July 191814: American firearms manufacturer
Samuel
Colt was born. 1843: The first all-metal ocean liner, the S.S.
Great Britain, was launched from Bristol, England. 1865:
Charles Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic, was born. 1912:
A meteor with an estimated mass of 190 kg exploded over the town
of
Holbrook, AZ, causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris
to rain down on the town. 1937:
George Parker, inventor of the the first successful fountain
pen and founder of the
Parker Pen Company, died. 1937: The official search for missing
flyers
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan ended. 1941:
BBC World Service began regular broadcasting throughout Europe
of opening four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which in Morse
Code spell V for "Victory" (dit, dit, dit, dah.., get it?). 1942:
The
Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter made its first flight under
jet engine power. 1957: The first rocket with nuclear warhead was
fired from an F-89 at Yucca Flat, NV (code name
Plumbbob/John). 1961: The first in-flight movie,
By Love Possessed, was shown on TWA. 1991:
Cal Ripken played his 1,500th consecutive game. 2005:
Death Valley,
CA recorded a temperature of 53.9°C (129°F). 2010: David Ronald
de Mey Warren, the Australian scientist who invented the flight
data recorder (or "black box"), died.
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Note: These
historical tidbits have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet.
As detailed in
this article, there
is a lot of wrong information that is repeated hundreds of times because most websites
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