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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This Day In History — Saddam Hussein became President of Iraq
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 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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July 11 1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicated England’s King Henry VIII. 1804 Former vice president Aaron Burr fatally wounded former secretary of the treasury Alexander…
View More This Day In History — Babe Ruth made his Major League Baseball DebutThis Day In History — Wyoming became the 44th State
July 10 1890 Wyoming became the 44th state in the United States. 1940 The Battle of Britain began. 1951 Armistice talks to end the Korean…
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July 09 1816 Argentina formally declared independence from Spain. 1850 Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the U.S., died after only 16 months in office.…
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July 08 1776 The first public reading of the Declaration of Independence was given in Philadelphia, Pa. 1777 Vermont became the first colony to abolish…
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June 30 1859 French acrobat Charles Blondin, AKA Jean Francois Gravelet, walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. 1908 A powerful natural explosion from an…
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