Today in History

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July 1
1847: Postage Stamps
1898: The Rough Riders
July 2
1881: James A. Garfield
July 3
1863: Battle of Gettysburg
1878: George M. Cohan
July 4
1776: Independence Day
July 5
1810: P.T. Barnum & Circuses
1865: Salvation Army
July 6
1957: Althea Gibson & Tennis
July 7
1906: Satchel Paige
1978: Solomon Islands
July 8
1932: Great Depression
July 9
1793: Vermont
1819: Elias Howe & the Sewing Machine
July 10
1834: James McNeill Whistler
1941: Jelly Roll Morton
July 11
1804: Hamilton & Burr Duel
July 12
1817: Henry David Thoreau
July 13
1729: John Parker & the Minutemen
1939: Frank Sinatra
July 14
1860: Owen Wister & Cowboy Culture
July 15
1948: General John J. Pershing
July 16
1790: Washington, D.C.
1936: Walker Evans
July 17
1754: Columbia University
July 18
1792: John Paul Jones
1927: Ty Cobb
July 19
1869: John Muir
July 20
1591: Anne Marbury Hutchinson
1848: Seneca Falls Convention
July 21
1861: First Battle of Bull Run
1899: Ernest Hemingway
July 22
1796: Cleveland, Ohio
1898: Alexander Calder
July 23
1834: Cardinal James Gibbons
1904: The Ice Cream Cone
July 24
1847: Brigham Young & the Mormon Pioneers
July 25
1936: Orson Welles’ First Macbeth
July 26
1788: Poughkeepsie, NY
1847: Liberia
1948: Executive Orders 9980 & 9981
July 27
1853: Architect Cyrus Eidlitz
1947: Gertrude Stein
July 28
1868: Fourteenth Amendment
1932: The “Bonus Army”
1929: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
July 29
1858: Japan
1926: Don Carter & Bowling
July 30
1863: Henry Ford
1932: Olympic Games
July 31
1863: Rock of Chickamauga
1874: Patrick Francis Healy & Georgetown University

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