Category: Today In History

July 21

356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson. 1568 – Eighty Years’ War: Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau. 1645 – Qing dynasty regent Dorgon issues an edict ordering all Han Chinese men to...
Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.

July 13

587 BC – Babylon’s siege of Jerusalem ends following the destruction of Solomon’s Temple. 1174 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-74, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England. 1787 – The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest...
The 1977 Blackout
1493 – Hartmann Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published. 1543 – King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace. 1562 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the sacred books of the Maya. 1580 – The Ostrog...
The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at the Marquee Club in London, England.

Today in History

1086 – King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants. 1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground. 1806 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company. 1821 – The...
The Scopes Trial, a famous American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.

Today in History

1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. 1798 – As a result of the XYZ Affair, the U.S. Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the “Quasi-War”. 1834 – In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionistsbegin. 1846 – American troops occupy...

July 5

1610 – John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland. 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. 1775 – The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition. 1915 – The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. This is the...
On July 5, 1996, Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at the Roslin Institute in Scotland.