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- July 6th http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul06.html
- 1415 - Jan Hus is burned at the stake for various heresies by the Council of Constance. Among other things, Hus had incited the citizens of Prague to protest against antipope John XXIII and his policy of granting indulgences.
- 1944 - Fire breaks out at a matinee performance of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Baily Circus burning 168 people to death, and injuring an additional 250. The main tent had been waterproofed with wax thinned by gasoline. Said one of the Flying Wallendas, "I can never look down at a crowd again without smelling the flames and the burning flesh."
- 1945 - The Joint Chiefs of Staff approve Operation OVERCAST, intended to "exploit ... chosen rare minds whose continuing intellectual productivity we wish to use." The directive authorizes the immigration of up to 350 German and Austrian specialists, primarily experts in rocketry. Operation OVERCAST is later renamed Project PAPERCLIP.
- July 7th http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul07.html
- 1348 - The Black Death makes its first appearance in England.
- 1665 - King Charles II and his entourage flee London, a city suffering the ravages of the black plague. At this point, about 2,000 Londoners are dying weekly.
- 1942 - Himmler gives the go-ahead for sterilization experiments at Auschwitz.
- 1970 - 46 people are shot dead in the downtown area during a five-day race riot in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
- July 8th http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul08.html
- 1932 - Horror movie Freaks, by Ted Browning, features genuine carnival sideshow performers, premieres in New York at the Rialto theater. Its later banned for 30 years by the British government.
- 1976 - Former President Richard M. Nixon disbarred by New York Bar Association. They rejected his voluntary attempt to resign because he refused to acknowledge that he had obstructed justice during the Watergate coverup. California and U.S. Supreme Court bars accepted his resignation.
- 1987 - Kitty Dukakis, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Governor Michael Dukakis, reveals that she was formerly addicted to amphetamines. After the election Kitty admits to raging alcoholism.
- 1997 - Michael Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, publicly apologizes to his children's babysitter, with whom he had a five year relationship starting when she was age 14. The local district attorney declines to press charges, but Kennedy winds up dead in an apparent skiing accident five months later.
- Jul 9th http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul09.html
- 1793 - Vermont?Create|Search completed revisions to its constitution, the first in the United States to prohibit slavery.
- 1819 - Elias Howe (Search for Elias Howe), inventor of the sewing machine, was born in Spencer, Massachusetts.
- 1952 - John Tesh is born in Garden City, New York.
- 1980 - Stampede during a papal visit to Brazil by John Paul II. Seven people trampled.
- 1982 - Michael Fagan, dressed in jeans and a dirty t-shirt, and bleeding from a fresh cut on his hand, walks into the private bedroom of Queen Elizabeth II while she is asleep and her personal guard out walking her dogs. Fagan had scaled the wall surrounding Buckingham Palace and gained entry without triggering any alarms. The two carry on a 12-minute conversation, while the intruder holds a jagged broken ashtray, before somebody finally apprehends him.
- 1986 - After spending one year and half a million dollars, the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography releases their two-volume, 1960-page final report. In contrast to the 1970 Presidential Commission on Pornography, the report finds that porn causes violent sex crimes and other antisocial activities. Afterwards, one impartial commission member admits: "I, for one, have no hesitation in condemning nearly every specimen of pornography that we have examined in the course of our deliberations as tasteless, offensive, lewd and indecent. According to my values, these materials are themselves immoral, and to the extent that they encourage immoral behavior they exert a corrupting influence on the family and the moral fabric of society."
- 1995 - Disgruntled postal worker William Clark kills his supervisor, in the City of Industry, California.
- 1997 - Mike Tyson banned from boxing for one year, and fined $3M for biting off the ear of Evander Holyfield.
- 1997 - Attempting to spring him from the Arizona state prison at Florence, Rebecca Thornton meets her husband Floyd at the perimeter fence with a rifle. There the escape plan goes haywire, and Rebecca shoots her death-row husband after he instructs her: "Shoot me! I'm sorry things went wrong. Shoot me! Shoot me!" Then they are both gunned down by the guards.
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