July 31 Wikipedia featured article

Gubby Allen (1902–1989) was a cricketer who captained England in eleven Test matches. Born in Sydney, Australia, on 31 July 1902, his family moved to London when he was six. In first-class matches, he played for Middlesex and Cambridge University. A fast bowler and hard-hitting lower-order batsman for England, Allen was appointed captain in 1936 and led the team during the unsuccessful 1936–37 tour of Australia. He captained England in a Test series...

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On this day: July 31

July 31: Feast day of Saint Ignatius of Loyola; Ka Hae Hawai'i Day (Flag Day) in Hawaii Free Derry Corner 1201 – John Komnenos the Fat briefly seized the throne of the Byzantine Empire from Alexios III Angelos, but he was soon caught and executed. 1423 – Hundred Years' War: The English and their Burgundian allies were victorious over the French at the Battle of Cravant near Auxerre, France. 1917 – First World War: The Battle of Passchendaele...

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July 30 Wikipedia featured article

Giganotosaurus ("giant southern lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina, around 99.6 to 97 million years ago. It was one of the largest known terrestrial carnivores, but the exact size has been hard to determine from the incomplete remains found so far. The holotype specimen, discovered in Patagonia in 1993, is almost 70% complete, and indicates a length of 12 to 13 m (39 to 43 ft), a skull 1.53 to...

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On this day: July 30

July 30 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla 1676 – Virginia colonist Nathaniel Bacon and his makeshift army issued a Declaration of the People of Virginia, instigating a rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (pictured), an early leader of the Mexican War of Independence, was executed by Spanish authorities. 1930 – Uruguay defeated Argentina, 4–2, in front of their home crowd at Estadio Centenario in...

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July 29 Wikipedia featured article

Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate. Born on 29 July 1898 into a traditional Jewish family in what was then part of Austria-Hungary, Rabi came to the United States as a baby and was raised in New York's Lower East Side. In collaboration with Gregory Breit, he developed the Breit-Rabi equation, and predicted that the Stern–Gerlach experiment could be modified to confirm the properties of the atomic nucleus....

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On this day: July 29

July 29 Arc de Triomphe 1148 – The Siege of Damascus ended in a decisive crusader defeat, leading to the disintegration of the Second Crusade. 1836 – The Arc de Triomphe (pictured) in Paris, commemorating those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, was formally inaugurated. 1914 – Connecting Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, the Cape Cod Canal opened on a limited...

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Comment se faire de l’argent sur Internet (en travaillant dur)

Retrouvez le contenu original de l'article Comment se faire de l’argent sur Internet (en travaillant dur) sur ABC Argent. L'argent facile sur Internet n'existe pas. Découvrez comment gagner de l'argent en ligne... (Indice: en travaillant dur) L'article Comment se faire de l’argent sur Internet (en travaillant dur) est apparu en premier sur ABC Argent. from ABC Argent http://ift.tt/2eTPn...

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July 28 Wikipedia featured article

The ship that became the Yugoslav monitor Sava began as SMS Bodrog, a river monitor built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. She and two other monitors fired the first shots of World War I on the night of 28 July 1914, when they shelled Serbian defences near Belgrade. She fought the Serbian and Romanian armies during the war, and was captured in its closing stages. She was transferred to the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later...

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On this day: July 28

July 28: Sutton Hoo helmet 1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, architects of the Reign of Terror, were executed after having been arrested the previous day. 1821 – Peruvian War of Independence: Argentine general José de San Martín declared the independence of Peru from Spain. 1939 – During an excavation of a ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England, archæologists discovered a helmet (pictured)...

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July 27 Wikipedia featured article

The Roosevelt dime is the current ten-cent piece of the United States, displaying President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the obverse. Authorized soon after his death in 1945, it has been produced by the Mint continuously since 1946 in large numbers. Roosevelt had been stricken with polio, and was one of the moving forces of the March of Dimes. The ten-cent coin could legally be changed by the Mint without the need for congressional action, and officials...

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On this day: July 27

July 27: José Celso Barbosa Day in Puerto Rico Erwin Rommel and aides 1054 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria, led an invasion of Scotland and defeated Macbeth, King of Scotland, in a battle north of the Firth of Forth. 1778 – Anglo-French War: French and British fleets fought to a standoff west of Ushant, which led to political disputes in both countries. 1942 – Second World War: Allied forces halted the Axis invasion of Egypt (Erwin Rommel pictured...

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July 26 Wikipedia featured article

Calvatia sculpta, commonly known as the sculpted puffball, is a species of puffball fungus in the family Agaricaceae. Up to 8 to 15 cm (3.1 to 5.9 in) tall by 8 to 10 cm (3.1 to 3.9 in) wide, the pear- or egg-shaped puffball is readily recognizable from the large pyramidal or polygonal warts covering its surface. It is edible when young, before the spores inside the fruit body disintegrate into a brownish powder. Originally...

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On this day: July 26

July 26: Independence Day in Liberia (1847) Moncada Barracks 1533 – : Conquistador Francisco Pizarro executed the last independent Inca Emperor Atahualpa in Cajamarca during the Spanish conquest of the Empire. 1759 – French and Indian War: Rather than defend Fort Carillon near present-day Ticonderoga, New York, from an approaching 11,000-man British force, French Brigadier General François-Charles de Bourlamaque withdrew his troops and...

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July 25 Wikipedia featured article

Lars Ulrich, drummer and co-founder of Metallica Kill 'Em All is the debut studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released on July 25, 1983, by the independent record label Megaforce Records. It is a groundbreaking album for thrash metal, which fuses riffs of the new wave of British heavy metal with hardcore punk tempos. Its musical approach and lyrics, markedly different from rock's mainstream of the early Eighties, inspired...

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On this day: July 25

July 25 Corinth Canal 1261 – Alexios Strategopoulos led the Nicaean forces of Michael VIII Palaiologos to recapture Constantinople, re-establish the Byzantine Empire, and end the Latin Empire. 1893 – The Corinth Canal (pictured), which bisects the narrow Isthmus of Corinth, was formally opened, connecting the Gulf of Corinth with the Aegean Sea's Saronic Gulf. 1965 – Bob Dylan, who had previously been known for folk music, gave a controversial...

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On this day: July 24

July 24: Pioneer Day in Utah (1847) Rescuers at the Santiago de Compostela derailment 1411 – Forces of Donald of Islay, Lord of the Isles, and Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, fought at the Battle of Harlaw near Inverurie, Scotland. 1701 – French explorer Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac established Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, which later grew into the city of Detroit. 1910 – Ottoman forces captured the city of Shkodër to put down the Albanian...

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July 24 Wikipedia featured article

Monte Ne is a former health resort and planned community in the U.S. state of Arkansas, open from 1901 to the mid-1930s. It was owned and operated by William Hope Harvey, a financial theorist and writer, in the Ozark hills of the White River valley east of Rogers on the edge of Beaver Lake. Two of its hotels, Missouri Row and Oklahoma Row, were the largest log buildings in the world at the time, and Oklahoma Row's tower is one of the earliest examples of a multi-story concrete structure. The resort was not a financial success, due in part to Harvey's...

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July 23 Wikipedia featured article

Hurricane Alicia The 1983 Atlantic hurricane season was the least active Atlantic hurricane season in 53 years. Although the season begins by convention on June 1, there were no tropical depressions until July 23, and only four of the season's seven depressions became tropical storms. Tropical Depression Three became Hurricane Alicia (satellite image pictured) on August 17 and made landfall in Texas the next day, breaking thousands of glass...

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On this day: July 23

July 23: Beginning of The Nine Days (Judaism, 2017); Revolution Day in Egypt (1952); ; Parents' Day in the United States (2017) Henry Halleck 1862 – American Civil War: Henry Halleck (pictured) was appointed general-in-chief of the Union Army. 1921 – The Communist Party of China was founded at the founding National Congress in Shanghai. 1942 – The Holocaust: The gas chambers at Treblinka extermination camp began operation, killing 6,500...

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On this day: July 22

July 22: Feast day of Mary Magdalene; Pi Approximation Day Gia Long 1802 – Gia Long (pictured) conquered Hanoi and unified modern-day Vietnam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare. 1894 – Despite finishing in first place in the world's first auto race, Jules-Albert de Dion did not win, as his steam-powered car was against the rules. 1944 – In opposition to the Polish government-in-exile, the Soviet-sponsored Polish Committee of...

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July 22 Wikipedia featured article

Bradley Wiggins The 2012 Tour de France was the 99th edition of the race, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The 21 race stages, including the prologue, covered 3,496.9 km (2,173 mi), from the Belgian city of Liège on 30 June to the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 22 July. Bradley Wiggins (pictured) from Team Sky won the overall general classification, becoming the first British rider to win the Tour. Wiggins's teammate Chris Froome placed second,...

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On this day: July 21

July 21 Aswan High Dam 365 – A large earthquake that occurred near Crete and its subsequent tsunami caused widespread destruction throughout the eastern Mediterranean region. 1877 – During the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, much of central Pittsburgh was burned and looted in the Pittsburgh railway riots. 1925 – American high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee's Butler Act by teaching evolution in class. 1970...

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July 21 Wikipedia featured article

Dwayne Jones was a Jamaican 16-year-old who was killed by a violent mob in Montego Bay on the night of 21 July 2013, after he attended a dance party dressed in women's clothing. Perceived as effeminate, Jones had been bullied in school and rejected by his father, and had moved into a derelict house in Montego Bay with transgender friends. When some men at the dance party discovered that the cross-dressing Jones was not a woman, they confronted and attacked him. He was beaten, stabbed, shot, and run over by a car. Police investigated, but the murder...

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On this day: July 20

July 20: Independence Day in Colombia (1810) The Niépce brothers' Pyréolophore 1779 – Tekle Giyorgis I began the first of his six reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia. 1807 – French brothers Claude and Nicéphore Niépce received a patent for their Pyréolophore (diagram pictured), one of the world's first internal combustion engines. 1922 – The German protectorate of Togoland was divided into the League of Nations mandates of French Togoland and British...

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July 20 Wikipedia featured article

Chris Cornell in 2011 Audioslave was an American rock supergroup formed in Los Angeles in 2001. The four-piece band consisted of Chris Cornell, Soundgarden's lead singer and rhythm guitarist (pictured), and Rage Against the Machine members Tom Morello (lead guitar), Tim Commerford (bass and backing vocals), and Brad Wilk (drums). Their sound was created by blending 1970s hard rock with 1990s alternative rock, using only guitar, bass, drums,...

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