This Week in History
This Week in History... July 6-12, 2009
- 07-06-1955 - Diem says South Vietnam not bound by Geneva Agreements
- 07-06-1967 - Civil war in Nigeria
- 07-07-1797 - The impeachment of Senator Blount
- 07-07-1863 - Kit Carson's campaign against the Indians
- 07-07-1896 - Democrats take on gold standard
- 07-07-1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor nominated to Supreme Court
- 07-07-2005 - Terrorists attack London transit system at rush hour
- 07-08-1776 - The Liberty Bell rings out from the tower of the Pennsylvania State House summoning citizens to the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, by Colonel John Nixon
- 07-08-1853 - Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay
- 07-08-1950 - MacArthur named Korean commander
- 07-09-1816 - Argentina formally declared independence from Spain.
- 07-09-1846 - U.S. takes San Francisco
- 07-09-1850 - Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the U.S., dies of cholera after only 16 months in office.
- 07-09-1872 - The doughnut cutter was patented by John F. Blondel of Thomaston, Me.
- 07-09-1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivered his "cross of gold" speech at the Democratic National Convention.
- 07-09-1900 - The British Parliament proclaimed that as of Jan. 1, 1901, the six Australian colonies would be united at the Commonwealth of Australia.
- 07-09-1960 - Khrushchev and Eisenhower trade threats over Cuba
- 07-09-1974 - Former U.S. chief justice Earl Warren died in Washington, DC.
- 07-09-1993 - Romanov remains identified
- 07-09-2002 - Baseball's All-Star Game ended in a tie after 11 innings. Both sides had run out of pitchers.
- 07-10-1890 - Wyoming became the 44th state in the United States.
- 07-10-1940 - The Battle of Britain began.
- 07-10-1951 - Armistice talks to end the Korean War began at Kaesong.
- 07-10-1973 - The Bahamas became independent from Great Britain.
- 07-10-1985 - The Coca-Cola Company announced that it was bringing back the original Coke and calling it Coca-Cola Classic.
- 07-10-1991 - President Bush lifted economic sanctions against South Africa.
- 07-10-1991 - Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as Russia's first elected president.
- 07-10-2003 - Spain opened its first mosque (in Granada) since the Moors were expelled in 1492.
- 07-11-1533 - Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII.
- 07-11-1804 - Former vice president Aaron Burr fatally wounded former secretary of the treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Hamilton died the following afternoon.
- 07-11-1864 - Confederate general Jubal A. Early and his troops attacked Washington, DC. They retreated the next day, ending the Confederate threat to occupy the capital.
- 07-11-1914 - Babe Ruth made his major league baseball debut as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.
- 07-11-1977 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work to advance civil rights.
- 07-11-1995 - The United States and Vietnam established full diplomatic relations.
- 07-12-1543 - England's King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.
- 07-12-1690 - Protestant William of Orange defeated Roman Catholic James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
- 07-12-1862 - Congress authorized the Medal of Honor.
- 07-12-1984 - Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale became the first major-party candidate to choose a woman as a running mate when he announced his choice of Geraldine Ferraro.
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