# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/61 "2016-07-23T09:32:37Z")
**July 23, 1982** : Vic Morrow (father of Jennifer Jason Leigh) and two child actors are killed by a stunt helicopter crash on the set of the Twilight Zone movie. ---
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\*\*July 23, 1829: \*\*William Austin Burt patents the “typographer” (typewriter). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/63 "2016-07-24T03:41:01Z")
July 23, 1929 – The Fascist government of Italy bans the use of foreign words. Idjits. ---
**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 24, 2016, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/64 "2016-07-24T05:55:07Z")
**July, 24, 1911** : Hiram Bingham of Yale University finds Manchu Picchu. ---
**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 24, 2016, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/65 "2016-07-24T11:19:03Z")
July 24, 1990: Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait–Iraq border. ---
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\*\*July 24, 1870: \*\*First trans-U.S. rail service begins. ---
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July 24 1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank. ---
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**July 25, 1946** : first underwater nuclear bomb test, [Baker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nWFx-zmI0k) is conducted as part of Operation Crossroads. ---
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**July 25, 1603** : James VI of Scotland is crowned king of England, beginning the Stuart dynasty. ---
**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 25, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/70 "2016-07-25T22:12:20Z")
July 25 2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 passengers. ---
**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 26, 2016, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/71 "2016-07-26T05:32:17Z")
**July 26, 1908** : The FBI is founded. ---
**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 26, 2016, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/72 "2016-07-26T10:29:07Z")
\*\*July 26, 1946: \*\*President Truman orders desegregation of all U.S. forces. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/73 "2016-07-26T15:39:49Z")
July 26, 1936 – The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, dedicated to the Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the First World War, was unveiled near Vimy, Pas-de-Calais, France. > **[Canadian National Vimy Memorial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_National_Vimy_Memorial)** > > The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is a war memorial site in France dedicated to the memory of Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the First World War. It also serves as the place of commemoration for Canadian soldiers of the First World War killed or presumed dead in France who have no known grave. The monument is the centrepiece of a 100-hectare (250-acre) preserved battlefield park that encompasses a portion of the ground over which the Canadian Corps made their assault dur... ---
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July 26 1971 – Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo “J-Mission”, and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle. ---
**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 27, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/75 "2016-07-27T01:51:41Z")
July 27, 1890: Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later. (It’s the 27th now both here and in Europe.) ---
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**July 27, 1940** : The first Bugs Bunny cartoon, _A Wild Hare_, is released. ---
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July 27th 2002 – Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history. ---
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**July 28, 2014** : Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, and World War I officially begins. ---
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**July 28, 1540** : Henry the VIII marries Catherine Howard-- and on the same day Thomas Cromwell is beheaded. ---
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\*\*July 28, 1900: \*\*The world’s first hamburger is created at Louis’ Lunch in New Haven, CT, by Louis Lassing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530.md?page=5)