🎒🐰💭’On 31 July 2012, Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 30 July 1859, the first ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 29 July 1948, Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 28 July 2001, Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 27 July 1940, the animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 26 July 1745, the first recorded women’s cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 25 July 1976, Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 24 July 1911, Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas”: one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 23 July 2015, NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler, an exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star Kepler-452 about 1,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 22 July 1933, Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.‘