UN
Day
World
Youth Skills Day
Events
of the day
1099 – First Crusade:
Christian soldiers take the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after
the final assault of a difficult siege.
1149 – The reconstructed Church of the
Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
1207 – King John of England expels Canterbury
monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen
Langton.
1240 – Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: a Novgorodian
army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the
Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants'
Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered
in the presence of King Richard II of
England.
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.
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.
1741 – Alexei Chirikov sights land in
Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore
in a longboat, making them the first Europeans
to visit Alaska.
1789 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La
Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general
of the new National Guard of Paris.
1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the
Egyptian village of Rosetta by French
Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during
Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1806 – Pike expedition: United States
Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an
expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near
St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
1815 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon Bonaparte
surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1823 – A fire destroys the ancient Basilica
of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.
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.
1870 – Reconstruction era of the United
States: Georgia becomes the last of the
former Confederate states to be readmitted
to the Union.
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 North-West Territories
are established from these vast territories.
1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai
erupts killing approximately 500 people,
in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry,
Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's
disease, naming it after his colleague
Alois Alzheimer.
1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William
Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate
Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
1918 – World War I: the Second Battle
of the Marne begins near the River Marne
with a German attack.
1920 – The Polish Parliament establishes
Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German
plebiscite.
1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters
are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
1954 – First flight of the Boeing 367-80,
prototype for both the Boeing 707 and
C-135 series.
1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the
Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons,
later co-signed by thirty-four others.
1959 – The steel strike of 1959 begins,
leading to significant importation of
foreign steel for the first time in United
States history.
1966 – Vietnam War: The United States
and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings
to push the North Vietnamese out of the
Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek Junta-sponsored
nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing
President Makarios and installing Nikos
Sampson as Cypriot president.
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.
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
1980 – A massive storm tears through western
Wisconsin, causing US$160 million in damage.
1983 – A terrorist attack is launched
by Armenian militant organisation ASALA
at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it
leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured.
1985 – The Nintendo Entertainment System,
the best-selling game console of its time,
is released in Japan.
1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules
carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching
band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
1997 – In Miami, Florida, serial killer
Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni
Versace outside his home.
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.
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
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape
Communications Corporation. The Mozilla
Foundation is established on the same
day.
2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes
in northwestern Iran, killing all 153
aboard.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Abhai (Syriac Orthodox Church)
Bonaventure
Dispersion of the Apostles
Donald of Ogilvy
Editha
Plechelm
Quiricus and Julitta
Swithun
Vladimir the Great (Eastern Orthodox;
Roman Catholic)
July 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which Birthday of Don
Luis Muñoz Rivera can fall, while July
21 is the latest; celebrated on the third
Monday of July. (Puerto Rico)
Earliest day on which Galla Bayramy can
fall, while July 21 is the latest; celebrated
on the third Sunday of July. (Turkmenistan)
Earliest day on which Marine Day can fall,
while July 21 is the latest; celebrated
on the third Monday of July. (Japan)
Earliest day on which President's Day
can fall, while July 21 is the latest;
celebrated on the third Monday of July.
(Botswana)
Elderly Men Day (Kiribati)
Festival of Castor and Pollux (Roman Empire)
Festival of Santa Rosalia (Palermo, Sicily)
Sultan's Birthday (Brunei Darussalam)
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