Category: Today In History

July 8

951 – Paris is founded 1693 – The City of New York authorizes the first police uniforms in American colonies 1836 – HMS Beagle carrying Charles Darwin, the respected naturalist and geologist, reaches Saint Helena for six days as his last stop before returning to Great Britain 1845 – Fire in Lower Manhattan destroys 345...
Industrial designer Raymond Loewy standing on one of his designs, the Pennsylvania Railroad's S1 steam locomotive

July 7

1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. The court declared her innocent on this date in 1456. 1534 – Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada. 1798 – As a result of the XYZ Affair, the U.S. Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with...
On her maiden voyage to the UK, the SS United States broke the transatlantic speed record with an average speed of 35.59 knots (40.96 mph). She also broke the westbound crossing record with an average speed of 34.51 knots (39.71 mph)

July 6

640 – Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under ‘Amr ibn al-‘As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt). 1348 – Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death. 1415 – Jan Hus is condemned as a heretic and then burned at the stake. 1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed for treason...
R34 touching down in Mineola Long Island in 1919

July 5

328 – The official opening of Constantine’s Bridge built over the Danube by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. 1811 – Venezuela declares independence from Spain. 1915 – The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. This is the...
The Shard of London

July 1

70 – Roman General Titus and his forces set up battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem 1517 – First burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands 1517 – Inquisitor Adrian Boeyens (pope Adrianus VI) becomes cardinal 1535 – Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason 1656 – First Quakers, Mary Fisher and Ann Austin arrive in Bostonand subsequently...
Charles Robert Darwin 1809 - 1882 "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

June 30

1794 – Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery. 1805 – The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory. 1859 – Acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope. 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place. 1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants...