Anniversaries

8th July 2006 (20 Years)

June Allyson, American stage, film, and television actress, dancer, and singer, died.

10th July 1888 (138 Years)

Giorgio De Chirico, the metaphysical painter, was born.

10th July 1897 (129 Years)

John Gilbert, American actor, screenwriter and director, was born.

10th July 1940 (86 Years)

The Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which will last three and a half months, begins.

10th July 1947 (79 Years)

Buckingham Palace announced the betrothal of The Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten in a formal statement.

11th July 1593 (433 Years)

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter, died.

11th July 1767 (259 Years)

John Quincy Adams, American statesman who served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829, was born.

11th July 1914 (112 Years)

Babe Ruth played his first Major League Baseball game for the Boston Red Sox.

11th July 1989 (37 Years)

Laurence Olivier, English actor and director, dies aged 82.

12th July 1543 (483 Years)

King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.

12th July 1926 (100 Years)

Gertrude Bell, British writer, adventurer and political officer who helped to found the country of Iraq, dies.

13th July 1793 (233 Years)

Jean-Paul Marat, political theorist and scientist best known for his career in France as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution, was assassinated.

13th July 1863 (163 Years)

Anti-draft mobs lynch black people in New York City; about 1,000 died.

13th July 1946 (80 Years)

Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and modern art promoter, dies.

13th July 1954 (72 Years)

Frida Kahlo, the Mexican artist known for her self-portraits, died.

13th July 1985 (41 Years)

The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow.

14th July 1817 (209 Years)

Madame de Staël, French novelist, essayist, literary theorist, political propagandist, critic and poet, died.

14th July 1862 (164 Years)

Gustav Klimt, Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement, was born.

14th July 1862 (164 Years)

Gustav Klimt, Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement, was born.

14th July 1918 (108 Years)

Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter, was born.

14th July 1938 (88 Years)

Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.

14th July 1939 (87 Years)

Alphonse Mucha, the Czech Art Nouveau artist and illustrator, died.

15th July 1858 (168 Years)

Emmeline Pankhurst, English activist and academic, was born.

15th July 1892 (134 Years)

Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and art critic, is born.

15th July 1916 (110 Years)

In Seattle, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products, later renamed Boeing.

15th July 1918 (108 Years)

The Second Battle of the Marne, or Battle of Reims, the last major German offensive on the Western Front during WWI began. It will end the 6th Agust.

16th July 1216 (810 Years)

Pope Innocent III, one of the most powerful and influential popes, died.

16th July 1915 (111 Years)

Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to England during the first World War.

16th July 1941 (85 Years)

Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.

16th July 1945 (81 Years)

World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

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