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Today in History: August 1, America gets its MTV

MTV began its American broadcast; the first music video aired on the new cable TV network was “Video Killed the Radio Star,” by The Buggles.

NEW YORK – APRIL 05: MTV sign is seen on April 05, 2006 in New York City. (Photo by Peter Kramer /Getty Images)

FILE – United States’ Michael Phelps poses with his gold medal for the men’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay swimming final at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Tuesday, July 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Today in History: July 31, Phelps sets Olympic medal record

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A Palestinian youth carries a sack of aid that landed in the Mediterranean Sea after being airdropped over central Gaza, at the shore of Zawaida, Gaza Strip Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Dozens killed while seeking aid at Gaza crossing as US envoy heads to Israel for talks

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Relatives of Palestinian child Salem Hussein, 12, killed in an Israeli army bombardment of Gaza

UN body says over 1,000 have been killed seeking food in Gaza since May as hunger crisis worsens

By The Associated Press

July 22, 2025 at 9:58 a.m.

The U.N. human rights office says more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since May...

Wiley Post climbs out of the cockpit of his Lockheed Vega monoplane, Winnie Mae, after completing the first solo flight around the world at Floyd Bennet Field, Long Island, N.Y., midnight, July 22, 1933. Wiley set a new record with the distance of 15,596 miles, 25,099 kilometer, in 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes. (AP Photo)

Today in History: July 22, First solo around-the-world flight

By The Associated Press

July 22, 2025 at 2:00 a.m.

Aviator Wiley Post landed at Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first...

FILE – This 1925 file photo shows high school biology teacher John T. Scopes who was charged with violating a Tennessee law that forbids the teaching of the theory of evolution in public schools. The town hosts an annual festival, this year July 20-21, marking the anniversary of the famous trial about the teaching of evolution in public schools. (AP Photo, file)

Today in History: July 21, verdict reached in Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’

By The Associated Press

July 21, 2025 at 2:01 a.m.

The so-called ‘Monkey Trial’ ended in Dayton, Tennessee, with John T. Scopes found guilty of...

Astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. poses for a photograph beside the U.S. flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. Aldrin and fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong were the first men to walk on the lunar surface with temperatures ranging from 243 degrees above to 279 degrees below zero. Astronaut Michael Collins flew the command module. The trio was launched to the moon by a Saturn V launch vehicle at 9:32 a.m. EDT, July 16, 1969. They departed the moon July 21, 1969. (AP Photo/NASA/Neil A. Armstrong)

Today in History: July 20, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin walk on the moon

By The Associated Press

July 20, 2025 at 2:01 a.m.

Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first men to walk on the...

FILE – In this September 1916 file photo, demonstrators hold a rally for women’s suffrage in New York. The Seneca Falls convention in 1848 is widely viewed as the launch of the women’s suffrage movement, yet women didn’t gain the right to vote until ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. (AP Photo/File)

Today in History: July 19, the Seneca Falls Convention

By The Associated Press

July 19, 2025 at 2:00 a.m.

The first “Convention to discuss the social, civil and religious condition and rights of Woman”...

Nadia Comaneci, of Romania, dismounts from the uneven parallel bars during a perfect “10” performance at the Summer Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada, July 18, 1976. (AP Photo/Suzanne Vlamis)

Today in History: July 18, Nadia’s perfect 10

By The Associated Press

July 18, 2025 at 2:00 a.m.

At the Summer Olympics in Montreal, Nadia Comaneci of Romania became the first gymnast to...

Children sprint across a drawbridge and into the castle that marks the entrance to Fantasyland at the opening of Walt Disney’s Disneyland in Anaheim, California, July 17, 1955. Fantasyland had been closed until late in the day, and a virtual stampede developed when it finally opened. (AP Photo)

Today in History: July 17, Disneyland’s opening day

By The Associated Press

July 17, 2025 at 2:00 a.m.

Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, after its $17 million, yearlong construction; the park drew a...

FILE – Al Ain’s Park Yong-woo splashes his face to cool off during the Club World Cup Group G soccer match between Wydad AC and Al Ain FC in Washington, June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

How climate change could force FIFA to rethink the World Cup calendar

By The Associated Press

July 16, 2025 at 11:46 a.m.

Tournament soccer in June and July is a tradition going back to 1930.

FILE – Boxes and bags of humanitarian aid delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, are seen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on May 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

20 Palestinians killed at Gaza distribution site, says Israeli-backed aid group

By The Associated Press

July 16, 2025 at 9:47 a.m.

The American aid group accused Hamas of spreading panic but provided no evidence.

FILE – This July 16, 1945, file photo, shows an aerial view after the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, N.M. Western governors say atmospheric nuclear weapons testing exposed more states and more people to radiation fallout and resulting cancers and other diseases than the federal government recognizes. The Western Governors’ Association on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, sent letters to the U.S. Senate and U.S. House urging passage of proposed changes to a law involving “downwinders” that would add all of Nevada, Arizona and Utah, and include for the first time downwinders in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico and the island territory of Guam. (AP Photo/File)

Today in History: July 16, Trinity nuclear weapon test

By The Associated Press

July 16, 2025 at 2:00 a.m.

The United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, New...

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