July 24th

TODAY IS:

Drive-Thru Day
Tell An Old Joke Day
Cousins Day
Tequila Day

EVENTS

1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1411 – Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
1487 – Citizens of Leeuwarden Neth rebel against ban on foreign beer
1534 – Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France
1567 – Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate; her 1-year-old son becomes King James VI of Scots
1577 – Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur
1577 – Treason of Don Juan in Brussels
1581 – States of Holland/Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange
1651 – Anthony Johnson, a free African American, receives grant of 250 acres in Va
1673 – Edmund Halley enters The Queen’s College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
1683 – 1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord
1692 – French defeat William III of England at Steinkirk (Enghein)
King of Great Britain James I and VI

1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit
1704 – English & Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
1712 – Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army
1758 – George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess
1783 – Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
1793 – France passes 1st copyright law
1799 – William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York
1823 – Slavery is abolished in Chile.
1824 – Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson
1832 – Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming’s South Pass.
1833 – HMS Beagle departs Maldonado Uruguay
Founder of Salt Lake City and President of the LDS Church Brigham Young

1847 – Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT
1847 – Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, NYC
1851 – Window tax abolished in Britain
1861 – Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)VA – CS Gen Wise retreats
1863 – Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia
1864 – Battle of Winchester, VA US1200 CS600
1866 – Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union
1870 – 1st trans-US rail service begins
1877 – 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers
1883 – Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt
1886 – China takes British protectorate of Burma
1893 – For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men’s double championship in Chicago
1900 – Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed
1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1902 – Victor Trumper scores a century for Australia before lunch 4th Test Cricket v England
1902 – In Turkey, the Sultan Abdul-Hamid, under pressure from within the Ottoman Empire, appoints a commission to consider reforms that might pacify Macedonian revolutionaries
Tsar Nicholas II

1905 – Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) and Emperor Wilhelm II (Germany) sign the Björkö Treaty, whereby each country agrees to come to the other’s defense if attacked by European powers
1905 – 5th Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Wimbledon (5-0)
1908 – John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record)
1908 – After days of discussion with his ministers, Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey announces he is restoring the liberal constitution of 1876 and will become more responsive to demands of dissidents
1909 – Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates
1910 – Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull
1911 – Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas
1911 – Cleve’s League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss’ family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3
Archaeologist and Explorer Hiram Bingham

1915 – Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die
1919 – Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded)
1921 – Belgium’s Leon Scieur wins Tour de France
1923 – Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne
1925 – John T Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in the “Scopes monkey trial”, Dayton, Tennessee, fined $100 & costs
1927 – The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
1929 – NY to SF foot race ends (2½ months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde
1929 – President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
1931 – George Gunn gets 183 & son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings
1931 – Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6)
1931 – A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
1933 – German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe
Runner nicknamed the “Flying Finn” Paavo Nurmi

1934 – 1st ptarmigan hatched & reared in captivity, Ithaca, NY
1935 – 1st greetings telegram sent in Britain
1935 – The world’s first children’s railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
1936 – 118°F (48°C), Minden, Nebraska (state record)
1936 – 121°F (49°C), near Alton, Kansas (state record)
1936 – Generals Mola & Cabanellas form Spanish anti-government
1937 – Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
1938 – Instant coffee invented
1940 – 1st illegal “Newsletter of Pieter It Hen” publishes in Netherlands
1940 – Linthorst Homan, de Quay & Einthoven forms Dutch Union
1941 – FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China
1941 – Nazis kill entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania
1941 – Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game
1942 – Irving Berlin’s musical “This is the Army” premieres in NYC
Composer and Lyricist Irving Berlin

1943 – RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)
1944 – 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions
1944 – Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek
1944 – US troops land on Tinian
1945 – US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam
1946 – 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League) die in a bus crash
1946 – US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1948 – 4 Duluth Minn Dukes (St Louis Cards Class C farm team) die in crash
1948 – Soviets blockades Berlin from west
1949 – Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5
1950 – V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
1952 – 112°F (44°C), Louisville, Georgia (state record)
1952 – Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6)
1952 – US President Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1953 – KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 – Ali Sastroamidjojo of government resigns in Indonesia
1955 – Betty Jameson/Mary Faulk wins Virg Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
Irish Poet and Playwright Brendan Behan

1956 – Brendan Behan’s “Quare Fellow” premieres in London
1956 – Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City
1957 – KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 – 14 people named 1st life peers in UK
1958 – Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again
1958 – Test Cricket debuts against NZ for Dexter, Illingworth & Subba Row
1959 – 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
1959 – US VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as “Kitchen Debate”
1960 – 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron
1961 – Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
1961 – Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show
1961 – Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader
1963 – 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea
American Baseball Player Roger Maris

1963 – Dutch government of Marijnen forms
1964 – -27) race riot in Rochester, New York, 4 killed
1965 – “Flora, the Red Menace” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 87 perfs
1965 – Bob Dylan release “Like a Rolling Stone”
1965 – Casey Stengel resigns as manager of NY Mets
1965 – Rock group “The Animals” 1st time in British charts
1966 – 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron
1966 – Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women’s Golf Open
1967 – 49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colo
1967 – Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana
1967 – Charles de Gaulle says ‘Vive le Quebec libre! Long live free Quebec!’
1967 – Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City
1967 – Norway requests European Common Market membership
1967 – Race riots in Cambridge, Maryland
French President Charles de Gaulle

1967 – Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game
1968 – Hoyt Wilhelm’s 907th breaks Cy Young’s record for pitching appearances

Buzz Aldrin’s bootprint, one of the first steps taken on the Moon

1969 – Apollo 11 returns to Earth
1969 – Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammad Ali

1969 – Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal
1970 – International Law Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule
1970 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 – WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 – Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16
1972 – Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
1973 – 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, KC
1973 – All star MVP: Bobby Bonds (SF Giants)
1974 – Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
1975 – Apollo 18 returns to Earth
1976 – John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes
1977 – 32nd US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1977 – Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881
1977 – Seattle’s John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen
MLB Player and Manager Pete Rose

1978 – “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” premieres in NYC
1978 – Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe
1978 – Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games
1978 – Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after “one is a born liar the other a convicted one” comment about Steinbrenner & Jackson
1979 – Pres Carter names Paul Volcker, pres of Federal Reserves
1979 – Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR
1981 – Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran
1982 – “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” closes at E O’Neill NYC after 63 perfs
1982 – KHJ (LA) & KFRC (SF) become 2nd & 3rd stereo AM stations
1982 – Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
1983 – “Mame” opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances
1983 – 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switz (2-1)
MLB Outfielder Carl Yastrzemski

1983 – Lauren Howe wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1983 – Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
1983 – Pine Tar Game: Brett’s HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned)
1983 – Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
1985 – Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai

The Rainbow Warrior sunk in Auckland harbour

1985 – French DGSE officers Dominique Prieur and Alain Mafart are arrested and charged with murder over the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
1986 – SF Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage
1987 – IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released
1987 – USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1988 – 43rd US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann
1988 – US & Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 – Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America
1990 – Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus
1990 – US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait
1991 – Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign
1991 – U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner

1992 – Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (eff 3/1/93)
1992 – Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die
1993 – Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans
1993 – NY Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight
1994 – 32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1994 – 49th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1994 – Asociación de Estados del Caribe (AEC) forms
1994 – Bodo kills 37 Muslims in Bashbari NE India
1994 – Miguel Indurain wins Tour de France
1998 – Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
LPGA Golfer Patty Sheehan

2001 – An Iranian warship in the Caspian Sea threatens a BP oil exploration ship off the coast of Azerbaijan
2002 – James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
2002 – On 200th anniversary of his birth French author Alexandre Dumas’ (‘The Three Musketeers’) ashes are interred in the Panthéon in Paris in a televised ceremony.
2005 – Lance Armstrong retires after winning a record seventh consecutive Tour de France victory (stripped for doping in 2012)
2007 – Libya frees all six of the Medics in the HIV trial in Libya.
2012 – John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills
2012 – Four barrels containing 248 human fetuses are found in Sverdlovsk, Russia
Professional Road Cyclist and Testicular Cancer Survivor Lance Armstrong

2013 – 22 are left dead after a conflict between the Knights Templar Cartel and Mexican police in Michoacan
2013 – 80 people are killed and 140 are injured after a high-speed train derails in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2014 – 116 people are killed after Air Algérie Flight 5017 crashed in Mali
2014 – Fuad Masum is elected as the President of Iraq
2014 – Reuven Rivlin is sworn in as the President of Israel
2014 – Over 10,000 Palestinians protest Israel’s operation in Gaza; 2 Palestinians killed after Al-Aqsa Brigades members fire at Israeli forces

BIRTHDAYS

1380 – Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint
1660 – Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (d. 1718)
1720 – Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik
1725 – John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807)
1738 – Elizabeth “Betje” Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author/poet (Sara Burgerhart)
1757 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (d. 1825)
1759 – Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21)
1783 – Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, political and military leader (freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule), (d. 1830)
1786 – Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)
1794 – Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (d. 1865)
1796 – Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman
1796 – John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, (Sen-Del)/US Secretary of State (1849-50)
1798 – John Adams Dix, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1879)
1802 – Alexandre Dumas, Aisne France, author (‘The Three Musketeers’, ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’), (d. 1870)
1802 – Ira Aldridge, African American stage actor
Author Alexandre Dumas(1802)

1803 – Alexander Jackson Davis, US, architect (gothic revivalist)
1815 – Antoine T D’Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia) [or Jan 3, 1810]
1817 – Adolf WAKF, grand duke of Luxembourg (1890-1905)
1818 – Felix Godefroid, composer
1821 – William Poole, American gang member (New York City’s Bowery Boys), born in Sussex County, New Jersey
1826 – Francisco S Lopez, [Tiran], president of Paraguay (1862-70)
1826 – Ivan Bloch, Polish military theorist and peace activist (d. 1902)
1827 – Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1912)
1832 – Johann Christoph Lauterbach, violinist
1841 – Raimundo Madrazo y Garretta, painter
1851 – Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1856 – Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (d. 1941)
1857 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1917)
1858 – Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920)
1860 – Alfons Mucha, Czech artist (d. 1939)
1862 – Johan A de Sleeve, [Adwaita], philosopher/classical/poet (Brahman)
1864 – Frank Wedekind, German playwright (The “Lulu” plays)
1864 – Michel Gaston Carraud, composer
1867 – Fred Tate, cricketer (father of Maurice, 1 Test, Eng v Aus 1902)
1867 – Frederic Benson, novelist
1867 – Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (d. the same day 1908)
1870 – Fred Law Olmsted Jr, Staten Island NY, landscape architect
1874 – Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and writer (d. 1917)
1877 – Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1954)
1878 – Lord Dunsany, [Edward JMD Plunkett], Irish sci-fi writer (Time & Gods)
1880 – Ernest Bloch, Geneva Switzerland, composer (MacBeth)
1880 – Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
1884 – Abraham Rutgers, Dutch governor (Suriname, 1928-33)
1885 – Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer
1886 – Junichiro Tanizaki, Japan, writer (Snow Dusting)
1888 – Arthur Richardson, Australian cricket batsman (20’s)
1894 – Walter Schulthess, composer
1895 – Robert Graves, writer/poet (I Claudius) [or 6/26], born in London, England
1896 – Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom)
1897 – Elmar Berkovich, Hungarian/Dutch designer (Eindhoven Theatre)
1897 – Karl von Mechow, German writer (Auf Dem Wege, Vorsommer)
Aviation Pioneer Amelia Earhart (1897)

1897 – Amelia Earhart, Atchison Kansas, American aviator (1st woman to solo Atlantic)
1898 – Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter
1899 – Chief Dan George, actor (Little Big Man)
1900 – Zelda Fitzgerald, 1st wife of F Scott
1902 – Hans Chemin-Petit, composer
1902 – Nora Swinburne, England, actress (Quo Vardis, Dinner at Ritz, River)
1903 – Robert Mills Delaney, composer
1904 – James R Killian Jr, MIT pres (1948-59)
1904 – Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (d. 1991)
1907 – Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario
1908 – Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (d. 1985)
1910 – Edward Ford, registrat Order of Merit
1910 – Harry Horner, stage/Film Designer
1913 – George H Brown, film producer
1913 – Johnny McAfee, Dallas Tx, singer (Sammy Kaye Show)
1914 – David Miles Bensuan-Butt, economist
1914 – Edwin Mirvish, owner (Old Vic)
1914 – Frank Silvera, Kingston Jamaica, actor (High Chaparral)
1914 – Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto)
1914 – Riccardo Malipiero, composer
1914 – Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac-Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers)
1915 – Frank Thistlethwaite, vice chancellor (University of East Anglia)
1915 – Enrique Fernando, Philippino jurist (d. 2004)
1916 – Bob Eberly, Mechanicsville NY, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band)
1916 – John D MacDonald, novelist (Deep Blue Goodbye)
1917 – John Hillaby, writer/traveller
1917 – Robert Farnon, composer/conductor/arranger
1917 – Simon Slattvik, Norway, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)
1917 – Jack Moroney, Australian cricketer (d. 1999)
1918 – Ruggiero Ricci, SF California, composer/violinist (Paganini), (d. 2012)
1919 – Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice (d. 1999)
1919 – Ferdinand Kübler, Swiss cyclist
1920 – Alexander H Cohen, Broadway producer (Beyond the Fringe), born in NYC, New York
1920 – Bella Abzug, (Rep-D-NY, 1970-74)
1921 – Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2008)
1922 – Charles Mathias Jr, (Sen-R-MD, 1969-86)
1922 – Leo Kraft, composer
1922 – Madeleine Ferron, French Canadian writer
1924 – David Loram, British vice-admiral (Supreme Allied Commander)
1924 – Glenn Loren Glasow, composer
1924 – Janine Charrat, French ballerina/choreographer
1924 – Lord Digby, lord-lt for Dorset
1925 – Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (Gran Sol, Caballo the Pica)
1926 – Hans-Gunther Winkler, Germany, equestrian jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1926 – James Hele, high master (St Paul’s School)
1927 – James J Howard, (Rep-D-NJ, 1965- )
1927 – Wilfred Josephs, composer
1929 – Alfred Binns, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper (1953-56)
1929 – Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist
1929 – Peter Yates, director (Breaking Away, Bullitt)
1930 – Boris Nikolayevich Belousov, cosmonaut
1930 – Charles Hambro, English banker/multi-millionaire/CEO (Hambros)
1930 – Jacqueline Brookes, Montclair NJ, actress (Jack & Mike, Another World)
1931 – Ermanno Olmi, Italian director
1931 – Éric Tabarly, French sailor (d. 1998)
1932 – William D Ruckelshaus, headed Environmental Protection Agency
1933 – John Aniston, Crete, actor (Search for Tomorrow, Day of our Lives)
1933 – Doug Sanders, American golfer
1934 – Jimmy Holiday, US singer (How Can I Forget)
1934 – Thomas Ambler, CEO (Texaco)
1934 – Willie Davis, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay)
1934 – Sante Kimes, American convicted con artist and murderess
1935 – George Varnals, South African cricket batsman (England 1964-65)
1935 – Les Reed, songwriter (“It’s Not Unusual)
1935 – Pat Oliphant, Australia, cartoonist (7 Pres: The Art of Oliphant)
1935 – Trevor Chinn, CEO (Lex)
1936 – Mark Goddard, Lowell Mass, actor (Don West-Lost in Space)
1936 – Ruth Buzzi, Westerly RI, comedienne (Laugh-In, Margie-That Girl)
1937 – Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education
1937 – Barry Lloyd Vercoe, composer
1937 – Quinlan Terry, architect
1938 – Colin Southgate, CEO (Thorn EMI)
1938 – John Sparling, NZ cricket all-rounder (11 Tests 1958-64)
1938 – Mike Mainieri, rocker
1938 – Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist
1939 – Barry [Norman] Malzberg, sci-fi author (Revelations, Beyond Apollo)
1939 – Bob Lilly, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1939 – Walter Bellamy, New Bern NC, NBA center (Knicks/Olympic-gold-1960), (d. 2013)
1940 – Carroll A Campbell Jr, (Rep-R-SC, 1979-86)
1940 – Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
1940 – Dan Hedaya, American actor
1941 – Barbara Love, rocker
1942 – Chris Sarandon, WV, actor (Child’s Play, Dog Day Afternoon, Lipstick)
1942 – Heinz Burt, Hargin Germany, rock bassist (Tornados)
1943 – Henk Vos, chemical analyst/Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
1943 – Lyudmila Bragina, USSR, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1944 – Barbara Thompson, jazz musician/composer/bandleader
1944 – Jim Armstrong, rock guitarist (Them)
1945 – Azim Premji, Indian businessman
1946 – William “Junior” Campbell, singer/guitarist (Marmalade)
1947 – Geoffrey McQueen, TV Writer
1947 – M Jacques Fouroux, rugby player
1947 – Michael Coveney, drama critic
1947 – Neil McIntosh, CEO (VSO, Center for British Teaching)
1947 – Peter Serkin, pianist (Tashi), born in NYC, New York
1947 – Robert Hays, Bethesda Md, actor (Airplane!, Starman, Scandalous)
1947 – Zaheer Abbas, cricketer (probably Pakistan’s finest batsman ever)
1949 – Marjanne Sint, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 – Michael Richards, comedian (Fridays, Kramer-Seinfeld), born in Los Angeles, California
1950 – Dan Hedaya, actor (Cheers, Marvin’s Room, Clueless)
1950 – Goutam Ghose, director (Patang, Voyage Beyond, Paar)
1950 – Sam Behrens, actor (Jake Meyer-General Hospital, Sunset Beach, LA Law)
1951 – Chris Smith, MP (Labour)
1951 – Lynda Carter, Phoenix Az, Miss USA (1973)/actress (Wonder Woman)
1952 – Vin Weber, (Rep-R-MN, 1981- )
1952 – Gus Van Sant, American film director
1953 – Jon Faddis, jazz trumpeter
1953 – Julian Brazier, MP
1953 – Steve Grogan, NFL QB (New England Patriots)
1953 – Claire McCaskill, American politician, junior senator from Missouri
1954 – Philippe Alliot, race driver (grand prix)
1955 – Lubov Odinokova, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1956 – Charles Crist, Governor of Florida
1957 – Dorothy Mays, playmate (Jul, 1979), born in Baltimore, Maryland
1957 – Pam Tillis, Plant City Fla, country singer (Melancholy Child)
1957 – Robbie Grey, rocker
1958 – Mick Karn, rocker
1958 – Pam Tills, Country music artist
1959 – Brian Fogt, Dayton OH, Nike golfer (1992 Ft Wayne Open-7th)
1959 – Edward Liddie, Union Ga, Judo fighter (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1961 – Kerry Dixon, English footballer
1962 – Kevin Butler, NFL kicker (Chic Bears)
1963 – Julie Krone, Benton Harbor Mich, jockey (1st female to win Belmont-93)
1963 – Karl Malone, Summeerfield LA, NBA forward (Utah, Oly-2 gold-92, 96)
1963 – Paul Geary, heavy metal drummer (Extreme-More Than Words), born in Boston, Massachusetts
MLB Legend Barry Bonds(1964)

1964 – Barry Bonds, Riverside California, left fielder (Pirates, SF Giants, 7X MVP)
1964 – Erminia Russo, Kelowna BC, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1964 – Teri Schroeder, Newport Beach Ca, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13-1993)
1964 – Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese author
1965 – Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player (Olympics-1984, 88, 92, 96)
1965 – Brian Blades, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1965 – Joe Oliver, catcher (Cin Reds), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1965 – Kadeem Hardison, New York, American actor (A Different World, The Sixth Man)
1965 – Doug Liman, American film director
1966 – Martin Keown, English footballer
1967 – Jasper Teule, Dutch rock singer/bassist (Pilgrims-Once to Everything)
1968 – John P Navin Jr, Phila, actor (Joey Elliot-Jennifer Slept Here)
1968 – Mark Gunn, NFL defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1968 – Laura Leighton [Miller], American actress (Melrose Place, Pretty Little Liars), born in Iowa City, Iowa
1968 – Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and actress
1968 – Colleen Doran, American comic book writer and artist
1968 – Malcolm Ingram, Canadian director
1969 – Chris King, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1969 – Rick Fox, NBA guard/forward (LA Lakers, Boston Celtics)
1969 – Steve Jennings, Wash DC, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
Singer and Actress Jennifer Lopez (1969)

1969 – Jennifer Lopez, Bronx New York, actress and pop singer (Selena)
1970 – Blaine Bishop, NFL safety (Houston Oilers)
1970 – Gerald Ressman, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1970 – Philip Sykes, Tacoma Wash, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1970 – Stephanie Adams, NJ, playmate (Nov, 1992)
1971 – Dino Baggio, Italian footballer
1971 – John Partridge, English singer
1972 – Kaiō Hiroyuki, Japanese sumo wrestler
1972 – Rev. Jen Miller, American performance artist
1973 – Tasha Ebanks, Miss Universe-Cayman Islands (1996)
1974 – Steve Bornhoeft, LaGrange Ill, American canoeist (alt-Olympics-96)
1975 – Gloria Pizzichini, Italy, tennis star
1975 – Eric Szmanda, American actor
1975 – Torrie Wilson, American wrestler
1976 – Anita Nall, US, breaststroke swimmer (Olympics-gold-1992)
1976 – Chris[tian] Patrick Raymond Ahrens, Whitefish Bay Wis, rower (Oly-96)
1976 – Scott Logan, Brisbane QLD Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 – Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese Formula One driver
1976 – Nate Bump, American baseball player
1977 – Arnold Bruggink, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
1977 – Lee EunHee, Miss Korea Universe (1997)
1977 – Danny Dyer, English actor and television presenter
1977 – Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player
1979 – Valerio Scassellati, Italian racing driver
1979 – Rose Byrne, Australian actress
1979 – Lee Si-yeon, South Korean actress
1979 – Stat Quo, American rapper
1979 – Anne-Gaëlle Sidot, French tennis player
1979 – José Valverde, American baseball player
1980 – Wilfred Bungei, Kenyan middle-distance runner
1981 – Summer Glau, American actress
1982 – Anna Paquin, oscar winning actress (Piano)
1982 – Elise Crombez, Belgian model
1982 – Thiago Medeiros, Brazilian racing driver
1983 – Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer
1984 – John Dhani Lennevald, Swedish singer (A-Teens)
1985 – Patrice Bergeron, Canadian hockey player
1986 – Andrei Lutai, Russian figure skater
1986 – Megan Park, Canadian actress
1987 – Mara Wilson, actress (Mrs Doubtfire)
1988 – Luke Mitchell, Scottish murderer
1990 – Evan James Springsteen, American rocker and Bruce Springsteen’s son, born in Los Angeles, California
1990 – Daveigh Chase, American actress
1993 – Arissa Seagal, daughter of Kelly LeBrock & Steven Seagal
1998 – Bindi Irwin, Australian entertainer; daughter of Steve Irwin

WEDDINGS

1554 – Queen Maria of England marries Philip, king of Naples/Jerusalem
1946 – Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Howard Hanson (49) weds Margaret Elizabeth Nelson at the Chautauqua Institution in New York
1972 – Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (24) weds Sarah Hugill
1980 – Tennis star Bjorn Borg (24) weds tennis player Mariana Simionescu (23) in Bucharest, Romania
1982 – Physicist and astronaut Sally Ride (31) weds astronaut Steven Hawley (30) in Salina, Kansas
1993 – Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown
1993 – Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32)
1st American Woman in Space Sally Ride (1982)

2004 – “The Calling” singer Alex Band (23) weds “Cleopatra 2525” actress Jennifer Sky (27) in West Palm Beach, Florida
2004 – Former MSNBC news anchor Ashleigh Banfield (36) weds real estate financier Howard Gould (31) in Kenora, Ontario
2010 – “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” actress and a well-known model Cynthia Bailey weds entrepreneur Peter Thomas at Fernback Museum of Natural History in Atlanta

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

1115 – Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046)
1240 – Konrad von Thüringen, fifth Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
1345 – Jacob van Artevelde, statesman, murdered
1568 – Prince Don Carlos of Spain (b. 1545)
1594 – John Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1544)
1652 – Johann Weichmann, composer, dies at 32
1712 – Cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies
1739 – Benedetto Marcello, composer, dies on 53rd birthday
1756 – George Vertue, engraver, dies
1758 – John Dyer, poet, dies
1768 – Nathanial Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)
1809 – Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer, dies at 74
1812 – Joseph Schuster, composer, dies at 63
1819 – Sophie Gail, composer, dies at 43
1826 – Jacob Kimball, composer, dies at 65
1831 – Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, dies at 41
1837 – Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter
1842 – John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies
1846 – Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies at 81
1846 – Louis Napoleon, French King of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67
8th US President Martin Van Buren (1862)

1862 – Martin Van Buren, 8th US president (1837-41), dies of heart failure at 79
1865 – Johan Filip von Schantz, composer, dies at 30
1868 – George Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies
1876 – Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66
1883 – Matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, drowns above Niagara Falls
1900 – Ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59
1908 – Vicente Acosta, Salvadoran poet (b. the same day 1867)
1910 – Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)
1927 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)
1931 – Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75
1933 – Max von Schillings, composer, dies at 65
1936 – James Philip Dunn, composer, dies at 52
1944 – Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49
1947 – Ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72
1954 – Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90
1957 – Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers & Thieves), dies at 72
1960 – Carl Deis, composer, dies at 77
1960 – Hans Albers, German actor (Blue Angel), dies at 68
1962 – Victor Moore, comedian, dies of heart attack at 86
1964 – Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies
1965 – Constance Bennett, actress (Madame X, Topper), dies at 59
1965 – Irene Browne, actress (Peg O’ My Heart), dies of cancer at 69
1966 – Tony Lema, US golfer, dies at 32
1967 – Little Billy Rhodes, dies of stroke at 72
1969 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64
1970 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897)
1971 – Alan Rawsthorne, composer, dies at 66
1972 – Bobby Ramirez, drummer (White Trash), killed at 23 in bar brawl
1973 – Mary Frasca, singer/actress, dies in NYC
1974 – Chris Chubbock, newscaster, shoots self on air
1974 – Ernest Milton, actor (Julius Caesar, Cat Girl), dies at 84
Physicist James Chadwick(1974)

1974 – James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82
1979 – Archie Duncan, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65
1980 – Peter Sellers, actor (Pink Panther, Mouse that Roared), dies at 54
1980 – Uttam Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1926)
1986 – Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87
1986 – Laurie Nash, cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1932-36), dies
1989 – Ernest Morrison, actor (Peggy Does Her Darndest), dies
1990 – Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54
1991 – Freddie Brown, cricketer (English Test captain 1950-51), dies
1991 – Isaac B Singer, Polish/US writer (Yentl, Nobel 1978), dies at 87
1991 – Karl Ellis, dies at 41
1992 – Arlette-Leonie Arletty, dies at 94
1992 – Khaled Mahmoud Saeed, asst to Palestine terrorist Abu Nidal, murdered
1992 – Lillian Oppenheimer, orgamist, dies of a heart attack at 93
Actor and Comedian Peter Sellers (1980)

1992 – Sam Berger, Canadian football owner (b. 1900)
1993 – Ben[jamin S] Polak, Dutch physician/resistance fighter, dies
1993 – Francis Bouygues, French entrepreneur/billionaire, dies at 70
1993 – Lonnie D’Orsa, dies at 96
1993 – Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (b. 1957)
1994 – Grete Schickedanz, German head mistress, dies at 82
1994 – Wangila Napunyi, welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1988), dies at 26
1995 – Don Richard Carpenter, novelist, dies at 64
1995 – Jeremiah Jerry Patrick Lordam, songwriter/compser, dies at 61
1995 – Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher, dies at 94
1995 – Werner Grusch, film director, dies at 51
1996 – “Jock” John Wallace, soccer player/manager, dies at 60
1996 – Howard Vernon, actor (Faceless, Delicatessen), dies at 82
1996 – Jock Wallace, football player/manager, dies at 60
1996 – Virginia Christine, actress (Mrs Olson), dies at 76
1997 – Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies
1997 – William J Brennan, supreme court justice (1956-90), dies at 91
2000 – Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (b. 1925)
2001 – Georges Dor, Canadian author, composer, singer and playwright (b. 1931)
2005 – Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (b. 1912)
2007 – Albert Ellis, American psychologist (b. 1913)
2007 – Chaney Kley, American Actor (b. 1972)
2008 – Norman Dello Joio, American composer (b. 1913)
2009 – E. Lynn Harris, American Author (b. 1955)
2010 – Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (b. 1949)
2011 – Frank Dietrich, German politician (b. 1966)
2012 – Chad Everett, American actor, dies from lung cancer at 75
2012 – Sherman Hemsley, American Actor, dies from natural causes at 74
2012 – John Atta Mills, Ghanaian President, dies at 68
2012 – Robert Ledley, American physiologist, biophysicist, and radiologist, dies at 86

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1911 Machu Picchu discovered

• American Revolution

• 1776 Hancock scolds Schuyler

• Automotive

• 1998 Bidding starts on South Korea’s Kia Motors Corp.

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Kernstown, Virginia

• Cold War

• 1959 Nixon and Khrushchev have a “kitchen debate”

• Crime

• 1984 A nine-year-old’s murder puts an innocent man in jail

• Disaster

• 1915 Hundreds drown in Eastland disaster

• General Interest

• 1567 Mary Queen of Scots deposed
• 1847 Mormons settle Salt Lake Valley
• 1969 Kennedy’s goal accomplished

• Hollywood

• 1998 Saving Private Ryan opens in theaters

• Literary

• 1901 O. Henry is released from prison

• Music

• 1982 “Eye Of The Tiger” from Rocky III tops the U.S. pop charts

• Old West

• 1832 Bonneville leads first wagon crossing of South Pass

• Presidential

• 1959 Nixon debates Khrushchev at a fair in Moscow

• Sports

• 2005 Lance Armstrong wins seventh Tour de France

• Vietnam War

• 1965 North Vietnam increases air defense capabilities

• World War I

• 1908 Sultan of Turkey restores constitution at demand of Young Turk rebels

• World War II

• 1943 Operation Gomorrah is launched