On This Day Archive for July 2008

1991: US and Soviet Union sign START nuclear treaty

for July 31, 2008

The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (START), almost a decade in the making, will reduce the long-range nuclear arsenals of the two countries by about 30 percent.
from the August 01, 1991 edition
MOSCOW —
UNDER the gilded ceilings of St. Vladimir’s Hall in the Kremlin, the leaders of the world’s two great nuclear powers yesterday put their [...]

2001: Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building

for July 30, 2008

Monumental clash over Ten Commandments A trial examines whether a judge’s decision to display a stone tablet at a courthouse violates church-state divide.
October 25, 2002
MONTGOMERY, ALA. - Not since the state of Tennessee tried John Scopes for teaching evolution in 1925 has so much of an American court’s time been spent debating the meaning [...]

1974: Peace deal for Cyprus, The prime ministers of Greece and Turkey and the British Foreign Secretary signed a peace agreement to settle the Cyprus crisis. (copy)

for July 30, 2008

One extremely interesting if not necessarily desirable fact emerges from recent events in the Meditterranean. It proves that a small country can still use military action as an instrument of policy, and do it successfully.
It is a commonplace of these times that the nuclear weapon has deprived great powers of the possibility of such [...]

1981: The royal wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer married before a congregation at St. Paul’s of 3500 and a live television audience of 750 million

for July 29, 2008

From the July 30, 1981 edition
Britons and monarchy — a serious fairy tale
London-
It was a splendid affair — a new Princess of Wales, a wife for the heir to an enduring and popular throne, and a day filled with pomp, pageantry, color, and tradition.
It magnified, yet retained, the human and spiritual qualities of marriage on [...]

The Irish Republican Army declares an ended to armed conflict and to pursue a democratic solution after three decades

for July 28, 2008

The IRA pledges a farewell to arms
Thursday the Irish Republican Army, after decades of terror, announced it would permanently abandon military operations.
WASHINGTON AND LONDON - As British officials continued their hunt for Muslim extremists in what they described as their biggest security operations since World War II, another group that used fear and violence for [...]

American Astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon

for July 21, 2008

MANKIND EMBRACES THE MOON -
A milestone, not a finish line
‘He fears moon no longer, man has adapted’
From the July 22, 1969 issue of The Christian Science Monitor
Monday morning
Man walked on the moon this morning and made it look easy.
Now mankind must find something new to dream [...]