On this day ......

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7/20/1944 - Hitler survives an assassination attempt @ his headquarters in Rastenburg, East Prussia. A bomb planted by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg

 

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20 July 1890 – Birth of King George II of Greece

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

 

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7/21/1863- Birth of Sir C Aubrey Smith, actor & cricketer

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

 

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21 July 1899 – Birth of Ernest Hemingway

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

 

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7/22/1862 - Birth of Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish landowner, fencer, controversial survivor of RMS Titanic

 

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22 July 1298 – Battle of Falkirk – King Edward I of England defeats William Wallace outside the town of Falkirk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Falkirk_(1298)

 

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7/23/1503 - Birth of Anne of Bohemia & Hungary

 

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23 July 1885 – Death of Ulysses S Grant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant

 

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7/23/1892 - Birth of Haile Selassie - Emperor of Ethiopia

 

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24 July 1895 – Birth of Robert Graves

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

 

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7/25/1603 James VI of Scotland is crowned King of England

 

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7/26/1856 - Birth of George Bernard Shaw in Dublin, Ireland

 

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July 27, 1900 - Making a speech about the Boxer Rebellion, Kaiser Wilhelm II compares Germans to Huns. Needless to say, he rued that day!

 

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July 28, 1540 - Thomas Cromwell executed for treason on the orders of Henry VIII

 

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7/29/1932 Hoover sends MacArthur to disperse the "Bonus Army"

 

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7/30/1916 - Black Tom Explosion - Act of sabotage in Jersey City, NJ by German agents on American ammunition supplies headed for the Allied Powers in WWI.

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

 

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7/31/1588 - Spanish Armada spotted off the coast of England

 

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8/1/1831 The "New" (2nd) London Bridge is opened

 

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8/2/1798 - Britain beats France in the Battle of the Nile

 

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August 3, 1914 - Germany declares war on France. WWI