Anniversaries

3rd July 1886 (133 Years)

The Benz Patent-Motorwagen (or motorcar) is unveiled to the public on Ringstrasse (Ringstraße) in Mannheim, Germany and is regarded as the first car ever invented.

3rd July 1963 (56 Years)

Tracey Emin, controversial British artist, was born.

4th July 1766 (253 Years)

The US Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, drafted by Thomas Jefferson.

4th July 1776 (243 Years)

The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the US Continental Congress.

4th July 1826 (193 Years)

Thomas Jefferson, American lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the United States, died.

4th July 1865 (154 Years)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published in UK.

4th July 1934 (85 Years)

Marie Curie, the Polish-born French physicist, died.

4th July 1934 (85 Years)

The dedication of the face of George Washington on the Mount Rushmore Memorial, South Dakota, USA.

4th July 1938 (81 Years)

Suzanne Lenglen, well known French tennis player who won 31 championships between 1914 and 1926, died.

4th July 1954 (65 Years)

The end of all food rationing in Britain following the end of World War II.

5th July 1889 (130 Years)

Jean Cocteau, the important French author, playwrighter, artist and director was born.

5th July 1940 (79 Years)

World War II: the United Kingdom and the Vichy France government break off diplomatic relations.

5th July 1946 (73 Years)

The first modern bikini two-piece swimsuit was unveiled at a fashion show in Paris.

5th July 1948 (71 Years)

The National Health Service (NHS) was established.

5th July 1969 (50 Years)

Walter Gropius, German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, dies aged 86.

5th July 1996 (23 Years)

Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.

5th July 2011 (8 Years)

Cy Twombly, American painter of large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works, dies.

6th July 1766 (253 Years)

Alexander Wilson, Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator, is born.

6th July 1885 (134 Years)

Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.

6th July 1893 (126 Years)

Guy de Maupassant, French author and poet, died.

6th July 1907 (112 Years)

Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter, was born.

6th July 1907 (112 Years)

Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter, was born.

6th July 1916 (103 Years)

Odilon Redon, French printmaker, draughtsman and painter, dies.

6th July 1942 (77 Years)

After Margot Frank received a letter ordering her to report to a work camp in Germany, Anne Frank's family went into hiding in an attic in Amsterdam.

7th July 1816 (203 Years)

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, dies.

7th July 1917 (102 Years)

British Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps was officially established.

7th July 1917 (102 Years)

British Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps was officially established.

7th July 1937 (82 Years)

The Second Sino-Japanese War, a conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan, started.

7th July 1937 (82 Years)

The Second Sino-Japanese War, a conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan, started.

7th July 1958 (61 Years)

The Alaska Statehood Act was signed by President Eisenhower allowing Alaska to become the 49th U.S. state on the 3 January 1959.

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