And This Day

July is the seventh month of the year. July was named by the Roman Senate in honour of Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., being the month of his birth. Before then it was called Quintilis, being the fifth month of the calendar that started with March. Today is July 1st In 1770 – Lexell's Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units (2,180,000 km; 1,360,000 mi). In 1874 – The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale. In 1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, US In 1890 – Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable. In 1963 – ZIP codes are introduced for US mail. In 1966 – The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto. In 1970 - Traffic released "John Barleycorn Must Die" In 1972 – T...

It's June 30th On this day in 1905 – Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity , for publication in "Annalen der Physik". In 1986 - The Eurythmics released "Revenge" -Tangerine Dream released "Underwater Sunlight" In 1992 - Kyuss released "Blues for a Red Sun" In 1997 - Prodigy released "The Fat of the Land" In 2023 - Birthdays: Stanley Spencer "The Resurrection" Horace Vernet "Self Portrait with Pipe"

It's June 29 On this day in 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground. In 1976 - Jon Anderson released "Olias of Sunhillow" In 1987 – Vincent van Gogh's painting, "Le Pont de Trinquetaille", is bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London. In 1988 - Voivod released "Dimension Hatröss" Birthdays: Colin Hay David B. Mattingly Emily Skinner DJ Shadow Amanda Donohoe as Lady Sylvia Marsh in "The Lair of the White Worm" Don Dokken Ian Paice Sean Bergin Richard Lewis on Tubi Gary Busey on Tubi Slim Pickens as Major "King" Kong in "Dr. Strangelove" as Switchboard Operator in "Skidoo" Little Eva Corey Allen as Gil Ramsey in "The Shadow on the Window" Director of Pat Crawford Brown as Mrs. Michaels in "Demonic Toys"

It's June 28th In 1964 – Malcolm X formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity. In 1968 - Pink Floyd released "A Saucerful of Secrets" In 1969 – Stonewall riots began in New York City. The only known photograph taken during the first night of the riots, by freelance photographer Joseph Ambrosini, shows LGBTQ+ youth scuffling with police In 1968 - Aretha Franklin appeared on the cover of Time magazine. In 1975 - David Bowie released "Fame," featuring John Lennon on backing vocals. It became Bowie's first #1 hit in the US. In 1980 - Paul McCartney's "Coming Up" hits #1 in the US. In 1994 - Kyuss released "Welcome to Sky Valley" In 1997 – In the Holyfield vs. Tyson fight, Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear. In 1999 - The Art of Noise released "The Seduction of Claude Debussy" Birthdays: Mike Derks Steve Williamson Clint Boon Kathy Bates as Hel...

It's June 27th On this day in 1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia. In 1966 - The Mothers of Invention released "Freak Out" In 1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on it's final research and development flight mission. In 1988 - Killing Joke released "Outside the Gate" In 1989 - The B52s released "Cosmic Thing" In 1994 - Beck released "One Foot in the Grave" - Ozric Tentacles released "Arborescence" In 1995 – Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on the first space shuttle mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir. Birthdays J.J. Abrams Jeffrey Lee Pierce Joey Covington Gilson Lavis Robert Normann Phillip Guston "Cherries III" Hellen Keller "Her Story" Arthur Lismer RMS Olympic in dazzle at Pier 2 in Halifax, Nova Scotia Napoléon Coste