July 27
 

At the GOP Convention 43 years ago tonight, Oregon Governor Mark Hatfield nominated Vice President Richard Nixon for the Presidency; 29 years ago today, the US House drew up articles of impeachment against President Nixon for obstructing justice in the Watergate case.

July 28
 

1933,

The singing telegram started when the first person to receive one, singer Rudy Vallee, got it for his 32nd birthday.

Born July 28, Terry Fox 1958-1981,

marathoner, was born on this day at Winnipeg in 1958. Terry lost a leg to bone cancer in 1977 and started his cross-Canada 'Marathon of Hope' in St. John's on April 12, 1980 to raise money to fight the disease. Before he had to end the marathon Sept 1 in Thunder Bay, when cancer was discovered in his lungs, he had run almost 5400 km, and raised over $1.7 million. He gave up his fight on June 28, 1981 in New Westminster, BC, but thousands of Canadians run every year in his memory.

July 29...
 

1981: Charles and Diana marry

Thousands line the streets of London to glimpse Prince Charles and Lady Diana on their wedding day.

July 29 in 1907 London England

- Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms the Boy Scout movement, with assistance from Canadian financier Lord Strathcona.

July 30...
 

1966: England win football's World Cup for the first time since the tournament began in 1930.

July 31...

The British Government announces a total ban on landmines, a month before the first anniversary of the death of Princess Diana.

August 1st
 

"In 1995 an Egyptian newspaper reported the deaths of 6 people who had jumped in to a well........ to save a chicken!"


Fries with that?!?!

(Thanks to Nubian and campingboy for keeping this going!!)

August 2nd
 

"In 1964, North Vietnam fired on a U.S. destroyer sat in the Gulf of Tonkin...... and began the Vietnam War."

To my shame, I never realised it had gone on for SO long! :(

DM

August 3rd
 

1978: The Queen officially opened the 11th Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada.

August 3rd
 

In 1925, a court in Indiana ordered a motorist who had run over & killed a pedestrian to spend an hour with the body.

Now that's what I call a punishment!

August 3rd 1914, germany declares war on France

August 4th
 

1964: FBI agents uncover the bodies of three missing civil rights workers at a dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi.

August 5th
 

In 1992 Jeff Porcaro, drummer with rock band Toto, died after inhaling pesticide fumes from his garden

I KNEW I didn't like gardening!!

August 5th
 

1962: Marilyn Monroe found dead

Film actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her bed with an empty bottle of sleeping tablets by her side.