22nd July 1992: Pablo Escobar escapes from the luxury La Catedral prison
Referred to mockingly as ‘Hotel Escobar’, the prison was staffed by guards chosen by the drugs lord ...
22 Jul 20220s
21st July 1970: Construction of the Aswan High Dam completed in Egypt
Construction of the Aswan High Dam took just over ten years and cost nearly $1 ...
21 Jul 20220s
20th July 1969: NASA’s Apollo 11 spacecraft lands on the moon
On the 20th July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully landed the Eagle, the Lunar Module of Apollo 11, on the surface of the ...
20 Jul 20220s
19th July 1799: Announcement made of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone near the Egyptian town of Rashid
It was while some of Napoleon's engineers were working with the army to strengthen Fort Julien in the northern Delta area of Egypt that the granodiorite block we now know as the Rosetta Stone was ...
19 Jul 20220s
18th July 1976: Nadia Comăneci scores the first ever Olympic gymnastic ‘perfect 10’
Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci scored the first ever perfect 10 in Olympic history on the uneven bars at the Summer Games in ...
18 Jul 20220s
17th July 1918: Russian Imperial Romanov family shot dead by Bolsheviks in the basement of the Ipatiev House in the city of Ekaterinburg
The Romanov family were all shot or stabbed by bayonets, and their bodies were taken away in a truck and disposed of in a forest twelve miles north of the ...
17 Jul 20220s
16th July 1945: USA tests the first ever nuclear bomb, code-named ‘Trinity’
The 16th July 1945 marked the start of the atomic age when the USA detonated the first nuclear bomb under the codename ...
16 Jul 20220s
15th July 1834: Abolition of the Spanish Inquisition, formally known as the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition
By the time it was abolished, up to 150,000 people had been tried by the Spanish Inquisition, of whom somewhere between two and five thousand were ...
15 Jul 20220s
