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668Jul 15Constantine II (37), emperor of Byzantium, died.
1099Jul 15Jerusalem fell to the crusaders who slaughtered the Jewish and Muslim inhabitants. The dead numbered about 3,000.
1174Jul 15Baldwin (13), son of Amalric I, was crowned Baldwin IV, king of Jerusalem.
1205Jul 15Pope Innocent III decreed that the Jews were doomed to perpetual servitude and subjugation due to crucifixion of Jesus.
1471Jul 15Eskender (d.1494), Emperor of Ethiopia, was born. Eskender was killed at age 22 fighting the Maya, a vanished ethnic group known for using poisoned arrows.
1573Jul 15Inigo Jones (d.1652), father of English classical architecture, was born in London.  He restored St. Paul’s Cathedral.
1609Jul 15Annibale Carracci (b.1560), Italian Baroque painter, died.
1685Jul 15James Scott, the Duke of Monmouth and illegitimate son of Charles II, was executed on Tower Hill in England, after his army was defeated at Sedgemoor.
1700Jul 15Johann Christoph Richter, composer, was born.
1779Jul 15Clement Moore, founder of the General Theological Seminary in New York City, was born.
   
1782Jul 15Farinelli (77), Italian castrato, died.
1788Jul 15Louis XVI jailed 12 deputies who protest new judicial reforms.
1789Jul 15The electors of Paris set up a “Commune” to live without the authority of the government.
1796Jul 15Thomas Bulfinch, historian and mythologist (The Age of Fable), was born.
1801Jul 15Pope Pius VII and Napoleon signed the Concordat of 1801 brokering religious peace with Rome and granting equality to Jews. It solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and brought back most of its civil status.
1813Jul 15Napoleon Bonaparte’s representatives met with the Allies in Prague to discuss peace terms.
1815Jul 15Napoleon Bonaparte was captured by the British Navy at Rochefort, France, while attempting to escape to America.
1830Jul 153 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk & Fox, signed a treaty giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa & Missouri.
1834Jul 15Lord Napier of England arrived at Macao, China as the first chief superintendent of trade.
1836Jul 15William Winter, drama critic and essayist for The New York Times, was born.
1850Jul 15Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini, the first American canonized saint, was born.
1855Jul 15In San Francisco St. Ignatius Church on Market St. was dedicated by Archbishop Alemany. The simple wood and plaster structure cost $4,000. Anthony Maraschi, SJ, soon began construction for a school and residence.
   
1857Jul 15Carl Czerny (66), Austrian pianist, composer, died.
1863Jul 15Confederate raider Bill Anderson and his Bushwackers attacked Huntsville, Missouri, stealing $45,000 from the local bank.
1868Jul 15William Thomas Morton (b.1819), dentist, died in NYC. He was responsible for the first successful public demonstration of ether as an inhalation anesthetic. Morton’s accomplishment was the key factor to the medical and scientific pursuit that we now refer to as anesthesiology.
1870Jul 15Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be admitted to the Union.
1883Jul 15Tom Thumb (44), famous small person (40″), died of a stroke.
1895Jul 15Stephen Stambulov, ex-prime minister of Bulgaria was murdered by Macedonian rebels.
1897Jul 15W. Sheldon of NY patented a seed counter for retail seed sales.
1901Jul 15Over 74,000 Pittsburgh steel workers went on strike.
1904Jul 15Dorothy Fields, songwriter, was born.
1906Jul 15Richard W. Armour, humorist, author of “Twisted Tales from Shakespeare,” was born.
1912Jul 15British National Health Insurance Act went into effect.
1913Jul 15Hammond Innes, English novelist, was born.
1914Jul 15Mexican president Huerta fled with 2 million pesos to Europe.
1916Jul 15The Boeing Co., originally known as Pacific Aero Products, was founded in Seattle by William Boeing.
1917Jul 15Robert Conquest, English author (Back to Life), was born.
   
1918Jul 15The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I.
1922Jul 151st duck-billed platypus was publicly exhibited in US at a NY zoo.
1929Jul 15Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright, poet, died.
1933Jul 15Wiley Post began the 1st solo flight around world.
1941Jul 15Florey and Heatley presented freeze dried mold cultures (Penicillin).
1942Jul 15The first supply flight from India to China over the ‘Hump’ was flown to help China’s war effort.
1944Jul 15Greenwich Observatory was damaged by German V1 rocket.
1946Jul 15Linda Ronstadt (singer: group: The Stone Poneys: Different Drum; solo: Blue Bayou, You’re No Good, When Will I Be Loved, It’s So Easy, Ooh Baby Baby, Hurt So Bad; actress: Pirates of Penzance), was born in Tucson, Arizona.
1947Jul 15Convertibility of British sterling into US dollars, negotiated as part of a $5 billion US loan to Britain in 1946, came into effect. It caused an immediate run on the pound and was abandoned on August 20.
1948Jul 15John J. Pershing (87), [Black Jack], US general (Mexico, WW I), died.
1952Jul 15Jesse Ventura, [James Janos], wrestler, actor, politician (MN Governor), was born.
1953Jul 15Jean-Bertrand Aristide, president of Haiti (1991, 1994-1995), was born.
1954Jul 15The Boeing “Dash 80,” a prototype of the 707, made its first test flight.
1960Jul 15John F. Kennedy accepted the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
   
1961Jul 15Spain accepted equal rights for men and women.
1965Jul 15US scientists displayed close-up photographs of the planet Mars taken by “Mariner Four.” It passed over Mars at an altitude of 6,000 feet.
1968Jul 15The TV soap opera “One Life to Live” premiered. Its final episode was scheduled in the Fall of 2011.
1971Jul 15President Nixon announced he would visit the People’s Republic of China to seek a “normalization of relations.”
1974Jul 15A military coup took place on Cyprus and archbishop-president Makarios fled. Nikos Giorgiades Sampson (d.2001 at 66) served as president for 8 days following the military coup that overthrew Archbishop Makarios. PM Bulent Ecevit ordered Turkish troops to invade Cyprus following the Greek Cypriot coup.
1975Jul 15Three American astronauts blasted off aboard an Apollo spaceship hours after two Soviet cosmonauts were launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft for a mission that included a linkup of the two ships in orbit.
1978Jul 15Bob Dylan performed before some 200,000 fans at Blackbushe Airport, England, in the largest open-air concert audience at the time (for a single artist).
1979Jul 15President Carter delivered his “malaise” speech in which he lamented what he called a “crisis of confidence” in America.
1983Jun 15The US Supreme Court struck down state & local restrictions on abortion.
1985Jul 15A gaunt-looking Rock Hudson appeared at a news conference with actress Doris Day to promote her cable television program. It was later revealed Hudson was suffering from AIDS.
1987Jul 15Taiwan Pres. Chiang Ching-Kuo, son of Chiang Kai-Shek, ended 37 years of martial law.
1989Jul 15Leaders of the seven major industrial democracies, meeting in Paris, voiced support for democracy behind the Iron Curtain and condemned repression in China.
1990Jul 15Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl held talks on the issue of a united Germany’s membership in NATO.
1991Jul 15Group of Seven leaders opened their 17th annual economic summit in London, plunging into debate over aid to the Soviet Union.
1992Jul 15Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton claimed the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in New York City.
1993Jul 15Authorities in Los Angeles announced eight arrests in connection with an alleged plot by white supremacists to ignite a race war by bombing a black church and killing prominent black Americans. Christopher Fisher, leader of the Fourth Reich Skinheads, was later sentenced to more than 8 years in federal prison while defendant Carl Daniel Boese was sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison; both had pleaded guilty to arson and conspiracy charges.
1994Jul 15In Hungary Gyula Horn, president of the Socialist Party, began serving as prime minister.
1995Jul 15A 19-year-old sales clerk was rescued after being buried in the rubble of a collapsed shopping mall in Seoul, South Korea, for 16 days.
1996Jul 15Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole picked New York congresswoman Susan Molinari to deliver the keynote address at the upcoming GOP convention.
1997Jul 15In Algeria Abassi Madani, former leader of the Islamic Salvation Front, was released after serving 5 years of a 12 year sentence.
1998Jul 15The Congressional Budget Office estimated federal surpluses of $1.55 trillion over the next decade.
1999Jul 15The Seattle Mariners played their first game in their new home, Safeco Field, losing to the San Diego Padres, 3-to-2.
2000Jul 15Lennox Lewis stopped Francois Botha at 2:39 of the second round to retain his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles in London.
2001Jul 15In Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina left office. Pres. Shahabuddin Ahmad appointed Latifur Rahman to head a caretaker administration. At least 4 people were killed in street clashes.
2002Jul 15The US Senate voted 97-0 for a bill to crack down on corporate accounting abuses.
2003Jul 15The American League beat the National League in the All-Star Game 7-6.
2004Jul 15Israel said it will spend $11.1 million to change completed portions of its West Bank barrier, building new roads, underpasses and tunnels to try to ease Palestinian conditions.
2005`Jul 15The Israeli military launched an airstrike at a van carrying a group of Hamas militants and a cache of homemade rockets in a Gaza City street, killing 4 people.
2006Jul 15US authorities extradited Jean Succar Kuri, a Mexican businessman with alleged ties to associates of a powerful state governor, to face charges in Mexico of child pornography, statutory rape and corruption of minors.
2007Jul 15The Los Angeles Times reported that about 45 percent of all foreign militants targeting US troops and Iraqi security forces were from Saudi Arabia, 15 percent from Syria and Lebanon, and 10 percent from North Africa.
2008Jul 15Taiwan indicted 5 former ministers, who had served under former Pres. Chen Shui-bian, on corruption charges relating to misuse of special expense accounts.
2009Jul 15Space shuttle Endeavour rocketed toward the international space station as engineers on Earth pored over launch pictures that showed debris breaking off the fuel tank and striking the craft.
2010Jul 15The US Senate approved a 2,300 page bill for financial overhaul. The House passed the bill last month and Pres. Obama was expected to sign it into law.
2011Jul 15In Atlanta, Georgia, security guard Nkosi Thandiwe (22) opened fire on 3 women in a parking garage killing one and wounding two. He was arrested and charged with murder.
2012Jul 15The Chinese province of Hunan urged parents to seek immediate treatment for children showing symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease after official figures showed 112 people died from the illness last month.
2013Jul 15In Philadelphia Michael Scripps (36), a descendent of the founder of the Detroit News, was sentenced to 9 years in priuson for stealing $3.6 million from his mother and disabled uncle.
2014Jul 15California’s Water Resources Control Board approved emergency regulations that allow local law enforcement and water agencies to impose a maximum $500-a-day fine on water wasters.
   
 Source: Timelines of History

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