defense, CIA, National Security Council, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff

1990 - US President George H W Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act

2016 - Hillary Clinton becomes 1st woman to top a majority party ticket for President of the US

2018 - Observation of a black hole by The Very Large Telescope in Chile proves Einstein’s prediction of “gravitational redshift” (pictured) 

 On July 26, 1788, the Convention of the State of New York, meeting in Poughkeepsie, voted to ratify the Constitution of the United States.  Continue reading.

Joseph Jenkins Roberts declared Liberia, formerly a colony of the American Colonization Society, an independent republic on July 26, 1847.  Continue reading.

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A bit of July 25th history…

306 - Constantine I is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops

1897 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories

1943 - Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is overthrown in a coup

1978 - Louise Joy Brown, 1st test tube baby, is born in England

2017 - Sperm counts have halved in last 40 years says research published in “Human Reproduction Update” journal (pictured)

2018 - Liquid Lake found on Mars under it’s South Pole ice cap

2019 - “City Killer” asteroid, 2019 OK, passes by almost undetected at just 45,000 miles away from the earth - closer than the moon. 

 On July 25, 1936, after a five-night run, the audience at the Park Theatre in Bridgeport, Connecticut, applauded the closing night performance of Macbeth, produced by John Houseman and directed by Orson Welles for the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).  Continue reading.

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A bit of July 24th history…

1534 Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France

1567 - Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate; her 1 yr old son becomes King James VI of Scotland (and later King James I of England)

1847 - Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah

1911 - American explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas

1917 - Trial of Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari begins in Paris for allegedly spying for Germany and thus causing the deaths of 50,000 soldiers (pictured)

2005 - 92nd Tour de France - Lance Armstrong wins a record 7th consecutive victory; he was disqualified in 2012 for doping

2019 - Special Council Robert Mueller reports to the US Senate that President Trump was not exonerated of obstruction of justice and that Russia interfered in the US election to benefit Trump

2019 - Global warming is fastest in 2000 years and scientific consensus that humans are the cause is at 99 % according to 3 major reports published in journals “Nature” and “Nature Geoscience” 

Completing a treacherous thousand-mile exodus, an ill and exhausted Brigham Young and fellow members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints arrived in Utah's Great Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847.  Continue reading.

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