July 31

Andrew Johnson, 17th US president, dies (1875); Entrepreneur Mark Cuban born (1958); "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling born (1965); START I signed by the US and Soviet Union to begin nuclear arms reduction (1991); Basketball legend Bill Russell dies (2022). 

July 30

British author Emily Brontë born (1818); Automobile pioneer Henry Ford born (1863); Uruguay wins first World Cup (1930); Arnold Schwarzenegger born (1947); British singer Kate Bush born (1958); Medicare and Medicaid established in the US (1965).

July 27

First successful underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe completed (1866); Cartoon character Bugs Bunny makes his official debut in "A Wild Hare"; watch here (1940); Korean War combat ends with armistice (1953); American actress Maya Rudolph born (1972); Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, dies (1980).

July 29

Vincent van Gogh dies (1890); NASA is established (1958); 750 million people worldwide watch wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana (1981); Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin dies (1994).

July 28

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach dies (1750); 14th Amendment, granting US citizenship to formerly enslaved persons, is officially adopted (1868); Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis born (1929); Tangshan earthquake kills more than 240,000 in China (1976).

Norman Finkelstein

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February 19

Thomas Edison awarded patent for the phonograph (1878); Battle of Iwo Jima begins (1945); Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" is published (1963); Actress Millie Bobby Brown born (2004); “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee dies (2016).