This page shows some of the things that happened on or around
Tyler's birthday in prior years. Most of these things are items I found
interesting. Don't ask me why, because I couldn't tell you.

July 19, 2781 bc
Presumed start of the Egyptian calendar.

July 15, 1815
Napoleon Boneparte captured.

July 14, 1857
Maytag invented the first washing machine.

July 16, 1887
Chicago White Sox baseball player "Shoeless" Joe Jackson was born.

July 16, 1894
Negro miners in Alabama killed by striking White miners.

July 24, 1915
More than 800 people lost their lives when the Eastland wrecked
on the Chicago River.

July 16, 1918
The last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his family, wife and five
children, were murdered by Bolshevik captors.

July 16, 1945
First atomic explosion ever occured in New Mexico, and it was code
named Trinity.

July 17, 1959
Legendary blues singer Billy Holliday died of liver failure in New York City.

July 14, 1960
Fire rages through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane
asylum killing 225 people, severly injuring 300 more.

July 20, 1969
First people land on moon.

July 16-22, 1994
Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter. This was the
first collision of 2 solar system bodies ever to be observed.

July 16, 1999
John F. Kennedy Jr's plane is reported missing along with wife
and sister-in-law. They were found dead 4 days later.