What Else Happened

What Else Happened

July 17
1996 Flight 800 explodes over Long Island
1864 John Bell Hood takes command of the Army of Tennessee
1959 Billie Holiday dies

July 18
64 A.D. Fire of Rome
1948 "The Maestro" makes Formula One debut
1936 Spanish Civil War breaks out

July 19
1898 Emile Zola flees France
1879 Doc Holliday kills for the first time
1943 America bombs Rome

July 20
1881 Sitting Bull surrenders
1948 Truman issues peacetime draft
1976 Viking 1 lands on Mars

July 21
1944 Hitler to Germany: "I'm still alive."
1955 Eisenhower presents his "Open Skies" plan
1955 Roy Rogers Show ends

July 22
1908 Fisher Body Company is established
1916 The Preparedness Day bombing
1987 Gorbachev accepts ban on intermediate-range nuclear missiles