On this day ......

[MassRuss]

July 26, 1678 - Birth of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor

 

[ScottishBiTeen]

July 27th 1940 - Bugs Bunny makes his debut in the cartoon titled A Wild Hare.

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

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

 

[MassRuss]

I love Bugs Bunny. He's so campy (& even funnier when one is smoking that "other" tobacco)

July 28, 1914 - Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo

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

 

[unloadonme]

27 July 1984 – Death of James Mason

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

 

[unloadonme]

28 July 1844 – Birth of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

 

[ScottishBiTeen]

July 29th 1948 - The opening ceremony of the 1948 Summer Olympics takes place in London.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Summer_Olympics

 

[MassRuss]

July 29, 1924 - Birth of murder victim Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia. Killed in LA in 1947, never solved

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

 

[unloadonme]

29 July 1883 – Birth of Benito Mussolini

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

 

[unloadonme]

30 July 1818 – Birth of Emily Brontë

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

 

[ScottishBiTeen]

July 30th 1975 - Jimmy Hoffa, a labour union leader with mob connections, disappears after last being seen outside a restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan.

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

 

[Triple G]

July 30, 1909 General Motors buys Cadillac for $4.5 million.

 

[MassRuss]

July 30, 1916 - Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, NJ. (sabotage by the Kaiser's Germany, arms were being made for the allies)

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

 

[MassRuss]

July 31, 1919 - German National Assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution.

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

 

[unloadonme]

31 July 1423 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant – the French army is defeated by the English at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.

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

 

[ScottishBiTeen]

1st August 2007 - The I-35W Mississippi River bridge (aka Bridge 9340) in Minneapolis, Minnesota suddenly collapses into the Mississippi River, killing 13 people and injuring 145. Structural defects and extra weight are later identified as the cause of the disaster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge

 

[unloadonme]

1 August is Yorkshire Day!

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

 

[unloadonme]

2 August 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.

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

 

[MassRuss]

August 2, 1100 - Death of William II (aka William Rufus) of England, by an arrow, possibly murdered

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

 

[MassRuss]

August 3, 1936 - Jesse Owens wins 100 meter dash @ Berlin Olympics. Hitler bites tongue off!!

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

 

[unloadonme]

3 August 1872 – Birth of King Haakon VII of Norway

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