14th July 1789: Storming of the Bastille in Paris
The morning of the 14th July 1789 saw the beginning of the French Revolution when Parisian revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, a large fortress, prison and ammunition store that symbolised everything that was wrong with the ...
14 Jul 20220s
13th July 1985: The Live Aid ‘global jukebox’ concert broadcast to an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion people
News reports the day after the concert stated that Live Aid had raised upwards of £40 ...
13 Jul 20220s
12th July 1561: The consecration of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow
Moscow’s Trinity Church, later renamed Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat and better known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, was ...
12 Jul 20220s
11th July 1962: The world’s first satellite television broadcast took place using the recently-launched Telstar satellite
Telstar's first broadcast involved relaying an image of a flag outside its base station at Andover Earth Station to the Pleumeur-Bodou earth station in ...
11 Jul 20220s
10th July 1940: The Vichy government established in France
The Vichy government was established in France after the National Assembly approved a new French Constitutional Law that granted full powers to Marshal ...
10 Jul 20220s
9th July 1877: The world’s first official lawn tennis tournament begins at Wimbledon in London
The first Wimbledon Championship was staged in order to raise money to repair the roller that was used to maintain the lawns at the club, and only featured a Gentlemen’s Singles ...
9 Jul 20220s
8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression
On the 8th July 1932, the Dow Jones Industrial Average – a key indicator of the value of America’s biggest companies – fell to its lowest point during the Great Depression that began with the Wall Street ...
8 Jul 20220s
7th July 1928: Pre-sliced and wrapped bread first sold by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri
The Chillicothe Baking Company's ‘Kleen Maid Sliced Bread’ proved incredibly popular and was advertised as ‘the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was ...
7 Jul 20220s
