On This Day - 24th July

1783 - Simon Bolivar born (The liberator of much of the northern part of South America from the Spanish and in who's honour Bolivia was named).
1802 - French author Alexandre Dumas born
1847 - What is to become Salt Lake City is founded by Brigham Young
1898 - Pilot Amelia Earhart born
1900 - Author Zelda Fitzgerald born
1936 - Actress Ruth Buzzi born
1951 - Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter born
1959 - Russia's prime minister (Khrushchev) and America's vice-president (Nixon) fight a battle of words at an American exhibition in Moscow.
1964 - Baseball star Barry Bonds born
1970 - Singer and cctress Jennifer Lopez born
1974 - The US Supreme Court orders President Nixon to surrender tape recordings of White House conversations about the Watergate affair.
1982 - Actress Anna Paquin born
1987 - Former deputy chair of the Conservative Party Jeffrey Archer is awarded record libel damages at the High Court.
2000 - Loyalist paramilitary hitman Michael Stone is released from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.

On This Day - 23rd July

1894 - Actor Arthur Treacher born
1918 - Baseball star Harold "Pee Wee" Reese born
1920 - Musician Amália Rodrigues born
1933 - American gameshow host Bert Convy born
1936 - Baseball star Don Drysdale born
1940 - American comedian Don Imus born
1961 - Actor Woody Harrelson born
1965 - Musician 'Slash' born
1970 - Actress Charisma Carpenter born
1973 - Bill Clinton's favourite intern Monica Lewinsky born
1973 - Baseball star Nomar Garciapara born
1974 - The military government in Greece collapses and the former prime minister Constantine Karamanlis is invited to return.
1984 - A government report finds a cancer cluster near the controversial nuclear plant at Sellafield in Cumbria - but says it may not be linked to the plant.
1986 - Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson
2005 - At least 88 people are killed in bomb attacks in the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh
2011 - Singer Amy Winehouse dies of a suspected drink and drugs overdose.

On This Day - 22nd July

1890 - JFK's mum Rose Kennedy born
1923 - Politician Bob Dole born
1939 - Actor Terrence Stamp born
1947 - Actor Danny Glover and musician Don Henley (The Eagles) born
1955 - Actor Willem Dafoe born
1965 - Sir Alex Douglas Home steps down as Tory leader
1973 - Musicians Rufus Wainwright and Daniel Jones (Savage Garden) born
1977 - The disgraced deputy Prime Minister of China, Deng Xiaoping, returns to Chinese Government.
2005 - Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by police at Stockwell underground station in south London, a day after four failed bomb attacks on the capital.
2011 - Over 90 people are killed in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik

On This Day - 21st July

1899 - Writer Ernest Hemingway born
1948 - Musician Cat Stevens born
1952 - Actor Robin Williams born
1954 - Eight years of war come to an end as the French cede control of northern Vietnam to the Communist Viet Minh after signing the Geneva Accord.
1957 - Actor Jon Lovitz born
1969 - Neil Armstong becomes the first man to walk on the moon
1974 - Thousands of Greek-Cypriots in London protest about the disputed government of Cyprus.
1978 - Actor Josh Hartnett born
1982 - The flagship of the British taskforce to the Falklands, HMS Hermes, arrives back in Portsmouth.
1994 - Tony Blair becomes leader of the Labour Party

On This Day - 20th July

1873 - Alberto Santos-Dumont born
1903 - Pope Leo XIII dies
1919 - Sir Edmund Hilary born
1923 - Revolutionary Pancho Villa is killed
1933 - Chuck Daly born
1938 - Actresses Diana Rigg and Natalie Wood born

1944 - Adolf Hitler escapes death after a third attempt on his life when a bomb explodes in Rastenberg
1946 - Kim Carnes born
1947 - Carlos Santana born
1952 - Emil Zatopek of Czechoslovakia sets the pace at the start of the Olympic Games in Finland by breaking the 10,000 metres record.
1960 - Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow of Ceylon's assassinated prime minister Solomon Bandaranaike, has become the world's first woman prime minister.
1964 - Chris Cornell born

1974 - Thousands of Turkish troops invade northern Cyprus after last-minute talks in the Greek capital, Athens, fail to reach a solution.
1982 - Eight soldiers on ceremonial duty are killed in two IRA bomb blasts in Hyde Park and Regent's Park.

1990 - An IRA bomb blows a 10-foot hole in the London Stock Exchange.
2003 - The BBC confirms weapons expert Dr David Kelly, found dead two days ago, was the source for reports that the government "sexed up" an Iraq dossier.

On This Day - 19th July

1834 - Edgar Degas born
1860 - Lizzie Borden born
1870 - Franco Prussian war starts
1900 - Paris Metro opens
1903 - The first Tour de France race
1922 - George McGovern born
1941 - Vikki Carr born
1947 - Brian May born
1962 - Anthony Edwards born

1965 - The former leader of the Republic of South Korea (and first president), Syngman Rhee, died in exile in the US state of Hawaii at the age of 90.
1976 - British fishermen are urging the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Crosland, to secure a 50-mile fishing zone around the UK.
1983 - A gigantic new dinosaur skeleton is unveiled to the media at the Natural History Museum in London.

1996 - Bosnian Serb President and wanted war criminal Radovan Karadzic is forced out of office.
1997 - The IRA makes a surprise announcement of a ceasefire in Northern Ireland - the second in three years.

On This Day - 18th July

1895 - George "Machine Gun" Kelly born
1911 - Hume Cronyn born
1913 - Richard "Red" Skelton born
1914 - Harriet Nelson born
1918 - Nelson Mandela born
1921 - John Glenn born
1929 - Dick Button born
1937 - Hunter S. Thompson born
1938 - Paul Verhoeven born
1941 - Martha Reeves born

1966 - US police charge seaman, Richard Speck with the murder of eight student nurses in their hostel in Chicago four days ago
1967 - Vin Diesel born
1981 - Nearly 200 people are in hospital in Dublin after a hunger strike demonstration turned violent.
1990 - Two teenage girls from the Midlands, Patricia Cahill (17) and Karen Smith (18)
are been arrested for drug smuggling in Thailand. They are later found guilty and serve three years in prison.
2000 - Police confirm the body they found in a West Sussex field yesterday is that of missing eight-year old Sarah Payne.
2003 - A body believed to be that of government scientist Dr David Kelly is found in Oxfordshire, this is later confirmed.