This Week in History Series!

This Week in History: Week 29

July 13^th: 1925, Film producer and co-founder of Walt Disney Productions,  Walt Disney at the age of 23 married Lillian Bounds aged 26 at Lewiston's Episcopal Church of the Nativity in Lewiston, Idaho.

 

July 14^th: 1913, Birth of Gerald R Ford, born Leslie King, who was the 41st US Vice President from 1973 to 1974 and the 38th US President from 1974 to 1977. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska.

 

July 15^th: 1904, Anton Chekhov, a Russian writer best known for Uncle Vanya, died at age 44 from Tuberculosis.

 

July 16^th: 1439, Kissing was banned in England to stop germs from spreading.

 

July 17^h: 1917, King George V issued a royal proclamation that changed the name of the British royal house from House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the House of Windsor. He and all his British relatives relinquished their German titles and styles, adopting British-sounding surnames. George then compensated his male relatives by creating them British peers. His cousin, Prince Louis of Battenberg, who earlier in the war had been forced to resign as First Sea Lord through anti-German feeling, became Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven.

 

July 18^th: 1925, Adolf Hitler published Mein Kampf. The original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice.”

 

July 19^th: 1333, The Battle of Halidon Hill, this was during the second war of Scottish independence. The Scots were defeated by the English, and Berwick –Upon-Tweed was in English hands again.

 

Thanks for Reading!

Claire

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