# 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:** 65
**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 16, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1284 "2018-07-16T05:47:13Z")
**July 16, 1948** : [The Miss Macao](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Macao) becomes the first commercial airliner to be hijacked. 25 die. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1285 "2018-07-16T05:53:31Z")
**July 16, 1969:** Apollo 11 blasts off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, heading for a landing on the moon. (One of the best days of my life.) ---
**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 16, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1286 "2018-07-16T23:25:34Z")
**July 16, 1941:** Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as an MLB record. ---
**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, 2018, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1287 "2018-07-17T06:07:34Z")
**July 17, 1998** : [A 7.0 earthquake off the coast of New Guinea](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Papua_New_Guinea_earthquake&ved=2ahUKEwjFmOnIuqXcAhWkxVkKHVMQAsEQFjAAegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw34LHqBjSMBLF0NSeQR5RlS) triggers a tsunami that kills between 2100 and 2700 people. Thousands more are injured. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1288 "2018-07-17T10:49:01Z")
**July 17, 1864:** Confederate President Jefferson Davis replaces General Joseph E. Johnston with General John Bell Hood in hopes of defeating Union General William T. Sherman outside Atlanta. ---
**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, 2018, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1289 "2018-07-18T22:11:30Z")
**July 18, 1969:** Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal basin at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1290 "2018-07-19T03:38:28Z")
**July 18, 1942:** The German Me-262, the first jet-propelled aircraft to fly in combat, makes its first flight. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1291 "2018-07-19T10:33:44Z")
**July 19, 1975:** Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts dock in orbit. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1292 "2018-07-20T19:45:00Z")
**July 20, 1969:** At 20:17 UTC, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their spacecraft, _Eagle_, at Mare Tranquilitatis on the surface of Earth’s Moon; Command Module Pilot Michael Colllins remained on orbit in _Columbia_, the most alone human in existence, for about 22 hours until Armstrong and Aldrin rejoined him . Later, Armstrong became the first of twelve humans to walk of the surface of Luna throughout the Apollo program. ---
**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, 2018, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1293 "2018-07-21T07:18:54Z")
**July 21, 1952** : [The 7.7 White Wolf Fault Earthquake](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.sjvgeology.org/geology/bakersfield_earthquake.html&ved=2ahUKEwj0pIfT0a_cAhXmzVkKHVQKDOoQFjAfegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw2eJiNM3MzQcyUmk8wpoFWl) in California kills 14. This is the third strongest earthquake in that state’s recorded history. ---
**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 21, 2018, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1294 "2018-07-21T08:02:57Z")
**July 21, 1925:** In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2018, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1295 "2018-07-21T17:47:32Z")
**July 21, 1954:** France signs an armistice with the Viet Minh to end the war and divide Vietnam into two countries. ---
**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, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1296 "2018-07-22T05:47:34Z")
**July 22, 2011** : [A lone bomber/gunman kills 77 in Norway.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks) ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1297 "2018-07-22T10:19:38Z")
**July 22, 1966:** B-52 bombers hit the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam for the first time. ---
**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 23, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1298 "2018-07-23T18:24:13Z")
**July 23, 1982:** Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them while shooting a scene from _Twilight Zone: The Movie._ ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1299 "2018-07-23T19:29:26Z")
**July 23, 1995** Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1300 "2018-07-23T23:22:50Z")
**July 23, 1903:** The Ford Motor Company sells its first automobile, the Model A. ---
**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 24, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1301 "2018-07-24T21:36:25Z")
**July 24, 1943:** “Operation Gomorrah” begins: British and Canadian airplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes bomb the city by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1302 "2018-07-24T21:52:44Z")
**July 24, 1974:** The Supreme Court rules that President Richard Nixon must surrender the Watergate tapes. ---
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1303 "2018-07-25T20:00:49Z")
**July 25, 1984:** Svetlana Savitskaya becomes first woman to perform a space walk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530.md?page=64) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530.md?page=66)