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July 24 1704-English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar.
........1975-Applol 18 returns to Earth.

25 July 2004
Lance Armstrong makes history, winning his 6th (consecutive) Tour de France.


And Yesterday he got the 7th victory <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

25 july 1909
– French aviator Louis Blériot made the first crossing of the English Channel in a heavier-than-air flying machine.

25 july 1978
– Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England.

25 july 2000
– Air France Concorde Flight 4590 crashed after takeoff in Paris, killing 113 people.

and confirms his retirement from bicycle racing. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

26 July 1991
Sonic the Hedgehog is released for the Sega Megadrive in Japan

July 26 1945- Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister.
........1943- Mick Jagger born.

On July 26, 1908, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is born when U.S. Attorney General Charles Bonaparte orders a group of newly hired federal investigators to report to Chief Examiner Stanley W. Finch of the Department of Justice.

July 27, 1940 - Bugs Bunny makes his official debut in the animated cartoon A Wild Hare.

August 6 1945
- World War II: Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress of the U.S. Army Air Force, dropped an atomic bomb named Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated 80,000 people instantly.

August 6, 1991 - The very first website went online. It was built by Tim Berners-Lee, who later, in 1994, founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

I hope some of us did stood still that today it was the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I saw the documentary on Canvas tonight and I was really shocked by the images of the little children, burned untill they were black. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" /> I hope such things may never happen again!!

August 7, 1960
- Independence Day in Côte d'Ivoire

7 august 1876
Margaretha Zelle is born in Leeuwarden, Holland. She is better known as Mata Hari.

August 12, 1851
- Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine.

August 12, 1985
- Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashed in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520 of 524 on board in the world's worst single-aircraft aviation disaster.

August 13 1942 - Walt Disney's fifth animated feature, Bambi, premiers.

To my dearest grandfather who is now looking upon me, have a happy birthday where ever you are, without pain and grief, only happiness and joy! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/kissyou.gif" alt="" />


13 August 1913
- Harry Brearley developed stainless steel.

August 13 1960
-Independence Day for the Central African Republic

13 august 1918
- Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.

Birthdays
13 august 1926
- Fidel Castro, revolutionary and politician

august 16, 1977
Rock & Roll legend Elvis Presley died at age 42 in his Graceland Mansion in Memphis Tennessee.

17.08.1807
Robert Fulton's first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.

19 august 1848
- California Gold Rush: The New York Herald reported news to the East Coast of the United States that a gold rush was on in California.

august 21, 1772
- A coup led by Gustav III was completed by adopting a new Instrument of Government, ending the Age of Liberty in Sweden.

august 21, 1959
- Hawaii was admitted as the 50th U.S. state.

august 21, 1986
- Toxic gas erupted from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing over 1700 people.


Birthdays august 21
1956 - Kim Cattrall, actress (from Sex and the City)
1967 - Carrie-Anne Moss, actress (The Matrix trilogy)
1984 - Alizée, french singer (song 'Moi Lolita')

August 23

1962 - First live television connection between the United States and Europe, via the Telstar satellite.
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1968 - Ringo Starr temporarily quits The Beatles

24 august 79
- Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae with volcanic ash.

24 august 1572
- St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: a massacre of Huguenots began. An estimated 70,000 people were killed in France in the following weeks.

24 august 1847
- Charlotte Brontë finishes Jane Eyre.

24 august 1853
- Potato chips first prepared. Long life that inventor!! Yummie!

24 august 1992
- Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida

and this can go on and on and on and .... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />