July 21th

TODAY IS:

Junk Food Day

EVENTS

356 BC – Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
230 – St Pontianus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
365 – Crete Earthquake followed by tsunami around the Eastern Mediterranean allegedly destroys Alexandria
866 – John appointed bishop of the kingdom
905 – Holy Roman Catholic emperor Louis III captured
976 – Emperor Otto II gives earl Leopold I, East Bavaria
1403 – Battle of Shrewsbury fought by Percys against King Henry IV
1542 – Pope Paul III begins inquisition against Protestants (Sactum Officium)
1545 – The first landing of French troops onto the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight occurs.
1568 – Battle at Jemmingen: Alva’s troops beat Dutch rebellion
1579 – Mechelen surrenders to Duke of Parma
1588 – First engagement between the English fleet and the Spanish Armada off the Eddystone Rocks
1595 – Alvara Mendana discovers Marquesas Island
Philosopher John Locke

1669 – John Locke’s Constitution of English colony Carolina approved
1718 – The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
1730 – States of Holland put death penalty on “sodomy”
1749 – Pieter Steyn becomes pension advisor of Holland
1773 – Pope Clemens XIV bans Jesuits
1774 – Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
1798 – Napoleon Bonaparte wins Battle of Pyramids in Egypt
1825 – Java princess Dipo Negoro/Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics
1831 – Belgium gains independence from Netherlands, Leopold I made king
1836 – 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie & St John, Quebec
1846 – Mormons found 1st English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley)
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

1861 – 1st major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va – South wins
1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true western showdown.
1866 – Cholera epidemic kills hundreds in London
1867 – City Gardens on Folsom opens
1873 – Jesse James & James Younger gang’s 1st train robbery (Adair Iowa)
1877 – -27] US army breaks railroad strike
1880 – Compressed air accident kills 20 workers on Hudson River tunnel, NY
1884 – 1st Test Cricket match played at Lord’s
1896 – National Federation of Afro-American Women & Colored Women’s
1896 – 13th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Charlotte Sterry beats A Pickering (6-2 6-3)
1896 – 20th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Harold Mahony beats W Baddeley (6-2 6-8 5-7 8-6 6-3)
Outlaw Jesse James

1897 – Tate Gallery opens in England
1898 – Spain cedes Guam to USA
1900 – Pope Leo XIII encyclical to Greek-Melkite rite
1904 – After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed
1904 – Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH
1913 – The Egyptian government announces a new constitutional system and electoral law
1915 – Wilson sends the third Lusitania note, warning Germany that future infringement of American rights will be deemed ‘deliberately unfriendly’
1917 – Russian Revolution: Socialist Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian Prime Minister
1918 – U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
1919 – Anthony Fokker’s establishes airplane factory at Hamburg & Amsterdam
1919 – Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)
1920 – Irish Nationalist and Loyalists engage in street fighting over the issue of Irish independence from Britain, though Loyalist are reinforced by 1500 British Auxiliaries and 5800 British troops
1921 – Indians (9) & Yankees (7) hit a record 16 doubles
1921 – To prove his contention that air power is superior to sea power, US Colonel William Mitchell demonstrates how bombs from planes can sink a captured German battleship
1923 – Phillies score 12 in 6th & beat Cubs 17-4
1925 – “Monkey Trial” ends – John Scopes found guilty of teaching Darwinism
1930 – 110°F (43°C) at Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
1930 – US Veterans Administration forms
1931 – Reno race track, becomes 1st in US to use daily double wagering
1933 – Haifa Harbor in Palestine opens
1934 – 113°F (45°C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)
1938 – Paul Hindemith & Leonide Massines ballet premieres in London
1940 – Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
1940 – VARA-management accepts Rost of Tonningens demands
1941 – 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine
1941 – Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp
1942 – 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Va
Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

1944 – British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery
1944 – General Koiso becomes premier of Japan
1944 – US forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders
1944 – Field Marshal Günther von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy
1945 – Detroit Tigers & Phila A’s play 24 inning 1-1 tie
1946 – Jesus T Pinerol becomes 1st native born Puerto Rican governor
1947 – Indonesia begins 1st political election
1948 – WSPD TV channel 13 in Toledo, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 – Senate ratifies North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13 (NATO)
1951 – Dalai Lama returns to Tibet
1952 – 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed
1952 – Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns
1954 – At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North & South Vietnam
1955 – USS Seawolf launched, 1st submarine powered by liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

1956 – Cin Red pitcher Brooks Lawrence loses after 13 straight wins
1956 – US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak
1957 – 1st black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson)
1957 – 39th PGA Championship: Lionel Hebert at Miami Valley GC Dayton Ohio
1957 – Marilynn Smith/Fay Crocker wins Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1959 – 1st nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, named, Camden NJ
1959 – Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green)
1960 – Country of Katanga forms in Africa
1960 – In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world’s 1st woman PM
1960 – Francis Chichester arrive in NY aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing
1961 – Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom
1962 – 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany Ga
1962 – Battles on Chinese & Indies boundary
1963 – 45th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 279 at Dallas AC Dallas
1964 – Arnold Long takes 11 catches in the match for Surrey v Sussex
1964 – Mildred Simpson runs female world record marathon (3:19:33)
1964 – Last Dutch whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan
1964 – Race riots in Singapore between Chinese and Malay groups, 23 killed, 454 injured
1965 – Pakistan, Iran & Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact
1966 – Gemini X returns to Earth
1966 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 – 50th PGA Championship: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Pecan Valley TX
1968 – Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
1968 – Jan Janssen wins Tour de France: 1st Dutchman
Astronaut & 1st Man on the Moon Neil Armstrong

1969 – Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
1969 – Russia’s Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits
1970 – Huge Aswan Dam opens in Egypt
1970 – Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property
1970 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 – Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for 8 inn, but is lifted for a pinch hitter, Reliever Jack Baldschun gives up 3 hits & Padres lose, 3-0
1971 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1971 – Sam Giancana returns to the United States after spending seven years of exile in Mexico
1972 – 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76 (Seville, Spain)
1972 – 27.5 cm rainfall at Fort Ripley, Minnesota (state record)
1972 – Bloody Friday: within the space of seventy-five minutes, the Provisional Irish Republican Army explode twenty-two bombs in Belfast; six civilians, two British Army soldiers and one UDA volunteer were killed, 130 injured
Gangster Sam Giancana

1972 – Dodgers release & end career of pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm
1972 – In New York 57 murders occur in 24 hours
1973 – Braves Hank Aaron hits Ken Brett’s fastball for his 700th HR
1973 – France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Atoll un the Pacific
1973 – USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet
1974 – 29th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Haynie
1974 – Eddy Merckx wins his 5th Tour de France
1974 – US House Judiciary approves two Articles of Impeachment against President Richard Nixon
1975 – Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager
1975 – NY Met Félix Millán hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays
1976 – “Guys & Dolls” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 239 performances
37th US President Richard Nixon

1976 – 1st outbreak of “Legionnaire’s Disease” kills 29 in Philadelphia
1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
1976 – Christopher Ewart Biggs (the British Ambassador to Ireland) and his secretary Judith Cook are assassinated by a bomb planted in Mr Biggs’ car in Dublin
1977 – Libyan-Egyptian border fights
1977 – Sri Lanka premier Bandaranaike loses election
1978 – Bolivia military coup under general Juan Pereda, president Hugo Banzer flees
1978 – US Postal Service & unions agree on a contract averting mail strike
1978 – World’s strongest dog, 80-kg St Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m
1979 – 108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 at Royal Lytham
1979 – National Women’s Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, NY) dedicated
1980 – Jean-Claude Droyer climbs Eiffel Tower in 2 hrs 18 mins
Golfer and Five-Time Major Championship Winner Seve Ballesteros

1981 – Australia set 130 to win, all out 111 at Headingley Willis 8-43
1982 – France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1983 – Polish government ends 19 months of martial law
1983 – Storm cuts short Diana Ross’ free concert in NY’s Central Park
1983 – US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge
1984 – Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women’s mark for 200m, 21.71s
1984 – USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1985 – “Leader of the Pack” closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 120 perfs
1985 – 114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St George
1985 – Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America
1985 – Bernard Hinault wins his 5th & last Tour de France
1985 – Judy Clark wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1986 – Barbara Palacios Teyde, 22, of Venezuela, crowned 35th Miss Universe
1986 – Pleasure Island plans unveiled
1987 – Kristi Addis, of Mississippi, crowned 5th Miss Teen USA
1988 – ESA’s Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian)
1988 – Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis accepts Democratic nomination for president
1989 – Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors
1989 – Greg LeMond (US) wins Tour de France in fastest time
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson

1989 – Mike Tyson KOs Carl Williams in 1:33 for heavyweight boxing title
1990 – Goodwill Games opens in Seattle Wash
1990 – Pink Floyds’ “Wall” is performed where Berlin Wall once stood
1991 – 120th British Golf Open: Ian Baker-Finch shoots 272 at Royal Birkdale
1991 – Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1991 – Sharmell Sullivan (Gary Indiana), 20, crowned 23rd Miss Black America
1991 – Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, & Bill Veeck are elected into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
1993 – Angela Kennedy swims world record 50 m butterfly stroke (26.93)
1994 – Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving the way for him to become Prime Minister in 1997.
1995 – Brian Lara completes a pair for West Indians v Kent
1995 – KC Royals set club-record of 22 singles in 15 innings
1996 – 125th British Golf Open: Tom Lehman shoots a 271 at Royal Lytham
LPGA Golfer Betsy King

1996 – Dottie Pepper wins LPGA Friendly’s Golf Classic
1996 – Wayne Gretzky signs a 2 year deal with NY Rangers
1997 – NY Yank Mike Whiton held in Milwaukee on charges of sexual assault
1997 – The fully restored USS Constitution (aka “Old Ironsides”) celebrates her 200th birthday, setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
2002 – Telecom giant WorldCom files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the largest such filing in United States history.
2002 – 131st British Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 278 at Muirfield Golf Links
2004 – The United Kingdom government publishes Delivering Security in a Changing World, a paper detailing wide-ranging reform of the country’s armed forces.
2005 – Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London’s public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.
Novelist J. K. Rowling

2007 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the series by J. K. Rowling is published worldwide. 11 million copies sell in 24 hrs
2008 – Bosnian-Serb war criminal Radovan Karadžić is arrested in Serbia and is indicted by the UN’s ICTY tribunal.
2011 – NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.
2013 – 15 Egyptian Army soldiers are killed after their bus crashes into a truck on the Mediterranean Coast Highway
2013 – 12 people are killed in a clash between two Muslim families in Lanao del Sur, Philippines
2013 – 142nd British Golf Open: Phil Mickelson shoots a 281 at Muirfield Golf Links
2014 – After 3 weeks, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has struck about 2,800 targets in Gaza, while Gaza has fired 1,497 rockets at Israel

BIRTHDAYS

810 – Imam Bukhari, Islamic scholar (d. 870)
1515 – St Philippus Nerius, [Philippo Neri], Italian merchant/priest
1620 – Jean Picard, French astronomer
1664 – Matthew Prior, English poet
1676 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher (A discourse on free-thinking)
1693 – Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st duke of Newcastle, Engl minister of finance
1706 – Pierre Lyonet, zoologist/cryptologist (Anatomy of Wilgehoutrups)
1710 – Paul Möhring, German physician (d. 1792)
1748 – Louis-Henry Paisible, composer
1758 – Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration)
1762 – Willem GF Bentinck, Dutch earl/politician/organist
1779 – Gottlob Wiedebein, composer
1797 – Franz Schoberlechner, composer
1802 – David Hunter, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1886)
1804 – Victor Schoelcher, Guadeloupe, abolished french slavery
1808 – Simion Bărnuţiu, Romanian philosopher and politician (d. 1864)
1810 – Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist
1815 – Stewart Van Vliet, Bvt Major General (Union Army), (d. 1901)
1816 – Paul Julius Baron von Reuter, founded Reuters news service
1817 – John Gilbert, painter/illustrator
1817 – Joseph K Barnes, Major General (Union Army), (d. 1883)
1821 – Vasile Alecsandri, Romania, poet/ Foreign Minister/diplomat
1822 – Ludwig Theodore Gouvy, composer
1826 – James Gillpatrick Blunt, Major General (Union volunteers)
1828 – John Rutter Brooke, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 – Henrietta Marie Morse King, cattlewoman
1856 – Harry A P Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania)
1856 – Louise Blanchard Bethune, 1st US woman architect
1857 – A S C Wallis, [Adele SC von Antal-Opzoomer], Dutch writer
1858 – Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
1858 – Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain (d. 1929)
1858 – Alfred Henry O’Keeffe, New Zealand artist (d. 1941)
1863 – C[harles] Aubrey Smith, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), born in London, England
1864 – Frances Folsom Cleveland, 1st lady (1885-89, 93-97)
1865 – Robert Kahn, composer
1870 – Emil Orlik, Czech painter (d. 1932)
1880 – Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (d. 1919)
1882 – David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (d. 1967)
1885 – Frances Parkinson Keyes, novelist (Dinner at Antoine)
1892 – Anton Schnack, German writer/poet
1892 – Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect (tax office Wibautstraat, Amsterdam)
1892 – Lenore Ulric, US actress (Notorious, Better Woman) [or 1894]
1893 – Hans Fallada, writer
1895 – H G “Nummy” Deane, South African cricket Test captain (1927-31)
1895 – Ken Maynard, Texas, cowboy/actor/producer (Bigfoot)
1898 – Ernest Willem Mulder, composer
1898 – Sara Carter, Virginia, vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family)
Author Ernest Hemingway(1899)

1899 – Ernest Hemingway, Oak Park Illinois, author (‘for whom the bell tolled… ‘, Nobel 1954), (d. 1961)
1899 – Hart Crane, US, poet (Bridge)
1901 – Allyn Joslyn, Milford Pa, actor (They Won’t Forget, Cafe Society)
1903 – Theodore Karyotakis, composer
1903 – Roy Neuberger, American financier
1905 – Diana Trilling, writer
1906 – Daniel Ayala Perez, composer
1907 – Ross Alexander, Brooklyn NY, actor (Boulder Dam, Capt Blood)
1908 – Harold “Jug” McSpaden, American professional golfer (d. 1996)
1909 – Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, Egyptologist
1911 – Jozef Cyrankiewicz, premier Poland (1947..70)
1911 – Marshall McLuhan, Canada, writer (Medium is the Massage)
1915 – Duke of Norfolk
Philosopher of Communication Theory Marshall McLuhan (1911)

1915 – Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist
1915 – Maurice Laing, English contractor/multi-millionaire
1920 – Constantly, [A Nieuwenhuys], painter (Uprising of Homo Ludens)
1920 – Isaac Stern, Kreminiecz Russia, violinist (debut SF Symph)
1920 – Manuel Valls Gorina, composer
1921 – Billy Taylor, Greenville NC, orchestra leader (David Frost Show)
1922 – Kay Starr, Dougherty Oklahoma, singer (Rock & Roll Waltz, Club Oasis)
1923 – Henny Alma, [Hendrika den Broek], Dutch actress (Soldier of Orange)
1924 – Don Knotts, Morgantown WV, actor (Amdy Griffth Show, 3’s Company)
1925 – Al Checco, actor (Extreme Close-up), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1925 – Lovro Zupanovic, composer
1925 – Anne Meacham, American actress
1926 – Gerald Ian Lacey, architect/town planner
1926 – Karel Reisz, director (Everybody Wins, Isadora, Who’ll Stop the Rain)
1926 – Norman Jewison, director (Moonstruck, …and Justice For All)
1926 – Paul Burke, American actor (Thomas Crown Affair, Neal-Dynasty), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1926 – Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general
1926 – Queenie Watts, English actress (d. 1980)
1926 – Bill Pertwee, Amersham, England, actor (Dad’s Army), (d. 2013)
1927 – Stefan Niculescu, composer
1928 – Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (d. 1998)
1929 – Bob Orton, American wrestler (d. 2006)
1930 – Gene Alec Littler, PGA golfer (1961 US Open), born in San Diego, California
1930 – Anand Bakshi, Indian lyricist (d. 2002)
1931 – Leon Schidlowsky, composer
1932 – Ernie Warlick, American football player
1933 – Brigitte Reimann, writer
1933 – John C Gardner, scholar/writer (Grendel, Sunlight Dialogues)
1934 – Chandu Borde, cricket batsman (55 Tests for India 1959-67)
1934 – Edolphus Towns, (Rep-D-New York, 1983- )
1935 – Julian Pettifer, English TV-host
1935 – Kaye Stevens, Pitts, singer/comedienne (Jerry Lewis Show)
1935 – Norbert Blüm, German politician
1935 – Moe Drabowsky, baseball player (d. 2006)
1938 – Anton Emil Kuerti, composer
1938 – Janet Reno, US attorney general (1993- )
1938 – Les Aspin, (Rep-D-Wisc, 1971-93)/Minister of Defense (1993-94)
1939 – John Negroponte, 1st United States Director of National Intelligence
1940 – James E Clyburn, (Rep-D-South Carolina)
1941 – Jim Bates, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1942 – Fred Hetzel, NBA star (SF, Cincinnati, Milwaukee Bucks)
1942 – Kim Fowley, Philippines/US rock vocalist/producer/songwriter
1942 – Patricia Elliot, Gunnison Co, actress (Renee-Empire, One Life to Live)
1942 – Mike Hegan, MLB player (NY Yankees), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2013)
1943 – David Downing, actor (Backstairs at the White House), born in NYC, New York
1943 – Edward Herrmann, Wash DC, actor (Day of the Dolphin, Reds)
1943 – Jerry McGee, New Lexingon OH, PGA golfer (1975 Pensacola Open)
1944 – Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian/English writer (Price of Bride)
1944 – Paul Wellstone, (Sen-D-Minnesota)
1944 – Tony Scott, director (Top Gun, Revenge, Days of Thunder), (d. 2012)
1944 – John Atta Mills, Tarkwa, Gold Coast (Ghana), President of Ghana (2009-2012), (d. 2012)
1945 – Alton Maddox, NY African American activist/attorney (Tawana Brawley case)
1945 – Barry Richards, extraordinary cricket batsman (4 Tests for South Africa)
1945 – Geoff Dymock, Australian cricket left-arm pace bowler (1974-80)
1945 – Leigh Lawson, Atherston England, actress (Fire & Sword, Charlie Boy)
1945 – John Lowe, English darts player
1945 – Lydia Shum, Hong Kong comedian and actress (d. 2008)
1946 – Barry “Bean” Whitwam, rocker
1946 – Zbigniew Kaczmarek, Poland, lightweight (Olympic-gold-1976)
1946 – Kenneth Starr, American lawyer
1947 – Chetan Chauhan, Indian cricket opener (Gavaskar’s partner for a while)
1947 – John J Duncan Jr, (Rep-R-Tennessee)
1947 – Wendell Burton, actor (Lucas-New Dick Van Dyke Show), born in San Antonio, Texas

Singer and songwriter Cat Stevens (1948)

1948 – Cat Stevens [Steven Demetre Georgiou; Yusaf Islam], rock vocalist (Peace Train), born in London, England
1948 – Art Hindle, Halifax Nova Scotia, actor (Jeff-Dallas, Berrengers)
1948 – Garry Trudeau, political cartoonist (Doonesbury)
1948 – Ed Hinton, American sportswriter
1949 – Ludmila Smirnova, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-silver-1972)
1949 – Al Hrabosky, baseball player
1950 – Larry Tolbert, rock drummer (Raydio)
1950 – Ubaldo Fillol, Argentinian footballer
1951 – Diana Dennis, Portland Oregon, body builder (Women Physique World)
1951 – Doug Collins, US, basketball player (Olympic-silver-1972)
1951 – Slick Watts, NBA (Seattle SuperSonic)
1951 – Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (Mork & Mindy, Good Will Hunting), born in Chicago, Illinois
Actor and Comedian Robin Williams (1951)

1952 – John Barrasso, [John Anthony Barrasso III], Reading Pennsylvania, American politician, junior senator from Wyoming
1953 – Brian Talbot, British footballer
1953 – Jeff Fatt, Chinese Australian actor
1955 – Henry Preistman, rocker (Christians-Harvest the World)
1955 – Tacho Ocheriski, singer (Putting on the Ritz)
1955 – Howie Epstein, American musician (d. 2003)
1955 – Taco Ockerse, Indonesian singer
1956 – Michael Connelly, American author
1957 – Jon Lovitz, Tarzana California, actor (SNL, League of their Own, Critic)
1959 – Stuart Young-Black, Cheshire England, Canadian equestrian (Oly-96)
1960 – Lance Guest, Saratoga California, actor (Lance-Lou Grant)
1960 – Matt Mulhern, Phila, actor (Biloxi Blues)
1960 – Fritz Walter, German footballer
1961 – Don Wilson, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1961 – Henry Ellard, NFL wide receiver (Washington Redskins)
1961 – Jim Martin, rock guitarist (Faith No More-Real Thing), born in Oakland, California
1961 – Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer
1962 – Ike Eisenmann, actor (Scott-Fantastic Journey), born in Houston, Texas
1963 – Kevin Poole, English footballer
1963 – Paulo Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
1964 – Susan Swift, actress (Chisholms), born in Houston, Texas
1965 – Mike Bordick, Marquette MI, infielder (Oakland A’s)
1965 – Gudni Bergsson, Icelandic footballer
1965 – Jovy Marcelo, Filipino racing driver (d. 1992)
1966 – Larisa Neiland, Lvov Ukraine, tennis star (1996 Essen winner)
1966 – Arija Bareikis, American actress
1967 – Lance Painter, Bedford England, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1967 – Tore Meinecke, West Germany, tennis star
1968 – Brandi Chastain, soccer forward (Olympics-96), born in San Jose, California
1968 – Christian Perthaler, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1968 – Dina Ammaccapane, Bayport NY, LPGA golfer (1994 Sara Lee Classic-4th)
1968 – Johnnie Barnes, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers, Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 – Lyle Odelein, Quill Lake Sask, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, Montreal)
1968 – Robert Anthony Gamez, Las Vegas NV, PGA golfer (1990 Nestle)
1969 – Emerson Hart, American musician (Tonic)
1970 – Bryce Florie, Charleston FLA, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1970 – Steven “Scrappy” Segaloff, New Haven, Conn, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
1970 – Shawn Stasiak, American professional wrestler
1971 – Nuno Markl, Portuguese comedian and radio host
1972 – Dennis Military man, soccer player (Sparta/Vitesse)
1972 – Joe Rudolph, NFL guard (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 – Kimera Bartee, outfielder (Detroit Tigers), born in Omaha, Nebraska
1972 – Lilach Parisky, Israel, Women’s foil fencer (Oly-1996)
1972 – Martin Miller, CFL safety (BC Lions)
1972 – Shinjiro Otani, wrestler (NJPW)
1973 – Ali Landry, Louisiana, Miss Universe-USA (1996)
1973 – Stephen Clarke, Sutton Coldfield England, Canada swimmer (Oly-br-92, 96)
1973 – Steve Taneyhill, WLAF QB (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1974 – Andrea L’Huillier, Miss Universe-Chile (1996)
1974 – Geoff Jenkins, American baseball player
1975 – Mike Sellers, CFL defensive end (Edmonton Eskimos)
1975 – Ravindra Pushpakumara, Sri Lankan cricketer (Test pace bowler)
1977 – Allison Wagner, 200m/400m medley swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1977 – Sarah Biasini, daughter of actress Romy Schneider
1977 – Paul Casey, English golfer
1977 – Jaime Murray, British actress
1978 – Kyoko Iwosoki, Japan, 100m breaststroke swimmer (Oly-gold-92, 96)
1978 – Damian Marley, Jamaican musician
1978 – Justin Bartha, American actor
1978 – Gary Teale, Scottish football player
1979 – David Carr, American football player
1979 – Tamika Catchings, American basketball player
1980 – Tailor James, Canadian model
1980 – CC Sabathia, American baseball player
1981 – Stefan Schumacher, German cyclist
1981 – Joaquín Sánchez, Spanish footballer
1981 – Titus Bramble, English footballer
1981 – Chrishell Stause, American actress
1981 – Blake Lewis, American musician
1983 – Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer
1983 – Kellen Winslow II, American football player
1984 – Liam Ridgewell, English footballer
1984 – Paul Davis, American basketball player
1985 – Von Wafer, American basketball player
1987 – AnnaLynne McCord, American actress
1988 – Chris Mitchell, Scottish footballer
1989 – Chris Gunter, Welsh footballer
1989 – Jamie Waylett, British actor
1989 – Rory Culkin, American actor
1992 – Rachael Flatt, American figure skater

WEDDINGS

1320 – Count Louis of Nevers marries 8-year old daughter of Philips V
1871 – Suffragette Kate Sheppard (24) weds general merchant Walter Allen Sheppard in Christchurch, New Zealand
1904 – Sinclair Oil founder Harry Ford Sinclair (28) weds Elizabeth Farrell
1945 – Master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era Groucho Marx (54) weds Kay Marvis
2005 – Tennis star player Lleyton Hewitt (24) weds “Home and Away” TV actress Bec Cartwright (22) at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia
2010 – Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr (27) weds British actor Orlando Bloom (33) in a secret ceremony
Actor Orlando Bloom (2010)

2012 – 2010 American Idol winner Lee DeWyze (26) weds model-actress Jonna Walsh at Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo, California

DIVORCES

1942 – Actress Mae West (48) divorces vaudeville performer Frank Wallace after 31 years of marriage

DEATHS

1160 – Peterus Lombardus, Italian theologist/bishop of Paris, dies
1425 – Manuel Paleologus, Byzantine Emperor (1391-1425)/writer, dies
1540 – John I Zapolyai, prince of Transsylvania/king of Hungary, dies
1544 – René of Chalon [Renatus of Nassau], prince of Orange, slain in battle
1683 – Lord William Russell, English plotter against Charles II, beheaded
1688 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (b. 1610)
1717 – Niccolo Amenta, Italian poet (La Gostanza), dies
1782 – Placidus Cajetan von Camerloher, composer, dies at 63
1793 – Bruni d’Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
1796 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), dies at 37
1798 – François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
1821 – Maurice J M prince de Broglie, bishop of Ghent, dies at about 55
1831 – Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen), dies at 55
1861 – Francis Stebbins Bartow, Confederate colonel, dies in battle at 44
Poet Robert Burns (1796)

1870 – Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (Dynamids), dies at 42
1880 – Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
1888 – Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade), dies at 53
1889 – Nelson Dewey, American politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
1891 – Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor, dies at 51
1899 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
1910 – Johan Peter Selmer, composer, dies at 66
1917 – Christopher J Forster, British RAF-pilot/capt, dies in battle
1922 – Djemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey, murdered
1927 – J J Lyons, cricketer (14 Tests for Australia), dies
1928 – Ellen A Terry, Brits actress/dir (Imperial Theatre), dies at 81
1932 – Bill Gleason, late 19th century baseball player
1938 – Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
1941 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
1943 – Charles William Paddock, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1920), dies at 42
1944 – Gerrit van den Bosch, led illegal Dutch CPN party, dies in Dachau
1944 – Henning von Tresckow, Gen-Maj, “July 20th plotter”, commits suicide
1946 – Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
1948 – Arshile Gorky, abstract expressionist, dies at 43
1948 – Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer, dies at 58
1950 – Albert Riemenschneider, composer, dies at 71
1957 – Bernard Spooner, US inventor (bulletproof jacket), dies
1957 – Rockley Wilson, cricketer (bro of Clem, Test for England 1921), dies
1966 – Eugeen Calleen, Flemish sculptor, dies at 83
1967 – Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies
Actor Basil Rathbone(1967)

1967 – Basil Rathbone, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies of heart attack at 75
1967 – Jimmy Foxx, baseball hall of famer (Det Tigers/534 HRs), dies at 59
1967 – Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (English paint box), dies at 80
1968 – Ruth St Denis, US choreography, dies at about 90
1970 – Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
1970 – Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
1972 – Jigme Dori Wangchuck, King of Bhutan, dies
1972 – Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889)
1973 – Russell Hardie, dies after long illness at 69
1974 – Willem F K Hussem, painter/poet (Steltlopen on Sea), dies at 74
1975 – Billy West, actor (Jimmy the Gent, Jealousy), dies at 82
1975 – Fie Carelsen, actress (Malle Gevallen), dies at 85
1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated
1977 – Lee Miller, American Photographer aged 70
1979 – Ludwig Renn, writer, dies at 90
1982 – Dave Garroway, TV host (Today Show), dies at 69
1982 – Jean J A Girault, French director (Gendarme Saint-Tropez), dies at 58
1984 – Michael Osborne, rock guitarist/vocalist (Axe), dies at 34
1985 – Mickey Shaughnessy, actor (Chicago Teddy Bears), dies at 65
1985 – Vicki Vola, actress (Miss Miller-Mr District Attorney)
1986 – Paulo Correia, Guinee-Bissaus colonel/putschist, executed
1986 – Virginia Hewitt, actress (Carol-Space Patrol), dies at 60
1986 – Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
1990 – Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (Buenos Aires Affair), dies at 57
1990 – Sacha Piteoff, dies of heart failure at 70
1990 – Stanley Shapiro, dies of leukemia at 65
1991 – Theodore Wilson, dies at 47
1991 – Paul Warwick, English racing driver (b. 1969)
1993 – Henk Kersting, bureau chef (Associated Press-WW II), dies at 88
1993 – Piet Wielinga, TV producer (Dutch Glory), dies at 56
1993 – Robert J Glass, film producer (ET), is killed at 53
1994 – Dorothy Collins, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 67
1994 – John Ernest, constructionist Artist, dies at 72
1994 – Marjorie Dorothy Chandler Collins, jazz singer, dies at 67
1995 – Edwin “Russell” House, saxophonist, dies at 65
1995 – Elleston Trevor, author, dies
1995 – Jon Boulle, motorcyclist, dies at 59
1996 – Francis James Claude Piggott, soldier, dies at 85
1996 – Gerald McArthur, detective, dies at 70
1996 – Herb Edelman, actor (Odd Couple, St Elsewhere), dies of emphysema 62
1996 – James Tye, safety expert, dies at 74
1996 – John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot, dies at 50
1996 – Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79
1996 – Wolf Morris, actor (Padmasambhava-Dr Who), dies at 71
1998 – Alan Shepard, astronaut (b. 1923)
1998 – Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
2001 – Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
2001 – Sivaji Ganesan, South Indian Tamil actor (b. 1927)
2003 – John Davies, New Zealand Olympic Committee president (b. 1938)
2003 – Walter M. “Matt” Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
2004 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
2004 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1918)
2005 – Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941)
2005 – Lord Alfred Hayes, British Wrestling Announcer for WWE (b. 1928)
2006 – Mako, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933)
2006 – Ta Mok, “The Khmer Rouge Butcher”, war criminal in Democratic Kampuchea (b. 1926)
2008 – Lord Stokes [Donald Stokes], English industrialist, dies at 94
2010 – Luis Corvalán, Chilean communist leader (b. 1916)
2011 – Lucian Freud, Realist painter (b. 1922)
2012 – Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-born American journalist, dies from cancer at 72

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1861 The First Battle of Bull Run

• American Revolution

• 1775 Battle of Brewster Island

• Automotive

• 1960 Germany passes controversial “Volkswagen Law”

• Civil War

• 1861 First Battle of Bull Run begins

• Cold War

• 1955 Eisenhower presents his “Open Skies” plan

• Crime

• 1925 The “Trial of the Century” draws national attention

• Disaster

• 365 Tsunami hits Alexandria, Egypt

• General Interest

• 1925 Monkey Trial ends
• 1970 Aswan High Dam completed
• 2005 Bombers attempt to attack London transit system
• 2011 NASA’s final space shuttle mission comes to an end

• Hollywood

• 2007 Final Harry Potter book released

• Literary

• 1899 Ernest Hemingway is born

• Music

• 1973 “Soul Makossa” is the first disco record to make the Top 40

• Old West

• 1865 Wild Bill Hickok fights first western showdown

• Presidential

• 1862 Former President Martin Van Buren lapses into a coma

• Sports

• 1959 Pumpsie Green becomes first African-American to play for Red Sox

• Vietnam War

• 1965 Johnson considers the options

• World War I

• 1911 David Lloyd George delivers Mansion House speech

• World War II

• 1944 Hitler to Germany: “I’m still alive.”