July 20th

1877 - Rioting in Baltimore, Maryland by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers is put down by the state militia, resulting in nine deaths.

1917 - Alexander Kerensky becomes Prime Minister and President of the Russian provisional government and survives an assassination attempt.

1933 - In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism.

1934 - Labor unrest in the United States, as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, wounding fifty; Seattle police led by the mayor police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen, and the governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.

1944 - World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt (known as the July 20 Plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.

1969 - Apollo Program: Apollo 11 lands on the Moon.

1975 - Don Estelle and Windsor Davies number one in the charts with 'Whispering Grass'

2001 - Italy: The 27th Annual G8 summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, is shot by police.

2006 - The one year anniversary of me living in the States, and in that time I've swapped Project Runway for Big Brother UK, sunscreen for a heavy coat, chicken enchiladas for cornish pasties and UK Nova for Supernova. Everybody still thinks I'm Irish - except those people who might think I'm Polish - and I'm still very much happy and in love with Kara.

Here's to July 20th 2007.

UPDATE

Not sure if it should be "Project Runway for Big Brother UK" or "Big Brother UK for Project Runway" etc etc. I can be a bit thick like that, and it does perhaps explain why I never did get my head around the whole concept of Saturday Morning Swap Shop.