* July 17-The 1976 Summer Olympics open in Montreal.

* July 17-The National Coalition's Contraceptive Bill is defeated in a vote in Dáil Éireann.

* July 17-The Manchester – Sheffield – Wath Woodhead Line, carrying electric-hauled freight traffic through the Pennines in England, is closed and all British Rail Class 76 locomotives used on it are stored at Guide Bridge and Reddish before being scrapped.

* July 17-The Great Train Wreck ( the worst railroad calamity in the world to date ) occurs near Philadelphia in the United States.

On July 20, the first drawing of numbers occurred in the Senate Office Building before a distinguished group of congressmen and high Army officers.

The first known telephone line in Manchester was established in July 1883 between Burr and Manley's store at Manchester Depot and the Kent and Root Marble Company in South Dorset.

Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, Pikes Peak, first published in the Fourth of July edition of the church periodical The Congregationalist in 1895.

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

It was here, on 16 July 1916, that he again met his lifelong friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, and solved the first of his cases to be published: The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

On July 23, 1894, the Parisian magazine Le Petit Journal organized what is considered to be the world's first motoring competition from Paris to Rouen.

* The Bürgerfest is celebrated on the first weekend of July, when the palace gardens with their ancient walls are transformed into a medieval camp.

Mueller agreed, and Phillips managed Apollo from January 1964, until it achieved the first manned landing in July 1969, after which he returned to Air Force duty.

In this passage Lewis Carroll incorporated references to the original boating expedition of 4 July 1862 during which Alice's Adventures were first told, with Alice as herself, and the others represented by birds: the Lory was Lorina Liddell, the Eaglet was Edith Liddell, the Dodo was Dodgson, and the Duck was Rev.

In this passage Lewis Carroll incorporated references to everyone present on the original boating expedition of July 4, 1862 during which Alice's Adventures were first told, with Alice as herself, and the others represented by birds: the Lory was Lorina Liddell, the Eaglet was Edith Liddell, the Dodo was Lewis Carroll, and the Duck was Rev.

In July 1971, the Apollo 16 astronauts visited Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada for geology training exercises, the first time U. S. astronauts ever did so.

New Zealand's first Arbor Day planting was in Greytown in the Wairarapa on 3 July 1890.

While touring Scandinavia he first joined forces with guitarist and singer Peter Thorup, together forming the band New Church, who were one of the support bands at the Rolling Stones Free Concert in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1969.

By the 1st century BC, Aediles were elected in July, and took office on the first day in January.

The Pals ' first day of action, Saturday 1 July 1916, took place in Serre in the north of France.

The PAF get the first three F-16 Block 52 + on 3 July 2010 and first batch of AMRAAMs on 26 July 2010.

The first post office in the village opened on 28 July 1884.

At the end of July 2000, the government-owned Botswana Television ( BTV ) was launched, which is Botswana's first national television station.

On 12 July of that year, the guards escorted the Bulgarian knyaz for the first time ; today, 12 July is the official holiday of the National Guard.

It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 ; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution.

If some of you might have scruples against the first 14 July, they certainly hold none against the second.

In July, the crusaders, led by the aged Doge Enrico Dandolo, scaled the walls and took control of a major section.

On 13 July 1870, the section on infallibility was voted on: 451 voted simply in favour ( placet ), 88 against ( non placet ), and 62 in favour but on condition of some amendment ( placet iuxta modum ).

The U. S. Navy instituted its modern hull classification system on 17 July 1920, doing away with section patrol numbers, " identification numbers ", and the other numbering systems described above.

His time there, however, was short-lived ; the under-funded section was absorbed by the new Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) in July 1940.

On 17 July 2007, a new section of the site, the NC Mall, was launched in a partnership with Korean gaming company Nexon Corporation.

In July, 2010, by a vote of 373 to 323, the General Assembly voted to propose to the presbyteries for ratification a constitutional amendment to remove from the Book of Order section G-6. 0106. b. which included this explicit requirement for ordination: “ Among these standards is the requirement to live either in fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman ( W-4. 9001 ), or chastity in singleness .” This proposal required ratification by a majority of the 173 presbyteries within 12 months of the General Assembly ’ s adjournment.

On July 3, 2007, the Court ( through the original three-judge panel ) ruled ( 1 ) that the taxpayer's compensation was received on account of a non-physical injury or sickness ; ( 2 ) that gross income under section 61 of the Internal Revenue Code does include compensatory damages for non-physical injuries, even if the award is not an " accession to wealth ," ( 3 ) that the income tax imposed on an award for non-physical injuries is an indirect tax, regardless of whether the recovery is restoration of " human capital ," and therefore the tax does not violate the constitutional requirement of Article I, Section 9, Clause 4, that capitations or other direct taxes must be laid among the states only in proportion to the population ; ( 4 ) that the income tax imposed on an award for non-physical injuries does not violate the constitutional requirement of Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, that all duties, imposts and excises be uniform throughout the United States ; ( 5 ) that under the doctrine of sovereign immunity, the Internal Revenue Service may not be sued in its own name.

John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. was born on June 22, 1903, in the Oak Hill section of Indianapolis, Indiana, the younger of two children born to John Wilson Dillinger ( July 2, 1864 – November 3, 1943 ) and Mary Ellen " Mollie " Lancaster ( 1860 – 1907 ).

In Italian American communities in the United States, the July feast is generally dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel while the September feast, beginning in August, brings large numbers of visitors annually to the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn in New York City.

" The celebrated hemispheres experiment was, as noted in the biographical section above, carried out between July 1656 and August 1657.

In July 1999, Lori Dalton gave birth by Caesarean section in Ogden, Utah, USA, to a healthy baby girl who had developed outside of the uterus.

In the 1982 action, Congress amended the Act to make some sections ( including section 2 ) permanent while renewing the remainder ( including section 5 ) for 25 years ( until July 1, 2007 ).

In 1879, on July 4 and 6, the palace of the ( then ) Governor General, the principal administrative and municipal offices and many of the other public buildings were destroyed by fire, and the government archives, the library and the museum of the Siberian section of the Russian Geographical Society were completely ruined.

The canal was closed on 1 July 1854, and the lock and aqueducts on the upper section were dismantled.

A July 2006 " Puzzlecraft " section in Games magazine on cryptic crossword construction noted that for cryptic crosswords to be readily solvable, no fewer than half the letters for every word should be checked by another word for a standard cryptic crossword, while nearly every letter should be checked for a variety cryptic crossword.

This was followed by confirmation of < sup > 288 </ sup > Fl and < sup > 289 </ sup > Fl in July 2009 at the GSI ( see section 2. 1. 3 ).

On July 4, 1998, she had her daughter Cicely Yasin Bernhard via caesarean section.

This section of I-57 has been the site of several interstate closing accidents in the past 10 years, including an incident involving a train derailment over the interstate near Benton in July 2004 and several fatal accidents in various construction zones.

Construction of the next section of track to the Village of Paris started in late July 1869 and the Village of Stanwood came into existence.

The first section of the main body of the cathedral was complete by 1924, and on 19 July 1924, the 20th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone, the cathedral was consecrated in the presence of King George V and Queen Mary, and bishops and archbishops from round the globe.

The extension of brick pavers from Center Street to a section on the east side of Liberty Street was completed in July 2008 to connect with the pavers installed outside the new Liberty Square office building.

* The 60 Years Ago section of The Blade reported on July 26, 2006, that Francis Townsend returned to Fairbury around August 9, 1946.

* The section about types of adzes is based on a Quicksilver Wiki article at A Glossary of Terms For Traditional Timber Framing ( Timberbee ) under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, last accessible 25 July 2006.