TODAY IN WORLD HISTORY 7th August
Today in History August 7 1782 General George Washington authorizes the award of the Purple Heart for soldiers wounded in combat. 1864 Union troops capture part of Confederate General Jubal Early’s army at Moorefield, West Virginia. 1888 Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia receives a patent for the revolving door. 1906 In North Carolina, a mob defies a court order and lynches three African Americans which becomes known as "The Lyerly Murders." 1916 Persia forms an alliance with Britain and Russia. 1922 The Irish Republican Army cuts the cable link between the United States and Europe at Waterville landing station. 1934 In Washington, the U.S. Court of Appeals rules that the govenment can neither confiscate nor ban James Joyce’s novel Ulysses . 1936 The United States declares non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War. 1942 The U.S. 1st Marine Division under General A. A. Vandegrift lands on the islands of Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon islands. This is...