July 20th This Day in History!

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It’s July 19th ALL DAY and these are events happened on this date in history.

1692 Five people are hanged for witchcraft (19 in all) in Salem, Massachusetts
1848 1st US women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
1867 US Congress passes 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto
1870 France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins
1899 National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers forms
1913 Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers Among Popular Songs"; "Malinda's Wedding Day" by singers Byron Harlan and Arthur Collins is #1 (recorded in Camden, New Jersey)
1940 Adolf Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender - they decline
1941 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee, Alabama)
1941 Tom and Jerry first appear under their own names in cartoon "The Midnight Snack" by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints the Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC)
1944 Democratic convention opens in Chicago, goes on to nominate President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a forth term
1950 NY Yankees sign their 1st Black players, Elston Howard and Frank Baines
1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
1961 1st in-flight movie shown on TWA
1967 1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line)
2007 TV drama "Mad Men" starring Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, January Jones, and Vincent Kartheiser, debuts on cable network AMC

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