July 25th

TODAY IS:

Thread The Needle Day

EVENTS

306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
864 – The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
1139 – Count Alfonso I of Portugal proclaimed King
1261 – Constantinople recaptured by Nicaean forces under Alexios Strategopoulos for Emperor Michael VIII, re-establishing Byzantine Empire.
1360 – Jews are expelled from Breslau, Silesia
1511 – Portuguese forces under Afonso de Albuquerqu first assault the properous trading city of Malacca, Malay Penninsula
1519 – San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba
1521 – About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent
1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the City of Santiago de Cali.
1538 – The City of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
1547 – Henry II of France is crowned.
1564 – Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand I as Holy Roman Emperor
1567 – Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
King of France Henry II

1570 – Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army
1585 – Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics
1593 – France’s Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic faith
1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned James I of English uniting kingdoms of England and Scotland
1652 – Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1670 – Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna
1670 – Don Juan Domingo Zuniga y Fonseca becomes gov-gen of Southern Neth
1689 – France declares war on England
1693 – Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México.
1722 – The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border.
1729 – North Carolina becomes a royal colony
King of Great Britain James I and VI

1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides in the last Jacobite Rebellion
1758 – Seven Years’ War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
1759 – British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years’ War)


The Magna Carta, written in iron gall ink on parchment in medieval Latin

1775 – Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
1792 – Dutch patriots exiles finds “Bataafs Legion”
1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto issued to population of Paris promising vengeance if French Royal Family harmed.
1795 – The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
British Naval Officer Horatio Nelson

1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
1799 – French-Egyptian forces under Napoleon I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir
1814 – Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy’s Lane); Americans defeat British
1814 – George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive
1822 – General Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, 1st Emperor of Mexico
1824 – Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
1832 – 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies
1835 – Ibrahim Pasha’s army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine
1837 – The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
1848 – 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian
1850 – Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
1st Emperor of Mexico Agustín de Iturbide

1853 – Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as “Robin Hood of El Dorado”, is killed.
1854 – Walter Hunt is awarded the first U.S. patent for a paper shirt collar
1860 – 1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yales)
1861 – Washington DC – Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union & uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery
1861 – Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, NM Terr – Rebels attack Union troops
1863 – Skirmish at Barbee’s Crossroads, Virginia
1866 – 25th US Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wisconsin takes office
1866 – David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral in US Navy
1866 – Ulysses S. Grant named 1st general of Army
1868 – US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho)
1871 – Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
US President & Union General Ulysses S. Grant

1897 – Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
1898 – 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
1900 – Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match
1901 – Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps during the South African War
1902 – james j jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1903 – Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
1907 – Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
1908 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
1909 – France’s Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel
1912 – Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries

1913 – Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game
1913 – Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies
1913 – A meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native National Congress, now African National Congress, is attended by a large number of people from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland
1914 – Germany Socialist-Democrat Party declares: “No German blood for Austrian tyrant” in response to German support of Austria-Hungary
1914 – Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66: he made 69 runs
1914 – Serbia meets the deadlines of Austria-Hungary’s ultimatum and gives a conciliatory reply, though Serbia is mobilizing
1916 – Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks
1917 – Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a “temporary” measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1918 – Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif
1918 – Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed)
1920 – Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth’s 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win
1922 – AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA & WFAN)
1923 – German mark devalued to 600,000 Mark=$1
1930 – Phila Athletics triple steal in 1st & 4th innings vs Cleveland
Jazz-orchestra leader, Composer, Pianist Duke Ellington

1933 – 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
1934 – Failed nazi coup in Austria
1936 – 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx
1938 – Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany
1938 – Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet)
1939 – 5th & last Dutch government of Colijn, forms
1939 – NY Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win
1940 – John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hrs 46 mins in the Mississippi River
1941 – FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
1941 – Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory)
1942 – German troops occupy Rostov
1942 – German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
1943 – 1st warship named after an African American launched – USS Leonard Roy Harmon, a Buckley class destroyer
1943 – Benito Mussolini dismissed as Italian Premier and arrested on authority King Victor Emmanuel II
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini

1943 – Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl
1943 – RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam
1944 – -26] Japanse banzai-attack on Guam
1944 – 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
1944 – Allied jailbreak at St-Lo (behind German lines)
1944 – US troop march into Guam
1944 – USAAF kills 136 and wounds 621 GI’s at St-Lo
1944 – World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed.
1946 – US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion)
1946 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewisstage their first show as a comedy team.
1947 – US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Department of Defense
1947 – US Department of Army created
MLB Legend Stan Musial

1949 – St Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Bkln 14-1
1952 – Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth (Constitution Day)
1953 – NYC transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens
1954 – Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open
1956 – 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston
1956 – Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm
1956 – Jordan attacks UN Palestine force
1957 – Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
1957 – Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick for England v WI at Headingley
1957 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 – The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
1959 – SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
1960 – Companie Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
1961 – Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a doubleheader
35th US President John F. Kennedy

1961 – In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
1961 – disney animated film “101 Dalmations”, based on the novel by Dodie Smith and directed by Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske is released in the US
1963 – Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
1963 – US, Russia & Britain sign nuclear Test ban treaty
1964 – “Here’s Love” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 338 performances
1964 – Beatles’ album “A Hard Day’s Night” goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks
1964 – Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford
1964 – Race riot in Rochester NY
1965 – Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electric guitar at Newport Folk Festival
1965 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament
1966 – Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone
1966 – Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison’s “While My Guitar…”
Chinese Communist Revolutionary Mao Zedong

1966 – Mao Zedong swims Yangtse River
1966 – Supremes release “You Can’t Hurry Love”
1966 – Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1967 – Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
1968 – Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth
1969 – 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Fillmore East, NY)
1969 – 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival
1969 – Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
1970 – “(They Long to Be) Close to You” reaches #1
1971 – Judy Kimball wins LPGA O’Sullivan Ladies Golf Open
1972 – 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad
1972 – All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cin Reds)
1972 – US health officials concede African American were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment
Singer-Songwriter George Harrison

1973 – George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album
1973 – USSR launches Mars 5
1975 – “A Chorus Line”, longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres
1976 – Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01)
1976 – Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1978 – Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
1978 – Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
1978 – Cin Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games
1978 – John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image
1978 – The Cerro Maravilla Incident occurs.
1978 – Louise Brown, the world’s first test tube baby is born at Oldham General Hospital England
1979 – 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record)
1980 – Train crash at Winsum, 9 die
MLB Player and Manager Pete Rose

1980 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1981 – Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
1981 – Anti-apartheid protesters in Hamilton, New Zealand, force the cancellation of a rugby test between New Zealand’s All Blacks and South Africa’s Springboks by invading the pitch during the game.
1982 – 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)
1982 – 37th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson
1982 – France performs nuclear Test
1983 – 1st non-human primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
1983 – Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
1984 – Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
1985 – Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
1985 – Steve Cram runs world record mile (3:46.32)
1985 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1985 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 – Uganda suspends constitution following coup
1986 – Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
1987 – Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman’s Championship Belt
1987 – USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
1988 – Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA
1988 – Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France
1989 – Brandi Sherwood of Idaho crowned 7th Miss Teen USA
1990 – “Les Miserables” opens at Princess Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
MLB Third Baseman George Brett

1990 – KC Royal George Brett hits for the cycle
1990 – Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman’s record (41:56.23)
1990 – Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Cincinnati Reds-San Diego Padres game
1990 – US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won’t take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
1990 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1991 – Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles)
1991 – Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479′ HR in Yankee Stadium
1991 – Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use
1992 – 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain
1992 – Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr Mudd
1993 – 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1993 – 48th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten
Comedienne and Actress Roseanne Barr

1993 – Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon
1993 – Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France
1993 – The St James’ Church massacre in Kenilworth, Cape Town by Azanian Peoples’ Liberation Army
1994 – Jordan & Israeli end 46 year state of war (Wash DC)
1995 – A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
1996 – Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs United States
1997 – Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby
1997 – Carroll O’Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian
1997 – Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas
1997 – QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs
1997 – Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling
1997 – Vincent “The Chin” Gigante found guilty of racketeering in NYC
1997 – K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India’s 10th president and the first Dalit— formerly called “untouchable”— to hold this office.
1997 – Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos
1999 – 54th US Women’s Open Golf Championship
2000 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
2001 – Faced with declining oil prices, OPEC ministers agree to cut crude oil production quotas by about 4%, or 1 million barrels per day
2007 – Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India’s first woman president
2012 – The 2012 Summer Olympics begin (Opening ceremony 27th)
2012 – Ivica Dačić is sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia
2012 – Italy’s credit rating is downgraded to CCC+ by Egan-Jones
2012 – The UK economy returns to recession with a fall of 0.2% in GDP in the first quarter of 2012 following a fall of 0.3% in the last quarter of 2011
2012 – The double dip recession in the UK economy continues with a fall of 0.7% in GDP in the second quarter of 2012
2014 – Israeli airstrike kills leader of Islamic Jihad’s military wing, Salah Abu Hassanein
United States Secretary of State John Kerry

2014 – Both Israel and Hamas review US Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal for an immediate ceasefire and meetings in Cairo
2014 – Palestinian officials call for a “Day of Rage” in the West Bank and within Israel against Israel’s operation against Gaza; Israeli Defence Force prepares for protests

BIRTHDAYS

975 – Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg, German chronicler
1016 – Casimir I, Duke of Poland (d. c. 1058)
1109 – Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85)
1336 – Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
1404 – Philips van Saint-Pol, Duke of Brabant
1421 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
1517 – Jacques Peletier (du Mans), French poet/scientist
1562 – Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
1575 – Christoph Scheiner, Germany, astronomer
1579 – Valerius Otto, composer
1626 – Geeraerdt Brandt, Dutch theologist/poet/historian
1639 – Thomas Tompion, Northill Bedfordshire, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel)
1654 – Agostino Steffani, composer
1657 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer
1658 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
1683 – Pieter Langendijk, painter/etcher/playwright (Wiskunstenaars)
1691 – Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini)
1715 – Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of Real Poetry)
1750 – Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806)
1761 – Charlotte von Kalb, German writer
1772 – Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer
1775 – Anna Symmes Harrison, Ohio, 9th 1st lady (1841)
1780 – Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer
1786 – Giacomo Cordella, composer
1795 – James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general (British army)
1797 – Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge (d. 1889)
1799 – David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
1804 – Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Education
1816 – Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition)
1822 – Schuyler Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1903)
1824 – Richard James Oglesby, Union (Union volunteers), (d. 1899)
1832 – Simon Hassler, composer
1839 – Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
1840 – Flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution
1844 – Thomas Eakins, American artist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1848 – Arthur Earl Balfour, (C), British PM (1902-05) (Balfour Declaration)
1855 – Edward Solomon, composer
1857 – Frank Sprague, Milford Connecticut, American Inventor who installed the first U.S. electric trolley system in Richmond, Virgina
1860 – Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught (d. 1917)
1861 – Andrew Cowper Lawson, Anstruther Scotland, Scottish-Canadian Geologist who was the first person to identify and name the San Andreas Fault
1865 – Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist/educator (Contact with Plants)
1866 – Frederick Frost Blackman, English botanist
1867 – Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Ewige Hochzeit)
1867 – Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
1870 – Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch vicar (Young Flanders)
1870 – Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
1874 – Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev, Lublin Poland, Russian Chemist who invented the first commercially viable and mass-produced synthetic rubber
1878 – Heinrich Gebhard, composer
1882 – George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross (d. 1942)
1883 – Alfredo Casella, Turin Italy, composer (La Giara)
Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black (1884)

1884 – Davidson Black, Canada, Paleoanthropologist and doctor of anatomy (identified Peking Man)
1885 – Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Caranchos de la Florida)
1890 – Julian Rivero, SF CA, actor (Son of Oklahoma, Via Pony Express)
1890 – Tom O’Brien, actor (Physical Evidence), born in San Diego, California
1893 – Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper, Danny Boy)
1894 – Walter Brennan, American actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point), born in Lynn, Massachusetts (d.1974)
1895 – Yvonne Printemps, Ermont France, singer/actress (Le Duel)
1896 – Richard N Gale, English general/airborne commander (Normandy)
1896 – Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967)
1897 – Hermann Ambrosius, composer
1899 – Arthur Lubin, film director
1899 – Ralph Dumke, Indiana, actor (Movieland Quiz)
1900 – Enrique Amorim, Uruguayan author (La victoria no viene sola)
1901 – Walter Breedveld/Reinier de Muntel, writer (Een ship vergaat)
1901 – Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
1902 – Eric Hoffer, longshoreman/author (True Believer)
1903 – Andre Fleury, composer
1905 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian/British novelist (Life-Terms, Nobel 1981)
1905 – Lila Lee, Union City NJ, actress (Midnight Girl, Blood & Sand)
1905 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford, writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
1907 – Jack Gilford, actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2), born in NYC, New York
1907 – Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
1908 – Joseph Mitchell, writer
1908 – Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
1908 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician (d. 2003)
1913 – John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man)
Actor and Sportsman Woody Strode (1914)

1914 – Woody Strode, African American actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante, Scream)
1915 – David Napley, solicitor
1916 – Ko van Dijk Jr, Dutch actor (Zaak M P)
1916 – Lucien Saulnier, Quebec politician (d. 1989)
1917 – Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1990)
1918 – Nan Grey, [Eschal Miller], actress (3 Grief Girl, Dracula’s Daughters)
1918 – Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
1919 – Hubert Booi, Bonairian poet (Golgotha/Muchila)
1920 – Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)
1921 – John Christopherson, artist/collector
1923 – Estelle Getty, American actress (“The Golden Girls”, “The Golden Palace”), born in NYC, New York
1923 – Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007)
Actress Estelle Getty (1923)

1924 – Frank Church, (Sen-D-Id, 1957-81)
1925 – Alistair Taylor, cricketer (one Test as opening bat for S Afr 1956)
1925 – Jerry Paris, SF California, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1926 – Teodor Grigoriu, composer
1926 – Whitey Lockman, American baseball player
1927 – Midge Decter, St Paul Minn, anti woman’s lib (Liberated Woman…)
1927 – Stanley Dancer, harness racer (4 Hambletonians, 3 Trot Triple Crown)
1927 – Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003)
1927 – Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000)
1928 – Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
1929 – Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
1929 – Eddie Mazur, Canadian hockey player (d. 1995)
1930 – Maureen Forrester, Montreal Canada, contralto (Ressurection Symphony)
1930 – Murray Chapple, cricketer (NZ Test batsman through the 1950’s)
1930 – Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990)
1930 – Annie Ross, British jazz singer
1931 – Cornelis P van Dijk, Dutch minister of the Interior
1932 – Gibson N Kente, composer
1932 – Paul Joseph Weitz, Erie Pennsylvania, astronaut (Skylab 2, STS 6)
1934 – Claude Zidi, French film director and screenwriter
1935 – Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi businessman/billionaire/arms dealer
1935 – Barbara Harris, [Sandra Mankwitz], actress (Plaza Suite, Family Plot)
1935 – Larry Sherry, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1935 – Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader
1936 – Gerry Ashmore, British racing driver
1936 – Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect
1937 – Colin Renfrew, English archeologist
1939 – Richard Akre Trythall, composer
1940 – John Pennel, pole vaulter (James E Sullivan Award-1963)
NBA Forward Nate Thurmond (1941)

1941 – Nate Thurmond, Akron Ohio, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1941 – Raul Ruiz, Puerto Mott Chile, actor (Lexot, Capitolo 66)
1941 – Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer
1941 – Emmett Till, American lynching victim, born in Chicago, Illinois
1942 – Felix Ph Ingold, writer
1943 – Janet Margolin, actress (Take the Money & Run, David & Lisa), born in NYC, New York
1943 – Jim McCarty, rock drummer (Yardbirds-For Your Love), born in Liverpool, England
1943 – Roy Acuff Jr, American country musician
1944 – Helga I “Mijanou” van Baarzel, Dutch actress (Klaverweide-Alicia)
1944 – Molly Bennett Aiken, founder (riding for the handicapped)
1944 – Tom Dawes, rocker
1945 – Donna Theodore, Broadway singer (Hollywood Talent Scouts)
Murder Victim Emmett Till(1941)

1946 – John Gibson, American media host
1948 – Brian M[ichael] Stableford, UK, sci-fi author (Day of Wrath)
1948 – Steve Goodman, singer/songwriter (Somebody Elses Trouble), born in Chicago, Illinois
1950 – Mark Clarke, rocker (Uriah Heep)
1951 – Vanessa, [Conny Witteman], Dutch model/singer
1951 – Verdine White, US bassist (Earth, Wind & Fire)
1952 – “Gorgeous” Jimmy Garvin, [Williams], NWA/WCW/AWA wrestler
1954 – Ken Greer, rock guitarist (Red Rider)
1954 – Lynn Frederick, Middlesex England, actress (Schizophrenia)
1954 – Walter Payton, Columbia Mississippi, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
1955 – Bantubonke Holomisa, minister of Defense of Transkei (1988- )
1955 – Iman, [Abdulmajid], Mogadishu Somalia, model/actress (Star Trek 6)
1955 – Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder
NFL Running Back Walter Payton (1954)

1957 – Bogdan Musiol, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1957 – Daniel W Bursch, Bristol PA, Lt Cmdr USN/Astronaut (STS 51, 68, 77)
1957 – Ray Billingsley, comic strip cartoonist (Curtis)
1957 – Roger Clinton, singer, President Clinton’s half-brother
1958 – Henk Wanders, Dutch bassist (Frank Boeijen Group)
1958 – Thurston Moore, US guitarist/songwriter (Sonic Youth)
1960 – Evelyn “Champagne” King, Bronx NY, disco singer (Shame, I’m in Love)
1960 – Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
1961 – Katherine Kelly Lang, actress (Brooke-Bold & Beautiful), born in Los Angeles, California
1961 – Bobbie Eakes, American actress
1962 – Doug Drabek, Victoria TX, pitcher (Houston Astros, NY Yankees)
1962 – Mike Buncic, Patterson NJ, discus thrower
1963 – Denis Coderre, French Canadian politician
1963 – Julian Hodgson, English chess player
1964 – Jose Bautista, Bani Dom Rep, pitcher (SF Giants)
1964 – Tony Granato, Downers Grove, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1965 – Illeana Douglas, Mass, actress (Picture Perfect, To Die For, Hacks)
1965 – Marty Brown, Owensboro Ky, country singer (Wildest Dreams)
1965 – Tom Dvorak, Braunschwieg GER, Canada equestrian dressage (Olympics-96)
1965 – Torey Lovullo, infielder (Oakland A’s), born in Santa Monica, California
1966 – Elke Jeinsen, Hanover Germany, playmate (May, 1993)
1966 – Maureen Herman, American bassist
1966 – Lynda Lemay, French Canadian singer
1966 – Christine C. Quinn, American politician
1967 – Dave Jareckie, Mexico City Mexico, US biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1967 – Ed Sprague, Castro Valley CA, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
Actor Matt LeBlanc (1967)

1967 – Matt LeBlanc, Newton Massachusetts, actor (Joey Tribbiani-Friends)
1967 – Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress
1967 – Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee
1969 – Andrea Wieland, field hockey goaltender (Olympics-96), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1969 – Angela Melini, Saigon, Vietnam, playmate (Jun, 1992)
1969 – Jon Barry, NBA guard (LA Lakers, Golden State Warriors)
1969 – Kevin Smith, NFL tight end (Oakland Raiders)
1969 – Trevor Peres, US, metal guitarist (Obituary-The End Complete)
1970 – Nicholas CEJ Windsor, son of English prince Edward, duke of Kent
1971 – Billy Wagner, Marion VA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1971 – Pedro Martinez, Manoguayabo Dom Rep, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1971 – Stacy Dawn Cenedese, Miss USA-Wyoming (1997)
1971 – Tracy Murray, NBA forward (Toronto Raptors, Wash Wizards)
1971 – Roger Creager, American country music singer-songwriter
1972 – Craig Howard, Redding California, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Rolex)
1972 – Kevin Roberts, cricketer (NSW middle-order batsman since 1994-95)
1973 – Dani Filth, British singer (Cradle of Filth)
1973 – David Denman, American actor
1973 – Kevin Phillips, English footballer
1973 – Mur Lafferty, American podcaster and writer
1974 – Lysa Jackson, Miss South Carolina USA (1996)
1974 – Todd Fuller, NBA center (SF Warriors)
1974 – Jay R Ferguson, Dallas, Texas, American actor (Evening Shade, Mad Men)
1974 – Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler
1975 – Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer
1976 – Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet
1976 – Javier Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1977 – Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
1978 – Caroline Nicole Brigman, Miss South Carolina Teen USA (1997)
1978 – Louise Joy Brown, Oldham England, world’s first test tube baby
1978 – Gerard Warren, American football player
1979 – Amy Adams, American singer
1979 – Allister Carter, English professional snooker player
1980 – Toni Vilander, Finnish racing driver
1980 – Diam’s, French rapper
1980 – Shawn Riggans, American baseball player
1981 – Conor Casey, American soccer player
1981 – Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player
1982 – Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)
1982 – Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer
1984 – Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
1985 – James Lafferty, American actor
1985 – Jasmine Lennard, English model
1985 – Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian race car driver
1987 – Michael Welch, American actor
1988 – Heather Marks, Canadian model
1988 – Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
1989 – Noel Callahan, Canadian actor

WEDDINGS

1814 – Inventor Charles Babbage (21) weds Georgina Whitmore at St. Michael’s Church in Devon, England
1839 – British PM William Gladstone (29) weds Catherine Glynne (27) in England
1986 – Four-time tennis player champ Hana Mandlikova (24) weds restaurateur Jan Sedlak at Prague’s old town hall
1993 – Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44)
2009 – “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” actor Marc Blucas (37) weds journalist Ryan Haddon (38) in Erie, Pennsylvania

DIVORCES

1988 – Heiress Julia Stimson Thorne (43) divorces politician John Kerry (44) after 18 years of marriage
2012 – Actress Sunny Mabrey (36) divorces “Brotherhood” actor Ethan Embry (34) due to irreconcilable differences after almost 7 years marriage

DEATHS

306 – Gaius Flavius V Constantius, under-emperor of Rome 297-306, dies
1409 – King Martin I of Sicily
1471 – John Soreth, French general, dies
1492 – Innocent VII, [Giovanni B Cibo], Italian Pope (1484-92), dies
1539 – Lorenzo Campeggi(east), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat, dies at 65
1564 – Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1558-64), dies at 61
1570 – Ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, executed
1580 – Baltazar Alvarez, Spanish jesuit/writer, dies at 47
1593 – Steven Haghen, navigator/governor of Ambon (1617-18), dies at 61
1616 – Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies
1624 – Steven van der Haghen, admiral/gov on Ambon 1617-8, dies at about 61
1643 – Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
1675 – Nicolas Saboly, composer, dies at 61
1676 – François Hédelin, abbé d’Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
1681 – Urian Oakes, English-born President of Harvard University (b. 1631)
1721 – Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral of Zealand, dies at 66
1739 – Johannes van der Hagen, vicar/genealogy/chronologist, dies at 73
1759 – Johann C Altnikol, German organist/klavecinist/composer, dies at 39
1759 – Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor, dies
1790 – Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)
1790 – William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
1791 – Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)
1794 – Andrea-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Francais sur leurs), dies
1804 – William Forsyth, English gardening expert (Forsythia), dies
1814 – Charles Dibdin, composer, dies at 69
1826 – Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer, hanged at 33 [OS Jul 13]
1826 – Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
Poet, critic, and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1834)

1834 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, dies at 61
1842 – Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)
1843 – Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
1853 – Joaquin Murieta, Mexican born Californian outlaw
1857 – Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54
1861 – Jonas Furrer, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1805)
1864 – Clement Hoffman Stevens, Us banker/inventor/Confederate brigadier general, dies at 42
1865 – “James Barry”, military surgeon, first womanin Great Britain to become a qualified medical doctor
1866 – Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist, dies
1887 – John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
1911 – Filippo Capocci, composer, dies at 71
1918 – Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentine poet (Mexico, canto epico), dies
1918 – Franiska zu Reventlow, writer, dies at 47
1922 – Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer, dies at 75
1927 – Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies
1932 – Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (It Bolleken), dies [or 1936]
1934 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian chancellor assassinated by nazis
1934 – Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1889)
1934 – François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (b. 1874)
1944 – Lesley J McNair, US lt-general, killed by US bomb at St-Lo
1946 – Narziss Oh, German psychology, dies
1952 – Herbert Murrill, composer, dies at 43
1955 – Ilmari Hannikainen, composer, dies at 62
1955 – Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer, dies at 55
1958 – “Sensational” Sherri Martel, woman’s wrestling champ (WWF)
1958 – Harry Warner, US movie pionier (Warner Bros), dies at 81
1959 – Isaac Halevi Herzog, chief rabbi of Israel (1936-59), dies at 71
1962 – Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist and Chief Justice (b. 1879)
1963 – Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
1966 – Frank O’Hara, writer, dies at 40
1966 – Montgomery Clift, movie actor (From Here to Eternity), dies
1967 – W Gombrowicz, writer, dies at 62
1969 – Douglas Stuart Moore, composer, dies at 75
1971 – Leroy Robertson, composer, dies at 74
12th Prime Minister of Canada Louis St. Laurent(1973)

1973 – Louis St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada, dies of natural causes at 91
1980 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (b. 1938)
1981 – Ian Martin, actor (Uncle Bill-O’Neills), dies at 69
1982 – Beene Dubbelboer, writer (Turfgasgenerator), dies at 76
1982 – Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (Prince Valiant) (b. 1892)
1983 – Jerome Moross, US composer (Frankie & Johnny), dies at 69
1984 – Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
1984 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
1986 – Theodore H “Ted” Lyons, pitcher (Chicago White Sox), dies at 85
1986 – Vincente Minnelli, American director (Gigi, Goodbye Charlie), dies in LA at 76
1987 – Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce, dies of internal injuries
1987 – Eric Mntonga, co-director of the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA), found on a dirt road a day after he had been detained at a police station
1987 – Charles Stark Draper, American Scientist and Engineer (Apollo Guidance Computer and inertial navigation technology), dies at 85
1989 – Steve Rubell, American night club owner (b. 1943)
1991 – Brian Haines, actor (Adv of Robin Hood, It), dies at 70
1991 – Kaganovitch, Russian minister of Transport for Stalin, dies
1991 – Toni Gerry, actress (Bullet for Joey, Lust for Life), dies at 61
1992 – Alfred Drake, Broadway actor (Oklahoma), dies of heart failure at 78
1992 – Hope Miller, actress (Bwana Devil), dies of breast cancer at 63
1993 – Nan Grey, actress (Invisible Man Returns), dies on 75th birthday
1993 – Vincent Joseph Schaefer, American Chemist and Meteorologist (cloud seeding), dies at 87
1994 – John M Dengler, jazz Bass Sax/Trumpet/Trombone, dies at 67
1995 – Charlie Rich, country singer (Lonely Weekends), dies at 62
1995 – Janice Elliott, novelist, dies at 63
1995 – Osvaldo Pugliese, musician/composer, dies at 89
1996 – Raymond O’Malley, teacher, dies at 87
Golfer Ben Hogan (1997)

1997 – Ben Hogan, golfer (Masters, Brit Open, US Open-1953), dies at 84
1997 – Dora Maar, Picasso model/companion, dies at 89
1997 – Margaret Farrer, midwife, dies at 83
1998 – Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
2002 – Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher (b. 1917)
2003 – Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)
2003 – Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)
2003 – John Schlesinger, British film director (b. 1926)
2005 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
2006 – Carl Brashear, first African-American U.S Navy Master Diver (b. 1931)
2007 – Bernd Jakubowski, German goalkeeper (b. 1952)
2007 – Jesse Marunde, American strongman competitor (b. 1979)
2008 – Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his “Last Lecture” (b. 1960)
2008 – Tracy Hall, American inventor (b. 1919)
2008 – Jeff Fehring, Australian rules footballer (b. 1955)
2009 – Harry Patch, the last surviving soldier to have served in the Trenches in World War I, dies aged 111. (b. 1898)
2009 – Vernon Forrest, Professional boxer, 2-division world champion (b. 1971)
2009 – Alexis Cohen, American Idol contestant (unsuccessful), viral phenomenon (b. 1984)
2009 – Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter (b. 1958)
2010 – Redford White, Filipino comedian (b. 1955)
2011 – Mihalis Kakogiannis, Cypriot filmmaker (b. 1922)
2013 – Bernadette Lafont, French actress, dies from cardiac arrest at 74
2014 – Salah Abu Hassanein, leader of Islamic Jihad’s military wing, dies in Israeli airstrike
2014 – Bel Kaufman, American actor, dies at 103

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1978 World’s First Test Tube Baby Born

• American Revolution

• 1780 General Gates takes command of the southern army

• Automotive

• 1941 Henry Ford writes fan letter to Mahatma Gandhi

• Civil War

• 1861 Congress passes Crittenden-Johnson Resolution

• Cold War

• 1969 The Nixon Doctrine is announced

• Crime

• 1853 Head of frontier bandit placed on display
• 1988 A young man turns the death of his parents into a game

• Disaster

• 2000 Concorde jet crashes

• General Interest

• 1832 The first railroad accident
• 1898 Puerto Rico invaded
• 1956 Ships collide off Nantucket
• 1965 Dylan appears at Newport Folk Fest

• Hollywood

• 1985 Rock Hudson announces he has AIDS

• Literary

• 1897 Jack London sails for the Klondike

• Music

• 1965 Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival

• Old West

• 1853 California Rangers kill Joaquin Murrieta

• Presidential

• 1945 Truman drops hint to Stalin about a terrible new weapon

• Sports

• 1992 Opening of the XXV Olympiad in Barcelona

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Joint Chiefs propose air strikes
• 1969 Nixon announces new doctrine

• World War I

• 1917 Mata Hari sentenced to die

• World War II

• 1943 Mussolini falls from power