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Tropical Storm Brenda (tracking map pictured) was the second named storm of the 1960 Atlantic hurricane season. It developed in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico on July 28, and became a tropical storm after moving ashore over the Florida Peninsula. Accelerating northeast along the U.S. East Coast, it peaked north of Wilmington, North Carolina, as a moderate storm with winds of 60 mph (97 km/h). After crossing the Mid-Atlantic States and New England, it dissipated on July 31 over southern Canada. The storm inflicted moderate damage in Florida, the worst since Hurricane Easy of 1950, and dropped heavy rainfall as far north as New York City. Total damage was estimated at $5 million, and at least one traffic-related death was blamed on the cyclone. Brenda was the last tropical cyclone to hit the U.S. mainland before the devastating Hurricane Donna, which killed at least 364 and did close to a billion dollars in damage (in 1960 dollars). (Full article...)

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July 15: Festino of Saint Rosalia in Palermo, Italy

1815 – Aboard HMS Bellerophon (pictured), Napoleon surrendered to Royal Navy Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland to finally end the Napoleonic Wars.
1870 – Manitoba and the Northwest Territories were established following the transfer of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the Hudson's Bay Company to Canada.
1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gave a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
1983 – Armenian extremist organization ASALA bombed the Turkish Airlines check-in counter at Orly Airport as part of its campaign for the recognition of and reparations for the Armenian Genocide.
2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people aboard.

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The Apollo–Soyuz Test Project was the first joint U.S.–Soviet space flight, and the last flight of an Apollo spacecraft. Conducted between July 15 and July 24, 1975, the mission entailed the docking of an Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft, which allowed for both joint and separate scientific experiments; this included an engineered eclipse of the Sun by Apollo which allowed Soyuz to take photographs of the solar corona. Subsequent joint space flights included the Shuttle–Mir Program and the International Space Station.

Left to right: Deke Slayton, Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand, Alexey Leonov, and Valeri Kubasov

Photograph: NASA; restoration: Adam Cuerden

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