MeMeMe #3 'Idios' My Gift To The Mind

Idios [Greek] (ίδιος) generally means "of one's own," "private," or "personal" to denote something belonging to oneself, as opposed to belonging to another.

Some 07/15 Observances
-World Youth Skills Awareness day
-give something away day
-I love horses a day
-pet fire safety day
-gummy worm day

Famous People Born 07/15

1606-Rembrant
1931-Clive Cussler
1951-Jesse Ventura
1961-Forest Whitaker
1968-Eddie Griffin

Some Historic events of 07/15
1099- Jerusalem fell to the Crusaders

1207-Canterbury Monks barred by the King

1307-Duke Henrik of Corinthia chosen as King of Bohemia

1381-John Ball, a leader in the Peasant's Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered

1410-Battle Of Grunwald, one of Medieval Europe's largest battles during Poland-Lithuanian Teutonic War

1482-Crowning Of Muhammad XII as last Nasrid Royal to rule Spain

1500-"Blood wedding" of Astorre

1524-German Peasant's War: Emperor Karel I bans German National Synode

1799-Rosetta Stone Discovered

1806-Pike Expedition Begins

1815-Napoleon Surrenders

1830-Sioux, Sauk and Fox Tribes sign treaty with U.S.

1834-‘Spanish Inquisition’ Dissolved after 356 years

1853-Leaders in Japan begin discussing treaty of 'friendship & trade' imposed by Commodore Matthew Perry, after he bombed their shores

1870-Georgia Enters The Union

1895-ex-prime minister of Bulgaria murdered

1898-Camillo Gogli discovers the Gogli Apparatus

1901-Over 74,000 Pittsburgh Steelworkers go on strike

1903-Henry Ford's first order

1904-First Buddhist Temple in US

1916-'Pacific Aero Products Company' renamed by William Boeing

1918-Second Battle of the Marne began

1922-Duckbilled Platypus arrived in America

1927-Vienna: 84 protesters & 5 policemen died in escalating turmoil

1940-Nazi occupiers seize library of IISG Amsterdam

1941-'Garbo' sent secret message from Britain to Germany during WWII

1942-First supply flight over "The Hump" between India & China

1944-Stauffenburg attempted plan to kill Hitler

1945-Italy Declares War On Japan

1948-Israel bombs Cairo during Arab-Israeli War

1953- Serial Killer, John Christie, Executed

1954-Boeing 707 Maiden Flight

1958-5,000 U.S. Marines landed in Beirut

1959-Steel Strike: USWA went on strike against Steel manufacturing firms for 116 days

1962-Algeria became member of Arab League

1964-Goldwater’s Presidency Nomination, Lost Election to L.B.J.

1965-Mars Mariner IV sends back first close-up pictures of Mars

1966-Operation Hastings Begins

1967-USSR performs nuclear test in Eastern Kazakhstan; Semipalitinsk

1968-commercial air travel begins between US and USSR

1971-Nixon: live announcement To Visit China
-Euston Station staffing 'colour bar' is ended, strengthening the race relations act of 1976

1973-Paul Getty III kidnapped

1974-Military coup on Cyprus; Makarios Overthrown

1975-Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched

1976-School Bus Kidnapped in Chowchilla, California

1979-President Jimmy Carter Blames OPEC on Live TV
-Morarji resigns as premier of India

1982-Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th SEC of State

1983-Orly Airport Attack

1987-state of Siege ends in Taiwan after 37 years of martial law

1992-Pope John Paul II hospitalized

1994-Israel and Jordan agree to talks in Washington DC on July 25th

1995-Bosnian Serbs killed and tortured thousands in Srebrenica. General Mladic later indicted; still at Large for
"Bosnia Ethnic Cleansing"

1996-MicroSoft internet & NBC TV Launch MSNBC
- Charles and Diana sign divorce papers
- Lockheed c-130h Hercules crashed on Landing, killing 34

1997-Gianni Versace Murdered

2002-death sentence given to murderer of journalist Daniel Pearl
-John Lindh Plead guilty and received 20 years for offering services to Taliban.

2003-End of NetScape/Birth Of The ‘Mozilla’ Foundation

2006-UN Sanctions Passed on North Korea
- Twitters social networking service launched

2009-All 168 people of Flight 7908 died in crash shortly after takeoff from Iran to Armenia

2010-Villages in Congo are burned to the ground

2011-Hillary Clinton announced that the US no longer recognized Gaddafi regime

2012-Saudi Arabia donates $100 million to the Palestinian Authority
-in Egypt, US Secretary of State encounters protesters at her motorcade.
-Russian Rocket Launches for International Space Station

2013-Indonesia: 17 died in stampede
-Upper House of U.K approves same sex marriage:

2014-Apple & IBM join forces, to develop apps.
-Mohammed Zakari arrested.

2014-Train details in Moscow, injuring over 100 people and killing 20

2016-Failed military coup in Turkey leaves nearly 300 dead and 6,000 arrested

2017-Justine Damond killed by Minneapolis police after calling 911

2020-Monsoon flooding in Indian northeastern state of Assam kills over 50 people, affecting millions

2021-After record rainfall, floods sweep through towns in western germany, belgium and the netherlands killing around 200 people

2024- Donald Trump picks Ohio Senator JD Vance as his Republican vice-presidential running mate