On This Day In History
Did You Know?
Pokémon Go, the real-world mobile game by Niantic, is first released
Today in History in 2016
Would You Believe?
2nd of 4 fatal Jersey Shore shark attacks occur at Spring Lake when Charles Bruder (27) bled to death, 5 days after the 1st
Today in History in 1916
This day 57 years ago - 6 July 1962 - the first episode of The Late Late Show was broadcast on RTÉ at 11:20pm.
Its guests included Count Cyril McCormack, broadcaster Harry Thuillier, pianist George Hodnett and TV critic Ken Grey.
Gay Byrne would present the show for 37 years. pic.twitter.com/lYzbPIBmlx
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) July 6, 2019
Anne Killigrew was a short-lived Restoration poet and painter, whose writing was praised by Dryden. Among her subjects was the death by drowning of her aunt, the courtier Anne Killigrew Kirk, who died on this day in 1641. https://t.co/GtGVGqUghR pic.twitter.com/OK6M8LRIGi
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) July 6, 2022
On this day in 2016, 32-year-old Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop for a broken taillight in St. Paul, Minnesota. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/QRrSUPMkgZ
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) July 6, 2022
6 July 1535. Thomas More (aged 57), was executed for treason. He refused to accept Henry VIII as head of the church. He served as Henry VIII’s Lord High Chancellor of England from 1529 to 1532. He was the author of Utopia about the political system of an imaginary island state. pic.twitter.com/GrHNj5OIrb
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 6, 2022
6 July 1785. The dollar was unanimously chosen as the key monetary unit for the USA. It was the first time a nation had adopted a decimal currency. pic.twitter.com/iPxVGbKs2e
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 6, 2022
6 July 1885. Louis Pasteur (right), successfully tested his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister (left), a boy who had been bitten by a rabid dog. He developed his rabies vaccine by growing the virus in rabbits, then drying the affected nerve tissue to weaken the virus. pic.twitter.com/LG0fkVMSip
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 6, 2022
6 July 1919. The British dirigible R34 landed in New York City, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship. It would then complete the first return journey back to Britain a week later. pic.twitter.com/Wv1dLAsJbv
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 6, 2022
6 July 1957. Althea Gibson (USA) became the first black athlete male or female to win a Singles Title at the Wimbledon Championships. She defeated Darlene Hard 6–3, 6–2 in the Ladies’ Singles Final. pic.twitter.com/wEq2MHyjjD
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 6, 2022
6 July 1960. Labour politician, Aneurin Bevan, died (aged 62). He led the creation of the NHS in 1948 as Labour Health Minister. It offered treatment free at the point of delivery to all citizens irrespective of income. It’s one of the key social reforms in British history. pic.twitter.com/f7dcRAWV47
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 6, 2022
6 July 1971. Jazz legend Louis (“Satchmo”) Armstrong, died (aged 69). His influence on the development of jazz was huge. He was a virtuoso trumpet player with an extraordinary talent for melodic improvisation. His singing was influential, particularly in the development of scat. pic.twitter.com/FSYAsp25rt
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 6, 2022
6 July 1988. The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea was destroyed by an explosion and a huge fire: 167 oil workers were killed, making it the world’s worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life. pic.twitter.com/te9H2inKNz
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 6, 2022
#OtD 6 Jul 1992 legendary Black trans activist and sex worker Marsha P Johnson's body was found in the Hudson River in a suspected murder. She was most famous for participating in the Stonewall riots, which participants talk about in our podcast: https://t.co/XMbtzJSmZp pic.twitter.com/oclOGTBFPv
— Working Class History (@wrkclasshistory) July 6, 2022
July 7th
1520 Battle of Otumba, Mexico: Hernán Cortés and the Tlaxcalans defeat a numerically superior Aztec force
1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash at the Marco Polo Bridge, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War
1947 Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident
2005 Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike London's public transport system during the morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 700
2005 Influenced by global Live 8 concerts, G8 leaders pledge to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010
Did You Know?
Sliced bread sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company, Missouri, using a machine invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder. Described as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.
Today in History in 1928
Would You Believe?
1st comic book "The Wasp" is published in Hudson, New York criticizing Republican politicians
Today in History in 1802
This day 118 years ago – 7 July 1903 – Cork-born union organiser Mary Harris Jones, better known as Mother Jones, began the March of the Mill Children from Kensington, Pennsylvania to Oyster Bay, New York.
The march was spurred by the child labour breaches she had witnessed. pic.twitter.com/Blie2eByvG
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) July 7, 2021
In July 1916, US psychologist, suffragist and educator Leta Stetter Hollingworth published a paper. It asserted that the US government effectively compelled women to have children, by making it illegal to spread birth control information. #pluscachange https://t.co/2tkkyxAZpC pic.twitter.com/6qvmVaKxoH
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) July 7, 2022
On this day in 1893, over 5,000 white people in Bardwell, KY, hanged, shot, and mutilated a Black man named Seay J. Miller, in a brutal lynching later investigated by journalist Ida B. Wells. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/Kgg1nB3ZZD
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) July 7, 2022
7 July 1456. At the posthumous retrial of French military heroine, Joan of Arc, authorised by Pope Callixtus III, she was found innocent of the charge of heresy. The verdict came 25 years after her execution. pic.twitter.com/9mgXTRsAwQ
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 7, 2022
7 July 1930. Scottish born writer, Arthur Conan Doyle, died (aged 71). He created the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in 1887 when he published, A Study in Scarlet, the first of 4 novels and more than 50 short stories about Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson. pic.twitter.com/iUXb68snYu
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) July 7, 2022