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

July 26th

TODAY IS:

Parents Day
One Voice Day
All Or Nothing Day
Aunt And Uncle Day

EVENTS

657 – Battle of Siffin during the first Muslim civil war between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muawiyah I beside Euphrates River
811 – Battle of Pliska: Bulgarians under Krum beat Byzantines
920 – Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
1267 – Inquistion forms in Rome under pope Clement IV
1309 – Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
1469 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Edgecote Moor – Pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of King Edward IV.
1497 – “Edward IV’s son” Perkin Warbeck’s army lands in Cork
1499 – Alonso dhe Ojeda discovers Curacao Island
1519 – Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America
1524 – James V declared by Scottish Parliament fit to govern
1529 – Francisco Pizarro appointed governor of Peru
1576 – Muitende Spanish troops conquer Aalst
1579 – Francis Drake leaves San Francisco to cross Pacific Ocean
1588 – John Hawkins knighted
1656 – Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn declares he is insolvent
Painter Rembrandt van Rijn

1663 – France annexes Venaissin
1678 – England & Netherlands signs treaty: sending ultimatum to France
1757 – Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats Duke of Cumberland
1758 – British battle fleet under gen James Wolfe conquerors Louisbourg
1759 – French troops vacate Ticonderoga NY
1760 – Austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz Silezie
1775 – United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) created in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin
1788 – NY becomes 11th state to ratify constitution
1790 – US passes Assumption bill making US responsible for state debts
1803 – The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world’s first public railway, opens in south London.
1805 – Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die
Military and Political Leader Simon Bolívar

1822 – Secret meeting of Simon Bolivar & Jose de San Martin
1826 – Vilnus Lithuanian riots cause death of many Jews
1832 – HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo
1835 – 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
1847 – Moses Garrish Farmer builds 1st miniature train for children to ride
1847 – The Liberian Declaration of Independence is signed making Liberia a sovereign nation, independent from the American Colonization Society
1848 – 1st Woman’s Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)
1858 – Baron Lionel de Rothschild bcomes first Jewish person elected to British Parliament
1863 – Battle of Salineville OH, John Hunt Morgan & 364 troops surrender
1864 – -31] Riot at McCook’s to Lovejoy Station GA, US600 CS—
1864 – -31] Riot at Stoneman’s to Macon GA, US1000 CS—
1864 – Battle at Ezra Chapel (Church), Georgia [Hood’s Third Sortie]
1865 – Patrick Francis Healy is 1st African American awarded PhD (from University of Leuven, Belgium)
1865 – The capital of New Zealand moves from Auckland to Wellington
1866 – Canoe Club opens in England
1878 – In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself “Black Bart” makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.
1881 – French marines occupy Tunisian harbor city Sfax
1887 – 1st Esperanto book published
1891 – Henry James’ “American” premieres in London
1891 – France annexes Tahiti.
1897 – 37.5 cm rainfall at Jewell, Maryland (state record)
1902 – Australia beat England by 3 runs at Old Trafford
1903 – 1st automobile trip across the United States (SF-NY) completed by Horatio Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker
1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

1914 – First Lord of the Admiralty (British Minister of Navy) Winston Churchillorders British fleet to remain
1914 – For the next two days, the foreign ministries and leaders of major states work feverishly to avert war
1914 – Irish Volunteers unload a shipment of 1,500 rifles and 45,000 rounds of ammunition arrived from Germany aboard Erskine Childers’ yacht the Asgard; British troops fire on jeering crowd on Bachelors Walk, Dublin, killing three citizens
1915 – International School for Wijsbegeerte forms
1916 – The US Protests the ‘Blacklist’ issued by the British forbidding trade with some 30 US firms
1917 – J. Edgar Hoover gets job in US Department of Justice
1918 – Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites & 1 black killed)
1926 – National Bar Association incorporates
1926 – Philippines government asks USA for a plebiscite on independence
First Director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover

1928 – Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1928 – Yanks score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1
1931 – 26th Davis Cup: France beats Great Britain in Paris (3-2)
1933 – Joe DiMaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League
1936 – The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
1937 – End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
1938 – 1st radio broadcast of “Young Widder Brown” on NBC
1939 – Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRs
1941 – 1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague
1941 – US embargo on oil-export to Japan
1942 – RAF bombs Hamburg
1942 – RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism
1943 – 120°F (49°C), Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record)
1943 – Otto Skorzeny’s commando group arrives in Rome
Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio

1944 – Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam
1944 – Russian troops arrive in Weichsel
1944 – US offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St Gilles
1944 – The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain (nicknamed “gasometer”).
1945 – After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes British Prime Minister
1945 – Declaration of Potsdam: US, Britain and China demand the Japanese surrender during WWII
1945 – Japanese government disregards US ultimatum
1945 – US cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb
1945 – Winston Churchill resigns as Britain’s Prime Minister after election defeat
Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki

Physicist Raemer Schreiber

1945 – Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva depart Kirtland Army Air Field to transport the plutonium core for the Fat Man bomb (bombing of Nagasaki) to the island of Tinian where the bomb is assembled
1946 – President Harry Truman orders desegregation of all US forces
1946 – Aloha Airlines began service from Honolulu International Airport
1947 – US Department of Defense forms
1947 – National Security Act establishes CIA
1948 – “Babe Ruth Story” premieres, Babe Ruth’s last public appearance
1948 – 1st black host of a network show-CBS’ Bob Howard Show
1948 – Leo Durocher returns to Ebbets Field as a NY Giant
1948 – Pres Harry Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 directing “equality of treatment & opportunity” in armed forces
1949 – WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
Baseball Player and Manager Leo Durocher

1950 – Dodgers’ Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits HRs twice in a game
1950 – KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites
1951 – Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
1952 – King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday]
1952 – Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer
1953 – Cuban pirate radio station’s 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba
1953 – Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the “26th of July Movement,” against Fulgenico Batista’s regime
1953 – Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.
1954 – WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 – 37th PGA Championship: Doug Ford at Meadowbrook CC Detroit
1955 – Last day as Test Cricket umpire for Frank Chester
Cuban President Fidel Castro

1955 – Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers
1956 – Egypt seizes Suez Canal
1957 – Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200
1957 – USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
1957 – Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated
1958 – Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV
1959 – Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1960 – Italian government of Fanfani forms
1962 – Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba
1962 – Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher
1963 – Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+
1963 – US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1963 – The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.
LPGA Golfer Betsy Rawls

1964 – Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women’s Golf Open
1964 – Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy
1964 – Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die
1964 – US union leader James Hoffa sentenced for fraud
1965 – Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
1966 – WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, NH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1966 – Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent.
1967 – Twins beat Yanks 3-2 in 18
1969 – Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific
1970 – Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive HRs of Phillies Steve Carlton
1971 – Apollo 15 launched (Scott & Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon
1973 – Peter Shaffers “Equus” premieres in London
MLB Catcher Johnny Bench

1974 – France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 – USSR’s Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3
1975 – Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
1977 – USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1977 – The ‘Committee of 10’ formed by prominent Soweto residents, issues a programme for the election of a new community board to have total autonomy in Soweto, South Africa
1978 – France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1978 – Johnny Bench hits his 300th career home run
1979 – Estimated 109 cm (43″) of rain falls in Alvin, TX (national record)
1981 – 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela
1981 – 36th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley
1981 – NY Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant
LPGA Golfer Pat Bradley

1982 – Canada’s Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket
1982 – Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada, crowned 31st Miss Universe
1983 – Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8
1983 – Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czech sets 800m woman’s record (1:53.28)
1983 – Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io
1983 – US threatens action to preserve navigation in Persian Gulf
1984 – Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single
1984 – Kuhn announces Vida Blue is suspended due to cocaine conviction
1984 – Pitcher Vida Blue suspended for rest of 1984 due to drug use
1986 – Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco
1987 – Catfish Hunter Billy Williams & Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball Hall of Fame
1987 – Stephen Roche wins Tour de France
MLB Third Baseman Mike Schmidt

1988 – Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies & NY Mets end that game at 2:13 AM
1990 – General Hospital records its 7,000th episode
1990 – President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
1990 – US beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games
1991 – CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders
1991 – Expo’s Mark Gardner no hits Dodgers for 9 innings, but loses in 10th
1991 – Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie theater
1992 – “Man of La Mancha” closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 108 perfs
1992 – 47th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
1992 – Britain honours her dead in the Falklands war
1992 – Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for 23rd consecutive seasons
1993 – Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed
MLB Pitching Legend Nolan Ryan

1993 – Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km
1994 – Cambodia’s Red Khmer surprise attack on train, kills 13
1994 – Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed
1998 – 19th US Senior Golf Open ends at Riviera CC, Pacific Palisades, Calif
2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA’s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
2005 – Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.
2005 – Samir Geagea, the Lebanese Forces (LF) leader, is released after spending 11 years in a solitary confinement. His release came after the end of the Syrian occupation to Lebanon.
2012 – At least 200 people are killed in a day of violence in Syria
2012 – Insurgent attack kills 19 people and destroys a helicopter at Baqubah, Iraq
2012 – North Korea is hit by Tropical Storm Khanun, killing 88 people and leaving 60,000 people homeless
2013 – 57 people are killed in a market bombing in Parachinar, Pakistan
2014 – Taghrooda wins the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
2014 – While Israel reject long-term ceasefire that does not include destroying the Hamas tunnels, they agree to 12 hour ceasefire; Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip now exceeds 1000
2014 – The Chinese government suspendes the operations of a Shanghai meat dealer and has makes arrests after the company sold out-of-date meat to fast food chains, including McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken

BIRTHDAYS

1030 – Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)
1467 – Ferdinand II, King of Naples
1678 – Joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor (1705-11)
1694 – Johann Samuel Endler, composer
1739 – George Clinton, NY, (D-R) 4th VP (1805-12)
1782 – John Field, pianist/composer (Nocturnes), born in Dublin, Ireland
1791 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM
1796 – George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes)
1799 – Isaac Babbitt, invented babbitt’s metal for bearings
1801 – John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Comm (Union Navy), (d. 1867)
1802 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, poet/politician, born in London, England
1802 – Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
1805 – Constantine Brumidi, artist (Myrtle Murdock)
1813 – Isaac Baumann, Kassel Hesse, Germany, a Jewish pioneer and trader in Bloemfontein, South Africa
1820 – John Marshall Jones, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)
1829 – August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94) (Nobel-1909)
1842 – Alfred Marshall, economist, born in London, England
1846 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. 1880)
1855 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
Playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856)

1856 – George Bernard Shaw, dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1950)
1858 – Tommy Garrett, cricketer (original Australian Test player)
1860 – Philippe J Bunau-Varilla, French engineer (Colombia-Panama)
1863 – Jazeps Witols, composer
1865 – Philipp Scheidemann, German Parliament (SPD)/mayor of Kassel
1866 – Francesco Cilea, composer
1872 – George Louis Beer, historian (authority on British colonies)
1874 – Serge Koussevitzky, Vishny-Volotchok, Russia conductor (Boston Symp)
1875 – Carl Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist (founded analytic psychology), born in Kesswil, Switzerland (d. 1961)
1875 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
1876 – Ernest Schelling, Belvidere NJ, composer/conductor (Victory Ball)
1877 – Hubert Ahaus, missionary (Harvest Fields)
Psychiatrist Carl Jung(1875)

1880 – Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1951)
1881 – Alexander J Kropholler, architect
1885 – Andre Maurois, Elbeuf, France, novelist/biographer
1886 – Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (d. 1965)
1888 – M Jouhandeau, writer
1891 – Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian
1892 – Philipp Jarnach, composer
1892 – Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1966)
1893 – George Grosz, German painter (Gott mit uns)
1894 – Aldous Huxley, Godalming Surrey, English author (‘Brave New World’, ‘Island’)
1894 – Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian (Henric van Veldeken)
1895 – Jerry Verno, actor (River of Unrest, Sweeney Todd), born in London, England
Author Aldous Huxley(1894)

1895 – Jane Bunford, Britain’s tallest-ever person (d. 1922)
1896 – Charles Butterworth, US, lawyer/actor (Mad Genius)
1896 – Evelyn Preer, US actress (Homesteader, Spider’s Webs)
1896 – Henry Birkin, British racing driver (d. 1933)
1897 – Paul Gallico, NY, novelist
1899 – Carel C van Essen, Dutch archaeologist (Italian & Roman art)
1899 – Danton Walker, Mariette Ga, columnist (Broadway Spotlight)
1901 – John Bleifer, Zawiercie Poland, actor (Highway to Heaven)
1902 – Gracie Allen, SF California, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen)
1903 – Donald Voorhees, Allentown Pa, conductor (Bell Telephone Hour)
1904 – Jack Allan Westrup, composer
1906 – Armando Jose Fernandes, composer
1906 – Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence (d. 1943)
1907 – Gioconda de Vito, violinist
1907 – Istvan Pelle, Hungary, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1932)
1908 – Salvador Allende Gossens, Chile’s last elected president (1970-73)
1909 – Gerardina I “Diny” van Amstel, Dutch actress (Dijntje & Trijntje)
1909 – Peter Thorneycroft, British politician (d. 1994)
1909 – Vivian Vance, Cherryvale Kansas, American actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy) (d. 1979)
1912 – Derek Riches, diplomat
1913 – Lou Salica, US, flyweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1914 – Ralph Hunsecker Blane, songwriter
1914 – Erskine Hawkins, American musician and bandleader (d. 1993)
1914 – Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1917 – Bertil Nordahl, Sweden, soccer player (Olympic-gold-1948)
1917 – Richard Desborough Burnell, England, double sculls (Olympic-gold-1948)
1918 – Marjorie Lord [Wollenberg], American actress (Make Room for Daddy, Sherlock Holmes in Washington), born in San Francisco, California
1919 – James Lovelock, scientist
1919 – Kenneth Snowman, antiquarian
1919 – Virginia Gilmore, American actress (d. 1986)
1920 – Bob Waterfield, NFL QB (Rams)
1921 – Jean Shepherd, American writer (d. 1999)
1922 – Andrzej Koszewski, composer
1922 – Blake Edwards, OK, writer/director (10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
1922 – Frank Price, CEO (British Waterways Board)
1922 – Jason Robards Jr, actor (A Thousand Clowns, Any Wednesday), born in Chicago, Illinois
1923 – Peter Carey, permanent secretary (DTI)
1923 – [James] Hoyt Wilhelm, knuckleball pitcher (Orioles)
1923 – Jan Berenstain, American author, (d. 2012)
1924 – Elias Motsoaledi, South African Umkhonto we Sizwe-commandant
1924 – John Kilgour, director of prison medical services (Home Office)
1924 – Louis Bellson, Rock Falls Ill, orchestra leader (Pearl Bailey Show)
1925 – Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (d. 2000)
1926 – Barbara Jefford, actress (Saint, Reunion, Ulysses)
1926 – Don Carter, bowling great (1st PBA president)
1926 – James Best [Jewel Franklin Guy], Powderly, Kentucky, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, Sounder)
1926 – Ana María Matute, Spanish author
1927 – G S Ramchand, cricketer (valuable all-rounder in 33 Tests for India)
1927 – M H W Wells, CEO (Charterhouse Japhet)
1928 – Hans Haselbock, composer
Film Director Stanley Kubrick (1928)

1928 – Stanley Kubrick, Bronx NY, director (2001, Dr Strangelove, Lolita)
1928 – Tadeusz Baird, Polish composer (Giocosa)
1928 – Don Beauman, British racing driver (d. 1955)
1928 – Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (d. 1980)
1928 – Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician
1929 – Alexis Weissenberg, Sofia Bulgaria, pianist (Levintritt-1948)
1929 – Jean Shepherd, humorist (Playboy satire Award 1966, 1967, 1969)
1929 – Marc Lalonde, French Canadian politician
1930 – Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes
1931 – A M F (Sandy) Ross, managing-director (Mary Quant)
1931 – Takashi Ono, Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1933 – Lance Percival, actor/singer (Darling Lili, Our Miss Fred)
1934 – Anthony Gilbert, composer
1936 – Antonio Mastrogiovanni, composer
1936 – Kathryn Hays, actress (Kim Hughes-As the World Turns), born in NYC, New York
1936 – Mary Millar, English actress (d. 1998)
1938 – Keith Peters, physician
1938 – Peter Hall, diplomat
1938 – Bobby Hebb, Nashville Tn, country singer/songwriter (Sunny)
1938 – Darlene Love, American singer
1939 – J W Howard, Prime Minister of Australia
1939 – Wopko Jensma, Middelburg, Eastern Province, South African poet and graphic designer
1940 – Brian Mawhinney, chairman (British Conservative Party)
1940 – Mary Jo Kopechne, Ted Kennedy’s car passenger
1940 – Dobie Gray, Brookshire Texas, American singer (Drift Away)
1940 – Tolis Voskopoulos, Greek singer
1941 – Brenton Wood, Shreveport La, rocker (Gimme Little Sign)
1942 – Vladimír Mečiar, Slovak prime minister
1942 – Teddy Pilette, Belgian racing driver
Rock Star Mick Jagger(1943)

1943 – Mick Jagger, English, rock vocalist (Rolling Stones)
1943 – Peter Hyams, director (2010, Capricorn 1, Relic, Timecop)
1943 – Roger Smalley, composer
1944 – Kiel Martin, Pitts Pa, actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues)
1944 – Micki J King, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1972)
1944 – Rimantas Antanas-Antonovich Stankiavichus, Russian cosmonaut
1945 – Linda Harrison, Berlin Md, actress (Bracken’s World, Planet of Apes)
1945 – Helen Mirren [Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironoff], English actress (The Queen, The Madness of King George), born in London, England
1946 – Anne Wright, Vice-Chancellor (Sunderland U)
1947 – Pauline Clare, Chief Constable (Lancashire)
1947 – Al Anderson, Windsor, Connecticut, guitarist (NRBQ)
1948 – Norair Nurikian, Bulgari, bantam weight (Olympic-gold-1972, 76)
1949 – Roger Taylor, British rock drummer (Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody)
1949 – William M Shepherd, Oak Ridge Tn, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 27, 41, 52)
1950 – Paul McHale, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
1950 – Susan George, actress (Straw Dogs, Mandingo), born in London, England
1950 – Nelinho, Brazilian footballer
1950 – Rich Vogler, American race car driver (d. 1990)
1951 – Robert Edwin Wadkins, Richmond VA, PGA golfer (1994 Kemper Open-2nd)
1951 – William Surles “Bill” McArthur Jr, NC, astro (STS 58, 74, sk: 92)
1952 – Ludmila Maslakova, USSR, relay runner (Olympic-silver-1980)
1952 – Scott David Cook, Glendale Ca, CEO (Intuit-Quicken)
1953 – Robert Phillips, classical guitarist
1954 – Lawrence Watt-Evans, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Sword of Bheleu)
1954 – Vitas Gerulaitis, Brooklyn NY, tennis star (Australia 1987)
1955 – Nicholas Walker, Bogota Col, actor (Capitol, Jimmy-General Hospital)
1956 – Dorothy Hamill, Riverside Ct, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 – Tommy Rich, American professional wrestler
1957 – Jeff Blatnick, Schenectady NY, wrestling (Oly-gold-1984)
1957 – Nana Visitor, [Tucker], actress (Deep Space 9)
Golfer and PGA Champion Wayne Grady (1957)

1957 – Wayne Grady, Brisbane, Australia, PGA golfer (1990 PGA Champion)
1957 – Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor
1957 – Hart Hanson, American television writer and producer
1958 – Ramona Neubert, German DR, long jumper/pentathlete (Oly-4th-80)
1958 – Angela Hewitt, Canadian classical pianist
1959 – Kevin Spacey, South Orange NJ, actor (Dad, Henry & June, Darrow)
1959 – Rick Bragg, American writer
1960 – LaTaunya Pollard, East Chic Ind, (Olympics-1980, 84)
1960 – Mitch Kahn, San Clemente California, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1961 – Andy Connel, rocker (Swingout Sister-Swingout)
1961 – Gary Cherone, heavy metal vocalist (Extreme-More Than Words), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1961 – Yolanda Chen, Moscow Russia, triple jumper (indoor record)
1961 – Dimitris Saravakos, Greek footballer
Actor Kevin Spacey (1959)

1961 – Keiko Matsui, Japanese musician and composer
1962 – Galina Chistyakova, Russian jumper (world record 1988)
1962 – Jody Reed, infielder (San Diego Padres), born in Tampa, Florida
1963 – Andrew C Timmons, Scottsdale Az, guitarist (Danger Danger-Screw It)
1963 – Marianne Berglund, Sweden, cyclist (1983 Ruffles Tour of Texas)
1964 – Sandra Bullock, Wash DC, actress (Speed, Net, Love & War)
1964 – Anne Provoost, Belgian author (In the Shadow of the Ark)
1964 – Ralf Metzenmacher, German painter and designer
1964 – Danny Woodburn, American actor
1965 – Jeremy Piven, American actor and producer (Entourage, Serendipity), born in NYC, New York
1965 – Jennifer Ashe, actress (As the World Turns)
1965 – Jim Lindberg, American musician (Pennywise)
Actress Sandra Bullock(1964)

1967 – David McKenzie, Footscray VIC, Australian golfer
1967 – Anthony Durante, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1967 – Tim Schafer, American computer game designer
1968 – Mike Mohler, Dayton OH, pitcher (Oakland A’s)
1969 – Greg Colbrunn, Fontana CA, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1969 – Jonty Rhodes, South African cricket batsman (brilliant fielder)
1969 – Marc Boutte, NFL defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1969 – Patrick Alfred Bates, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (1994 NIKE Dakota Open)
1970 – Kenny Wilhite, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 – Phil Alley, cricketer (NSW left-arm pace bowler)
1971 – Neus Avila, Lerida Spain, tennis star (Futures-Valencia-ESP 1995)
1971 – Reggie Carthon, CFL defensive back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 – Khaled Mahmud, Former Bangladeshi cricketer
1972 – Ryan Christopherson, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 – Sean Graham, CFL slot back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 – Tydus Winans, NFL/CFL wide receiver (Washington Redskins, Roughriders)
1973 – Jean Francois Bergeron, St Jerome Quebec, boxer (Olympics-96)
1973 – Peter Heijsteek, soccer player (DFC/Dordrecht ’90)
1973 – Kate Beckinsale, British actress
1973 – Lenka Šarounová, Czech astronomer
1974 – Bubba Wells, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
1974 – Dean Sturridge, English Footballer
1974 – Dan Konopka, American musician (OK Go)
1975 – Joe Smith, NBA forward (Golden State Warriors)
1976 – Brad Wilkins, American architect
1977 – Martin Laursen, Danish footballer
1977 – Rebecca St. James, Australian-born singer
1979 – Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Mageina Tovah, American actress
1979 – Erik Westrum, American ice hockey player
1980 – Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist (Sum 41)
1980 – Lee Dong-gun, South Korean actor
1981 – Abe Forsythe, Australian actor/director
1982 – Chez Starbuck, American actor
1983 – Roderick Strong, American professional wrestler
1983 – Delonte West, American basketball player
1984 – Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
1985 – Gaël Clichy, French footballer
1985 – Audrey De Montigny, Quebec singer
1987 – Miriam McDonald, Canadian actress
1993 – Taylor Momsen, American actress

WEDDINGS

1849 – Prime Minister of Canada John Abbott (28) weds Mary Bethune at bride’s parents home
1895 – Physicist and chemist Marie Curie (27) weds physicist Pierre Curie (36) in Sceaux, France
1942 – Science fiction author Isaac Asimov (22) weds Gertrude Blugerman in Brooklyn, New York
1969 – “The 5th Dimension” lead vocalist Marilyn McCoo (25) weds fellow bandmate Billy Davis, Jr. (31)
1992 – “Kiss” guitarist Paul Stanley weds model Pamela Bowen
1995 – Musician Mick Fleetwood (48) weds Lynn Frankel
1997 – Director James Cameron (42) weds actress Linda Hamilton (40) in Malibu, California
Writer/Director James Cameron (1997)

2006 – “The Da Vinci Code” actor Jean Reno (58) weds Polish model Zofia Borucka (35) at the city hall in Baux-de-Provence
2008 – Actress Jennifer Siebel (34) weds San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (40) at her parents horse ranch in Stevensville, Montana
2012 – NBA guard Rafer Alston (36) weds “Basketball Wives” star Ashley Walker at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida
2013 – Goo Goo Dolls frontman John Rzeznik (47) weds Melina Gallo at Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, California
2014 – Actress Piper Perabo (37) weds director Stephen Kay in NYC, New York

DIVORCES

2006 – Former Baywatch actor David Hasselhoff (54) divorces actress and singer Pamela Bach (42) due to irreconcilable differences after 16 years of marriage

DEATHS

796 – Offa, king of Mercia (75.-796)
811 – Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (802-11), dies in battle
1342 – Charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies
1380 – Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)
1471 – Paul II, [Pietro Barbo], Italian Pope (1464-71), dies at 54
1533 – Atahualpo, Inca ruler, dies
1592 – Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
1611 – Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
1630 – Charles Emanuel I, the Great, Duke of Savoy (Peace of Lyon), dies
1677 – Michael Franck, composer, dies at 68
1680 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet/courtier, dies
1684 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)
1712 – Thomas Osborne, English PM (1690-94), dies at 80
1719 – Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer, dies at 43
1723 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
1728 – John Friend, physician/politician, dies
1770 – Michael Schevenstuhl, composer, dies at 65
1801 – Daniel Dal Barba, composer, dies at 86
1826 – Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer, dies at 82
1836 – Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer, dies at 45
Texan Revolutionary Sam Houston (1863)

1863 – Sam Houston, 1st President of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) who helped bring Texas into the United States as a constituent state, dies at 70
1867 – King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
1872 – Michele Carafa, composer, dies at 84
1881 – George Borrow, writer, dies
1910 – Philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist, dies at 71
1915 – James Murray, philologist, dies
1916 – Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer, dies at 52
1916 – Sally Louisa Tompkins, American nurse and philanthrophist, only commissioned woman in US Confederate Army, dies at 82
1918 – Eduard “Mick” Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross), dies
1919 – Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
1920 – Carlos Troyer, composer, dies at 83
1925 – William Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), dies at 65
Politician William Jennings Bryan (1925)

1925 – Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (b. 1888)
1925 – Gottlob Frege, German Mathematician, dies at 76
1935 – Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)
1937 – Gerda Taro (Gerta Pohorylle), photojournalist dies covering Spanish Civil War aged 26
1941 – Benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies
1941 – Marx Dormoy, French socialist, killed by a time bomb
1942 – Titus Brandsma, [Anno Sjoerd], Dutch Roman Catholic priest and philosopher (Dachau), dies
1942 – Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b. 1900)
1944 – Rezā Shāh Pahlavi [Rezā Khan], Shah of Iran (1925-41), dies at 66 of a heart ailment
1946 – Morris Hirshfield, Polish/US painter, dies
1948 – Charles Mills, South African cricketer (Test v England 1891-92), dies
First Lady of Argentina Eva Perón (1952)

1952 – Eva Perón [Evita], Argentine First Lady and actress, dies of cancer at 33
1953 – Nikolaos Plastiras, Greece premier (1945-50, 51-2), dies
1954 – Hans Lodeizen, [Johan Frederik], poet (Travel to Congo), dies at 26
1956 – Miguel Bernal Jiminez, composer, dies at 46
1957 – Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, murdered
1959 – Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (Amor), dies at 54
1960 – Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (b. 1879)
1960 – Cedric Gibbons, American art director (b. 1893)
1964 – Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (b. 1884)
1967 – Matthijs Vermeulen, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 79
1968 – Lilian Harvey, British actress (Congress Dances), dies
1969 – Raymond Walburn, actor (Spoilers, Dixie), dies after illness at 81
1970 – Claud Allister, actor (Kiss Me Kate, Quartet), dies at 81
1970 – Robert Taschereau, French Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896)
1973 – Mike Burke, Pres (NY Yankees)/dir (Madison Sq Garden), dies
1974 – Arthur K Watson, US businessman (IBM), dies at 55
1975 – Leigh Whipper, actor (Hidden Eye, Jungle Queen), dies at 98
1977 – Gena Branscombe, composer, dies at 95
1977 – Hans-Otto Borgmann, composer, dies at 75
1977 – Karac Plant, son of Robert Plant, dies of respratory failure at 6
1980 – Allen Hoskins, American child actor (Our Gang) dies at 59
1980 – Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928)
1981 – Donald Lybbert, composer, dies at 58
1982 – Betty Walker, actress (Steve Lawrence Show), dies at 54
Murderer and Body Snatcher  Ed Gein (1984)

1984 – Ed “Psycho” Gein, mass murderer (“Psycho” & “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” based on him), dies at 78
1984 – George Gallup, pioneer of public opinion polls, dies of a heart attack at 82
1986 – Averell Harriman, statesman, dies in Yorktown Heights, NY at 94
1987 – Joe Liggins, US composer (I’ve a Right to Cry), dies at 71
1988 – Fazlur Rahman Malik, Pakistani scholar (b. 1919)
1990 – Brent Mydland, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Grass Roots), dies at 38
1992 – Mary Wells, US soul singer (My Guy), dies at 49
1992 – Ron Webber, dies of cancer at 60
1993 – Daniel Fuchs, US, screenwriter (Hard Way), dies at 84
1993 – Matthew B Ridgway, US Army Chief of Staff (1953-55), dies at 98
1994 – Marino Iandioro, canned tomato pioneer, dies at 64
1994 – Thomas Davis, US movie editor/son of MGM-chief Frank D, dies at 26
Inventor of the Gallup Poll George Gallup (1984)

1994 – Terry (Owen John) Scott, English actor and comedian (Carry On Films) aged 67
1995 – Eleanore Griffin, screenwriter, dies
1995 – George Romney, politician, dead Heart attack, dies at 88
1995 – Jaime de Mora y Aragon, actor/publicist (Last Judgement), dies at 70
1995 – Laurindo Almeida, composer/guitarist, dies at 76
1995 – Raymond Mailloux, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
1996 – Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot, dies at 93
1996 – Evelyn Levine, composer, dies at 94
2000 – John Tukey, American statistician (b. 1915)
2001 – Rex Barber, American WWII aviator (b. 1917)
2001 – Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
2004 – Sipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, lung cancer (birthdate unknown)
2005 – Betty Astell, British actress (b. 1912)
2005 – Alexander Golitzen, American art director (b. 1908)
2005 – Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925)
2005 – Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
2007 – Lars Forssell, Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy (b. 1928)
2007 – John Normington, English actor (b. 1937)
2007 – Skip Prosser, American basketball coach (b. 1950)
2009 – Marcey Jacobson, American photographer (b. 1911)
2010 – Sivakant Tiwari, senior legal officer of the Singapore Legal Service (b. 1945)
2011 – Margaret Olley, Australian artist (b.1923)
2012 – Franz West, Austrian artist, dies at 65
2013 – JJ Cale, American rock guitarist, dies from a heart attack at 74

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1775 U.S. postal system established

• American Revolution

• 1775 Congress establishes U.S. Post Office

• Automotive

• 1998 Three race fans killed at Michigan Speedway

• Civil War

• 1863 Confederate leader John Hunt Morgan is captured

• Cold War

• 1947 Truman signs the National Security Act

• Crime

• 1984 Real-life Psycho Ed Gein dies

• Disaster

• 1931 Grasshoppers bring ruin to Midwest

• General Interest

• 1847 Liberian independence proclaimed
• 1908 FBI founded
• 1945 Winston Churchill resigns
• 1956 Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal

• Hollywood

• 1943 Entertainer Mick Jagger born

• Literary

• 1942 William Faulkner begins a screenwriting stint

• Music

• 1975 Van McCoy’s “The Hustle” is the #1 song in America

• Old West

• 1878 Officer Wyatt Earp fatally wounds cowboy

• Presidential

• 1797 John Quincy Adams marries Louisa Johnson

• Sports

• 1952 Bob Mathias wins second Olympic decathlon

• Vietnam War

• 1968 South Vietnamese opposition leader tried and sentenced
• 1972 South Vietnamese troops raise flag over Quang Tri

• World War I

• 1916 Australians battle Germans at Pozieres

• World War II

• 1941 United States freezes Japanese assets

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

July 24th

TODAY IS:

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

EVENTS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Rainbow Warrior sunk in Auckland harbour

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

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

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

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

BIRTHDAYS

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

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

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

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

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

WEDDINGS

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

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

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

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

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

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

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

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1911 Machu Picchu discovered

• American Revolution

• 1776 Hancock scolds Schuyler

• Automotive

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

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Kernstown, Virginia

• Cold War

• 1959 Nixon and Khrushchev have a “kitchen debate”

• Crime

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

• Disaster

• 1915 Hundreds drown in Eastland disaster

• General Interest

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

• Hollywood

• 1998 Saving Private Ryan opens in theaters

• Literary

• 1901 O. Henry is released from prison

• Music

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

• Old West

• 1832 Bonneville leads first wagon crossing of South Pass

• Presidential

• 1959 Nixon debates Khrushchev at a fair in Moscow

• Sports

• 2005 Lance Armstrong wins seventh Tour de France

• Vietnam War

• 1965 North Vietnam increases air defense capabilities

• World War I

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

• World War II

• 1943 Operation Gomorrah is launched

July 23rd

TODAY IS:

Gorgeous Grandma Day
Hot Dog Day

EVENTS

636 – Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire
685 – John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1148 – Crusaders attack Damascus
1215 – Frederick II crowned King of the Romans (King of the Germans) in Aachen
1253 – Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent IV
1298 – Rindfleisch Persecutions – Jewish community in Wurzburg Germany massacred
1431 – G Cesarini opens Counsil of Basel (Ferrara/Florence)
1453 – Battle at Gavere: Philip the Good beats Gentse rebellion
1532 – Emperor Charles V and the Schmalkaldic League sign Peace of Nuremberg
1540 – Turkey recognizes Janos Sigismund Zapolyai as vassal-king of Hungary
1558 – Battle of Grevelingen: Gen/earl Lamoraal of Egmont beat France
1572 – William of Orange’s troops occupy Roermond on the Spanjaarden
1594 – Groningen surrenders to earl Mauritius/Willem Louis
1599 – Caravaggio’s 1st public commission for paintings
1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
1664 – 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of NY, arrive in Boston
United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin

1726 – Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia
1745 – Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides
1764 – James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation
1793 – The Prussians conquer Mayence.
1798 – Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
1803 – Robert Emmett leads rebellion in Dublin
1812 – Battle of Mogilev Russia-Napoleon fights Tsar Alexander I
1827 – 1st US swimming school opens (Boston Mass)
1829 – William Austin Burt patents “typographer” (typewriter)
1833 – Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.
1834 – HMS Beagle anchors in Bay of Valparaiso
1840 – Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper & Lower Canada
1848 – Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

1850 – 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of NY takes office
1851 – Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians & US
1852 – 1st interment in US National Cemetery at Presidio
1858 – Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
1863 – Alexandra Park opens in North London
1864 – Battle of Woodstock, VA
1866 – Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms
1870 – Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eugenie as Regent of France
1874 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.
1877 – 1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations
1877 – 1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii completed
1880 – 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1886 – Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge
1888 – John Boyd Dunlop applies to patent pneumatic tire
1890 – Jack Barrett carries his cricket bat for Australia at Lord’s (67)
1890 – 14th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Willoughby Hamilton beats W Renshaw (6-8 6-2 3-6 6-1 6-1)
1900 – Pan-African Congress meets in London
1900 – The Canadian government reviews immigration policy, prohibiting criminals and paupers from landing in Canada
1904 – Ice cream cone created by during St Louis World Fair – reputedly first by Charles E Menches
1906 – Pogroms against Jews in Oddessa
1907 – 7th Davis Cup: Australasia beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
1913 – Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine
1914 – Austria-Hungary presents an ultimatum to Serbia; that A-H demands acceptance within 48 hours make peacekeeping difficult
1917 – Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes
1920 – British East Africa renamed Kenya & becomes a British crown colony
1921 – Chinese communist party forms under guidance of Henk Sneevliet
1921 – Edward Gourdin of US sets long jump record at 25′ 2 3/4″
Baseball Player Lou Gehrig

1925 – NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers
1926 – Belgian NMBS/SNCFB forms
1926 – French government of Poincaré forms
1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
1930 – Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed
1930 – Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with HRs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th)
1931 – Ashmore & Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia
1931 – France announces it can’t afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics
1934 – Bradman completes 304 at Headingley, 430 mins, 43 fours 2 sixes
1936 – Anthony M Kennedy, Sacramento CA, Supreme Court Justice
1937 – Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
1938 – Bradman scores 103 in 178 mins on a Headingley sticky, 3rd Test
1940 – “Blitz” all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins
Cricket Legend Donald Bradman

1942 – German troops conquer Rostow
1942 – Hitler’s Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad
1942 – World War II: Operation Edelweiss (a German plan to gain control over the Caucasus) begins.
1943 – Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
1943 – US 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini
1944 – Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
1944 – Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin
1944 – Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland
1944 – US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II
1944 – US troops occupy Pisa Italy
1945 – Marshal Henri Pétain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial
1946 – Menachem Begin’s Zionist militant group Irgun bombs the King David Hotel, the then British administrative headquarters for Palestine
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin

1947 – 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI
1948 – Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President
1949 – Test Cricket debut of Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days
1952 – General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (Natl Day)
1955 – NY Yankees Bob Cerv & E Howard are 1st to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1956 – Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
1956 – Joe Cronin & Hank Greenberg inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
1956 – The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs.
1958 – 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords
1959 – VP Richard Nixon begins visit on USSR
1960 – 15th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1961 – Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1961 – Bricusse & Newley’s musical “Stop the world I want to …” premieres
LPGA Golfer Betsy Rawls

1962 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
1964 – As’ Bert Campaneris HRs on 1st pitch, hits a 2nd HR on 2nd at bat
1964 – Egyptian munition ship “Star of Alexandria” explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage
1965 – Beatles “Help” is released in UK
1965 – Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park
1966 – Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens
1966 – John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m)
1966 – Napoleon XIV releases “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!”
1967 – -27] 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
1967 – Pirate Radio Swinging Scotland closes down for financial reasons
1968 – Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt
1968 – PLO’s 1st hijacking of an El Al plane
1968 – Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 police officers killed
1969 – 40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Wash DC
1969 – All star MVP: Willie McCovey (SF Giants)
1969 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 – Qaboos ibn Sa’id becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa’id ibn Taimur.
1970 – A ban on parades and public processions until January 1971 is announced by the Stormont government (North Ireland Parliament)
1971 – The British Army carry out early morning raids across Northern Ireland and arrest 48 people
1972 – 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
1972 – Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1972 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic
1973 – Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St Louis-36 die
1973 – Qaboos bin Said Al Said becomes Sultan & Prime Minister of Oman
1973 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 – Pres Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
1974 – 45th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-2 at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pitts
1974 – All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers)
1974 – Greek military dictatorship collapses
1975 – Alan Ayckbourn’s “Absent Friends” premieres in London
1975 – LA Dodgers W Crawford & Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1976 – 42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895)
1976 – Balt Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game
MLB Right Fielder Reggie Jackson

1976 – France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1976 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 – Wings release “Let ’em In”
1977 – Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Muslims on hostage charges
1978 – 33rd US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1978 – Israeli government rejects Sadat’s call for return of 2 Sinai areas
1978 – Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 78th pitcher to win 200
1978 – Reggie Jackson returns & helps Yankees win their 5th straight
1979 – George Brett gets his 1,000th hit
1980 – Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya
1980 – River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
1980 – Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6
1982 – FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo
1982 – Intl Whaling Comn votes for total ban on coml whaling (starting 1985)
39th US President Jimmy Carter

1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
1984 – KC Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save
1984 – Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984
1984 – Vanessa Williams, 1st African American Miss America, resigns due to posing nude
1986 – King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres
1987 – Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women’s record)
1987 – RNI (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
1987 – Red Sox waive Bill Buckner, the goat of last year’s World Series
1987 – Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39)
1988 – Saskatchewan’s Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton
1989 – 118th British Golf Open: Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon
1989 – Amy Alcott wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1989 – FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America’s Most Wanted)
1989 – Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith, Arkansas
1990 – Rosie Jones (St Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America
1990 – South Africa workers’ union leader Billy Nair arrested
1991 – James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession
1991 – Rob Dibble back from 3-game suspension, is ejected for throwing at & hitting Cubs baserunner Doug Dascenzo Cubs win, 8-5
1992 – Bruce Springsteen begins a world tour
1992 – Emperor Haile Selassie, [Ras Tafari Makonnen] of Ethiopia’s, funeral
1993 – Boon completes 17th Test Cricket century, 107 at Headingley
1993 – China Northwest Airlines BAe146-300 crashes at Yinchuan, 55 killed
1993 – Chris Boardman bicycles world record 1 hour distance (52,270 km)
1993 – NY Yankee Mark Hutton is 1st Australian to be a starting pitcher, He beats Angels 5-2; Yanks, Red Sox, Blue Jays 3 way tie for 1st
1994 – All 40,000 ceiling tiles in Kingdome must be replaced
1994 – Amy Osmond of Utah, 17, crowned America’s Junior Miss
1994 – Dancer Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
1994 – Don Mattingly becomes 6th NY Yankee to get 2,000 hits
1994 – Goodwill Games open in St Petersburg
1994 – Longest baseball rain delay (3:39) as Giants beat Mets 4-2 in NYC
1994 – Space shuttle STS-65: Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days 55 mins
1995 – “Hamlet” closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 121 performances
Golfer and Two-Time Major Champion John Daly

1995 – 124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St Andrews Scotland
1995 – Miguel Indurains wins his 5th Tour de France
1995 – Tracy Kerdyk wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1995 – Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.
1997 – Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin & Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them
1997 – The US State Department rules that Turkey’s agreement to purchase $23 billion worth of natural gas from Iran does not violate the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act
1999 – Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father.
1999 – ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan.
2000 – 129th British Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 269 at Royal Lytham
Golfer Tiger Woods

2000 – 55th US Women’s Open Golf Championship
2005 – Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
2006 – 135th British Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 270 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club
2008 – Cape Verde joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member.
2009 – Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox becomes the 18th pitcher to throw a perfect game in MLB history, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 5-0.
2009 – The Bank of Canada announces the end of the recession even though it remains nascent and still dependent on government stimulus money
2012 – A series of attacks across Iraq kill 103 people
2013 – 19 people are killed and 22 are injured after a tour bus collides with a truck in Saraburi, Thailand
2014 – 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow holds its opening ceremony
2014 – 44 people are killed after TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashed into buildings in Taiwan

BIRTHDAYS

645 – Yazid I, Sixth caliph of Islam (d. 683)
1301 – Duke Otto of Austria (d. 1339)
1339 – Louis I, Duke of Anjou/King of Naples (Battle at Poitiers)
1401 – Francesco Sfoza, soldier
1503 – Anna Jagello, Queen of the Romans (d. 1547)
1659 – Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer
1705 – Francis Blomefield, English topographer (d. 1752)
1734 – Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini, opera composer [or Jun 14 1730]
1735 – Johannes Herbst, composer
1769 – Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer
1773 – Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer
1775 – Francois-Eugene Vidocq, French criminal and police detective
1775 – Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)
1777 – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
1793 – Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer
1796 – Franz Adolf Berwald, Sweden, composer
1803 – Johann Vesque von Puttlingen, composer
1806 – Eduard Marxsen, composer
1816 – Charlotte Sanders Cushman, US, actress (Lady MacBeth)
1822 – Darius Nash Couch, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1897)
1823 – Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, English poet
1824 – Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1906)
1825 – Richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor
1827 – Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway)
1828 – Jonathan Hutchinson, surgeon/scientist
1834 – James “Cardinal” Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore
1838 – Edouard [Judas] Colonne, composer/violinist
1841 – Edward John Armstrong, poet
1849 – Geza Zichy, composer
1851 – Charles Bannerman, Aussie cricket batsman (1st centurion)
1853 – William H Gillette, actor (Sherlock Holmes on stage)
1856 – Arthur H Bird, composer
1856 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindi leader
1857 – French [M J Francois] Erens, lawyer/literary (Pursue Years)
1861 – Alexander W F Idenburg, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1909-16)
1864 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister (d. 1903)
1865 – Friedrich Aereboe, Dutch landlord (d. 1942)
1865 – Max Heindel, Danish Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (d. 1919)
1866 – Francesco Cilea, composer
1876 – William Gillies Whittaker, composer
1883 – Alan Francis Brooke, 1st viscount Alanbrooke fieldmarshal [or Jul 4]
1884 – Albert Warner, US producer (Warner Bros)
1884 – Apolinary Szeluto, composer
1884 – Emil Jannings, Germany, actor (Faust, Passion, Blue Angel)
1886 – Arthur Whitten Brown, aviator
1886 – John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist
1886 – Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, writer/diplomat
1886 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
1888 – Raymond Chandler, Chic, mystery writer (Farewell My Lovely)
1888 – Gluyas Williams, SF, cartoonist (Fellows Citizen)
1888 – Milan Stoyadinovich, Serbia, fascist Yugoslavia PM (1935-39)
1891 – Maurus H Hulsman, Dutch priest/editor (Amigoe di Curacao)
1892 – Haile Selassie, [Ras Tafari Makonnen], emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74)
1892 – Petros John Petridis, composer
1893 – Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic)
1894 – Arthur Treacher, Brighton England, announcer (Merv Griffin Show)
1895 – Florence Vidor, [Arto], actress (Jack Knife Man), born in Houston, Texas
1895 – Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)
1898 – Mervyn “Red” Dutton, Manitoba, 2nd NHL pres (1943-46)
1898 – Jacob Marschak, American economist (d. 1977)
1899 – Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany
1901 – Hank Worden, American actor and rodeo cowboy (d. 1992)
1902 – Walter Burle Marx, composer
1904 – Adone Zecchi, composer
1905 – Erich Itor Kahn, Rimbach, Odenwald, German composer of Jewish descent
1906 – Clancy Cooper, actress (Enchanted Forest, Girls in Chains)
1906 – Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist
1906 – Chandrasekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (d. 1931)
1906 – Vladimir Prelog, Sarajevo, Croatian-Swiss Chemist and Nobel Laureate
1907 – Elspeth Josceline Huxley, English author
1908 – Karl Swenson, American actor (Lars Hanson-Little House on the Prairie), born in Brooklyn New York (d. 1978)
1910 – Pimen, [Sergei Irzjekov], patriarch Russian-Orthodox Cathederal
1912 – Michael Wilding, England, actor (Courtney Affair, World of Suzie Wong)
1913 – Coral Browne, Australian actress (Margaret-Time Express), born in Melbourne, Victoria
1913 – Michael Foot, MP
1914 – Alastair Down, CEO (Burmah Oil)
1916 – Ben Weber, St Louis Missouri, composer (Thorne Music Award-1965)
1916 – Ronald Ridout, school textbook author
1917 – Charles Kerruish, president (Tyndwald Isle of Man)
1917 – John Stokes, MP
1917 – Kurt Kreuger, St Moritz Switz, actor (Fear, Unfaithfully Yours)
1918 – Bueno de Mesquita Dutch comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1918 – Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1919 – [Harold] Pee Wee Reese, Hall of Fame shortstop (Dodgers)
1920 – Malcolm Hughes, artist
1920 – Marcel Maeyer, [de Maeyer], Belgian sculptor/graphic artist
1920 – Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (d. 1999)
1921 – Calvert DeForest, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Larry “Bud” Melman)
1921 – David Lawmn, CEO (Prestige Group)
1921 – Harry Hookway, pro-chancellor (Loughborough University)
1921 – Heinz Bennent, Aachen Germany, Actor (Possession)
1921 – Jerome Rosen, composer
1921 – Peter Twiss, test pilot
1922 – Moses Rosen, chief Rabbi of Romania
1923 – Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (d. 1997)
1923 – Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (d. 1958)
1923 – Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (d. 2001)
1924 – Betsy Haworth, deacon/minister
1924 – Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (d. 2005)
1925 – Donna Anderson, Akiak AK, actress (On the Beach
1925 – Gloria De Haven, LA, actress (Bog, Yellow Cab Man, Irene-Nakia)
1925 – Pierre Baugniet, Belgium, pairs ice skater (Olympic-gold-1948)
1926 – Ludvik Vaculik, Czech writer (Two Thousand Words), born in Brumo, Zlín Region (d. 2015)
1927 – Al[fred] A McCandless, (Rep-R-CA, 1983- )
1927 – Elliot McKay See Jr, Dallas Texas, astronaut
1928 – Leon Fleisher, SF California, pianist/conductor (Annapolis Symph 1973-77)
1928 – Hubert Selby Jr., American author (d. 2004)
1929 – Andrew Rutherford, warden (Goldsmith’s College)
1931 – Jan Torell, Limhamm Sweden, director (New Land, Emigrants)
1931 – Richard Searby, deputy-chairman (News Corp Ltd-Australia)
1931 – Viktor Korchnoi, chess champ
1931 – Te Atairangi Kaahu, Māori Queen (d. 2006)
1931 – Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter
1932 – Alistair Graham, headmaster (Mill Hill School)
1933 – Bert Convy, St Louis Mo, actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw)
1933 – Richard Rogers, English architect
1934 – Nicholas Barrington, high commissioner (Pakistan)
1935 – Cleveland Dunkin, rocker (Penguins)
1935 – Hein Heinsen, Danish artist
1936 – Anthony M Kennedy, California, 106th Supreme Court justice (1988- )
1936 – Don Drysdale [Donald Scott], Van Nuys, California, American MLB player (LA Dodgers-Cy Young 1962)
1937 – Dave Webster, Led his football team to a National Championship in 1958
1937 – Bruce Surtees, cinematographer (Dirty Harry, Lenny), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2012)
1938 – Ronny Cox, Cloudcroft Mass, actor (St Elsewhere)
1938 – Götz George, German actor
1940 – Don Imus, radio disc jockey (WNBC)
1940 – Gary Stites, rock vocalist (Lonely For You)
1941 – Richie Evans, 9 time NASCAR Modified Champion (died at Martinsville in 1985)
1942 – John de Hont, Dutch guitarist (ZZ & Masks)
1942 – Madeline Bell, US singer (Black Nativity)
1942 – Myra Hindley, English murderer (d. 2002)
1942 – Sallyanne Atkinson, Australian politician
1943 – Tony Joe White, rocker
1943 – Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (d. 2007)
1944 – Dino Danelli, Jersey City NJ, rock drummer (Fotomaker, Young Rascals)
1944 – Judith A Bosch, Dutch radio/TV-hostess (Tweekamp, Zeskamp)
1945 – Harold W Hennep, Arubians/Dutch dancer/actor (Plus Echo)
1946 – Andy MacKay, rock sax/oboe (Roxy Music-Dance Away), born in London, England
1946 – Keith Ferguson, blues guy (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1947 – David Essex, [Cook], rock vocalist/actor (That’ll be the Day), born in London, England
1947 – Spencer Christian, weatherman (Good Morning America)
1947 – Torsten Palm, Swedish racing driver
1948 – John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician
1949 – Clive Rice, South African cricket all-rounder (WSC 1978-79, ODI 1991)
1950 – Alan Turner, Aussie cricket left-handed opener (World Cup ton 1975)
1950 – Belinda J Montgomery, Winnipeg, actress (Man From Atlantis)
1950 – Blair Thornton, rock guitarist (Bachman-Turner-Overdrive)
1950 – Ian Thomas, rocker
1950 – Kaity Tong, news anchor (WABC-TV NYC)
1950 – Alex Kozinski, Romanian-born American judge
1951 – Edie McClurg, Kansas City MO, actress (Cinderella-1985, Hogan Family)
1951 – Terry Davis, actress (Stacey Winthrop-Another World), born in NYC, New York
1952 – Janis Siegel, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction), born in NYC, New York
1952 – Paul Hibbert, cricketer (one Test Aust v India 1977, scored 13 & 2)
1953 – Graham Gooch, cricketer (prolific England opener & captain)
1955 – Marisa DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family)
1957 – Harry Stefanki, Mento Park Cal, tennis star
1957 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004)
1958 – Kenneth J Green, Danbury CT, PGA golfer (1985 Buick Open)
1958 – Lydia Cornell, El Paso Tx, actress (Sara Rush-Too Close for Comfort)
1959 – Nancy Savoca, American filmmaker
1960 – Al Perez, American professional wrestler
1961 – Antoine Carr, NBA forward/center (Utah Jazz)
1961 – Martin Gore, rocker (Depeche Mode-Just Can’t Get Enough)
Actor Woody Harrelson(1961)

1961 – Woody Harrelson, Midland Tx, actor (Woody Boyd-Cheers)
1961 – André Ducharme, Canadian (Québécois) humorist (Rock et Belles Oreilles) and author
1962 – Eriq La Salle, Hartford CT, actor (Dr Peter Benton-ER)
1962 – Terry-Jo Myers, Ft Myers FL, LPGA golfer (1988 Mayflower Classic)
1963 – Siobodan Zivojinovic, Yugoslavia, tennis star
1964 – Greg Best, Lynchburg VA, Equestrian athlete (Olympic-silver-88, 92)
1964 – Ed Forchion, American marijuana activist
1965 – Brett Faryniarz, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1965 – Slash, [Saul Hudson], rock guitarist & songwriter (Guns N’ Roses-Sweet Child o’ Mine), born in London, England
1966 – Micheal Williams, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1967 – Nicole Jagerman, Netherlands, tennis star
1967 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, Fairport, New York, American actor (Capote, Moneyball)
Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967)

1968 – Amy Fruwirth, Cypress CA, LPGA golfer (1995 McCall’s LPGA-4th)
1968 – Beth Ehlers, Queens NY, actress (Harley Cooper-Guiding Light, Hunger)
1968 – Christopher “Chris” Kerber, Collingswood NJ, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 – Douglas Craft, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 – Elden Campbell, NBA forward/center (LA Lakers)
1968 – Gary Payton, NBA guard (Seattle Supersonics)
1968 – Stefan Figliuzzi, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1968 – Stephane Seymour, model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover-1988)
1968 – Nick Menza, American musician, drummer
1969 – Andrew Cassels, Bramalea, NHL center (Hartford Whalers)
1969 – Dimitri Khristich, Kiev Ukr, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1969 – Fernanda Ribeiro, Portugal, 10k runner (Olympics-gold-96)
1969 – Reyhan Agaoglu, WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 – Sam Waters, Camp Springs Md, singer (Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up)
1970 – Charisma Carpenter, American actress
1970 – Thea Dorn, German writer
1971 – Aimee Rinehart, Miss Missouri USA (1996)
1971 – Alison Krauss, Decatur Ill, country singer (2 Highways)
1971 – Dalvin DeGrate, American singer
1971 – Christopher Lee, Singaporean actor and model
1972 – Marlon Wayans, comedian (Wayans Bros, In Living Color)
1972 – Oscar McBride, NFL tight end (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 – Seth Dittman, NFL offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colt, London Monarchs)
1972 – Trisha Fallon, Australian basketball forward (Olympics-bronze-96)
1973 – Darvin Ham, NBA forward (Wash Wizards)
1973 – Kyle Walters, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1973 – Nomar Garciaparra, American baseball player
1973 – Omar Epps, American actor
1973 – Francis Healy, Scottish rock musician (Travis)
1973 – Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern (improper relationship with Bill Clinton), born in San Francisco, California
1973 – Himesh Reshammiya, Indian Bollywood composer, singer and actor.
1974 – Maurice Greene, KC Kansas, 100m runner
1974 – Tara Williams, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury)
1974 – Terry Glenn, American football player
1974 – Sonny Siaki, Samoan-born professional wrestler
1974 – Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian cyclist
1974 – Kathryn Hahn, American actress
1975 – Seong Hyeon-ah, South Korean actress
1975 – Surya Sivakumar, Tamil actor
1976 – Inger Lise Ebeltoft, Miss Universe-Norway (1996)
1976 – Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
1976 – Jonathan Gallant, Canadian musician (Billy Talent)
1977 – Neicer Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer
White House Intern Monica Lewinsky (1973)

1977 – Scott Clemmensen, American ice hockey player
1978 – Stuart Elliott, Northern Irish footballer
1978 – Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer
1979 – Ricardo Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
1979 – Perro Aguayo, Jr., Mexican professional wrestler
1979 – Richard Sims, Zimbabwean cricketer
1980 – Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny’s Child)
1981 – Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum 41)
1981 – Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
1982 – Schottzie Schott, dog mascot of Cincinnati Reds
1982 – Gerald Wallace, American basketball player
1983 – Andrew Eiden, American actor
1983 – Bec Hewitt, Australian actress
1983 – Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
1984 – Brandon Roy, American professional basketball player
1985 – Luis Ángel Landín, Mexican footballer
1985 – Matthew Murphy, English musician (The Wombats)
1986 – Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress
1986 – Nelson Philippe, French racing driver
1986 – Reece Ritchie, English actor
1988 – Pippa Bennett-Warner, English actress
Actor Daniel Radcliffe(1989)

1989 – Daniel Radcliffe, actor (Harry Pottter in the Harry Potter series of movies), born in London, England
1996 – Rachel G. Fox, American actress

WEDDINGS

1960 – Professional golfer Jack Nicklaus (20) weds Barbara Bash
1986 – Britain’s Prince Andrew (26) weds Sarah Ferguson (26) at Westminster Abbey in London, England
2006 – “The Young and The Restless” actor John Enos (44) weds Disney executive Jennie Lee on the patio of Hollywood hotspot The Cabana Club
2011 – “Pittsburgh Steelers” quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (29) weds Ashley Harlan at Christ Church of Grove Farm in Ohio Township

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

945 – Richarius, bishop of Luik (922-45), dies
1227 – Qiu Chuji, Chinese Taoist (b. 1148)
1373 – Birgitta van Sweden, Swedish saint, dies
1403 – Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], killed in battle at 39
1403 – Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (b. 1343)
1531 – Louis de Brézé, seigneur d’Anet, Marshal of Normandy and husband of Diane de Poitiers
1568 – Don Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip II, dies at about 23
1581 – Georges Lalaing, viceroy of Friesland, dies
1584 – John Day, English printer (b. 1522)
1645 – Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov, dies
1685 – Pietro Reggio, composer, dies at 53
1690 – Richard Gibson, minature painter, dies
1692 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
1727 – Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
1757 – Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (La Silvia), dies at 71
1764 – Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (b. 1703)
1773 – George Edwards, English naturalist (b. 1693)
1781 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
Founding Father of the United States Roger Sherman(1793)

1793 – Roger Sherman, American lawyer and Founding Father of the United States (Decl of Independence), dies of typhoid fever at 72
1803 – Arthur Wolfe, 1st viscount Kilwarden/Chief Justice of Ireld, murdered
1816 – Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration), dies at 68
1829 – Wojciech Boguslawski, composer, dies at 72
1840 – Frantisek Max Knize, composer, dies at 55
1844 – Christian Gobrecht, 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office
1853 – Andries Pretorius, Boer leader (b. 1798)
1866 – Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer, dies at 83
1875 – Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63
1878 – Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer, dies at 70
1878 – Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician (b. 1804)
1885 – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President (1869-77) and Union general, dies of esophageal cancer in Mount McGregor NY at 63
1904 – John Simon, public health pioneer, dies
US President & Union General Ulysses S. Grant (1885)

1905 – Jean-Jacques Henner, French painter, dies at 76
1909 – Ernest F Cambier, Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65
1909 – Zygmunt Noskowski, composer, dies at 63
1916 – William Ramsey, chemist, dies
1920 – Conrad Kohrs, German-born rancher (b. 1835)
1924 – Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (b. 1850)
1927 – Saad Zaghlul, Egyptian parliament chairman, dies at 74
1930 – Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer/airplane builder, dies at 52
1932 – Tenby Davies, Welsh half-mile world champion runner (b. 1884)
1933 – Max Schillings, German composer/conductor (Mona Lisa), dies at 65
1942 – Andrew Ducat, cricketer (England 1921), dies whilst batting at 56
1942 – Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32
1942 – Adam Czerniakow, Polish engineer (suicide) (b. 1880)
1943 – Emanuel Querido, Dutch publisher, murdered in the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor at 71
1944 – Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp
1944 – Helmuth J von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed
1944 – Max HHR Nettlau, Austrian historian (Der Anarchismus), dies at 79
1946 – James Maxton, politician, dies
Film director D. W. Griffith(1948)

1948 – D.W. Griffith, American director/producer, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 73
1951 – Henri Philippe Pétain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime), dies
1951 – Robert Joseph Flaherty, documentary film maker, dies
1955 – Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Un soir de joie), dies at 55
1955 – Cordell Hull, statesman, dies
1955 – Harry Haden, actor (Harry-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 73
1957 – G Tomasi di Lampedusa, writer, dies at 61
1961 – Esther Dale, actress (Birdie-Ma & Pa Kettle), dies after surgery at 75
1964 – Jan PML de Vries, Dutch germanist/folklorist, dies at 74
1966 – Donald Novis, singer/actor (Pajama Game), dies at 60
1966 – Douglass Montgomery, actor (Forbidden, Daybreak), dies at 56
1966 – [Edward] Montgomery Clift, actor (From Here to Eternity), dies at 45
1968 – Don Lillis, NFL president (NY Jets)
1968 – Henry Hallett Dale, physiologist, dies
1969 – Deli Floyd, writer, dies
1971 – Van Heflin, actor (Great Adventure), dies at 60
1973 – Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot, dies at 82
1973 – Marius-Francois Gaillard, composer, dies at 72
1974 – Mary Forbes, actress (Nun-Les Miserables, Ivy), dies at 90
1976 – Wilhelmina Von Bremen, 4X100 relay sprinter (Oly-gold-32), dies at 64
1977 – René de Vos, Dutch actor/composer (Jij Bent Mijn Leven), dies at 79
1979 – Keith Godchaux, rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident at 31
1979 – Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (b. 1898)
1980 – Sarto Fournier, Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
1980 – Mollie Steimer, anarchist agitator and American political prisoner (b. 1897)
1982 – Vic Morrow, actor (Cimmaron), killed during “Twilight Zone” at 53
1982 – Betty Parsons, American artist and art dealer (b. 1900)
1983 – Georges Auric, French composer (It Always Rains on Sunday), dies at 84
1984 – Lloyd Gough, actor (Black Bart, Tolsa), dies of aortic aneurism at 77
1985 – Kay Kyser, bandleader (Kay Kyser’s Kollege), dies at 79
1985 – Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)
1986 – Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, composer, dies at 73
1988 – Jahangir Khan, cricketer (4 Tests for India 1932-36), dies
1989 – Donald Barthelme, American author (b. 1931)
1990 – Georges Flamant, actor (La Chienne), dies in Paris at 86
1990 – Joe Turner, jazz pianist, dies of cardiac arrest at 82
1990 – Robert Sommer, singer, dies of liver failure at 42
1990 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (b. 1899)
1992 – Arletty, French actress (Hotel, Longest Day), dies at 94
1992 – Maxine Audley, Brit actress (Vikings, Our Man in Havana), dies at 69
1993 – James Jordan, father of NBA star Michael Jordan, found dead near McColl SC
1994 – Aad Ivens, Dutch checkers player, dies at 80
1994 – Hans J Salter, Aust/US composer (Deanna-Durbin musicals), dies at 98
1994 – Henry William Collins, artist, dies at 84
1995 – Bob Rundick, poet/DJ, dies at 52
1995 – Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 80
1996 – Aliki Vougiouklaki, actress (Madalena), dies at 63
1996 – Jessica Lucy Mitford, author, dies at 78
1996 – John Corner, scientist, dies at 80
1997 – Andrew Cunanan, serial killer (Gianni Versage), commits suicide
1997 – Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)
1999 – King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
2001 – Eudora Welty, American author (b. 1909)
2002 – Leo McKern, Australian actor (b. 1920)
2002 – William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (b. 1933)
2002 – Chaim Potok, American novelist and rabbi (b. 1929)
2003 – James E. Davis, New York City councilman (murdered) (b. 1962)
2004 – Mehmood, Indian actor (b. 1932)
2004 – Carlos Paredes, Portuguese musician and composer (b. 1925)
2004 – Piero Piccioni, Italian musician, conductor and composer (b. 1921)
2004 – Serge Reggiani, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
2005 – Ted Greene, American jazz guitarist and teacher (b. 1946)
2006 – Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1927)
2007 – Tor Kamata, American/Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1937)
2007 – Ron Miller, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1933)
2007 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
2008 – Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1924)
2010 – Daniel Schorr, American journalist (b. 1916)
Singer Amy Winehouse(2011)

2011 – Amy Winehouse, British singer songwriter, dies from a alcohol intoxication at 27
2012 – Sally Kristen Ride, American astronaut, dies from pancreatic cancer at 61
2012 – Sally Ride, American astronaut, dies of pancreatic cancer at 61
2013 – Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer, dies from complications from pneumonia at 84
2013 – Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer, dies from complication from dementia at 75
2014 – Dora Bryan, British actress, dies at 91

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1984 Miss America resigns

• American Revolution

• 1793 Connecticut Patriot Roger Sherman dies

• Automotive

• 2007 Honda produces 6 millionth Civic in North America

• Civil War

• 1862 Halleck takes command of the Union army

• Cold War

• 1962 An accord on Laos is reached

• Crime

• 1878 Black Bart strikes again
• 1918 A string of mysterious deaths surrounds a Nebraska woman

• Disaster

• 1976 Legionnaires gather in Philly

• General Interest

• 1952 Military seizes power in Egypt
• 1967 The 12th Street riot

• Hollywood

• 1982 Actor and two children killed on Twilight Zone set

• Literary

• 1888 Raymond Chandler is born

• Music

• 1988 Guns N’ Roses make popular breakthrough with “Sweet Child O’ Mine”

• Old West

• 1920 Montana rancher Conrad Kohrs dies

• Presidential

• 1885 Former President Ulysses S. Grant dies

• Sports

• 1996 U.S. women take home gymnastics gold

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Taylor and Khanh have “heated” discussions in Saigon
• 1965 Johnson urged to declare a state of national emergency

• World War I

• 1914 Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia

• World War II

• 1951 Petain, leader of the Vichy government, dies

July 22nd

TODAY IS:

Hammock Day
Penchue Fudge Day

EVENTS

259 – St Dionysius elected as Pope, succeeding Sixtus II
1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1298 – English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk
1306 – King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France
1456 – Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats sultan Murad II
1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair – a 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany’s brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
1489 – “Tractate Niddah” a talmudic edition, 1st printed
1489 – Treaty of Frankfurt signed between Maximilian of Austria and King Charles VIII of France
1515 – First Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland & Holy Roman Empire – rise of the Habsburgs influence
1535 – Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Adm Barbarossa
1582 – Willem van Orange moves from Antwerp to Delft
1587 – 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC
1627 – English fleet under George Villiers lands on the Rhe [OS=June 12]
1632 – Foundation laid in Madrid for Buen Retiro-palace for king Philip IV
1648 – 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre during Khmelnytsky Uprising
1686 – City of Albany, NY chartered
1691 – Battle at Aghrim: English/Dutch army beats France
1729 – Diamonds found in Minas Geras Brazil
1731 – Spain signs Treaty of Vienna
1739 – Turks defeats Holy Roman Emp at Crocyka Yugoslavia & threaten Belgrade
First US President George Washington

1775 – George Washington takes command of US troops
1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
1796 – Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen Moses Cleveland
1812 – Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain
1859 – V E Walker takes 10-74 in an innings for England v Surrey
1864 – Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman, 8449 conf, 3641 US die
1865 – V E Walker takes 10-104 in an innings for Middlesex v Lancs
1893 – Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” in Colorado
1898 – Crew of Belgium RV Belgica see 1st sunrise in 1600 hrs – 1st expedition to endure Antarctic winter
1901 – Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro
1901 – British House of Lords, in its role as court, rules trade unions can be sued for actions of its members – in Taff Vale Case
1905 – Phila Athletic’s Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0
1912 – 5th Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden closes
1912 – In the face of ever-increasing German naval power, the British Admiralty decides to recall British warships from the Mediterranean and base them in the North Sea
1916 – A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in SF killing 10
1917 – British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades
1918 – Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah’s Wasatch National Park
1919 – De Falla & Massine’s “Three-cornered Hat” premieres in London
Pioneering Golfer Jim Barnes

1921 – 25th US Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 289 at Columbia CC in MD
1922 – Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St Louis teams are on top
1923 – Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508)
1925 – Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher
1926 – 105°F (41°C), Waterbury, Connecticut (state record)
1926 – 108°F (42°C), Troy, NY (state record)
1926 – Cin Red Curt Walker ties record of 2 triples in an inning
1933 – 1st solo flight round the world 7d 19hrs (Wiley Post)
1933 – Caterina Jarboro sings “Aida”, NYC-1st negro prima donna in US
1934 – Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theatre, “Public Enemy No. 1” John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1935 – Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia
1936 – Phillies John Moore hits 3 consecutive HRs
1937 – Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1937 – Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court
1939 – Jane Bolin becomes the 1st African American female judge (NY)
1940 – Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks
1942 – 4th Russian army forms with 80 tanks
1942 – Gasoline rationing using coupons begins
1942 – Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp
1943 – US forces led by Gen George Patton liberate Palermo Sicily
1944 – Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation
1946 – Estelle Bennett, rocker (Ronettes)
1946 – Menachen Begin’s opposition group surprise attack on King David hotel
1947 – -8°F (-13°C), Charlotte Pass, NSW (Australian record)
1950 – Frank Worrell completes 261 v England at Trent Bridge
1950 – King Leopold returns to Belgium after 6 years in exile
1951 – General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal
US General George S. Patton

1952 – Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution
1954 – US Virgin Islands adopt constitution (Revised Organic Act)
1954 – WTHI TV channel 10 in Terre Haute, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 – 1st VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon
1955 – Phillies longest win streak since 1892 hits 11
1958 – US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1959 – Benjamin Britten’s “Missa Brevis” in D premieres
1959 – Earth gas found at Kolham (Slochteren) Groningen
1960 – Cuba nationalizes all US-owned sugar factories
1961 – WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1962 – 1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off
1962 – 44th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 278 at Aronimink GC PA
1962 – Chicago White Sox Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles)
Golfer Gary Player

1962 – Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Tournament
1963 – Beatles release “Introducing the Beatles”
1963 – Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1965 – Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of Brit Cons party
1967 – 1st major appearance by Vanilla Fudge (Village Theater NYC)
1967 – Atlanta Braves use a record 5 pitchers in 9th inning
1967 – Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Ladies’ Golf Open
1967 – Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees’ tour
1968 – Sir John Newsome recommends public schools should take 50% of their intake from the state school system
1969 – Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit
1969 – USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
1971 – Sudanese military counter-coup under premier Numeiry
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston

1972 – 10.84″ (27.53 cm) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record)
1972 – Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus
1972 – 2 Catholics are abducted, beaten, and shot dead in a Loyalist area of Belfast
1973 – 28th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
1975 – US House of Representives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee
1976 – “Let My People Come” opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 106 performances
1979 – Pat Meyers wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
1981 – Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome, Italy court to life
1982 – Academic Text Processing Service forms in Seattle
1983 – -128.6°F (-89.2°C) recorded, Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
1983 – Angels OF Brian Downing error ends his record streak at 244 games
Confederate General Robert E. Lee

1983 – Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world
1983 – Poland’s PM Januzelski lifts martial law
1984 – 113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St Andrews
1984 – 22nd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Australia in Sao Paulo Brazil (2-1)
1984 – Kathy Whitworth wins Rochester Golf International (her 85th win)
1984 – Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
1986 – House of Reps impeaches Judge Harry E Claiborne on tax evasion
1987 – Said Aouita of Morocco sets 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome
1987 – Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian)
1987 – US began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf
1988 – 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
1989 – Kristin Huxhold, 18, of Missouri, crowned America’s Junior Miss
1990 – 119th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St Andrews Scotland
1990 – 90th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson
LPGA Golfer Beth Daniel

1990 – Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
1990 – Greg LeMond of US wins his 3rd Tour de France
1991 – Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978
1992 – Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison
1992 – Soyuz TM-15 launches
1993 – NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits his 200th HR
1993 – Soyuz TM-17 lands
1994 – 23rd & last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (since July 16th)
1994 – Doc Gooden admitted to Betty Ford Center
1994 – Mariners play Red Sox as home team at Fenway, as Kingdome is repaired
1994 – Military coup in Gambia: Pres Dawda Jawara flees
1994 – OJ Simpson pleads “Absolutely 100% Not Guilty” of murder
1994 – William Sigei runs world record 10k (26:52.53)
NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson

1995 – Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), lands
1995 – Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her two children in South Carolina
1997 – Fire breaks out at Palais de Chaillot in Paris
1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
1997 – Greg Maddux throws a complete game with just 76 pitches
1997 – The first shipments of oil produced from Kazakhstan’s Tengiz field arrive at terminals on the Black Sea for subsequent export through the Bosphoros Strait
1999 – Woodstock 99 music festival begins Griffiss Park, Rome NY (till 25th) attended by 200,000. Ended due to violence.
2001 – 130th British Golf Open: David Duval shoots a 274 at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
2002 – Israel assassinates Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas’s military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, along with 14 civilians.
MLB Pitching Legend Greg Maddux

2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay’s 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.
2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers. See 7 July 2005 London bombings and 21 July 2005 London bombings
2007 – 136th British Golf Open: Pádraig Harrington shoots a 277 at Carnoustie Golf Links
2011 – Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
2012 – Car bombs kills 20 people and injures 80 in Madaen and Najaf, Iraq
2012 – Pranab Mukherjee is elected President of India
2012 – At least 77 people are killed by torrential rain in Beijing, China
2012 – 141st British Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 273 at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
2013 – 89 people are killed and 500 are injured by earthquakes in Gansu province, China
NHL Coach Mike Babcock

2013 – Mike Babcock is again named head coach of Team Canada, this time for the 2014 Winter Olympics (they would repeat as gold medalists)
2014 – Both the United Arab Emirates and the USA announce aid packages to besieged Gaza
2014 – News broadcaster Al Jazeera claim that their office in Gaza is under attack by the Israeli Defence Force
2014 – European Union claim that Israel ‘has the right to defend itself’, but say civilian casualties in Gaza are unacceptable

BIRTHDAYS

1210 – Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1238)
1478 – Philip I, (the Handsome), 1st Habsburg King of Spain (1504-06)
1510 – Alessandro de’ Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
1535 – Katarina Stenbock, wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
1559 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619)
1597 – Virgilio Mazzocchi, composer
1621 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury/minister (1660-73)
1642 – Johann Quirsfeld, composer
1647 – Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint
1649 – Clement XI, [Giovanni F Albani], Italy, Pope (1700-21)
1651 – Ferdinand Tobias Richter, composer
1711 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)
1713 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
1721 – Francois-Joseph Krafft, composer
1722 – Jean-Noel/Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian
1733 – Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790)
1755 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (d. 1839)
1763 – James Geddes, Carlisle Pennsylvania, American Engineer and chief engineer in the construction of the Erie Canal
1784 – Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (star parallax, Bessel Function)
1807 – Karolina Pawlowa, writer
1820 – Louis Powell Harvey, Governor (Union), (d. 1862)
1822 – Hamilton Prioleau Bee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1897)
1822 – John George Walker, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1893)
1830 – Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer
1830 – William Sooy Smith, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1916)
1833 – Benjamin Hanby, composer
1834 – Daniel McCook Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1864)
1844 – William Archibald Spooner, reverend/inventor (spoonerisms), born in London, England
1848 – Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
Poet Emma Lazarus (1849)

1849 – Emma Lazarus, New York NY, poet (“New Colossus” – on the base of Statue of Liberty)
1853 – Victor Roger, composer
1863 – Alec Hearne, cricketer (brother of George & Frank, Kent 1884-1910)
1871 – Akos Buttykai, composer
1872 – David D Salas, Antillian writer (Josefina)
1873 – Ettore Pozzoli, composer
1878 – Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un destin: Martin Luther)
1879 – Gustaf Heintze, composer
1882 – Edward Hopper, US painter (House by the Railroad)
1887 – Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925)
1888 – Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950)
1889 – Frederick Preston Search, composer
Kennedy Family Matriarch Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy(1890)

1890 – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mom of JFK, RFK & Ted, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1995)
1892 – Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s)/war criminal
1892 – John MacBryan, cricketer (one Test Eng v South Africa 1924 DNBat, DNbowl)
1893 – Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1894 – O M Graf, writer
1895 – James Arthur Calata, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman
1898 – Alexander Calder, sculptor (mobiles, stabiles)
1898 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (d. 1943)
1901 – Charles Weidman, Nebraska, modern dancer/choreographer (Candide)
1902 – Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer
1905 – Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble)
1905 – Doc Cramer, American baseball player (d. 1990)
1907 – Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore’s national anthem (d. 1987)
1908 – Amy Vanderbilt, American authority on etiquette (Complete Book of Etiquette, Complete Cook Book), born in NYC, New York
1909 – Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (d. 2000)
1910 – Edith Abbo, daughter of Mien Wenneker/Dutch Prince Henry
1913 – Licia Albanese, American operatic soprano (NY Met Opera), born in Bari Italy, (d. 2014)
1913 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader (d. 1995)
1914 – Cecil Effinger, composer
1915 – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author. (d. 2000)
1916 – Hipolito M Ocalia, Curacao, landscape painter
1916 – Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984)
1916 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
1918 – Pim [Albrecht W] Lyre, Dutch lawyer/son of prince Henry
1920 – Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman
1921 – William V Roth Jr, (Sen-R-Delaware, 1971- )
1923 – Robert J Dole, (Sen-R Kansas, 1969-95)/presidential candidate (R-1996)
1923 – Bob Dole, American politician
1923 – Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1923 – Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
1924 – Margaret Whiting, American singer (Kreisler Bandstand, Strauss Family), born in Detroit, Michigan
1926 – Bryan Forbes, director/producer (Endless Games, King Rat), (d. 2013)
1926 – Peter Michael Grayson, showman
1927 – George Hunter, South Africa, light heavyweight boxer (Oly-gold-1948)
1928 – Georg Dreyfus, composer
1928 – Orson Bean, Burlington VT, actor/comedian (To Tell the Truth)
1928 – Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
1929 – Vivien Merchant, Manchester England, actress (Under Milk Wood)
1929 – John Barber, British racing driver
1930 – Leoncjusz Ciuciura, composer
1930 – Marcia Henderson, Andover Mass, actress (Kathleen-Aldrich Family)
1931 – Charles Huxtable, General commander (English ground armies)
1931 – Perry Lopez, actor (Chinatown, Death Wish 4), born in NYC, New York
1932 – Oscar de la Renta, Dom Rep, designer (Coty Hall of Fame-1973)
1932 – William Wilkinson, businessman/conservationist
1933 – Chuck Cassey, choral director (Jimmy Dean Show), born in Chicago, Illinois
Actress Louise Fletcher(1934)

1934 – Louise Fletcher, Birmingham AL, actress (One Flew over Cuckoo’s Nest)
1935 – Tom Cartwright, England cricket medium pacer (5 Tests 1964-65)
1936 – Harold “Dusty” Rhodes, England cricket pace bowler (1959)
1936 – Krasimir Kyurkchiiski, composer
1936 – Tom Robbins, American author
1937 – John Price, England cricket fast-medium bowler (1964-72)
1937 – V B Ranjane, Indian cricket fast bowler (early 1960’s)
1937 – Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1938 – Terence Stamp, English actor (The Collector, Billy Budd), born in London, England
1939 – Gila Almagor, Israeli actress
1940 – Alex Trebek, Sudbury Ontario, TV game host (High Rollers, Jeopardy)
1940 – Stan Ross, actor, born in NYC, New York
1940 – Yuriy Klimov, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976)
Host of Jeopardy! Alex Trebek (1940)

1940 – Judith Walzer Leavitt, American college professor
1941 – George Clinton, Kannapolis NC, rocker (Parliament-Funkadelic)
1941 – Susie M Berning, Pasadena CA, LPGA golfer (US Women’s Open-1972, 73)
1941 – Thomas Wayne, rocker (Tragedy)
1941 – Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey
1943 – Bobby Sherman, actor/singer (Seattle)
1943 – Jimmy Castor, rocker
1943 – Yoran Ben Ami, Israel, producer/president (Triumph Pictures)
1943 – Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Senator from Texas
1944 – Estelle Bennett, vocalist (Ronettes-Be My Baby), born in NYC, New York
1944 – Guich Koock, Austin Tx, actor (Harley Puckett-Carter Country)
1944 – Rick Davies, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Supertramp), born in London, England
1944 – Sparky Lyle, relief pitcher (NY Yankees, Cy Young)
1944 – Dennis Firestone, Australian racing driver
1946 – Mirelle Mathieu, Acignon France, singer (So Ein Schone r Abend)
1946 – Paul Schrader, director (Blue Collar) and writer (Taxi Driver), born in Grand Rapids, Michigan
1946 – Steve Friedman, TV news executive/actor (American Anthem)
1946 – Danny Glover, actor (Lethal Weapon, Operation Dumbo Drop), born in San Francisco, California
1946 – Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician (d. 2000)
1947 – Albert Brooks, comedian (Broadcast News, Lost in America), born in Los Angeles, California
1947 – Curt Weldon, (Rep-R-Pennsylvania)
1947 – Don Henley, Linden Tx, rock drummer/vocalist (Eagles-Desparado)
1947 – Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
1948 – S. E. Hinton, American author
1948 – Otto Waalkes, German comedian
1949 – Dianne Dailey, LPGA golfer
1949 – Lasse Viren, Finland, 5K/10K runner (Olympic-gold-1972, 76)
1949 – Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai and PM of UAE
Disney Composer Alan Menken (1949)

1949 – Alan Menken, New York, Disney composer (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast – 8 Oscars)
1951 – Tisa Farrow, actress (Zombie, Fingers, Grim Reaper), born in Los Angeles, California
1951 – Steven Springer, Port of Spain, Trinidad, guitarist and songwriter (Sir Lancelot Pinard), (d. 2012)
1952 – Herbert Chang, West Indian cricket batsman (1979)
1952 – Madeleine Collinson, Malta, twin playmate (Oct, 1970)
1952 – Mary Collinson, Malta, twin playmate (Oct, 1970)
1953 – Jimmy Bruno, American jazz guitarist
1953 – Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress
1954 – Al Dimeola, rocker
1954 – Henriette Allais Jacksonville FL, playmate (Mar, 1980)
1954 – Pierre Lebeau, Canadian actor
1954 – Al Di Meola, American guitarist
1955 – Willem Dafoe, Wisc, actor (Platoon, Roadhouse 66, Mississippi Burning)
1956 – Michael Spinks, US, middleweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 – Mick Pointer, rock drummer (Marillion)
1957 – Dave Steib, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1958 – Sandra Elizabeth Greenberg, Spokane Wash, playmate (June, 1987)
1958 – David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1984)
1960 – Denyse Julien, Rouyn Quebec, badminton player (Olympics-9-92, 96)
1960 – Jon Oliva, American musician (Savatage)
1961 – Calvin Fish, English racing driver
1961 – Keith Sweat, American singer
1962 – Alvin Robertson, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
1962 – Steve Albini, American writer, recording engineer and musician (Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac)
1962 – Martine St. Clair, Canadian singer
1963 – Eddie Anderson, NFL safety (Oakland Raiders)
1963 – Joanna Going, actress (Lisa Grady-Another World)
1963 – Emilio Butragueno, Spanish footballer
1963 – Rob Estes, American actor
1963 – Emily Saliers, American singer (Indigo Girls)
1964 – Bonnie Langford, English actress (Wombling Free)
1964 – David Spade, comedian (SNL, Tommy Boy, Black Sheep)
1964 – Rafael Addison, NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets)
1964 – John Leguizamo, Bogotá, Colombia, Colombian American actor (Mambo Mouth, Whispers in the Dark)
1964 – Adam Godley, British actor
1964 – Don Van Natta, Jr., American journalist
1965 – Alondra Johnson, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1965 – Doug Riesenberg, NFL tackle (NY Giants)
1965 – Patrick Laborteaux, actor (Albert-Little House on Prairie), born in Los Angeles, California
1965 – Shawn Michaels, [Mike Hickenbottom], wrestler (WWF/AWA), born in San Antonio, Texas
1965 – Patrick Labyorteaux, American actor
1966 – Anna Wood, Roeumond Neth, Dutch/Australian canoeist (Olympics-88, 96)
1966 – Daniel Nowak, Schwennigen GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1966 – Tim Brown, NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders)
1967 – Andreas Motzkus, WLAF receiver (Rhein Fire)
1967 – Pat Badger, heavy metal bassist (Extreme-More Than Words)
1967 – Shawn Wilbourn, US decathlete
1967 – Lauren Booth, British journalist
1967 – Rhys Ifans [Rhys Evans], Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Welsh actor/musician (Notting Hill, Enduring Love)
1968 – Sean Vanhorse, NFL cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1969 – Despina Vandi, Greek singer
1970 – Dan Jones, NFL tackle (Cin Bengals)
1970 – Melvin Aldridge, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 – Sergei Zubov, Moscow Russia, NHL defenseman (Team Russia, Pittsburgh)
1970 – W R Tillman, NFLer (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 – Craig Baird, New Zealander racing driver
1971 – Charlotte Gainsbourg, actress (Little Thief), born in London, England
1971 – Kristine Marie Lilly, soccer midfielder (Olympics-96), born in NYC, New York
1971 – William Bell, NFL running back (Washington Redskins)
1972 – Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor
1972 – Seth Fisher, American comic book artist and penciller (d.2006)
1972 – Keyshawn Johnson, American football player
1973 – Ronald Ray Howard, American murderer (d. 2005)
1973 – Daniel Jones, Australian musician (Savage Garden)
1973 – Mike Sweeney, American baseball player
1973 – Rufus Wainwright, Canadian singer
1974 – Franka Potente, German actress
1977 – Maria Jose Lopez, Miss Ecuador Universe (1997)
1977 – Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer
1978 – Heather Noelle Jones, Miss Oregon Teen USA (1996)
1978 – Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
1978 – A. J. Cook, Canadian actress
1978 – Martyn Lee, English radio presenter
1978 – Runako Morton, West Indian cricketer, (d. 2012)
1979 – Lucas Luhr, German racing driver
1979 – Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player
1979 – James Mason, British professional wrestler
1980 – Scott Dixon, New Zealand racing driver
1980 – Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
1980 – Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
1980 – Tablo, Korean hip-hop musician (Epik High)
1982 – Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri lankan cricketer
1983 – Arsenium, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1983 – Steven Jackson, American football player
1983 – Sharni Vinson, Australian actress and model
1984 – Stewart Downing, English footballer
1985 – Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean/American rugby player
1985 – Akira Tozawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1989 – Caroline Giuliani, daughter of Rudy (Mayor-R- 1994- ), born in NYC, New York
1992 – Selena Gomez, American actress and singer, born in Grand Prairie, Texas
Singer and Actress Selena Gomez (1992)

1993 – Patricia Quinn, 11th child of actor Anthony Quinn (78)
1997 – Field Cate, American actor
1998 – Madison Pettis, American actress
2002 – Prince Felix of Denmark
2013 – Prince George of Cambridge, son of Prince William and Catherine, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, England (3rd in line to the English throne), born in London, England

WEDDINGS

1515 – Anna of Bohemia (12) marries Karel van Ferdinand of Austria
1515 – Louis of Hungary (9) marries Maria of Bohemia & succession to Hungarian throne
1850 – Composer Stephen Foster (24) weds Jane Denny McDowell at Trinity Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1929 – American Playwright Eugene O’Neill (40) marries 3rd wife actress Carlotta Monterey (40)
1972 – Business magnate Richard Branson (22) weds Kristen Tomassi
1982 – Biggest mass wedding, Rev Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in NYC
Business Magnate Richard Branson (1972)

1995 – “True Lies” actor Tom Arnold (36) weds Julie Champnella (25) in Dearborn, Michigan
1995 – Actor Ewan McGregor (24) weds production designer Eve Mavrakis (29)
1999 – Director Martin Scorsese (56) weds Helen Morris in New York
2006 – Spanish singer David Bustamante (24) weds Spanish TV star Paula Echevarria at Basilica de Santa Maria la Real de Covadonga in the Asturias
2006 – British TV presenter Ant McPartlin (30) weds former member of “Deuce” Lisa Armstrong (29) at St. Nicholas Church in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England
2007 – Muhammad Ali’s daughter Laila Ali (30) weds former NFL player Curtis Conway (36) in Marina del Rey, California

DIVORCES

1940 – Jacqueline Kennedy’s parents John Vernou “Black Jack” Bouvier III and Janet (Norton Lee) divorce
2010 – “The Princess Bride” actress robin wright (44) divorces actor-director Sean Penn (49) due to irreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage

DEATHS

1035 – Robert II/I, Duke of Normandy, dies
1362 – Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (b. 1324)
1387 – French Ackerman, Ghent rebel/leader of Reisers, murdered at about 57
1461 – Charles VII, King of France (1422-61), dies at 58
1477 – Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen, dies in battle at 39
1497 – Francesco Botticini, Italian painter, dies at about 52
1499 – Neithart Fox, [Jonker Fox], German passage leader, slain in battle
1525 – Richard Wingfield, English diplomat
1619 – Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559)
1633 – Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (b.1616)
1635 – Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer, dies at 45
1645 – Gaspar de Guzman, premier of Spain (1621-43), dies at 58
1676 – Clement X, [Emilio Altieri], Italian Pope (1670-76), dies at 86
1726 – Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia
1734 – Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England
1786 – Vaclav Kalous, composer, dies at 71
1789 – Joseph-François Foulon, French administrator (b. 1715)
1794 – Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer, dies at 59
Anatomist and Physiologist Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1802)

1802 – Marie Francois Xavier Bichat, a founder of histology, dies from falling down stairs at 30
1826 – Giuseppe Piazzi, monk/mathematician (found 1st asteroid), dies at 80
1832 – Napoleon II of France (b. 1811), son of Napoleon I dies of tuberculosis
1840 – Josef Jawurek, composer, dies at 83
1848 – Karl Guhr, composer, dies at 60
1852 – Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774)
1861 – Barnard Elliot Bee, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 37
1863 – Carl Schuberth, composer, dies at 52
1864 – James Birdseye Mcpherson, US Union gen-major, dies in battle at 35
1864 – William Henry Talbot Walker, Confederate gen-mjr, dies in battle at 47
1868 – Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer, dies at 51
1869 – John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge), (b. 1806)
1870 – Josef Strauss, composer, dies at 42
1880 – Anna Caroline Oury, composer, dies at 72
1902 – Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (b. 1822)
1903 – Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)
1904 – Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
1908 – William Randal Cremer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1828)
1909 – D v Liliencron, writer, dies at 65
1915 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
1916 – James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849)
1918 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (b. 1898)
1920 – William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)
1922 – Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
1922 – John Motley Morehead III, American Chemist (commercial production of calcium carbide, important for welding), dies at 67
1929 – Bror Beckman, composer, dies at 63
1929 – Edouard baron Empain, Belgian builder (Heliopolis), dies at 76
1932 – Roosje Vos, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 71
1932 – Roses Fox, Trade union leader, dies at 71
1932 – Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
1932 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
Gangster John Dillinger(1934)

1934 – John Dillinger, shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago, at 33
1937 – Ted McDonald, cricketer (43 wickets for Australia), dies in car crash
1950 – William LM King, premier of Canada (1921-30, 35-48), dies at 75
1950 – Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada, dies of pneumonia at 75
1952 – Antonio Maria Valencia, composer, dies at 49
1952 – August Balthazar, Belgian politician, dies at 58
1953 – Cy Kendall, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown), dies at 55
1955 – Joseph Foley, actor (Mr Peepers), dies at 45
1958 – Karl Nunes, cricketer (1st WI Test captain 1928), dies
1958 – Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author, dies at 62
1958 – Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (b. 1895)
1967 – Carl Sandburg, poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), dies at 89
1968 – Giovanni Guareschi, Italian author: Don Camillo/Peppone, dies at 60
1969 – Hammy Love, cricketer (NSW wicket-keeper, played for Australia), dies
Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King (1950)

1970 – George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (b. 1912)
1972 – Hugo Kauder, composer, dies at 84
1972 – Pavel Borkovek, composer, dies at 78
1974 – Edna Lewis Thomas, US actress (Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 88
1974 – Lili Darvas, Hungarian actress (Szerelem, Cimmaron), dies at 68
1974 – Wayne L Morse, (Sen-D-Oregon), dies at 73
1979 – Hope Summers, actress (Clara – “The Andy Griffith Show”), dies at 78
1979 – Soschtschenko, writer, dies at 83
1979 – Tony “Two-Ton” Galento, American boxer/actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 69
1979 – Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
1980 – Fred Kaps [Abram PA Bongers], magician (world champ 1955), dies at 54
1987 – A G Kripal Singh, cricketer (14 Tests for India), dies
1988 – Duane Jones, dies of cardiopulmonary arrest at 51
1988 – Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars), dies at 87
1989 – Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
1990 – George Wood, dies of diabetes complications at 56
1990 – Preben Neergaard, Danish actor (Mordskab), dies of cancer at 70
1992 – David Wojuarowicz, artist (U2 album cover), dies of AIDs at 37
1992 – Souleiman Franjieh, president Lebanon (1970-76), dies
1992 – Wayne McLaren, model (Marlboro Man), dies of lung cancer at 51
1995 – Dave Clark, music promoter/songwriter, dies at 85
1995 – Harold Larwood, cricket (98 wkts bowling for Engl 1926-34), dies at 91
1995 – Percy Humphrey, musician, dies at 90
1995 – Percy Humphrey, jazz trumpet player and bandleader in New Orleans, Louisiana, 90
1996 – Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader, dies at 65
1996 – Leon Shenandoah, native American leader, dies at 81
1996 – Peter Ludwig, businessman/art collector, dies at 71
1996 – Richard Day, engineer/development expert, dies at 48
1996 – Robert Collins, keyboard player, dies at 33
1996 – Tamara Danz, singer, dies at 43
1998 – Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
1999 – Gar Samuelson, American musician (Megadeth) (b. 1958)
2000 – Eric Christmas, British actor (b. 1916)
2000 – Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (b. 1925)
2000 – Claude Sautet, French film director (b. 1924)
2001 – Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
2003 – Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)
2003 – Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
2003 – Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (b. 1954)
2004 – Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
2004 – George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)
2004 – Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1922)
2005 – Eugene Record American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician killed by Scotland Yard (b. 1978)
2006 – José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965)
2006 – James E. West, mayor of Spokane, Washington (b. 1950)
2007 – Jarrod Cunningham New Zealand rugby player (b. 1968)
2007 – Mike Coolbaugh former baseball player and coach (b.1972)
2007 – Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953)
2007 – Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (b. 1906)
2007 – Laszlo Kovacs, Hungarian-born cinematographer (b. 1933)
Actress Estelle Getty (2008)

2008 – Estelle Getty, American actress (“The Golden Girls”), dies of Lewy body disease at 84
2009 – Richard M. Givan Supreme court chief justice (b. 1921)
2009 – Peter Krieg, German documentary filmmaker, producer and writer (b. 1947)
2011 – Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (b. 1945)
2012 – George A. Miller, American psychologist, dies at 92
2013 – Lawrie Reilly, Scottish footballer, dies at 84
2013 – Dennis Farina, American actor, dies from a pulmonary embolism at 69

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 2003 Jessica Lynch gets hero’s welcome

• American Revolution

• 1779 Battle of Minisink Ford, New York

• Automotive

• 2002 California governor signs new auto emissions legislation

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Atlanta continues

• Cold War

• 1987 Gorbachev accepts ban on intermediate-range nuclear missiles

• Crime

• 1923 Dillinger joins the Navy in an attempt to avoid prosecution
• 1991 Cannibal and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is caught

• Disaster

• 1993 Kaskaskia is inundated by flood of ’93

• General Interest

• 1916 The Preparedness Day bombing
• 1933 Wiley Post flies solo around the world
• 1934 Dillinger gunned down
• 2003 Qusay and Uday Hussein killed

• Hollywood

• 2005 March of the Penguins debuts

• Literary

• 1598 The Merchant of Venice is entered on the Stationers’ Register

• Music

• 1977 Elvis Costello’s debut album, My Aim Is True, is released

• Old West

• 1793 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean

• Presidential

• 1862 Lincoln tells his cabinet about Emancipation Proclamation

• Sports

• 1990 Greg LeMond wins second Tour De France

• Vietnam War

• 1967 Taylor and Clifford begin tour of the Pacific region
• 1968 North Vietnamese condemn Honolulu Conference

• World War I

• 1916 Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco

• World War II

• 1942 Deportations from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka begin

July 21th

TODAY IS:

Junk Food Day

EVENTS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BIRTHDAYS

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

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

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

Singer and songwriter Cat Stevens (1948)

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

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

WEDDINGS

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

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

DIVORCES

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

DEATHS

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

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

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

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1861 The First Battle of Bull Run

• American Revolution

• 1775 Battle of Brewster Island

• Automotive

• 1960 Germany passes controversial “Volkswagen Law”

• Civil War

• 1861 First Battle of Bull Run begins

• Cold War

• 1955 Eisenhower presents his “Open Skies” plan

• Crime

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

• Disaster

• 365 Tsunami hits Alexandria, Egypt

• General Interest

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

• Hollywood

• 2007 Final Harry Potter book released

• Literary

• 1899 Ernest Hemingway is born

• Music

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

• Old West

• 1865 Wild Bill Hickok fights first western showdown

• Presidential

• 1862 Former President Martin Van Buren lapses into a coma

• Sports

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

• Vietnam War

• 1965 Johnson considers the options

• World War I

• 1911 David Lloyd George delivers Mansion House speech

• World War II

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

July 20th

TODAY IS:

Space Exploration Day
World Jump Day
Lollipop Day
Get Out Of The Doghouse Day
Moon Day

EVENTS

514 – St Hormisdas elected as Pope succeeding Pope Sympowerus
1031 – Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France
1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle – King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold of the war.
1402 – Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur’ beats Sultan Bajezid I’s Ottoman forces
1495 – French viceroy of Naples Montpensier surrenders
1498 – Emperor Maximilian names Albrecht governor of Netherlands
1553 – John Dudley, Lord President of the Council under Edward VI, captured in Cambridge
1609 – Emperor Rudolf II grants Silezische protestants freedom of religion
1619 – Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader
1627 – English fleet under George Villiers reaches La Rochelle [OS=June 10]
1654 – Anglo-Portuguese treaty, Portugal comes under English control
1712 – The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain.
1738 – North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
1749 – Earl of Chesterfield says “Idleness is only refuge of weak minds”
1773 – Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
1801 – Elisha Brown Jr pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm

French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

1808 – Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names
1810 – Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), declare independence from Spain.
1836 – Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension
1847 – German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf
1849 – Start of 1st Lancashire-Yorkshire clash at Hyde Park, Sheffield
1855 – 1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands
1858 – Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)
1858 – Gathering of Plombieres – Napoleon III meets Cavour
1861 – Confederate states’ congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Va
1862 – Guerrilla campaign in GA (Porter’s & Poindexter’s) [->SEP 20] US580 CS2866
1864 – Battle at Stephenson’s Depot Virginia: 200 killed or injured
1864 – Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign

Naturalist Charles Darwin

1866 – Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy
1868 – 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes
1871 – British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
1876 – 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins
1877 – Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9
1878 – 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii
1878 – 2nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Frank Hadow beats S Gore (7-5- 6-1 9-7)
1881 – Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops
1890 – “Gibbons Stamp Monthly” begins publishing
1890 – Snow & hail in Calais, Maine
1893 – 10th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats B Hillyard (6-8 6-1 6-4)
1893 – 17th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Joshua Pim beats Wilfred Baddeley (3-6 6-1 6-3 6-2)
Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull

1894 – 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
1901 – Morocco signs an agreement with France fixing Morocco’s frontier with Algeria, a French colony
1903 – Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X, known as the ‘pope of the poor and humble’
1906 – Bkln Dodger Mal Eason no-hits St Louis Cards, 2-0
1907 – A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more.
1910 – Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption
1911 – Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
1911 – Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany
1912 – Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game
1913 – Turkish troops take Adrianopel & Erdine from Bulgaria
1914 – Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster
1916 – Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cin Reds
1917 – Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats & Slovenes form Yugoslavia
1917 – WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn
1920 – Heerenveen soccer team forms
1921 – Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives.
1922 – Togo made a mandate of League of Nations
1923 – Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A’s 9-2
1924 – Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) forms in Paris
1924 – Teheran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people.
1925 – Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France
1925 – Italian-Serbian/Croatian/Slav treaty about Dalmatie
1926 – A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.
1928 – The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians.
1930 – 106°F (41°C), Washington, DC (district record)
1932 – In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House.
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

1933 – Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler
1933 – In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism.
1933 – Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets.
1934 – 118°F (48°C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record)
1935 – 1st broadcast of “Gang Busters” on NBC-radio
1935 – Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
1938 – Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws
1940 – Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands
1940 – Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist
1940 – Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart (#1 is “I’ll Never Smile Again” by Tommy Dorsey)
1941 – Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17
1942 – 1st detachment of Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training
1942 – Barbados dismiss Trinidad for 16 in 69 minutes, Derek Sealy 8-8
1942 – Legion of Merit Medal authorized by US congress
1942 – Time puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch on its cover
US Admiral Chester Nimitz

1943 – US Joint Chiefs of Staff question Admiral Nimitz over the landing on Gilbert Island
1944 – British and Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy
1944 – Browns Nelson Potter is 1st pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs
1944 – Canadian Cameron Highlanders conquer St Andre
1944 – Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins
1944 – Fieldmarshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen
1944 – Flying Fortresses of US 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau
1944 – General Eisenhower visits Montgomery’s headquarter in Normandy
1944 – Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen
1944 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack
1944 – Liberators of US 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim/Eisenach
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1944 – US President FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention
1944 – US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen
1944 – US 9th Air Force bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux
1944 – US invades Japanese-occupied Guam
1944 – Violent battles in Verrieres-hill (Normandy)
1944 – Fifty are hurt in rioting in front of the presidential palace in Mexico City.
1944 – Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by Germany army officer Claus Von Stauffenberg.
1947 – 1st political action of Neth Army on Java & Sumatra
1948 – Lou Thesz beats Bill Longson, to become NWA wrestling champ
1948 – Syngman Rhee elected President of South Korea
1948 – US Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested
First President of South Korea Syngman Rhee

1949 – Israel’s 19 month war of independence ends
1949 – Vasil Kolarov elected premier of Bulgaria
1950 – “Arthur Murray Party” premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)
1951 – King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
1952 – Emile Zatopek runs Olympic Record 10K (29:17.0)
1952 – Fausto Coppi wins Tour de France
1953 – USSR/Israel recover diplomatic relations
1953 – The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency.
1954 – Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North & South
1954 – Tennis champ Maureen Connolly’s right leg is crushed in an accident
1954 – West German secret service head Otto John defects to German DR
1956 – France recognizes Tunisian independence
1956 – Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1956 – US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
MLB Pitcher Whitey Ford

1956 – Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs
1958 – 40th PGA Championship: Dow Finsterwald shoots a 276 at Llanerch CC PA
1958 – Betty Jameson/Mary Lena Faulk wins Homestead 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1958 – King Hussein of Jordan breaks off diplomatic relations with UAR
1960 – 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
1960 – Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon
1960 – USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
1960 – The head of the Physics Department at the Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is arrested for espionage.
1961 – French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
1962 – Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 13th Symphony
1962 – France & Tunisia recover diplomatic relations
1963 – 17 African states & Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC
LPGA Golfer Mary Mills

1963 – 18th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Mary Mills
1963 – Verne Gagne beats Crusher Lisowski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1963 – Riots break out at Mt Eden Prison, Auckland, New Zealand
1964 – 1st surfin’ record to go #1-Jan & Dean’s “Surf City”
1964 – Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 10th String quartet
1965 – 18.18″ (46.18 cm) of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record)
1965 – NY Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam
1967 – Pablo Neruda receives 1st Viareggio-Versile prizes
1967 – Race riots in Memphis Tenn
1968 – Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV
1968 – Iron Butterfly’s “In-a-gadda-da-vida” becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117


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

Astronaut & 1st Man on the Moon Neil Armstrong

1969 – 1st men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from Apollo 11
1969 – Carol Mann wins LPGA Danbury Lady Carling Golf Open
1969 – Eddy Merckx wins Tour de France
1970 – Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks
1972 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1973 – Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ
1973 – Chic’s Wilbur Wood starts & loses both games of a doubleheader with NY Yankees, 12-2, & 7-0
1973 – The US Senate passes the War Powers Act.
1974 – Heng Yo & Heng Ju, completes 1,000 mile (SF-Seattle) pilgrimage
1974 – Turkey invades Cyprus
1975 – 30th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer
1975 – India expels three reporters from The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek because they refused to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship.
Baseball Player Hank Aaron

1976 – Hank Aaron hits 755th & last home run off Angels Dick Drago
1976 – US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
1976 – Vietnam War: The US military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand.
1976 – Rev. Samuel Mutendi, founder of the first African Independent Church, dies
1977 – Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pa, kills 80 & causing $350 mil damage
1977 – The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
1979 – 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash
1980 – 109th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 271 at Muirfield Gullane
1980 – Joop Zoetemelk wins Tour de France
1980 – Pat Bradley wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
LPGA Golfer Pat Bradley

1981 – England set for innings loss v Aust, Botham hits 100 in 87 balls
1981 – Irene Saez, of Venezuela, crowned 30th Miss Universe
1982 – T Macauly & D Vosburghs musical “Windy City,” premieres in London
1982 – Hyde Park and Regent’s Park bombings: 11 British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in London
1983 – France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1984 – Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m
1984 – Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America
1985 – Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
1985 – The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
1986 – Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
LPGA Golfer Jane Geddes

1987 – Don Mattingly ties 1st base fielding record with 22 put-outs
1988 – Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee
1989 – 93°F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona
1989 – Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest
1989 – Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s show opens at Washington, D.C.’s Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institution’s Corcoran Gallery cancels it.
1990 – Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years
1991 – Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant
1992 – 121st British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 272 at Muirfield Gullane
1992 – Round World Air Race begins in Paris
1992 – Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
1993 – Fire in the press box at Altanta Fulton County Stadium
Golfer and Six-Time Major Championship Winner Nick Faldo

1994 – Major parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (July 16th-22nd)
1994 – OJ Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife’s klller
1995 – The Regents of the University of California vote to end all affirmative action in the UC system by 1997.
1996 – In Spain an ETA bomb at an airport kills 35
1997 – 126th British Golf Open: Billy Ray Brown shoots a 271 at Royal Troon
1997 – American Justin Leonard wins the British Open shooting at 272
1997 – Burnet Senior Golf Classic
1997 – Michele Redman wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Classic
1998 – Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and other aid groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban.
1999 – Falun Gong is banned in the People’s Republic of China, and a large scale crackdown of the practice is launched.
2000 – The leaders of Salt Lake City’s bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering
NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson

2000 – In Zimbabwe, Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members for the first time in a decade.
2000 – Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him.
2001 – The London Stock Exchange goes public.
2001 – Italy: The 27th Annual G8 summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, is shot by police.
2002 – South America: A fire in a discotheque in Lima, Peru kills over twenty-five.
2003 – France: Sixteen people are injured after two bombs explode outside a tax office in Nice.
2003 – 132nd British Golf Open: Ben Curtis shoots a 283 at Royal St George’s Golf Club
2005 – Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent.
2008 – 137th British Golf Open: Pádraig Harrington shoots a 283 at Royal Birkdale Golf Club
2008 – 16th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Candace Parker win
2012 – 12 people are killed and 59 injured after a gunman opens fire at a Dark Knight movie premier in Aurora, Colorado,
2012 – 21 people are killed and 29 injured in a bus accident in Nayarit, Mexico
2014 – Rory McIlroy wins the 2014 Open Championship (British Open)
2014 – Patrick Sawyer arrives in city of Lagos in Nigeria and collapses; he dies of Ebola five days later
2014 – The Israeli Defence Force enter Shuja’iyya, a populous neighbourhood of Gaza City, as part of their ground offensive focused on destroying tunnels crossing the Israel border
2014 – 143rd British Golf Open: Rory McIlroy shoots a 271 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club

BIRTHDAYS

356 BC – Alexander the Great, Pella Macedon, Macedonian king and military leader, (d. 323 BC)
810 – Imam Bukhari, Muslim scholar and compiler of Hadith (d. 870)
1304 – Francesco Petrarch, Italy, poet (Italia Mia)
1513 – Gaspar Schetz, Dutch treasurer-general
1519 – Innocent IX, [Giovanni A Facchinetti], 230th Catholic pope (1591)
1537 – Arnaud d’Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)
1600 – Simon Ives, composer
1659 – Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d. 1743)
1663 – Pierre Drevet, French engraver
1709 – James Harris, philosopher
1720 – Ignaz Vitzthumb, composer
1726 – William Jones, composer
1744 – Henri Hamal, composer
1754 – Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (d. 1836)
1757 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (d. 1811)
1761 – Joseph Lefebvre, composer
1762 – Jakob Haibel, composer
1766 – Thomas Bruce, earl of Elgin & Kincardine, British diplomat

Macedonian King and Conqueror of Persia Alexander the Great (356 BC)

1774 – Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852)
1779 – Ignaz Schuster, composer
1785 – Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39)/Westernizer/reformer
1793 – Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Pan Jowiolski)
1796 – Edward Hodges, composer
1797 – Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873)
1803 – Jakob Zeugheer, composer
1804 – Richard Owen, British zoologist
1806 – John Sterling, writer (Representative Victorian)
1811 – James Bruce, earl of Elgin & Kincardine, governor (Jamaica)
1814 – Ivan S Gagarin, Russian theologist
1816 – William Bowman, English anatomist
1819 – Paul Henrion, composer
1822 – Gregor Mendel, Austrian Empire, monk/geneticist (discoverer of laws of heredity), (d. 1884)
Monk/Geneticist Gregor Mendel (1822)

1824 – Alexander Schimmelfennig, Prussia, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1836 – Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist (Diseases of the Heart)
1837 – Hans Sommer, composer
1838 – Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899)
1838 – George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
1847 – Max Liebermann, German impressionist painter
1849 – Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d. 1918)
1852 – Theodorus Heemskerk Jzn, lawyer/Dutch premier (AR, 1908-13) [or 1/20]=
1853 – Geo[rge] Poggenbeek, Dutch water colors painter
1858 – Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925)
1860 – Johannes Walter, German geologist (Denudation of the Wilderness)
1864 – Erik Karlfeldt, Sweden, poet (Nobel 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous)
1868 – Miron Cristea, 1st Patriarch of All Romania (d. 1939)
1870 – Vladimir D Nabokov, Russian jurist/minister of Justice (1918-19)
1872 – Alick Maclean, composer
1872 – Deodat de Severac, composer
1873 – Witold Maliszewski, composer
1873 – Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d. 1932)
1876 – Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (d. 1944)
1880 – Hermann earl Keyserling, German philosopher/writer
1881 – Leon de Smet, Flemish painter
1885 – Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian/critic
1887 – Willem H Drucker, Dutch lawyer
1889 – John Charles Reith, 1st Baron Reith, 1st dir-gen BBC (1927-38)
1890 – Theda Bara, [Theodosia Goodman], Cincinnati, actress (Love Goddeses)
1890 – Verna Felton, Salinas California, actress (Hilda-December Bride)
1893 – Alexander, king of Greece (1917-20)
1893 – Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (From Where I Came)
1893 – George Llewelyn-Davies, English Peter Pan character model (d. 1915)
1895 – László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)
1897 – Tadeusz Reichstein, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950)
1900 – Gottfried von Haberler, Austrian economist
1900 – Maurice Gilliams, Flemish writer/poet/essayist (Maria’s Life)
1900 – Maurice Leyland, prolific cricket left-handed batsman (England)
1901 – Vehbi Koc, indistrialist/philanthropist
1901 – Heinie Manush, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1902 – Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (Bicycle Thiefs)
1902 – Dilys Powell, English writer (Descent from Parnassus)
1902 – Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d. 1984)
1903 – Jef van de Wiele, Belgian politician
1905 – Molly Mary Nesta Keane, writer
1908 – Gunnar de Frumerie, composer
Mob Hitman Mad Dog Coll(1908)

1908 – [Vincent] Mad Dog Coll, Gweedore, Irish-American mob hitman
1909 – Eric Rowan, South African cricketer (prolific batsman pre- & post-WWII)
1909 – Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (d. 1969)
1910 – Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, British historian (William the Silent)
1910 – Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (d. 2004)
1911 – Baqa Jilani, Indian cricket fast bowler (Test 1936)
1911 – William Dillard, trumpeter/singer
1912 – Andrew Long, Scottish author (Blue Book of Fairy Tales)
1912 – Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member
1912 – John Dacie, hematologist
1912 – Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found newspaper (The Typhoon)
1912 – George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (d. 1970)
1914 – William John Phillips, actor (Nothing but a Man)
1918 – Cindy Walker, American singer (d. 2006)
Mountaineer and Explorer Edmund Hillary (1919)

1919 – Edmund Hillary, Auckland NZ, Explorer and Mountaineer (1st to scale Mt Everest with Tenzing Norgay), (d. 2008)
1920 – Elliot L Richardson, Attorney General (1973)/Sec of Defense (1973)
1920 – Jack Harman, British general
1920 – Jeffrey Petersen, British diplomat
1920 – Lev Aronin, USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1950)
1921 – Frederick Schroeder Jr, tennis champ (US Open-1942)
1922 – Miroslav “Standa” Bares, Czech/Dutch actor/director (Billy Budd)
1922 – Alan Stephenson Boyd, American politician
1923 – Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005)
1924 – Hans Lodeizen, [Johannes A Frederik], Dutch poet (Inner Self)
1924 – Lola Albright, Akron Ohio, actress (Delta Country, Kid Galahad)
1924 – Thomas Berger, American novelist (Vital Parts, Little Big Man), born in Cincinnati, Ohio, (d. 2014)
1924 – Mort Garson, Canadian composer
1925 – Jacques Delors, French economist/chairman European Committee (1985-95)
1925 – Frantz Fanon, Martinique, France, psychiatrist and philosopher (The Wretched of the Earth), (d. 1961)
1926 – Lola Albright, American actress
1926 – Patricia Cutts, English actress (d. 1974)
1927 – Anthony Cavendish, British MI 6 agent/banker
1927 – Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor/composer
1928 – Jan Meyers, (Rep-R-Kansas, 1985- )
1928 – Pavel Kohout, writer
1928 – Peter Ind, jazz musician
1928 – Charles David Ganao, Djambala, French Equatorial Africa, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (1996-1997), (d. 2012)
1929 – Mike Ilitch, American businessman and sports executive
1929 – Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1999)
1930 – Arthur U Spronken, sculptor
1930 – Sally Ann Howes, actress (Dead of Night), born in London, England
1930 – Yuri Petrovich Artyukin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 14)
1931 – Tony Marsh, English racing driver
1932 – Nam June Paik, Seoul Korea, video artist (Medium is the Medium)
1932 – Otto Schily, German politician
1933 – Aliki Vouyouklaki, actress (Madalena)
1933 – Jose Vicente Asuar, composer
1933 – Nelson Doubleday, publisher (Doubleday)/owner (NY Mets)
1933 – Cormac McCarthy, American author
1934 – Doug Padgett, cricketer (England batsman twice in 1960)
1934 – Ralph C RInzler, folklorist (Greenbriar Boys)
1934 – Uwe Johnson, German writer
1935 – Lord Peter Palumbo, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1935 – Ted Rogers, comedian (Aladdin, Cinderella), born in London, England
1936 – Barbara A Mikulski, (Rep-D-MD, 1977-86/Sen-D-MD, 1986- )
1936 – Butch Baird, PGA golfer (1961 Waco Turner Open), born in Chicago, Illinois
1936 – Kaleria Fadicheva, ballerina
1937 – Ken Ogata, Japanese actor
1938 – Diana Rigg, Doncaster England, actress (Emma Peel-Avengers, Hospital)
1938 – Jo Ann Campbell, Jacksonville Fla, Lawrence Welk’s champagne lady
1938 – Lord McGowan
1938 – Natalie Wood, [Natasha Gurdin], SF, (Gypsy, Rebel Without a Cause)
1938 – Roger Hunt, English footballer
1939 – Judy Chicago [Judith Cohen], American artist (Dinner Party), born in Chicago Illinois
1940 – Tony Oliva, ball player, batting champ (AL Rookie of Year 1964)
1941 – Vladimir Afanasiyevich Lyakhov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 32/34, T-9, TM-6)
1941 – Kurt Raab, German actor (d. 1988)
1942 – T G Sheppard, [William Browder], Humbolt Tn, singer (Devil in Bottle)
1942 – Ron Bowden, Australian politician
1943 – Dennis Yost, vocalist (The Classics IV), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2008)
1943 – Chris Amon, Grand Prix racer
1943 – Wendy Richard, English actress
1944 – Wim Van Drimmelen, Dutch sect Science Council of Government policy
1945 – Betty Burfeindt, LPGA golfer
1945 – John Lodge, bassist (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin), born in Birmingham, England
1945 – Larry E Craig, (Rep-R-Idaho, 1981- )
1945 – Viscount Petersham, English large landowner
1945 – Kim Carnes, Pasadena Ca, rock vocalist (Bette Davis Eyes)
1945 – Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (d. 2005)
1947 – Carlos Santana, Mexico, rock guitarist (Santana-Black Magic Woman)
1947 – Gerd Binnig, Frankfurt, physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986)
1947 – James Harris, Monroe La, NFL quarterback (Buffalo, LA, San Diego)
1948 – Mary Dwyer, LPGA golfer
1948 – Richard H Lehman, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1950 – Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress
1950 – Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor
1951 – Larry Black, 4×100 runner (Olympic-gold-1972), born in Miami, Florida
1951 – Jeff Rawle, English actor
1952 – Keiko Matsuzaka, Japanese actress
1953 – Thomas Friedman, American journalist
1953 – Marcia Hines, American-born Australian singer
1953 – Dan Shaughnessy, American sports writer
1954 – Jay Jay French, guitarist (Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It), born in NYC, New York
1954 – Moira Harris, American actress
1956 – Charlie Magri, world champ flyweight boxer (1983)
Tennis Player and French Open Champion Mima Jausovec (1956)

1956 – Mima Jausovec, Maribor Yugoslavia, tennis player (French Open-1977)
1956 – Paul Cook, English rock drummer (Sex Pistols), born in London
1956 – Jim Prentice, Canadian politician
1957 – Donna Dixon, Virginia, actress and wife of actor Dan Aykroyd (Couch Trip, Bossom Buddies)
1957 – Larry Rinker, Stuart FL, Nike golfer (1985 Bing Crosby Pro-Am-2nd)
1957 – Merlina Defranco, rocker (Defranco Family)
1958 – Michael McNeill, synthesizer (Simple Minds-Don’t You Forget About Me)
1958 – Mike McNeil, rocker
1959 – Radney Foster, Del Rio Tx, singer (Foster & Lloyd-Crazy Over You)
1960 – Katie Rabbet, Prince Andrew’s former girlfriend, born in London, England
1960 – Lauren Gregg, Rochester Minn, US women’s soccer coach (Olympics-96)
1962 – Carlos Alazraqui, American actor and comedian
1962 – Giovanna Amati, Italian racing driver
1963 – Jenny Spangler, Monroe Wisc, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1963 – Paula Ivan, Romanian runner (world record mile)
1963 – Frank Whaley, American actor
1964 – Murray Craven, Medicine Hat, NHL left wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1964 – Chris Cornell, American musician (Soundgarden, Audioslave)
1964 – Terri Irwin, American naturalist; widow of Steve Irwin
1964 – Kool G Rap, American musician
1964 – Dean Winters, American actor
1965 – Stone Gossard, musician with Pearl Jam
1966 – Beth Coats, Albuquerque NM, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1966 – Carlo L’Ami, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1966 – Mike Pero, Picton Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 CPGA Winter)
1966 – Tracey Mcfarlane, US breaststroke swimmer (US record 100m)
1967 – Akihito Sugisawa, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1967 – Ian Beckles, NFL guard (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1967 – Jon Normile, Cleve Oh, fencer (Olympics-96)
1967 – Reed Diamond, American actor
1968 – Chris Kennedy, actor (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure)
1968 – Chris Tsangaris, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1968 – Robert Rodriguez, director (El Mariachi, Desperado)
1968 – Michael Park, American actor
1968 – Julian Rhind-Tutt, English actor
1969 – Josh Holloway, American actor
1969 – Giovanni Lombardi, Italian cyclist
1969 – Tobi Vail, American musician (Bikini Kill, The Go Team, The Frumpies)
1969 – Vitamin C, American singer
1970 – Dean Wells, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 – Shannon Baker, CFL receiver (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1970 – Tom Sherrer, Syracuse NY, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Cleveland Open-2nd)
1971 – Bernard Whittington, NFL defensive end (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 – Charles Johnson, Fort Pierce Fla, catcher (US Olympics 1992, Marlins)
1971 – Ed Giddins, cricketer (promising Sussex pace bowler, England A 1995)
1971 – Ron Stone, NFLer (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 – Tom Tovo, WLAF defensive tackle (London Monarchs)
1971 – William Deering Jr, South Bend Indiana, pole vaulter
1971 – Sandra Oh, Korean Canadian actress
1971 – DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (d. 2000)
1972 – Jay Barker, NFL quarterback (NE Patriots)
1972 – Jozef Stumpel, NHL forward (Team Kazakhstan 1998, LA Kings)
1972 – Erik Ullenhag, Swedish jurist and politician
1973 – Peter Forsberg, Ornskoldsvik Swe, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche)
1973 – Mads Rieper, Danish footballer
1973 – Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
1974 – Kevin Meadows, gay rights activist
1974 – Bengie Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 – Simon Rex, American actor
1975 – Ray Allen, NBA guard (Milwaukee Bucks)
1975 – Birgitta Ohlsson, Swedish politician
1975 – Judy Greer, American actress
1975 – Erik Hagen, Norwegian footballer
1975 – El Zorro, Mexican professional wrestler
1976 – Erica Hill, American news anchor
1976 – Debashish Mohanty, Indian cricketer
1976 – Andrew Stockdale, Australian musician (Wolfmother)
1976 – Alex Yoong, Malaysian racing driver
1977 – Julia Syriani, Miss Universe-Lebanon (1996)
1977 – Shany Kedmy, Israel, Women’s 470 yachter (Oly-14th-1996)
1977 – Kiki Musampa, Congolese footballer
1977 – Alessandro dos Santos, Brazilian-born Japanese footballer
1978 – Charlie Korsmo, actor (Dick Tracy, What About Bob)
1978 – Denny Mendez, Miss Italy Universe (1997)
1978 – Jen Grubb, Elk Hart Indiana, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1978 – Elliott Yamin, American Idol contestant
1978 – Pavel Datsyuk, Russian ice hockey player
1978 – Tamsyn Lewis, Australian athlete
1978 – Will Solomon, American basketball player
1979 – Claudine Barretto, Filipino actress
1979 – Miklos Feher, Hungarian football player (d. 2004)
1979 – David Ortega, Spanish freestyle and backstroke swimmer
1980 – Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian model
1980 – Mike Kennerty, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects)
1981 – Damien Delaney, Irish footballer
1981 – Thorsten Engelmann, German rower
1982 – Percy Daggs III, American actor
1984 – Alexi Casilla, Dominican baseball player
1984 – Troy Smith, American football player
1985 – John Francis Daley, American actor
1987 – Brent Wilson, former bassist for Panic At The Disco
1988 – Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer
1989 – Witwisit Hirunwongkul, Thai actor
1991 – Scout Larue Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore
1991 – William Tomlin, British actor
1992 – Paige Hurd, American actress
1997 – Billi Bruno, American actress
1999 – Princess Alexandra of Hanover, daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco

WEDDINGS

1608 – Reynier van Oldenbarnevelt marries Anna Weytzen in Delft
1975 – “The Exorcist” writer William Peter Blatty (47) weds tennis player Linda Tuero (24) in Las Vegas
1991 – Kirk Cameron marries Growing Pains co-star Chelsea Noble in upstate NY
1996 – Tony Award-winning actress Bernadette Peters (48) weds investment adviser Michael Wittenberg (34) in Millbrook, New York
2002 – ABC’s World News Tonight co-host Elizabeth Vargas (39) weds singer-songwriter Marc Cohn (43) at the Council on Foreign Relations
2013 – “Modern Family” actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson (37) weds lawyer Justin Mikita in NYC, New York

DIVORCES

1993 – Joe Petruzzi files for divorce from Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever)
2012 – “Game of Thrones” actress Lena Headey (38) divorces musician Peter Loughran due to irreconcilable differences

DEATHS

833 – Ansegis/Ansegius, French abbot of Fontenelle/author, dies at about 63
985 – Pope Boniface VII
1031 – Robert II de Vrome, King of France (996-1031), dies
1156 – Emperor Toba of Japan (b. 1103)
1160 – Peter Lombard, French theologian
1201 – Agnes of France, queen of France, dies [or 7/18]
1320 – King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)
1322 – Frederik II van Sierck, bishop of Utrecht (1317-22), dies
1351 – Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (b. 1291)
1387 – Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (b. 1356)
1398 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b. 1374)
1453 – Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler
1454 – Johan II, King of Castile, dies at 49
1524 – Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (b. 1499)
1573 – Lancelot of Brederode, water beggar, beheaded
1597 – Franciscus Raphelengius [French of Ravelingen], Neth publisher, dies
1607 – Paulus Merula, Dutch lawyer/historian (Historia Belgica), dies at 48
1609 – Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at about 69
1616 – Hugh O’Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier
1636 – John Oldham, trader in Mass, murdered by indians
1704 – Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1620)
1732 – Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer, dies at 51
1752 – John C Pepusch, English composer (Beggar’s Opera), dies at about 85
1762 – Christoph Nichelsmann, German klavecinist/composer, dies
1766 – Isabelle Farnese, queen of Spain, dies
1808 – Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer, dies at 66
1816 – Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743)
1819 – John Playfair, Scottish geologist/mathematician, dies
1824 – Joan M Kemper, lawyer (layed-out Civil Code), dies
1825 – Joseph-Denis Doche, composer, dies at 58
1859 – Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Fantasy), dies
1866 – Faa di Bruno, Italian captain (Er d’italia, Lissa), commits suicide
1866 – G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies
1868 – Antoine Prumier, composer, dies at 75
1868 – Jan Bedrich Kittl, composer, dies at 62
1881 – Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English 1st baron of Hesketh, dies
1888 – Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter, dies
1893 – Tom Kelly, cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1977-79, 64 runs), dies
1897 – Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820)
1898 – Yuri Arnold, composer, dies at 86
1901 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
1903 – Leo XIII, [Vincenzo G Pecci], Pope (1878-1903), dies at 93
1908 – Federico Chueca, composer, dies at 62
1908 – Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author, president of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1835)
1914 – Leo van Gheluwe, composer, dies at 76
1922 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
1923 – Pancho Villa, [Doroteo Arango], Mexican rebel, murdered at 55
1926 – Felix Dzerzhinsky [Iron Felix, Bloody Felix], Soviet statesman, established and developed Soviet secret police (Cheka, forerunner to the KGB), dies at 48
1927 – Ferdinand I VAM, King of Romania, dies at 61
1928 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (b. 1896)
1932 – René Bazin, French novelist (b. 1853)
1936 – Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer, dies at 75
1936 – Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general/high director, dies

Inventor and Nobel Laureate Guglielmo Marconi (1937)

1937 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies of a heart attack at 63
1939 – Joseph Mendes da Costa, sculptor, dies
1940 – Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide
1941 – Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
1942 – Patric Cobb, British sea officer, dies in battle
1944 – Arthur J Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington, dies at about 71
1944 – Brandt, col/German staff chief, dies in bombing
1944 – Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, count/German antifascist colonel, dies
1944 – Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed
1944 – Heinz Burns, German (Olympic-gold-1936), dies in bombing
1944 – Korten, chef gen of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion
1944 – Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies
1944 – Mertz, German colonel (July 20th plotter), executed
1944 – Rudolf Schmundt, gen/Hitler’s Army adjunct, dies from wounds
1944 – Werner von Haeffen, German lieutenant (July 20th plotter), executed
1944 – Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
1945 – Arthur Seccull, South African cricketer (Test v England 1896), dies
1945 – Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
1951 – Abdullah Ibn Hussein, Jordan’s King (1946-51), killed in Jerusalem
1951 – Mustafa Shuqri Ashu, tailor/murderer of king Abdullah, shot to death
1951 – Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany (b. 1882)
1953 – Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (b. 1900)
1953 – Jan Struther, British author (b. 1901)
1954 – Blair Moody, (Sen-Mich), dies at 52
1956 – Ken Burn, cricketer (Tasmanian rep on 1890 Ashes tour, 2 Tests), dies
1956 – James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1868)
1957 – Phil Hanna, singer (Once Upon a Tune), dies at 46
1958 – Franklin Pangborn, dies at 69
1959 – Harry Fox II, dies at 77
1962 – Andre Renard, Belgium worker’s union leader (MSU), dies at 51
1962 – George MacAulay Trevelyan, English royal historian, dies at 86
1966 – Julien Carette, dies of burns at 68
1968 – Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festival), dies
1969 – Roy Hamilton, American rocker, dies at 40 (b. 1929)
1970 – Iain Macleod, Conservative Party Politician and Chancellor of Exchequer at time of his death (b. 1913)
Karate Star/Actor Bruce Lee(1973)

1973 – Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], actor (Enter the Dragon), dies at 32
1973 – Robert Smithson, American land artist (b. 1938)
1974 – Allen Jenkins, actor (Fugitive from a Chain Gang), dies at 74
1976 – Tom Lowry, cricketer (early New Zealand Test captain), dies
1977 – Carter De Haven, actor (Courage, Great Dictator), dies at 90
1977 – Gary Kellgren, American music producer (b. 1939)
1982 – Okot p’Bitek, Ugandan poet (b. 1931)
1983 – Frank Reynolds, news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies at 59
1984 – Gail Kubik, US composer (Gerald McBoing Boing), dies at 69
1984 – Jim [James] Fixx, jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running), dies at 52
1986 – Helen Craig, actress (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 74
1987 – Richard Egan, actor (Big Cube, Amsterdam Kill), dies at 63
1989 – Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, commander (French resistance), dies
1989 – Mary Treen, actress (Career, Rock-a-bye Baby), dies at 71
1990 – Sara Heyblom, Dutch actress (Obsessions, Pygmalion), dies
1990 – Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta’s longest serving police chief (b. 1907)
1991 – Henri Marius Rellys, dies at 86
1993 – Donald Alexander, System director/producer (East Valley), dies at 79
1993 – Vince Foster, American lawyer and Deputy White House Counsel commits suicide aged 48
1994 – Kim II Sung, pres of North-Korea (1948-94), buried
1994 – Paul Delvaux, Belgian surrealistisch painter, dies at 96
1994 – Reginald Hall, endocrinologist, dies at 83
1995 – Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photographer/collector, dies at 82
1995 – Natalia Dmitrevna Shpiller, singer, dies at 85
1996 – Colin Campbell Mitchell, soldier, dies at 70
1996 – Peter Malcolm Gordon Raleigh, journalist, dies at 77
1997 – Linda Stirling, college prof/B movie actress (Pretender), dies at 75
1998 – June Byers, American professional wrestler (b. 1922)
1999 – Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 – Gregory Hill (also known as Malaclypse the Younger,) American writer (b. 1941)
2001 – Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (b. 1978)
2003 – Nicolas Freeling, English writer (b. 1927)
2004 – Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fiji chieftainess, wife of Kamisese Mara (b. 1931)
2005 – James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (b. 1920)
2005 – Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1926)
2005 – Kayo Hatta, American film director (b. 1958)
2006 – Ted Grant, British Trotskyist (b. 1913)
2006 – Gérard Oury, French filmmaker (b. 1919)
2007 – Tammy Faye Messner (Bakker), American televangelist (b. 1942)
2008 – Artie Traum, American guitarist (b. 1943)
2009 – Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (b. 1957)
2012 – Simon Ward, English actor, dies at 70

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1969 Armstrong walks on moon

• American Revolution

• 1780 Mad Anthony Wayne loses to Loyalists in New Jersey

• Automotive

• 1972 U.S. government study disputes Nader’s charges against Corvair

• Civil War

• 1864 Confederates attack at the Battle of Peachtree Creek

• Cold War

• 1948 Truman issues peacetime draft

• Crime

• 1984 A serial-killing couple is apprehended
• 2012 12 people killed, 70 wounded in Colorado movie theater shooting

• Disaster

• 1977 Second great flood hits Johnstown

• General Interest

• 1881 Sitting Bull surrenders
• 1951 King of Jordan assassinated
• 1976 Viking 1 lands on Mars

• Hollywood

• 1973 Bruce Lee dies at age 32

• Literary

• 1933 Acclaimed author Cormac McCarthy is born

• Music

• 1963 Jan and Dean’s “Surf City” hits #1

• Old West

• 1889 Homesteaders murdered by Wyoming ranchers

• Presidential

• 1969 Nixon watches first lunar landing

• Sports

• 1919 Sir Edmund Hillary born

• Vietnam War

• 1964 Viet Cong troops overrun town
• 1969 Duck Hook plan completed

• World War I

• 1914 Caillaux trial begins in Paris

• World War II

• 1944 Assassination plot against Hitler fails

July 19th

TODAY IS:

Raspberry Cake Day
Daiquiri Day

EVENTS

64 – Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire
532 – Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle
711 – Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.
1195 – Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia
1380 – Thomas of Buckingham’s invasion army lands on Calais
1425 – Duke John VI of Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good
1510 – 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin, Prussia
1524 – Peasants’ War begins in Germany’s Black Forest
1525 – Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau
1544 – Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne began.
1545 – King Henry VIII’s flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die
1551 – Treaty of Karlsburg: arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as King of Hungary/Transsylvania
1553 – 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England’s Queen after 9 days
1572 – Battle at Saint Ghislain: Spanish army beats The Genlis’ mercenaries
1575 – Spanish viceroy Gilles of Hierges attacks Oudewater
King of Spain Philip II

1590 – King Philip II’s secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail
1595 – Astronomer Johannes Kepler has an epiphany and develops his theory of the geometrical basis of the universe
1599 – Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java
1639 – French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan
1674 – Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer
1688 – Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo
1692 – 5 more people are hanged for witchcraft (20 in all) in Salem Mass
1702 – Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Krakow
1760 – The formal request to found the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders.
1816 – Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
1836 – HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension

Naturalist Charles Darwin

1843 – Brunel’s steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1848 – 1st US women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott
1848 – German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg
1850 – Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die)
1860 – 1st railroad reaches Kansas
1862 – Forrest’s 1st raid
1863 – Battle of Buffington’s Island (St George Creek), Ohio
1864 – Battle of Winchester, VA (Stephenson’s Depot) [->JUL 20]
1866 – Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment to the US constitution, guaranteeing civil rights
17th US President Andrew Johnson

1867 – US Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson’s veto
1867 – Dutch Red Cross forms
1869 – Louis Riel speaks at a meeting of Metis residents about rights, setting in motion the events now referred to as the Red River Rebellion
1870 – France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins
1875 – Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC
1877 – 1st Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64)
1879 – Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.
1880 – SF Public Library starts lending books
1884 – 8th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: William Renshaw beats H Lawford (6-0 6-4 9-7)
1899 – National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers forms
Gunfighter in the American Old West Doc Holliday

1900 – Michel Théato wins 2nd olympics marathon (2:59:45.0-40,260k)
1902 – NY Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw
1904 – Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber
1907 – Under pressure from the Japanese, the Emperor of Korea abdicates in favor of his son, a figurehead
1908 – Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam
1909 – Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play
1910 – Cleveland Indian baseball player Cy Young registers 500th career victory against Washington 5-4 in 11 innings
1912 – A meteorite of estimated 190kg mass explodes over Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona, causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
1913 – Billboard publishes earliest known “Last Week’s 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs” Malinda’s Wedding Day is #1
MLB Pitcher Cy Young

1914 – Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL
1915 – Dutch accidents at sea law enforced
1915 – Wash Nationals steal record 8 bases vs Cleve Indians in the 1st inning
1918 – World War I: German armies retreat across Marne River in France
1918 – Wash catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Sec of War Newton D Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt
1919 – Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall.
1923 – WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
1926 – 2nd French government of Herriot, forms
1927 – Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit
1928 – King Fuad of Egypt siezes power and disbands parliament
1930 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team return to the United States following the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica
MLB Legend Ty Cobb

1933 – 1st time brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox
1933 – Rick Ferrell homers off brother pitcher Wes of Cleve, who also homers
1936 – Indians’ Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief
1936 – Spanish premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral
1937 – Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich
1937 – Joris Ivens’ “Spanish Earth” premieres in Hollywood
1939 – Dr Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures
1940 – Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender
1940 – Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald
1940 – Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid anti-nazi films
1941 – 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee Ala)
1941 – BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (“…-” in Morse code) (opening of Beethoven’s 5th symphony)
Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

1941 – British PM Winston Churchill launched his “V for Victory” campaign
1941 – President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee
1942 – Dmitri Shostakovitch’ 7th Symphony premieres in USA
1942 – German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam & Hague
1943 – 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II
1944 – 1,200+ 8th US Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany
1944 – 500 15th US Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity
1944 – Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen
1944 – Danish resistance fails in assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen
1944 – Democratic convention opens in Chicago
1944 – Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem
1944 – General Bradley flies to England
1944 – Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas
1944 – NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe
1944 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann
1945 – USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue
1947 – Prime Minister of shadow Burma government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members assassinated by armed paramilitaries
1948 – French government of Schuman, resigns
1949 – Laos becomes associated state within French Union
1950 – French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh
1950 – NY Yanks obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard & Frank Barnes
1950 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris
1951 – “2 in the Aisle” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 perfs
1952 – “Paint Your Wagon” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 289 perfs
1952 – 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland
1952 – Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford
1952 – India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day
1953 – KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 – WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 – Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum
1955 – Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel
1956 – US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1957 – 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
1957 – Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)
1957 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 – “Oh, Captain!” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 192 performances
1958 – Charly Gaul wins Tour de France
LPGA Golfer Mickey Wright

1959 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance
1960 – Italian government Tambroni, resigns
1960 – SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies
1961 – 1st in-flight movie shown (TWA)
1962 – Hungarian communist party expels Rákosi & Gero
1963 – NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
1963 – Philadelphia Phillies Roy Siever hits HR # 300
1964 – 46th PGA Championship: Bobby Nichols shoots a 271 at Columbus CC Ohio
1964 – Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Yankee Women’s Golf Open
1964 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 – Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot “Where No Man Has Gone Before”
1966 – France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island
1966 – Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
1967 – 1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line)
1967 – Race riots in Durham NC
1967 – US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)


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

1969 – Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
1970 – Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open
1971 – Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees
MLB Legend Willie Mays

1973 – Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial)
1974 – Cleve Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A’s, 4-0
1974 – David Bowie’s “Diamond Dog” tour ends in NYC
1974 – Soyuz 14 lands
1975 – Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
1975 – NY Yank catcher Thurman Munson’s 1st-inning single & RBI are
1975 – Nullified because the tar on his bat handle exceeds 18″ limit
1976 – Rock group Deep Purple disbands
1976 – Allman Brother’s roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman’s testimony
1976 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
1977 – 48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, NY
1977 – All star MVP: Don Sutton (LA Dodgers)
1977 – Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76
1978 – France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1978 – Yanks start 14 game comeback with 2-0 win
1979 – 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill
1979 – Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe
1979 – Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza
1979 – Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW
1980 – 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott
1980 – David Bowie appears in role of “Elephant Man” in Denver
1980 – USSR’s Walter Polovchak is placed in US custody at 12 after his asylum application
1981 – 110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St George
LPGA Golfer Donna Caponi

1981 – Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1982 – 1st Old Timer’s All star classic – AL wins 7-2 in Wash DC
1982 – Bolivian government resigns
1982 – David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon
1982 – 1st annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot HR off Warren Spahn, AL beats NL 7-2
1983 – The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
1984 – 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
1984 – Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), wins Democratic VP nomination
1985 – Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle
1985 – Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die
1985 – The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
1986 – Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with
Boxer Frank Bruno

1986 – Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 – 116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane
1987 – Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games
1987 – Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1989 – Cleveland Indians Joe Carter has his 4th 3 HR game
1989 – United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112
1990 – BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 dies
1990 – Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion
1990 – Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif
1990 – Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a NY Yankee
1991 – Cal Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
1991 – Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington)
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson

1991 – With NY Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better
1992 – “Price” closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 47 performances
1992 – 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1)
1992 – Ballet dancer Peter Martins charged with beating his wife
1992 – Ebony P Warren, crowned 24th Miss Black America
1992 – Juli Inkster wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1992 – NYC Ballet star Peter Martins, arrested for beating his wife
1993 – Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes
1993 – Last day of 1st-class cricket for Ian Botham
1993 – President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions
1994 – 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles)
1994 – Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon Panama, 21 killed
1994 – Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president
1996 – Ireland beats Netherlands in 1st European Championship Final
42nd US President Bill Clinton

1996 – Jason Gallian scores 312 in 683 mins for Lancashire v Derbyshire
1996 – XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta Georgia
1998 – 127th British Golf Open: Mark O’Meara shoots a 280 at Royal Birkdale
2001 – Michael Brunet discovers the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, thought to be the oldest known species in the human family tree, in the Djurab Desert, Chad. It lived 6-7 million years ago, about the same time as the last common ancestor to apes and humans.
2007 – The first episode of “Mad Men” debuts. Jon Hamm stars as Don Draper
2009 – 138th British Golf Open: Stewart Cink shoots a 278 at Ailsa Course
2009 – 17th ESPY Awards: Michael Phelps, Nastia Liukin win
2011 – “Captain America: The First Avenger”, directed by Joe Johnston, starring Chris Evans and Hayley Atwell, premieres in Los Angeles
2013 – 20 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Diyala, Iraq

BIRTHDAYS

1592 – Erhard Buttner, composer
1670 – Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
1688 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
1735 – Garret Wesley Mornington, composer
1742 – Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer
1744 – Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806)
1750 – Alessio Prati, composer
1759 – Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
1782 – Jonathan Blewitt, composer
1789 – John Martin, English painter
1797 – Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer
1800 – Juan José Flores, military and first president of Ecuador (d. 1864)
1811 – Vincenz Lachner, composer
1814 – Samuel Colt, Hartford Connecticut, US inventor/industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver), (d. 1862)
1817 – Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, US, army nurse (union)
1819 – Gottfried Keller, writer
1822 – Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1916)
Inventor/Industrialist Samuel Colt (1814)

1823 – George Henry Gordon, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1827 – Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1857)
1828 – Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1919)
1833 – John Wesley Turner, Bvt Major General (Union Army), (d. 1899)
1834 – Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter, sculptor and artist
1838 – Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (Rule of Allen)
1846 – Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist
1848 – Cornelis A Pekelharing, artist (fabric seller)
1849 – F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian
1849 – Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (d. 1906)
1851 – Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer (head of Jut)
1854 – Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer
1860 – Lizzie Borden, American woman acquitted of the murder of her parents (gave her mother forty whacks), born in Fall River, Massachusetts
Acquitted Murderer Lizzie Borden (1860)

1863 – Hermann Bahr, Austria writer/director (New Men)
1865 – Charles Horace Mayo, surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic)
1873 – Louis Zimmermann, violinist/1st concert master of Concert building
1876 – Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)
1876 – John Gunn, Former England cricketer (d. 1963)
1877 – Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
1878 – Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-1st-Member of parliament (About Plato)
1879 – Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director (KNMI)
1881 – Adriaan J Zoetmulder, Dutch writer/directer (Eindhovens Dagblad)
1881 – Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist (radiologist)
1883 – Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (d. 1972)
1888 – Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi
1892 – Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1957)
1893 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution)[OS=7/7]
1894 – Joris [Georges] of Severen, Flemish fascist/Member of parliament
1894 – Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
1894 – Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)
1895 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
1896 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (Citadel, Shining Victory) (d. 1981)
1898 – Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo, composer
1899 – Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician (CPN)/Editor (The Truth)
1900 – Arno Breker, German sculptor (3rd Reich sculptor
1900 – Charles Barnet “Roscoe” Harvey, soldier
1900 – Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer
1902 – Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Miraculous Life of Willem Parel)
1905 – Boyd Neel, Blackheath, Kent England, conductor (Story of an Orch)
1905 – Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist: Red star over China
1905 – Louis Philip Kentner, composer
1906 – Klaus Egge, Gransherad, Telemark Norway, composer (Noregsonger)
1906 – Wim van Doorne, Dutch car manufacturer (DAF)
1907 – Gunter Bialas, composer
1907 – Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)
1909 – Jeno Vecsey, composer
1912 – Norman Carr, British conservationist (b. 1997)
1914 – Josef Palenicek, composer
1914 – Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
1916 – James D Ramage, US lt-Adm (WW II-Palau/Guam/Philippines)
1916 – Phillip Cavaretta, baseball player (NL MVP 1945)
1917 – Robert Aitken, Phila, Zen co-founder (Diamond Sangha)
1917 – William W Scranton, (Gov-R-Pa), (d. 2013)
1919 – Patricia Medina, actress (High-Low), born in Liverpool, England (d. 2012)
1919 – Robert Pinget, novelist/playwright
1919 – Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005)
1920 – Robert Christiani, cricketer (brother of Cyril WI batsman in 22 Tests)
1920 – Robert Mann, Portland Oregon, composer/violinist (String Quartet 1952)
1921 – Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist
1922 – George McGovern, (Sen-D-SD)/pres candidate (D-1972), (d. 2012)
1922 – Rachel Robinson, social activist/humanitarian/Mrs Jackie Robinson
1922 – Harold Camping, American evangelist, founder of Family Radio
1923 – William A. Rusher, American columnist
1924 – Pat Hingle [Martin Patterson], American actor (Splendor in the Grass, Batman Returns), born in Miami, Florida
1924 – Sybren Polet, [Sijbe Minnema], Dutch writer/poet (Mannekino)
1924 – Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (d. 2005)
1925 – Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer
1926 – Helen Gallagher, Bkln, actress (Ryan’s Hope, Strangers When We Meet)
1926 – Max Sordam, Suriname warden/writer (Dictionary Sranantongo)
1926 – Sue Thompson, [Eva Sue Mckee], rocker
1927 – Jan Myrdal, Swedish writer/journalist (Albania Defiant)
1928 – John Bratby, painter/writer (Breakdown)
Gymnast Sofia Muratova(1929)

1929 – Sofia Muratova, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-6 gold/3 silv/4 bronze-1952-60), (d. 2006)
1932 – Buster Benton, singer/guitarist
1934 – Willem Nijholt, actor (De Nietsnut, Respect, Op Afbetaling)
1934 – Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
1935 – Vasily Livanov, Russian and Soviet film actor
1937 – George Hamilton IV, American country musician, born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, (d. 2014)
1937 – Larry Boxx, founder (Land B Computer Serv)
1937 – Richard Jordan [Robert Anson Jordan Jr.], American actor (Dune, Gettysburg), born in NYC, New York
1938 – Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
1938 – Nicholas Bethell, British historian (d. 2007)
1940 – Vikki Carr [Florencia Vicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona)], El Paso Texas, singer (Let it Be Him)
1940 – Dennis Cole, actor (Felony Squad, Brackens’s World), born in Detroit, Michigan
1941 – Jennifer Dunn, (Rep-R-Washington)
1941 – Jerry Huckaby, (Rep-D-LA, 1977- )
1941 – Natalya Bessmertnova, Moscow, dancer (Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970)
1941 – Neelie Smit-Kroes, Dutch politician (VVD)/minister of Traffic
1943 – Roy Dunbard Bridges Jr, Col USAF/astro (STS 51-F, 61-F), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1944 – Commander Cody, singer/pianist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)
1945 – George Dzunda, Rosenheim Germany, actor (The Deer Hunter, Law & Order)
1945 – Edwin Schlossberg, husband of Carolyn Kennedy
1946 – Alan Gorrie, Scotland, rock bassist/singer (Average White Band)
Tennis Player Ilie Nastase(1946)

1946 – Ilie Nastase, Bucharest Romania, tennis player (US Open 1972)
1947 – Bernie Leadon, Minneapolis, guitarist/vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1947 – Brian May, rock guitarist (Queen-We are the Champions), born in London, England
1947 – Mike Dutfield, documentary prodcuer
1947 – Hans-Jürgen Kreische, East German footballer
1948 – Beverly Archer, Oak Park Ill, actress (Iola-Mama’s Family)
1948 – Keith Godchaux, rock keyboardist (Grateful Dead)
1949 – Ivar Kants, Australian actor
1950 – Simon Cadell, English actor (Hi-Di-Hi, Pride & Extreme Prejudice)
1950 – Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
1950 – Freddy Moore, American songwriter
1951 – Abel Ferrara, American filmmake
1951 – Jayson Stark, American sportswriter
1952 – Alan Collins, rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1952 – Dominic Muldowney, composer
1952 – Howard Donald Saunders, Danbury Ct, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1952 – Robert A. Ficano, American politician
1952 – John Griesheimer, American politician
1954 – Srđa Trifković, Serbian-American journalist
1955 – Roger Binny, Indian cricket medium-pace all-rounder (early 80’s)
1956 – Great [Yoshiaki] Yatsu, wrestler (NJPW/WCCW/WWF)
1956 – Peter Barton, Valley Stream LI, actor (Powers of Matthew Star)
1957 – Cathy Reynolds, Kansas City MO, LPGA golfer (1981 Golden Lights)
1958 – Robert Gibson, American professional wrestler
1958 – David Robertson, American symphony orchestra conductor
1959 – Terri Treas, KC Kansas, actress (Hannah-7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1960 – Atom Egoyan, Cairo Egypt, director (Adjuster, Next of Kin)
1961 – Suzi Schott, Springfield Ill, playmate (August, 1984)
1961 – Campbell Scott, American actor/director/producer (Saint Ralph, Big Night), born in NYC, New York
1961 – Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
1961 – Hideo Nakata, Japanese film director
1961 – Benoît Mariage, Belgian film director
1962 – Anthony Edwards, actor (It Takes Two, Dr Greene-ER), born in Santa Barbara, California
1962 – Brad Wilson, Pomona California, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 9 Pro-Am)
1962 – Craig Muni, Toronto, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1963 – Mark Carreon, outfielder (SF Giants), born in Chicago, Illinois
1963 – Marla Duncan, Fairfield California, Miss Northern California fitness (1990)
1963 – Sandor Wladar, Hungary, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1963 – Garth Nix, Australian author
1964 – Alexandra Curtis, model/daughter of Christine Kaufmann
1964 – Gina Procaccio, Drexel Hills Pennsylvania, 5k runner
1964 – Teresa Edwards, Cairo GA, basketball forward (Oly-gold-1984, 88,92,96)
1964 – André A. Jackson, founder African Diamond Producers Association
1965 – Kathleen Raine, equestrian dressage (Olympics-96)
1965 – Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist
1965 – Stuart Scott, American sportscaster
1966 – David Segui, KC KS, infielder (Montreal Expos)
1966 – Kate Rogerson, Pitts PA, LPGA golfer (1990 Circle K LPGA Tucson-2nd)
1966 – Nancy Walls, American actress
1967 – Christian Bergstrom, Sweden, tennis star
1967 – Dale Hurley Jr, rower (Olympics-1996), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1968 – Carolie DeVonne Howe, Chugwater Wyoming, Miss Wyoming-America (1991)
1968 – Leroy Butler, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers – Super Bowl 31)
1968 – Robert Flynn, American musician (Machine Head)
1969 – David Goldsmith, New Brunswick NJ, actor (Eric-Models Inc)
1969 – Matthew Libatique, American cinematographer
1970 – Brooks Thompson, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Orlando Magic)
1970 – Kengy Gardiner, Providence RI, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-5th-1994)
1970 – Rhona Susan Robertson, Auckland NZ, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1971 – Rick Walters, CFL slot back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1971 – Urs Bühler, Swiss tenor (Il Divo)
1971 – Russell Allen, American musician (Symphony X)
1971 – Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
1972 – Adriaan J Zoetmulder, author/director (Eindhovens Newspaper)
1972 – Andrew Kavovit, actor (Paul-As the World Turns)
1972 – John Paci, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 – Tamarie Ivie, Ananheim CA, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1972 – Naohito Fujiki, Japanese actor and singer
1972 – Ebbe Sand, Danish footballer
1973 – Angeline Putt, Miss Universe-Singapore (1996)
1973 – Martin Powell, English musician (Cradle of Filth)
1973 – Saïd Taghmaoui, French actor
1974 – Vincent Spadea, tennis star, born in Chicago, Illinois
1974 – Rey Bucanero, Mexican professional wrestler
1974 – Preston Wilson, baseball player
1975 – Alexi Komarov, Yekaterinburg Russia, dance skater (& Carr-1995 Pac Champ)
1976 – R J Williams, actor (General Hospital, Full House)
1976 – Gonzalo de los Santos, Uruguayan footballer
1976 – Vinessa Shaw, American actress
1976 – Benedict Cumberbatch, actor (12 Years a Slave, Sherlock), born in London, England
1977 – Haitham Mustafa, Sudanese footballer
1977 – Ed Smith, English cricketer
1977 – Tony Mamaluke, American professional wrestler
1977 – Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1978 – Nené, Brazilian footballer
1979 – Luke Young, English footballer
1979 – Rick Ankiel, Baseball pitcher/ outfielder
1979 – Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
1980 – Giorgio Mondini, Italian racing driver
1980 – Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player
1980 – Mark Webber, American actor
1981 – Naomi Grabow, lake Arrowhead California, pairs skater (& Benjamin Oberman)
1981 – Anderson Luiz de Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
1981 – Didz Hammond, bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause)
1981 – Jimmy Gobble, American baseball player
1981 – David Bernard, West Indian cricketer
1982 – Jess Vanstrattan, Australian footballer
1982 – Jared Padalecki, American actor
1982 – Stuart Parnaby, English footballer
1984 – Holly Roffey, Englnd, youngest heart transplant
1984 – Lasse Gjertsen, Norwegian animator
1984 – Lewis Price, Welsh footballer
1984 – Alessandra De Rossi, Filipino actress
1990 – Steven Anthony Lawrence, American actor

WEDDINGS

1770 – Founding Father of the United States John Dickinson (37) weds land and estate owner Mary Norris (30) in a civil ceremony
1913 – Billboard publishes earliest known “Last Week’s 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs” Malinda’s Wedding Day is #1
1928 – Physicist Enrico Fermi (26) weds writer Laura Capon in Rome, Italy
1932 – “Rebecca” author Daphne DuMaurier (25) weds commander of the I Airborne Corps Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning (35)
1958 – NFL coach Don Shula (28) weds first wife Dorothy Bartish
1966 – 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas
Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra(1966)

1971 – “The Who” lead singer Roger Daltrey (27) weds model Heather Taylor
1985 – NBA player Isiah Thomas (24) weds Lynn Kendall in Chicago
1986 – Caroline Kennedy (28) weds Edwin Schlossberg (41) at the Church of Our Lady of Victory in Centerville, Massachusetts
2003 – “King of Queens” actress Leah Remini (33) weds actor/salsa musician Angelo Pagan (45) at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas
2003 – “Sabrina, The Teenage Witch” actress Melissa Joan Hart (27) weds “Course of Nature” lead singer-guitarist Mark Wilkersonin (26) in Florence, Italy
2014 – Actress and singer Naya Rivera (27) weds actor Ryan Dorsey in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
2014 – Maroon 5 lead vocalist Adam Levine (35) weds Victoria’s Secret model Behati Prinsloo (25) in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

DIVORCES

1938 – Actor Burgess Meredith (30) divorces actress Margaret Perry (25) after 2 years of marriage

DEATHS

514 – Symmachus, Italian Pope (498-514), dies
931 – Uda, Emperor of Japan (b. 867)
1054 – Bernold[us] Benno/Bernulphus, bishop of Utrecht (1027-54)/saint, dies
1234 – Floris IV, count of Holland, killed in tournament
1346 – Dirk IV, mister of Valkenburg (1332-46), dies in battle
1374 – Francesco Petrarca, [Petracco], Italian mountaineer/poet, dies at 69
1415 – Philippa of Lancaster, wife of John I of Portugal (plague) (b. 1359)
1534 – Willem van Enkenvoirt, cardinal/bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 70
1543 – Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII of England
1545 – George Carew, English admiral, drowns
1545 – Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns
1625 – Samuel Besler, composer, dies at 50
1627 – Dirck R “Didericus” Camphuysen, poet/printer/vicar, dies at about 41
1631 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
1687 – Laura Martinozzi, Duchess of Modena (b. 1637)
1688 – Cornelis van Aerssen, governor of Suriname (1683-88), murdered at 50
1700 – Hieronymus Gradenthaler, composer, dies at 62
1730 – Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer, dies at 49
1740 – Francois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname), dies at 71
1742 – John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor, dies at 45
1742 – William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
1810 – Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III, dies at 34
1811 – Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer, dies at 76
1814 – Matthew Flinders, English cartographer (Australia coast), dies at 40
1st Emperor of Mexico Agustín de Iturbide (1824)

1824 – Agustín de Iturbide [crowned Agustin I], Mexican army general, politician and the 1st emperor of Mexico is executed by firing squad at 40
1838 – Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer, dies at 72
1844 – Heinrich Domnich, composer, dies at 77
1847 – Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer, dies at 75
1850 – Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis/revolutionary, drowned
1850 – [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, US feminist/revolutionary, dies
1852 – Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83
1857 – Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)
1868 – Soji Okita, Japanese samurai, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1842 or 1844)
1873 – Samuel Wilberforce, English bishop and one of the greatest public speakers of his day (remembered for his opposition to Darwin’s theory of evolution), dies at 67
1881 – Isaac Baumann, a Jewish pioneer and trader in Bloemfontein, South Africa, dies at 67
1892 – Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau), dies at 83
1895 – Charles T Stork, great industrialist (cotton mach factory), dies at 73
1895 – Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies at 67
1896 – Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
1906 – Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (b. 1849)
1907 – Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77
1913 – Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
1914 – Alexander Conze, German archaeologist, dies at 82
1918 – Joost van Vollenhoven, Neth, gov-gen (French West-Africa), dies
1922 – Cornelis A Pekelharing, Dutch histologist, dies on 74th birthday
1930 – Robert Stout, NZ prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85
1939 – Tom Hayward, cricketer (35 Tests for England, 1999 runs), dies
1939 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (b. 1850)
1940 – Samuel H Chang, US newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai
1944 – Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated
1944 – Harry CA Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania), dies at 87
1944 – Will Marion Cook, composer, dies at 75
1945 – George Barbier, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 80
1947 – Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
1947 – U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
1951 – Max Ettinger, composer, dies at 77
1954 – Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer, dies at 81
1955 – Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch soc-democrat (SDAP/AJC/PvdA), dies at 64
1957 – Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E Suckert], Ital author (Kaputt), dies at 59
1958 – Robert Earl Hughes, weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32
1964 – Carol Veazie, actress (Maude-Norby), dies at 69
First President of South Korea Syngman Rhee (1965)

1965 – Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (1948-60), dies at 90
1969 – Mary Jo Kopechne, in Ted Kennedy’s car, drowns at 28
1969 – Pavel I Apostolov, Russian military bandmaster, dies
1970 – Barry Wood, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61
1972 – Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (b. 1884)
1973 – Clarence White, rocker (Byrds), killed by drunken driver at 29
1973 – Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 33
1974 – Joe Flynn, actor (McHale’s Navy), dies at 59
1974 – Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (b. 1904)
1975 – Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1976 – Gene Roth, actor (Rosie, Tormented, Nightfall), dies at 73
1976 – Sal Tas, Dutch journalist, dies at 70
1977 – John R Powers, US director model bureau, dies at 80
1977 – Noel Wien, American aviation pioneer (Wien Air Alaska), dies at 78
Aviation Pioneer Noel Wien(1977)

1981 – Louis Cheslock, composer, dies at 81
1981 – Roger Doucet, French Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
1982 – John Harvey, stage and film actor (b. 1911)
1984 – Carol Eberts Veazie, actress (Maude Endles-Norby), dies at 89
1984 – Geert Lubberhuizen, Dutch publisher (Busy Bee), dies at 68
1984 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
1985 – Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
1989 – Carl-Heinz Schroth, dir/actor (Strafverteidiger), dies at 87
1989 – Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (b. 1913)
1990 – Eddie Quillan, actor (Brigadoon, Summer Magic), dies of cancer at 83
1990 – Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies of a stroke at 76
1990 – Johnny Wayne, comedian (Wayne & Shuster), dies of cancer at 72
1992 – Bert Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Dutch marionette theater), dies
1992 – Heinz Galinski, Pres (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79
1992 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, murdered by mafia
1993 – Elmar Klos, Czech director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83
1993 – Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist/conductor, dies at 84
1994 – Christian-Jaque, [Christian Maudet], French director (Nana), dies
1994 – Frederik “Frits” van der More, archaeologist/art historian, dies at 87
1994 – Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre Producer, dies at 81
1994 – Nathan Susskind, Slovak/US linguist (Yiddish), dies at 87
1994 – Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive, dies at 37
1995 – Dorothy McHugh, actress (I Fallen & I Can’t Get Up), dies at 87
1995 – James Smiddy, high school basketball coach (1,216 wins), dies at 71
1995 – Michael Andrews, painter, dies at 66
1995 – Sydney Lipton, bandleader/violin, dies at 89
1995 – Yusef Bedri, educationist, dies at 82
1996 – David Nicolson, British businessman and politician, dies at 73
1996 – Emmanual Tettey Mensah, musician, dies at 77
1996 – Lawrence Martin Jenco, priest, dies at 61
1996 – Mervyn Hugh Cowie, willife conservationist, dies at 87
1996 – Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer, dies at 79
1996 – Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher, dies at 81
1998 – Elmer Valo, baseball player (b. 1921)
2002 – Alan Lomax, American folksong collector (b. 1915)
2003 – Bill Bright, American evangelist (b. 1921)
2003 – Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1908)
2004 – Reverend Francis Marzen, American Catholic prelate (b. 1924)
2004 – Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
2005 – John Tyndall, British politician (b. 1934)
2005 – Edward Bunker, American writer (b. 1933)
2005 – Alain Bombard, French Biologist, Physician, and Politician who made a solitary journey across the Atlantic ocean without provisions, dies at 80
2006 – Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 – Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1944)
2007 – A. K. Faezul Huq, Lawyer, politician, and freelance journalist (b. 1945)
2008 – Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne (b. 1907)
2009 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American author. (b. 1930)
2009 – Henry Surtees, British racing driver. (b. 1991)
2010 – Lorenzen Wright, American basketball player (b. 1975)
2012 – Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general and intelligence officer, dies from a heart attack at 76
2013 – Phil Woosnam, Welsh footballer and manager, dies from complications from prostate cancer and Alzheimer’s disease at 90
2013 – Bert Trautmann, German footballer, dies from heart failure at 89
2013 – Mel Smith, English comedian and author, dies from a heart attack at 60
2013 – Poncie Ponse, American actor, dies from heart failure at 80
2014 – James Garner, American actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick), dies of acute myocardial infarction at 86
2014 – Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress, dies at 21

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1799 Rosetta Stone found

• American Revolution

• 1779 Massachusetts begins ill-fated Penobscot expedition

• Automotive

• 1942 George Washington Carver begins experimental project with Henry Ford

• Civil War

• 1863 Morgan’s raiders defeated at Buffington Island

• Cold War

• 1956 United States withdraws offer of aid for Aswan Dam

• Crime

• 1991 Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant

• Disaster

• 1979 Oil tankers collide in Caribbean Sea

• General Interest

• 1553 Lady Jane Grey deposed
• 1848 Seneca Falls Convention begins

• Hollywood

• 1989 Sitcom actress murdered; death prompts anti-stalking legislation

• Literary

• 1898 Emile Zola flees France
• 2009 “Angela’s Ashes” author Frank McCourt dies

• Music

• 2003 Thousands of fans join the Miami funeral procession of Celia Cruz

• Old West

• 1879 Doc Holliday kills for the first time

• Presidential

• 1884 President Arthur proclaims power to impose quarantine on immigrants

• Sports

• 1992 Nick Faldo wins third British Open

• Vietnam War

• 1964 President Khanh calls for expanding the war
• 1972 Peace talks resume

• World War I

• 1919 Cenotaph is unveiled in London

• World War II

• 1943 America bombs Rome

July 18th

TODAY IS:

Caviar Day

EVENTS

390 BC – Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia – a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
64 – Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero
1290 – King Edward I of England orders expulsion of Jews
1330 – Battle of Velbuzd
1334 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
1536 – Pope’s authority declared void in England
1572 – Willem of Orange recognized as viceroy of Holland/Friesland/Utrecht
1630 – Spanish troops occupy Mantua
1656 – -20] Battle at Warsaw: Swedish king Karel X Gustaafbeats Johan II Kasimir & occupies Warsaw
1696 – Tsar Peter I’s fleet occupies Azov at mouth of Don River
1716 – Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels
1737 – Battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians
1743 – 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal)
1753 – Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham Mass
Russian Tsar Peter the Great

1766 – Society of the Dutch Literary forms
1768 – Boston Gazette publishes “Liberty Song”, America’s 1st patriotic song
1814 – British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)
1853 – Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad between Portland, Maine & Montreal
1857 – Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall’s war against the French.
1861 – Battle of Blackburn’s Ford, VA US57 CS68 – Manassas –
1862 – Battle of Newburgh, IN – captured by Union forces
1863 – Battle of Fort Wagner, SC – Second assault US1500 CS174
1864 – President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for milt service
1870 – Pontifical infalliability proclaimed
1872 – The Ballot Act introduces the secret ballot in elections in Britain; previously votes were made openly.
1882 – Louisville Tony Mullane is 1st to pitch righty then lefty
1893 – Harry Graham scores 107 on cricket debut Australia v England, Lord’s
1894 – 11th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Blanche Hillyard beats E Austin (6-1 6-1)
1894 – 18th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Joshua Pim beats Wilfred Baddeley (10-8 6-2 8-6)
1896 – 2nd US Golf Open: James Foulis shoots a 152 at Shinnecock Hills NY
1896 – George Giffen is 1st to complete 1000/100 double, in 30th Test Cricket
1896 – Ranjitsinhji completes 154* on Test Cricket debut v Aust, Old Trafford
1897 – Cap Anson is 1st to get 3,000 hits
1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld’s “Follies of 1907” premieres in NYC
1907 – French troops occupy Casablanca
1912 – Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings
1913 – After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk
1914 – US army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps
Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi

1914 – Gandhi leaves South Africa after successfully leading campaigns of Passive Resistance
1915 – 2nd Battle of Isonzo begins & ends with loss of 280,000 men
1915 – Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs
1918 – World War I: US and French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive
1921 – Black Sox trial begins in Chicago
1923 – British House of Lords accepts new divorce law
1924 – KPD points out Rote Frontkampferbund against Nazi
1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy “Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice”)
1926 – The South Africa author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
1927 – Ty Cobb’s 4,000th career hit
1930 – SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland
MLB Legend Ty Cobb

1931 – 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
1932 – Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign Unity treaty
1932 – US & Canada sign a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway
1935 – Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000
1936 – Spanish Civil War : General Francisco Franco issues manifesto and leds uprising with army in Morocco
1936 – Charles “Lucky” Luciano is sentenced to 30 to 50 years in state prison
1938 – Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
1940 – Democratic Convention nominates FDR for a 3rd term
1941 – SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia
1942 – 1st legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens
1942 – Test flight of German Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1943 – British assault on Catania Sicily
1943 – Giants & Phillies strand record 30 baserunners, NY wins, 10-6
1944 – 7:45 Operation-Goodwood: British assault east of Caen
1944 – Allies air raid railways at Vaires Paris
1944 – Arne Andersson runs world record 1 mile (4:01.6)
1944 – RAF Mosquitos attack Cologne & Berlin
1944 – British air raid on German convoy SW of Helgoland
1944 – British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range, Normandy
1944 – Polish troops under Gen Anders occupy Ancona Italy
1944 – US troop march into St Lo
1947 – British seize “Exodus 1947” ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine
1947 – King George VI signs Indian Independence Act
1947 – President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act
1947 – Tigers shut out Yanks 2-0, end 19 game win streak
1947 – US begins administering Trust Territory of Pacific Islands
1948 – “Marinka” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 168 performances
1948 – Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 HRs in a game
1948 – White Sox Fat Pat Seerey, hits 4 HRs in 11 inning game
1951 – Uruguay accepts its constitution
World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jersey Joe

1951 – Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion
1952 – KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting
1954 – Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Inverness Four-Ball Golf Tournament
1954 – Cards losing 8-1 to Phillies begin stalling in 5th, they forfeit game
1955 – 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1955 – 280 mm rain in Martinstown, Dorset (UK-record)
1956 – Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rákosi as party leader of Hungary
1959 – African American William ‘Bill’ Wright is the 1st coloured person to win a major golf tournament (U.S. Amateur Public Links Championships)
1959 – Los Angeles premiere of the film version of Kathryn Hulme’s “The Nun’s Story”
1960 – 1st UN troops reach Congo
1960 – Baseball’s NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises
1960 – Premier Kishi of Japan resigns
LPGA Golfer Betsy Rawls

1961 – Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth’s record of 60 HR in 154-game sched in 1927, must be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games
1962 – Minnesota Twins Bob Allison & Harmon Killebrew hit grand slams in 1st inn & Harmon Killebrew connect in a club-record, 11-run 1st inning
1962 – Minn is 1st AL team to hit 2 grand slams in an inning as Bob Allison
1963 – Failed military coup in Syria
1963 – The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second interim report pressing for international sanctions against South Africa, particularly the supply of arms, ammunition and petroleum
1964 – Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln)
1965 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Yankee Golf Open
1965 – Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
1966 – Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1966 – Gemini 10 launched (John Young & Michael Collins)
1967 – Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY
1968 – The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
1969 – Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL
1970 – “Boy Friend” closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 119 performances
1970 – Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
1970 – Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
1970 – WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 – Willie Mays becomes 10th baseball player to get 3,000 hits
1971 – Eddy Merckx wins his 3rd Tour de France
1972 – 200,000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns
1972 – Egyptian president Anwar Sadat throws out 20,000 Russian military aids
1972 – Mike Procter 8-73 with hat-trick, plus 51 & 102, Gloucs v Essex
MLB Legend Willie Mays

1972 – The 100th British soldier to die in the conflict is shot by a sniper in Belfast
1972 – Leader of the British Labour Party Harold Wilson holds meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army
1974 – US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1974 – World’s tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
1975 – Jury can’t decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play)
1976 – “Something’s Afoot” closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 61 performances
1976 – Judy Rankin wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1976 – Lucien van Impe wins Tour de France
1976 – Stockhausens “Sirius” premieres in NYC
1976 – Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle’s SRB at Brigham, Ut
1976 – Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1977 – Hugh Leonard’s “Da” premieres in London
1977 – Vietnam becomes member of UN
1978 – Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks
1979 – Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London
1979 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Pianist, songwriter, and composer Billy Joel

1980 – Billy Joel’s Glass Houses album tops charts
1980 – Failed attack on Iran ex-premier Bakhtiar in Neuilly, France
1980 – Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn’t include women
1980 – Quett Masire installed as president of Botswana
1980 – Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit
1981 – Part of Hyatt Regency Hotel KC caves in (113 killed)
1981 – Poland communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
1982 – “Blues in the Night” closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 53 perfs
1982 – 111th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 284 at Royal Troon
1982 – Sally Little wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1983 – Despite being in 1st place in NL East, Phils fire manager Pat Corrales
1984 – James Huberty kills 21 McDonald’s patrons in San Ysidro Calif
1984 – Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF
1984 – 21 people are killed and 19 are injured in a massacre in a San Ysidro, California McDonalds restaurant, ending with the shooting of its perpetrator, James Oliver Huberty
Golfer Tom Watson

1985 – USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1986 – 115th British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 280 at Turnberry Scotld
1986 – Royals announce that manager Dick Howser, 50, has a brain tumor
1986 – Videotapes released showing Titanic’s sunken remains
1987 – Molly Yard elected new pres of National Organization for Women
1987 – NY Yanks Don Mattingly ties record of HRs in 8 cons games
1988 – Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship
1988 – Shooting begins on “License to Kill”
1989 – 48 cm rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia (state record)
1991 – Florida Marlins’ logo unveiled
1991 – Mike Tyson meets Miss Black America contestants
1992 – Sharon Belden, of Florida, 25, crowned Miss World USA
1992 – The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima.
Golfer Greg Norman

1993 – 122nd British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 267 at Royal St George
1993 – Afghan president Ishaq Khan & prime minister Nawaz Sharif resign
1993 – Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (51,596 K)
1993 – Hiromi Kobayash wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1993 – Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan’s parliamentary election
1994 – Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed
1994 – Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter
1994 – Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights
1994 – Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons
1994 – Houston Astros tie NL comeback record, trailing 10-0, beat Cards 15-12
1994 – NY Jets sign USA soccer goalkeeper Tony Miola as a place kicker
1995 – DC3 crashes at Antananarivo Madagaskar, 34 die
1996 – Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Québec’s costliest natural disasters ever.
1996 – The UN approves an Iraqi aid distribution plan, a major step forward in the direction of allowing Iraq to sell oil under Resolution 986
1999 – 128th British Golf Open: at Carnoustie Scot Paul Lawrie wins after play off
2004 – 133rd British Golf Open: Todd Hamilton shoots a 274 at Royal Troon Golf Club
Professional Road Cyclist and Testicular Cancer Survivor Lance Armstrong

2004 – 12th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Diana Taurasi win
2009 – Five members of one family are found murdered at Epping, New South Wales.
2010 – 139th British Golf Open: Louis Oosthuizen shoots a 272 at St Andrews
2012 – 6 Israeli tourists are killed and 30 injured after a bomb explodes on a tourist bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria
2012 – 14 people are killed after a bomb explosion at Pakistan’s Orakzai Agency
2012 – Violence across Syria results in 97 deaths
2012 – Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria’s Minister of Defence
2012 – 24 people are killed after a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar
2012 – Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People’s Army
2013 – Detroit, Michigan, files for bankruptcy to become the largest US municipal bankruptcy at $18.5 Billion
Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un

2014 – The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) call 18,000 additional reserves soldiers in campaign against Gaza

BIRTHDAYS

1340 – Philip van Artevelde, wine salesman/lord lt of Flanders
1501 – Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (d. 1526)
1504 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
1534 – Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger Catechism)
1552 – Rudolf II, of Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1576-1612)
1634 – Joannes Camphuys, governor-general of Dutch-Indies (1684-91)
1635 – Robert Hooke, Isle of Wight, Scientist (Micrographia)
1670 – Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian (opera)composer
1711 – Pierre-Joseph Le Blan, composer
1718 – Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (d. 1808)
1720 – Gilbert White, English “father of British naturalists”
1766 – Friedrich Fleischmann, German composer
1796 – Feargus O’Connor, County Cork, leader of English Chartists
1797 – Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1879)
1810 – Peter Singer, composer
1811 – William Makepeace Thackeray, England, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair)
1818 – Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (d. 1896)
1821 – Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
Scientist Robert Hooke(1635)

1823 – Leonard Fulton Ross, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1901)
1827 – Pierre L Goossens, archbishop of Mechelen/Cardinal
1837 – Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873)
1845 – Tristan Corbière, French poet (d. 1875)
1848 – William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England’s greatest cricketer
1850 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (d. 1939)
1853 – Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Holland, physicist (Nobel 1902)
1862 – Victor, Prince Napoleon (Napoleon V), French pretender to throne
1862 – Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich, Russian WWI general (d. 1933)
1864 – Ricarda Huch, writer
1864 – Phillip Snowden, British politician (d. 1937)
1865 – Laurence Housman, England, author/playwright (Victoria Regina)
1870 – Emil Mlynarski, composer
1871 – Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (Dog at a Rope)
1871 – Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (d. 1946)
1872 – Julius Fucik, composer
1880 – Otto Vrieslander, composer
1881 – Larry McLean, baseball player (d. 1921)
1882 – Manuel Galvez, Argentina writer/poet/historian (Paraguay)
1884 – Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (d. 1979)
1887 – Vidkun Al Quisling, Norwegian minister of Defense/premier (1942-45)
1888 – Alexander Rosemeier, Indonesian/Dutch painter
1888 – Sydney Horler, English detective writer
1890 – Charles Wilson, Pres of General Motors (1940-53)/Sec of Def (1953-57)
1890 – Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1983)
1891 – Gene Lockhart, actor (Going My Way, Christmas Carol), born in NYC, New York
1892 – Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (d. 1969)
1893 – Josef Huttel, composer
1893 – Richard Dix, St Paul MN, actor (10 Commandments, Cimarron)
1894 – Bernard Wagenaar, Arnhem Holland, composer (3 Songs for Chinese)
1895 – Marie Ney, actress (Brief Ecstasy, Simba, Witchcraft), born in London, England
American Gangster George ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly (1895)

1895 – George Machine Gun Kelly [Georgio Barnes], American gangster, born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1954)
1897 – E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (d. 1935)
1898 – Herbert Marcuse, communist philosopher (Eros & Civilization), born in Berlin, Germany
1898 – John Stuart, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Number 17)
1899 – Willem Kernkamp, Dutch minister of Colonies (Islam & Woman)
1900 – Nathalie Sarraute [Tcherniak], Ivanovo, Russia, writer and lawyer (Portrait of a Man Unknown, The Golden Fruits)
1902 – Charles W J Mengelberg, Dutch composer/conductor
1903 – Bozidar Kunc, composer
1903 – Chill Wills, Seagoville Texas, actor (Fronteir Circus, Rounders)
1906 – Belle Stewart, singer
1906 – Clifford Odets, US, dramatist (1961 Award of Merit-Golden Boy)
1906 – S I Hayakawa, (Sen-R-CA), educator (Language in Action)
1907 – Yvonne Desportes, composer
1908 – Mildred Lisette Norman, American peace activist, earned the moniker Peace Pilgrim (d. 1981)
1909 – Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/5 OS]
1909 – Harriet Nelson, American singer/actress (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Follow the Fleet), born in Des Moines, Iowa
1909 – Lupe Velez, [Guadelupe Velez de Villabos], actress (Joe Palooka)
1909 – Mohammed Daoud Khan, President of Afghanistan (d. 1978)
1911 – Alexander Hyatt-King, scholar (Mozart)
1911 – Hume Cronyn, London Ontario, actor (World According to Garp, Cocoon)
1912 – Harry Levin, literary Scholar
1912 – Henry L “Hank” Miller, US pilot/lt adm (WW II-Pacific)
1912 – Max Rousié, French rugby footballer (d. 1950)
1913 – Jan Slot, Dutch mayor (Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede)
1913 – Marvin Miller, St Louis Mo, actor (Space Patrol, Millionaire)
1913 – Red Skelton, [Richard], Vincennes Ind, comedian (Red Skelton Show)
1914 – Herbert Collum, composer
1914 – John G Bearer, writer (Metro, Drunken Canary, Fast Heartbeat)
1914 – Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch premier (KVP, Mammoth Law)
1914 – Mack Robinson, US, 200m dash (Olympic-silver-1932)
1914 – Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (d. 2000)
1915 – Anthony Cox, English architect
1915 – Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter
1916 – Isaac [Ietje] A Diepenhorst, Dutch lawyer/minister of Education
1916 – Kenneth Armitage, English sculptor
1916 – Johnny Hopp, baseball player (d. 2003)
1917 – Henri Salvador, French singer (d. 2008)
1918 – Jane Frazee, Duluth Minn, actress/singer (Alice-Beulah)
Anti-apartheid activist and South African President Nelson Mandela (1918)

1918 – Nelson Mandela, Qunu South Africa, political prisoner (ANC)/President (1994-1999)/ Nobel (1993)
1918 – Pamela Brown, England, actress (Alice in Wonderland, Dracula)
1920 – Dolph Sweet, actor (Gil McGowan-Another World)
1920 – Eric Brandon, British racing driver (d. 1982)
1921 – John H Glenn Jr, Cambridge OH, astronaut (Mer 7, sk:STS 95)/(Sen-D-Oh)
1922 – Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher (d. 1996)
1923 – Hector Tosar, composer
1923 – Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (d. 1997)
1924 – Howard Roberts, Burlington NJ, choral director (Leslie Uggams Show)
1924 – John Cruickshank, French scholar
1924 – Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer
1925 – George Doggart, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1950)/MCC pres
1925 – Jaime de Mora y Aragon, actor/publicist (Last Judgement)
1925 – Shirley Strickland de la Hunty, Australia, 100m dash (Oly-bronze-1948)
1926 – Bryan Johnson, singer/actor
1926 – Jane Hylton, actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot, Daybreak), born in London, England
1926 – Richard Pasco, English actor (Gorgon, Arch of Triumph)
1926 – Robert Sloman, writer (d. 2005)
1926 – Margaret Laurence, Canadian writer (d. 1987)
1927 – Kurt Masur, German actor (Hotel Deutschland)
1927 – Ludwig Harig, writer
1927 – Zin Harris, cricketer (father of Chris NZ batsman in 50’s & 60’s)
1928 – Simon Vinkenoog, Dutch writer
1929 – “Screamin’ Jay” Hawkins, rocker (I Put a Spell on You), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1929 – Dick Totten Button, Englewood NJ, figure skater (Olympic-gold-48, 52)
1929 – Michael Medwin, English actor (Four in a Jeep, Scrooge, Checkpoint)
1930 – Siegfried Kurz, composer
1930 – Burt Kwouk, English actor
1931 – “Papa” Dee Allen, Wilmington DE, percussionist (War-World is a Ghetto)
1932 – Robert Ellis Miller, American film director
1933 – Aad Nuis, Dutch writer/undersecretary of Education (D66)
1933 – Raymund Murray Schafer, Sarnia Ontario, Canada, composer (Patria)
1933 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Zima Russia, poet (Bratsk Station)
1934 – Edward Bond, English playwright/director (Blow-up)
1934 – Darlene Conley, American actress (d. 2007)
1935 – Tenley Albright, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1952, 56), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1935 – Jayendra Saraswathi, Hindu religious leader
1936 – Ted Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
1937 – Roald Hoffman, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 – Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas) (d. 2005)
1938 – Britt Leach, Gadsen Ala, actor (Mickey-Spencer’s Pilots)
1938 – Dudu Pukwana, [Mtutuzel], South African/British saxophonist/composer
1938 – Paul Verhoeven, director (Basic Instinct, Total Recall)
1938 – Ian Stewart, Scottish pianist (d. 1985)
1938 – John Connelly, St Helens, Lancashire, footballer (20 English caps), (d. 2012)
1939 – Brian Auger, fusion keyboardist (Befour, Genesis), born in London, England
1939 – Dion DiMucci, Bronx, rocker (Dion & Belmonts-Teenager in Love)
1939 – Edward Gramlich, American economics professor (d. 2007)
1939 – Jerry Moore, American football coach
1940 – James Brolin, actor (Dr Kiley-Marcus Welby, Peter-Hotel), born in Los Angeles, California
1940 – Joseph Torre, outfield/manager (Braves, Mets, 1971 NL MVP)
1941 – Jack Jersey, [de Nijs], Indonesian/Dutch singer/producer
1941 – Lonnie Mack, Aurora Indiana, rocker (Baby What’s Wrong)
1941 – Marcia Jones Smoke, Oklahoma, 500m kayak (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1941 – Martha Reeves, singer (& Vandellas-Dancing in St), born in Detroit, Michigan
1942 – Alexander EHAML, prince of the Belgians/son of Leopold III
1942 – Adolf Ogi, Swiss politician
1942 – Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (d. 2006)
1943 – Bobby Sherman, singer (Shindig, Here Comes Brides), born in Santa Monica, California
1943 – Calvin Peete, PGA golfer (1979 Greater Milwaukee Open), born in Detroit, Michigan
1943 – Robin McDonald, Scotland, rock guitarist (Billy J Kramer & Dakotas)
1944 – David Hemery, English 400m-hurdler (Oly-gold-1968) [or 1948]
1944 – Jonelle Allen, actress (Bessie-Palmerstown USA, Berringers), born in NYC, New York
1945 – Danny McCullock, rocker (Animals), born in London, England
1946 – Tim Lynch, rocker (Flaming Groovies)
1946 – Leo Madder, Belgian actor
1947 – Ayn Rumen, Brooklyn New York, American actress (Janet-McLean Stevenson Show)
1947 – Kurt Mann, Roslyn NY, actor (Bad Penny)
1947 – Steven W. Mahoney, Canadian politician
1948 – Cesar Zuiderwijk, Dutch rock drummer (Golden Earring, Radar Love)
1948 – Phil Harris, rocker (Ace)
1948 – Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel laureate
1948 – Carlos Colón, Sr., Puerto Rican professional wrestler
1949 – Dennis Lillee, Australian cricket fast bowler (1971-84)
Business Magnate Richard Branson (1950)

1950 – Richard Branson, British music enterperneur (Virgin Atlantic), born in London, England
1950 – Glenn Hughes, American singer (Village People) (d. 2001)
1950 – Jack Layton, Canadian politician
1950 – Kostas Eleftherakis, Greek footballer
1951 – Bruce Alan Lietzke, Kansas City KS, PGA golfer (1978 Canadian Open)
1951 – Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician
1951 – Margo Martindale, American actress
1952 – James Forbes, basketball player (Olympic-silver-1972)
1953 – Peter Greenall, English brewer (Greenall Witley)
1954 – Imtiaz Ali, cricketer (brother of Inshan One Test WI v India 1976)
1954 – Ricky Skaggs, Cordell Ky, country singer (Heartbroke, Toy Hearts)
1954 – Robert Cameron, CFL punter (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1954 – Tobias Picker, composer
1955 – Teresa Ann Savoy, actress (Caligula), born in London, England
1955 – Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician
1955 – Bernd Fasching, Austrian painter and sculptor
1956 – Audrey Landers [Hamburg], American actress/singer (Dallas, Chorus Line), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1956 – Razor Shines, American baseball player, manager and coach
1957 – Nicholas Alexander Faldo, England, PGA golfer (1992 British Open)
Golfer and Six-Time Major Championship Winner Nick Faldo (1957)

1957 – Nick Faldo, Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire, English golfer (six-time Major Championship winner)
1958 – Margo [AM] Vliegenthart, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
1958 – Nigel Twist, Manchester, rock drummer (Alarm-In the Summertime)
1959 – Pauline Quirke, British actress
1960 – Anne-Marie Johnson, actress (In the Heat of the Night), born in Los Angeles, California
1961 – Elizabeth McGovern, Evanston Ill, actress (Once Upon a Time in Amer)
1962 – Engelbert Linder, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1962 – Jensen Buchanan, Montgomery AL, actress (Vicky/Marley-Another World)
1962 – Lee Arenberg, American actor
1962 – Jack Irons, American drummer
1962 – Shaun Micallef, Australian comedian
1963 – Lonnie Young, NFL safety/cornerback (NY Jets)
1963 – Martín Torrijos Espino, President of Panama
1963 – Al Snow, American professional wrestler
1964 – Susan Marie Snyder, actress (Julie-As the World Turns)
1964 – Wendy Williams, radio host
1965 – Robert Holland, CFL defensive back (BC Lions)
1965 – Yugi Iga, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1966 – Dan[iel Dion] O’Brien, Portland Oregon, decathelete (Olympic-gold-96)
1967 – Jeff Lageman, NFL defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1967 – Vin Diesel, American actor
1969 – Masanori Murakawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 – Dusty Imoo, hockey goaltender (Team Japan 1998)
1970 – John Kalin, CFL safety (Calgary Stampeders)
1970 – Margaret Langford, canoeist (Olympics-96), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1970 – Patrick Dancy, TV rocker (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You)
1971 – Kristi Coats, LPGA golfer (1995 Ping/Welch-66th)
1971 – Sarah McLeod, New Zealand actress
1972 – Anfernee “Penny” Hardaway, NBA guard (Orlando, Oly-gold-96), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1972 – Bernard Williams, NFL tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 – Bruce Walker, NFL nose tackle (NE Patriots)
1974 – Derek Anderson, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1974 – Alan Morrison, British poet
1975 – Torii Hunter, baseball player
1975 – Daron Malakian, American guitarist (System of a Down, Scars on Broadway)
1975 – M.I.A. (Mathangi Arulpragasam), Hounslow, London, rapper (Sunshowers)
1976 – Elsa Pataky, Spanish actress
1977 – Dylan Lane, American television host
1977 – Alfian bin Sa’at, Singaporean writer, poet and playwright
1978 – Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player
1978 – Ben Sheets, American baseball player
1978 – Mélissa Theuriau, French newscaster
1978 – Verónica Romeo, Spanish singer
1979 – Julie Gulbrandsen, Miss Arizona Teen USA (1997)
1979 – Rick Baxter, American politician
1979 – Jared Hess, American film director and screenwriter
1979 – Deion Branch, American football player
1979 – Joey Mercury, American professional wrestler
1979 – Jermaine Paul, American musician
1980 – Kristen Bell, American actress
1980 – Ryoko Hirosue, Japanese actress and singer
1982 – Panagiotis Lagos, Greek footballer
1982 – Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress and beauty queen
1982 – Ryan Cabrera, American musician and TV host
1983 – Carlos Diogo, Uruguayan footballer
1985 – Chace Crawford, American actor
1988 – César Villaluz, Mexican footballer
1991 – Karina Pasian, American singer and pianist
1994 – Ricardo Dela Corte, Italy, test tube baby born to oldest (62) mother

WEDDINGS

1922 – British naval officer Louis Mountbatten (22) weds Lord Mount Temple’s daughter Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley (20) at St. Margaret’s in Westminster, London
1933 – Heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (38) weds broadway singer Hannah Williams (22)
1938 – Physicist and Nobel laureate John Bardeen (30) weds Jane Maxwell
1959 – Actress Louise Fletcher (25) weds producer Jerry Bick (36)
1976 – Country singer Tammy Wynette (34) weds real-estate mogul Michael Tomlin
1992 – Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith
Country singer Tammy Wynette (1976)

1992 – Helen Windsor, daughter of British Duke and Duchess of Kent weds art dealer Timothy Taylor at Windsor Castle
1992 – Singers Whitney Houston (28) & Bobby Brown (23) marry
1994 – “The Cranberries” lead singer Dolores O’Riordan (22) weds Don Burton (32) in Ireland
1998 – Nelson Mandela marries 3rd wife Graça Machel on his 80th birthday
1999 – Miami Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson (56) weds longtime girlfriend Rhonda Rookmaaker (45) in the Florida Keys

DIVORCES

2012 – WWE wrestler John Cena (35) divorces Elizabeth Huberdeau (33) due to irretrievably broken marriage after 3 years of getting married

DEATHS

640 – Arnulf, bishop of Metz (614-640)/politician, dies at about 58
715 – Muhammad bin Qasim (b. 695)
1100 – Godfried IV van Bouillon, count of Antwerp, dies
1374 – Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (Italia Mia), dies at 69
1488 – Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
1544 – René van Chalon, viceroy of Holland, dies in battle at 25
1591 – Jakob Handl, [Petelin], Austrian composer/bandmaster, dies at 40
1608 – Joachim III Frederik, ruler (Brandenburg), dies at 61
1610 – Michelangelo Merisi, Italian artist (b. 1573)
1639 – Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German prince and general (b. 1604)
1642 – Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, gov of Ft Emmerik/Heusden, dies
1650 – Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer, dies at 74
1695 – Joannes Camphuys, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 61
1698 – Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
1710 – Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter, dies at 36
1721 – Jean Antoine Watteau, French painter, dies
1730 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
1735 – Johann Krieger, composer, dies at 83
1792 – John Paul Jones, American naval commander (b. 1747)
Novelist Jane Austen (1817)

1817 – Jane Austen, English novelist, dies at 41
1831 – Thomas Greatorex, composer, dies at 72
1833 – Joseph Comb, missionary to Moluccas, dies at 63
1854 – Abbas Hilmi I, viceroy of Egypt, dies at about 41
1863 – William Dorsey Pender, US Confederate gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
1872 – Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66
1884 – Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829)
1892 – Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook & Son), dies at 83
1894 – Leconte de Lisle, writer, dies at 75
1898 – Emil Hartmann, composer, dies at 62
1899 – Horatio Alger Jr, American clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), dies
1901 – Alfredo Carlo Piatti, composer, dies at 79
1902 – John White, composer, dies at 47
1908 – Jaime Nuno, composer, dies at 83
1915 – George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer, dies at 53
1916 – Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author
1918 – Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (b. 1864)
1925 – Louis Nazaire Bégin, Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1840)
1931 – Oskar Minkowski, German Biologist (pancreas and diabetes), dies at 73
1937 – Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908)
1938 – Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35
1939 – Witold Maliszewski, composer, dies at 65
1941 – Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer, dies at 80
1944 – George A Hartland, English MP (Norwich 1931-35), dies at 60
1944 – Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs’ Booty), dies at 74
1948 – Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian and politician (b. 1877)
1949 – Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
1950 – Carl Clinton Van Doren, US literary (The Nation), dies at 64
1952 – Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)
1952 – Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (b. 1906)
1953 – Lucy Booth, Daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
American Gangster George ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly (1954)

1954 – George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster, dies at 59
1956 – Willem J A Kerncamp, Dut overseas minister (Islam & Woman), dies at 57
1958 – Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker), dies at 84
1958 – John Gobau, Flem/Dutch actor (Death of Business Traveller), dies at 67
1961 – Kit Guard, dies of cancer at 67
1963 – A H C Cooper, South African cricketer (Test v England 1914), dies
1965 – Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, composer, dies at 64
1966 – Bobby Fuller, American rock singer and guitarist (I Fought the Law), found dead at 23
1966 – German Germanovich Galinin, composer, dies at 44
1967 – Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil pres (1964-87), dies at 66
1968 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1969 – Barbara Pepper, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 57
1970 – Lucien H d’Azambuja, Fren astronomer (chromosphere of Sun), dies at 86
1973 – Jack Hawkins, actor (Ben Hur, Ben-Four Just Men), dies at 62
1975 – Federico Ghisi, composer, dies at 74
1980 – Naoomal Jeoomal, cricketer (3 Tests for India 1932-34, 108 runs), dies
1981 – Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff, Dutch para-psychologist, dies at 87
1982 – Lionel Daunais, French-Canadian singer and composer (b. 1902)
1984 – James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds
1985 – Shahnawaz Bhutto, son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
1986 – Stanley Rous, British soccer official, dies at 91
1987 – Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer, dies at 87
1988 – Nico, US model/pop singer (Velvet Underground), dies at 43
1989 – Donnie Moore, pitcher (Angels), shoots himself at 35
1989 – Rebecca Schaeffer, actress (My Sister Sam), is shot by a fan at 21
1990 – Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix, Kuifje), dies at 78
1990 – Karl Menninger, psychatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at 96 of cancer
1990 – Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897)
1990 – Gerry Boulet, Quebec rock singer (b. 1946)
1991 – Andre Cools, Belgian budget minister, murdered at 63
1991 – Harold Butler, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1947-48, 12 wkts), dies
1992 – Jan Pelleboer, Dutch meteorologist, dies
1992 – Mollie Parnis, fashion designer (Mamie Eisenhower), dies
1992 – Rudolf Ising, cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies), dies at 88
1992 – Viktor Louis, Russian journalist, dies
1993 – Jean Negulesco, director (3 Coins in a Fountain), dies at 93
1993 – John Beck, US producer (Harvey, Singing Nun), dies at 83
1993 – Robert Davis, dies of emphysema at 76
1993 – Sergei Y Vozovikov, Russian major/cosmonaut, dies in accident at 35
1993 – Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin, Chief designer of Soviet launch pads, dies
1994 – Gottfried Reinhardt, [Goldmann], German/US director, dies at 83
1995 – Fabio Casartelli, Italian olympian (Oly-gold-92), dies at 24
1996 – Hans Fellner, bookseller, dies at 71
1997 – Eugene Shoemaker, astronomer (Shoemaker-Levy comet), dies at 69
2001 – James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958)
2001 – Fabio Taglioni, Italian automotive engineer (b. 1920)
2002 – Victor Emery, British theoretical physicist (b. 1933)
2004 – Paul Foot, British journalist (b. 1937)
2004 – Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (b. 1912)
2005 – William Westmoreland, American military officer (b. 1914)
2005 – Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2007 – George Caiazzo, American professional wrestler
2007 – Jerry Hadley, American opera singer, (b. 1952)
2007 – Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)
2008 – Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (b. 1944)
2009 – Henry Allingham, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran (b. 1896)
2012 – Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, dies from kidney problems at 69

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1940 FDR nominated for unprecedented third term

• American Revolution

• 1792 Naval hero John Paul Jones dies in Paris

• Automotive

• 1948 Juan Manuel Fangio makes Formula One debut

• Civil War

• 1863 Assault of Battery Wagner and death of Robert Gould Shaw

• Cold War

• 1945 Charges of communists in the U.S. Army raised

• Crime

• 1984 Twenty-one people are shot to death at McDonald’s

• Disaster

• 64 Nero’s Rome burns

• General Interest

• 1925 Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
• 1936 Spanish Civil War breaks out
• 1969 Incident on Chappaquiddick Island
• 1986 Video of Titanic wreckage released
• 64 Fire of Rome

• Hollywood

• 2008 The Dark Knight opens with highest-grossing weekend

• Literary

• 1929 Hunter S. Thompson is born
• 1995 Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father” is published

• Music

• 1960 Fifteen-year-old Brenda Lee earns a #1 hit with “I’m Sorry”

• Old West

• 1914 Singing Wobbly Joe Hill sentenced to death

• Presidential

• 1947 Truman signs second Presidential Succession Act
• 1962 Congress preserves birthplace and property of Theodore Roosevelt

• Sports

• 1999 David Cone pitches perfect game

• Vietnam War

• 1955 Soviet Union agrees to grant Hanoi economic aid
• 1968 Johnson meets Thieu in Honolulu

• World War I

• 1918 Allies begin major counter-offensive in Second Battle of the Marne

• World War II

• 1925 Mein Kampf is published