Today in History
Today in History – 13 July
1974 India’s 1st one-day international (v England, Headingley)
1970 Building begins of Amsterdam metro
1945 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico
1930 1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay
Today in History – 12 July
1977 1st free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise
1962 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (U.S.S.R.)
1957 1st President to fly in helicopter – Dwight Eisenhower
1957 U.S. Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
1948 1st jets to fly across Atlantic, 6 RAF de Havilland Vampires
1933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
1928 1st televised tennis match
1912 1st foreign feature film exhibited in U.S. – “Queen Elizabeth” – New York
City
1859 Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale, Massachusetts
1817 1st flower show held, Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland
1785 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands
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Today in History – 11 July
1962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
1801 French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet
Today in History – 10 July
2005 Luxembourg accepts a referendum on the E.U. constitution
1981 CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)
1966 U.S. launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon
1962 Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1958 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
1956 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1949 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh
1933 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, New York
1892 1st concrete-paved street built, Bellefountaine, Ohio
1797 1st U.S. frigate, the “United States,” is launched in Philadelphia
1629 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in U.S. founded (Salem, MA)
552 Origin of Armenian calendar
Today in History – 09 July
1991 South Africa readmitted to Olympics
1957 Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced
1955 1st black executive on White House staff, E. Frederic Morrow
1953 1st helicopter passenger service, New York City
1944 World’s largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother’s – Barnum and Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford Conn)
1916 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in U.S. from Germany
1877 1st Wimbledon tennis championship is held
1815 1st natural gas well in U.S. is discovered
1815 King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France
Today in History – 08 July
2007 Boeing launches it’s newest aircraft, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner
1933 Public Works Administration becomes effective
1900 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids)
1889 Wall Street Journal begins publishing
1870 Congress authorizes registration of trademarks
1797 1st U.S. senator, William Blount of Tennessee, expelled by impeachment
1796 U.S. State Department issues 1st American passport
1654 1st Jewish colonist arrive in U.S. (Jacob Barsimson in Manhattan)
1497 Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India
951 Paris is founded
Today in History – 07 July
1986 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released
1981 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel
1972 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley and Joanne E Pierce)
1923 University of Delaware invents “junior year abroad” (at Sorbonne)
1891 Travelers checks patents
1802 1st comic book “The Wasp,” is published
1550 Chocolate introduced
Today in History – 06 July
1954 Elvis Presley records his 1st hit, “That’s All Right”
1924 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, U.S. – England
Today in History – 05 July
1983 Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death in Roanoke, Virginia
1935 1st “Hawaii Calls” radio program is broadcast
1922 1st general election in Netherlands
1922 Women 1st vote in Dutch elections, Christian parties win
1841 Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency
1643 1st recorded tornado in U.S. (Essex County, Massachusetts)
Today in History – 04 July
1997 U.S. space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars
1996 HotMail, a free internet E-mail service begins
1959 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
1946 Philippines gains independence from U.S.
1931 1st fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium
1931 1st trailside museum opens in Cleveland Metroparks
1914 1st U.S. motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
1886 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
1884 1st U.S. bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
1884 Statue of Liberty presented to U.S. in Paris
1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco
1865 1st edition of “Alice in Wonderland” is published
1789 1st U.S. tariff act
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