|
Jul 08-15 |
|
|
Email:
Phone: 01728 723306 Fax: 0871 247 4524 Pester: 07970 865730 2 Station Terrace Framlingham WOODBRIDGE IP13 9EF UK
|
|
|
Get our
Noosletter |
On This Day in History ~ July ~ juillet ~ luglio ~ jślius
|
Jul 8
|
1978 |
Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler made the first ascent of Everest without the use of oxygen |
|
1942 |
Cary Grant married the Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton | ||
| 1889 | The American John L Sullivan won the last bare knuckle heavyweight world boxing title | ||
|
Jul 9 |
1922 |
Johnny Weismuller became the first person to swim 100 metres in less than a minute |
|
| 1900 | Charlotte Cooper, representing Great Britain, became the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal when she won the tennis singles final | ||
|
Jul10
|
1989 |
Maurice (Mo) Johnston became the first Roman Catholic player to join Glasgow Rangers when he transferred from FC Nantes for £1.5 million |
|
| 1962 | Telstar I, the world's first television telecommunications satellite, was launched | ||
| 1943 | The ball-point pen, invented by Lazlo Biro, was patented | ||
|
Jul11 |
1302 |
Battle of the Golden Spurs | |
|
Jul12 |
1910 |
Charles Stewart Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce, became the first Briton to be killed in a plane crash | |
|
Jul13 |
1837 |
Buckingham Palace became a royal residence |
 |
| 1793 | Charlotte Corday assassinated Jean Paul Marat | ||
|
Jul14 |
1952 |
Television was first transmitted in Scotland | |
1891 |
The first submarine telephone line was laid across the English Channel |
||
| 1885 | The Gilbert and Sullivan opera The Mikado opened | ||
|
Jul15 |
1869 |
Hippolytes Mege Mouries patented margarine in France | |
|
|
.jpg)