Tag: History
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 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 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...
History of 4 July
History of 4 July
1997 - The Mars Pathfinder, an unmanned spacecraft, landed on Mars. A rover named Sojourner was deployed to gather data about...
History of 3 July
History of 3 July
1991 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush formally inaugurated the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.
2013 – Egyptian coup d'état: President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is...
History of 2 July
History of 2 July
1995 - "Forbes" magazine reported that Microsoft's chairman, Bill Gates, was the worth $12.9 billion, making him the world's richest...
History of 1 July
History of 1 July
1991 - Court TV began airing.
1991 - The Warsaw Pact dissolved.
1994 - Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Liberation...
History of 30 June
History of 30 June
1994 - The U.S. Figure Skating Association stripped Tonya Harding of the 1994 national championship and banned her from the...
History of 29 June
History of 29 June
1995 - The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
1998 -...
History of 28 June
History of 28 June
1996 - The Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school.
1996 - Charles...