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23rd July 1943: Archibald Brown blown up by an anti-tank grenade placed under his seat

Archibald Brown was murdered by his son, who placed an anti-tank grenade under the seat of his bath ...

22nd July 1942: Wartime gasoline rationing introduced to the USA

Wartime gasoline rationing began in seventeen ...

21st July 1925: ‘Monkey Trial’ finds John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution

John Thomas Scopes, a substitute science teacher in Tennessee, was found guilty of teaching evolution in ...

20th July 1969: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully land on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission

The words ‘Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed’ confirmed the safe touchdown at around 8:17pm ...

19th July 1848: The Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights begins

The first women’s rights convention in the United States began in Seneca Falls, New ...

18th July 1925: Adolf Hitler publishes the first volume of his book ‘Mein Kampf’

Despite its initially poor reception, Mein Kampf became a popular book with hundreds of thousands of copies sold each year after Hitler became Chanceller of Germany in ...

17th July 1453: The Battle of Castillon, widely accepted as last conflict of the Hundred Years’ War

The Battle of Castillon, considered to be the last battle of the Hundred Years’ War, was fought between France and ...

16th July 1945: USA detonates the first nuclear bomb under the codename ‘Trinity’

The explosion was equivalent to about 20 kilotons of TNT, and the blast-wave was felt by civilians up to 160 miles ...

15th July 1975: The Apollo Soyuz Test Project lifted off

The two rockets of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project launched from the USA and the USSR in the first international collaborative space ...

14th July 1789: Storming of the Bastille marks the start of the French Revolution

The Bastille had long been a symbol of tyranny as a place for the imprisonment of people without trial, but when it was stormed it only contained seven ...