July 3rd

TODAY IS:

Stay Out of the Sun Day
International Plastic Bag Free Day
Disobedience Day
Compliment Your Mirror Day

EVENTS

324 – Battle of Adrianople Roman Emperor Constantine I defeats Co-Emperor Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
683 – St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
987 – Hugh Capet (Hugh the Great) crowned King of the Franks
1090 – Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II
1187 – Crusaders enter Tiberias
1187 – Battle of Horns of Hattin; Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, destroys Jerusalem’s crusader army.
1250 – Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars’ Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
1428 – Treaty of Delft between Jacoba of Bavaria & Philip the Good of Burgundy
1608 – Samuel de Champlain founds city of Quebec
1630 – Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament
1661 – Portugal gives Tangier & Bombay to English King Charles II
1720 – Sweden & Denmark sign peace treaty
1754 – George Washington surrenders to French, Fort Necessity (7 Years’ War)

First US President George Washington

1767 – Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
1767 – Norway’s oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date).
1775 – Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
1778 – British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa
1778 – Prussia declares war on Austria
1806 – Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
1814 – Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada (War of 1812)
1816 – French frigate “Medusa” runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas
1819 – 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
1839 – 1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students
1841 – John Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus
1844 – The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
1848 – Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)
1849 – The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
1852 – Congress authorizes US’s 2nd mint (San Francisco, California)
1861 – Colonel Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general
1861 – Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
1861 – Martinsburg, VA – Confederate forces pull out before US advance
1863 – Battle of Donaldsonville, LA
1863 – Battle of Gettysburg, Pa, the largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union.
1864 – Battle of Chattahoochie River, GA [until Jul 9]
1864 – Harpers Ferry, WV – Federals evacuate in face of Early’s advance

Outlaw Jesse James

1871 – Jesse James robs bank in Corydon, Iowa ($45,000)
1876 – Montenegro declares war on Turkey
1883 – SS Daphne sinks on Clyde River Scotland; 195 die
1884 – Dow Jones published it’s 1st stock avg
1886 – 1st NY Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine
1886 – In Germany, Karl Benz drives 1st automobile
1890 – Idaho admitted as 43rd US state
1890 – King Leopold II gives Congo, previously a private possession, to Belgium
1895 – Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Black Peter” (BG)
1898 – American troops captured deserted Wake Island
1898 – Dutch Automobile Club forms (KNAC)
1898 – Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe
1898 – US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba
1900 – Trying in stem the growing popular resentment, Tsar Nicholas of Russia issues a decree that abolishes the banishment of dissidents and troublemakers to Siberia
1900 – The British evacuate Rustenburg and occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek in the Anglo-Boer war
1901 – 18th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Charlotte Sterry beats B Hillyard (6-2 6-2)
1901 – 25th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Arthur Gore beats R Doherty (4-6 7-5 6-4 6-4)
1902 – Excelsior soccer team forms in Rotterdam
1905 – Kuyper government forms in Holland
1905 – Marvin Hart KOs Jack Hart in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1907 – Pope decree forbids modernization of theology
1908 – 25th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Charlotte Sterry beats A Morton (6-4 6-4)
1908 – 32nd Wimbledon Mens’ Tennis: Arthur Gore beats H Roper-Barrett (6-3 6-2 4-6 3-6 6-4)
1909 – 26th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Dora Boothby beats A Morton (6-4 4-6 8-6)
1909 – 33rd Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Arthur Gore beats J Ritchie (6-8 1-6 6-2 6-2 6-2)

MLB Legend Ty Cobb

1911 – Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day
1912 – NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak
1913 – Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic)
1913 – Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett’s Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
1915 – After exploding a bomb in the US Senate reception room the previous day, Erich Muenter, an instructor in German at Cornell University, shoots JP Morgan for representing the British government in war contract negotiations
1916 – 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die)
1917 – Spontaneous demonstration at Tauride-palace Petrograd
1918 – SDAP’er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament
1920 – 40th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Patterson (2-6 6-3 6-2 6-4)
1920 – Java Technical School Bandung opens
1920 – Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England
1920 – 33rd Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats D Chambers (6-3 6-0)
1923 – Dockers’ strike in Hull/Grimsby/Cardiff/Bristol over to London
1925 – 38th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Joan Fry (6-2 6-0)
1926 – 39th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Kitty Godfree beats L de Alvarez (6-2 4-6 6-3)
1926 – 46th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Jean Borotra beats H Kinsey (8-6 6-1 6-3)
1927 – 47th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: H Cochet beats Borotra (4-6 4-6 6-3 6-4 7-5)
1928 – 1st colour TV broadcast in London (John Logie Baird)
1929 – Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
1930 – US Veterans Administration created
1931 – 51st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Sid Wood Jr beats F X Shields (walkover)
1931 – Max Schmeling TKOs Young Stribling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1931 – 44th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Cilly Aussem beats H Sperling (6-2 7-5)
1932 – 1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2
1932 – John McGraw retires from baseball
1934 – FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL
1936 – Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge University v MCC
1936 – 56th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Fred Perry beats G von Cramm (6-1 6-1 6-0)

32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1938 – President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
1939 – Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800 kph (500 mph) rocket plane to Hitler
1939 – Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes “luckiest man” speech
1940 – ARP-leader/ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany
1940 – British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, to prevent Germany seizing it.
1940 – German occupiers forbid using Dutch royal names
1942 – German troops march into Sebastopol, Crimea
1942 – Hitler visits Field Marshal Von Bock’s headquarters in Ukraine
1943 – Liberator bombers sinks U-628
1944 – Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore
1944 – US V-III-E Army corp opens assault on Coutances Cotentin
1946 – 1st Dutch government of Beel forms

Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

1946 – The Cape Passive Resistance Council is formed at a mass meeting in Cape Town, attended by 1,500 people
1947 – 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC
1947 – Cleveland Indians purchase Larry Dolby, the 1st black in AL
1947 – Soviet Union doesn’t participate in Marshall Plan
1948 – 55th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Louise Brough beats Doris Hart (6-3 8-6)
1948 – Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death, California; the execution didn’t happen until 1960
1950 – 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in Korean War
1950 – Casey Stengel asks Joe DiMaggio to play 1st base (handles 13 chances)
1951 – 33rd PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa
1952 – Puerto Rico’s constitution approved by US Congress
1953 – 67th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Vic Seixas beats Kurt Nielsen (9-7 6-3 6-4)
1954 – “Wonderful Town” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 559 perfs

Tennis Player Vic Seixas

1954 – 61st Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (6-2 7-5)
1954 – 9th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
1954 – Food rationing ends in Britain
1958 – “Andy Williams Show” premieres on ABC (later on CBS & NBC)
1959 – 73rd Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Alex Olmedo beats Rod Laver (6-4 6-3 6-4)
1959 – 88th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 284 at Muirfield Gullane
1962 – Algerian Revolution against French rule ends (Algeria gains independence on 5th July)
1963 – In New Zealand, a National Airways Corporation Dakota DC-3 crashes in the Kaimai Ranges; all 23 passengers and crew are killed in what is still New Zealand’s worst internal civil aviation accident
1964 – 78th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Stolle (64 12-10 46 63)
1965 – 72nd Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Margaret Smith beats M Fraiser (64 75)

Tennis Player Roy Emerson

1965 – Phillies Dick Allen & Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice
1965 – USSR & Persia sign dam building & economic aid pact
1965 – Harold Strachan, member of the Communist Party of South Africa and Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress, is served with a restriction order in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act
1966 – 21st US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Spuzich
1966 – Brave pitcher Tony Cloninger, is 1st NL to hit 2 grand slams in a game
1966 – Race riots in Omaha Nebraska
1967 – “News at 10” premieres on English TV
1968 – 41°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
1968 – Cleve Indian Luis Tiant strikes out 19 Minnesota Twins
1968 – As part of a series of protests against housing conditions in Derry, the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) hold a sit-down protest on the newly opened second deck of the Craigavon Bridge in the city, Northern Ireland
1969 – 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI
1970 – 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival
1970 – 77th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats King (14-12 11-9)
1970 – British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed
1970 – California Angels Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A’s, 8-0
1970 – The British Army imposed a curfew on the Falls Road area of Belfast as they search for weapons; during the operation they come under attack from the Official IRA (OIRA) and republican rioters
1971 – 85th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: J Newcombe beats S Smith (63 57 26 64 64)
1972 – Themba Sono is forced to resign as president of South African Student Organisation (SASO)
1972 – The Ulster Defence Association and the British Army come into conflict about a ‘no-go’ area at Ainsworth Avenue, Belfast
1973 – Brothers Jim & Gaylord Perry face each other for only time, Tigers beat Indians 5-4, as Gaylord loses
1973 – General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA
1974 – Pitching in major league-record 13th consecutive game for Dodgers
1974 – Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1974 – Mike Marshall saves Tommy John’s 4-1 win

Tennis Player Björn Borg

1976 – 90th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Ilie Nastase (64 62 97)
1976 – Adolfo Suarez becomes premier of Spain
1976 – Brian Wilson performs with the Beach Boys after 12 years apart
1976 – Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers
1977 – 5th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Judy Rankin
1977 – Turkey: premier Ecevit goes off
1977 – The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded.
1978 – Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1978 – US Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin’s “Filthy Words”
1980 – 1st US Seniors Golf Open: Roberto deVicenzo
1980 – 73,096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0

Tennis Legend Chris Evert

1981 – 88th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Mandlikova (6-2 6-2)
1981 – NYC transit fare rises from 60 cents to 75 cents, new brass Y-cut-out token
1982 – 89th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (61 36 62)
1982 – Riot at building Stopera Amsterdam (damages Ÿ1 million)
1983 – 11th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Hollis Stacy
1983 – 97th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: John McEnroe beats Chris Lewis (6-2 6-2 6-2)
1983 – Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (9.93 for 100m)
1983 – Rangers explode for 12 runs in 15th inning of a 16-4 win over the A’s
1984 – Derek Underwood’s maiden FC century after 22 yrs of trying
1984 – Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island
1984 – Greenidge scores brilliant 214 off 241 balls to win Lord’s Test

Tennis Player John McEnroe

1984 – Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
1985 – CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner’s takeover
1986 – Kuwait’s National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves
1986 – President Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty
1987 – 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic
1987 – NY Met Darryl Strawberry threatens teammates Wally Backman & Lee Mazzilli for criticizing his play
1988 – 16th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sally Little
1988 – A’s Gene Nelson is 1st AL pitcher to steal a base since 1973
1988 – US Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290
1988 – The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.

Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry

1989 – Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3k steeplechase rec (8:05.39) in Stockholm
1989 – US Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions
1989 – The movie “Batman” set record of quickest $100 million (10 days)
1990 – Members of 2 Live Crew formally charged with obscenity in Florida
1990 – Liberian President, Samuel Kanyon Doe offers to resign in response to rebel incursions in his country; he will later be kidnapped and executed
1991 – Gateway Board of Trustees approve a 20-year lease with Cleve Indians
1992 – Thirty-one years after being expelled, South Africa has its FIFA membership reinstated
1993 – 100th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats Jana Novotna (7-6 1-6 6-4)
1993 – Boon completes 16th Test Cricket century, 101 at Trent Bridge
1994 – 108th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: P Sampras beats G Ivanisevic (76 76 60)
1994 – 15th US Seniors Golf Open: Simon Hobday
1994 – FIFA World Cup: Romania eliminates Argentina 3-2
1994 – Tammie Green wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1994 – The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people were killed in crashes.
1996 – British House of Commons annouces Stone of Scone, used in the coronation of Scottish and British monarchs, will be returned to Scotland after 600 years
1997 – Mississippi becomes 1st state to settle tobacco suit
2001 – A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
2001 – At a meeting of its oil ministers, OPEC agrees to maintain current production quotas; ministers indicate that, if Iraqi oil returns to the market, they may cut production in response to maintain their desired level of prices
2004 – Official opening of Bangkok’s subway system.
2005 – The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.

Tennis Player Venus Williams

2005 – 112th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Venus Williams beats Lindsay Davenport (4-6 7-6 9-7)
2005 – 119th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Roger Federer beats Andy Roddick (6-2 7-6 6-4)
2006 – Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth.
2006 – Steve Yzerman officially retires from the NHL, finishing with 692 goals and 1755 points
2009 – Mark II.5 Skytrain cars enter service in Metro Vancouver.
2011 – 118th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Petra Kvitová beats Maria Sharapova (6-3 6-4)
2011 – 125th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal(6-4 6-1 1-6 6-3)
2012 – Truck bombing kills 25 people and wounds 40 in Diwaniyah, Iraq
2012 – Antonio Esfandiari wins a record $18.3 million in poker after winning the 2012 World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Buy-In
2013 – Egypt’s president, Mohammed Morsi, is deposed by the military with Adly Mansour appointed interim president
2014 – Germany passes first nation-wide minimum wage law – at 8.5 euros
2014 – “Guardians of the Galaxy”, directed by James Gunn, starring Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana, premieres in Hollywood, Los Angeles

BIRTHDAYS

1423 – Louis XI, King of France (1461-83)
1442 – Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1530 – Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)
1567 – Samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain)
1676 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)
1683 – Edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint)
1685 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)
1687 – Arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch)
1728 – Robert Adam, architect/designer (Adelphi Terrace, London)
1731 – Samuel Huntington, (Gov-Ct), Continental Congress pres
1738 – John Singleton Copley, Mass, finest colonial American artist
1743 – Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1813)
1793 – John Claire, England, poet
1794 – Eberhard F Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt)
1796 – Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [NS]

French Explorer Samuel de Champlain (1567)

1802 – Joseph Labitzky, composer
1814 – Janis Cimze, composer
1819 – Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer
1821 – F Kornberger, writer
1828 – John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1865)
1846 – Achilles Alferaki, composer
1850 – Alfredo Kiel, composer
1854 – Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
1855 – Piotr Maszynski, composer
1860 – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist
1860 – William Wallace, composer
1861 – Peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer)
1862 – Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer
1866 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter

11th Prime Minister of Canada Richard Bedford Bennett (1870)

1870 – Richard Bedford Bennett, Hopewell Hill New Brunswick, (C) 11th Canadian PM (1930-35)
1871 – Vicente Arregui Garay, composer
1872 – Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistam (1901-19)
1874 – Apirana Turupa Ngata, Kawaka NZ, Maori political/cultural leader
1874 – Āpirana Ngata, Te Araroa on the East Coast of New Zealand, a prominent Maori New Zealand politician and lawyer
1875 – Ernst F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon
1878 – George M Cohan, Providence Rhode Island, American father of musical comedy (Phantom President, Give My Regards to Broadway)
1879 – Philippe Gaubert, composer
1879 – Alfred Korzybski, Polish linguist (d. 1950)
1880 – Carl Schuricht, composer
1881 – Leon Errol, Australian actor (Ziegfeld Follies, What a Blonde!)
1883 – Alfred Korzybski, Poland, scientist (Science & Sanity)

Writer Franz Kafka (1883)

1883 – Franz Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika)
1883 – Moses Leverock Crossley, US bio-chemist
1886 – Raymond A Spruance, US admiral/fleet commander/ambassador
1892 – Wilhelm Rettich, composer
1893 – Mississippi John Hurt, Teoc Mississippi, American blues singer and guitarist
1895 – Oles’ Semyonovich Chishko, composer
1896 – Doris Lloyd, actress (Bachelor Father, Charley’s Aunt, Sarah & Son)
1899 – Klimenty Arkad’yevich Korchmaryov, composer
1899 – Otto Reinhold, composer
1900 – John Mason Brown, Louisville Ky, critic (Tonight on Broadway)
1902 – Jack Newman, NZ cricket lefty pace bowler (1932-33, later knighted)
1903 – Jean du Bela, [Simon Buytekant], singer/actor (Chaste Susanna)
1906 – Francis Steegmuller, US, biographer (Cocteau)
1906 – George Sanders, Russia, actor (All About Eve-Academy Award 1950)
1906 – Gwendolen Rees, zoologist
1906 – Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (d. 1952)
1907 – Arthur Steel, Dutch architect (Group ’32)
1907 – Gene Gutche, composer
1908 – Thomas Narcejac, Rochefort-sur-Mer France, writer (Vertigo)
1908 – M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
1908 – Robert B. Meyner, American politician (d. 1990)
1909 – Earl L Butz, US Secretary of Agriculture (1971-76); a real Butz
1909 – Lucy Kroll, entertainment agent
1909 – Stavros Niachos, Greece, shipping magnate (Those Fabulous Greeks)
1910 – Bernard Burrows, British diplomat
1910 – Eric Franklin, Indian civil servant
1911 – Joe Hardstaff Jr, cricketer (son of Joseph, 23 Tests for England)
1912 – Edward Jones, North Ireland lord justice of appeals
1913 – Hugh Stirling MacKenzie, British vice admiral
1913 – William Deakin, warden (St Anthony’s College Oxford)
1917 – Helene Cordet, entertainer/nightclub owner
1917 – João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (d. 1990)
1918 – Lord Mulley, British MP (Labour)
1920 – John Ayers Lessard, composer
1920 – Louise Allbritton, actress (Celia-Stage Door, Got a Secret), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1921 – Susan Peters, Spokane WA, actress (Random Harvest, Young Ideas)
1922 – Art Fowler, baseball player
1922 – Corneille [Cornelis G of Beverloo], Dutch painter (Africa, Antilles)
1922 – Francois Reichenbach, French director (La douceur du Village)
1922 – Tom Hudson, artist/teacher
1923 – Baroness Ryder, of Warsaw & Cavendish, worked for sick & disabled
1923 – Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist
1923 – William Mills, painter
1924 – Geoffrey Sammons, senior partner (Allen & Overy)
1924 – S. R. Nathan, 6th president of Singapore
1925 – Michael Oliver, cardiologist
1926 – Johnny Coles, trumpeter
1926 – Joseph M Gaydos, (Rep-D-PA, 1969- )
1926 – William Roll, Bremen, Germany, parapsychologist (The Poltergeist, Unsolved Mysteries), (d. 2012)
1927 – Charles Vandenhove, Belgian architect (Standard-Omnisporthal, Luik)
1927 – Ken Russell, England, director (Tommy, Altered States, Gothic)
1927 – William McMillan, moderator (Gen Assembly of Church of Scot) [or 1/29]
1928 – Evelyn Anthony, English historical writer (Poellenberg Inheritance)
1928 – G B Fuchs, writer
1928 – John Wills, lord-lt of Avon England
1929 – Eustace Gibbs, vice marshal (Diplomatic Corps)
1930 – Carlos Kleiber, conductor (Bavarian State Orch 1968), born in Berlin, Germany
1930 – Pete Fountain, jazz clarinetist (Lawrence Welk 1957-59), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1931 – Andres Burnier, [Catharina Dessaur], criminologist/author (Jongensuur)
1933 – Edward Brandt, American doctor and public health official (d. 2007)
1934 – Manfred Bieler, writer
1935 – Harrison H “Jack” Schmitt, Santa Rita NM, astronaut (Apollo 17)
1935 – John Swan, PM (Bermuda)
1936 – Anthony Lester, CEO (Runnymede Trust)
1936 – Eric Russell, cricketer (England opening batsman early 60s)

Playwright Tom Stoppard(1937)

1937 – Tom Stoppard, Zlin Czech, playwright (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern-1968 Tony)
1938 – David Gandolfo, horse trainer
1938 – Shin Geum Dan, North Korea, 400m/800m runner (1962 world record)
1939 – Jay Tarses, Balt Md, actor/writer (Open All Night, Duck Factory)
1940 – Cesar Tovar, baseball player
1940 – Fontella Bass, St Louis Mo, vocalist (Rescue Me)
1940 – Heather Steel, British judge
1940 – Lance Larson, US, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-silver-1960)
1940 – Lamar Alexander, American politician
1941 – Adoor Gopalakrishnan, cinematographer (Kathapurushan, Mathulikal)
1941 – Gloria Allred, feminist attorney
1941 – Wylie Walker Vale, Endocrinologist who discovered the stress hormone, born in Houston, Texas
1942 – Paco Stanley, Mexican TV personality (d. 1999)
1943 – Kurtwood Smith, New Lisbon, Wisconsin, American actor (That ’70s Show, Robocop)
1943 – Gary Waldhorn, actor (To the Camp & Back)
1943 – Geraldo Rivera, [Gerry Rivers], news personality (20/20, Geraldo), born in NYC, New York
1943 – Judith Durham, singer
1943 – Norman E Thagard, Marianna Fl, MD/astro (STS 7, 51-B, 30, 42, 71, Mir)
1944 – Paul Young, actor (Another Time Another Place)
1945 – Iain MacDonald-Smith, England, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968)
1945 – Michael Cole, Madison Wisc, actor (Pete-Mod Squad)
1945 – Michael Martin, MP
1947 – Betty Buckley, Big Springs Tx, actress (Abby-8 is Enough, 1776, Cats)
1947 – Dave Barry, American humorist and author
1948 – Peter Ruzicka, composer
1948 – Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist
1949 – Jan Smithers, N Hollywood California, actress (Bailey-WKRP)
1949 – Susan Penhaligon, Manilla Philippines, actress (Dracula, Nasty Habits)
1949 – Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave) (d. 2006)
1950 – Damon Harris, Balt Md, musician (The Temptations-My Girl), (d. 2013)
1950 – Ewen Chatfield, NZ cricketer pace bowler (1975-89)
1950 – James Hahn, American politician
1951 – Mike Corby [Michael John], Windsor, Berkshire, English guitarist/keyboardist (The Babys)
1951 – Jean-Claude Duvalier, [Papa Doc], deposed Haitian president-for-life

Cricketer Richard Hadlee(1951)

1951 – Richard Hadlee, Christchurch, New Zealand, cricket bowler (431 wickets)
1952 – Alan Autry, NFLer (Green Bay Packers)/actor (Heat of the Night)
1952 – Bill Badgett Jr, horse trainer
1952 – Wasim Raja, cricketer (bro of Rameez, Pakistani lefty bat & leggie)
1952 – Andy Fraser, rock bassist (Free London), born in London, England
1953 – Alynne Beth Amkraut, Amityville NY, entertainer
1953 – Frank Tanana, baseball pitcher (California Angels)
1954 – Debbie Skinner, LPGA golfer
1955 – Julia Lyndon, playmate (August, 1977), born in Buffalo, New York
1955 – Matt Keough, baseball player (Oakland A’s, NY Yankees)
1955 – Neil Clar, rock guitarist (Lloyd Cole & The Commotions)
1955 – Sanma Akashiya, Japanese television performer
1956 – Eddie Edwards, South Africa, tennis star
1956 – Montel Williams, TV talk show host (Montel)
1956 – Don Vito, American Viva La Bam castmember
1957 – Danny Heep, baseball player
1957 – Faye Resnick, author (Nicole Brown Simpson-Private Diary)
1957 – Laura Branigan, Brewster NY, vocalist (Gloria)
1958 – Aaron Tippin, Pensacola Fl, singer (You’ve Got to Stand for Something)
1958 – Robert Foth, air rifle (Olympics-1988, 92, 96), born in Buffalo, New York
1958 – Matthew Fraser, Canadian-British journalist
1958 – Siân Lloyd, Welsh weather presenter
1959 – Andreas Wisniewski, Berlin German FR, actor (Living Daylights)
1959 – Stephen Pearcy, heavy metal vocalist (RATT-Round & Round), born in Los Angeles, California
1959 – Stoyan Deltchev, Bulgaria, horizontal bar gymnist (Olympic-gold-1980)
1960 – Jack Daugherty, baseball player
1961 – Liz Stewart, SF California, playmate (July, 1984)
1961 – Vince Clarke, Basildon Essex, rock keyboardist (Erasure)
1961 – Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese dancer
1961 – Tim Smith, English musician (Cardiacs)
1962 – Thomas Gibson, actor (Dr Daniel Nyland-Chicago Hope)

Actor Tom Cruise (1962)

1962 – Tom Cruise, Syracuse, actor (Risky Business, Jerry MaGuire, Rainman)
1962 – Hunter Tylo, American actress
1963 – Tracey Emin, Croydon England, English artist
1963 – Don August, baseball player
1964 – Gary Ryan, rocker (Blackhearts)
1964 – Joe Hamorski, Peru IN, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Greater Greenville-9th)
1964 – Louis Clark, NFL receiver (Seattle)/WLAF coach (Amsterdam Admirals)
1964 – Pia Reyes, Manila Philipines, playmate (Nov, 1988)
1964 – Warren Newson, Newnan GA, outfielder (Texas Rangers)
1964 – Joanne Harris, British author
1964 – Yeardley Smith, French-born American actress
1965 – Arno Hofstede, Dutch soccer player (Willem II, Go Ahead Eagles)
1965 – Bobby Gage, Winsted CA, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE Wichita Open-16th)
1965 – Dan Land, NFL cornerback/safety (Oakland Raiders)
1965 – Greg Vaughn, outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers, SD Padres), born in Sacramento, California
1965 – Shinya Hashimoto, wrestler (NJPW)
1965 – Vinson Smith, NFL linebacker (Chic Bears)

MLB Outfielder Moises Alou(1966)

1966 – Moises Alou, MLB outfielder (Montreal Expos), born in Atlanta, Georgia,
1966 – Neil O’Donnell, NFL quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1967 – Amy Van Horne, actress (Carla Solieto-The City)
1967 – Brian Cashman, American major league baseball executive
1968 – Jeff Phillips, Westwood NJ, actor (Hart Jessup-Guiding Light)
1968 – Teppo Numminen, Tampere Fin, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets, Coyotes)
1969 – Elan Carter, Nutley NJ, playmate (June, 1994)
1969 – Kevin Hearn, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 – Preston Jones, WLAF quarterback (London Monarchs)
1970 – Teemu Selanne, Helsinki Fin, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1970 – Victor Bailey, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs)
1970 – Shawnee Smith, American actress
1970 – Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist
1971 – Terry Irving, NFL outside linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 – Julian Assange, Queensland, Australia, Wikileaks founder
1972 – Leigh Andrew-Pearso, North 470 yachter (Oly-96), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1972 – Ontiwaun Carter, WLAF running back (Rhein Fire)
1973 – Adrian Aucoin, Ottawa, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1973 – Devin Bush, NFL strong safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 – Fred Rodriguez, Bogota Colombia, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1973 – Johnny Terris, Canadian actor and director
1973 – Patrick Wilson, American actor
1974 – Jamie Feick, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks)
1975 – Jennifer Salinas, Miss USA-Illinois (1997)
1975 – John Hargis, US, Little Rock Ark, 100m butterfly (Olympics-96)
1975 – Keri Houlihan, Penn, actress (Molly-Our House)
1976 – Andrea Barber, actress (Kimmy Gibbler-Full House)
1976 – Henry Olonga, cricketer (1st black Zimbabwe Test cricketer v Pak 1995)
1976 – Shane Lynch, Irish singer (Boyzone), born in Dublin, Ireland

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (1971)

1976 – Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1976 – Robert Brian (Bobby) Skinstad, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, youngest ever Springbok rugby captain
1977 – Ludmila Richterova, Kosice Slovakia, tennis star
1979 – Lauren Alviti, Miss Rhode Island Teen USA (1997)
1979 – Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Greek footballer
1979 – Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
1979 – David Bacani, American baseball player
1980 – Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer
1980 – Kevin Boyle, American basketballer
1982 – Kanika, Indian actress
1983 – Steph Jones, American singer and model
1984 – Syed Rasel, Bangladeshi cricketer
1984 – Corey Sevier, Canadian actor
1984 – Manny Lawson, American Football player
1985 – Minami Keisuke, Japanese singer and actor.
1987 – Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver

WEDDINGS

1468 – Charles the Stout, Duke of Burgundy marries Princess Margaret of York
1920 – Film director John Ford (26) weds Mary Smith (25)
1950 – Actress Bette Davis (42) divorces artist William Grant Sherry after more than 4 years of marriage
1951 – Author Maya Angelou (23) weds Thomas J. Angelos
1960 – Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) weds Dee Alliot
1992 – Gary Dell’Abate (Howard Stern Show) marries Mary
1992 – Mass Senator Ted Kennedy marries Victoria Reggie (38)
1993 – Prince Alois of Liechtenstein weds Duchess Sophie of Bavaria
1994 – Actress Natasha Richardson (31) weds actor Liam Neeson (42) at a private ceremony in New York

Actress Natasha Richardson (1994)

2004 – Actress Tori Spelling (31) weds actor-writer Charlie Shanian (35) at her parents 56,000-square foot mansion in Bel Air, California
2004 – The Bachelor actor Bob Guiney (33) weds “All My Children” soap opera actress Rebecca Budig (31) in Long Lake, Michigan
2010 – “The Office” actress Jenna Fischer (36) weds screenwriter Lee Kirk (38) in Malibu

DIVORCES

1929 – American Playwright Eugene O’Neill divorces second wife novelist Agnes Boulton after 11 years of marriage

DEATHS

683 – Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies
1090 – Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle
1570 – Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67
1642 – Maria de’ Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69
1672 – Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
1704 – Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
1749 – William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
1778 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies
1778 – Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
1795 – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
1795 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
1801 – Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56
1809 – Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)
1816 – Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65
1858 – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
1862 – William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40
1863 – Alonzo Hersford Cushing, US Union lt, dies in battle at about 22
1863 – Lewis Addison Armistead, Confederate brigadier general Gettysburg/dies in battle at 46
1863 – Little Crow, [Ta-oya-te-duta], Santee Sioux indian chief, dies
1863 – Richard Brooke Garnett, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 45
1863 – Samuel Kosciuzko Zook, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 40
1863 – George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
1873 – Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer, dies at 57
1891 – Stefano Golinelli, composer, dies at 72
1904 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist/Zionist, dies
1904 – Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
1908 – Joel Chandler Harris, created Uncle Remus, dies at 59
1910 – Julius Slabbe, Belgian writer, dies
1910 – Mordecai Sherwin, English cricket wicketkeeper (Aust 1886-88), dies

The Witch of Wall Street Hetty Green (1916)

1916 – henrietta (Hetty) Green, (Witch of Wall Street), dies at 81
1918 – Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
1933 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (1916-22, 1928-30), dies at 80
1934 – Henry WAE, Prince of Netherlands/father of Queen Juliana, dies
1935 – André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
1940 – George Shepstone, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1896-99), dies
1942 – Louis Franchet d’Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)
1948 – Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch SDAP-politician, dies at 90
1948 – Quintin McMillan, cricketer (13 Tests for South Africa), dies
1952 – Daniel Zamudio, composer, dies at 64
1952 – Henriette Bosmans, composer, dies
1954 – Siegfried Handloser, German physician (b. 1895)
1957 – Richard Mohaupt, German composer (Bucolica), dies at 52

Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen (1933)

1957 – Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
1960 – Alfred Henry Ackley, composer, dies at 73
1965 – Clarence Loomis, composer, dies at 75
1965 – Trigger, horse (Roy Rogers), dies at 25
1966 – Andre Gailhard, composer, dies at 81
1966 – Cornelis “Kees” Boeke, theorist, dies at 81
1966 – Joseph Deems Taylor, composer, dies at 80
1967 – John Clark, actor (Last Day of the War), dies at 50
1969 – Brian Jones, guitarist (Rolling Stones), drowns to death at 25
1969 – Hermann Grabner, composer, dies at 83
1971 – Jim Morrison, rock singer (Doors), dies of heart failure at 27
1971 – Ricci Riano, entertainer, dies after long illness at 71
1972 – Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist, dies at 68
1973 – Charles Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto), dies at 63

Rocker Jim Morrison (1971)

1974 – John C Ransom, US poet (World’s Body), dies
1976 – Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train), dies at 58
1977 – Hugh Le Caine, composer, dies at 63
1977 – Mohammed al-Zahaby, Egyptian minister, murdered
1978 – James Daly, actor (Medical Center), dies at 59
1979 – Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
1981 – Ross Martin, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West), dies at 61
1982 – Henry King, US film director (Song of Bernadette, Gunfighter), dies aged 96
1983 – John Fleming (Jack) Brock, scientist, physician and a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town, 78
1984 – Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85
1985 – Frank Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (b. 1893)
1986 – Rudy Vallee, singer (Vagabond Dreams), dies at 84
1987 – Viola Dana, actress (Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover), dies at 90
1988 – Gabriel Dell, actor (Dead End Kids), dies of leukemia at 68
1989 – Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday
1989 – Jim Backus, actor (Magoo, Gilligan’s Island), dies at 76 of pneumonia
1990 – Ludi Claire Hugo, entertainer, dies at 70
1990 – Maurice Girodias, French publisher, dies at 71
1991 – Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer, dies at 77
1992 – Arline Bletcher, entertainer, dies of natural causes at 99
1992 – Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II), dies at 66
1993 – Don Drysdale, American Major League Baseball player, dies of a heart attack at 56
1993 – “Curly” Joe DeRita, last of Three Stooges, dies of pneumonia at 83
1994 – Felix Kelly, artist, dies at 80
1994 – Harry Ebbeling, PC-corrector, dies at 54

Tennis Player and Four-Time Major Champion Lew Hoad(1994)

1994 – Lewis Alan “Lew” Hoad, tennis star (Wimbledon 1953, 56), dies of a heart attack at 59
1994 – Pieter Hennipman, Dutch economist, dies at 85
1995 – Albert Hardy, photographer, dies at 82
1995 – Brad Lee Sexton, bass guitarist, dies at 47
1995 – Gil Wolman, situationist, dies at 65
1995 – Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1996 – Raaj Kumar, actor (Tiranga, Saudagar), dies at 68
1998 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
1999 – Mark Sandman, American musician (b. 1952)
2000 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
2001 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
2001 – Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
2003 – Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914)
2004 – Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1929)
2005 – Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)
2005 – Gaylord Nelson, American politician (b. 1916)
2006 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
2006 – Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
2007 – Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (b. 1915)
2007 – Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
2008 – Ernie Cooksey, English Footballer (b. 1980)
2008 – Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (b. 1925)
2008 – Clive Hornby, English soap actor – Emmerdale (b. 1944)
2008 – Oliver Schroer, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1956)
2009 – John A. Keel, American Fortean, television scriptwriter, author of The Mothman Prophecies (b. 1930)
2012 – Andy Griffith, American actor, dies from a heart attack at 86

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1863 Battle of Gettysburg ends

• American Revolution

• 1775 Washington takes command of Continental Army

• Automotive

• 1985 “Back to the Future” released, features 1981 DeLorean DMC-12

• Civil War

• 1863 Pickett leads his infamous charge at Gettysburg

• Cold War

• 1957 Khrushchev consolidates his power

• Crime

• 1989 A mother is arrested and accused of killing her four children

• Disaster

• 1970 Charter jet crashes mysteriously

• General Interest

• 1775 Washington assumes command
• 1988 U.S. warship downs Iranian passenger jet

• Hollywood

• 1962 Tom Cruise born
• 2012 TV legend Andy Griffith dies

• Literary

• 1908 M.F.K. Fisher is born

• Music

• 1969 Brian Jones and Jim Morrison die, two years apart to the day

• Old West

• 1890 Idaho becomes 43rd state

• Presidential

• 1958 Eisenhower initiates federal flood-control program

• Sports

• 1974 Mike Marshall relieves Tommy John to pitch in 13th consecutive game

• Vietnam War

• 1968 U.S. command announces new high in casualties

• World War I

• 1918 Mohammed V, sultan of Turkey, dies

• World War II

• 1940 Operation Catapult is launched