Thursday, July 15, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

JULY 15
1979:Addressing the energy crisis and economic recession, President Jimmy Carter laments a crisis of “moral and spiritual confidence” in the United States. Although he never uses the word, it becomes known as his “malaise speech.”

1099: European knights of the First Crusade breach the walls of Jerusalem after a seven-week siege, capturing the city for the Christian armies and massacring tens of thousands of Muslim and Jewish citizens.

1799:
French Capt. Pierre-François Bouchard discovers the Rosetta Stone in the Nile River delta during Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign. The Ptolemaic-era tablet, written in three scripts, holds the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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