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Events on the 15th of July in history

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15 Jul 0484 Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome
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15 Jul 0756 An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. He permits his consort Yang Guifei to be strangled by his chief eunuch. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor's family killed.
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15 Jul 1099 1st Crusaders capture and plunder Jerusalem
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15 Jul 1099 First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
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15 Jul 1149 The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
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15 Jul 1205 Pope Innocent III states Jews are doomed to perpetual servitude and subjugation due to crucifixion of Jesus
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15 Jul 1207 King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
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15 Jul 1240 Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
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15 Jul 1381 John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
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15 Jul 1410 Battle of Tannenburg-Teutonic Knights vs. King Ladislas II of Poland
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15 Jul 1410 Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald – the allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
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15 Jul 1410 Poland & Lithuania defeat Teutonic Knights at Tannenberg
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15 Jul 1482 Muhammad XII is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada.
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15 Jul 1500 "Blood Wedding" of Astorre Baglione and Lavinia Colonna in Perugia family Baglione massacre
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15 Jul 1500 Duke Albrecht of Saxon beats Friese rebellion
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15 Jul 1501 Explorer Pedro Cabral back in Lisbon
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15 Jul 1524 Emperor Karel I bans German national synode
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15 Jul 1538 Peace talks between Karel and King Francois I
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15 Jul 1662 Charles II grants charter to establish Royal Society in London
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15 Jul 1685 Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685.
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15 Jul 1741 Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
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15 Jul 1755 French ambassador recalled from London
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15 Jul 1779 US troops under General A Wayne conquer Ft Stony Point, New York
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15 Jul 1783 1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France
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15 Jul 1787 Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes
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15 Jul 1789 Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
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15 Jul 1795 "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem
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15 Jul 1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
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15 Jul 1806 Zebulon Pike began his journey to explore the Southwest
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15 Jul 1806 Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
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15 Jul 1808 French marshal Joachim Murat becomes King of Naples
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15 Jul 1815 Napoleon surrendered and is later exiled on St. Helena
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15 Jul 1815 Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
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15 Jul 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte captured
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15 Jul 1823 A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.
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15 Jul 1830 3 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk and Fox, signs a treaty giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri
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15 Jul 1834 The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
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15 Jul 1838 Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
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15 Jul 1840 England, Russia, Austria and Prussia signs Quadruple Alliance
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15 Jul 1856 Natal established as a British colony separate from Cape Colony
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15 Jul 1862 CSS Arkansas vs. USS Cardondelet and Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R
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15 Jul 1863 President Davis orders service duty for confederate army
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15 Jul 1864 Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 and injuring 109 of 955 aboard
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15 Jul 1864 Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a
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15 Jul 1867 SF Merchant's Exchange opens
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15 Jul 1869 Margarine is patented in Paris, for use by French Navy
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15 Jul 1870 Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
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15 Jul 1870 Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
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15 Jul 1870 Georgia becomes last confederate to be readmitted to US
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15 Jul 1870 Hudson's Bay & Northwest Territories transferred to Canada
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15 Jul 1870 Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province & NW Territories created
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15 Jul 1876 Baseballs 1st no-hitter, St Louis' George W Bradley no-hits Hartford
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15 Jul 1888 The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
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15 Jul 1888 Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years
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15 Jul 1890 A Charlois discovers asteroid #294 Felicia
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15 Jul 1893 Commodore Perry arrives in Japan
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15 Jul 1900 President Steyn / General De Law escape Brandwater Basin
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15 Jul 1901 New York Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St. Louis, 5-0
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15 Jul 1902 Ranjitsinhji scores 180 before lunch, for Sussex vs. Surrey
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15 Jul 1904 1st Buddhist temple in US forms, Los Angeles
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15 Jul 1904 1st Buddhist temple in US established, Los Angeles
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15 Jul 1906 Republic museum opens Rembrandt hall in Amsterdam
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15 Jul 1909 Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park HRs
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15 Jul 1910 In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
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15 Jul 1911 46" of rain (begining 7 / 14) falls in Baguio, Philippines
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15 Jul 1912 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
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15 Jul 1914 Mexican President Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe
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15 Jul 1916 22.22" (56.4 cm) of rain falls in Altapass NC (state record)
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15 Jul 1916 Boeing Co (Pacific Aero) formed by William Boeing in Seattle, Washington
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15 Jul 1916 In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
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15 Jul 1916 22.22" of rain falls in Altapass NC
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15 Jul 1918 World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
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15 Jul 1918 2nd Battle of Marne began during WW I
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15 Jul 1920 The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
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15 Jul 1920 Ruth ties his record of 29 HRs in a season
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15 Jul 1922 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at New York zoo
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15 Jul 1922 26th US Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 288 at Skokie Country Club - Illinois
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15 Jul 1922 Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
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15 Jul 1923 27th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 296 at Inwood Country Club - New York
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15 Jul 1923 Italian parliament accepts new constitution
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15 Jul 1926 VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms
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15 Jul 1927 62nd British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 285 at St. Andrews
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15 Jul 1927 Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
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15 Jul 1929 1st airport hotel opens - Oakland, California
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15 Jul 1932 President Hoover cuts own salary 15%
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15 Jul 1933 Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around the world
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15 Jul 1936 Dutch 2nd Chamber agree to temporarily increase defense budget
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15 Jul 1937 Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens
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15 Jul 1937 Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China
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15 Jul 1939 Clara Adams (NYC) is 1st woman to complete round world flight
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15 Jul 1940 1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Illinois
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15 Jul 1940 Nazi occupiers seize library of IISG Amsterdam
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15 Jul 1941 Florey and Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Penicillin)
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15 Jul 1942 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz
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15 Jul 1942 Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps"
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15 Jul 1944 Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb
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15 Jul 1945 27th PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Morraine Country Club - Dayton Ohio
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15 Jul 1946 British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown
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15 Jul 1948 Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain
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15 Jul 1948 President Truman nominated for another term (Philadelphia)
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15 Jul 1948 Pres Truman nominated for another term
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15 Jul 1949 "Miss Liberty" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 308 performances
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15 Jul 1949 WBTV TV channel 3 in Charlotte, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Jul 1949 Czech tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny & Vladimir Cernik, defect to US
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15 Jul 1950 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1750 Eckert
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15 Jul 1952 Gerald D Lascelles (under English Princess Mary) weds Angela Dowding
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15 Jul 1952 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins
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15 Jul 1954 KOCO TV channel 5 in Oklahoma City, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Jul 1954 WBOC TV channel 16 in Salisbury, MD (CBS / NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Jul 1954 First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
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15 Jul 1954 1st coml jet transport plane built in US tested (Boeing 707)
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15 Jul 1955 WNDU TV channel 16 in South Bend, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
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15 Jul 1955 Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
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15 Jul 1956 Beverly Hanson / Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Hot Springs Golf Invitational
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15 Jul 1956 Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
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15 Jul 1957 Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die
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15 Jul 1958 President Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months
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15 Jul 1958 US marines deployed in Lebanon
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15 Jul 1959 The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
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15 Jul 1960 Balt Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle
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15 Jul 1961 "Donnybrook!" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 68 performances
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15 Jul 1961 90th British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale
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15 Jul 1961 Spain accept equal rights for men andwomen
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15 Jul 1962 Algeria becomes member of Arab League
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15 Jul 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open
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15 Jul 1962 Netherlands and Indonesia accord over New-Guinea
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15 Jul 1963 KAIT TV channel 8 in Jonesboro, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Jul 1963 Paul McCartney is fined
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15 Jul 1964 Barry M Goldwater (Sen-R-Az) nominated for president by Republicans
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15 Jul 1965 "Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars
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15 Jul 1965 Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as Premier of Greece
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15 Jul 1965 US scientists display close-up photos of Mars from Mariner IV
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15 Jul 1966 Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
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15 Jul 1967 "Sweet Charity" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 608 performances
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15 Jul 1967 LA Wolves beat Washington Whips 6-5 in OT to be United Soccer Ass champs
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15 Jul 1967 Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open
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15 Jul 1968 "One Life to Live" premieres on TV
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15 Jul 1968 Commercial air travel begins between US and the USSR
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15 Jul 1968 New Jersey Americans moved to Comack and become New York Nets (ABA)
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15 Jul 1968 Soap opera "One Life To Live" premieres
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15 Jul 1968 "One Life to Live" premieres on TV
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15 Jul 1968 NJ Americans moved to Comack & become NY Nets (ABA)
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15 Jul 1968 Soap opera "One Life To Live" premiers
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15 Jul 1969 Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
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15 Jul 1969 Rod Carew ties the record with his 7th steal of home in a season
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15 Jul 1970 Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship
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15 Jul 1971 The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
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15 Jul 1971 Pres Nixon announces he would visit People's Rep of China
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15 Jul 1972 101st British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane
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15 Jul 1972 Lee Trevino wins his 2nd consecutive golf's British Open
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15 Jul 1973 California Angel Nolan Ryan 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0
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15 Jul 1973 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
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15 Jul 1973 Paul Getty III kidnapped
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15 Jul 1973 Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide
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15 Jul 1973 Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 HRs
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15 Jul 1974 Military coup on Cyprus: Archbishop / President Makarios flees
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15 Jul 1974 In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek Junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
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15 Jul 1975 46th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-3 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
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15 Jul 1975 All star MVP: Bill Madlock (Pittsburgh Pirates) and John Matlock (NY Mets)
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15 Jul 1975 Apollo 18 launched (will rendezvous with Soyuz)
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15 Jul 1975 Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
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15 Jul 1975 NL beats AL 6-3 in 46th All Star Game (Milwaukee's County Stadium)
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15 Jul 1975 Soyuz 19 & Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later
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15 Jul 1976 36-hr kidnap of 26 school children and their bus driver in California
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15 Jul 1978 107th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St. Andrews
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15 Jul 1979 Morarji Desai resigns as Premier of India
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15 Jul 1979 U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called malaise speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation" but in which he never uses the word malaise.
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15 Jul 1980 A massive storm tears through western Wisconsin, causing US$160 million in damage.
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15 Jul 1980 Johnny Bench hits his 314th HR as a catcher breaks Yogi Berra's record
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15 Jul 1982 Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th Secretary of State by vote of 97-0
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15 Jul 1982 Body of Wendy Caulfield, 1st Green River victim, found near Seattle
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15 Jul 1982 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas
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15 Jul 1983 Linda Ronstadt debuts as Mabel in "Pirates of Penzance"
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15 Jul 1983 Orly Airport attack is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured.
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15 Jul 1983 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France
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15 Jul 1984 Hollis Stacy wins her 3rd US women's open golf title
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15 Jul 1985 Deborah Carthy-Deu, of Puerto Rico, crowned 34th Miss Universe
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15 Jul 1986 57th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston
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15 Jul 1986 All star MVP: Roger Clemens (Boston Red Sox)
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15 Jul 1986 AL beats NL for 2nd time in 15 yrs, winning 57th All-Star Game 3-2
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15 Jul 1987 Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence
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15 Jul 1987 State of siege ends in Taiwan
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15 Jul 1987 John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings
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15 Jul 1991 US troops leave northern Iraq
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15 Jul 1992 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 3 weeks to have tumor removed
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15 Jul 1994 Gyula Horn sworn in as Premier of Hungary
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15 Jul 1994 Israel and Jordan agree to talks in Washington DC on July 25th
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15 Jul 1994 New Jersey Nets Derrek Coleman accused of rape in Detroit
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15 Jul 1995 Birmingham Barracudas 1st CFL home game (vs. Hamilton)
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15 Jul 1995 Jews take Jerusalem
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15 Jul 1995 Northern Virginia begins using new area code 540
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15 Jul 1996 After 2,216 consecutive games at shortstop, Cal Ripkin goes to 3rd
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15 Jul 1996 MSNBC begins Microsoft internet-NBC TV
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15 Jul 1996 Prince Charles and Princess Di sign divorce papers
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15 Jul 1996 Southern Mexico hit with 6.5 earthquake
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15 Jul 1996 A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
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15 Jul 1997 In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
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15 Jul 2002 "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
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15 Jul 2002 Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
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15 Jul 2003 AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day
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15 Jul 2006 Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world.
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