# Today in History **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 10, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530 "2016-07-10T04:53:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/41 "2016-07-17T08:21:54Z")
July 17, 1974: John Lennon is ordered to leave the U.S. in 60 days. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/42 "2016-07-17T09:54:43Z")
7/17, ca. 2300 BCE: Noah’s ark grounds in the mountains of Ararat. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/43 "2016-07-17T13:53:15Z")
**July 17, 1955** : Disneyland opens. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/44 "2016-07-18T04:18:38Z")
**July 18, 1927** : Ty Cobb gets his 4000th Major League hit. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/45 "2016-07-18T15:23:49Z")
July 18, 1925: Hitler publishes _Mein Kampf._ ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/46 "2016-07-18T23:48:57Z")
July 17 1984 – The dismembered body of Swedish prostitute Catrine da Costa is found in Stockholm, the findings later led to a trial that ended in a mistrial for two accused doctors. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/47 "2016-07-19T00:02:10Z")
**July 18, 1969** : Chappaquiddick ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/48 "2016-07-19T00:03:36Z")
ooops, I just noticed I typed July 17. But 18th is the correct day for my event up there ^^ ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/49 "2016-07-19T14:07:11Z")
**July 19, 1799** : Michel Ange Lancret reports the finding of the Rosetta Stone. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/50 "2016-07-19T23:58:53Z")
July 19 1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/51 "2016-07-20T02:33:17Z")
July 19, 1966: Governor James Rhodes declares a state of emergency, due to a Cleveland race riot. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/52 "2016-07-20T02:36:57Z")
It’s July 20 over here already, and in 1969 that was the date of the first moon landing. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/53 "2016-07-20T04:47:12Z")
**July 20, 1944** : Operation Valkyrie assassination attempt on Adolph Hitler fails. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/54 "2016-07-20T10:38:37Z")
July 20, 1960: The U.S.S.R. recovered two dogs; first living organisms to return from space. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/55 "2016-07-20T23:09:45Z")
July 20 1977 – The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/56 "2016-07-21T04:52:24Z")
\*\*July 21, 1925 \*\*: Scopes Monkey Trial ends with a guilty verdict. John Scopes is fined $100.00 for teaching evolution. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/57 "2016-07-21T22:58:20Z")
July 21 1961 – Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/58 "2016-07-21T23:51:32Z")
July 22, 1934 (it’s Friday morning already over here): G-Men shoot and kill Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/59 "2016-07-22T11:42:32Z")
**July 22, 1991** : Jeffery Dahmer is arrested after an intended victim escapes and leads police to an apartment full of body parts —including a head in the refrigerator. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/60 "2016-07-23T05:34:58Z")
**July 23, 1930** : Irpinia earthquake (6.6 magnitude) in Italy kills over 1400, injures nearly 7000. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530.md?page=4)