July 23rd
1900 - Canada: The federal government forbids the immigration of Paupers and Criminals.
1901 - Germany: Dr Robert Koch, advances the theory that bubonic plague may be due solely to rats.
1903 - USA: The Ford Motor Company sells its first production car: a two-cylinder Model A.
1916 - Dublin: Independent Irish Nationalists hold a large meeting in Phoenix Park to protest at the governments Irish partition proposals.
1920 - Belfast: 14 people die and around 100 are injured in outbreaks of fierce rioting.
1925 - Vienna: Professor Sigmund Freud becomes chairman of the International Psychoanalytical Foundation.
1931 - London: The Civil Service Royal Commission recommends opening almost all of the service to women.
1933 - Germany: The importing of banned books is decreed punishable by death.
1940: London: The government imposes a 24% tax on luxury items.
1943 - Italy: American troops capture the Sicilian capital Palermo.
1944 - Germany: Heinrich Himmler launches a manhunt to catch the generals implicated in the plot against Hitler.
1952 - Cairo: General Mohammed Neguib seizes power in a military coup.
1955 - Britain: Donald Campbell breaks the world water-speed record on Ullswater in his turbo-jet hydroplane "Bluebird" with an average speed of 202.32mph.
1957 - Britain: Picket line violence breaks out as a national bus strike takes effect.
1962 - Europe: 200 million viewers in 16 countries watch US TV programmes live by satellite for the first time.
1965 - Moscow: University lecturer Gerald Brooke who smuggled pamphlets into the Soviet Union whilst on a tourist visit, is sentenced to five years imprisonment.
1973 - Libya: Colonel Gaddafi withdraws his resignation as Libya's leader.
1979 - London: The government agrees to public spending cuts of £4,000 million.
1984 - Britain: a government enquiry states that radiation from Sellafield is not the cause of cancer in children.
1995 - London: A 1,200 strong force of British troops is sent to Sarajevo to make safe the only remaining safe passage into the city.
1997 - Florida: Andrew Cunanan, the chief suspect in the murder of Gianni Versace, is found dead from a gunshot wound on a Miami houseboat, having apparently committed suicide.
2004 - USA: North American brewers "Coors" and "Molson" announce they will proceed with a merger, creating the world's fifth biggest brewing company.
2007 - Indonesia: Flash floods and landslides kill at least 30 people in central Indonesia.
Michael Foot was born 100 years ago today
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I realise you're not really doing birthdays here, but I thought it was worth recording - even if only as a counterpoint to yesterday's big news story)
1905 - Finland: Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II and Russia's Czar Nicholas II sign a treaty of alliance between their two countries aboard the Imperial yacht "Hohenzollern" at Bjorko.
1908 - Turkey: The success of the Young Turk revolutionary movement in spreading disaffection throughout the army forces Sultan Abdul Hamid II to restore Turkey's constitution.
1917 - London: MP's announce reveal that the war is costing the UK £7million a day.
1923 - Lausanne: The treaty of Lausanne is signed between Turkey, Greece and the Allies.
1925 - London: Patricia Cheeseman, a patient at Guy's hospital, has the first successful treatment for diabetes.
1926 - Manchester: The first greyhound racing track opens at Belle Vue.
1927 - Belgium: 80,000 people attend the unveiling of the Menin Gate war memorial at Ypres.
1936 - Britain: The GPO's speaking clock service begins.
1943 - Hamburg: The German city is bombed twice in 24 hours, in the RAF's heaviest raid with, 2,300 tons of bombs dropped.
1944 - Poland: The Soviet Army overtake and capture Lublin.
1946 - London: Fuel Minister Emmanuel Shinwell warns the country that there is not enough coal to get through the winter.
1954 - Peking: The Chinese government apologises for the "accidental" shooting down of a British airliner.
1965 - London: The Former light-heavyweight boxing champion Freddie Mills is found shot dead in a car in London's Soho district aged 43.
1974 - Greece: Seven years of military rule ends with the announcement that ex-premier Constantine Karamanlis is returning from exile in France to form a new government.
1977 - Cairo: Anwar Sadat orders Egyptian troops to observe an immediate cease-fire in border clashes with Libya.
1980 - New Hebrides: 200 Anglo-French marines land on the rebel island of Espiritu Santo and end its revolt peacefully.
1987 - London: Jeffrey Archer wins a libel action against the "Daily Star" newspaper, over his pay-off to prostitute Monica Coghlan.
1988 - Paris: Spanish cyclist Pedro Delgado wins the Tour De France.
1990 - Iraq: Saddam Hussein sends 30,000 troops to the Iraq-Kuwait border.
2007 - Iraq: A suicide car bomber kills at least 22 people in the Iraqi town of Hilla.
2010 - Belfast: Two-time world snooker champion Alex "Hurricane" Higgins is found dead in his Belfast flat, through a combination of pneumonia, malnutrition, and throat cancer.
July 25th
1909 - Britain: French pilot Louis Bleriot completes the Channel crossing landing at Dover Castle 43 mins after taking off from Sangatte, near Calais, to win the £1,000 first prize offered by the "Daily Mail."
1914 - Vienna: Austria breaks off diplomatic ties with Serbia,
1917 - France: Mata Hari, the glamorous Dutch dancer and adventuress is sentenced to death after being found guilty of spying by a French court-martial.
1919 - Britain: A four day old coal strike is settled with miners accepting a 14.2% increase in piece rates.
1924 - Athens: The Greek government announces the expulsion of 50,000 Armenians from its country.
1932 - Paris: The trial opens of French president Paul Doumer's assassin Paul Gorguloff.
1933 - Vienna: A gang of Nazis wearing army and police uniforms burst into the office Chancellor Englebert Dolfuss and open fire at close range. leaving him to bleed to death over a 4 hour period.
1940 - English Channel: 400 people are feared dead when the Germans torpedo a French ship carrying French sailors to Britain.
1943 - Italy: Benito Mussolini the Fascist dictator of Italy for 21 years falls from power, with King Victor Emmanuel assuming command of the Italian armed forces, and the anti-fascist Marshal Badoglio appointed Prime minister and Chief of Government.
1944 - Berlin: Hitler names Josef Goebbels "Reich Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort."
1946 - Pacific: The first sub-surface atomic explosion is detonated at Bikini Atoll.
1950 - Britain: Figures released show Production of Television sets have jumped by 250%.
1955 - Bonn: The Bundestag authorises the new West German Army of 6,000 volunteers called "Bundeswher."
1961 - Britain: A mini-budget puts fourpence on cigarettes and threepence on a gallon of petrol.
1962 - Algeria: Civil war breaks out between Moslem factions.
1963 - Moscow: A partial nuclear test ban treaty is agreed by Britain the US and Russia.
1970 - Muscat: Sultan Said bin Taimur of Oman is overthrown by his son.
1973 - USA: A New York court rules that the US must halt illegal bombing in Cambodia.
1983 - Sri Lanka: Over 100 people are reported killed in racial violence between Sinhalese and Tamils.
1985 - Paris: US actor Rock Hudson goes into hospital to be treated for AIDS.
1991 - Milwaukee: Police claim that killer Jeffrey Dahmer, cut up 18 victims and ate parts of their bodies.
1993 - Cape Town: Black gunmen burst into an Anglican church killing nine white civilians.
1994 - Washington: Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sign a declaration ending the 46-year state of war between their countries.
1995 - The Hague: Radovan Karadjic and Ratko Mladic, leaders of the Bosnian Serbs are formally charged with having committed war crimes.
2003 - Barcelona: Swimmer Michael Phelps breaks world records in the butterfly and individual medley at the world swimming championships to become the first man to break two world records on a single day.
2008 - Britain: Carol Vorderman announces she is quitting the game show Countdown after 26 years.
July 26th
1917 - Western Front: German troops break through French Lines along the River Aisne.
1926 - Morocco: Spanish forces suffers a devastating military defeat at the hands by Moroccan rebels under young Berber Leader Abdel Krim, who wipe out a garrison of some 2,000 men.
1929 - Paris: Veteran Statesman Raymond Pioncare resigns as premier due to ill health to be succeeded by Aristide Briand.
1936 - France: The Canadian Great War memorial on Vimy Ridge in unveiled by the King.
1939 - London: One person dies and 18 are injured in a suspected IRA bomb blast.
1941 - Tokyo: Japan freezes all British and US assets in retaliation for similar move against their country.
1945 - Potsdam: The Allies impress on Japan to surrender or face "Prompt and utter destruction."
1946 - Jerusalem: 376 alleged terrorists are arrested as an Anglo-US panel recommends the partition of Palestine.
1950 - Britain: British troops are sent to Korea to operate under the orders of the United Nations to assist the rapid North Korean advance.
1952 - Chicago: Governor Adlai Stevenson is chosen to run as the Democratic presidential candidate.
1956 - London: ERNIE (Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment) used to pick Premium Bond Winners, is unveiled.
1958 - London: Prince Charles is bestowed the title Prince of Wales by the Queen.
1962 - Washington: The newly installed Laos coalition leader Prince Souvanna Phouma arrives to negotiate an aid package.
1963 - Britain: A 50mph speed limit is introduced on Britain's roads.
1983 - London: Anti-pill campaigner Victoria Gillick, weeps in the High Court after a judge refused to rule that it was illegal for a doctor to supply contraceptive pills to girls under 16 without their parents consent.
1993 - Havana: Cuba celebrates the 40th anniversary of its revolution amid hints that President Fidel Castro is loosening the economic reins.
1994 - London: A car bomb badly damages the Israeli Embassy, injuring 14 people.
1995 - USA: Al Hendrix, father of rock legend Jimi. wins the rights to his sons music after years of legal wrangles.
1996 - Japan: A food poisoning epidemic sweeps through the country, leaving seven people dead and around 8,000 infected.
2005 - India: Mumbai receives 99,5cm of rain (39.17 inches) in the space of 24hrs bringing the city to a standstill for two days.
2010; Barcelona: The opening Ceremony of the 2010 European Athletics Championships takes place.
July 27th
1907 - Britain: Princess Henry of Battenberg launches the dreadnought "HMS Bellerophon" in at Portsmouth.
1909 - London: MP's give a second reading to the South African Union Bill, but criticise the denial of votes to blacks.
1910 - Turkey: The government threatens war on Greece if it accepts Cretan representatives into the Greek parliament.
1922 - Irish Free State: Republicans spring 105 prisoners from a Dundalk jail.
1924 - USSR: A severe sugar shortage is declared as the country's beet crop fails.
1926 - London: A circular traffic system comes into operation at Piccadilly Circus.
1927 - Ukraine: 120 people are reportedly shot dead in a Communist Purge.
1931 - Britain: Unemployment figures stand at a record 2.71 million.
1934 - Rome: Benito Mussolini orders more than 40,000 troops to the Austrian border.
1939 - London: 40 houses in North London are raided in a hunt for IRA bombers.
1941 - Indochina: Japanese troops advance into Cambodia and Thailand.
1942 - Britain: Sweet rationing begins.
1949 - London: Peers vote to admit Peeresses in their own right to the House of Lords.
1953 - Korea: After three years of bloody fighting, an armistice is signed at Panmunjon ending the Korean War.
1955 - London: The Clean Air Bill is introduced, hopefully to create "Smoke Control Areas.".
1959 - Britain: A study reveals the average male manual worker earns £13 2s 11d a week.
1960 - London: The Earl of Home becomes foreign secretary with Edward Heath as his deputy.
1964 - Washington: The government announce plans to send 5,000 US advisers to Vietnam.
1965 - Britain: Edward Heath is elected leader of the Conservative Party.
1967 - London: The Sexual Offences Bill becomes law.
1976 - Amsterdam: Soviet chess star Victor Korchnoi asks for political asylum.
1979 - Lusaka: The Queen arrives on a state visit to Zambia.
1982 - South Africa: Col "Mad Mike" Hoare and 40 others are jailed for hijacking a plane after a Seychelles coup bid,
1983 - Lisbon: seven people die when Armenian terrorists stom the Turkish Ambassadors residence.
1985 - Kampala: President Milton Obote is overthrown in a blood less coup.
1986 - Paris: Greg Lemond becomes the First American to win the Tour de France.
1989 - Britain: Rail workers accept a pay offer and call off their campaign of one-day strikes.
1990 - Geneva: Reports show that AIDS is now the main cause of death for women between the ages of 20 and 40.
1995 - Johannesburg: Footprints found in volcanic ash indicate that there were humans in Africa who walked upright 3.7 million years ago.
1997 - Texas: The town of Jarrell counts the aftermath of the worst tornado to hit Texas since 1987 with 27 people killed and dozens left homeless.
2003 - Los Angeles: The Legendary Comedian/Actor Bob Hope dies in his sleep at his home in Toluca lake aged 100.
2008 - Iran: 29 convicts are hanged in Evin prison in Tehran.
2010 - Canada: The wreck of the 19th century royal navy ship HMS Investigator is found in Mercy Bay, northern Canada.
July 28th
1904 - Russia: The Interior Minister Viacheslav von Plehve is assassinated.
1907 - St Petersburg: A treaty is signed with Japan for the protection of Seals and Sea Lions.
1913 - Britain: Germany and Turkey give way to British pressure and agree to abandon plans for a rail link to the Persian Gulf.
1914 - Vienna: Austria declares war on Serbia.
1916 - London: A Royal Proclamation is issued banning the import of cocaine and opium.
1919 - Chicago: 4,000 troops are called out to quell rioting by blacks which have left 14 people dead, and 76 injured.
1921 - Bombay: A meeting of the All-India Congress Party vote to boycott a forthcoming visit by the Prince of Wales.
1928 - Amsterdam: The eighth Olympic Games gets underway.
1936 - Britain: Britain wins the Davis Cup tennis trophy for the fourth successive year.
1942 - USSR: The Russians begin the evacuation of Rostov.
1943 - Rome: The Fascist Party is abolished.
1945 - New York: A US B-25 bomber lost in fog hits the Empire State Building: 13 people die and 26 are injured.
1948 - London: The government announce the rationing of footwear and furnishing fabrics will end on September 9th.
1956 - London: The government freezes all Egyptian assets held in Britain.
1959 - Norwich: Postmaster General Ernest Marples inaugurates the first post codes and post code sorting machine.
1964 - USA: Malcolm X founds the Organisation for Afro-American Unity aimed to seek independence for Negroes.
1965 - USA: President Lyndon Johnson announces he is sending another 50,000 troops to Vietnam "almost immediately."
1966 - Britain: 70 year-old Florence Nagle wins a 20 year fight to be the first woman in Britain granted a licence to train racehorses.
1967 - London: The British Steel corporation is founded.
1972 - Britain: A nationwide dock strike begins.
1976 - London: Britain breaks off diplomatic relations with Uganda.
1978 - London: David Gower scores his first test century on the first day of the second test against New Zealand.
1983 - Washington: The House of Representatives vote to end covert aid to Nicaraguan rebels by September 30th.
1984 - Los Angeles: The 23rd Olympic Games begin.
1988 - Britain: Ex-Royal Marine commando Paddy Ashdown is elected leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats.
1997 - Scotland: Labour MP Gordon McMaster is found dead after apparently committing suicide following rumours of a hate campaign.
2004 - California: Traces of "Ricin" are found in jars of baby food in a supermarket in Irvine.
2009 - China: 22 people are killed, 41 are injured, and 7 are missing after heavy rain and flooding in Sichuan.
2012 - USA: The sunken German U-Boat U-550 is discovered off the coast of Massachusetts.
July 29th
1903 - Russia: Strikes and civil unrest break out across Kiev, Odessa, and Tiflis.
1914 - St. Petersburg: The Czar orders the mobilisation of 1,200,000 troops.
1918 - Berlin: Germany severs diplomatic relations with Turkey.
1921 - Germany: Adolf Hitler is voted president of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1923 - Paris: France and Belgium reject the UK's plan for an expert reparations committee.
1934 - Vienna: Dr Kurt von Schuschnigg is appointed Chancellor.
1938 - Denmark: Dane, Jenny Kammersgaad becomes the first person to swim the Baltic in 40 hours and 9mins.
1946 - Bombay: The All-India Moslem League vote unanimously to withdraw the League's acceptance of the British Cabinet mission's long term plans for India's constitution.
1947 - New York: Soviet UN delegate Gromyko vetoes a US resolution for a Balkan frontier commission.
1956 - France: The British Jaguar team win the Le Mans 24-hour race.
1957 - London: US Secretary of State Allen Dulles arrives for talks on disarmament.
1958 - Washington: The National Aeronautical and Space Administration, (NASA) is created.
1964 - Britain: The first Brook Advisory Clinic opens to give family planning advice to married couples.
1965 - London: The Beatle's latest movie "Help" has it's premiere.
1970 - Britain: Dockers vote to accept an increased pay offer and to return to work the following month.
1973 - USA: A rock festival at Watkins Glen, New York, draws in 600,000 fans to hear music from The Grateful Dead, The Band, and the Allman Brothers Band.
1975 - Turkey: US bases in Turkey are seized by the Turkish government after a US embargo on military aid to Turkey.
1976 - Britain: Southend Pier is destroyed by fire.
1977 - USA: Capital punishment for rape is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
1980 - Britain: Margaret Thatcher announces the creation of seven "Enterprise Zones" in areas of high unemployment.
1981 - Tehran: Disgraced president Bani Sadr leaves to seek refuge in France.
1986 - London: Pop singer Boy George is convicted of possessing heroin.
1989 - Iran: Hashemi Rafsanjani wins the presedential election.
1993 - Britain: The Tories lose the Christchurch by-election, a true blue stronghold for 83 years, to the Liberal Democrats.
1998 - France: Cyclists in the Tour de France stage a slowdown in protest at the aggressive methods used by police to test competitors for performance enhancing drugs.
2005 - Vietnam: The death toll from Bird Flu rises to 42.
2011 - USA: Jurgen Klinsmann is named head coach of the US national football team.
July 30th
1906 - France: Gabriel Lippmann presents a new method of colour photography to the Academie des Sciences.
1907 - Europe: Germany, Austria, and Italy renew a Triple Alliance for a further six years.
1911 - France: Frenchman Victor Garrigou wins the Tour de France.
1919 - London: Policeman throughout the country are urged to join a lightning strike against a Commons Police Bill which will stop policeman taking part in normal trade union activities.
1927 - Canada: Stanley Baldwin and the Prince of Wales arrive in the country for it's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
1930 - China: The skull of a man believed to be a million years old is found at Chou Kou Tien.
1933 - France: The British tennis team, including Fred Perry end France's seven year supremacy in the Davis Cup.
1936 - Britain: The Speaking Clock receives 248,828 calls in it's first week.
1940 - London: The government announce all of Europe and North Africa are to be blockaded.
1942 - Ottowa: Canada's parliament votes for full conscription.
1948 - Budapest: Hungarian president Zoltan Tildy resigns in protest at farm collectivisation.
1953 - London: MP's debate a treaty with Libya giving Britain military bases for 20 years in exchange for aid.
1954 - Washington: The Senate begins debating the possible censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
1965 - Britain: Figures show that ITV's Coronation Street is the most popular weekly TV programme.
1966 - Vietnam: Hanoi and Haiphong are bombed for the first time by US forces, with two thirds of North Vietnam's oil supply being destroyed inside a week.
1973 - Britain: An eleven year battle over thalidomide compensation ends with a £20 million court settlement.
1974 - USA: Three articles of impeachment are voted against President Richard Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee for blocking the investigation of the Watergate Affair, the abuse of presidential powers, and for not complying with the committees subpoena for taped White House conversations.
1975 - USA: The university of California announce the discovery of a galaxy approximately 8,000,000,000 light years away from earth, identified as Galaxy 3C123 and estimated to be five to ten times larger than the Milky Way.
1977 - Britain: Colour TV licences go up to £21 and Black and White to £9.
1979 - Phnom Penh: The new regime accuses Pol Pot's government of murdering 3million Cambodians.
1984 - Scotland: 13 people are killed when a crowded Edinburgh-Glasgow commuter train crashes near Falkirk.
1985 - London: The BBC drops a documentary in its series "Real Lives" containing an interview with Sinn Fein's Martin McGuiness.
1987 - Britain: Jim Callaghan and Roy Jenkins receive life peerages, and ex-Liberal MP Clement Freud is Knighted.
1990 - Sussex: Ian Gow, the Tory MP for Eastbourne, is murdered by an IRA car bomb at his home in the village of Hankham.
1993 - Nepal: Up to 1,700 people are feared dead after a spell of torrential rains.
1996 - Moscow: Pravda the broadsheet newspaper founded by Lenin in 1912 as a vehicle for revolution, is relaunched as a downmarket tabloid.
1998 - Japan: Obuchi Keizo is declared Japan's new prime minister.
2006 - Britain: Top Of The Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC2, having been aired for 42 years.
2011 - Scotland: Zara Phillips granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II marries rugby union international Mike Tindall at Cannongate, Kirk, Edinburgh.
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