Today in History: July 15, discovery of the Rosetta Stone

In the present day is Tuesday July the th day of There are days left in the year In contemporary times in history On July the Rosetta Stone a key to deciphering ancient Egyptian scripts was located at Fort Julien in the Nile Delta during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt Also on this date In the Spanish Inquisition was abolished more than years after its creation Related Articles Tesla s Autopilot system is in the spotlight at a Miami trial over a attendee killed while stargazing The search for those missing in catastrophic Texas floods resumes in several areas after pause for rain A wildfire that destroyed historic Grand Canyon Lodge spread after being allowed to burn for days More than states sue Trump administration over frozen after-school and summer scheme funding US manufacturers are stuck in a rut despite subsidies from Biden and protection from Trump In Georgia became the last Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union In Democrat Augustus Bacon of Georgia became the first person elected to the U S Senate under the terms of the just now ratified th Amendment to the U S Constitution providing for popular electoral contest of senators In The Boeing Company originally known as Pacific Aero Products Co was founded in Seattle In three American astronauts blasted off aboard an Apollo spaceship hours after two Soviet cosmonauts were launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft for a mission that included a linkup of the two ships in orbit In a -hour kidnap ordeal began for schoolchildren and their bus driver as they were abducted near Chowchilla California by three gunmen and imprisoned in an underground cell The captives escaped unharmed the kidnappers were caught In MSNBC a -hour all-news system made its debut on cable and the internet In fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot dead outside his Miami Beach home suspected gunman Andrew Phillip Cunanan koo-NAN -an was unveiled dead eight days later a suicide Investigators held Cunanan killed four other people before Versace in a cross-country rampage that began the previous March In John Walker Lindh an American who d fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria Virginia to two felonies in a deal sparing him life in prison In Twitter now known as X was launched to the general In avowed white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr was sentenced by a state court to life in prison plus years for killing one and injuring dozens when he deliberately drove his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters during a rally in Charlottesville Virginia The previous month Fields received a life sentence on federal hate crime charges In George Floyd s family filed a lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis and the four police officers charged in his death alleging the officers violated Floyd s rights when they restrained him and that the city allowed a practices of excessive force racism and impunity to flourish in its police force The city would agree to pay million to settle the lawsuit in March In the current era s Birthdays Actor Patrick Wayne is R B singer Millie Jackson is Singer Linda Ronstadt is Author Richard Russo is Musician Trevon Horn is Arianna Huffington co-founder of The Huffington Post is Former professional wrestler and Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura is Actor Terry O Quinn TV Lost is Rock drummer Marky Ramone is Rock musician Joe Satriani is Model Kim Alexis is Actor Willie Aames is Actor-director Forest Whitaker is Actor Brigitte Nielsen is Rock drummer Jason Bonham is TV personality Adam Savage TV MythBusters is Actor-comedian Eddie Griffin is Actor-screenwriter Jim Rash TV Society is Actor Scott Foley is Actor Brian Austin Green is Singer Buju Banton is Actor Diane Kruger is Actor Lana Parrilla LAH -nuh pa-REE -uh is Actor Travis Fimmel is Actor-singer Tristan Mack Wilds is Actor Iain Armitage TV Young Sheldon is