On This Day

80 years agio the movie Moby Dick starring Gregory Peck came into the cinemas.

2 July 1964, President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.

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640 years go the battle of Sempach was fought.

Leopold III. died and the Swiss confederacy was further strengthened.

1099 Fall of Jerusalem. A sad date.

July 20, 1969, men walked on the moon.

July 21, 1925, John T. Scopes found guilty of violating a Tennessee state law for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.

15 years ago terror act in Utoya
10 years ago (intentionally) terror act in München

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Remembering the incomparable American actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who would have turned 59 today. ❤️

1775: James Cook return from his second journey to the South Pacific.

1923: Clavin Coolidge became president of the USA

371 bc Tben won the battle of Leuctra with a tactical trick.

1666 the big London fire starts and burns for four days.

60 years ago the Strak Trek series started to be broadcasted by NBC

@Ponderable said
60 years ago the Strak Trek series started to be broadcasted by NBC

470 years ago Karl V. Habsburg Emperor resigns his throne.