Anniversaries

20th July 2011 (16 Years)

Lucian Freud, German-born English artist, died.

21st July 1613 (414 Years)

Coronation of Michael, Tsar of Russia, the founder of the Romanov dynasty.

21st July 1816 (211 Years)

Paul Reuter, German-born British entrepreneur, and the founder of the Reuters news agency, is born.

21st July 1896 (131 Years)

The first romantic kiss on screen is shown in the film The Kiss. The kiss lasted 30 seconds and caused many to rail against decadence in the new medium of silent film.

21st July 1899 (128 Years)

Ernest Hemingway, American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer, was born.

21st July 1927 (100 Years)

Famous Jack Dempsey vs Jack Sharkey, boxing match at Yankee Stadium.

21st July 1934 (93 Years)

John Dillinger, the American bank robber and Public Enemy No.1, is shot to death by police outside Biograph Theater in Chicago.

21st July 1948 (79 Years)

Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator, died.

21st July 1994 (33 Years)

Tony Blair becomes the leader of the Labour Party.

21st July 1998 (29 Years)

Alan Bartlett "Al" Shepard, American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, flag officer, and the first American to travel into space, died.

22nd July 1713 (314 Years)

Jacque-Germain Soufflot, a French architect, is born.

22nd July 1988 (39 Years)

Luigi Lucioni, Italian landscape painter, dies.

23rd July 1863 (164 Years)

Alexandra Park opens in North London.

23rd July 1966 (61 Years)

Edward Montgomery "Monty" Clift, American film and stage actor, died.

24th July 1567 (460 Years)

Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.

24th July 1860 (167 Years)

Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter and graphic artist, was born.

24th July 1897 (130 Years)

Amelia Mary Earhart, American aviation pioneer and author, was born.

25th July 1593 (434 Years)

"Paris is well worth a Mass". Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.

25th July 1834 (193 Years)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian, dies.

25th July 1944 (83 Years)

The Battle of Normandy fought during World War II.

25th July 1969 (58 Years)

Otto Dix, German painter and printmaker, died aged 77.

25th July 1986 (41 Years)

Vincente Minnelli, American stage and film director, famous for directing classic movie musicals as An American in Paris, died.

26th July 1791 (236 Years)

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor, son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is born.

26th July 1893 (134 Years)

George Grosz, German painter and illustrator, was born.

26th July 1928 (99 Years)

Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer was born.

26th July 1945 (82 Years)

The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.

26th July 1952 (75 Years)

María Eva Duarte de Perón, second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón and First Lady of Argentina, died.

27th July 1214 (813 Years)

Battle of Bouvines during the Angevin-Flanders War.

27th July 1768 (259 Years)

Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter, was born.

27th July 1768 (259 Years)

Charlotte Corday, French assassin of Jean-Paul Marat, was born.

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