On This Day - 31st July

1886 - Pianist Franz Liszt dies
1910 - Dr Crippen becomes the first person arrest as a result of wireless
1912 - Milton Friedman born
1919 - Curt Gowdy born
1944 - Geraldine Chaplin born
1951 - Barry Van Dyke born
1958 - Bill Berry born
1962 - Former fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley is assaulted at a rally in London's east end and actor Wesley Snipes born
1964 - Jim Corr born
1965 - 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling born
1966 - Actor Dean Cain born
1973 - Loyalists disrupt the new Northern Ireland Assembly, the first elected body since the British imposed direct rule in March.
1981 - Eric Lively born
1991 - The US and the Soviet Union sign the Start treaty to reduce stockpiles of nuclear warheads by about a third.
1998 - The British Government announces a total ban on landmines, a month before the first anniversary of the death of Princess Diana.

On This Day - 30th July

1818 - Author Emily Bronte born
1863 - Industrialist Henry Ford born
1891 - Baseball star Casey Stengel born
1930 - Uruguay win the first world cup
1933 - Actor Edd "Kookie" Byrnes born
1936 - Blues guitarist Buddy Guy born
1939 - American film historian, director, writer, actor, producer, and critic Peter Bogdanovich born
1941 - Singer Paul Anka born
1947 - Autrian born actor and Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger born
1948 - Actor Jean Reno born
1956 - Actress Delta Burke born
1958 - Singer Kate Bush born
1963 - Actress Lisa Kudrow born
1964 - Actress Vivica A. Fox born
1966 - England win football's World Cup for the first time since the tournament began in 1930.
1971 - Actor and comedian Tom Green born
1973 - An 11-year legal battle ends with more than £20 million compensation for victims of thalidomide.
1974 - Greek, Turkish and UK foreign ministers sign a peace agreement for Cyprus and American actress Hilary Swank born
1986 - The parents of missing London estate agent Suzy Lamplugh make an emotional appeal for her safe return.
2010 - Sydney and Brisbane were shrouded in a spectacular fog this morning, causing major travel disruptions.

On This Day - 29th July

1883 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini born
1890 - Artist Vincent Van Gogh kills himself
1936 - American politician Elizabeth Dole born
1953 - Canadian musician Geddy Lee born
1966 - Country music singer Martina McBride born
1968 - Pope Paul VI has confirmed a ban on the use of contraceptives by Roman Catholics in spite of a Church commission's recommendation for change.
1976 - Fire has destroyed the famous pierhead at the end of the world's longest pier, in Southend on the UK's south-east coast.
1981 - Thousands line the streets of London to glimpse Prince Charles and Lady Diana on their wedding day.
1993 - A court in Israel says retired Ohio car worker John Demjanjuk may not after all have been notorious Nazi death camp guard Ivan the Terrible.

On This Day - 28th July

1866 - Author Beatrix Potter born
1901 - Crooner Rudy Vallee born
1929 - Wife of J.F.K. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis born
1940 - Record producer Phil Proctor born
1943 - American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former three-term Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey Bill Bradley born
1945 - Pink Floyd keyboard player Rick Wright born
1945 - Cartoonist and creator of Garfield Jim Davis born.
1948 - Sally Struthers born
1965 - President Johnson commits a further 50,000 US troops to the conflict in Vietnam.
1976 - More than 200,000 people are feared dead after an 8.3 magnitude earthquake hits China.
1988 - The MP for Yeovil, Paddy Ashdown, is elected the first leader of the new Social and Liberal Democrat Party.
2000 - Nearly 80 men (the last prisoners) imprisoned for terrorist offences are freed from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.
2005 - The IRA formally orders an end to its armed campaign and says it will pursue exclusively peaceful means.

On This Day - 27th July

1931 - Actor Jerry Van Dyke born
1944 - Country music singer Bobbie Gentry born
1965 - Edward Heath becomes leader of the tory party
1969 - American wrestler Triple H born
1975 - Baseball star Alex Rodriguez born
1982 - Mercenary leader Colonel 'Mad Mike' Hoare is found guilty of hijacking a plane to escape from a failed coup in the Seychelles.
1996 - A bomb explodes in Atlanta, Georgia, the city hosting the 1996 Olympic Games leaving two people dead and many more injured.
2003 - Actor Bob Hope dies aged 100.

On This Day - 26th July

1856 - Playwright George Bernard Shaw born
1875 - Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Jung born
1894 - Writer Aldous Huxley born
1902 - Comedienne Gracie Allen born (wife of George Burns)
1912 - Actress and singer Vivian Vance born
1922 - American film director, screenwriter and producer Blake Edwards born (husband of Julie Andrews)
1922 Actor Jason Robards born
1928 American film director,writer, producer and photographer Stanley Kubrick born
1943 Musician Mick Jagger born
1945 Winston Churchill loses the general election and gives Labour it's first majority
1946 Actress Helen Mirren born
1949 Queen Drummer Roger Taylor born
1952 Senora Eva Peron wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer, aged 33.
1956 Egypt's president, Colonel Nasser, announces the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company to provide funding for the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
1959 Actor Kevin Spacey born
1963 - Thousands of people are feared dead as a massive earthquake rocks the Yugoslavian city of Skopje.
1964 Actress Sandra Bullock born
1973 Actress Kate Beckinsale born
1994 - A car bomb explodes outside the Israeli embassy in London injuring 14 people.

On This Day - 25th July

1834 - Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge dies
1870 - Painter Maxfield Parrish born
1894 - Actor Walter Brennan born
1909 - Louis Bleriot becomes the first person to fly across the English channel
1924 - Actress Estelle Getty born
1935 - Actress Barbara Harris born
1943 - The Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, steps down as head of the armed forces and the government.
1954 - American Footballer Walter Payton born
1967 - Actor Matt LeBlanc born
1969 - Senator Edward Kennedy's political career is in doubt after he pleads guilty to leaving the scene of a crime following the Chappaquiddick car crash.
1978 - Louise Brown the worlds first 'test tube baby' is born in Manchester
1982 - Actor Brad Renfro born
1989 - The Princess of Wales opens a new Aids centre in south-east London.
1992 - The Olympic Games opens in Barcelona with all countries present for the first time in modern history.
2000 - Concorde crashes minutes after take-off from Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris killing 113 people.

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.

On This Day - 17th July

1889 - Erle Stanley Gardner born
1899 - James Cagney born
1903 - Artist James Whistler dies
1912 - Art Linkletter born
1917 - Phyllis Diller born
1934 - Donald Sutherland born
1935 - Diahann Carroll born
1936 - Franco leads an uprising in Spanish Morocco signalling the start of the Spanish Civil War
1947 - Camilla Parker Bowles born

1952 - David Hasselhoff born
1954 - J. Michael Straczynski born
1974 - An explosion in the Tower of London leaves one person dead and 41 injured.
1976 - The opening ceremony of the 21st Olympic games in Montreal is marred by the withdrawal of 25 African countries.

1979 - The left-wing Sandinistas take control of the Nicaragua after 46 years of dictatorial rule by the Somoza family.
1982 - Tash Hamilton born
1987 - Former Guinness director Thomas Ward is ordered to repay £5.2m to the brewing giants.
2000 - British supermarket Tesco is to revive imperial measures in its stores.

On This Day - 16th July

1821 - Mary Baker Eddy born
1872 - Roald Amundsen born
1907 - Barbara Stanwyck born
1911 - Ginger Rogers born
1918 - The Russian Royal Family are executed
1924 - Bess Myerson born
1945 - First atomic weapon exploded in New Mexico
1945 - Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman, Josef Stalin discuss the fate of a defeated Germany at Postdam.
1955 - Stirling Moss wins the British Grand Prix (his first Grand Prix Victory) at the Aintree track near Liverpool - the first time an Englishman has triumphed in the race.
1958 - Michael Flatley born
1967 - Will Ferrell born
1968 - Barry Sanders born
1969 - Apollo 11 takes off from Cape Kennedy at the start of the first attempt to land a man on the Moon.
1971 - Corey Feldman born
1986 - The rock band Queen play Manchester City's Maine Road stadium.
1993 - Britain's internal security service, MI5, holds the first photocall in its 84-year history
2001 - The Labour Government is defeated in the House of Commons for the first time since it came to power in 1997.

On This Day - 15th July

1606 - Rembrandt Van Rijn born
1779 - Clement Clarke Moore born
1904 - Playwright Anton Chekhov dies
1935 - Alex Karras born
1944 - Jan-Michael Vincent born
1946 - Linda Ronstadt born
1951 - Jesse Ventura born
1961 - Forest Whitaker born
1966 - A West Indian refused a job at Euston Station will now be employed there after managers overturn a ban on black workers.
1971 - The British Government endorses a cull of baby seals in the Wash.
1973 - Brian Austin Green born

1995 - Thousands of Muslim refugees flee the captured "safe area" of Srebrenica - forced out by the Bosnian Serbs.
1997 - Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace is shot dead on the steps of his Miami mansion.
2000 - Two men caught on camera for dangerous driving escape prosecution in a landmark case.

On This Day - 14th July

1881 - Billy the Kid (William Bonney) is killed
1902 - St Marks Campanile (Venice) Collaps
1910 - William Hanna born
1912 - Woody Guthrie born
1913 - Gerald R. Ford (38th U.S. President) born
1918 - Ingmar Bergman born
1923 - Dale Robertson born
1926 - Harry Dean Stanton born
1927 - John Chancellor born
1930 - Polly Bergen born
1932 - Roosevelt Grier born
1941 - Maulana Karenga born

1958 - A military revolt in Iraq overthrows the monarchy and prompts King Hussein of Jordan to call for British and US military help to avert a similar rebellion in his country.
1971 - Police in Cheshire call off the hunt for the murderer of three French tourists after another body is found.
1989 - About 500 people are involved in scuffles as Parisians celebrate the bicentenary of the French Revolution.
1991 -British troops protecting the Kurdish population in Iraq begin to pull out amid fears of reprisal.
2001 - Six days of crisis talks to save the Northern Ireland peace process end in deadlock.

On This Day - 13th July

1821 - Nathan Bedford Forrest born
1928 - Bob Crane born
1935 - Jack Kemp born
1940 - Actor Patrick Stewart born
1942 - Actor Harrison Ford born
1944 - Erno Rubik born
1946 - Cheech Marin born

1955 - Ruth Ellis becomes the last woman to be hanged in Britain
1971 - Ten army officers involved in an aborted coup in Morocco were executed
1985 - The Live Aid concert for the starving in Africa raised triple the £10m that was expected. Wembley was packed with a crowd of 72,000, and TV pictures, co-ordinated at BBC Television Centre, were beamed to over 1.5bn people in 160 countries in the biggest broadcast ever known.

1993 - Officials in Manchester bidding to hold the 2000 Olympic Games have been told their chances are "very, very high".
2001 - The family of a mentally ill man shot dead by police in Liverpool last night demands a public inquiry.

On This Day - 12th July

1543 - Henry VIII marries for the final time to Catherine Parr
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, potter was born.
1817 - Henry David Thoreau born
1857 - George Ohr born
1861 - George Washington Carver born
1895 - R. Buckminster Fuller and Oscar Hammerstein II born
1902 - Arthur Balfour becomes British Prime Minister
1904 - Pablo Neruda born
1908 - Milton Berle born
1917 - Andrew Wyeth born
1934 - Van Cliburn born
1937 - Bill Cosby born
1943 - Christine McVie born
1948 - Richard Simmons born
1951 - Cheryl Ladd born
1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi born

1974 - Bill Shankly retires from Liverpool F.C.
1977 - Brock Lesnar born
1986: Orange Parade sparks riots and dozens are injured in the second consecutive night of violence in Portadown, County Armagh, in Northern Ireland.

1990 - Boris Yeltsin resigns from the Presidency of the Russian Parliament, in what was to become the beginning of the end for the Soviet Communist Party.
1998 - Three young brothers are murdered in a loyalist arson attack as the stand-off between Orangemen and police at Drumcree.
2000 - The British Foreign Office is severely criticised over plans to back a new dam in Turkey.