Sunday, July 08, 2018

History for July 8

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Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1838, John D. Rockefeller 1839, Marty Feldman 1933
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 Wolfgang Puck 1949, Kevin Bacon 1958, Toby Keith 1961
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 1099 - Christian soldiers on the First Crusade march around Jerusalem.

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 1865 - C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun.
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 1881 - Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured chocolate syrup on ice cream in a dish. To this time chocolate syrup had only been used for making ice-cream sodas.
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 1889 - The Wall Street Journal was first published.
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 1889 - John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain, in the last championship bare-knuckle fight. The fight lasted 75 rounds.
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 1950 - General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea.
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 1960 - The Soviet Union charged Gary Powers with espionage. He was shot down in a U-2 spy plane.
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 1981 - The Solar Challenger became the frist solar-powered airplane to cross the English Channel.
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