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7th July 1928: Sliced bread goes on sale for the first time

If you ever claimed that something was the greatest thing since sliced bread, you’re referring to a very particular date – the 7th July ...

6th July 1957: Lennon and McCartney meet for the first time

On the 6th July 1957, John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles met for the first time at the St. Peter's Church garden fête in Woolton, ...

5th July 1937: SPAM, the canned cooked pork, first introduced by Hormel Foods Corporation @SPAMbrand

The United States continues to be the world’s largest consumer of Spam, with the luncheon meat being a particularly big seller in ...

4th July 1862: Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) first tells the story of Alice in Wonderland

Charles Dodgson, better known as the author Lewis Carroll, told a story to the sisters Alice, Lorina and Edith Liddell that was to develop into Alice's Adventures in ...

3rd July 1979: President Jimmy Carter authorises $500,000 to aid the mujahideen in Afghanistan

By the time Soviet troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan in 1989, it had become one of the CIA’s longest and most expensive covert ...

1st July 1863: The Battle of Gettysburg begins, resulting in a decisive Union victory

Approximately 23,000 Union soldiers and 28,000 Confederates were killed, wounded, or captured in just three ...

30th June 1859: Charles Blondin became the first person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope

With the aid of a 26 foot long balancing pole, he crossed the gorge in a stunt taking just 23 ...

28th June 1969: The Stonewall Riots begin when New York City police raid the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village

Rioting continued for another five nights and acted as a catalyst for LGBT political ...

25th June 1876: The Battle of Little Bighorn and Custer’s Last Stand

On the 25th June 1876, the Battle of Little Bighorn began when American Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led federal troops against the combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Plains ...

24th June 1947: The first widely-reported UFO sighting was made by private pilot Kenneth Arnold

In what Kenneth Arnold later complained was an ‘historic misquote’, the press coined the now-ubiquitous phrase ‘flying saucers’ to describe the ...