QF Focus Magazine Did you know?
Events throughtout the years on July 25th - QF distribution day
306 - Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. 1593 - France’s Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic faith.
1814 - George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive. 1961 - Disney animated film “101 Dalmations”, based on the novel by Dodie Smith and directed by Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton
Luske is
released in the US. 1964 - Beatles’ album “A Hard Day’s Night” goes Nº1 & stays Nº1 for 14 weeks. 1966 - Supremes release “You Can’t Hurry Love”. 1969 - 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Fillmore East, NY). 1970 - 9th British Commonwealth Games close in Edinburgh, Scotland. 1972 - US health officials concede African Americans were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment. 1973 - George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert and album. 1978 - Louise Brown, the world’s first test tube baby is born at
Oldham General Hospital
England. 1981 - Voyager 2 encounters Saturn. 1981 - Anti-apartheid protesters in Hamilton, New Zealand,
force the
cancellation of a rugby test between New Zealand’s All Blacks and South Africa’s Springboks by invading the pitch during the game. 1983 - 1st non-human primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio. 1984 - Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space. 1985 - Steve Cram runs world record mile (3:46.32). 1992 - 25th Olympic Games opens in Barcelona, Spain. 1993 - 80th Tour de France won by Miguel Indurain of Spain. 1997 - Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos. 2000 - Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground. 2002 - 17th Commonwealth Games open in Manchester, England. 2004 - 91st Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified). 2007 - Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India’s first woman president. 2012 - The 2012 Summer Olympics begin (Opening ceremony on the 27th). 2012 - The double dip recession in the UK economy continues with a fall of 0.7% in GDP in the second quarter of 2012.
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