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Time: 14:48 UTC Date: July 11. 1798 – Quasi–War: The U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the ' war .'. 1846 – Mexican–American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States conquest of California. 1863 – United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $100.
July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) ... which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
On December 31, 1997, Microsoft acquired Hotmail.comfor $500 million (~$882 million in 2023), its largest acquisition at the time, and integrated Hotmail into its MSNgroup of services.[3] Hotmail, a free webmailservice founded in 1996 by Jack Smithand Sabeer Bhatia,[4]had more than 8.5 million subscribers earlier that month.
2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. 2018 – As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria. [13] 2019 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.
Lituya Bay is a fjord located on the Fairweather Fault in the northeastern part of the Gulf of Alaska. It is a T-shaped bay with a width of 2 miles (3 km) and a length of 7 miles (11 km). [8] Lituya Bay is an ice-scoured tidal inlet with a maximum depth of 722 feet (220 m). The narrow entrance of the bay has a depth of only 33 feet (10 m). [8]
July 18 – At the height of rush hour in New York City, a major steam pipe bursts, releasing millions of gallons of boiling water and super heated steam. Only one fatality occurred; a pedestrian who went into cardiac arrest. July 19 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 14,000 for the first time in history.
July 23 is the 204th day of the year ... one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ...
July 7. Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. 1456 – Joan of Arc was declared innocent of heresy in a retrial twenty-five years after her death. 1798 – Outraged by the XYZ Affair, the United States rescinded its treaties with France, resulting in the undeclared Quasi-War, fought entirely at sea.