07-13-2007, 05:17 AM
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July 13th
100 BC ~ Birthday of Julius Caesar, Soldier & Politician.
1793 ~ French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, who was executed four days later.
1837 ~ Queen Victoria moved into Buckingham Palace – the first monarch to live there.
1908 ~ Women first included in modern Olympic competition.
1951 ~ Death of Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian Composer.
1955 ~ Ruth Ellis became the last woman in England to be executed.
1960 ~ John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Los Angeles.
1977 ~ A 25-hour blackout hit New York City.
1982 ~ Montreal was host to the first baseball All-Star Game outside the U.S.
1985 ~ Live Aid, an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, Australia, was held to raise money for Africa's starving people.
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