This Week in History Series!

This Week in History: Week 30

 

July 20^th: 1881, the Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrendered to US federal troops.

 

 

Sitting Bull

July 21^st: 1904, after 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway was completed. In the modern day it is the longest railway in the world.

 

July 22^nd: 1298, the English, led by King Edward I defeated the Scots, led by William Wallace at Battle of Falkirk, not long after the defeat, Wallace stepped down as the Guardian of Scotland.

 

July 23^rd: 1885, Ulysses S. Grant who was the 18th US President from 1869 to 1877 and Union general, died of esophageal cancer in Mount McGregor NY at 63.

 

July 24^th: 1567, Mary Queen of Scots was forced to abdicate; her 1-year-old son became King James VI of Scotland.

 

July 25^th: 1603, James VI of Scotland was crowned James I of English uniting kingdoms of England and Scotland.

 

July 26^th: 1856, Birth of George Bernard Shaw, who was a dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925). He was born in Dublin, Ireland.

George Bernard Shaw


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