Tuesday, July 31, 2012

1 August 1993

The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood comes to a

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Monday, July 30, 2012

31 July 1970

The last day of the rum ration in the Royal

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Sunday, July 29, 2012

30 July 1865

The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of California, killing 225

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

29 July 1987

Prime Minister of India and President of Sri Lanka sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic

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Friday, July 27, 2012

28 July 2008

The famous Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for the second time in 80

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

27 July 1890

Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies 2 days

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

26 July 1953

Fidel Castro leads an attack on the Moncada Barracks that fails, but begins the Cuban

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

25 July 2010

Wikileaks publishes documents about the War in

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Monday, July 23, 2012

24 July 1950

The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station starts

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Sunday, July 22, 2012

23 July 2005

Three explosive devices explode in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88

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Saturday, July 21, 2012

22 July 838

The Byzantine emperor Theophilos is defeated by the

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Friday, July 20, 2012

21 July 365

A tsunami destroys the city of Alexandria, Egypt. 50 000 are

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Thursday, July 19, 2012

20 July 1949

Israel and Syria sign the truce that ended their 19 month

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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

19 July 1942

Battle of the Atlantic during – World War 2. Tthe last U-boats withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

18 July 1955

The first Disneyland in Anaheim, California

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Monday, July 16, 2012

17 July 1981

The walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri collapses killing 114 people and injuring more than

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Sunday, July 15, 2012

16 July 1999

John F. Kennedy, Jr. dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's

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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

11 July 1943

The Allies invade Sicily. German and Italian troops launch a

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Monday, July 9, 2012

10 July 1985

The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French

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Sunday, July 8, 2012

Friday, July 6, 2012

7 July 1456

A retrial of Joan of Arc 25 years after her

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Thursday, July 5, 2012

6 July 1967

Nigerian forces invade Biafra, starting the Nigerian Civil

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

5 July 1948

National Health Service Acts created the national public health systems in the United

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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

4 July 1865

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is first

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Monday, July 2, 2012

3 July 2005

Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Spain

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