Monday, July 3, 2023

This week in history #27

Last week's photos:
1945 UN Charter
1972 Capital Punishment
1971 26th Amendment
1862 IRS Established

Last year we looked at obscure holidays. This year, let’s look at major world events that occurred each week.  Make your best guess in the comments as to the years of each event.  No googling!

Week #27

July 3, ____ - The raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda occurred when Israel rescued 103 hostages on a hijacked Air France airliner.

July 6, ____ - Louis Pasteur gave the first successful anti-rabies vaccine.

July 9, ____ - The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified. It defined US citizenship and applied due process and equal protection to the States.

July 7, ____ - President William McKinley signed a resolution annexing Hawaii, which thereafter became a state in 1959.



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  1. J Lenni DornerJuly 4, 2023 at 5:33 PM

    Poor Hawaii. That mostly hasn't worked out for them. I don't know any of these dates. But...
    July 4 is Alice in Wonderland Day, a commemoration of when the story was first told to the Liddell sisters by Lewis Carroll in 1862.

    J Lenni Dorner (he/him 👨🏽 or 🧑🏽 they/them) ~ Speculative Fiction &Reference Author, OperationAwesome6 Debut Author Interviewer, and Co-host of the #AtoZchallenge

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