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Post by Charity on Jul 30, 2005 11:31:51 GMT -5
July 27 In 1858, 1st use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made Thumbody Loves You Fingerprint Craft Fingerprint Science DNA Fingerprinting Paper Handcast Art Thumb Print – I’m Special Finger Print Lesson Plan Create a DNA Fingerprint Who Did it Activity Types of Fingerprints Overview of Fingerprints In 1866, Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US In 1868, 14th Amendment ratified, grants citizenship to ex-slaves In 1931, Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem Click here to access fingerprints study links www.a0kteacherstuff.com/Jul_calendar.htm
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Post by Charity on Jul 30, 2005 11:32:18 GMT -5
July 29 In 1945, After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed & sunk by a Japanese submarine In 1958, President Eisenhower signs NASA & Space Act of 1958 In 1988, Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit www.a0kteacherstuff.com/Jul_calendar.htm
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Post by Charity on Jul 30, 2005 11:32:57 GMT -5
July 30 In 1619, House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective US governing body In 1898, Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes In 1935, 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution In 1956, US motto "In God We Trust" authorized July 31 In 1498, Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad In 1620, Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America In 1774, Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen In 1777, Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army www.a0kteacherstuff.com/Jul_calendar.htm
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Post by Charity on Jul 15, 2007 21:22:50 GMT -5
July 16, 1948 - The city of Nazareth, hometown of Jesus, capitulated to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel led by Ben Dunkelman, after little more than token resistance, during 1948 Arab-Israeli War. July 16, 1979 - Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_16
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Post by renjac on Jul 30, 2007 17:36:04 GMT -5
July 31: General Interest 1975 : Jimmy Hoffa disappears
On July 31, 1975, James Riddle Hoffa, one of the most influential American labor leaders of the 20th century, disappears in Detroit, Michigan, never to be heard from again. Though he is popularly believed to have been the victim of a Mafia hit, conclusive evidence was never found, and Hoffa's death remains shrouded in mystery to this day.
Born in 1913 to a poor coal miner in Brazil, Indiana, Jimmy Hoffa proved a natural leader in his youth. At the age of 20, he helped organize a labor strike in Detroit, and remained an advocate for downtrodden workers for the rest of his life. Hoffa's charisma and talents as a local organizer quickly got him noticed by the Teamsters and carried him upward through its ranks. Then a small but rapidly growing union, the Teamsters organized truckers across the country, and through the use of strikes, boycotts and some more powerful though less legal methods of protest, won contract demands on behalf of workers.
Hoffa became president of the Teamsters in 1957, when its former leader was imprisoned for bribery. As chief, Hoffa was lauded for his tireless work to expand the union, and for his unflagging devotion to even the organization's least powerful members. His caring and approachability were captured in one of the more well-known quotes attributed to him: "You got a problem? Call me. Just pick up the phone."
Hoffa's dedication to the worker and his electrifying public speeches made him wildly popular, both among his fellow workers and the politicians and businessmen with whom he negotiated. Yet, for all the battles he fought and won on behalf of American drivers, he also had a dark side. In Hoffa's time, many Teamster leaders partnered with the Mafia in racketeering, extortion and embezzlement. Hoffa himself had relationships with high-ranking mobsters, and was the target of several government investigations throughout the 1960s. In 1967, he was convicted of bribery and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
While in jail, Hoffa never ceded his office, and when Richard Nixon commuted his sentence in 1971, he was poised to make a comeback. Released on condition of not participating in union activities for 10 years, Hoffa was planning to fight the restriction in court when he disappeared on July 31, 1975, from the parking lot of a restaurant in
Detroit, not far from where he got his start as a labor organizer. Several conspiracy theories have been floated about Hoffa's disappearance and the location of his remains, but the truth remains unknown.
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Post by renjac on Jul 24, 2008 10:31:30 GMT -5
Today's Highlight in History:
On July 24, 1858, Republican senatorial candidate Abraham Lincoln formally challenged Democrat Stephen A. Douglas to a series of political debates; the result was seven face-to-face encounters.
On this date:
In 1783, Latin American revolutionary Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela.
In 1847, Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah.
In 1862, the eighth president of the United States, Martin Van Buren, died in Kinderhook, N.Y.
In 1866, Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.
In 1929, President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.
In 1937, the state of Alabama dropped charges against four of the nine young black men accused of raping two white women in the "Scottsboro Case."
In 1948, Henry A. Wallace accepted the presidential nomination of the Progressive Party in Philadelphia.
In 1959, during a visit to Moscow, Vice President Richard M. Nixon engaged in his famous "Kitchen Debate" with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
In 1967, French President Charles de Gaulle stirred controversy during a visit to Montreal, Canada, when he declared, "Vive le Quebec libre!" (Long live free Quebec!)
In 1974, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
Ten years ago: A gunman burst into the U.S. Capitol, opening fire and killing two police officers before being shot and captured. (The accused shooter, Russell Eugene Weston Jr., is being held in a federal mental facility.) The motion picture "Saving Private Ryan," starring Tom Hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg, was released.
Five years ago: The House and Senate intelligence committees issued their final report on the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, citing countless blunders, oversights and miscalculations that prevented authorities from stopping the attackers.
One year ago: President Bush, speaking at Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina, sought to justify the Iraq war by citing intelligence reports he said showed a link between al-Qaida's operation in Iraq and the terror group that attacked the United States on Sept. 11. A grand jury in New Orleans refused to indict Dr. Anna Pou, who was accused of murdering four seriously ill hospital patients with drug injections during the desperate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, sentenced to life in prison in Libya for allegedly infecting children with HIV, were released after 8 1/2 years behind bars. The U.S. minimum wage rose 70 cents to $5.85 an hour, the first increase in a decade.
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