22 • July 22 - 23, 2020 CURIOUSITIES bransonglobe.com Today in History: Movies, sports and more • 1099 First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem • 1456 Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats Sultan Murad II • 1515 First Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire - rise of the Habsburgs influence • 1587 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off North Carolina • 1796 Cleveland, Ohio, founded by General Moses Cleaveland. Originally called ‘Cleaveland’, the public adopted the current name after a newspaper editor noticed the name was too long to fit on the page. • 1864 Battle of Atlanta: General Sherman’s Union side defeats Confederate troops under General Hood, with 8,449 Confederate and 3,641 US casualties • 1893 Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” in Colorado • 1916 A bomb explodes during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco killing 10 • 1934 Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theatre, “Public Enemy No. 1” John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents • 1937 US Senate rejects FDR’s proposal to enlarge Supreme Court • 1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp • 1943 US forces led by General George Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily • 1955 Richard Nixon becomes the first US Vice President to preside over a cabinet meeting • 1963 Sarawak achieves independence from British colonial rule • 1975 US House of Representives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee • 1983 Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world • 1986 US House of Representatives impeaches Judge Harry E. Claiborne for tax evasion • 1988 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research • 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 men in 1978 • 1992 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes prison • 1994 Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson pleads “Absolutely 100% Not Guilty” of murder • 2003 Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay’s 14-year old son, and a bodyguard • 2011 Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first a bomb blast targeting government buildings in central Oslo, second a massacre at a youth camp on island of Utøya • 2014 News broadcaster Al Jazeera claim that its office in Gaza is under attack by the Israeli Defence Force • 2014 European Union claim that Israel ‘has the right to defend itself’, but say civilian casualties in Gaza are unacEXP. 7/31/20
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