July 6th

TODAY IS:

Take Your Webmaster To Lunch Day
Umbrella Cover Day
Fried Chicken Day

EVENTS

1044 – The Battle of Ménfő takes place.
1189 – Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England.
1253 – Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
1348 – Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating Jews not to blame and urging their protection
1415 – Jan Hus is burned at the stake.
1483 – England’s King Richard III crowned
1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
1491 – Opening ceremony of Daitokuji’s Shinju at subtemple
1495 – Battle of Fornovo, near Parma: French King Charles VIII beats Holy League
1560 – England and Scotland sign Treaty of Edinburgh
1573 – Pacificatie of Boulogne: new peace treaty with huguenots
1573 – Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
1590 – English admiral Francis Drake takes Portuguese Forts at Taag
1609 – Majesteitsbrief: Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of religion

Vice Admiral and Navigator Francis Drake

1621 –Dutch gov-gen John Pieterszoon Coen takes Banda-islands, 15,000 die
1630 – Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf land at Peenemunde
1634 – Johan van Walbeeck’s ships bypass St-Anna Bay, Curaçao
1641 – Battle at La Marfée Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French government army
1652 – Fire on Dutch Dam (Amsterdam’s city hall burns)
1669 – LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River
1673 – French troops conquer Maastricht as part of the Franco-Dutch War
1685 – Battle at Sedgemoor: King James II beats duke of Monmouth
1699 – Pirate Capt William Kidd is captured in Boston
1770 – Battle at Cesme: Russian fleet beats Turkish
1775 – Congress issues “Declaration of the Causes & Necessity of Taking up Arms,” listing grievances but denying intent to be independent

Facsimile of the engrossed copy of the
United States Declaration of Independence

1776 – American Declaration of Independence announced on front page of “PA Evening Gazette”
1777 – British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
1782 – British-French sea battle at Negapatam (off India)
1785 – Congress unanimously resolves US currency named “dollar” & adopts decimal coinage
1787 – French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax
1787 – Orange troops occupy Area at Duurstede
1798 – US law makes aliens “liable to be apprehended, restrained, … & removed as alien enemies”
1801 – Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British
1840 – Christian Hebbel’s “Judith” premieres in Berlin
1848 – Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass

1853 – National Black convention meets in Rochester NY, ex-slave Frederick Douglass attends
1853 – William Wells Brown publishes “Clotel”, 1st novel by an African American
1854 – 1st Republican state convention (Jackson, Mich)
1858 – Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
1862 – Skirmish at Devall’s Bluff, Arkansas (106 casualties)
1863 – Battle of Williamsport, MD [-Jul 07]
1863 – Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia
1864 – Battle of Chattahoochee River, GA [->JUL 10] US730 CS600
1869 – Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr J H Harris, defeated
1882 – 14 Russian Jews from Bilu arrive in Jaffa, Palestine
1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine
1886 – Horlick’s of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public
1887 – 4th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (6-2 6-0)

Filipino Nationalist and Novelist Jose Rizal

1892 –Jose Rizal forms La Liga Filipina in Manila
1892 – Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pa, fire on scabs, killing 7
1892 – Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
1893 – The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
1894 – Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike
1903 – George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of SF
1904 – Two Russian cruisers move into the Red Sea and begin to stop ships of Britain, Germany, and other nations they believe friendly to Japan
1904 – The US Democratic Party nominates little known New York judge Alton B Parker for presidential nominee – virtually assuring the election of Theodore Roosevelt
1905 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.

26th US President Theodore Roosevelt

1908 –Robert Peary’s expedition sails from NYC for north pole
1912 – Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)
1917 – T. E. Lawrence captures port of Aqaba from Turks
1919 – British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)
1919 – William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs president
1920 – Yankees score 14 in 5th inning & beat Washington Senators, 17-0
1922 – Dutch auto/airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy
1923 – 36th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (6-2 6-2)
1923 – Rail crash on New Zealand’s main trunk line; 17 killed and 28 injured
1923 – The Central Executive Committee accepts the Treaty of Union, signed in Moscow in December 1922, and the Russian Empire becomes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1924 – 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England
1928 – 1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY)

Soldier and Writer T. E. Lawrence

1928 – Worlds largest record hailstone 1.5 lbs (7 inchs in diameter) at the time falls in Potter, Nebraska
1928 – 48th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: René Lacoste beats Henri Cochet (6-1 4-6 6-4 6-2)
1929 – St Louis has 2, 10 run innings & beats Phillies 28-6
1929 – 49th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Jean Borotra (6-4 6-3 6-4)
1931 – 35th US Golf Open: Billy Burke shoots a 292 at Inverness Club Ohio
1932 – 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents
1932 – Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli
1933 – 1st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at Comiskey Park, Chicago, Babe Ruth hits first All Star home run
1934 – 47th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Dorothy Little beats H Jacobs (6-2 5-7 6-3)

Baseball Legend Babe Ruth

1934 – 54th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J Crawford (6-3 6-0 7-5)
1935 – 48th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Helen Moody beats H Jacobs (6-3 3-6 7-5)
1935 – Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens
1936 – 114°F (46°C), Moorhead, Minnesota (state record)
1936 – 121°F (49°C), Steele, North Dakota (state record)
1936 – A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet into the River Irwell.
1938 – 6th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1939 – German Nazis close last Jewish enterprises
1941 – NY Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield
1942 – 10th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York
1942 – Anne Frank’s family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam
1942 – Von Hoth’ IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj

Jewish Victim & Diarist of the Holocaust Anne Frank

1943 – 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed
1943 – US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched
1944 – 170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford Conn
1944 – French General Charles de Gaulle arrives in Washington, DC
1944 – US General Patton lands in France

Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations

1945 – Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to ratify the Charter of the United Nations
1945 – US President Harry Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom
1945 – Wash Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games

Comedian and Actor Lou Costello

1945 – Abbott and Costello’s film “The Naughty Nineties” released featuring longest version of their “Who’s on First” routine
1946 – “St Louis Woman” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 perfs
1946 – 53rd Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Louise Brough (6-2 6-4)
1946 – 60th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Yvon Petra beats G Brown (6-2 6-4 7-9 5-7 6-4)
1947 – The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
1949 – Cin Red Walker Cooper gets 10 RBIs
1949 – Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158°F for 2 minutes
1950 – German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland
1951 – 65th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Dick Savitt beats Ken McGregor (6-4 6-4 6-4)
1952 – Last tram ride in London
1954 – KMOS TV channel 6 in Sedalia-Warrensburg, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 – Tunisian government of M’zali, resigns

Tennis Player and Four-Time Major Champion Lew Hoad

1956 – 70th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ken Rosewall (6-2 4-6 7-5 6-4)
1956 – 85th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 286 at Hoylake England
1956 – Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honor to outstanding pitcher
1956 – Indians’ Jim Busby hits a grand slam in two consecutive at bats
1957 – John Lennon (16) & Paul McCartney (15) meet for 1st time as Lennon’s rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
1957 – 64th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard (6-3 6-2)
1957 – Harry S Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri
1958 – Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected pres of Mexico
1959 – 5th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1959 – Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic
1959 – WENH TV channel 11 in Durham, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting

LPGA Golfer Betsy Rawls

1960 – Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC
1961 – Portuguese ship explodes near Mozambique, kills 300
1962 – 76th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Rod Laver beats Martin Mulligan (62 62 61)
1962 – Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria
1962 – Mantle hits his 3rd & 4th consecutive homer
1962 – Nuclear test shot Sedan; part of Operation Plowshare.
1963 – 70th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: M Smith beats Billie J King (63 64)
1963 – 77th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: C McKinley beats Fred Stolle (97 61 64)
1963 – South African workers’ union leader Billy Nair arrested
1964 – Beatles’ film “Hard Day’s Night” premieres in London
1964 – Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from UK
1965 – Rock group “Jefferson Airplane” forms
1966 – Malawi becomes a republic, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes president

Tennis Player Rod Laver

1967 – Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade starting Nigerian Civil war
1968 – 75th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Billie Jean King beats J Tegart (97 75)
1968 – Sacharov publishes “Manifest of 10,000 words”
1969 – Filming begins on “Ned Kelly” starring Mick Jagger
1969 – Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao
1970 – California passes 1st “no fault” divorce law
1970 – Italian Rumor government resigns
1970 – Baseball player NY Met Tommie Agee hits for the cycle
1970 – Irish Minister for External Affairs Partick Hillery pays an unofficial visit to the Falls Road area of Belfast, an areas only just subject to a curfew by British Army
1971 – Barend Biesheuvel government forms in Netherlands
1971 – Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi

Rock Star Mick Jagger

1971 – White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
1971 – A member of the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) is killed in a premature explosion in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland
1974 – 88th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats K Rosewall (61 61 64)
1975 – Argentine government falls
1975 – Comoros declare independence from France (most of them)
1975 – Dmitri Shostakovitch completes Sonate for alto opus 147
1975 – Susie McAllister wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
1976 – Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station
1977 – France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 – Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Muslim West Beirut
1978 – The Taunton sleeping car fire occurred in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.

Tennis Legend Chris Evert

1979 – 86th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (6-4 6-4)
1979 – IRA bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp
1980 – Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1980 – France performs nuclear test
1980 – Steve Carlton (14-4) pitches most strikeouts by a lefty (2,836)
1983 – 54th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-3 at Comiskey Park, Chicago
1983 – Supreme Court rules retirement plans can’t pay women less
1983 – Fred Lynn of Angels hits All Star game 1st grand slam (AL wins 13-3)
1986 – 100th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (64 63 75)
1986 – Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
1986 – Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a game
1986 – Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in Philippines
1986 – Premier Nakasones Liberal Democr Party wins Japan’s election

Tennis Legend Boris Becker

1987 – 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
1987 – Pakistan score their 1st innings win over England, at Leeds
1987 – USSR performs nuclear test
1988 – Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico
1988 – North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die
1988 – Wrestler Jake Roberts convicted of battery
1989 – Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star game
1989 – US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn
1990 – “Jetson’s the Movie” with Tiffany, premieres
1990 – After pitching a no-hitter lose, NY Yankee Andy Hawkins pitches a complete 12 inn game & loses 2-0
1991 – 98th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats G Sabatini (6-4 3-6 8-6)

Tennis Player Steffi Graf

1992 – Fay Vincent institutes plans to realign NL
1993 – Graham Thorpe scores 114 on Test Cricket debut, England v Australia
1993 – John F. Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan
1994 – Irina Privalova runs 100m European Record (10.77)
1994 – Lerou Burrell runs world record 100m (9.85)
1994 – Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL game (vs Ottawa)
1994 – “Forrest Gump”, starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise, is released
1995 – Lottie Dod, 15, beats Blanch Bingley at Wimbledon
1995 – Venezuela’s Congress approves the country’s first investment law allowing for foreign participation in oil exploration and production
1996 – 103rd Wimbledon Women’s Tennis Open: S Graf beats Aranxta S Vicaro (6-3, 7-5)

Actor Tom Hanks

1996 – Yankee John Weteland sets record of 20th cons saves en route to 24
1997 – “Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical,” closes at Royale NYC after 109 perfs
1997 – 111th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats C Pioline (64 62 64)
1997 – Jamie Farr Kroger Classic
1997 – Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Classic
1997 – Montreal Expos retire Andre Dawson’s uniform #10
1997 – Wimbledon Gigi Fernandez & Natasha Zvereva beat N Arendt & M Bollegraf
1998 – Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational.
1999 – U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams.
2003 – The 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to 5 stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri, HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris that will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, 2044 and 2049 respectively.
2003 – 110th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Serena Williams beats Venus Williams (4-6 6-4 6-2)
2003 – 117th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Roger Federer beats M Philippoussis (7-6 6-2 7-6)
2006 – The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
2008 – 115th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Venus Williams beats Serena Williams (7-5 6-4)
2008 – 122nd Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Rafael Nadal beats Roger Federer(6-4 6-4 6-7 6-7 9-7)
2009 – Jadranka Kosor became first female Prime minister of Croatia.
2012 – Gunmen kill 18 people in Turbat, Pakistan
2013 – 42 people are killed in an attack on a boarding school in Mamudo, Nigeria
2013 – 14 people are killed after a train runs over a rickshaw in Sheikhupura, Pakistan
2013 – 42 people are killed and 5 missing after a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and set of fires in Lac-Megantic, Quebec
2013 – 3 people are killed and 181 are injured after a Boeing 777 crash lands at San Francisco Airport

Tennis Player Rafael Nadal

2013 – Bob and Mike Bryan defeat Ivan Dogic and Marcelo Melo to win the men’s doubles tennis final at Wimbledon
2013 – The British Lions defeat Australia 41-16 to win their first rugby Test series since 1997
2013 – 120th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Marion Bartoli beats Sabine Lisicki (6-1 6-4)
2014 – Israeli Air Force strike kills 7 Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip
2014 – 128th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Novak Djokovic beats Roger Federer (6-7 6-4 7-6 5-7 6-4)

BIRTHDAYS

1542 – Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Willem/Juliana van Stolberg
1580 – Johann Stobaeus, composer
1632 – Albert Schop, composer
1632 – Pietro Reggio, composer
1638 – Gerrit A Berckheyde, Dutch painter
1668 – Peter Burmannus, [Pieter Burman], Dutch attorney/classicist
1678 – Nicola Francesco Haym, composer
1686 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758)
1702 – Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer
1739 – Freidrich Wilhelm Rust, composer
1747 – Coelestin Jungbauer, composer
1747 – John Paul Jones, naval hero (“I have not yet begun to fight”)
1753 – John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, baptized
1755 – John Flaxman, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey tomb stones)
1766 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born naturalist (d. 1813)
1773 – Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer
1781 – Stamford Raffles, British statesman and founder of Singapore

British Statesman and Founder of Singapore Stamford Raffles (1781)

1782 – Luis [Philippus] Brion, Curacao commander of Colombian fleet
1782 – Maria Louisa of Spain, queen of Etruria (d. 1824)
1785 – William J Hooker, English botanist/director (Kew Gardens)
1789 – Maria Isabella of Spain, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1846)
1793 – Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch lawyer/min of Internal Affairs (1848-49)
1796 – Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55)
1800 – Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer
1814 – Justus McKinstry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1897)
1817 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (d. 1905)
1818 – Adolf Anderssen, Prussia, world chess champion (1851-66)
1819 – Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, German Physician and Physiologist, born in Berlin, Germany
1821 – Edward Winston Pettus, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1907)
1832 – Maximilian I of Mexico and Archduke of Austria, first and only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire, born in Vienna, Austria

Emperor of Mexico Maximilian I (1832)

1837 –Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer
1838 – Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
1852 – John Albert Delany, composer
1856 – Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail/PTT
1859 – Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet/novelist (Charles Men, Nobel 1916)
1864 – Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazil, composer/conductor (Artemis)
1865 – Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (d. 1950)
1868 – Petrus A Euwens, Dutch vicar/editor (Amigoe di Curacao)
1868 – Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1935)
1873 – Paul Keller, German writer (Ferien vom Ich)
1876 – Harry Ford Sinclair, founder of Sinclair Oil (Teapot Dome Scandal), born in Benwood, West Virginia
1877 – David Stanley Smith, composer
1877 – Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier/president of Spain (1931-36)
1878 – Eino Leino, Finnish poet (d. 1926)
1881 – Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Quadriga, Pumpernickel)
1882 – Ralph Morgan, [Wupperman], actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London), born in NYC, New York
1884 – Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter/cartoonist
1884 – Harold Vanderbilt, NY, America Cup (1930,34,37)/inv contract bridge
1884 – Willem Dudok, Dutch architect (town hall Hilversum/Beehive Rotterdam)
1885 – Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1888 – Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (Million Dollar Mermaid), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1890 – Andrew Sandham, cricketer (Test cricket’s 1st triple centurion)
1892 – Baron Willy Coppens de Houthulst, Belgian WW I pilot
1893 – Wilton St Hill, WI cricketer (3 Tests 1928-30)
1896 – Thomas W McKnew, president (National Geographic Society)
1897 – Richard Krautheimer, art Historian
1898 – Hanns Eisler, German/US composer/German DR-minister for propaganda
1900 – Emil Barth, writer
1900 – Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright and screen writer (d. 2012)
1903 – Axel Theorell, Sweden, biochemist, studied enzymes (Nobel 1955)
1904 – Robert Whitney, Newcastle-on-Tyne England, conductor (Sospiro do Roma)
1904 – Erik Wickberg, Salvation Army general (d. 1996)
1906 – Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, composer
1907 – M C Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and wife of Diego Rivera
1908 – Leonce Grass, Flemish singer/conductor
1910 – Dorothy Kirsten, Montclair NJ, soprano (Time to Sing, Chevy Show)
1911 – Laverne Andrews, American singer (Andrews Sisters), born in Mound, Minnesota (d. 1967)
1912 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2006)
1914 – Jens Rohiner, composer
1915 – Marcel Quinet, Belgian pianist/composer (Vague et Sillon)
1916 – Unica Zorn, writer
1917 – Hugo Cole, composer
1917 – Hugo Yarnold, cricketer (Worcestershire keeper & Test umpire)
1917 – Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (d. 2004)
1918 – Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch journalist/poet (Crossing)
1918 – Eugene List, Phila Penn, pianist/prof (Eastman School of Music)
1918 – Sebastian Cabot, actor (Mr French-Family Affair, Time Machine), born in London, England
1920 – William Worthington, horse trainer
1921 – Nancy Davis Reagan, [Anne Francis Robbins], US First Lady (1981-89), born in NYC, New York
1921 – Dmitri Polyakov, Soviet Major General and Spy for the CIA, born in Ukraine
1922 – Francisco Moncion, dancer
1922 – William Schallert, actor (Patty Duke Show, Get Smart), born in Los Angeles, California
1923 – Cathy O’Donnell, Siluria AL, actress (Miniver Story, Man from Laramie)
1923 – Marie McDonald, Burgin KY, singer/actress (Promises Promises)
1923 – Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general/pres (1989-90), born in Karow, (d. 2014)
1924 – Robert Michael White, test pilot (X-15), born in NYC, New York
1925 – Bill Haley, Highland Park Mich, rock vocalist (Rock Around the Clock)
1925 – Huub H Jacobse, member of Dutch 2nd chamber (Liberal)
1925 – Merv Griffin, San Mateo California, TV host (Merv Griffin Show)
1926 – Nicky Hilton, 1st husband of Elizabeth Taylor
1927 – Charles Whittenberg, composer

Actress Janet Leigh (1927)

1927 – Janet Leigh, [Jeanetta Morrison], Merced CA, actress (Psycho), (d. 2004)
1927 – Pat Paulsen, Wash, comedian/pres candidate (Smothers Bros Show)
1927 – Susan Cabot, actress (Carnival Rock), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1927 – [Jan] Hein Donner, Dutch chess master
1927 – Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (d. 2004)
1929 – Gerd Zacher, composer
1930 – Francoise Mallet-Joris, [F Lilar], Belgian writer (Signs & Wonders)
1930 – H J Heise, writer
1931 – Donal Donnelly, Bradford Yorkshire England, actor (Dead)
1931 – Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader
1931 – Jean Campeau, French Canadian businessman and politician
1932 – Della Reese, singer/actress (Della Reese Show, Royal Family), born in Detroit, Michigan
1933 – Frank Austin, English footballer
1935 – 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet, spiritual leader of Tibet’s Lamaistic Buddhists
1936 – Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005)
1937 – Gene Chandler, [Eugene Dixon], rocker (Duke of Earl), born in Chicago, Illinois
1937 – Ned Beatty, Lexington Ky, actor (Deliverance, Repossed, Network)
1937 – Tony Lewis, cricketer (England batsman, captain 1972-73)
1937 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gorki Russia, pianist/conductor (Tchakowsky-1961)
1938 – Franco, Zaire, composer/guitarist/leader (Masumbuku)
1939 – Helena Dupont, US, equestrian 3-day even (Olympic-33rd place-1964)
1939 – Jet Harris, [Terence Harris], rock bassist (Drifters), born in London, England
1939 – Man Mohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India)
1939 – Mary Peters, England, pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1972)
1939 – Jet Harris, English bass guitarist
1940 – Viktor Kuzkin, USSR, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1940 – Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
1940 – Jeannie Seely, American singer
1944 – Byron Berline, rocker
1944 – Gunhild Hoffmeister, German FR, 800m/1500m runner (Oly-silver-72)
1945 – Burt Ward, [Gervis], actor (Robin-Batman), born in Los Angeles, California
1945 – Rik Elswit, rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show-In the Right Place)
1945 – Rodney Matthews, English fantasy artist and illustrator
1946 – Fred Dryer, Hawthone California, NFLer (NY Giants, LA Rams)/actor (Hunter)

43rd US President George W. Bush (1946)

1946 –George W. Bush Jr, New Haven, Connecticut, 43rd President of the United States (2001-09) and 46th Governor of Texas (1995-2000) (R-TX)
1946 – James Naughton, US, actor (Trauma center) [or June 12, 1945]
1946 – Jamie Wyeth, Penn, artist (An American Vision-Boston)
1946 – Rick Hunter, actor
1946 – Sylvester Stallone, actor/director (Rocky, Rambo, Cobra), born in NYC, New York
1946 – Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
1947 – Richard Beckinsale, Nottingham England, actor (Porridge, Doing Time)
1947 – Lance Clemons, baseball player
1948 – Brad Park, Scarborough Ontario, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers, Boston Bruins)
1948 – Nathalie Baye, Mainneville France, actress (Beau Pere, Honeymoon)
1948 – Wadih Saadeh, Lebanese-Australian poet

Actor/Director Sylvester Stallone (1946)

1948 – Tom Curley, American media executive
1949 – Shelley Hack, Greenwich Ct, actress (Tiffany Welles-Charlie’s Angel)
1950 – Phyllis Hyman, jazz Singer
1950 – Ramon Guzman, jockey
1950 – Sultan Rakhmanov, Super heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1980)
1950 – John Byrne, American comic book author & artist
1950 – Hélène Scherrer, Canadian politician
1951 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
1952 – Grant Goodeve, Middlebury CT, actor (Northern Exposure)
1952 – Jesse Harms, musician, of REO Speedwagon
1953 – Nanci Griffith, US singer/songwriter (Poet in My Window)
1954 – Allyce Beasley, Bkln, actress (Agnes Dipesto-Moonlighting)
1954 – James Kiberd, actor (Trevor Dillon-Loving, All My Children)
1954 – Willie Randolph, Holly Hill South Carolina, former New York Mets manager

MLB Second Baseman and Manager Willie Randolph(1954)

1955 – William Wall, Irish writer
1956 – John Jorgenson, Madison Wisc, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1956 – Matt Bahr, NFL kicker (NE Patriots, NY Giants)
1956 – Casey Sander, American actor
1957 – Mario Martinez, Salinas Ca, US Olympic weightlifter (Olympic-4th-1988)
1957 – Ron Duguay, Canada, hockey player (NY Rangers, Detroit Red Wings)
1958 – Jennifer Saunders, Sleaford England, actress (Absolutely Fabulous)
1958 – Mark Benson, cricketer (played Test England v India 1986, 30 & 21)
1958 – Ossie Moore, Murwillumbah NSW, Australian golfer
1959 – John Keeble, rock drummer (Spandau Ballet-True), born in London, England
1959 – Tahir Naqqash, cricketer (Pakistani pace-bowler in 15 Tests 1982-85)
1960 – Caroll-Ann Alie, Ottawa Ontario, yachter (Olympics-14-92, 96)
1960 – Jozef/Josef Pribilinec, Czech, speed walker (world record 10K)
1960 – Lauri Merten, Waukesha WI, LPGA golfer (1993 US Women’s Open)
1960 – Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Greenwood Ms, 200m/400m runner (Olympic-gold-84)
1961 – Benita Fitzgerald-Brown, Virg, 100m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1984)
1961 – Kimberly Foster, actress (It Takes Two)
1963 – Edwin Gorter, soccer player (Lommel/FC Utrecht)
1964 – Lillie Leatherwood, Northport Ala, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1965 – Glenn Scarpelli, Staten Is NY, actor (Alex-One Day At a Time, Fantasy)
1965 – Tim Camargo, jockey
1966 – Brian Posehn, American actor
1967 – David Whitmore, NFL strong safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 – Omar Olivares, Mayaguez Puerto Rico, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1967 – Heather Nova, Bermudian singer
1968 – Alvin Harper, NFL wide receiver (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1968 – Anthony Kershler, cricketer (NSW left-arm spinner 1994-95)
1969 – Michael Grant, vocalist (Musical Youth)
1969 – Sophia Witherspoon, WNBA guard (NY Liberty)
1969 – Brian Van Holt, American actor
1970 – Antonio Harvey, NBA center/forward (LA Clippers)
1970 – Inspectah Deck, American rapper
1970 – Frank Salvato II, Italian-American Sound Engineer and Composer
1970 – Martin Smith, English singer (Delirious?)
1971 – Adam Laurent, Santa Cruz California, pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
1971 – Kari Kupcinet, actress (Julie Sanderson-Young & Restless), born in Chicago, Illinois
1971 – Owen Lance Bill Hughes, Palmerston North NZ, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1971 – Kenya D. Williamson, American actress
1972 – Billy Davis, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 – Isabelle Boulay, French-Canadian singer
1972 – D-Styles, American scratch DJ
1972 – Greg Norton, American baseball player
1972 – Mark Gasser, British pianist
1973 – Karl Ballard, WLAF linebacker (London Monarchs)
1974 – Steve Sullivan, Timmins, NHL center (NJ Devils)
1974 – Zé Roberto, Brazilian footballer
1975 – Amir-Abbas Fakhravar, Iranian journalist and activist
1975 – Sebastián Rulli, Argentine actor
1975 – 50 Cent, American rapper
1976 – Michelle Stanley, Littleton Colorado, Miss America-Colorado (1997)
1976 – Nikki Mott, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1977 – Con Blatsis, Australian footballer
1977 – Makhaya Ntini, South African cricketer
1977 – Craig Handley, British film director
1978 – Rachel Rochelli, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96), born in Houston, Texas
1978 – Tamera Mowry, twin actress (Sisters)
1978 – Tia Mowry, twin actress (Sisters)
1978 – Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby player
1979 – Nicolas Daniel Maricio, Prince of Netherlands
1979 – Nic Cester, Australian musician (Jet)
1980 – Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
1981 – Nicole Kantek, NSW Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 – Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player
1982 – Tay Zonday, American singer and keyboardist
1983 – Gregory Smith, Canadian actor
1984 – Lauren Harris, British rock singer
1984 – James Henderson, American model
1986 – Derrick Williams, American football player
1987 – Caroline Trentini, Brazilian model
1987 – Kate Nash, English singer/songwriter
1987 – Matt O’Leary, American actor
1994 – Rebecca Rosso and Camilla Rosso, British actresses

WEDDINGS

1877 – Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (37) weds Antonina Miliukova (29) at the Church of Saint George in Moscow, Russia
1893 – British Prince George Duke of York (later George V) marries Princess Victoria of Teck (Queen Mary) at St James’s Palace
1953 – “James Bond” actor Roger Moore (25) weds Welsh singer Dorothy Squires (38) in Jersey City
1956 – Journalist Ben Bradlee (34) weds Antoinette Pinchot
1966 – American science fiction writer “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” Philip K Dick marries 4th wife Nancy Hackett
1968 – US Army General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr (33) weds Brenda Halsinger

Singer Agnetha Fältskog(1971)

1971 – ABBA member Bjorn Ulvaeus (26) weds fellow singer Agnetha Faltskog (21)
1973 – “The Avengers” actress Diana Rigg (35) weds Israeli painter Menachen Gueffen (43)
1978 – Country singer Tammy Wynette (36) weds record producer George Richey (42) in Florida
1991 – Folk singer Mary Travers (54) weds restaurateur Ethan Robbins
2006 – “National Treasure” director Jon Turteltaub (42) weds co-founder of Creative Visions Foundation Amy Eldon at Saddlerock Ranch and Vineyard in Malibu, California
2013 – Actress Elisha Cuthbert (30) weds ice hockey player Dion Phaneuf at St James Catholic Church in Summerfield, Canada
2014 – Talent manager Scooter Braun (33) weds philanthropist Yael Cohen (28) in Whistler, British Columbia

DIVORCES

1960 – Actress Bette Davis (52) divorces actor Gary Merrill (46) after almost 10 years of marriage
2009 – Actress Rachael Bella (25) divorces “Terminator 2″ actor Eddie Furlong (31) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage

DEATHS

1189 – Henry II, King of England (1154-89), dies at 56
1218 – Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
1415 – Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (b. 1369), burned for heresy by the Church at Constance, Germany
1476 – Regiomontanus, [Johannes Muller of Königsberg], German astronomer (b. 1436)
1480 – Antonio Squarcialupi, composer, dies at 64
1533 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (Orlando Furioso), dies at 57
1535 – Sir Thomas More, philosopher, author (Utopia) and statesman, executed (beheaded) for treason at 57
1553 – Edward VI Tudor, King of England (1547-53), dies at 15
1568 – Johann Oporinus, Swiss book publisher/publisher, dies at 61
1583 – Edmund Grindal, English bishop of London/archbhp of York, dies at 64
1585 – Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (b. 1552)
1587 – Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed
1684 – Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
1734 – Nicolas Bernier, composer, dies at 69
1758 – George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general
1765 – Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 76
1768 – Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer, dies at 78
1795 – Georg Gottfried Petri, composer, dies at 79
1802 – Daniel Morgan, American Revolutionary general and politician (b. ~1735)
1809 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (b. 1775)
1813 – Granville Sharp, British abolitionist (b. 1735)
1816 – Philipp Meissner, composer, dies at 67

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States John Marshall (1835)

1835 – John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, dies of 79
1854 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (Ohm’s law), dies at 65
1858 – Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer, dies at 78
1860 – Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer, dies at 37
1863 – Strong Vincent, US Union brig-general, dies
1864 – Samuel Allen Rice, US Union brig-gen, dies of injuries at 36
1868 – Samuel Lover, composer, dies at 71
1868 – Sanosuke Harada, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840)
1871 – Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34
1879 – Henry Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 65
1893 – Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)
1896 – Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer, dies at 54
1901 – Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
1902 – Leopoldo Miguez, composer, dies at 51
1907 – August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German Linguist, Theologian (b. 1826)
1914 – Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet, murdered at 27
1916 – Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
1918 – Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Moscow, dies
1922 – Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (b. 1863)
1932 – Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
1933 – Robert Kajanus, composer, dies at 76
1934 – Warden Uncle, [Edward Vermeulen], Flemish landlord/writer, dies at 73
1950 – Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1923)
1951 – Josef Huttel, composer, dies at 57
1952 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French Canadian politician (b. 1867)
1954 – Dirk Verbeek, actor/director (Hofstad Stage), dies at 70
1955 – Paolo Gallico, composer, dies at 87
1959 – George Grosz, German cartoonist/painter (Ecce Homo), dies at 65
1960 – Aneurin Bevan, British politician (b. 1897)
1961 – Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter, dies at 93
1961 – Enrique Larreta, [E Rodriguez Maza], Argentine diplomat/writer, dies
1961 – Scott LaFaro, American musician (b. 1936)
1961 – Woodall Rodgers, American politician (b. 1890)

Author and Nobel Laureate William Faulkner(1962)

1962 – William Faulkner, US author (Nobel 1949), dies at 64
1962 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1872)
1962 – Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1899)
1966 – Anne Nagel, dies of cancer at 50
1966 – Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
1970 – Marjorie Rambeau, dies at 80
1971 – Horst Lange, writer, dies at 66
1971 – Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, jazz musician (Hello Dolly), dies at 71
1971 – Thomas C Heart, US admiral/commander (Asiatic fleet), dies
1971 – Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer, dies at 69
1972 – Brandon De Wilde, actor (Jamie), dies at 30 in a car crash
1972 – Sam de Grasse, dies at 97
1972 – Vincent Valentine, WI cricket pace bowler (England 1933), dies

Jazz Musician Louis Armstrong (1971)

1973 – Joe E Brown, comedian, dies after long illness at 80
1973 – Otto Klemperer, German/US conductor, dies at 88
1973 – Patrick McVey, actor (Manhunt, Big Town), dies at 63
1974 – Carlos Isamitt, composer, dies at 87
1975 – Otto Skorzeny, German/Austrian SS (Mussolini/Ardennen), dies
1975 – Ruffian, American racehorse (b. 1972)
1976 – Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (b. 1887)
1977 – Oedoen Partos, composer, dies at 69
1979 – Van McCoy, singer/songwriter (Hey Mr DJ, Hustle), dies at 35
1980 – Gail Patrick, actress (My Man Godfrey), dies of leukemia at 69
1982 – Russell Thorson, actor (One Man’s Family), dies at 72
1982 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905)
1986 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
1989 – Janos Kádár, premier of Hungary (1956-58), dies at 77
1990 – Jim Samuels, comedian, dies of spinal meningitis at 41
1990 – Paul Wynne, KGO-TV SF reporter, dies of AIDS at 46
1990 – Nathaniel Wyeth, American chemist and inventor (created PET plastic beverage bottle), dies at 78
1991 – Thorley Walters, actor (Trog, Edwardians, Daisy), dies at 78
1991 – Muda Lawal, Nigerian footballer (b. 1954)
1992 – Edgardo Pallero, Argentina producer (Los hijos de fierro), dies
1993 – Ruth Lady Fermoy, maternal grandmother of Princess Diane, dies at 84
1994 – Cameron Mitchell, actor (High Chapparral), dies of lung cancer at 75
1994 – Geoffrey McQueen, TV writer, dies at 46
1995 – Aziz Nesin, writer, dies at 79
1995 – Helene Johnson, poet, dies at 87
1995 – Ivor Keys, musician/teacher, dies at 76
1996 – John Sturdy, scholar, dies at 62
1996 – Kathy Ahern, American golfer (b. 1949)
1998 – Roy Rogers, American actor (b. 1911)
1999 – Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938)
1999 – Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
1999 – Barry Winchell, American soldier (b. 1977)
2002 – Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932)
2002 – John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930)
2003 – Buddy Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908)
2003 – Skip Battin, American rocker, dies at 69
2004 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)
2004 – Syreeta Wright, American singer (b. 1946)
2005 – Bruno Augenstein, German-born mathematician (b. 1923)
2005 – L. Patrick Gray III, American FBI director (b. 1916)
2005 – Evan Hunter, American novelist (b. 1926)
2005 – Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
2005 – Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
2006 – Kasey Rogers, American actress (b. 1926)
2006 – Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster (b. 1914)
2008 – Bobby Durham, American jazz drummer (b. 1937)
2009 – Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1916)
2009 – Leo Mol, Ukrainian Canadian artist and sculptor (b. 1915)
2009 – Johnny Collins, British folk and maritime music singer (b. 1938)
2009 – Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (b. 1932)
2012 – Charles David Ganao, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, dies at 85

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1957 Althea Gibson is first African American to win Wimbledon

• American Revolution

• 1775 Congress issues a “Declaration on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms”

• Automotive

• 1958 Juan Manuel Fangio bids goodbye to Grand Prix racing in France

• Civil War

• 1864 Confederate General Jubal Early occupies Hagerstown

• Cold War

• 1963 U.S. policymakers express optimism

• Crime

• 1946 George “Bugs” Moran is arrested

• Disaster

• 1988 Explosion on North Sea oil rig

• General Interest

• 1942 Frank family takes refuge
• 1944 The Hartford Circus Fire
• 1967 Civil war in Nigeria
• 1971 Satchmo dies
• 1976 Women inducted into U.S. Naval Academy

• Hollywood

• 1994 Forrest Gump opens, wins Hanks a second Oscar

• Literary

• 1935 Dalai Lama, leader of Tibet and bestselling author, is born

• Music

• 1957 John meets Paul for the first time

• Old West

• 1862 Mark Twain begins reporting in Virginia City

• Presidential

• 1946 George Walker Bush is born

• Sports

• 1933 Major League Baseball’s first All-Star Game is held
• 1957 Althea Gibson wins Wimbledon

• Vietnam War

• 1955 Diem says South Vietnam not bound by Geneva Agreements
• 1964 Viet Cong attack Special Forces at Nam Dong

• World War I

• 1918 Czech troops take Russian port of Vladivostok for Allies

• World War II

• 1944 Georges Mandel, French patriot, is executed