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History of July 12
1543 - England's King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.
1679 Britain's King Charles II ratifies Habeas Corpus Act allowing...
History of July 11
1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII
1811 Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases.
1818 Keats writes "In...
History of July 8
1099 - Christian soldiers on the First Crusade march around Jerusalem.
1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs on his first voyage
1579 Our...
History of July 7
1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
1550 Traditional date Chocolate thought to have been introduced to...
History of July 6
1483 - King Richard III of England was crowned.
1858 - Lyman Blake patented the shoe manufacturing machine.
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tested...
History of July 5
1687 Isaac Newton's great work PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England. Outlines his laws of motion and universal gravitation.
1878 The coat of arms...
History of July 2
706 Remains of Chinese Emperor Gaozong,his wife Empress Wu Zetian and family members interred in Qianling Mausoleum by Emperor Zhongzong,outside Chang'an on Mount Liangshan
1843...
History of June 30
1860 Famous debate on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution held at the Oxford University Museum and dominated by arguments between Thomas Henry Huxley and...
History of June 22
1633 Galileo Galilee forced to recant his Copernican views that the Earth orbits the Sun by the Pope
1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England...
Tips to keep away those Scary Lizards
Lizards, although useful, are scary as hell; We want them out of our homes, even if they help us in keeping our homes cockroach...
