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This Day in History:
July 03, 2005
Ramesh C. Reddy
Publisher
July 03, 1905: 100 years ago
Kuyper government forms in
Holland.
Source:
http://demo.webraydian.com/component/option,com_today_in_history/Itemid,62/
July 03, 1930: 75 years ago
Veterans Administration created.
Source:
http://www.scopesys.com/today
July 03, 1955: 50 years ago
Bill Haley's Rock
Around The Clock reached No.1 on the Billboard charts and the rock
era began in earnest.
Source:
http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/jul03.htm
July 03, 1980: 25 years ago
73,096 in Cleveland watch
Indians beat Yankees 7-0.
Source:
http://www.scopesys.com/today
July 03, 1985: 20 years ago
CBS announces a 21%
stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover.
Source:
http://www.scopesys.com/today
July 03, 1990: 15 years ago
In Moscow, Kremlin hard-liner Yegor K.
Ligachev received an enthusiastic reception at a Communist Party
congress as he criticized reforms by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev,
saying perestroika had been marred by "limitless radicalism."
Source:
http://timelines.ws/days/07_03.HTML
July 04, 1995: 10 years ago
Irish Republican Army sympathizers
rioted in Northern Ireland’s two largest cities in outrage over the
early parole of a British soldier convicted of killing a Roman Catholic
woman.
Source:
http://timelines.ws/days/07_03.HTML
July 04, 2000: 5 years ago
A 1970’s steel observation tower that
preservationists said had desecrated the battlefield of Gettysburg in
Pennsylvania was demolished.
Source:
http://timelines.ws/days/07_03.HTML
July 04, 2004: 1 year ago
Sudan pledged to disarm Arab militias, known as Janjaweed.
Source:
http://timelines.ws/days/07_03.HTML
Compiled by Ramesh C. Reddy
Religious History:
1756 - English founder of Methodism
John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'One who lives and dies in error, or in
dissent from our Church, may yet be saved; but one who lives and die sin
sin must perish.'
1979 - Thirty-four years after the end of World War II, the West German
government voted to continue prosecution of Nazi war criminals by
removing the statute of limitations on murder.
Source: William D. Blake.
ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
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