Tag: History
History of 27 July
1993 - IBM's new chairman, Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., announced an $8.9 billion plan to cut the company's costs.
eltics star Reggie Lewis died after...
History of 26 July
1998 - AT&T and British Telecommunications PLC announced they were forming a joint venture to combine international operations and develop a new Internet system.
1999...
History of 24 July
1998 - Roy O. Disney received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a...
History of 23 July
1998 - U.S. scientists at the University of Hawaii turned out more than 50 "carbon-copy" mice, with a cloning technique.
2000 - Lance Armstrong won...
History of 22 July
1998 - Iran
tested medium-range missile, capable of reaching Israel or Saudi Arabia.2000 -
Astronomers at the University of Arizona announced that they had found a...
History of 21 July
1997 -
The U.S.S. Constitution, which defended the United
States during the War of 1812, set sail under its own power for the first
time in 116 years.1998 -
Chinese gymnast...
History of 20 July
1992 - Vaclav Havel, the playwright
who led the Velvet Revolution against communism, stepped down as president of
Czechoslovakia.1998 - Russia won a $11.2 billion
loan from...
History of 19 July
1992 – A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort.1997 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year paramilitary campaign to...
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...