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391 Episoade

1. 19th July 1545: The Mary Rose, a Tudor warship of the English navy, sinks in the Solent in full view of King Henry VIII

   Publicat: 19.07.2025
2. 18th July 1938: ‘Wrong Way’ Douglas Corrigan lands in Ireland from New York, despite filing a flight plan to Long Beach, California

   Publicat: 18.07.2025
3. 17th July 1918: Russian Imperial Romanov family shot dead by Bolsheviks in the basement of the Ipatiev House in the city of Ekaterinburg

   Publicat: 17.07.2025
4. 16th July 622: Start date of the Islamic calendar

   Publicat: 16.07.2025
5. 15th July 1099: First Crusade ends when Crusader forces capture the city of Jerusalem, after a siege lasting several weeks

   Publicat: 15.07.2025
6. 14th July 1881: American outlaw Billy the Kid shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett

   Publicat: 14.07.2025
7. 13th July 1985: The Live Aid ‘global jukebox’ concert broadcast to an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion people

   Publicat: 13.07.2025
8. 12th July 1790: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy passed by the National Constituent Assembly of France

   Publicat: 12.07.2025
9. 11th July 1962: The world’s first satellite television broadcast took place using the recently-launched Telstar satellite

   Publicat: 11.07.2025
10. 10th July 1940: The Vichy government established in France

    Publicat: 10.07.2025
11. 9th July 1877: The world’s first official lawn tennis tournament begins at Wimbledon in London

    Publicat: 09.07.2025
12. 8th July 1497: Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon on the first known voyage to India from Europe

    Publicat: 08.07.2025
13. 7th July 1928: Pre-sliced and wrapped bread first sold by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri

    Publicat: 07.07.2025
14. 6th July 1988: Piper Alpha oil platform destroyed by a series of explosions in the deadliest offshore oil disaster in history

    Publicat: 06.07.2025
15. 5th July 1865: United States Secret Service established in Washington, D.C., by the Department of the Treasury

    Publicat: 05.07.2025
16. 4th July 1862: Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) first tells the story of Alice in Wonderland

    Publicat: 04.07.2025
17. 3rd July 1973: David Bowie announces the end of Ziggy Stardust during a concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in London

    Publicat: 03.07.2025
18. 2nd July 1881: American President James A. Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau

    Publicat: 02.07.2025
19. 1st July 1979: Sony Corporation releases the Walkman portable cassette player in Japan

    Publicat: 01.07.2025
20. 30th June 1894: Tower Bridge in London officially opened by the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII

    Publicat: 30.06.2025