Mamta Bansal
About the author
History of 18 July
1985 - Jack Nicklaus II, at age 23
years old, made his playing debut on the pro golf tour at the Quad Cities Open
in Coal...
History of 17 July
1995 - The Nasdaq composite stock index rose above 1,000 for the first time.1997 - After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its last...
History of 16 July
· 2005- J.K. Rowling's book "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" wasreleased. It was the sixth in the Harry Potter series. The book...
History of 15 July
2006 - The social networking service
Twitter was launched.2009 - "Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince" was released in theaters in the U.S. It was the...
History of 14 July
1998 - Los
Angeles sued 15 tobacco companies for $2.5 billion over the dangers of
secondhand smoke.2001 - Beijing
was awarded the 2008 Olympics. It was the...
History of 13 July
1998 - "Image of an Assassination" went on sale. The video documentary is of Abraham Zapruder's home video of U.S. President Kennedy's assassination in...
History of 12 July
1990 - Russian republic president
Boris N. Yeltsin announced his resignation from the the Soviet Communist Party.1998 - 1.7 billion people watched
soccer's World Cup finals...
History of 11 July
1995 - Full diplomatic relations
were established between the United States and Vietnam.1998 - U.S. Air Force Lt.
Michael Blassie, a casualty of the Vietnam War, was laid to rest...
History of 10 July
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev won
re-election as the leader of the Soviet Communist Party.1991 - Boris Yeltsin took the oath
of office as the first elected...
History of 8 July
History of 8 July
1997 - The Mayo Clinic and the U.S. government warned that the diet-drug combination known as "fen-phen" could cause serious heart...
History of 6 July
History of 6 July
1996 - Steffi Graf won her seventh Wimbledon title.
1997 - The Mars Pathfinder released Sojourner, a robot rover on the surface of...
History of 5 July
History of 5 July
1991 - Regulators shut down the Pakistani-managed Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in eight countries. The charge was...
