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On this day in History:

12/7/08

1906: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus, found guilty of treason in a case that divided French society at the turn of the century, is cleared of the charges. Soon after, he is awarded the Legion of Honor.

13/7/08

1973: White House aide Alexander Butterfield reveals to members of the Senate Watergate committee the presence of a secret taping system installed in the White House by President Richard Nixon.

14/7/08

1099: In the First Crusade, a force of European Christians conquers the walled city of Jerusalem, massacring thousands of its inhabitants.

15/7/08

1149: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is dedicated at the site where Jesus is said to have been entombed after his crucifixion.

16/7/08

1969: Apollo 11 takes off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on board. the first attempt to land people on the moon.

17/7/08

1955: Disneyland, created by Walt Disney, opens in Anaheim, California.

18/7/08 64: Two-thirds of the city of Rome burns. The emperor Nero rebuilds the city afterward but remains unpopular and is driven from Rome four years later.

19/7/08

1553: Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey is deposed after a nine-day reign as queen of England. She is executed for treason the following year.

20/7/08

1969: US Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin land on the Moon, where Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon's surface.

21/7/08

1773: Pope Clement XIV dissolves the Jesuit order of priests. The ban remains in effect until 1814, when the Jesuits are revived by Pope Pius VII.

22/7/08

1917: Aleksandr Kerensky is named prime minister of the Russian Provisional Government established after the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II. He only lasts in office until the Bolshevik revolution that autumn.

23/7/08

Today's Birthdays:

12/7/08 Henry David Thoreau, writer and naturalist (1817)

Kristi Yamaguchi, figure skater (1971)

Bill Cosby, comedian and actor (1937)

George Washington Carver, scientist and educator (1864)

Buckminster Fuller, engineer and inventor (1895)

Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Literature Laureate and diplomat (1904)

13/7/08 Sidney Webb, economist and reformer (1859)

Wole Soyinka, playwright, poet, and novelist (1934)

Isaac Babel, short-story writer (1894)

Ernö Rubik, inventor of the Rubik's Cube puzzle (1944)

Alfred Hitchcock, film producer and director (1899)

Sir George Gilbert Scott, British architect (1811) 14/7/08 Gerald Ford, US president (1913)

Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director (1918)

Gustav Klimt, painter (1862)

Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer (1904)

Emmeline Pankhurst, woman suffragist (1858)

Natalia Ginzburg, Italian novelist (1916)

15/7/08 St Frances Xavier Cabrini, first US saint (1850)

Iris Murdoch, novelist and philosopher (1919)

Jacques Derrida, philosopher (1930)

Leon Lederman, physicist (1922)

Sir Harrison Birtwistle, composer (1934)

16/7/08

Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science (1821)

Andrea del Sarto, painter (1486)

Barbara Stanwyck, actor (1907)

Rubén Blades, singer and politician (1948)

Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist (1888)