July 27th

TODAY IS:

Take Your Houseplant For a Walk Day
Walk on Stilts Day

EVENTS

432 – St Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1214 – 1st battle of Bouvines – King Philips II vs Emperor Otto IV
1230 – Treaty of San-Germano between Emperor Frederik II & Pope Gregory IX
1280 – Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China
1298 – Albert (Albrecht) I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned King of the Germans
1360 – Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland
1501 – Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
1549 – Jesuit priest Francis Xavier’s ship reached Japan.
1563 – French army recaptures Le Havre
1586 – Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia
1641 – Prince Frederik Henry captures castle of Gennep
1643 – Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough
1655 – Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery
1655 – Netherlands & Brandenburg sign military treaty
1661 – English Parliament confirms Navigation Act
1663 – English Parliament accepts Staple Act
1689 – Battle of Killicrankie: Jacobite Scottish Highlanders under Viscount Dundee defeat royalist force under General MacKay
Explorer Walter Raleigh

1694 – Bank of England granted 12 year charter by Act of Parliament
1713 – Russia & Turkey sign peace treaty
1714 – Battle at Hango (Hangut): Russians beat Swedish fleet
1714 – British Queen Anne dismisses premier Robert Haley
1720 – The second important victory of the Russian Navy – the Battle of Grengam.
1789 – US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs (State dept)
1794 – Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris
1795 – Spain & France sign peace treaty
1809 – Battle of Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army
1816 – US troops destroy Fort Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
1830 – Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X
1836 – Adelaide, South Australia, founded
1837 – US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC
1839 – Chartist riots break out in Birmingham, England
1844 – Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, NC
1861 – Battle of Mathias Point, VA – Rebel forces repel a Federal landing
1861 – Battle of St Augustine Springs, NM Terr
1861 – Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico
Union General George McClellan

1861 – Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army
1862 – Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die
1862 – Steamer “Golden Gate” burns & sinks off west coast of Mexico
1864 – Battle of Darbytown, VA (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains)
1865 – Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
1866 – Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
1880 – A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil
1880 – Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson is wounded, breaks out
1884 – The East Cleveland Street Railway Company begins the first U.S. commercial electric streetcar line in Cleveland, Ohio, on the Bentley-Knight system
1888 – Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile
1891 – Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as governor of Suriname
1897 – 14.75″ (37.5 cm) of rainfall, Jewell, Maryland (state 24-hr record)
1897 – Dutch government of Pierson/Goeman Borgesius resigns
1898 – Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Dancing Men” (BG)
Aviator Orville Wright

1909 – Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s
1913 – Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France
1914 – Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade
1914 – Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government.
1917 – The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
1918 – Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, NY
1919 – Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)
1920 – Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation
1920 – Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America’s Cup
1921 – 2nd government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
1921 – Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto
Physician Frederick Banting

1922 – International Geographical Union forms in Brussels
1924 – 8th Olympic games closes in Paris
1927 – Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park)
1928 – AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms
1928 – Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July.
1929 – Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished
1930 – Andre Leducq wins Tour de France
1930 – 25th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (4-1)
1931 – Chilean president Carlos Ibáñez forced out
1931 – Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr & SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops
1932 – Paul Gorgoulov, assassin of French president Doumer, sentenced to death
1934 – French socialist/communist party of People’s Front forms
1935 – Floods at Yangtzee Jiang & Hoangh, kills 200,000
1937 – 32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1)
1940 – Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
1940 – Bugs Bunny debuts in “Wild Hare”
1941 – 103°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
1941 – German army enters Ukraine
1941 – Japanese forces land in Indo-China
1943 – 772 British bombers attack Hamburg
1944 – 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)
1944 – Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp
1944 – US regains possession of Guam from Japanese
1944 – US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy
1945 – Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from NY Yankees
1945 – US Communist Party forms
1946 – Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs
1947 – Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak
1948 – Australia set 404 to win v England at Headingley
Cricket Legend Donald Bradman

1948 – Bradman’s 29th & last Test Cricket century, part of winning 3-404
1948 – Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt
1949 – 1st jet-propelled airline (De Havilland Comet) flies
1950 – Pres Harry Truman promises aid to Taiwan
1952 – Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (2:23:03.2)
1953 – North Korea & UN sign armistice
1953 – Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory
1953 – Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, & Bill Klem & Tom Connolly are inducted into Hall of Fame
1954 – 36th PGA Championship: Chick Herbert at Keller GC St Paul Minn
1954 – Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries
1955 – Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation
1955 – Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die
1956 – Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia’s 1st innings at Manchester
1957 – St James’ Theater in London closes
1958 – Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open
1959 – Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut
1959 – William Shea announces plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961
37th US President Richard Nixon

1960 – US Vice-president Richard Nixon nominated for presidential candidate at Republican convention in Chicago
1962 – Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission
1962 – Martin Luther King Jr. jailed in Albany Georgia
1962 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 – Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1963 – General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria
1965 – Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government
1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking
1967 – Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns
1967 – Helmond Sport soccer team forms
1967 – LBJ sets up commission to study cause of urban violence
1967 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson

1968 – Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open
1968 – Race Riot in Gary Indiana
1969 – 15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1969 – Pioneer 10 launched
1970 – Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game
1970 – France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1970 – L Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, & Jesse Haines enter Hall of Fame
1972 – The F-15 Eagle flies for the first time.
1973 – 40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103)
1973 – Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners
1974 – House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment
1974 – Kanhai & Jameson add 465 for 2nd wicket, Warwickshire v Gloucs
1975 – Carol Mann wins LPGA George Washington Ladies Golf Classic
1975 – The British government closes its consulate in Angola following increasing fighting between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola and South African troops
LPGA Golfer Betsy Rawls

1976 – 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese
1976 – Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested (Lockheed Affair)
1977 – John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US
1978 – Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd to hit 2 bases-loaded triples (vs Yanks)
1978 – Portuguese pres Eanes fires premier Soares
1979 – “Broadway Opry ’79” opens at St James Theater NYC for 6 performances
1979 – France performs nuclear Test
1980 – Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead
1980 – Sally Little wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1982 – California catches A’s Rickey Henderson stealing 3 times
1982 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s first visit to the US in almost 11 years
1982 – Menken & Ashman’s musical “Little Shop of Horrors” premieres in NYC
4th Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi

1983 – 104°F (40.3°C) in Garmersdorf (German record)
1983 – Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan & Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal
1984 – Reds’ Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single (vs Phila)
1986 – 14th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
1986 – 24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague Czech (3-0)
1986 – Greg LeMond is 1st American to win Tour de France
1986 – Iraqi jets attack central Iranian city of Arak; Iran threatens missile attack of gulf states supporting Iraq
1987 – John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi “Ivan the Terrible”, testifies in Israel
1987 – Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive
1987 – First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreck begins by RMS Titanic, Inc.
1988 – Boston’s worst traffic jam in 30 years
LPGA Golfer Pat Bradley

1988 – General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as pres of Burma
1988 – Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer
1988 – Baseball star Tommy John commits rec 3 errors on 1 play as Yanks rout Brewers 16-3
1989 – Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)
1990 – Graham Gooch scores 333 v India at Lord’s
1990 – Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 mins in county cricket, world record
1990 – White-Russia declares independence
1990 – Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop
1991 – TV Guide publishes its 2000th edition
1992 – Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Rep Natl Convention
1992 – Dimitri Lepikov, Vladimir Pychenko, Veniamin Taianovitch & Evgueni
1992 – Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95)
Anti-apartheid activist and South African President Nelson Mandela

1992 – Nelson Mandela says that a general strike will go ahead; the aim of the mass protest was the peaceful removal of President De Klerk from power, the immediate transfer of political power to the people and free and fair elections to a constituent assembly
1993 – Detroit Tiger Fryman hits for cycle but loses 12-7 to Yankees
1993 – Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high
1993 – Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed
1993 – NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million
1993 – NY Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games
1995 – In Washington, DC, the Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated.
1996 – Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured
1996 – David Sales makes 210 on 1st class cricket debut for Northants v Worcs
1997 – “Candide” closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 103 performances
1997 – “Victor/Victoria” closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 738 performances
1997 – Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser’s #16
1997 – Franklin Quest Senior Golf Championship
1997 – Stewart Cink wins golfs Greater Hartford Open (267)
1997 – Tammie Green wins Giant Eagle LPGA Classic
1997 – Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.
Skateboarder Tony Hawk

1999 – Tony Hawk is the first skateboarder to land a “900”
2002 – Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
2003 – A group of 321 Filipino armed soldiers called “Magdalo” took over the Oakwood Premier Ayala Center in Makati City to show the Filipino people the alleged corruption of the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration
2005 – STS-114: NASA grounds the Space shuttle, pending an investigation of the external tank’s continued foam-shedding problem. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam does not strike the spacecraft.
2006 – The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
14th President of the Philippines Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

2007 – Phoenix News Helicopter Collision: News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there were no survivors. This was the first known incidence of two news helicopters colliding in mid-air, and the worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.
2012 – Queen Elizabeth II announces the opening of the London 2012 Olympics at the opening ceremony
2012 – 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony occurs
2013 – 100 people are killed and 1,500 injured in a crackdown against protesters in Cairo, Egypt
2013 – 1,000 inmates escape from a prison in Benghazi, Libya
2013 – First Przewalski’s horse (whose wild populations were believed extinct in 1969) is born via artificial insemination at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute as part of a worldwide effort to rebuild the wild herds
2014 – Vincenzo Nibali of Italy wins the Tour de France
Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II

2014 – Liberia shuts down most of its borders with fears about the spread of Ebola epidemic
2014 – Obama reaffirms Israel’s “right to defend itself”, but condemns civilian casualties in Gaza

BIRTHDAYS

1452 – Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Lombardy, Italian duke of Milan (1494-1508), (commissioned The Last Supper), (d. 1508)
1502 – Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer
1518 – Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury/builder of country houses
1609 – Heinrich Pape, composer
1612 – Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40)/conquered Baghdad
1625 – Edward Montagu, England
1667 – Jean Bernoulli, mathematician
1733 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
1734 – Jakob Zupan, composer
1740 – Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803)
1741 – Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer
1752 – Samuel Smith, American politician
1768 – Charlotte Corday d’Armont, murdered Jean-Paul Marat in bath
1773 – Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (d. 1844)
1777 – Thomas Campbell, poet (Hohenlinden, Battle of the Baltic)
1781 – Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer
1784 – Andre-Georges-Louis Onslow, English/French composer (chamber music)
Duke of Milan Ludovico Sforza (1452)

1784 – Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
1801 – George Biddle Airy, 7th Astronomer Royal
1802 – Benedikt Randhartinger, composer
1812 – Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1897)
1820 – John Franklin Farnsworth, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1824 – Alexandre Dumas fils, France, playwright/novelist (Camille)
1833 – Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923)
1835 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1907)
1840 – Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1848 – Vladimir de Pachmann, painter
1848 – Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919)
1848 – Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Guttstadt, Province of Prussia (now Warmia in Poland), German physicist who discovered that radon is emitted from radium
1849 – John Hopkinson, Manchester, U.K., British physicist and electrical engineer (Hopkinson’s Law)
1853 – Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (d. 1921)
1857 – Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator
1857 – Jose Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rico, found Federalist Party in 1900
1867 – Enrique Granados, Spain, composer
1870 – Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, England, author (Path to Rome)
1872 – Stanislav Binicki, composer
1877 – Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1960)
1878 – Th to de Weeme, painter
1879 – Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Il Libro Della Giovinezza)
1879 – Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1960)
1880 – Donald Crisp, Scotland, actor (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana)
1880 – Joseph Tinker, baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of fame double play combo
Physicist and Nobel Laureate Hans Fischer (1881)

1881 – Hans Fischer, Munich Germany, physicist (Nobel 1930), (d. 1945)
1882 – Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (d. 1965)
1886 – Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970)
1890 – Judith Lowry, Ft Sill OK, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays …)
1894 – Gerald F Bogan, US vice-admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)
1896 – Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969)
1898 – Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother]
1899 – Perc Hornibrook, Australian cricket left-arm bowler (20’s)
1900 – Charles Vidor, Budapest Hungary, direct (Rhapsody, Gilda, Cover Girl)
1900 – Hans Haug, composer
1903 – Clive Martin Douglas, composer
1903 – Nikolai Cherkasov, St Petersburg Russia, actor (Ivan the Terrible)
1903 – Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (d. 2002)
1904 – Agnes Yarnall, sculptor, artist, author laa, 1987
1904 – Anton Dolin, [Patrick Healey-Kay], dancer (Girl From Petrovka)
1904 – Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist
Baseball Player and Manager Leo Durocher (1906)

1906 – Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants), born in West Springfield, Massachusetts
1906 – Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist (d. 1999)
1906 – Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (d. 2000)
1907 – Denis Rickett, private secretary to Clement Attlee
1907 – Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater/judge (Olympics 1932,36)
1908 – Lord Jenkins of Putney, British MP of Arts (Labour)
1909 – Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor
1910 – Bea Marcia Anastasia verbrook Christoforides, writer
1910 – Julien Gracq, [Louis Poirier], French writer (Andre Breton)
1911 – Wilfrid Ewart Oulton, airman
1911 – Rayner Heppenstall, British novelist (d. 1981)
1912 – Hilde Domin, writer
1912 – Igor Markevitch, Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Le Paradis Perdu)
1912 – Vernon Elliott, musician/composer
1913 – Eva Jones, poet/novelist
1913 – Mary Green, headmistress (Kidbrooke School)
1913 – Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet (Diario d’Algeria)
1913 – George L. Street III American Navy Submariner (d. 2000)
1915 – Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini)
1915 – Jack Iverson, Australian cricket mystery spinner (late 40’s)
1916 – Asfa Wossen, Crown prince of Ethiopia/son of emperor Haile Selassi
1916 – Elbert “Skippy” Williams, tenor Sax player
1916 – Kennan Wynn, actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor), born in NYC, New York
1916 – Siegfried Reda, composer
1917 – John Cunningham, executive director (British Aerospace)
1917 – Moses Rascoe, blues Singer
1917 – Robert Cowans, executive director (British Aerospace)
1917 – Bourvil, French actor (d. 1970)
1918 – Eero Aukusti Sipila, composer
1918 – Leonard Rose, Washington DC, concert cellist (NY Phil 1943-51)
1920 – Beatrice Pearson, Dennison Texas, actress (Moving Finger)
1920 – James Munn, commissioner (British University)
1921 – Émile Genest, Quebec actor (d. 2003)
1922 – Adolfo Celi, Sicily Italy, director (Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue)
1922 – Bob Thiele, record producer
1922 – Lillian Hayman, Balt Md, actress (Leslie Uggams Show)
1922 – Norman Lear, TV writer/producer (All in The Family)
1923 – Masutatsu Oyama, Japanese Kyokushin founder (d. 1994)
1924 – Otar Vasil’yevich Taktakishvili, composer
1924 – Vincent Canby, critic (NY Times)
1926 – Peter Coker, captain
1927 – Sat Mahajan, Indian politician
1927 – Allen Breed, USA, American inventor of the first automotive airbag sensor, born in Chicago, Illinois
1927 – Guy Carawan, folk singer and folklorist (popularized “We shall Overcome”), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2015)
1928 – Sakari Mononen, composer
1928 – Karloff Lagarde, Mexican lucha libre wrestler (d. 2007)
1929 – Harvey Fuqua, rock vocalist (Moonglows-Sincerely)
1929 – Jack Higgins, [Harry Patterson], novelist
1929 – Marc Wilkinson, composer
1930 – Ronald Dearing, chairman (British Post Office)
1930 – Shirley Williams, co-founder (Social Democratic Party)/labour minister
1931 – Jerry Van Dyke, Danville Ill, actor (My Mother the Car, Coach)
1931 – Khieu Samphan, Cambodian politician
1932 – Beverly B Byron, (Rep-D-MD, 1979- )
1932 – Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker’s union leader
1932 – Robert Cowan, CEO (Highlands & Islands Enterprises)
1933 – Nick Reynolds, rocker (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons)
1933 – Roger Harris, cricketer (NZ opening batsman vs England 1959)
1933 – Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (d. 1995)
1934 – John Pardoe, CEO (Sight & Sound Education)/Liberal MP
1935 – Billy McCullough, Northern Irish footballer
1936 – J. Robert Hooper, American politician
1937 – Anna Dawson, British comedienne (Violet-Keeping Up Appearances)
1937 – Chuck Jackson, Latta SC, singer (Any Day Now, I Don’t Want to Cry)
1937 – Don Galloway, Brooksville Ky, actor (Arrest & Trial, Ironside)
1937 – Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator
1938 – Shirley Anne Field, England, actress (Alfie, War Lover) [or Jun 27]
1938 – Isabelle Aubret, French singer
1938 – Gary Gygax, American role-playing game creator (d. 2008)
1939 – Irv Cross, NFL sportscaster (CBS-TV)
1939 – James McGee, pathologist/professor (Morbid Anatomy at Oxford)
1939 – James Victor, Puerto Rico, actor (Boulevard Night, Streets of LA)
1940 – Pina Bausch, German dancer
1941 – Johannes Fritsch, composer
1942 – Barbara Ferris, actress (Nice Girl Like Me), born in London, England
1942 – John Pleshette, actor (Richard-Knots Landing, 7th Avenue), born in NYC, New York
1942 – Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician
1942 – Dennis Ralston, American tennis player
1943 – Al Ramsey, NJ, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1943 – Stu Gilliam, actor/comedian (Roll Out, Harris & Company), born in Detroit, Michigan
1944 – Aleksandr Ivanovich Dedkov, cosmonaut
1944 – Bobbie Gentry, Mississippi, singer/songwriter (Ode to Billy Joe)
1944 – Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist
1946 – Gwynne Gilford, actress (Linda Harris-Waverly Wonders), born in Los Angeles, California
1946 – Ricardo Anasagasti, [Ricardo M Meul], Curacao, dancer/actor
1946 – Toktar Ongarbajewitch Aubakirov, Kazakhstan, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13)
1946 – Rade Šerbedžija, Croatian actor
1947 – Betty Thomas, St Louis Mo, actress (Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues)
1947 – Wayne Dowdy, (Rep-D-MS, 1981- )
1948 – Henny Vrienten, Dutch bassist/singer (Doe Maar)
1948 – Peggy Fleming Jenkins, figure skater (Olym-gold-1968), born in San Jose, California
1949 – David Muse, rocker (Firefall)
1949 – Jeremy Thomas, actor (Family Life)
Singer Maureen McGovern(1949)

1949 – Maureen McGovern, Youngstown Oh, singer (Got To Be a Morning After)
1949 – André Dupont, Quebec ice hockey player
1950 – Michael Vaughn, rocker (Paper Lace)
1950 – Simon Jones, Willshire England, comedian (News is the News)
1951 – Janet Eilber, actress (Hard to Hold, Romantic Comedy), born in Detroit, Michigan
1952 – Hannu-Pekka Hänninen, Finnish sports commentator
1953 – Wim G J M van de Camp, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1953 – Yahoo Serious, Australian comedian
1954 – G. S. Bali, Indian politician
1955 – Allan Border, cricket captain (Australia)
1955 – Cat Bauer, American novelist
1956 – Carol Leifer, American actress
1957 – Gezina E “Liesbeth” van Apeldoorn, Dutch actress (Composer)
1957 – Hansi Muller, skier
1957 – Matt Osborne, American professional wrestler
1958 – Christopher Dean, Olympics skater (Torvill & Dean/Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 – David East, cricketer
1960 – Christina Singer, Geoppingen Germany, tennis star
1960 – Jo Durie, England, tennis player
1960 – Reinaldo de Carvalho, carnival King
1961 – Daniel C Burbank, Manchester Ct, Lt cmdr USCG/astronaut
1962 – Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (d. 2005)
1963 – Jason Buck, WLAF defensive end (Scottish Claymores)
1964 – Rex Brown, American musician (Pantera)
1965 – José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan footballer
1966 – Al Charron, Rugby Union forward (Canada)
1967 – Craig Wolanin, Grosse Pointe, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche)
1967 – Emiel van Eijkeren, soccer player (FC The Hague/NEC)
1967 – Jeff Novak, NFL tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1967 – Neil Smith, cricketer (Warwickshire & England A all-rounder)
1967 – Sasha Mitchell, actor (Spike of Bensonhurst), born in Los Angeles, California
1967 – Juliana Hatfield, American musician
1967 – Kellie Waymire, American actress (d. 2003)
1968 – Julian McMahon, Australian actor (Nip/Tuck, Profiler), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1968 – Christina Singer, Goeppingen Germany, tennis star (1991 Futures GBR)
1968 – Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Messina Sicily, actress (Postman)
1968 – Tom Goodwin [Thomas Jones], American MLB player (1994-1997 KC Royals), born in Fresno, California
1968 – Ricardo Rosset, Brazilian Formula One driver
1969 – Jason Woolley, Toronto, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1969 – Linda Burgess, WNBA forward (LA Sparks)
1969 – Triple H, American professional wrestler
1970 – Tom Europe, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
1970 – Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Danish actor
1971 – Brennon James Dowric, Australian gymnast (Olympics-92, 96)
1972 – Alph Browning, NLF/WLAF receiver (Redskins, Barcelona Dragons)
1972 – Bryce Bevill, CFL defensive back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 – Clint Robinson, Brisbane QLD Australia, K-1 1k canoeist (Oly-bron-96)
1972 – Jill Arrington, American sports reporter
1972 – Takako Fuji, Japanese actress
1972 – Maya Rudolph, American actress and comedian
1973 – Amy Linn Duncan, Miss America-Oklahoma (1997), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1973 – Niki Jenkins, Selkirk Manitoba, 72 kg judoka (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 – Sami Alalampi, WLAF receiver (Barcelona Dragons)
1973 – Abe Cunningham, American musician (Deftones)
1973 – Gorden Tallis, Australian rugby league footballer
1974 – Pete Yorn, American musician
1975 – Alex Rodriguez, shortstop (Seattle Mariners), born in NYC, New York
1975 – Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer
1975 – Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
1975 – Fred Mascherino, American musician
1976 – Mwadi Mabika, WNBA guard/forward (LA Sparks)
1976 – Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (d. 2005)
1977 – Jason Michael Zimbler, Queens NY, actor (Clarissa Explains it All)
1977 – Foo Swee Chin, Singaporean comic book artist
1979 – Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
1979 – Shannon Moore, American wrestler
1980 – Allan Davis, Australian cyclist
1980 – Nick Nemeth, American professional wrestler
1981 – Susan King Borchardt, American basketball player
1981 – Collins Obuya, Kenyan cricketer
1983 – Alsou, Russian pop-star and actress
1983 – Goran Pandev, Macedonian footballer
1985 – Benedita Pereira, Portuguese actress
1985 – Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
1986 – Courtney Kupets, American gymnast
1986 – Ryan Griffen, Australian rules footballer
1988 – Adam Biddle, Australian footballer
1989 – Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress
1990 – Cheyenne Kimball, American musician
1990 – Nick Hogan, American reality TV star
1990 – Indiana Evans, Australian actress
1994 – Spencer Achtymichuk, Canadian actor
1994 – Princess Mafalda-Ceceilia of Bulgaria
2000 – Kali Rodriguez, American actress

WEDDINGS

1365 – Isabella of England marries Enguerrand of Coucy at Windsor
1857 – Emperor of Mexico Maximilian I (25) weds princess Charlotte of Belgium (17) in Brussels
1927 – Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries widow Betty Carver
1927 – British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery (39) weds Elizabeth Carver in Chiswick, England
1981 – British television: On Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, proving to be a national event with massive viewer numbers
1986 – “Say Anything” director Cameron Crowe (29) weds “Heart” guitarist Nancy Wilson (32)
Hall of Fame NBA Centre Patrick Ewing (1990)

1990 – NBA star Patrick Ewing (27) weds Rita Williams
1991 – Rocker Jani Lane, (Warrant-Cherry Pie) marries model Bobbie Brown
2006 – NASCAR driver Kurt Busch (27) weds Eva Bryan in Eastville, Virginia
2014 – Actress and model Scheana Marie (29) weds longtime boyfriend Michael Shay at the Hummingbird Nest Ranch in Santa Susana, California

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

82 – St Joseph of Arimathea, dies
432 – Celestine I, Italian Pope (422-32), dies
916 – Kliment/Clemens van Ohrid, Bulgaria bishop of Ohrid/saint, dies
1101 – Conrad II, King of Germany and Italy (b. 1074)
1128 – Willem van Normandia, earl of Flanders, dies in battle
1214 – Eustaes van Machelen, Flemish knight, dies in battle
1214 – Stefan van Longchamp, French knight, dies in battle
1227 – Otto II van Lippe, bishop of Utrecht (1216-27), dies
1233 – Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders, dies at 45
1276 – King James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
1365 – Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (b. 1339)
1498 – Vespasiano da’ Bisticci, Italian book seller/writer, dies at about 77
1638 – Johan VIII de Jongere, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 54
1656 – Salomo Glassius, German theologian (b. 1593)
1675 – Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne Vicomte de Turenne, gen (France), dies
1689 – John Graham, of Claverhouse, 1st viscount Dundee/soldier, killed, dies
1720 – Johann Samuel Welter, composer, dies at 69
1759 – Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, biologist/astronomer, dies at 60
1770 – Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1693)
1777 – William Hayes, composer, dies at 69
1783 – Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62
1811 – Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed
1822 – Joseph Supries, composer, dies at 60
1828 – Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter, dies
1833 – Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26
1841 – Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet/novelist, dies
1844 – John Dalton, Engl physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77
1863 – William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
1864 – Margaret E Breckinridge, US nurse/daughter of VP John, dies
1876 – Walter Channing, American physician who was the first to use anesthesia during childbirth, dies at 90
1881 – Johann Christian Lobe, composer, dies at 84
1883 – Albert Franz Doppler, composer, dies at 61
1883 – Montgomery Blair, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford), dies at 70
1916 – Charles Fryatt, British capt of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies
1917 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, Nobel laureate (b. 1841)
1921 – Engelbert Humperdinck, composer, dies at 66
1924 – Ferruccio Benvenuto busoni, pianist/composer, dies
1924 – Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni, composer, dies at 58
1929 – Raoul Pictet, Swiss physicist who invented liquid nitrogen and was a pioneer of cryogenics, dies at 83
1931 – Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
1934 – Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79
1941 – Alfred Henry O’Keeffe, New Zealand artist (b. 1858)
1942 – William Matthew Finders Petrie, Egyptologist, dies
1943 – Godfrey Cripps, cricketer (1st Currie Cup-winning captain), dies
1943 – H B G Austin, cricketer (capt of 1923 WI team to England), dies
1944 – Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls, composer, dies at 68
1946 – Gertrude Stein, US/Fren author/poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72
1948 – Francesco Spetrino, composer, dies at 91
1948 – Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (b. 1898)
1952 – Roland Pope, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885), dies
1952 – W de Basil, [US Voskresenski], Russia, ballet dancer, dies
1956 – J M M Commaille, cricketer (12 Tests for South Africa 1910-28), dies
1958 – Claire Chennault, American military leader (b. 1893)
1961 – Theodore Chanler, composer, dies at 59
1962 – Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies
1962 – Richard Adlington, writer, dies at 70
1962 – James H. “Dutch” Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (b. 1895)
1962 – Conrad Elvehjem, American biochemist and nutrition scientist (discovered niacin), dies at 61
1965 – Henri Daniel-Rops, French writer and historian (b. 1901)
1968 – Anton van Duinkerken, [Willem J M A Asselbergs], literary, dies
1968 – Lillian Harvey, actress (Invitation to the Waltz), dies at 61
1968 – Babe Adams, baseball player (b. 1882)
1970 – Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (1932-68), dies
1971 – Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor/composer, dies at 83
1974 – Lightning Slim, blues singer (Nothing But the Devil), dies at 61
1976 – Ray Brennan, becomes 1st to, die of “Legionnaire’s Disease”
1978 – Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer, dies at 72
1978 – [John] Willem van Otterloo, conductor/composer (Symphonic), dies at 70
1979 – Ettore Manni, actor (Street People, Divine Nymph), dies at 52
1979 – Shirley Mason, actress (Let it Rain, Dark Skies), dies at 79
Last Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi(1980)

1980 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (1941-79), dies in Cairo at 60
1981 – Billy [William] Wyler, US director (Ben Hur, Funny Girl), dies
1981 – Ray Harrison, dancer (American Song), dies at 64
1981 – William Wyler, US director (Ben Hur), dies
1982 – Dan Seymour, actor (We the People, Sing it Again), dies at 67
1982 – Vladimir Smirnov, Russian foil fencer (Olympic-gold-1980), dies at 28
1983 – Mufasir-ul-Haq, cricketer (Pakistani left-arm quick 1965), dies
1984 – James Mason, British actor (Lolita), dies of a heart attack at 75
1984 – Oswald Jacoby, US contract bridge champion, dies at 81
1985 – Joseph “Smoky Joe” Wood, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies at 95
1986 – Leroy Holmes, orchestra leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57), dies at 72
1987 – Travis Jackson, baseball player (NY Giants), dies at 83
1988 – Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11
1988 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
1990 – Bobby Day, rocker (Rockin’ Robin), dies of cancer at 58
1990 – Elizabeth Allan, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head), dies
1990 – Kim Thomas-Friedland, news anchor (FNN), dies at 32
1990 – Nick Pippins, actor (Simon), dies of AIDS at 35
1990 – Bobby Day, American singer (b. 1928)
1990 – Salim Ali, Indian Ornithologist (Birdman of India), dies at 90
1991 – Carol Gillies, actress (Back Home, Baby Boom), dies at 50
1992 – Jenny Karezi, Greek actress (Red Lanterns), dies of cancer at 56
1992 – Max Dupain, Australian photographer (b. 1911)
1993 – Reggie Lewis, NBA star (Boston Celtics), dies of heart failure at 27
1994 – H Minderop, founder/chairman (TROS-radio/TV), dies
1994 – Rosa Chacel, Spanish author, dies at 96
1994 – Tatiana Tauer, harpist, dies at 48
1994 – Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner & member of the Bang-Bang Club, suicide at 33
1995 – Charles Hugh Shirley, publisher, dies at 56
1995 – Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter, dies at 72
1995 – Miklos Rozsa, Hung movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora), dies at 88
1995 – Rick Ferrell, Hall of Fame catcher, dies at 89
1996 – Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85
1996 – Ivan V Lalic, poet, dies at 65
1996 – Jane Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85
1996 – Peter James Frederick Green, CEO (LLoyd’s of London), dies at 71
1997 – K’Tut Tantri, broadcaster/hotelier, dies at 99
1998 – Binnie Barnes, British actress (b. 1903)
1999 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1912)
1999 – Sweets Edison, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1915)
2000 – Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (b. 1929)
2001 – Leon Wilkeson, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
2001 – Rhonda Singh, professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2003 – Vance Hartke, American politician (b. 1919)
Entertainer Bob Hope(2003)

2003 – Bob Hope, English-born American actor, comedian and entertainer (b. 1903)
2005 – Swami Shantanand, Mahasamadhi Day, Indian Saint, Philosopher (b. 1934)
2005 – Marten Toonder, Dutch comic writer (b. 1912)
2006 – Maryann Mahaffey, American politician (b. 1925)
2007 – Lucky Grills, Australian actor (b. 1928)
2008 – Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film director (b. 1926)
2008 – Horst Stein, German conductor (b. 1928)
2008 – Isaac Saba Raffoul, Mexican Businessman (b. 1923)
2010 – Maury Chaykin, American-born Canadian actor (b. 1949)
2010 – Jack Tatum, American football player (b. 1948)
2011 – Bejaratana Rajasuda, Princess of Thailand (b. 1925)
2012 – Norman Alden, American actor, dies from natural causes at 87
2012 – R G Armstrong, American actor and playwright, dies at 95
2012 – Geoffrey Hughes, British actor, dies from prostate cancer at 68
2012 – Tony Martin, American singer, dies from natural causes at 98
2013 – Lindy Boggs, American politician, dies from natural causes at 97

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1974 House begins impeachment of Nixon

• American Revolution

• 1776 Silas Deane writes Congress of success

• Automotive

• 1990 Last Citroen 2CV rolls off the line in Portugal

• Civil War

• 1863 Ardent secessionist William Lowndes Yancey dies

• Cold War

• 1953 Armistice ends the Korean War

• Crime

• 1981 Adam Walsh is abducted

• Disaster

• 2002 Fighter jet crashes into crowd at air show

• General Interest

• 1794 Robespierre overthrown in France
• 1921 Insulin isolated in Toronto
• 1949 First jet makes test flight
• 1980 Ousted shah of Iran dies in exile
• 1996 Bombing at Centennial Olympic Park

• Hollywood

• 2003 Bob Hope dies at 100

• Literary

• 1916 Elizabeth Hardwick is born

• Music

• 1991 Natalie Cole’s Unforgettable: With Love goes to #1

• Old West

• 1806 Meriwether Lewis shoots Blackfoot Indian

• Presidential

• 1974 Nixon charged with first of three articles of impeachment

• Sports

• 1993 Reggie Lewis dies

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Pentagon announces 5,000 more troops to Vietnam
• 1965 U.S. jets attack new North Vietnamese air defense sites

• World War I

• 1916 Germans execute British seaman Captain Charles Fryatt

• World War II

• 1943 Stalin issues Order No. 227—outlawing cowards