1st

Charles Darwin Darwin presented a paper to the Linnaean Society in London in 1838:, on his theory of the evolution of species.

2nd

Nostradamus French physician and astrologer fails to see his own death today in 1566.

3rd

1976: An Israeli commando force rescued 103 hostages from a hijacked aircraft, who were being held at Entebbe Airport, Uganda.

4th

1776: The American Declaration of Independence was adopted.

5th

1989: Convicted for his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair, US Army Colonel Oliver North was fined $150,000 and given a suspended sentence.

6th

1892: Britain's first non-white MP was elected when Dadabhai Naoraji won the Central Finsbury seat in London. To think, over 110 years ago, black politicians were welcome in the UK; what happened since then?

7th

In 1982:, Queen Elizabeth II was woken by a strange man sitting on her bed in Buckingham Palace; the presence of the intruder, who merely asked her for a cigarette, raised concerns about Palace security.

8th

1991: Iraq admitted to the UN that it had been conducting clandestine programs to produce Enriched Uranium and Plutonium, a key element in nuclear weapons.

9th

In 1850:  Zachary Taylor, 12th US president dies in his office (nothing like going on the job).

10th

The Greenpeace campaign ship Rainbow Warrior sank in Auckland, New Zealand, after two explosions tore its hull. killing one man in 1985:  French secret service agents were caught in the act; details in the report:  The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior

11th

1987: It was formally announced that the world population had reached 5,000,000,000, double the level of 1950. this guy thinks he has the solution on his web site; big death 1.

12th

Titus Oates, British conspirator whose ill-founded rumors led to the execution of English Catholics is executed in 1705.

13th

Two simultaneous 'Live Aid' concerts, one in London and one in Philadelphia, raised over £50 million for famine victims in 1985

14th

The Bastille was stormed by the citizens of Paris and razed to the ground as the French Revolution and France’s Reign of Terror began today in 1789.

15th

Charles Sherwood Stratton, alias Tom Thumb Tom Thumb, US circus dwarf died today in 1883.

16th

The Last Tsar of Russia and his family murdered by the revolutionaries in 1918.

17th

In 1990, was it an Intelligence or Judgment Failure, that ignored Iraqi president Saddam Hussein threats to use force against Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, to stop them driving oil prices down by overproduction.

18th

AD 64 and the great fire began in Rome and lasted for nine days while Emperor Nero fiddled away.

19th

Lizzie Borden, alleged US axe murderess born today in 1860:

20th

1973: France resumed nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll despite protests from Australia and New Zealand. 

21st

The Battle of the Pyramids took place today in 1798, in which Napoleon, soon after his invasion of Egypt, defeated an army of some 60,000 Mamelukes.

22nd

Carl Sandburg renowned US poet died this day in 1967.

23rd

Dr. Livingstone returned to England from Africa today in 1864.

24th

In 1534; Jacques Cartier landed at Gaspé in Canada and claimed the territory for France

25th

Margaretha Zelle, the Dutch spy known as Mata Hari, was sentenced to death today in 1917.

26th

Joseph Jenkins Roberts elected leader of Liberia in 1847, becoming the first African colony to secure independence.

27th

The Battle of El Alamein ended after 17 days in 1942, with the British having prevented the German and Italian advance into Egypt.

28th

The Quest for Revolutionary Power turned on its leaders in 1794, when Maximilien Robespierre and 19 other French Revolutionaries went to the guillotine.

29th

Serb forces overran the former Yugoslavian province of Kosovo in 1998 routing the Kosovo Liberation Army. Over 100,000 Albanians were displaced and many more simply dissapeared.  Details in: Where are the Dead Bodies in Kosovo

30th

Kim Philby,the British intelligence officer from 1940 and Soviet agent from 1933, fled to the USSR in 1963.