History of All Kinds

[NorthBrit]

July 22, 2025

Me thinks we're the only 3 that enjoy this haha. With you two doing the heavy lifting. Keep it up guys!

edit: had to put in the date for reference

That's alright. I do not read half of the other threads.

 

[migalyto]

July 22, 2025

Me thinks we're the only 3 that enjoy this haha. With you two doing the heavy lifting. Keep it up guys!

edit: had to put in the date for reference

I really enjoy this thread. It makes me look at "this day in history" and I learn a lot of new things and get a refresh of things I did learn but have forgotten about. I go in stages where I post in here hot and heavy and then it will go for a period where I kind of forget about it till someone else post something.

 

[migalyto]

July 22, 1933
Wily Post completes the first solo flight around the world, taking 7 days and 19 hours.

 

[Bruette]

Me thinks we're the only 3 that enjoy this haha.

More than enough for me.

Keep it up guys!

Yes. please do.

That's alright. I do not read half of the other threads.

Half... I doubt I read 10%

I really enjoy this thread.

Thanks to you and @NorthBrit I do too!

 

[NorthBrit]

23RD JULY

1840 Union Act passed by the British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada

 

[Kusojiji]

Ah, no wonder I never heard of North Canada

 

[migalyto]

July 23, 1777
King Louis XVI of France and his Foreign Minister clandestinely agree to supply the United States with munitions during the American Revolution.

 

[migalyto]

A train related event in History.

July 23, 1872
African American inventor Elijah McCoy is granted a patent for lubricators for steam engines.

 

[migalyto]

July 24. 1969
At 12:51 EDT, Apollo 11 returns to Earth after taking the first astronauts to the Moon and returning them safely

 

[NorthBrit]

25TH JULY

1814 English engineer George Stephenson introduces his first steam locomotive, a traveling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway, named Blücher

 

[migalyto]

July 25, 2000

A Concorde supersonic airplane—Air France flight 4590—crashed outside Paris, killing all 109 people on board and four others on the ground; the event was believed to have hastened the end of all Concorde operations three years later.

 

[Kusojiji]

I remember that one.

 

[migalyto]

I remember that one.

If your talking of the Concorde, I remember it too.

Was bummed when they all finally got put out of service. It was a beautiful sleek aircraft.

Would of loved to of been able to fly on it.

 

[Kusojiji]

Yup, they said that it took off after a NW flight lost a panel.

 

[Bruette]

History in the making!

Athletics' rookie first baseman, 22-year-old Nick Kurtz, hit four homeruns in last night's game (7/25/25) against Houston. In doing so he became only the twentieth player in MLB history, more than 240,000 MLB games, to hit four homeruns in a game and the first rookie to do it! A four-homerun game is rarer than a perfect game.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/athletics-vs-astros/2025/07/25/777007/final/wrap

I can almost hear Mel Allen now, "How about that!"

 

[migalyto]

July 26,1945

US, Britain, and China demand the unconditional surrender of Japan during World War II in the Declaration of Potsdam.

 

[migalyto]

There were actually a lot of major events on this day. July 26th.
1775:

The U.S. Postal Service was established by the Second Continental Congress, and Benjamin Franklin was named the first postmaster general.

A couple of shipping related events for our very own ship enthusiast @NorthBrit

1956:
The Italian passenger liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Stockholm off the coast of Nantucket in the Atlantic Ocean; 51 people were killed.

And also on this day in 1956:
Suez Canal seized
On this day in 1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser seized control of the Suez Canal and nationalized it, sparking a crisis that later resulted in French, British, and Israeli forces briefly occupying parts of Egypt.

 

[NorthBrit]

Mike mentions the sinking of the 'Andrea Doria' by the ship 'Stockholm'. Built in 1948 over the years Stockholm had many owners and different names. Her last being 'Astoria'. Just this month at the age of 76 she went to the breakers.

Suez Canal My Uncle Denis was one of the British soldiers sent Egypt at the time mentioned above to prevent the closure of the canal. A number of ships were 'trapped' in the waterway. One was a merchant ship 'Hartismere'. Dear to my heart, Hartismere was adopted by the school I attended. We schoolchildren wrote many letters to members of the crew. Receiving letters back was such an occasion.

 

[NorthBrit]

27TH JULY

1866 First transatlantic telegraph cable comes ashore at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, after being laid out 1,686 miles by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Eastern steamship

 

[migalyto]

July 27, 1940.

Warner Brothers released the Looney Tunes animated short film A Wild Hare, featuring the debut of Bugs Bunny in his familiar incarnation; embryonic versions of the character had appeared in earlier cartoons.