1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg began

Canada Day

1908 - Thurgood Marshall was born

American Independence Day

1971 - Koko, the 'talking 'gorilla was born

1906 - Baseball player Robert Leroy  (Satchel) Paige was born

1830 - Painter Camille Pissarro was born

1767 - American President John Quincy Adams was born

1854 - Inventor George Eastman was born

Bastille Day (France)

1872 - Explorer Roald Amundsen was born

1862 - Journalist Ida B. Wells was born

1921 - Astronaut John Glenn was born

1834 - French painter Edgar Degas was born

1969 - Man landed on the moon for the first time.

1897 - Amelia Earhart was born.

1796 - American painter George Gatlin was born

1953 - The Korean war came to an end

1863 - Inventor Henry Ford was born

1770 - Explorer William Clark was born

1818 - Maria Mitchell,  astronomer, was born

1492 - Christopher Columbus sailed for the new world

1900 - Musician Louis Armstrong was born

1945 - The first Atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima

1866 - Polar explorer Matthew Henson was born

1860 - Sharpshooter Annie Oakley was born

1945 - Victory over Japan (V-J) Day

1769 - French general  Napoleon Bonaparte was born

1888 - Soldier and writer T.E. Lawrence was born

1896 - Gold was discovered in the Klondike. The Klondike Gold Rush began

1786 - Famous frontiersman Davy Crockett was born

1863 - The first shots of the American Civil War were fired at Fort Sumpter.

1774 - Explorer Meriwether Lewis was born.

1906 - Inventor Philo Farnsworth was born

79 - Mount Vesuvius erupted destroying the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum

1883 - The volcano on the island of Krakatoa erupted.

Women's Equality Day

1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech in Washington D.C.

1797 - Author Mary shelley was born