World History Facts Part - 1

14-Jul-1789 – Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille during the French Revolution.

14-Jul- 1900 – Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance captured Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion

 14-Jul- 1933 – Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties were outlawed except the Nazi  Party.

 14-Jul- 1928 – New Vietnam Revolutionary Party was founded in Huế amid providing some of the communist party's most important leaders in its early years.

 14-Jul- 1950 – Korean War: North Korean troops initiated the Battle of Taejon.

14-Jul- 1957 – Rawya Ateya took her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.

14-Jul- 1958 – Iraqi Revolution: In Iraq the monarchy was overthrown by popular forces led by Abdul Karim Kassem, who became the nation's new leader.

14-Jul- 1976 – Capital punishment was abolished in Canada.

13-Jul-1643 – English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down – In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanded the Royalist forces and heavily defeated the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller. 

13-Jul- 1878 – Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redrew the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania became completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.

13-Jul-1919 – The British airship R34 landed in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.

13-Jul-1941 – World War II: Montenegrins began a popular uprising against the Axis powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).

13-Jul- 1977 – New York, amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experienced an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that lead to widespread fire and looting. 

13-Jul- 2011 – Mumbai was rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and leaving 130 injured. 

13-Jul- 2013 – Typhoon Soulik killed at least 9 people and affected more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan. 

12-Jul-1776 – Captain James Cook began his third voyage.

12-Jul- 1790 – The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly.

12-Jul- 1799 – Ranjit Singh conquered Lahore and became Maharaja of the Punjab (Sikh Empire).

12-Jul- 1812 – War of 1812: The United States invaded Canada at Windsor, Ontario.

12-Jul-1920 – The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty was signed. Lithuania declared independence from the former Russian Empire.

12-Jul- 1943 – World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka – Erman and Soviet forces engaged in one of the largest tank engagements of all time.

12-Jul- 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion ordered the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.

 11-Jul- in 1405 – Ming admiral Zheng set sail to explore the world for the first time.

11-Jul- 1576 – Martin Frobisher sighted Greenland.

11-Jul-1735 – Mathematical calculations suggests that it was on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.


11-Jul- 1796 – The United States took possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.

11-Jul-1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years, he discovered another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.

11-Jul- 1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, was founded.

11-Jul- 1893 – The first cultured pearl was obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.

11-Jul-1914 – USS Nevada (BB-36) was launched.

11-Jul- 1919 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday became law for workers in the Netherlands.

11-Jul- 1930 – Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scored 309 runs in one day, the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.

11-Jul- 1950 – Pakistan joined the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.

11-Jul-1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission was started.

11-Jul- 1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship started between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky.

11-Jul-1979 – America's first space station, Skylab, was destroyed as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.

11-Jul- 2012 – Astronomers announced the discovery of Styx, the fifth moon of Pluto.

10-Jul-  1499 – The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returned to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
10-Jul- 1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declared war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.

10-Jul- 1806 – The Vellore Mutiny was the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.

10-Jul- 1850 – Millard Fillmore was appointed as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.

10-Jul- 1890 – Wyoming was recognized as the 44th U.S. State.

10-Jul- 1913 – Death Valley, California, saw 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.

10-Jul- 1938 – Howard Hughes marked a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.

10-Jul- 1942 – World War II: An American pilot spotted a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy used to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.

10-Jul- 1946 – Hungarian hyperinflation reached a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubled every eleven hours.


10-Jul- 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah was recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.

10-Jul- 1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, was launched into orbit.

10-Jul- 1967 – Uruguay became a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

10-Jul- 1973 – The Bahamas gained full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.

10-Jul- 1973 – National Assembly of Pakistan passed a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.

10-Jul- 1991 – Boris Yeltsin joined office as the first elected President of Russia.

10-Jul- 1997 – In London scientists reported the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supported the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

10-Jul- 2000 – EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group was formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.

10-Jul- 2007 – Erden Eruç introduced the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.