Friday 8 July 2011

What happened in July?

Lots of things.

Here are a few.

4 July 1774 US Declaration of Independence signed
6 July 1954 Elvis Presley made his first record
8 July 1822 Shelly drowned
10 July 1873 Paul Verlaine shot his lover Arthur Rimbuad and injured him
13 July 1798 Wordsworth wrote Tintern Abbey
14 July 1789 Fall of the Bastille in Paris
18 July 1817 Jane Austen dies
20 July 1969 Apollo 11 landed on the Moon
21 July 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial ended
22 July 1376 Pied Piper of Hamelin strutted his stuff
23 July 1829 Typewriter patented
28 July 1914 World War 1 began
30 July 1966 England won the World Cup

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