This Week in History 7/11-7/17

This Week in History

July 11:

• US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress (1798)
• First air bombing of Jerusalem (1948)
• Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel (1804)
• Congress authorizes all US currency to say “In God We Trust” (1955)
• The Hollywood Bowl opens (1922)
• Chariot’s of Fire Eric Liddell, who refused to run on Sundays, won the Olympics (1924)
• Clement VII excommunicated Henry VIII for divorcing Catherine of Aragon and marrying Anne Boleyn (1533)

July 12:

• Congress authorizes Medal of Honor (1862)
• 16th Amendment, income tax amendment, approved (1909)
• Epidemic in New Orleans kills 1400 (1878)
• Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a duel by Aaron Burr (1804)
• Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs (1921)
• Habeas Corpus Act first enacted in England (1679)
• David Brainerd, missionary to Indians, was saved (1739)
• Mormon  founder Joseph Smith announced that a divine revelation had been given him sanctioning polygamy (1843)
• Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I (1290)

July 13:

• Congress establishes Northwest Territory as a slave free territory (1787)
• Horace Greeley reputedly advises his readers to “Go west young man” (1865)
• Adoniram Judson, first American foreign missionary, arrived in Burma (1812)
• Hank Blood and 5 other missionaries to Vietnam killed by Viet Cong (1968)
• Frank Sinatra makes recording debut (1939)
• Hollywood Sign officially dedicated (1923)
• 112°F in Mio, Michigan sets state record (1936)
• 114°F in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin sets state record (1936)
  
• Rabbi Shelomoh ben Isaac. Rashi, leading Jewish Bible scholar, die (1105)

July 14:

• Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille starting the French Revolution (1789)
• Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care by Dr. Spock published (1946)
• WW2: NSDAP known as Nazis becomes only political party in Germany (1933)
• The first annual conference of the Methodist Church in America convened at St.George’s Church in Philadelphia, PA (1773)
• First Methodist convert in China baptized (1857)
• WW2: Riots against Jews in Amsterdam (1942)
• Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes & kills many (1845)
• First direct US federal tax on states-on dwellings, land & slaves (1798)
• Orthodox Movement to reform Church of England began (1833)

Church of England votes in favor of allowing women to become bishops (2014)

July 15:

• Rosetta Stone is found in Egypt (1799)
• The head of German propaganda in the US, Dr Heinrich Albert, loses his briefcase on a subway in New York City. An examination of its content reveals an extensive network of German espionage and subversion across the US. (1915)
• Royal Society, first scientific society in history, founded. It was made up largely by Christians wanting to study God’s creation. (1662)

July 16:

• Ivan Moiseyev martyred by Soviet Union (1972)
• Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on Moon, launched (1969)
• Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run (1861)
• Civil War: Manassas Campaign begins (1861)
• Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family executed by firing squad in Siberia (1918)
• WW2: French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris (1942)
• WW2: Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp (1942)
• Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske (1912)
• NY Yacht Club holds first regatta (1845)
• Muslim Era begins – Muhammad begins flight from Mecca to Medina (622)

July 17:

• Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army evangelist known as “white angel of the slums” dies (1950)
• 12 Carthage Christians first to be martyred in North Africa (180 AD)
• Spanish American War: Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba (1898)
• Spain cedes Florida to US (1821)
• Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia’s Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (1794)
• First US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established (1867)
• First military hospital approved (1775)
• Israeli army captures Nazareth (1948)
• Members of the French National Guard open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people (1795)
• Grand Opening of Disneyland (1955)