On this day ......

[mbamike]

On July 9, 1877, the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club begins its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon, then an outer-suburb of London. Twenty-one amateurs showed up to compete in the Gentlemen's Singles tournament, the only event at the first Wimbledon. The winner was to take home a 25-guinea trophy. SOURCE: This Day in History.

 

[MassRuss]

11/10/1460 _ Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats Lancastrian forces @ Battle of Northampton, taking Henry VI prisoner

 

[unloadonme]

10 July 138 – Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.

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

 

[MassRuss]

7/11/1533 - Pope Clement VII excommunicates Henry VIII

 

[MassRuss]

7/12/1801 - 2nd Battle of Algeciras - British Fleet defeats French & Spanish Fleets

 

[MassRuss]

7/13/1793 - Jean Paul Marat assassinated in his bath by Charlotte Corday

 

[unloadonme]

13 July 1903 – Birth of Kenneth, Baron Clark, OM, CH, KCB, FBA

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

 

[MassRuss]

7/13/1863 - NYC Draft Riots against the Civil War & any African Americans unlucky enough to be on the streets

 

[MassRuss]

7/14/1789 - Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille

 

[MassRuss]

July 14, 1602 - Birth of Cardinal Mazarin

 

[unloadonme]

14 July 1829 – Birth of Edward Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Benson_(bishop)

 

[MassRuss]

7/14/1911 - Birth of actor Terry-Thomas

 

[Triple G]

On this day in 1998 I arrived in New Delhi to begin my first first stay in India. Where has the llast 15 years gone?

 

[MassRuss]

7/16/1377 Coronation of Richard II of England

 

[unloadonme]

16 July 1557 – Death of Queen Anne of Cleves

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

 

[unloadonme]

17 July 1918 – Murder of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family.

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

 

[MassRuss]

7/17/1762 Catherine II (the Great) becomes Tsarina after the murder of her hubby, Peter III

 

[MassRuss]

7/18/1925 - 1st publication of Mein Kampf

 

[unloadonme]

18 July 1811 – Birth of William Makepeace Thackeray

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

 

[MassRuss]

7/19/1553 - Lady Jane Grey replaced as Queen of England

by Mary I (Tudor)