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Amelia and Roswell, with a touch of Danny Deckchair. What a wonderful day.
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07-03-2007, 05:11 AM
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July 3rd
1608 ~ The city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1854 ~ Birthday of Leoš Janáček, Czech Composer.
1863 ~ The final day of the battle of Gettysburg.
1883 ~ Birthday of Franz Kafka, Czech-born German author.
1935 ~ Death of André Citroën, Automobile Pioneer.
1938 ~ World speed record, 126 mph, set for a steam railway locomotive, by the Mallard.
1962 ~ Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.
1971 ~ Death of Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors.
1986 ~ Death of Rudy Vallee, Singer, Actor, Bandleader, & Entertainer.
1988 ~ USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf.
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07-03-2007, 06:25 AM
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Jim Morrison's dead?
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07-04-2007, 06:04 AM
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July 4th
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07-05-2007, 12:59 PM
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07-06-2007, 05:14 AM
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07-06-2007, 07:22 AM
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Piper Alpha's one of the reasons I declined a job on a rig earlier today. Good money, 4 weeks on, 1 off, long swim hope.
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07-07-2007, 06:19 AM
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07-08-2007, 05:21 AM
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July 8th.
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07-09-2007, 05:10 AM
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July 9th
1896 ~ William Jennings Bryan delivered his “Cross of Gold” speech.
1900 ~ Queen Victoria gave royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia, uniting separate colonies under one federal government.
1916 ~ Birthday of Edward Heath, P.M. of the UK
1947 ~ The engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten was announced.
1974 ~ Death of Earl Warren, Governor of California, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1984 ~ York Minster was struck by lightning; the resulting fire destroyed the roof of the South Transept.
1989 ~ Two bombs exploded in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
1995 ~ The Grateful Dead played their last concert, at Soldier Field in Chicago.
1997 ~ Mike Tyson's boxing license was suspended and he was fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield's ear in a televised match.
2001 ~ The Big Bang Theory of the origin of the universe received substantial support.
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July 11th
1798 ~ The U.S. Marine Corps was re-created by an act of Congress.
1857 ~ Birthday of Alfred Binet, French Psychologist.
1859 ~ Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" was published.
1899 ~ Birthday of E. B. White, American Writer. (Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan.)
1914 ~ Babe Ruth made his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox.
1937 ~ Death of George Gershwin, American Composer.
1971 ~ Death of John W. Campbell, Writer & Editor.
1979 ~ Skylab deorbited.
1989 ~ Death of Sir Laurence Olivier, Actor.
1995 ~ Bosnian Serbs capture the city of Srebrenica.
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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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July 14th
1789 ~ Citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille. Generally recognized as the beginning of the French Revolution.
1798 ~ The Sedition Act made it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government.
1862 ~ Birthday of Gustav Klimt, Austrian Painter & Graphic Artist.
1881 ~ Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett.
1887 ~ Death of Alfred Krupp, German munitions manufacturer.
1912 ~ Birthday of Woody Guthrie, American folk singer.
1913 ~ Birthday of Gerald Ford, U.S. President.
1933 ~ Gleichschaltung: All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed.
1965 ~ Mariner 4 flyby of Mars took the first close-up photos of another planet.
2000 ~ A Florida jury ordered five major tobacco companies to pay smokers $145 billion in punitive damages. (The verdict was later overturned by the Florida Supreme Court.).
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