July 3rd 1976

Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew and passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers

July 4th 1884

Statue of Liberty presented to U.S. in Paris

July 5th 1054

Brightest supernova (Crab Nebula) 1st reported

July 6th 1960

Dr. Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from Los Angeles to New York City

July 7th 1969

Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal

July 8th 1986

Farthest thrown object-an "Aerobie" flying ring, 383 m (1,257')

July 9th 1934

SS ReichsFührer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps

July 10th 1919

US President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate

July 11th 1975

Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC

July 12th 1996

Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million

July 13th 1898

Guglielmo Marconi patents radio

July 14th 1973

Skylab launched, 1st Space Station

July 15th 1932

US President Herbert Hoover cuts his own salary by 15%

July 16th 1945

1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico

July 17th 1936

Military uprising under General Francisco Franco begins Spanish Civil War

July 18th 1980

Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit

July 19th 1870

France declares war on Prussia and Franco-Prussian war begins

July 20th 1989

Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest

July 21st 1969

Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM, GMT

July 22nd 1933

Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight

July 23rd 1888

John Boyd Dunlop, applies for patent of pneumatic tire

July 24th 1911

Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu Lost City of the Incas

July 25th 1944

1st jet fighter used in combat, Messerschmitt ME 262

July 26th 1953

Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the ‘26th of July Movement’ against Fulgenico Batista's regime

July 27th 1888

Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile

July 28th 1914

World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

July 29th 1981

Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer

July 30th 1909

Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army

July 31st 1774

Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen