Happy Birthday Paul! July 15: In 1207 King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton; in 1381 John Ball, a leader in the Peasants Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II; in 1799 the Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleons Egyptian Campaign; in 1806 United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west; in 1834 the Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years; in 1838 Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God; in 1870 Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union; in 1870 Ruperts Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudsons Bay Company (the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories); in 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight; in 2006 Twitter is launched. Birthdays: Dutch painter Rembrandt (1506); actor Ken Kercheval (1935); actor Patrick Wayne (1939); actor Jan-Michael Vincent (1944); singer Linda Ronstadt (1946); Yes founding member/guitarist Peter Banks (1946); Lynyrd Skynrd drummer Artimus Pyle (1949); Buggles singer/guitarist Trevor Horn (1949); Ambrosia singer/guitarist David Pack (1952); guitarist Joe Satriani (1956); English drummer Jason Bonham (1966). Music: In 1958 Julia Lennon (Johns mother) is struck and killed my a car after leaving her sisters house in Liverpool; in 1963 Elvis begins filming his 15th film Viva Las Vegas with Ann-Margret; in 1972 Elton Johns album Honky Chateau hits #1, in 1978 The Rolling Stones album Some Girls hits #1.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:06:15 +0000