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1. 24th July 1847: Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley to begin the foundation of Salt Lake City, Utah

   Gepubliceerd: 24-7-2025
2. 23rd July 1914: Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia specifically designed to be rejected and lead to war between the two countries

   Gepubliceerd: 23-7-2025
3. 22nd July 1793: Alexander Mackenzie becomes the first recorded person to cross North America north of Mexico

   Gepubliceerd: 22-7-2025
4. 21st July 1861: First Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the American Civil War, takes place in Virginia

   Gepubliceerd: 21-7-2025
5. 20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France

   Gepubliceerd: 20-7-2025
6. 19th July 1545: The Mary Rose, a Tudor warship of the English navy, sinks in the Solent in full view of King Henry VIII

   Gepubliceerd: 19-7-2025
7. 18th July 1938: ‘Wrong Way’ Douglas Corrigan lands in Ireland from New York, despite filing a flight plan to Long Beach, California

   Gepubliceerd: 18-7-2025
8. 17th July 1918: Russian Imperial Romanov family shot dead by Bolsheviks in the basement of the Ipatiev House in the city of Ekaterinburg

   Gepubliceerd: 17-7-2025
9. 16th July 622: Start date of the Islamic calendar

   Gepubliceerd: 16-7-2025
10. 15th July 1099: First Crusade ends when Crusader forces capture the city of Jerusalem, after a siege lasting several weeks

    Gepubliceerd: 15-7-2025
11. 14th July 1881: American outlaw Billy the Kid shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett

    Gepubliceerd: 14-7-2025
12. 13th July 1985: The Live Aid ‘global jukebox’ concert broadcast to an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion people

    Gepubliceerd: 13-7-2025
13. 12th July 1790: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy passed by the National Constituent Assembly of France

    Gepubliceerd: 12-7-2025
14. 11th July 1962: The world’s first satellite television broadcast took place using the recently-launched Telstar satellite

    Gepubliceerd: 11-7-2025
15. 10th July 1940: The Vichy government established in France

    Gepubliceerd: 10-7-2025
16. 9th July 1877: The world’s first official lawn tennis tournament begins at Wimbledon in London

    Gepubliceerd: 9-7-2025
17. 8th July 1497: Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon on the first known voyage to India from Europe

    Gepubliceerd: 8-7-2025
18. 7th July 1928: Pre-sliced and wrapped bread first sold by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri

    Gepubliceerd: 7-7-2025
19. 6th July 1988: Piper Alpha oil platform destroyed by a series of explosions in the deadliest offshore oil disaster in history

    Gepubliceerd: 6-7-2025
20. 5th July 1865: United States Secret Service established in Washington, D.C., by the Department of the Treasury

    Gepubliceerd: 5-7-2025