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[Muteswan]

9th July
1540 England's King Henry VIII had his six-month marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled.
1716 Joseph Sauveur, French mathematician, physicist and sound engineer who coined the name acoustics for the study of sound from the ancient Greek word ακουστός, meaning "able to be heard", dies at 63.
1819 Elias Howe, American inventor (invented sewing machine), born in Spencer, Massachusetts (d. 1867).
1877 The first Wimbledon Lawn Tennis championship was held at its original site at Worple Road.
1900 Queen Victoria gave the Royal Assent to the Australian Federation Bill which set up of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901.
1932 King C. Gillette, American businessman and inventor of inexpensive and disposable safety razor blades, dies at 77.
1934 SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps.
1938 In anticipation of World War II, 35 million gas masks were issued to Britain's civilian population.
1946 (Ronald) "Bon" Scott, Scottish-Australian rock lead singer and lyricist (AC/DC - "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"; "Highway To Hell"), born in Forfar, Scotland (d. 1980).
1955 Bill Haley & Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops the billboards chart, one of the best-selling singles ever.
1956 Tom Hanks, American actor (Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Philadelphia), born in Concord, California.
1956 Mettoy introduced Corgi Toys model cars today. The manufacturing base was at Fforestfach in South Wales.
Mettoy's first factory was in Northampton which within six years had 600 employees. Such was the success of the company that by 1956 a new production plant was constructed at Fforestfach in Swansea in order to meet the manufacturing demand for the new range of Corgi Toys.
1965 John Edrich completes 310* v NZ in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes.
1972 Springhill Massacre: British snipers shoot dead five Catholic civilians and wounded two others in Springhill, Belfast.
1972 The ceasefire between the Provisional IRA and the British Army comes to an end.
1972 Paul McCartney and Wings played their very first show in the small French town of Chateauvillon.
1979 Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter.
1981 Nintendo releases arcade game Donkey Kong in Japan.
1982 Ian Botham scores 208 in 225 balls, England v India at The Oval.
1982 Queen Elizabeth II woke to find an intruder (Michael Fagan) sitting at the end of her bed, raising further concerns about poor Palace security.
1983 The Police started an eight week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Every Breath You Take' also No.1 in the UK.
1984 A massive fire, caused by a lightning strike, devastated large parts of York Minster causing an estimated £1m damage.
1988 Cheap Trick went to No.1 on the US singles chart with The Flame, the group's only US No.1. Only No.1
1990 New Zealand cricket legend Richard Hadlee takes 5-53 in 3rd Test v England at Edgbaston to end Test career with 431 wickets.
1991 South Africa readmitted to Olympics.
2000 Police fired tear gas at fans during a World Cup qualifying soccer game between Zimbabwe and South Africa, setting off a stampede that killed twelve people in Harare, Zimbabwe.
2001 "The Office" mockumentary created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, starring Ricky Gervais and Martin Freeman premieres on BBC Two in the UK.
2011 Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant joined three local musicians at a fundraising charity show in Monmouth Wales, where tickets cost £3. The event was a tribute to his friend, former Led Zeppelin producer Pat Moran, who died of a rare dementia in January.
2014 The Times Higher Education magazine's annual exam howlers competition came up with these and many others. (1) All cars will be be fitted with Catholic converters (2) Hitler's role in the Second World War is often overlooked (3) The hole in the ozone layer is caused by arseholes (4) Stalin was extremely surprised when he was taken from behind by Hitler.
2017 CEO Elon Musk is the first owner of Telsa's first mass market electric car - the Model 3.
2018 UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson resigns after Theresa May takes a softer Brexit stance. Replaced by Jeremy Hunt.
2018 4 more boys are rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped there with 8 others and their coach for 17 days by monsoon flooding (4 boys and their coach remain).

 

[Muteswan]

10th July
138 The death of the Roman Emperor Hadrian who ordered the building of a wall across northern England to keep out the 'barbarian Scottish tribes' aged 62.
988 The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes.
1212 The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1553 Lady Jane Grey, daughter of the Duke of Suffolk, proclaimed Queen of England, succeeds Edward VI, who proclaimed his half-sisters illegitimate. Reigns for nine days.
1856 Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist, electrical engineer and inventor, developed alternating current and the Tesla Coil, born in Smiljan, Austrian Empire (now Croatia) (d. 1943).
1884 1st Test Cricket to be played at Old Trafford 1st day washed out.
1895 Carl Orff, German composer (Carmina Burana; Mozart Prize 1969), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1982).
1897 Karl Plagge, German officer and Nazi Party member who during World War II used his position as a staff officer in the German Army to employ and protect some 1,240 Jews, born in Darmstadt, Germany (d. 1957).
1917 Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (Andy Capp), born in Hartlepool, County Durham, England (d. 1998).
1923 2-pound hailstones kill 23 and many cattle in Rostov, Russia.
1937 Dutch Django Reinhardt's "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club". Niiice
1940 World War II: The first in a long series of German bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which lasted three and a half months, began.
1942 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish women in Ravensbrück concentration camp, in northern Germany.
1942 Ronnie James Dio [Padavona], American singer, songwriter and musician (Elf; Rainbow; Black Sabbath; Dio; and Heaven & Hell), born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (d. 2010).
1943 Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (3 Grand Slam singles titles), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1993).
1945 Virginia Wade, English tennis player (US Open 1968, Australian Open 1972, Wimbledon 1977), born in Bournemouth, England.
1945 John Motson, British sports (football) commentator, born in Salford, Lancashire, England.
1947 The Government announced that Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) would get extra clothing coupons for her wedding dress.
1949 Sunil Gavaskar, Indian Cricket Batsman and captain (125 Tests, 10,122 runs @ 51.12; 34 Test centuries), born in Bombay, India.
1958 1st parking meters installed in England (625 installed).
1962 Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched.
1965 Rolling Stones score their 1st US #1 single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction".
1968 Eric Clapton announced that Cream would break-up after their current tour.
1975 Test Cricket debut of Graham Gooch, v Australia, out for a pair.
1978 Joe Davis, English snooker player (World Champion 1927-40, 1946), dies at 77.
1979 Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion.
1980 Alexandra Palace in London burnt down for a second time.
1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke.
1985 French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand to prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.
1996 The battered bodies of Lin Russell, 6 year-old daughter Megan and 9 year old daughter Josie, were found half a mile from their home in Kent. Michael Stone, 38, was later found guilty of two counts of murder (of Lin and Megan) and one count of attempted murder (Josie) and given three life sentences. His original conviction was overturned on appeal but a second trial resulted in another verdict of guilty after another prisoner claimed that Stone had confessed to the killings while on remand in jail.
1997 Louise Woodward's trial begins in Massachusetts Nanny murder trial.
2005 The Liberty Stadium in the Landore area of Swansea was opened today. The stadium is all-seated and has a capacity of 20,750, making it the third largest stadium in Wales. It is the home stadium of Swansea City F.C. and the rugby region Ospreys.
2008 The drum skin used on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album sold for £541,250 ($1m) at Christie's Memorabilia auction in London.
2011 British tabloid News of the World publishes its last edition after 168 years in the wake of a phone hacking scandal.
2016 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Scotsman Andy Murray beats Canadian Milos Raonic 6-4, 7-6, 7-6 for his 2nd Wimbledon and 3rd Grand Slam title.
2018 The final 4 boys and their coach are rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped there for 18 days by monsoon flooding.
2020 Jack Charlton, English soccer defender (35 caps; World Cup 1966; Leeds United) and manager (Middlesborough, Sheffield Wed, Newcastle, Rep of Ireland), dies from lymphoma and dementia at 85.
2021 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: World #1 Ashleigh Barty of Australia wins her second major title; beats Karolína Plíšková of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-7, 6-3.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

10th July
138 The death of the Roman Emperor Hadrian who ordered the building of a wall across northern England to keep out the 'barbarian Scottish tribes' aged 62.
988 The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes.
1212 The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1553 Lady Jane Grey, daughter of the Duke of Suffolk, proclaimed Queen of England, succeeds Edward VI, who proclaimed his half-sisters illegitimate. Reigns for nine days.
1856 Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist, electrical engineer and inventor, developed alternating current and the Tesla Coil, born in Smiljan, Austrian Empire (now Croatia) (d. 1943).
1884 1st Test Cricket to be played at Old Trafford 1st day washed out.
1895 Carl Orff, German composer (Carmina Burana; Mozart Prize 1969), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1982).
1897 Karl Plagge, German officer and Nazi Party member who during World War II used his position as a staff officer in the German Army to employ and protect some 1,240 Jews, born in Darmstadt, Germany (d. 1957).
1917 Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (Andy Capp), born in Hartlepool, County Durham, England (d. 1998).
1923 2-pound hailstones kill 23 and many cattle in Rostov, Russia.
1937 Dutch Django Reinhardt's "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club". Niiice
1940 World War II: The first in a long series of German bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which lasted three and a half months, began.
1942 Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish women in Ravensbrück concentration camp, in northern Germany.
1942 Ronnie James Dio [Padavona], American singer, songwriter and musician (Elf; Rainbow; Black Sabbath; Dio; and Heaven & Hell), born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (d. 2010).
1943 Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (3 Grand Slam singles titles), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1993).
1945 Virginia Wade, English tennis player (US Open 1968, Australian Open 1972, Wimbledon 1977), born in Bournemouth, England.
1945 John Motson, British sports (football) commentator, born in Salford, Lancashire, England.
1947 The Government announced that Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) would get extra clothing coupons for her wedding dress.
1949 Sunil Gavaskar, Indian Cricket Batsman and captain (125 Tests, 10,122 runs @ 51.12; 34 Test centuries), born in Bombay, India.
1958 1st parking meters installed in England (625 installed).
1962 Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched.
1965 Rolling Stones score their 1st US #1 single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction".
1968 Eric Clapton announced that Cream would break-up after their current tour.
1975 Test Cricket debut of Graham Gooch, v Australia, out for a pair.
1978 Joe Davis, English snooker player (World Champion 1927-40, 1946), dies at 77.
1979 Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion.
1980 Alexandra Palace in London burnt down for a second time.
1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke.
1985 French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand to prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.
1996 The battered bodies of Lin Russell, 6 year-old daughter Megan and 9 year old daughter Josie, were found half a mile from their home in Kent. Michael Stone, 38, was later found guilty of two counts of murder (of Lin and Megan) and one count of attempted murder (Josie) and given three life sentences. His original conviction was overturned on appeal but a second trial resulted in another verdict of guilty after another prisoner claimed that Stone had confessed to the killings while on remand in jail.
1997 Louise Woodward's trial begins in Massachusetts Nanny murder trial.
2005 The Liberty Stadium in the Landore area of Swansea was opened today. The stadium is all-seated and has a capacity of 20,750, making it the third largest stadium in Wales. It is the home stadium of Swansea City F.C. and the rugby region Ospreys.
2008 The drum skin used on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album sold for £541,250 ($1m) at Christie's Memorabilia auction in London.
2011 British tabloid News of the World publishes its last edition after 168 years in the wake of a phone hacking scandal.
2016 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Scotsman Andy Murray beats Canadian Milos Raonic 6-4, 7-6, 7-6 for his 2nd Wimbledon and 3rd Grand Slam title.
2018 The final 4 boys and their coach are rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped there for 18 days by monsoon flooding.
2020 Jack Charlton, English soccer defender (35 caps; World Cup 1966; Leeds United) and manager (Middlesborough, Sheffield Wed, Newcastle, Rep of Ireland), dies from lymphoma and dementia at 85.
2021 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: World #1 Ashleigh Barty of Australia wins her second major title; beats Karolína Plíšková of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-7, 6-3.

At 4am on the 10th July 1916 the 14th Welsh (Swansea) Battalion - "Swansea Pals" - were ordered to attack Mametz Wood. The distance the men had to cross was an estimated 1000 yards!!

There were 676 NCO's and men who took part in the attack.

By the end of the day, there were 376 casualties. 100 of those wounded, would die later from their injuries!!

 

[Muteswan]

11th July
Busy today, sorry.
2021 England lose to Italy in the Euros. Football’s not coming home, football’s going to Rome.

 

[Muteswan]

12th July
1191 English King Richard I the Lionheart and Crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine.
1290 Jews were expelled from England by order of King Edward I.
1543 England's Henry VIII married Catherine Parr, his sixth and last wife, at Hampton Court Palace.
1679 Britain's King Charles II ratifies Habeas Corpus Act allowing prisoners right to be imprisoned to be examined by a court.
1682 Jean Picard, French astronomer, dies at 61. Big Star Trek fan apparently.
1690 William of Orange defeated the deposed Catholic, King James II, at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1730 Josiah Wedgwood, English pottery designer and manufacturer (Wedgwood), born in Burslem, Staffordshire, England (d. 1795)
1794 British admiral Horatio Nelson lost his right eye at the siege of Calvi, in Corsica.
1843 Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy.
1854 George Eastman, American inventor (Kodak camera, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company), born in Waterville, New York (d. 1932).
1863 In New Zealand, British forces invade Waikato, home of the Maori King Movement, beginning a new phase of the wars between Maori and Colonial British.
1910 Charles Rolls, aged 32, pioneering pilot and co-founder of Rolls-Royce,was killed when he crashed his biplane in a flying competition in the Southbourne distric of Bournemouth.
1913 150,000 Ulstermen gather and resolve to resist Irish Home Rule by force of arms; since the British Liberals have promised the Irish nationalists Home Rule, civil war appears imminent.
1930 Australian cricket master batsman Don Bradman is out for 334 in drawn 3rd Test vs England at Headingley, Leeds; innings 383 minutes, 46 x 4's.
1932 Hedley Verity establishes a first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
1943 Christine McVie, English rock vocalist (Fleetwood Mac-Got A Hold on Me), born in Bouth, England.
1947 The birth of Gareth Edwards, former Welsh rugby union footballer and described by the BBC as 'arguably the greatest player ever to don a Welsh jersey'.
1948 1st jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires).
1966 Annabel Croft, English tennis player, broadcaster (Eurosport, Sky Sport, BBC), born in Farnborough, Kent.
1966 Start of 3 day race riot in Chicago, looting brings out National Guardsmen.
1967 Race riot in Newark, New Jersey, 26 killed, 1,500 injured & over 1,000 arrested.
1967 John Petrucci, American guitar player (Dream Theater), born in Kings Park, New York.
1969 As the 'marching season' reaches its height there is serious rioting in Derry, Belfast and Dungiven; many families in Belfast are forced to move from their homes.
1969 Tony Jacklin became the first British golfer since 1951 to win the Open Championship.
1988 Michael Jackson arrived in the UK for his first ever-solo appearances. He performed a total of eight nights to 794,000 people.
1997 Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize recipient, born in Mingora, North-West Frontier Province.
1998 FIFA World Cup Final, Stade de France, Saint-Denis: Zinedine Zidane scores twice as France wins first World Cup beating Brazil, 3-0.
1998 South African President Nelson Mandela accompanies Queen Elizabeth II on a coach drive through the streets of London.
2013 Alan Whicker, British journalist and TV broadcaster (Whicker's World), dies at 91.
2013 Malala Yousafzai addresses the United Nations and calls for worldwide access to education.
2013 A military funeral was held for Fusilier Lee Rigby at Bury Parish Church in Greater Manchester. He was killed outside Woolwich Barracks in May by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.
2018 US President Donald Trump arrives in the UK for a four-day visit amid protests.
2020 On this day thread started on Planet Swans today by Swanjaxs. (so you can blame Swanjaxs for all my ramblings).

 

[Muteswan]

13th July
100 BC Julius Caesar, Roman military and political leader, born in Rome (d. 44 BC), (or July 12).
1713 A treaty signed between Great Britain and Spain at Utrecht ceded Gibraltar to Britain in perpetuity.
1835 Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson files for a patent for his screw propeller design.
1837 Queen Victoria became the first sovereign to move into Buckingham Palace.
1865 Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the "New-York Tribune" reputedly advises his readers to "Go west young man".
1911 The night of the 1911 census. A suffragette hid in a broom cupboard in the House of Commons so that she could record The House of Commons as her address, ‘thus making my claim to the same right as men’.
1923 The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland" but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
1923 American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews discovers the first recognised dinosaur eggs, in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
1930 1st-ever football World Cup competition begins in Uruguay.
1939 Frank Sinatra makes his recording debut.
1940 Patrick Stewart, English actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation - "Captain Picard", X-Men - "Charles Xavier")born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England.
1942 Harrison Ford, American actor (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Blade Runner), born in Chicago, Illinois.
1942 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by Nazis.
1942 SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland.
1944 Ernő Rubik, Hungarian inventor (Rubik's cube), born in Budapest, Hungary.
1955 Ruth Ellis, a model and nightclub hostess from Rhyl was executed by hanging at HM Prison Holloway. She was convicted of the murder of her lover, David Blakely and was the last woman in the United Kingdom to be hanged.
1960 Ian Hislop, British writer, satirist and editor of Private Eye, born in Mumbles, Swansea, Wales.
1960 US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate.
1963 The Rolling Stones played their first ever gig outside London when they appeared at The Alcove Club, Middlesbrough.
1964 The Animals went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The House Of The Rising Sun.' Recorded in one take, this was the first UK No.1 to have a playing time of more than four minutes.
1968 Black Sabbath played their first gig at a small backstreet Blues club in Birmingham, England.
1974 India's 1st one-day international (v England, Headingley).
1976 Last day of Test Cricket for English all-rounder Brian Close, aged 45.
1979 Craig Bellamy, Welsh forward (78 caps; Newcastle United, Norwich City, Manchester City), born in Cardiff, Wales.
1983 The House of Commons voted 361-245 against the restoration of the death penalty.
1985 "Live Aid" concerts held at both Wembley Stadium (London) and John F. Kennedy Stadium (Philadelphia) raises over $70 million for African famine relief.
1987 Kylie Minogue releases her debut single "Locomotion".
2012 Financially troubled Scottish football club, Rangers, is voted into the third division.
2013 #BlackLivesMatter created in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman on trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin.
2016 Theresa May is elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Conservative Party MPs.
2018 Large protests in London against US President Donald Trump featuring Trump-like baby blimp as President Trump meets Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle.
2305 Jean-Luc Picard, fictional captain on Star Trek Next Generation.

 

[Muteswan]

14th July
1789 Bastille Day - the French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille Prison in Paris (now celebrated as France's national day).
1795 The French National Convention decrees "La Marseillaise" by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle France's national anthem.
1853 New Zealand holds its first general election.
1858 The birth, in Moss Side Manchester, of Emmeline Pankhurst, the English suffragette who led the fight for women's suffrage in Britain, often by violent means.
1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time, at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey.
1881 Billy the Kid [William H Bonney], American frontier outlaw, shot by sheriff Pat Garrett and dies of gunshot wounds at 21.
1892 Today saw the official inauguration of the Lake Vyrnwy Reservoir, which had been built to supply water to Merseyside and Liverpool.The dam was built by flooding the Welsh village of Llanwddyn, where 2 chapels, 3 inns, 10 farms and 37 houses were lost. In 1965, despite fervent protests by politicians, nationalist organisations and the local population, the welsh-speaking village of Cwm Celyn was also flooded in order to create the Tryweryn reservoir. The local school, post office, chapel and cemetery were submerged forever. These events inspired the Manic Street Preachers song Ready for Drowning, and Enya's Dan y Dwr.
1910 William Hanna, American animator (Hanna-Barbera, Tom and Jerry, Scooby Doo), born in Melrose, New Mexico (d. 2001).
1933 Germany begins mandatory sterilization of people with hereditary illnesses.
1933 Hedley Verity bowls out Essex twice in a day, 8-47 & 9-44 for Yorkshire at Leyton.
1939 The government announced that all infants and nursing mothers would get fresh milk free or at no more than two pence a pint.
1940 World War II: Britain tackled the threat of a German invasion by forming the Home Guard - a part-time volunteer army, generally comprising men too old for national service.
1946 Dr Benjamin Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care" published.
1962 The Beatles played their first gig in Wales when they appeared at The Regent Dansette Theatre in Rhyl. Tickets cost five shillings.
1964 The Rolling Stones were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'It's All Over Now', the group's first of 8 UK No.1's.
1966 Gwynfor Evans became Plaid Cymru's first MP when he won the Carmarthen by-election following the death of Labour's Megan Lloyd George.
1967 The Who begin a US tour opening for Herman's Hermits.
1967 Abortion was legalized in Britain.
1969 "Easy Rider", directed by Dennis Hopper, starring himself, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson, is released.
1974 Born on this day in Salisbury, David Mitchell comedian, actor, writer and television presenter. Mitchell's mother is from Swansea and he has written that he is extremely proud of his Welsh heritage, and that his maternal grandparents lived in Swansea, Wales.
1982 The movie premier for Pink Floyd's The Wall was held at The Empire, Leicester Square, London, England.
1983 Mario Bros. is first released by Nintendo in Japan as an arcade game about an Italian-American plumber.
1988 Conor McGregor, Irish professional boxer (UFC Lightweight and Featherweight Champion), born in Dublin, Ireland.
2005 Cicely Saunders, English Nurse, physician and writer who founded the first modern hospice, dies of cancer at 87.
2014 The Church of England votes in favor of allowing women to become bishops.
2015 Scientists from the Large Hadron Collider announce the discovery of a new particle called the pentaquark.
2019 Cricket World Cup, Lord's: England beats New Zealand on count back after scores tied at 241 after 50 overs and 15 in Super Over.
2019 US President Donald Trump ignites racial controversy by tweeting four Democrat women of color "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came".

 

[Muteswan]

15th July
971 According to the legend of St. Swithin, if it rains today, it will be the start of forty days of rain.
1099 City of Jerusalem is captured and plundered by Christian forces during the First Crusade.
1205 Pope Innocent III states Jews are doomed to perpetual servitudea and subjugation due to crucifixion of Jesus.
1381 John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, was hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II. The revolt later came to be seen as a mark of the beginning of the end of serfdom in medieval England.
1606 Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter (Night Watch), born in Leiden, Netherlands (d. 1669).
1662 King Charles II charters Royal Society in London.
1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1815 1st flat horse race held at English race track Cheltenham on Nottingham Hill.
1815 French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to Captain Maitland aboard the English ship Bellerophon, at Rochefort, before being sent into exile on the island of St Helena.
1850 John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North v South at Lord's.
1883 Tom Thumb, famous small person (40"), dies of a stroke at 44.
1904 Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (Uncle Vanya), dies at 44.
1912 National Insurance payments began in Britain.
1916 Boeing Company (Pacific Aero) formed by William Boeing in Seattle, Washington.
1922 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at Bronx Zoological Park, New York City.
1938 Arthur Fagg becomes first batsman in first-class cricket history to score double centuries in both innings of a match; 244 and 202 for Kent v Essex at Colchester.
1947 Peter Banks [Brockbanks], British rock guitarist and singer-songwriter described as "the architect of progressive music" (Yes, the Syn, Flash), born in Chipping Barnet, London (d. 2013).
1948 Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain.
1949 Trevor Horn, British rock musician/producer (Buggles - "Video Killed The Radio Star"; Yes - Drama; Frankie Goes To Hollywood), born in Durham, England.
1953 Murderer John Christie, responsible for the deaths of at least six women in his home at 10, Rillington Place, London, was hanged.
1956 Born today, American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, Joe Satriani. He is a 15-time Grammy Award nominee and has sold over 10 million albums, making him the biggest-selling instrumental rock guitarist of all time.
1961 Forest Whitaker, actor and director (The Last King of Scotland, Platoon), born in Longview, Texas.
1974 TV news reporter Christine Chubbuck shoots herself live on WXLT-TV, Florida, first person to commit suicide in a live broadcast.
1988 "Die Hard" directed by John McTiernan and starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman is released in the US.
1990 Olly Alexander [Oliver Thornton], British actor, singer-songwriter (Years & Years), and LGBT activist, born in Harrogate, England.
1996 Prince Charles and Princess Diana were granted a decree nisi. Princess Diana could no longer be addressed as Her Royal Highness but was to be known as Diana, Princess of Wales.
2009 "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", the 6th film based on the books by J. K. Rowling is released worldwide.

 

[Muteswan]

16th July
622 Muslim Era begins - Muhammad begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hijra).
1099 Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire.
1439 Kissing is banned in England (to stop the Black Death from spreading).
1557 Anne of Cleves, Queen of England (1539-40), 4th wife of Henry VIII, dies at 41.
1661 1st banknotes in Europe are issued by Bank of Stockholm.
1790 Congress declares the city of Washington in the District of Columbia, the permanent capital of the United States.
1872 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer who led the 1st expedition to the South Pole, born in Borge, Østfold, Norway (d. 1928).
1895 Lancashire batsman Archie MacLaren scores the first-ever quadruple-hundred (424) in first-class cricket against Somerset at Taunton.
1911 Ginger Rogers [Virginia McMath], American dancer and singer (Top Hat), and Academy Award winning actress (Kitty Foyle; Stage Door), born in Independence, Missouri (d. 1995).
1936 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY.
1940 Adolf Hitler orders preparations for the invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion).
1945 1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the US Manhattan Project.
1945 The leaders of the three Allied nations (Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman and Josef Stalin) gathered in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
1946 John Hollins, British retired footballer, born in Guildford, Surrey.
1951 Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Surrey at The Oval.
1958 Michael Flatley, Irish choreographer (Lord of Dance), born in Chicago, Illinois.
1962 The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in the US, their first hit was in September this year with 'Surfin' Safari.'
1964 The Rolling Stones had their first UK No.1 single with It's All Over Now.
1966 Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton formed Cream. The three piece group only lasted two years.
1969 Apollo 11 launched, carrying 1st men to land on Moon.
1979 Premier/pres al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein.
1989 Gareth Bale, Welsh soccer winger (Tottenham, Real Madrid, Wales), born in Cardiff, Wales.
1990 NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-no fatalities.
1999 John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy.
2000 Footballer George Best's doctor begged every barman in Britain to refuse to serve alcohol to the footballing legend to help him beat his addiction. Best was controversially granted an NHS liver transplant in 2002 and died in 2005, aged 59, due to complications from a drug used to prevent the rejection of transplanted organs.
2005 "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", the 6th book in the series by J. K. Rowling, is published worldwide. 9 million copies sell in 24 hrs.
2012 Jon Lord, the former keyboard player with Deep Purple, died aged 71. Lord was a co-founder of Deep Purple in 1968 and co-wrote many of the group's songs including Smoke On The Water.
2015 Scientists reveal 1st close-up pictures of Pluto, sent by the New Horizons probe.
2017 BBC announces first ever female Doctor Who will be played by Jodie Whittaker.
2018 US President Donald Trump appears to accept the word of Russian President Vladimir Putin over US intelligence services about Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, in an interview after the two leader's Helsinki Summit.
2018 12 new moons discovered orbiting Jupiter bringing planet's moon total to 79, by scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science

 

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17th July
1585 English secret service discovers Anthony Babington's murder plot against Queen Elizabeth I.
1717 George Frideric Handel's "Water Music" premieres on the river Thames in London.
1841 British humorous and satirical magazine "Punch" first published; it finally closed in 2002.
1899 James Cagney, American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy), born in NYC, New York (d. 1986).
1912 IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden.
1917 Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.
1923 The birth of John Cooper. He developed the British Motor Corporation Mini Cooper, adored by rally racers and ordinary drivers.
1941 The birth of Welsh musician Spencer Davies, the founder of the 60s rock band The Spencer Davis Group who scored 1966 UK No.1 single 'Keep On Running' and the 1967 US No.7 single 'Gimme Some Lovin'. He died on 19 October 2020 age 81.
1947 Camilla Parker Bowles, English wife of Prince Charles and Duchess of Cornwall, born in London, England.
1949 Geezer Butler, English rock bassist (Black Sabbath), born in Birmingham, England.
1951 The Abbey Works steel plant at Margam, Port Talbot was opened. It is named after nearby Margam Abbey.
1952 David Hasselhoff, American actor (Night Rider, Mitch-Baywatch), born in Baltimore, Maryland.
1954 Angela Merkel, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (2005-), born in Hamburg, West Germany.
1954 Construction of Disneyland commences.
1955 Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
1959 Billie Holiday [Eleanora Fagan], American jazz singer ("I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"; "Strange Fruit"), and songwriter ("God Bless The Child"; "Lady Sings the Blues"), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 44.
1959 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovers partial skull of a new species of early human ancestor, Zinjanthropus boisei or 'Zinj' (now called Paranthropus boisei) lived in Africa almost 2 million years ago.
1959 "North by Northwest" directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint premieres in Los Angeles.
1967 John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist & composer (Blue Train), dies at 40 from liver cancer at Huntington Hospital in Long Island, New York,
1968 The Beatles' animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London.
1972 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico.
1974 1st quadrophonic studio in UK is open by Moody Blues.
1974 An explosion in the Tower of London left one person dead and 41 injured. The incident happened without the coded warning typical of the IRA.
1979 Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo.
1979 Gary Moore left Thin Lizzy, during a US tour and was replaced by ex Slick & Rich Kids guitarist Midge Ure.
1981 The Humber Estuary Bridge was officially opened by the Queen. For 16 years after its construction it was the world's longest single-span structure.
1988 The Pembrokeshire tourist attraction, Folly Farm, first opened.
1989 1st test flight of US stealth bomber.
1996 Alan McGilvray, Australian cricketer (NSW 1933-37) and radio commentator (1935-85), dies at 85.
1996 Paris-bound flight TWA 800, explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board the Boeing 747.
1996 [Bryan] Chas Chandler, English rock bassist (The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun") and manager of Jimi Hendrix, dies at 57
2005 Edward Heath, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1970-74), dies of cancer at 89.
2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board.

 

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18th July
64 Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero.
1290 King Edward I orders expulsion of Jews from England, this edict will remain in place for 350 years.
1817 Jane Austen, English novelist (Pride and Prejudice), dies at 41.
1848 W. G. Grace, English cricket all-rounder and captain (22 Tests; 54,896 runs over record 44 first class seasons; Gloucestershire), born in Bristol, England (d. 1915).
1872 Britain introduced the concept of voting by secret ballot.
1892 First human test of a vaccine against cholera; Ukrainian bacteriologist Waldemar Huffkine risks his life by testing it on himself.
1892 Thomas Cook, British founder and CEO of Thomas Cook & Son travel agency (Cook Travel Bureau), dies at 83.
1918 Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner (1962-90) and President of South Africa (1994-99), born in Mvezo, Umtatu, South Africa (d. 2013).
1920 The unveiling of the Cenotaph War memorial in Whitehall, London to commemorate the war dead. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and takes its name from the Greek words kenos and taphos meaning empty tomb.
1921 John Glenn, American astronaut (1st American to orbit the earth) and politician (Senator D-Ohio), born in Cambridge, Ohio (d. 2016).
1923 Under the Matrimonial Causes Bill, British women were given equal divorce rights with men.
1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice".
1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland after a 28 hours flight, supposedly left NY flying for California.
1938 Ian Stewart, Scottish keyboardist, road manager, and co-founder of the Rolling Stones, born in Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland (d. 1985).
1950 Richard Branson, British music entrepreneur (Virgin Group), born in London, England.
1953 Truck driver Elvis Presley made his first ever recording when he paid $3.98 at the Memphis recording service singing two songs, 'My Happiness' and 'That's When Your Heartaches Begin'.
1957 Nick Faldo, English golfer (US Masters 1989, 90, 96; British Open 1987, 90, 92), born in Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire.
1958 6th British Empire Games and Commonwealth Games open in Cardiff, Wales.
1963 The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second interim report pressing for international sanctions against South Africa, particularly the supply of arms, ammunition and petroleum.
1970 Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily. Crazy World
1972 The 100th British soldier to die in the Northern Ireland "troubles" is shot by a sniper in Belfast.
1976 Nadia Comăneci becomes the first gymnast in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 score (total 7) at Montreal Games
1978 Def Leppard made their live debut at Westfield School, Sheffield, England in front of 150 students.
1980 Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" album tops US charts, featuring "It's Still Rock 'n' Roll to Me".
2000 Police confirmed that the body they had found in a West Sussex field the previous day was that of missing eight-year old Sarah Payne. Her murderer, Roy Whiting, was convicted in December 2001 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
2001 Kiss added another product to their ever-growing merchandising universe: the "Kiss Kasket." The coffin featured the faces of the four founding members of the band, the Kiss logo and the words "Kiss Forever.
2009 Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man and one of the last surviving World War I servicemen, died, aged 113.
2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army
2015 "The Sun" newspaper in Britain controversially publishes old picture and video of Queen Elizabeth giving Nazi salute in 1933.
2018 Elon Musk apologises for calling British caver diver in Thai rescue "pedo guy" after widespread criticism and fall in Tesla stock price.
2018 Seventeen men charged with the gang-rape of a 12-year old girl in Chennai, India.
2018 Cliff Richard wins privacy case against the BBC, for reporting he was being investigated over historic child sexual assaults.

 

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19th July
1545 The Mary Rose, the pride of Henry VIII's battle fleet, sank in the Solent with the loss of 700 lives.
1553 Lady Jane Grey was replaced by Mary I as Queen of England after having the title for just nine days.
1692 5 more people are hanged for witchcraft (19 in all) in Salem, Massachusetts.
1814 Samuel Colt, American inventor and industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver), born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1862).
1832 The British Medical Association was founded, as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, by Sir Charles Hastings, at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.
1837 Isambard Kingdom Brunel's 236 ft steamship, the Great Western, was launched at Bristol. She was the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and was also the largest vessel in the world. On the same day in 1843, Brunel's 'SS Great Britain', the first Atlantic liner built of iron, was also launched. She is now restored and can be viewed at the Great Western Dockyard in Bristol.
1860 Lizzie Borden, American woman acquitted of the murder of her parents (gave her mother forty whacks), born in Fall River, Massachusetts (d. 1927).
1877 1st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: 27-year-old English rackets player Spencer Gore wins inaugural event; beats William Marshall 6-1, 6-2, 6-4.
1884 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maud Watson becomes inaugural female champion by beating her sister Lillian Watson 6–8, 6–3, 6–3.
1919 Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall.
1940 Adolf Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender.
1941 BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) ("...-" in Morse code) (opening of Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th symphony).
1941 British PM Winston Churchill launches his "V for Victory" campaign.
1941 Tom and Jerry first appear under their own names in cartoon "The Midnight Snack" by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
1947 Brian May, British rock guitarist (Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody"; "We Are The Champions"), born in London, England.
1952 Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford.
1954 Elvis Presley's debut single, a cover of Arthur Cruddup's "That's All Right" is released.
1961 1st in-flight movie shown on TWA.
1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before".
1967 The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'All You Need Is Love' the group's 12th UK No.1 single.
1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit.
1976 Deep Purple split up at the end of an UK tour. David Coverdale went on to form Whitesnake, Jon Lord and Ian Paice formed a band with Tony Ashton.
1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 tons of oil spill.
1986 Genesis went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Invisible Touch'. The bands former lead singer Peter Gabriel was at No.2 with 'Sledgehammer'.
1990 MPs voted in favour of permanent televising of the House of Commons.
1993 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Ian Botham.
2001 Former Tory MP, Jeffrey Archer, was convicted of perjury and perverting the course of justice and sentenced to four years in prison.
2018 Airbus Beluga XL, painted to look like the whale, makes its first flight, landing in Toulouse-Blagnac, France.
2020 Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says 25 million Iranians already infected with COVID-19, 35 million at risk (official figure just 269,440).
2021 England lifts most COVID-19 restrictions on so-called 'Freedom Day" despite 50,000 new daily infections.
2021 The Meteorological Office issued its first ever extreme heat warning under its new service (launched in June), with temperatures possibly reaching 33C in western areas and likely to remain high for another five days.

 

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20th July
356 BC Alexander the Great, Macedonian king and military leader, born in Pella, Macedonia (modern Greece) (d. 323 BC).
1807 Round-arm (over-arm) bowling was introduced to English cricket by John Willes in the Kent v England match at Fenenden Heath.
1837 Euston railway station opens in London as the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR), the city's 1st intercity railway station.
1871 The English Football Association Challenge Cup Competition was formed, to become better known as the FA Cup. The first final saw the Wanderers beat the Royal Engineers by one goal to nil, watched by a crowd of 2,000.
1881 Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops.
1885 The Football Association legalized professionalism in football under pressure from the British Football Association.
1890 "Gibbons Stamp Monthly" begins publishing.
1919 Edmund Hillary, Explorer and Mountaineer (1st to scale Mt Everest with Tenzing Norgay), born in Auckland, New Zealand (d. 2008).
1933 Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Adolf Hitler.
1933 In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism.
1933 Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets.
1938 Diana Rigg, English actress (Emma Peel-Avengers, Game of Thrones), born in Doncaster England (d. 2020).
1940 Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart. Their first number one song was ‘I'll Never Smile Again’ by Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
1944 Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German army officer Claus Von Stauffenberg.
1947 Carlos Santana, Mexican-American rock guitarist (Santana - "Black Magic Woman"), born in Autlán de Navarro, Mexico.
1953 The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency.
1963 Jan and Dean started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Surf City', written by The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, with the Beach Boys on backing vocals.
1968 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV.
1969 Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin lands on the surface of the Moon; Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later 0.26 am British time on July 21st. Michael Collins remains in orbit in the lunar module.
1977 The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
1981 England set for innings loss v Aust, Botham hits 100 in 87 balls.
1982 Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: 11 British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in London.
1991 Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant.
1994 Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife's killer.
2000 Families of the victims of serial killer GP Harold Shipman won their High Court battle for an open inquiry into how their loved ones died.
2001 The London Stock Exchange goes public.
2005 James Doohan, Canadian actor (Star Trek), dies from Pulmonary fibrosis at 85.
2007 Ivor Emmanuel, Welsh singer and actor (Zulu, Show Boat, Kiss Me, Kate), dies of a stroke at 79.
2010 Died today, Iris Davies, pen name Iris Gower, was a Swansea-born novelist, noted for her many historical romances, most of which are set in the seaport of Swansea and the nearby Gower Peninsula, which was the inspiration for her nom-de-plume. Her novel 'Copper Kingdom' was one of many of her novels set in the copper and other industries of Swansea or in the rural life of its hinterland.
2020 Announcement that a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) is able to trigger immune response and antibodies.
2021 US, NATO members and other states accuse China's Ministry of State Security for using "contract criminal hackers" to infiltrate Microsoft email systems.

 

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21st July
356 BC Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
1796 Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne) considered the national poet of Scotland, dies at 37.
1588 First engagement between the English fleet and the Spanish Armada off the Eddystone Rocks.
1853 Central Park in New York created when New York State Legislature puts aside more than 750 acres of land on Manhattan Island.
1865 In market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true western showdown.
1884 1st Test Cricket match played at Lord's, England v Australia.
1897 London's Tate Gallery, built on the site of the Millbank Prison, was opened, with 67 paintings.
1899 Ernest Hemingway, American author (The Old Man and the Sea, Nobel 1954), born in Oak Park, Illinois (d. 1961).
1904 After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed.
1909 Six suffragettes, jailed for breaking windows in Whitehall, were released for insubordination, for kicking and biting female wardens and for going on strike.
1925 Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first man to break the 150 mph land barrier, at Pendine Sands in Wales when he drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph.
1931 A Bill proposing the sterilisation of the mentally defective was defeated in the House of Commons.
1951 Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (Mork & Mindy, Jumanji, Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2014).
1953 Born today in Stouthall Maternity Hospital, Gower, Wales, “ Muteswan “(massive Swans fan apparently).
1956 Michael Connelly, American crime writer (Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch novels), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1967 Basil Rathbone, British actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies of heart attack at 75.
1969 Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT).
1970 Aswan High Dam opens in Egypt, enables human control of the flooding of the Nile.
1972 Bloody Friday: within the space of seventy-five minutes, the Provisional Irish Republican Army explode twenty-two bombs in Belfast; six civilians, two British Army soldiers and one UDA volunteer were killed, 130 injured.
1974 US House Judiciary approves two Articles of Impeachment against President Richard Nixon.
1974 The Police national computer (PNC) began operating.
1976 Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, and his secretary Judith Cook are assassinated by a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA in his car in Dublin.
1985 British Open Men's Golf, Royal St George's GC: Scotsman Sandy Lyle wins his only Open title by 1 stroke from runner-up Payne Stewart; last time event features double cut (after 36 and 54 holes), introduced in 1968.
1987 Guns & Roses debut album "Appetite for Destruction" is released, and becomes the best-selling debut album of all time with more than 30 million copies sold.
1988 Alan Shepard, American astronaut and 1st American in space, dies of leukemia at 74.
1989 Chris Gunter, Welsh footballer, most capped for Wales (2018), born in Newport, Wales.
1990 Roger Waters' The Wall took place at the Berlin Wall in Potzdamer Platz, Berlin to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall eight months earlier.
2005 Four terrorist bombers target London's public transportation system, exactly two weeks after the July 7 bombings. All four bombs fail to detonate leading to the capture of all the bombers.
2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the series by J. K. Rowling is published worldwide. 11 million copies sell in 24 hrs.
2011 NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.
2020 Russian interference in British politics is 'the new normal' according to report by British Intelligence and Security Committee.
2021 Liverpool was stripped of its World Heritage status after a UN committee found that developments threatened the value of the city's waterfront.
2021 Swansea City and manager Steve Cooper part company. .

 

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22nd July
1298 The English used longbows for the first time, when they defeated the Scots at the Battle of Falkirk. The Scottish pikemen were cut to pieces by Edward I's archers.
1648 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre during Khmelnytsky Uprising.
1706 The 'Acts of Union' were agreed by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by the countries' Parliaments, led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1859 Underarm slow right arm bowler V E Walker takes 10-74 in 1st innings for an All-England Cricket XI v Surrey CCC at The Oval.
1865 Underarm slow right arm bowler V E Walker takes 10-104 in an innings for Middlesex v Lancashire in a county cricket match at Old Trafford, Manchester.
1918 Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park. ️
1934 Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp.
1944 Rick Davies, British rock vocalist/keyboardist (Supertramp), born in London, England.
1947 1947 Don Henley, American rock drummer, singer, and songwriter (Eagles - "Desperado"; "Hotel California"; solo - "Boys Of Summer"), born in Linden, Texas.
1967 Rhys Ifans [Evans], Welsh actor (Notting Hill, and Twin Town), and rock singer (The Peth), born in Haverfordwest, Wales.
1986 MPs voted to abolish corporal punishment in state schools.
1994 Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder.
2005 Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was mistaken for a terrorist suspect and was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station in south London as the hunt was intensified for those responsible for the London bombings on the 7th and 21st July.
2009 The Cardiff City stadium(legoland), in the Leckwith area of Cardiff, was opened on 22nd July 2009. It replaces Ninian Park as the home ground of Cardiff City Football Club. With a capacity of 32,280 it is the second largest stadium in Wales.
2012 99th Tour de France won by Bradley Wiggins of Great Britain.
2013 Prince George of Cambridge, son of Prince William and Catherine, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, England (3rd in line to the English throne), born in London, England.
2018 US President Donald Trump threatens Iran in an all-caps tweet of "consequences" in response to speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
2018 East Fife 4 Forfar 5 was the ultimate football tongue-twister for anyone trying to read out the football results. It became a long standing joke between comedian Eric Morecambe and James Alexander Gordon, voice of the classified football results for 40 years. On Sunday, 22nd July 2018 that result finally happened for the first time in the fixture's history when the Scottish League Cup Group B tie between the sides went to penalties after a 1-1 draw, leading to East Fife 4 Forfar 5.