🎒🐰💭’On 5 July 2012 The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres (1,020 ft).‘

🎒🐰💭’On 4 July 1837 Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.’

🎒🐰💭’On 3 July 1938 World speed record for a steam locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58 km/h).‘

🎒🐰💭’On 2 July 2005 The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.’

🎒🐰💭’On 1 July 2013 Neptune’s moon S/2004 N 1 is discovered by Mark Showalter.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 30 June 1972 The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 29 June 2007 Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.’

🎒🐰💭’On 28 June 1841 The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier’

🎒🐰💭’On 27 June 2013 NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 26 June 1974, The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.‘