July 30th

TODAY IS:

Chili Dog Day
Cheesecake Day
Paperback Book Day
Father-In-Law Day

EVENTS

579 – Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
657 – St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I
1178 – Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy
1419 – First defenestration of Prague: anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, storm the Prague town hall and throw the judge, mayor and several city council members (either 7 or 13) out the windows. They all either died in the fall or were killed by the crowd outside.
1537 – Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire
1601 – Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius
1618 – Prince Maurits’ troops pull into Utrecht
1619 – House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective American governing body
1646 – English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions
1650 – Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam
1653 – Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland
1655 – Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram
1678 – English troops land in Flanders
1715 – Spanish gold & silver fleet disappears off St Lucie, Florida
King Charles I

1729 – City of Baltimore founded
1733 – Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston
1739 – Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, NJ
1756 – Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1775 – Captain Cook with Resolution returns to England
1792 – 500 Marseillaisian men sing France’s national anthem for 1st time
1809 – British armed force of 39,000 lands in Walcheren
1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.
1822 – James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church
1824 – Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris
1825 – Malden Island is discovered.
1826 – Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed
1836 – First English language newspaper published in Hawaii
1844 – 1st US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club
1863 – President Lincoln issues “eye-for-eye” order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
1863 – Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
1864 – Battle of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania – burned by Union forces under McCausland
1864 – Battle of the Crater: Gen Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg
1865 – Pope Pius IX visits Suriname
1866 – New Orleans’s Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
1869 – The Charles, considered the world’s first “oil tanker”, departs from the United States headed for Europe with a bulk capacity of 7,000 barrels of oil
1870 – Staten Island ferry “Westfield” burns, killing 100
1870 – The Republic of Klipdrift is proclaimed by Transvaal President Andries Pretorius after the discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1866 resulted in a flood of treasure hunters; ownership of the diamond fields was contested by the Boer republics
1872 – Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy
1874 – 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Phila in British Isles
1878 – German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election
1878 – Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties
1889 – Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Naval Treaty” (BG)
1898 – Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
1900 – British Parliament passes several progressive social acts: a Mines Act, a Workmen’s Compensation Act and a Railway Act
1902 – Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)
1905 – Dutch Covenant of Worker’s union, NVV, forms
1907 – Russia and Japan sign an agreement guaranteeing freedom of China while recognizing each other’s special interests
1907 – The Filipinos elect their first legislature; it will meet on 16 October
1907 – Starting today, the French bombard Casablanca and land troops to occupy the Atlantic-coast region of Morocco after attacks on foreigners
1908 – Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
1909 – John A Heyder becomes president of baseball’s National League
1909 – Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
1913 – Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War
1914 – Austrian-Hungary & Russia proclaim general mobilization
1914 – French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
1914 – John French appointed British supreme commander
Tsar Nicholas II

1914 – After initial reluctance, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia is persuaded to decree a general mobilizations in response to Austria; ‘Think of the thousands and thousands of men who will be sent to their deaths!’ he claims
1916 – German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ
1917 – Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting
1921 – The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) forms; the party changed its name to the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1953, after it had been forced underground
1923 – New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
1926 – Albanian boundaries deduced
1928 – George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US)
1930 – 1st broadcast of “Death Valley Days” on NBC-radio
1930 – Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for association football’s 1st FIFA World Cup in Montevideo
Founder of the Eastman Kodak Company George Eastman

1932 – 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1933 – 28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2)
1935 – 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
1937 – Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base & registers no put outs
1938 – Gen Metaxas names himself premier of Greece
1939 – Belgium Sylvere Maes wins 33rd Tour de France
1941 – German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU & SGP in Netherlands
1942 – FDR signs bill creating women’s Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1942 – German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1942 – German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands
1943 – Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
1943 – US 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano
1944 – Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire & Villebaudon Normandy
1944 – US 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy
Actress Judy Garland

1945 – Philippines Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die
1946 – 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
1947 – Cin Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to NY Giants 5-4
1948 – Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K – 29:59.6)
1948 – Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
1949 – British warship HMS Amethyst escapes down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
1951 – Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
1952 – Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid
1953 – Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
MLB Legend Ty Cobb

1954 – Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles
1954 – Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
1955 – Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France
1956 – US motto “In God We Trust” authorized
1959 – In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
1960 – 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
1961 – 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL
1961 – Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women’s Golf Open
1962 – 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1962 – All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels)
1963 – British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
1964 – US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam
1965 – Charles Ives’ “From the Steeples & the Mountains” premieres
Jazz-orchestra leader, Composer, Pianist Duke Ellington

1965 – Duke Ellington’s “Golden Brown & the Green Apple” premieres
1965 – LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
1965 – Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants
1966 – Beatles’ “Yesterday… & Today” album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1966 – FIFA World Cup: England beats West Germany 4-2 for football’s 8th World Cup in London
1966 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open
1966 – US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam
1967 – Clifford Ann Creed/Margie Masters wins Yankee Ladies’ Team Golf Champ
1967 – Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)
1968 – Beatles’ Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away
1968 – Wash Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years
1969 – Astros Denis Menke & Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets
1969 – Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
Singer-songwriter & Actress Barbra Streisand

1969 – KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 – -Aug 5] Hurricane Celia, kills 31 in Cuba, Florida & Texas
1970 – 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield Ct
1970 – Riots hit Belfast, North Ireland
1971 – 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289)
1971 – George Harrison releases “Bangladesh”
1971 – Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162
1971 – US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
1972 – “Ain’t Supposed to Die Death” closes at Barrymore NYC after 325 perfs
1972 – Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
1973 – Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0
1974 – House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of “high crimes & misdemeanors” to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up
1975 – Simon Gray’s “Otherwise Engaged” premieres in London
Singer-Songwriter George Harrison

1975 – US Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit; Hoffa was legally declared dead in 1982
1976 – Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
1976 – Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman’s volleyball
1976 – 4 Protestant civilians were shot dead at a pub off Milltown Road, Belfast; the attack was claimed by the Republican Action Force
1978 – Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits & NL-record-tying 8 HRs
1978 – Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1980 – Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke
1980 – Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain & France
1981 – Belgian Senate accept laws against racism
1981 – Simon Gray’s “Quartermaine’s Terms” premieres in London
1982 – Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats
1982 – USSR performs underground nuclear Test
LPGA Golfer Pat Bradley

1983 – Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, Calif
1983 – Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg
1984 – Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
1984 – Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant
1984 – Soap Opera “Santa Barbara” premieres on NBC TV
1985 – Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission
1985 – Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America’s Junior Miss
1987 – An ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command in Johannesburg South Africa kills 1 person and injures 68
1988 – Cin Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month
1988 – Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m
1988 – John Franco saves record 13th game of July
1988 – Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO
1988 – King Hussein dissolves Jordan’s House of Representatives
1988 – Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)
1989 – Chile amends its constitution
LPGA Golfer Nancy Lopez

1989 – Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
1990 – Five Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money laundering
1990 – Graham Gooch scores 123 v India to follow up 1st innings 333
1990 – Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die
1990 – George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of NY Yankees
1990 – The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
1991 – MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
1991 – Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
1992 – Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65)
1994 – Record 103.8°F (39.9°C) in Preschen Lausitz Germany
1995 – Becky Iverson wins LPGA Friendly’s Golf Classic
1995 – Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win v WI
New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner

1995 – Lara completes 5th Test Cricket century, 145 at Old Trafford
1995 – Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter baseball’s Hall of Fame
1996 – Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager
1997 – Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
1997 – Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
2002 – The accounting law referred to as “The Sarbanes Oxley Act” is signed into law by President George W. Bush.
2003 – The last ‘old style’ Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line in Mexico
2004 – “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle”, starring Kal Penn and John Cho, is released
2006 – World’s longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
Actor Kal Penn

2008 – “Slumdog Millionaire” based on the novel “Q & A” by Vikas Swarup, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Dev Patel premieres at the Telluride Film Festival (Best Picture 2009)
2009 – A bomb explodes in Palma Nova, Mallorca, killing 2 police officers. Basque separatist group ETA is believed to be responsible.
2012 – Train fire kills 32 and injures 27 people in Andhra Pradesh, India
2012 – Indian power grid failure leaves over 300 million without electricity
2013 – 28 people are killed in a series of bombings in Kano, Nigeria
2013 – 134 people are killed in tribal conflicts in Darfyr, Sudan
2013 – 9 children are killed and 20 are injured after a school bus collides with a truck in Hanumangarh, India
2013 – Mamnoon Hussain is elected President of Pakistan
2014 – Death toll in Gaza reaches 1,346, while 56 Israeli soldiers and 3 civilians have been killed
2014 – The EU and US extend sanctions on Russia to include banks, energy, and defense firms; Moscow denies the allegation that Russia is arming rebels in Eastern Ukraine

BIRTHDAYS

1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italy, painter/art historian (Vasari’s Lives)
1549 – Ferdinando I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
1641 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
1747 – Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, composer
1751 – Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist/Wolfgang’s sister
1763 – Samuel Rogers, English poet (Italy, a poem)
1793 – Josepf Francois Snel, composer
1809 – Charles Chiniquy, Quebec-born excommunicated Catholic priest (d. 1899)
1815 – Thomas Jackson Rodman, Salem Indiana, Bvt Brigadier General (Union volunteers) was an American military inventor of the rodman gun and perforated-cake gunpowder
1817 – Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer
1818 – Emily Brontë, English novelist (Wuthering Heights), born in Thornton, West Yorkshire (d. 1848)
1818 – John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch minister of Internal minister (1866..88)
1824 – Eugenio Terziani, composer
1825 – Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (d. 1893)
1831 – Helene P Blavatsky, founder (Theosophist Cooperation)
Novelist Emily Brontë(1818)

1837 – Elon John Farnsworth, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1863)
1838 – Eugen Richter, German parliament member (Liberal)
1855 – James Edward Kelly, US, sculptor “Sculptor of American History”
1856 – Richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor (Life of A Smith)
1857 – Thorstein Veblen, US, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899)
1859 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d. 1939)
1859 – Henry Louis Smith, Greensboro, North Carolina, American physicist who made the first X-ray photograph
1863 – Henry Ford, Dearborn Township Michigan, industrialist and auto maker (Ford- model T), (d. 1947)
1868 – Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist
1872 – Clementine, Princess of Belgium, wife of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte
1875 – James William Tate, composer
1880 – Robert Rutherford McCormick, US, editor/publisher (Chicago Tribune)
Ford Motor Company Founder Henry Ford (1863)

1881 – Smedley Butler, American Marine general (d. 1940)
1882 – Holmes Herbert, Mansfield England, actor (The Kiss)
1882 – Leo van Puyfielde, Flemish art historian
1886 – Johan Algot Haquinius, composer
1887 – Felix A Vening Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist (gravity)
1887 – Timothy Mara, NFL owner (NY Giants)
1888 – Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter
1889 – Vladimir K Zworykin, USSR, electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV
1890 – Casey Stengel, baseball manager (Yankees (1949-60)/NY Met’s 1st)
1892 – Roy Park, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1920, out 1st ball)
1893 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (d. 1967)
1895 – Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
1897 – Jacques de Kadt, Dutch politician/writer (Fascism is War!)
1898 – Henry Moore, England, sculptor (Vertebrae)
1899 – Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud)
1899 – Henricus Moorman, Dutch vice-admiral (KVP)
1899 – John Woods Duke, composer
1901 – Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
1904 – Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)
1906 – L’udovit Rajter, composer
1906 – Serafin Pro, composer
1909 – Cyril Northcote Parkinson, England, historian (Pursuit of Progress)
1910 – Edgar de Evia, American photographer (d. 2003)
1913 – Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski, composer
1913 – Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Neth playwright/director (Albee/Pinter)
1914 – Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999)
1916 – Robert van Spaendonk, Dutch resistance fighter
1916 – Dick Wilson, American actor (d. 2007)
1918 – Joe Daley, jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player
1919 – Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
1921 – Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director (Free Academy)
1921 – Jacques Vander Schueren, Belgium, minister of Economic Affairs
1921 – Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005)
1922 – Zbigniew Wiszniewski, composer
1922 – Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block
1923 – Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian communist/leader of PKI (1951-65)
1923 – John Richard Brinsley Norton, landowner
1924 – Christopher Shaw, composer
1924 – William Gass, Fargo ND, novelist/philosopher (Omensetter’s Luck)
1925 – Antoine Duhamel, composer
1925 – Jacques Sernas, Lithuania, actor (La Dolce Vita, Helen of Troy)
1926 – Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money)
1927 – Richard Johnson, actor (Never So Few, Restless, Beyond the Door)
1927 – Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
1928 – Eunice Muñoz, Portuguese actress
1929 – Christine McGuire, Middletown Oh singer (McGuire Sisters-Sugartime)
1929 – Sid Kroft, Athens Greece, puppeteer (Barbara Mandrell Show)
1930 – Thomas Sowell, author/activist
1930 – Tony Lip, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, actor (Sopranos, Donnie Brasco, Good Fellas), (d. 2013)
1931 – Joan Vohs, St Albans NY, actress (Fort Ti, Vice Squad, Sabrina)
1933 – Edd “Kookie” Byrnes, LA, actor (77 Sunset Strip, Jack the Ripper)
1934 – Andre Prevost, composer
1934 – Ben Piazza, Little Rock Ark, actor (Blues Brothers, Ben Casey, Dallas)
1934 – Bud Selig, owner (Milwaukee Brewers)/acting baseball commissioner
1936 – George “Buddy” Guy, US blues guitarist (Stone Crazy)
1936 – Istvan Zelenka, composer
1936 – John Burton-Hall, Dorset England, captain (QE2)
1936 – Ralph Taeger, Richmond Hill NY, actor (Klondike, Acapulco, Hondo)
1936 – Yuri Alexandrovich Falik, composer
1936 – Infanta Pilar of Spain
1938 – Vayachselav Ivanenko, USSR, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1988)
1938 – Hervé de Charette, French politician
1939 – Eleanor Smeal, leader (National Organization for Women)
1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, Kingston NY, director/producer (Last Picture Show)
1940 – Clive Sinclair, British computer inventor (ZX Spectrum)
1940 – Patricia Schroeder, (Rep-D-Colorado, 1973- )
1940 – Reva Rose, singer/actress (Temperature’s Rising), born in Chicago, Illinois
1940 – Pat Schroeder, American politician
1941 – Count Desmond, [Edward Benjamin], Binghamton NY, sword swallower
1941 – Paul Anka, Ottawa Ontario, singer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
1943 – Henri-François Gautrin, Quebec politician
1944 – Frances de la Tour, actress (Bejeweled, Wombling Free)
1944 – Teresa Cahill, opera singer
1945 – David Sanborn, jazz saxophonist (David Letterman Show)
1945 – Patrick Modiano, French novelist
1946 – Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, rock bassist (Jethro Tull)
1946 – Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
Actor, Body Builder & Politician Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947)

1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austria, body builder/actor/politician (Terminator, 38th Governor of California)
1947 – Margo Sappington, Baytown TX, actress (Oh Calcutta)
1947 – William Atherton, Ct, actor (Real Genius, Ghostbusters, Class of 44)
1947 – Jonathan Mann, AIDS activist (d. 1998)
1948 – Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor
1949 – Joyce Jones, US singer (1st Choice)
1949 – Duck Baker, American guitarist
1950 – Frank Stallone, Sylvestor’s brother/actor (Barfly, Outlaw Force), born in NYC, New York
1950 – Wime de Craene, Flemish chansonnier/composer
1953 – Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-9)
1954 – Ken Olin, actor (Hill St Blues, Michael-30 Something), born in Chicago, Illinois
1956 – Anita Hill, professor of law, Clarence Thomas’ nemesis
1956 – Delta Burke, Orlando Fla, actress (Suzanne-Designing Women)
1956 – Phil Fearon, rocker (Galaxy, Kandidate-I Don’t Want to Lose You)
1956 – Soraida Martinez, American Painter, Creator of Verdadism.
1957 – Bert Oosterbosch, Dutch bicyclist
1957 – Bill Cartwright, basketball player (NY Knicks, Chicago Bulls)
1957 – Mark Tymchyshyn, Minneapolis, actor (Gavin-As The World Turns)
1957 – Rat Scabies, [Chris Miller], Surrey England, rock drummer (Damned)
1957 – Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer
1957 – Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager
1958 – Daley Thompson, Decathalete (Olympic-gold-1980, 1984), born in London, England
1958 – Kate Bush, Plumstead England, singer/songwriter (Wild Things, Wuthering Heights)
1958 – Richard Burgi, Montclair NJ, actor (Chad Rollo-Another World)
1959 – Petra Felke, German DR, javelin thrower (world record 1988)
1960 – Richard Linklater, American filmmaker
1961 – Laurence Fishburne, Augusta GA, actor (Red Heat, School Daze)
1961 – Reggie Roby, NFL punter (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1962 – Andy Green, UK, 1st to break sound barrier on land
1962 – Monique Gabrielle, KC Mo, actress (Flashdance, Night Shift)
1962 – Tom Pagnozzi, Tucson AZ, catcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1962 – Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov, Rus lt-colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-21)
1962 – Jay Feaster, American National Hockey League executive
1963 – Chris Mullin, Brooklyn New York, American NBA forward (Warriors, Pacers, Olympic-gold-92)
1963 – Ingrid Butts, cross country skier (Olympics-1994), born in Denver, Colorado
1963 – Lisa Kudrow, Encino California, actress (Phoebe-Friends, Romy & Michele)
1963 – Monique Gabrielle, LA Cal, actress (Bad Girls 4, Amazon Women on Moon)
1964 – Vivica A. Fox, American actress
1964 – Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager
1964 – Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-born American film director
1965 – Tex Axile, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
1965 – Tim Munton, cricketer (England pace bowler in two Tests 1992)
1968 – Charles Gordon, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 – Michael Brandon, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1968 – Terry Crews, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1968 – Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete
1968 – Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers)
1969 – Duane Bock, Southampton NY, golfer (1991 Low Amateur NY State Open)
1969 – Errol Stewart, South African cricket wicket-keeper (limited-over 1993)
1969 – Robert Porcher, NFL defensive end (Detroit Lions)
1969 – Simon Baker, Australian actor
1970 – Ed Hawthorne, NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1970 – Joe Montford, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 – Tom McManus, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 – Werner Hippler, WLAF TE (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 – Christopher Nolan, English film director
1971 – Ron Blazier, Altoona PA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1971 – Carl Vaughn, NFL/CFL Defensive Back (Redskins and Argos)
1971 – Sagi Kalev, Bodybuilder
1971 – Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
1971 – Christine Taylor, American actress
1972 – Clif Groce, NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 – Damon House, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 – Jim McIlvaine, NBA center (Washington Bullets, Seattle Supersonics)
1972 – Olga Chernyak, Kiev Ukraine, US fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1973 – Andrea Gaudenzi, Faenza Italy, tennis star (1990 French Open junior)
1973 – Cara Jackson, Chandler Arizona, Miss America-Arizona (1996)
1973 – Markus Naslund, Bonassund Swe, NHL right wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1973 – Sonu Nigam, Indian singer/actor
1974 – Hilary Swank, American actress (Boys Don’t Cry, Million Dollar Baby), born in Lincoln, Nebraska
1974 – Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer
1974 – Jason Robinson, English dual-code rugby player
1975 – Tifini Hale, Palm Springs California, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That’s Why)
1975 – Graham Nicholls, English artist
1975 – Annie Parisse [Anne Marie Cancelmi], Anchorage, Alaska, American actress (Law & Order, As the World Turns)
1976 – Julio Gonzalez, Baja California, Mexico, light heavyweight boxer (WBO Champion 2003-2004), (d. 2012)
1977 – Jayme Dickman, South Bend Ind, 3×20 rifle (Olympics-1996)
1977 – Suangsuda Rodprasert, Miss Thailand Universe (1997)
1977 – Jaime Pressly, American actress
1977 – Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Lostprophets)
1978 – James Branaman, American model and reality show contestant
1979 – Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer
1979 – Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player
1980 – Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player
1980 – Chuck Thomas, British TV producer / presenter
1980 – James Anderson, English cricketer
1980 – Justin Rose, British golfer
1981 – Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer
1981 – Juan Smith, South African rugby player
1982 – Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
1983 – Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
1984 – Gabrielle Christian, American actress
1984 – Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player
1985 – Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
2002 – Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese royal

WEDDINGS

1988 – James Ogilvy (under Engl princess Alexandra) marries Julia Rawlinson
1994 – Hollywood’s highest-paid screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (49) weds Naomi Baka (35) in Maui, Hawaii
2004 – Actor Nicolas Cage (40) weds Alice Kim (20) at a private ranch in Northern California
2005 – Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph (49) weds Pennsylvania Senator Vincent Hughes (48) at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles
2011 – Granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and British equestrian Zara Phillips (30) weds England rugby player Mike Tindall (32) at the Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland
Daughter of Princess Anne Zara Phillips (2011)

2013 – “Hunger Games” actor Sam Claflin (27) weds actress Laura Haddock (27) in a private ceremony

DIVORCES

2007 – Pop star Britney Spears (25) divorces rapper-dancer Kevin Federline (29) due to irreconcilable differences after over two years of marriage

DEATHS

578 – Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa
579 – Benedict I, Italian Pope (575-79), dies
1516 – Johan V Nassau, earl of Nassau-Vianden/Dietz, dies
1528 – Jacopo d’antonio Negreti Palma, Italian painter, dies at about 48
1540 – Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
1540 – Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
1550 – Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
1566 – Guillaume Rondelet, French Naturalist famous for his study of marine animals, dies at 58
1652 – John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist, dies at 68
1652 – Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
1655 – Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer, dies at 47
1680 – Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
1683 – Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France, dies at 44
1691 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
1712 – Abraham Elsevier, publisher, dies
English Philosopher and Founder of Pennsylvania William Penn (1718)

1718 – William Penn, English Philosopher, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (No cross, no crown), dies at 73
1727 – Franz Weichlein, composer, dies at 67
1741 – Wierich PL count von Daun, gov-gen of Austria & Netherlands, dies
1771 – Thomas Gray, English poet, dies at 54
1781 – Augustin Ullinger, composer, dies at 35
1796 – Nicolas the Pigage, French classical architect, dies
1832 – Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister, dies
1849 – Jacob Perkins, American Inventor, dies at 83
1863 – George Crockett Strong, US Union gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
1865 – George Wright, US Union brig-general, dies at 61
1875 – George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
1889 – Charles Absolom, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies in an accident
1898 – Otto Von Bismarck, German “Iron” chancellor, dies at 83
1900 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
German Statesman Otto Von Bismarck (1898)

1903 – Servas Daems, [Peeter Klein], Flem writer (Wheelbarrows), dies at 65
1912 – Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912), dies at 60
1914 – Albert Trott, cricketer (3 Tests for Aus, 2 for Eng), commits suicide
1914 – Jean Jaurès, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris
1916 – Albert Neisser, German physician who discovered the bacterias that cause gonorrhea and leprosy, dies of septicemia at 61
1918 – Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar, dies
1918 – Joyce Kilmer, American poet, dies at 31
1927 – Robert Marquies de Flers, French writer (Monsieur Bretonneau), dies
1930 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
1936 – Adolf Philipp, composer, dies at 72
1943 – Benjamin James Dale, composer, dies at 58
1947 – George Challenor, cricketer (played in 1st WI Test side 1928), dies
Poet Joyce Kilmer (1918)

1947 – Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
1957 – Sem Dresden, Dutch composer/conductor, dies at 76
1958 – Alexander Albrecht, composer, dies at 72
1962 – Myron McCormick, actor (China Girl, Jigsaw), dies of cancer at 54
1965 – Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (Key), dies at 79
1966 – Edward G Craig, English actor/dir (On Art of Theatre), dies at 94
1967 – Alfried Krupp, German industrialist, dies at 59
1967 – John Macchia, actor (Beach Blanket Bingo), dies of stroke at 35
1968 – Jon Leifs, composer, dies at 69
1970 – George Szell, Hungarian/US conductor (Cleveland Orch), dies at 73
1971 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
1973 – Erich Katz, composer, dies at 72
1973 – Guy Middleton, actor (Fur Collar, Now & Forever), dies at 65
1974 – Lev Konstantinovich Knipper, composer, dies at 75
1976 – Emil Solomon “Solly” Sachs, South African socialist, dies in London
1977 – Jorgen Ponto, West German banker, murdered
1979 – Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien), dies at 67
1980 – Charles McGraw, actor (Michael-Falcon, Smith Family), dies at 66
1980 – Norman Lloyd, composer, dies at 70
1982 – Frank Nicholson, South African cricket wicket-keeper (1935-36), dies
1982 – Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (b. 1954)
1983 – Howard Deitz, MGM executive, dies at 86 of Parkinson’s disease
1983 – Lynn Fontanne, Broadway’s premier actress (Emmy 1965), dies at 95
1983 – Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1984 – Maurice Tremlett, cricketer (England pace bowler 1948-49), dies
1985 – Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
1987 – Mary Spinell, actress (Last Horror Film), dies
1989 – Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)
1990 – Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered
1990 – Karl Weber, dies of heart failure at 74
1991 – Leonardus S van Egerat, travel expert, dies at 68
1991 – William Ball, actor (Suburban Commando), dies at 60
1992 – Brenda Marshall, actress (Highway West, Smiling Ghost), dies at 76
1992 – Joe Shuster, co creator (Superman), dies at 78
1992 – Titti Sotto, latin songwriter, dies at 48 of aids
1993 – Edward B A M Raczynski, Polish pres-in-exile (1979-86), dies at 97
1993 – Jay Scott, [Jeffrey Scott Beaven], US/Canada movie critic, dies at 43
1993 – John Castrios, 1st murder in Washington NH in 200 years, killed at 45
1994 – Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst, dies at 90
1994 – Henry Mackie, designer of the Belfast Calorimeter, dies at 73
1994 – Theo van Scheltinga, skater, dies at 80
1995 – Biggie Rodwell Tembo Marasha, musician, dies at 36
1995 – Charles James Dunn, japanese scholar, dies at 80
1995 – Harry Shorto, linguist, dies at 75
1996 – Alan Cheales, dominican priest, dies at 83
1996 – Claudette Colbert, French-born American actress (It Happened One Night), dies of a stroke at 93
1996 – Magda Schneider, actress (Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight), dies at 87
1997 – Bảo Đại, last Emperor of Vietnam (1926-45) and Chief of State of South Vietnam (1949-55), dies at 85
1998 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (Howdy Doody) (b. 1917)
2003 – Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
2004 – Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)
2005 – Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
2005 – John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)
2005 – Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
2006 – Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
2006 – Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
2006 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
2007 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
2007 – Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)
Director, Writer Ingmar Bergman (2007)

2007 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)
2007 – Bill Walsh, American football coach, dies of leukemia at 75
2008 – Anne Armstrong U.S. ambassador to Britain (b. 1927)
2009 – Peter Zadek, German theatre director (b. 1926)
2012 – Maeve Binchy, Irish novelist, dies at 72

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1965 Johnson signs Medicare into law

• American Revolution

• 1780 Isaac Shelby takes Fort Thicketty, South Carolina

• Automotive

• 2003 Last classic VW Beetle rolls off the line

• Civil War

• 1864 Union forces stopped at the Battle of the Crater

• Cold War

• 1975 Summit meeting in Helsinki begins

• Crime

• 1994 Man charged in murder of Megan Kanka

• Disaster

• 1971 Fighter jet collides with passenger plane

• General Interest

• 1619 First legislative assembly in America
• 1898 Henry Moore born
• 1945 USS Indianapolis bombed
• 1966 England wins World Cup
• 1974 Watergate affair approaches climax

• Hollywood

• 1999 Blair Witch Project released

• Literary

• 1818 Emily Bronte’s birthday

• Music

• 1966 The Troggs take their signature hit, “Wild Thing,” to #1

• Old West

• 1863 Chief Pocatello signs peace treaty

• Presidential

• 1956 President Eisenhower signs “In God We Trust” into law

• Sports

• 1976 Bruce Jenner wins decathlon

• Vietnam War

• 1964 South Vietnamese boats raid islands in the Tonkin Gulf
• 1969 Nixon visits South Vietnam

• World War I

• 1915 Battle of Hooge

• World War II

• 1943 Hitler gets news of Italy’s imminent defection