CoM Moderators Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 1858 - Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)1878 - 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii1944 - US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen1975 - India expels three reporters from "The Times", "The Daily Telegraph", and "Newsweek" because they refuse to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship1982 - Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: 11 British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in London2002 - Bartenders doing tricks with fire start a major fire in a night club in Lima, Peru that kills 25 and injures 1002005 - Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent2008 - 16th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Candace Parker win2014 - The Israeli Defence Force enter Shuja'iyya, a populous neighbourhood of Gaza City, as part of their ground offensive focused on destroying tunnels crossing the Israel border2020 - Announcement that a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) is able to trigger immune response and antibodies More Historical Events » Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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