22 • July 24 - 25, 2020 HISTORY bransonglobe.com Today in History: Movies, sports and more • 1148 Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade • 1534 Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France • 1567 Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate; her 1-year-old son becomes King James VI of Scots • 1758 George Washington elected to Virginia House of Burgesses representing Frederick County • 1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll, with a clear lead for Andrew Jackson • 1832 Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by Wyoming’s South Pass • 1847 Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah • 1866 Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union • 1905 Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) and Emperor Wilhelm II (Germany) sign the Björkö Treaty, whereby each country agrees to come to the other’s defense if attacked by European powers • 1911 American explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas • 1917 Trial of Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari begins in Paris for allegedly spying for Germany and thus causing the deaths of 50,000 soldiers • 1943 Operation Gomorrah: RAF begins bombing Hamburg (till 3rd August), creating a firestorm and killing 42,600 people • 1959 US Vice President Richard Nixon argues with Nikita Khrushchev, known as “Kitchen Debate” • 1967 First modern hospice St Christopher’s founded by Dr. Cicely Saunders in London, England, beginning of modern palliative care and the hospice movement • 1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth • 1974 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes • 1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after “one is a born liar the other a convicted one” comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson • 2015 US President Barack Obama begins an historic 2 day visit to Kenya • 2017 Donald Trump’s sonin-law, Jared Kushner says he did not collude with Russia after meeting with Senate investigators • 2019 Global warming is the fastest in 2,000 years and scientific consensus that humans are the cause is at 99%, according to three major reports published in journals “Nature” and “Nature Geoscience” • 2019 New UK PM Boris Johnson drastically reshapes cabinet in his first day in office, appointing Dominic Raab as Foreign Secretary, Priti Patel as Home Secretary and Sajid Javid as Chancellor • 2019 Special counsel Robert Mueller reports to the US Senate that President Trump was not exonerated of obstruction of justice and that Russia interfered in US election to benefit Trump • 2019 Facebook agrees to pay $5 billion fine, largest ever for violating consumer privacy, to the US Federal Trade Commission EXP. 7/31/20
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