20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France
Napoleon granted a patent for the Pyréolophore to Nicéphore Niépce and his brother ...
20 Juli 0s
19th July 1545: The Mary Rose, a Tudor warship of the English navy, sinks in the Solent in full view of King Henry VIII
According to contemporary accounts, the Mary Rose had just fired a broadside at the French navy, and was turning when she keeled over and ...
19 Juli 0s
18th July 1938: ‘Wrong Way’ Douglas Corrigan lands in Ireland from New York, despite filing a flight plan to Long Beach, California
Corrigan later claimed that a navigational error, caused by a faulty compass and poor weather conditions, had led him to fly east to Ireland instead of west to ...
18 Juli 0s
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 Juli 0s
16th July 622: Start date of the Islamic calendar
The Islamic calendar was dated to start with the first new moon after the Prophet Muhammad and his followers migrated to ...
16 Juli 0s
15th July 1099: First Crusade ends when Crusader forces capture the city of Jerusalem, after a siege lasting several weeks
After two days of fighting, the Crusaders breached Jerusalem's defences and entered the city, leading to intense fighting in the streets and buildings that led to a large-scale massacre of the city’s Muslim and Jewish ...
15 Juli 0s
14th July 1881: American outlaw Billy the Kid shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett
American outlaw Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New ...
14 Juli 0s
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 ...
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