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Unknown User
On this date 10 years ago Gianni Versace was gunned down outside his home in Miami.
Anyone got anything else?
Mark_July
Orgasminator
on this day in history 3 years ago I was in Rehab(secrets,secrets!)
stevesms
Master of Sex
July 15th 1948 Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in London.
Anton Checkov died July 15th 1904.
Rembrandt was born 1606.
Unknown User
40 years ago today, the 16th July, Apollo 11 was launched.
tmann
Sex God
1955
Racing driver Stirling Moss becomes first Englishman to win the British Grand Prix.
Bill0305
Warming the Bed
16th July - 1945: First atomic bomb detonated - the slippery slope eh?
Bambi
Sex God
16th July 1979
Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein :scared:
Al1963
Orgasminator
1974: Bomb blast at the Tower of London
1976: 25 African countries boycott Olympics in Montreal.
1979: Sandinista rebels take Nicaraguan capital
1987: Ex-Guinness boss owes millions (insider trading Ernest Saunders)
tmann
Sex God
1936
Start of the Spanish Civil War when the army, led by General Franco, revolts against the country's Republican Government.
Unknown User
1955: Disneyland, California opened.
Unknown User
Jane Austen died in 1817.
Sir Richard Bransen was born in 1950.
The body of Dr. David Kelly was discovered in 2003.
Unknown User
18th July 1976 : The first perfect 10 ever recorded in Olympic gymnastics was achieved up by Romania's 4-foot-11, 88-pound Nadia Comaneci on the women's uneven parallel bars.
Unknown User
France declared war on Prussia in 1870.
Edgar Degas was born in 1834.
Sarah Good and Susannah Martin were hanged for witchcraft following the Salem Witch Trials in 1692.
Mark_July
Orgasminator
The Mary Rose sank today in 1545
Trahern
Sexlightened
Humanity first set foot on the moon in '69.
Now we need to get to Mars, find some Prothean ruins and discover Mass Effect technology.
Unknown User
Quote by Trahern
Humanity first set foot on the moon in '69.
Now we need to get to Mars, find some Prothean ruins and discover Mass Effect technology.

Actually, they only landed there on the 20th, the 'foot on the moon' moment came the next day. cool
stevesms
Master of Sex
All hail Fluff biggrin :D :D
1837 London Euston opened (London's first)
1881 Sitting Bull surrenders to the US Army
1944 German staff officer Colonel von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate Hitler, in Rastenburg, Germany.
1973 Bruce Lee dies
Unknown User
The Viking I also made a successful landing on Mars in 1976.
Unknown User
Guess what? Two men sullied the surface of the moon on this day 40 years ago :giggle:
Also, Tony Blair was elected Labour leader in 1994.
The Aswan Dam was completed in 1970.
Mollie Sugden was born in 1922. Cat Stevens in 1948. Robin Williams in 1951.
Robert Burns died in 1796, and Basil Rathbone in 1967.
Unknown User
The Ford motor company sold it's first car in 1903.
The first live trans-Atlantic television signal was relayed by Telstar in 1962.
Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson in 1986.
The Hale-Bopp comet was discovered on this day in 1995.
Bambi
Sex God
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King James VIII
Al1963
Orgasminator
1833 Slavery was outlawed in the British Colonies
Bambi
Sex God
1958 : Nautilus travels under the North Pole
Unknown User
Today is the official anniversary of the invention of champagne by Dom Perignon in 1693. drinkies
Theladyisaminx
Sex God
Did nothing happen in history ever on August 5th and 6th? rolleyes
Unknown User
August 5th 1620 - The Mayflower set off from Southampton on it's first attempt to reach N. America.
August 6th 1945 - Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima.
Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki completed a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean on August 7th 1947.
Bambi
Sex God
On this day in history (it is now cause it's passed)
Bambi was in the kitchen washing up at precisely:
& 56 seconds on
123456789 lol
Theladyisaminx
Sex God
I found this one too lol
1990 On this day at and 56 seconds, 17th of the 8th, 90 the time and date sequence ran from 1-0, an occurence which takes place only once a century.
Unknown User
1963 - The Great Train Robbery took place on the 8th of August.