And the next date in the calendar is....

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19 July 1843 – Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Britain

 

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20 July 1903 – Death of Pope Leo XIII

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIII

 

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July 21,1944 - Count von Stauffenberg & other conspirators are executed in Berlin for the July 20th attempt to blow up Hitler @ Rastenburg, East Prussia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_von_Stauffenberg

 

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22 July 1812 – And another! - Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War – Battle of Salamanca – British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Salamanca

 

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Oh dear, it seems to be becoming a habit

July 23, 1793 - Kingdom of Prussia takes back Mainz from France

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainz

 

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24 July 1895 – Birth of Robert Graves

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves

 

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July 25, 1934 - Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor (he was a fascist dictator too) Engelbert Dollfuss

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbert_Dollfuss

 

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July 26, 1856 - Birth of George Bernard Shaw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw

 

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July 27, 1794 - Robespierre is arrested during his own "Reign of Terror"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre

 

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July 28th 1938 - One of Pan Am's Martin M-130 flying boats, the Hawaii Clipper disappears en route from Guam to Manila with 15 people on board.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Clipper

 

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July 28, 1540 - Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex is executed per Henry VIII for treason

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell

On the same day, Henry married Catherine Howard, wife/Queen #5, who he would execute in 1541.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Howard

 

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July 29, 1836 - Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_de_Triomphe

 

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30 July 1912 – Death of Emperor Meiji of Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Meiji

 

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July 31, 1588 - Spanish Armada sited off the coast of England (not for long)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Armada

 

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1 August 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833

 

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August 2, 1905 - Birth of actress Myrna Loy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrna_Loy

 

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3 August 1867 – Birth of Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC, FRS, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Baldwin

 

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4 August 1721 – Birth of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Leveson-Gower,_1st_Marquess_of_Stafford

 

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6 August 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima

 

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August 7th 1974 - Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, 1,368 feet (417m) in the air.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit