July 21 1861 Confederate forces won victory at Bull Run in the first major battle of the Civil War. 1873 The first train robbery west…
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This Day In History — Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon
July 20 1810 Colombia declared independence from Spain. 1881 Fugitive Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull surrendered to federal troops. 1951 King Abdullah I of Jordan…
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July 19 1848 The first women’s rights convention, called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia C. Mott, was held in Seneca Falls, New York. 1870…
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July 18 64 A great fire began that ultimately destroyed most of Rome. The emperor Nero blamed it on Christians and began the first Roman…
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July 17 1821 Spain ceded Florida to the United States. 1898 Spain surrendered to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, ending the Spanish-American War. 1917…
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July 16 1790 The District of Columbia was established as the seat of the United States government. 1918 Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his family…
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July 15 1869 Margarine was patented in France by Hippolyte Mege Mouries. 1870 Georgia became the last of the Confederate States to be readmitted to…
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July 14 1789 The storming and destruction of Bastille marked the beginning of the French Revolution. 1798 Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a…
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July 13 1793 French revolutionary Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by royalist sympathizer Charlotte Corday. 1863 The draft riots, protesting…
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July 12 1543 England’s King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr. 1690 Protestant William of Orange defeated Roman Catholic James II…
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