Moments in Time: Joan of Arc
The History Channel
On July 7, 1456, Joan of Arc's heresy conviction was overturned at an appeal proceeding held at the archbishop's palace in Rouen, France. Unfortunately, the Catholic Church's change of heart came too late, as she'd been burned at the stake 25 years earlier.
On July 8, 1905, the body of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, which had lain for more than a century in a French graveyard, began its final trans-Atlantic journey, ending in interment at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland with a ceremony presided over by President Theodore Roosevelt.
On July 9, 1928, Rose Booher, her son Fred and two hired workers were shot to death on a secluded farm in Canada while the rest of the Booher family was away. Son Vernon Booher confessed to the crime after Max Langsner used his alleged psychic powers, with which he'd reputedly solved crimes around Europe, to sketch a scene that included a rifle hidden under some bushes, giving police a makeshift map to locate the murder weapon.
On July 10, 2018, the last of 12 Thai youth soccer players and their coach were rescued from the Tham Luang cave network after a search that held the world's attention for more than two weeks. The team had set out on a supposed hour-long adventure when they were trapped underground after monsoon rains flooded the cave's entrance.
On July 11, 1944, German army officer Count Claus von Stauffenberg carried a bomb to Adolf Hitler's headquarters in Bavaria with the intention of assassinating him. The count ended up holding back because Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, who were also considered crucial targets, weren't present as expected.
On July 12, 1979, public backlash to disco music reached its zenith with the "Disco Demolition" night at Chicago's Comiskey Park, which resulted in at least nine injuries, 39 arrests and the cancellation and forfeit of a Major League Baseball game.
On July 13, 1990, the romantic thriller "Ghost," about a woman who communicates with her murdered boyfriend via a psychic and starring Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg, opened across the U.S. It received multiple Academy Award nominations, and Goldberg took home an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.