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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: July 25th -July 29th

Friday, July 29th, 2016

1978 – World’s First Test Tube Baby Born
1992 – Opening of the XXV Olympiad in Barcelona
1917 – Mata Hari sentenced to die
1943 – Mussolini falls from power
1876 – Emily Tassey was granted a patent for an apparatus for raising sunken vessels
1775 – U.S. postal system established
1947 – Truman signs the National Security Act
1908 – FBI founded
1945 – Winston Churchill resigns
1994 – Design patent #349,137 for a toy teddy bear was granted to Josef Gottstein
1974 – House begins impeachment of Nixon
1949 – First jet makes test flight
1996 – Bombing at Centennial Olympic Park
1960 – The first episode of “The Andy Griffith Show” was copyright registered.
1921 – Canadian scientists Frederick Banting and Charles Best first isolated insulin and within a year, the first human sufferers of diabetes were receiving insulin treatments
1868 – 14th Amendment adopted
1945 – U.S. Senate approves United Nations charter
1945 – Plane crashes into Empire State Building
1885 – The “ready light” or taper was patented by John Mitchell
1958 – NASA created
1909 – General Motors buys Cadillac
1981 – Prince Charles marries Lady Diana
1945 – Japanese sink the USS Indianapolis
1997 – Design patent #381,781 for a swimming pool leaf and debris removal net was granted to Ross Clay

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