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Re: On this day...... « Reply #240 on Jul 21, 2012, 5:38pm »
July 21.
1980 - Keith Godchaux (Grateful Dead) was injured in a car accident. He died two days later.
1982: The flagship of the British taskforce to the Falklands, HMS Hermes, arrived back in Portsmouth.
1990 - BBC's Radio One apologized to listeners after Madonna repeatedly cursed during a live concert broadcast.
2005: London's underground network was plunged into chaos with stations cleared after minor blasts on two trains and a bus. The explosions - two weeks after blasts killed 52 - involved detonators only. There was one injury.
2011 - Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was the last flight of NASA's space shuttle program.
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Re: On this day...... « Reply #241 on Jul 22, 2012, 6:16pm »
July 22.
1376 - The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading rats out of town is said to have occurred on this date.
1965 - "Till Death Us Do Part" debuted on England’s BBC-TV.
1979 - Little Richard, known as Reverend Richard Penniman, spoke at a revival meeting in North Richmond, CA. He warned the congregation about the evils of rock & roll music.
2003: The United States announced that the two sons of Saddam Hussein, Uday and Qusay, were killed by US troops in Iraq.
2003 - In Paris, France, a fire broke out near the top of the Eiffel Tower. About 4,000 visitors were evacuated and no injuries were reported.
2005 - A man was shot dead by police at Stockwell underground station in south London - a day after four failed bomb attacks on the capital. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said the shooting was "directly linked" to the ongoing London bombs inquiry. The man shot by police turned out to be a Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, who had nothing to do with the London bombings.
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Re: On this day...... « Reply #242 on Jul 23, 2012, 9:36pm »
July 23.
1962 - The "Telstar" communications satellite sent the first live TV broadcast to Europe.
1972 - Eddie Merckx of Belgium won his fourth consecutive Tour de France bicycling competition.
1984 - Miss America, Vanessa Williams, turned in her crown after it had been discovered that nude photos of her had appeared in "Penthouse" magazine. She was the first to resign the title.
1986: Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson were married at Westminster Abbey.
2000 - Lance Armstrong won his second Tour de France.
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Re: On this day...... « Reply #243 on Jul 24, 2012, 7:28pm »
July 24.
1948 - Soviet occupation forces in Germany blockaded West Berlin. The U.S.-British airlift began the following day.
1956 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis ended their team. They ended the partnership a decade after it began on July 25, 1946.
1969 - The Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1987 - Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Hulda became the oldest person to climb Japan’s highest peak.
1990 - A wrongful death trial involving Judas Priest opened in Reno, NV. Parents had charged in a lawsuit that the band's "Stained Class" album contained subliminal messages that drove two teen-agers to attempt suicide. The judge cleared the group.
1995 - Public Enemy postponed its televised farewell concert in Great Britain because Flava Flav broke his arm in a scooter accident.
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Re: On this day...... « Reply #244 on Jul 26, 2012, 7:14pm »
July 25.
2000: All other news was over shadowed by one tragic event....
Concorde crashed just minutes after take-off, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground.
The Air France jet, bound for New York, crashed into a Relais Bleu hotel in the town of Gonesse, 10 miles north of Paris just before 1700 local time (1500 GMT).
It is understood the aircraft, which had taken off from Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport just two minutes earlier, plummeted to the ground after one of the left-hand engines caught fire on take-off.
There were 100 passengers on board, most were German tourists but also included two Danes, an Austrian and an American, all travelling to JFK airport in New York where they were due to join a cruise ship bound for Equador.
Huge fireball
The aircraft had been chartered by German tour operator Deillman.
Eye-witnesses reported seeing a "huge fireball" followed by a dense cloud of black smoke after the plane hit the ground.
Within minutes of the crash emergency services were on the scene searching through the rubble for survivors.
Flight AF4590 was the first Concorde in the aircraft's 31-year history to crash.
This particular aircraft, one of a fleet of six owned by Air France, which has been in service since 1980 was inspected four days earlier and threw up no problems.
The accident comes just a day after BA revealed that hairline cracks had been found in the wings of all seven of its Concordes.
All Air France Concordes were suspended and an investigation into the accident launched. Investigators on the scene locate the aircraft's black box.
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Re: On this day...... « Reply #246 on Jul 27, 2012, 4:47pm »
July 27.
1663 - The British Parliament passed a second Navigation Act, which required all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports.
1694 - The Bank of England received a royal charter as a commercial institution.
1909 - Orville Wright set a record for the longest airplane flight. He was testing the first Army airplane and kept it in the air for 1 hour 12 minutes and 40 seconds.
1996: Bomb rocks Atlanta Olympics. A bomb has exploded at a crowded concert in Atlanta, Georgia, the city hosting this year's Olympic Games.
2003: American icon and legendary comedian Bob Hope died, just two months after celebrating his 100th birthday.
2003 - It was reported by the BBC that there was no monster in Loch Ness. The investigation used 600 separate sonar beams and satellite navigation technology to trawl the loch. Reports of sightings of the "Loch Ness Monster" began in the 6th century.
2012: The opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics took place.
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Re: On this day...... « Reply #247 on Jul 28, 2012, 5:37pm »
July 28.
1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach died after an unsuccessful eye operation.
1914 - World War I officially began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.
1970 - The movie "Ned Kelly" opened in which Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones) made his acting debut.
2006 - Researchers announced that two ancient reptiles had been found off Australia. The Umoonasaurus and Opallionectes were the first of their kind to be found in the period soon after the Jurassic era.
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Re: On this day...... « Reply #249 on Jul 30, 2012, 6:21pm »
July 30.
1966: Football glory for England
England have won football's World Cup for the first time since the tournament began in 1930. A crowd of 93,000 spectators - including the Queen and Prince Phillip - filled London's Wembley Stadium to watch the host nation play West Germany in the final game of the 1966 championships.
Another 400 million people around the world watched the keenly fought match on television.
In the final moments of extra time Geoff Hurst powered home his third goal to give England a 4-2 victory and to become the first man ever to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final.
After Germany had taken an early lead, Hurst levelled the score for England by half time with a header from a free kick taken by captain Bobby Moore.
Victory in sight
England came out with courage and determination after the break and glimpsed glory thirteen minutes from time as Martin Peters took their second goal.
But a free kick to Germany 15 seconds from full time gave Wolfgang Weber a close-range shot into Gordon Banks' goal and took the score to 2-2.
In the crucial minutes before the decisive half hour of extra time England manager Alf Ramsey was heard to rally his team, saying: "All right. You let it slip. Now start again."
A dubious goal by Hurst - glanced off the line by Weber and only given after consultation between the Swiss referee and Soviet linesman - put England ahead in the last 15 minutes, before the striker's third goal put the game out of Germany's reach.
Bobby Moore went up to the royal box to collect the solid gold Jules Rimet trophy from Queen Elizabeth.
In the largest World Cup ever - numbering 70 countries - England were among the favourites and got as far as the semi-final, against newcomers Portugal, before conceding a goal.
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Re: On this day...... « Reply #250 on Jul 31, 2012, 2:44pm »
July 31.
1498 - Christopher Columbus, on his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, arrived at the island of Trinidad.
1928 - MGM’s Leo the lion roared for the first time. He introduced MGM’s first talking picture, "White Shadows on the South Seas."
1932 - Enzo Ferrari retired from racing. In 1950 he launched a series of cars under his name.
1971 - Men rode in a vehicle on the moon for the first time in a lunar rover vehicle (LRV).
1999 - The spacecraft Lunar Prospect crashed into the moon. It was a mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface. The craft had been launched on January 6, 1998.
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Re: On this day...... « Reply #253 on Aug 3, 2012, 3:47pm »
Aug 03.
1492 - Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The voyage would lead him to what is now known as the Americas. He reached the Bahamas on October 12.
1914 - Germany declared war on France. The next day World War I began when Britain declared war on Germany.
1936 - Jesse Owens won the first of his four Olympic gold medals.
1963 - The Beatles made their final appearance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. They had performed nearly 300 shows at the club since 1961.
1985 - Mail service returned to a nudist colony in Paradise Lake, FL. Residents promised that they'd wear clothes or stay out of sight when the mailperson came to deliver.
2004 - In New York, the Statue of Liberty re-opened to the public. The site had been closed since the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
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Re: On this day...... « Reply #254 on Aug 4, 2012, 7:04pm »
Aug 4.
1944 - Nazi police raided a house in Amsterdam and arrested eight people. Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was one of the people arrested. Her diary would be published after her death.
1966 - A ban of the broadcast of any and all Beatles records on most U.S. radio stations went into effect. The ban was in response to John Lennon stating that the band was now more popular than Jesus Christ.
1984 - Carl Lewis won a gold medal in the Los Angeles Olympics.
1987: Moors murderer Ian Brady claimed he was involved in another five killings.
2000: Celebrations took place all over the United Kingdom to mark the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
2002: Police announced they were "extremely concerned" over the disappearance of two 10-year-old girls from their homes in Cambridgeshire. Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were the best of friends, both from Soham, and were last seen at about 1830.
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