July 17, 1974: John Lennon is ordered to leave the U.S. in 60 days.
7/17, ca. 2300 BCE: Noah’s ark grounds in the mountains of Ararat.
July 17, 1955: Disneyland opens.
July 18, 1927: Ty Cobb gets his 4000th Major League hit.
July 18, 1925: Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
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.
July 18, 1969: Chappaquiddick
ooops, I just noticed I typed July 17. But 18th is the correct day for my event up there ^^
July 19, 1799: Michel Ange Lancret reports the finding of the Rosetta Stone.
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.
July 19, 1966: Governor James Rhodes declares a state of emergency, due to a Cleveland race riot.
It’s July 20 over here already, and in 1969 that was the date of the first moon landing.
July 20, 1944: Operation Valkyrie assassination attempt on Adolph Hitler fails.
July 20, 1960: The U.S.S.R. recovered two dogs; first living organisms to return from space.
July 20 1977 – The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.
**July 21, 1925 **: Scopes Monkey Trial ends with a guilty verdict. John Scopes is fined $100.00 for teaching evolution.
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).
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.
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.
July 23, 1930: Irpinia earthquake (6.6 magnitude) in Italy kills over 1400, injures nearly 7000.