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This Day in History for 26th July


Famous Deaths

Actress/First Lady Eva Peron-Duarte (1952)


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
1863 - Samuel Houston, 1st Pres of Rep of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), 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
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
1925 - Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (b. 1888)
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
1952 - Eva Peron-Duarte, Argentina's 1st lady, dies 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
1974 - Charlotte MT "Lotte" Bartschart, actress (Dolle Lola), dies at 82
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 - Alan Hoskins, dies
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
1984 - Ed "Psycho" Gein, mass murderer (Psycho based on him), dies at 78
1984 - George Gallup, pioneer of public opinion polls, dies
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
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)
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

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This Day in History for 27th July


Historical Events

                                   
Mathematician and Astronomer                   Aviator Orville Wright                 Clergyman and civil rights activist
Nicolaus Copernicus                                                                                                    Martin Luther King Jr.

                     
36th US President                                   Queen of the United Kingdom               
Lyndon B. Johnson                                            Elizabeth II


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 1st 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 - Parliament confirms Navigation Act
1663 - English parliament accepts Staple Act
1689 - Battle of Killicrankie Jacobite Scottish Highlanders under Viscount Dundee defeat royal force
           under General MacKay
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 - English Queen Anne fires premier Robert Haley
1720 - The second important victory of the Russian Navy - the Battle of Grengam.
1789 - Congress establishes Dept of Foreign Affairs (State dept)
1794 - Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris
1795 - Spain & France sign peace treaty
1809 - Battle at Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army
1816 - US troops destroy Ft 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
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
1888 - Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile
1891 - Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as gov 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)
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 & Charles Best isolates insulin at U of Toronto
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
1931 - Chilean president Carlos Ibáñez forced out
1931 - Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr & SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops
1932 - Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, 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
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 - 1st insulin isolated by F Banting & C Best in Toronto
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 he plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961
1960 - VP 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 - Pres 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
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 - NHL star Maurice "Rocket" Richard signs with WHL Quebec Nordiques
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
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 PM Indira Gandhi 1st visit to US in almost 11 years
1982 - Menken & Ashman's musical "Little Shop of Horrors," premieres in NYC
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
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 wreckage begins by RMS Titanic, Inc.
1988 - Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years
1988 - General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as pres of Burma
1988 - Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer
1988 - 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 it's 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)
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.
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.
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.
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

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This Day in History for 27th July


Famous Weddings

1365 - Isabella of England marries Enguerrand of Coucy at Windsor
1927 - Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries widow Betty Carver
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)
1991 - Rocker Jani Lane, (Warrant-Cherry Pie) marries model Bobbie Brown
2006 - NASCAR driver Kurt Busch (27) weds Eva Bryan in Eastville, Virginia

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This Day in History for 27th July


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Duke of Milan                                         Physicist and Nobel Laureate                  Baseball Player and Manager
Ludovico Sforza (1452)                              Hans Fischer (1881)                                       Leo Durocher (1906)


Singer Maureen McGovern (1949)


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)
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), died in 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)
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
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
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
1906 - Leo Durocher, Mass, baseball player and manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants)
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 - 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, NYC, actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor)
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)
1925 - Doc Pomus, rocker
1926 - Peter Coker, captain
1927 - Sat Mahajan, Indian politician
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, London England, actress (Nice Girl Like Me)
1942 - John Pleshette, NYC, actor (Richard-Knots Landing, 7th Avenue)
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, Detroit, actor/comedian (Roll Out, Harris & Company)
1944 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Dedkov, cosmonaut
1944 - Bobbie Gentry, Mississippi, singer/songwriter (Ode to Billy Joe)
1944 - Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist
1946 - Gwynne Gilford, Los Angeles California, actress (Linda Harris-Waverly Wonders)
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, San Jose California, figure skater (Olym-gold-1968)
1949 - David Muse, rocker (Firefall)
1949 - Jeremy Thomas, actor (Family Life)
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, Detroit Mich, actress (Hard to Hold, Romantic Comedy)
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, Los Angeles California, actor (Spike of Bensonhurst)
1967 - Juliana Hatfield, American musician
1967 - Kellie Waymire, American actress (d. 2003)
1968 - Julian McMahon, Sydney, New South Wales, Australian actor (Nip/Tuck, Profiler)
1968 - Christina Singer, Goeppingen Germany, tennis star (1991 Futures GBR)
1968 - Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Messina Sicily, actress (Postman)
1968 - Tom Goodwin [Thomas Jones], Fresno, California, American MLB player (1994-1997 KC
           Royals)
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, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, Miss America-Oklahoma (1997)
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, NYC, shortstop (Seattle Mariners)
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

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 27th July


Famous Deaths

Last Shah of Iran
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1980)


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
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
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)
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
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)
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
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)
2003 - Bob Hope, English-born 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

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 28th July


Historical Events

                                   
English Monarch Queen                          Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini                 Animator Walt Disney
Elizabeth I

                 
36th US President                                   Baseball Player
Lyndon B. Johnson                                Darryl Strawberry


388 - Battle at Aquileja: Emperor Theodosius beats emperor Magnus Maximis
754 - Pope Stephen II, [III] makes Pippin de Korte, King of France
1148 - Crusaders attack Damascus
1402 - Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur Lenk beats sultan Bajezid I
1434 - Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon
1579 - Cardinal Granvelle returns to Madrid
1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to Britain
1588 - Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I
1609 - Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda
1635 - Spanish marshal Piccolomini conquerors Schenkenschans
1696 - De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance
1708 - Monarch Amengkurat II [Sunan Mas] of Mataram gives himself up to VOC
1717 - Prussian king Frederik Willem I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs
1741 - Capt Bering discovers Mount St Elias, Alaska
1742 - Prussia & Austria sign peace treaty
1794 - Robespierre, & 22 other terrorists executed to thunderous cheers
1808 - Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey
1821 - Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1849 - Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY
1851 - Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
1858 - 1st use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by Sir William James Herschel of
           the Indian Civil Service in India
1858 - Nadar takes 1st airborne photo (in a balloon)
1858 - William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India
1862 - Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo
1864 - 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia
1864 - Battle of Atlanta: GA (Ezra Church) - second sortie US700 CS4642
1866 - Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
1868 - 14th Amendment ratified, grants citizenship to ex-slaves
1882 - Opera "Parsifal" is produced (Beirut)
1883 - Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at
           Casamicciola killing 2,000
1886 - English Salisbury government forms
1896 - City of Miami incorporated
1898 - Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender
1898 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Retired Colourman"(BG)
1900 - Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
1906 - Yankees turn triple-play, beat Cleveland 6-4
1911 - 96°F (35.6°C) in De Bilt Netherlands
1913 - 12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
1914 - Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox)
1914 - Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow
1914 - World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
1915 - 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (NYC) protesting lynchings
1915 - US forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924
1917 - Silent Parade in NYC to protest murders of blacks in race riots
1919 - Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam
1926 - US & Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal
1928 - 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam
1929 - Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Mich)
1930 - 114°F (46°C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record)
1931 - Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem
1931 - White Sox score 11 in 8th to beat Yankees 14-12
1932 - Battle between unemployed war veterans & federal troops, 4 die
1932 - Pres Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment
1933 - 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC
1933 - NFL divides into (2) 5 team divisions
1933 - Spain recognizes the USSR
1934 - 118°F (48°C), Orofino, Idaho (state record)
1935 - Belgium's Romain Maes, wins Tour de France
1937 - Eddie Paynter scores 322 for Lancashire against Sussex
1937 - Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire
1938 - 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead
1938 - Bradman scores 202 Aust v Somerset, 225 mins, 32 fours
1939 - 5th Dutch government of Colijn falls
1940 - Radio Orange, London begins
1940 - Yankee Charlie Keller hits 3 HRs to beat White Sox 10-9
1942 - Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto
1942 - Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland
1943 - Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
1943 - Pres FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US
1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills
           42,000 German civilians.
1944 - Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy
1944 - US 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France
1945 - Japanese premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender
1945 - US Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die
1945 - US Senate ratifies UN charter 89-2
1947 - Iuliu Maniu's Boer party becomes forbidden in Romania
1948 - I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die
1948 - The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the "Battle of London Airport".
1951 - "Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 1077 perfs
1951 - Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
1952 - Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell, as Cincinnati Reds manager
1954 - Ernest Blochs 4th string quartet, premieres
1955 - The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours,
           France.
1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance (Steve Allen Show)
1957 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1957 - White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game
1957 - Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992.
1958 - Baltimore Colts wins NFL-championship
1959 - Great-Britain starts using postal codes
1959 - Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
1960 - Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
1962 - 19 die in a train crash in Steelton Pa
1962 - Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1964 - England all out 611 in reply to Australia's 8-656 Match a draw
1964 - Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures
1965 - LBJ sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam (total of 125,000)
1967 - Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) (England) closes down
1971 - 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning
1971 - Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie"
1972 - 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162)
1973 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1973 - Jane Blalock/Sandra Palmer wins Lady Angelo's 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1973 - Skylab 3's astronauts (Bean, Garriott & Lousma) launched
1974 - 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil)
1974 - Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
1976 - 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake
1976 - 8.2 & 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China (240-750,000 die)
1976 - Eldon Joersz & Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph
1976 - White Sox John Odom (5 inn) & Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's
1977 - 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska
1977 - Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks
1977 - Test Cricket debut of Ian Botham v Aust Trent Bridge, 5-74 1st innings
1978 - 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in NY
1978 - At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees
1978 - Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time
1978 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 HR game
1979 - France performs nuclear Test
1980 - Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaúnde Terry becomes president
1983 - AL Pres Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision & allows
1983 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 - George Brett's 2 run HR against Yanks on July 24 (pine tar game)
1983 - NASA launches Telstar-3A
1984 - 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1985 - 13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
1985 - Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru
1985 - L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, & H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame
1986 - Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed
1986 - NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying,
           "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated
1987 - 42nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Laura Davies
1987 - Angel Cordero Jr becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races
1988 - IBM announces price hike on older models
1988 - Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years
1988 - Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank
1988 - Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson
1988 - Yanks' Tommy John makes 3 errors on 1 play yet beats Brewers 16-3
1989 - Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run HRs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 HRs in an inning. Also
           ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning
1989 - Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50
1989 - NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleve, announce new high-temperature superconductors able
           to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz
1990 - Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru
1990 - Blackout hits Chicago
1991 - "Gypsy" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 105 performances
1991 - 12th US Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus
1991 - 29th Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Nottingham England (2-1)
1991 - Buffalo Bills beat Philadelphia Eagles, 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley
1991 - Dennis Martinez pitches the 13th perfect game in baseball history
1991 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Bay State Golf Classic
1991 - Miguel Indurain of Spain wins Tour de France bicycle race
1992 - Ground breaking of Fla Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium
1993 - Mariner Ken Griffey Jr is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games
1994 - Baseball players decide to strike on Aug 12, 1994
1994 - Last steel beam is placed on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1994 - Texas Ranger Kenny Rogers pitches baseball's 14th perfect game
1995 - Art Modell's rep begins secrets talks to move team to Baltimore
1996 - NY Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th HR
1996 - Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Micelob Light Heartland Golf Classic
1996 - Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, is discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
1997 - NY Ranger center Mark Messier signs with Vancouver for $20M for 3 yrs
1997 - Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion
1997 - Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
2002 - Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are
           rescued after 77 hours underground.
2005 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in
           Northern Ireland.
2005 - A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing
          £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
2008 - The historic Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier burns down for a second time in 80 years.
2012 - Ye Shiwen of China sets world record in the women's 400m individual medley in 4:28.43
2012 - 18 people are killed and 11 injured in ethnic clashes in Ethiopia
2061 - 31st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 28th July


Famous Weddings

1540 - English King Henry VIII marries Catharine Howard, his 5th wife
1683 - Anne Stuart marries prince Georges of Denmark
1957 - "Wuthering Heights" actress Merle Oberon (46) weds Italian industrialist Bruno Pagliai
1973 - "Charlie's Angels" actress Farah Fawcett (26) weds "The Six Million Dollar Man" actor Lee
           Majors (34) at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, California
1997 - Two-time Grammy Award winner Sheena Easton (38) weds documentary director Timothy
           Delarm (35) in Las Vegas
1999 - "Sixteen Candles" actress Molly Ringwald (31) weds French writer Valery Lamerignere in
           Bordeaux, France
2007 - Comedian and actor Steve Martin (61) weds Anne Stringfield (35) at his Los Angeles home
2012 - "Franklin & Bash" actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar (38) weds advertising executive Catriona McGinn
           at the Sunstone winery in Santa Ynez, California

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 28th July


Famous Divorces

1964 - Broadway musical actress-singer Ethel Merman (56) divorces academy award-winning actor
           Ernest Borgnine (47) after 32 days of marriage

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 28th July


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Children's Author                                   Painter and Sculptor                        Hall of Fame Basketball/US Senator
Beatrix Potter (1866)                              Marcel Duchamp (1887)                                  Bill Bradley (1943)


Garfield Cartoonist Jim Davis (1945)


1165 - Ibn al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic/philosopher
1347 - Margherita of Durazzo, queen of Naples (d. 1412)
1456 - Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (Arcadia)
1514 - Maximilian of Burgundy, viceroy of Holland
1609 - Judith J Leyster, Dutch house painter, baptised
1659 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1715)
1719 - Jan Nepveu, governor-general of Suriname (1769-79) [or Aug 27]
1745 - Piotr A von der Pahlen, milt governor (St Petersburg)
1746 - Thomas Heyward, soldier, signed Decl of Ind
1750 - Fabre d'Églantine French dramatist and politician, creator of the French Republican calendar
           (d. 1794)
1778 - Charles Stewart, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1869
1796 - Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian musician (d. 1859)
1804 - Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man is what he eats)
1808 - Charles Lucas, composer
1809 - Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, astronomer/Major General (Union volunteers)
1813 - Alberto Mazzucato, composer
1815 - Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (d. 1889)
1825 - William Duncan Smith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1833 - James Henry Lane, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) [or Jun 22 1814]
1835 - Jose Garcia Robles, composer
1837 - Christian Barnekow, composer
1844 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, England, poet (Windhover)
1857 - Ballington Booth, Brighouse, England, Officer in The Salvation Army and co-founder of
           Volunteers of America
1860 - Elias M. Ammons, governor of Colorado (d. 1925)
1860 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
1863 - Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
1866 - Beatrix Potter, England, children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit)
1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (d. 1951)
1868 - George Morren, Flemish painter/sculptor
1868 - Thomas P Krag, Norwegian writer (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran)
1870 - Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1927-31)
1872 - Albert P Sarraut, Fren gov-gen of Indo-China (1911..19)/PM (1933/36)
1874 - Ernst Cassirer, Germany, philosopher/educator (Essay on Man)
1887 - Marcel Duchamp, Blainville-Crevon, French sculptor and painter (Nude Descending a Staircase)
1890 - Marie Lohr, Sydney Australia, actress (Pygmalion, Small Hotel)
1891 - Ron Oxenham, cricketer (Australian all-rounder 1928-32)
1892 - Joe E Brown, Holgate Ohio, comedian (Buck Circus Hour)
1892 - Petro Petridis, Greek composer (Isotope Suite)
1893 - Rued Immanuel Langgaard, composer
1896 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926)
1897 - Emmy Arbous, [Emilia J Henke], Dutch actress (Little Rascal)
1898 - Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970)
1900 - Maurice Johnstone, composer
1901 - Rudy Vallee, Vt, singer (Vagabond Dreams, My Time Is Your Time)
1901 - Sandor Vandor, composer
1901 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1902 - Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian/British philosopher (Logic of Forschung)
1902 - Kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Dead Reckoning)
1903 - Catherine Dale Owen, actress (Behind Office Doors), Louisville KY
1904 - [John] Selwyn [Brooke] Lloyd, British statsman
1905 - Charles William Hutton, architect
1906 - Gottlob Frick, singer
1907 - Earl S Tupper, inventor (Tupperware)
1908 - Zbigniew Turski, composer
1909 - Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (Under the Volcano)
1910 - Bill Goodwin, SF California, announcer (Jolson Story, Burns & Allen)
1910 - Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot
1911 - Ann Doran, Amarillo Tx, actress (Longstreet, Shirley)
1911 - Gerhard Stoeck, Germany, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1936)
1914 - Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
1916 - David Brown, NYC, director (Jaws, Planet of the Apes)
1916 - Laird Cregar, Phila, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square)
1922 - Jacques Piccard, Switzerland, undersea explorer (bathyscaph Trieste)
1923 - Kent L Lee, US vice-admiral (WW II-Marianas/Palau)
1923 - Mary Jane Odell, Iowa, secretary of state
1923 - Michio Watanabe, politician
1924 - Fred Fisher, cricketer (one Test for NZ v SA 1953)
1924 - Peter James Frederick Green, CEO (LLoyd's of London)
1925 - Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive
1925 - Kenneth M Stewart, euro MP for Merseyside West
1925 - Larry Pruden, composer
1925 - Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1926 - Charlie Biddle, American-born Quebec jazz bassist (d. 2003)
1927 - John Ashbery, American poet
1928 - Adrian Ratiu, composer
1929 - Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, NY, 1st lady (1961-63)
1929 - Remco [Wouter] Campert, Dutch literary/poet/son of Jan Campert
1930 - Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
1930 - Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (d. 1998)
1931 - Darryl Hickman, Hollywood, California, American actor (Human Comedy, Tea & Sympathy)
1931 - Johnny Martin, Australian cricket left-arm chinaman bowler (60's)
1933 - Charlie Hodge, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1934 - Jacques d'Amboise, Dedham Mass, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet Company)
1934 - Norman D Shumway, (Rep-R-California, 1979- )
1935 - Simon Dee, British television broadcaster
1936 - Russ Jackson, Canadian football player
1937 - Anthony Ward, writer
1937 - Peter Duchin, NYC, pianist/bandleader (Peter Duchin Orch)
1937 - Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter
1938 - Alberto Fujimoro, president of Peru (1990- )
1938 - George Cummings, rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show)
1938 - Robert Hughes, [Studley Forrest], Australia, writer/critic (Barcelona)
1938 - Luis Aragonés, Spanish football manager
1939 - Clem Cattini, rock drummer (Tornados London)
1940 - Phil Proctor, comedian (Firesign Theater)
1941 - Riccardo Muti, Napoli Italy, conductor (Philadelphia Orch)
1942 - Marty Brennaman, American sportscaster
1943 - Bill Bradley, Crystal City Ms, Basketball player (NY Knicks), Democratic US Senator (1979-
           1997)
1943 - Lawrence Elkins, football player FL (Houston Oilers)
1943 - Mike Bloomfield, Chicago Ill, blues guitarist/singer (Analine)
1943 - Richard Wright, Hatch End, Middlesex, English singer/songwriter (Pink Floyd-Time, Echoes)
1944 - Daniel Morelon, France, 1K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1968, 72)
1944 - Mike Bloomfield, rocker
1945 - Jim Davis, Marion Indiana, cartoonist (Garfield)
1946 - Douglas H Bosco, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1946 - Jonathan Edwards, rocker
1946 - Linda Kelsey, Minneapolis, actress (Billie-Lou Grant, Kate-Day by Day)
1946 - Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani writer and feminist
1947 - Alexei Sergeyevich Borodai, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1947 - Barbara Ann Ferrell Edmondson, Miss, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 - Elena Novikova-Belova, USSR, foils (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 - Miguelina Cobian, Santiago Cuba, 4x100m runner (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 - Sally Struther, Portland Oregon, actress (Gloria-All in the Family)
1948 - Andy Fraser, rocker
1948 - Georgia Engel, Wash DC, actress (Georgette-Mary Tyler Moore Show)
1948 - Sergei Bodrov, Khabarovsk Russia, director (Katala, Somebody to Love)
1948 - Gerald Casale, american musician and director (founding member of Devo)
1949 - Simon Kirke, rock drummer (Bad Company)
1949 - Steven Peregrine Took, rocker (T-Rex)
1949 - Vida Blue, major-league pitcher (Cy Young & AL MVP 1971)
1949 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer (d. 1980)
1949 - Peter Doyle, Australian singer (The New Seekers) (d. 2001)
1949 - Randall Wallace, American screenwriter and film producer
1950 - Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian poet
1951 - Greg Gluffria, Wash DC, rock keyboardist (House of Lords-Sahara)
1951 - Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
1951 - Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
1952 - Monique Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince/Heir Apparent to Thailand throne
1952 - Monique van de Ven, Dutch actress (Turkish Fruit)
1952 - Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist
1953 - Steve Duncan, Knoxville Tn, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1954 - Ken Margolis, rocker (Mink DeVille)
1954 - Steve Morse, rocker
1954 - Mikey Sheehy, Gaelic footballer
1954 - Bruce Abbott, American actor
1954 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela, (d. 2013)
1954 - Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
1958 - Terry Fox [Terrance Stanley], Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canadian one-legged marathoner (1980
           Marathon of Hope)
1958 - Michael Hitchcock, American actor
1960 - Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Brazilian film director
1960 - Yōichi Takahashi, Japanese mangaka of Captain Tsubasa and Hungry Heart Wild Striker
1961 - David Huff, rocker (Giant)
1961 - Scott E Parazynski, Little Rock Ark, MD/astronaut (STS 66, 86, sk:95)
1961 - Alexander Kurlovitch, Soviet weightlifter
1962 - Rachel Sweet, rocker
1963 - Patrizia Pellegrino, Naples Italy, (Italy's Miss Teenager 1980)
1964 - Bruce Wilkerson, NFL tackle (Jaguars, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1964 - Dave Alexander, NFL center (NY Jets)
1964 - Lori Loughlin, Queens, New York, American actress (Full House, Summerland)
1965 - Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
1965 - Delfeayo Marsalis, American jazz musician
1966 - Shikao Suga, Japanese singer/songwriter
1967 - Alex Galtcheniouk, hockey forward (Team Belarus, Olympics-1998)
1969 - Corey Raymond, NFL cornerback (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Frank Lickliter, Middletown OH, Nike golfer (1993 White Rose-24th)
1969 - Garth Snow, Wrentham Mass, US hockey goalie (Olympics-1994, Flyers)
1969 - Jaimie Dawson, Geneva Switz, Canadian badminton player (Olympics-96)
1969 - Jarrod Hanks, Lafayette LA, US gymnist (Olympic-92, 96)
1969 - Wendi Simmons, Santa Rosa California, heptathlete
1969 - Alexis Arquette, American actor
1969 - Dana White, UFC President
1970 - Paul Strang, cricketer (Zimbabwe's 1st Test match leg-spinner, 1994-)
1970 - Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist (Arch Enemy)
1971 - Larry Kennedy, WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Stephen Lynch, American musician
1972 - Brenda Schultz, Netherlands, tennis star
1972 - Elizabeth Berkley, Mich, actress (Jessie-Saved by the Bell, Showgirl)
1972 - Manley Woods, NFL/WLAF receiver (Seattle Seahawks, Rhein Fire)
1972 - Stacy Evans, WLAF defensive end (Rhein Fire)
1972 - Ed Templeton, American skateboarder
1972 - Yeom Jeong-ah, South Korean actress
1973 - Nixon A McNamara McClean, West Indies cricket fast bowler (ODI 1996)
1973 - Scott Bloom, Manhasset NY, actor (Keys, Stuff)
1974 - Justin Lee Collins, British comedian
1975 - Leonor Watling, Spanish actress and singer
1976 - Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach)
1977 - Aki Berg, Turku Fin, NHL defenseman (LA Kings)
1977 - Manu Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
1978 - Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer/songwriter
1979 - Kimberly Whiting, Miss Idaho Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Henrik Hansen, Danish footballer
1979 - Lee Minwoo, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1979 - Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer
1980 - Stephen Christian, American singer (Anberlin)
1981 - Michael Carrick, English footballer
1981 - Billy Aaron Brown, American actor
1981 - Jo In Sung, South Korean actor
1982 - Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actress
1982 - Tom Pelphrey, American actor
1984 - DeMeco Ryans, American football player
1984 - Zach Parise, American ice hockey player
1985 - Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
1985 - Tynisha Keli, American singer
1986 - Alexandra Chando, American actress
1988 - Ayla Brown, American singer
1988 - Casper Johansen, Danish footballer
1990 - Soulja Boy, American rapper
1990 - Shana Swash, English actress
1993 - Hannah Lochner, Canadian actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 28th July


Famous Deaths

                                   
Violin Virtuoso & Composer                          Composer Johann                         Nobel Prize Winning Chemist
Antonio Vivaldi (1741)                                 Sebastian Bach (1750)                 Archer John Porter Martin (2002)


450 - Theodosius II de Jongere, emperor Austrian Empire, dies
1057 - Victor II, [Gebhard], Pope (1055-57), dies
1101 - Su Tung-p'o, Chinese poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher, dies at 64
1128 - William Clito, Count of Flanders (b. 1102)
1230 - Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
1285 - Queen Keran of Armenia, consort of Leo III of Armenia
1330 - Michael III, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies in battle
1527 - Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador
1540 - Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed
1631 - Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
1641 - John Amner, composer, dies at 61
1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris
1655 - Suzuki Shosan, Samurai/monk/propagator of Zen Buddhism, dies at 76
1667 - Abraham Cowley, English poet (Mistress/Sex libri plantarum), dies
1675 - Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
1685 - Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
1711 - Gerard Lairesse, painter, buried
1718 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
1723 - Mariana Alcoforado, nun (schreef no Lettres Portuguese), dies at 63
1741 - Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian composer, dies at 63
1746 - John Peter Zenger, journalist, involved in 1st amendment fight, dies
1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue), dies at 65
1762 - George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
1778 - Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer, dies at 68
1794 - Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39
1794 - Maximilien Robespierre, Fr revolutionary/avocat (1781), guillotined
1802 - Giuseppe Sarti, Italian composer (Il er pastore, Ifigenia), dies at 72
1811 - Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Coriolan), dies
1818 - Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
1835 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
1837 - John Ross, composer, dies at 73
1838 - Bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer, dies at 62
1842 - C Brentano, writer, dies at 63
1844 - Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)
1849 - Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49), dies
1850 - Stefano Pavesi, composer, dies at 71
1863 - James Deshler, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 30
1864 - Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer, dies at 67
1864 - Samuel Benton, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at about 44
1869 - Carl G Carus, German arts/psychologist/philosopher, dies
1869 - Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist (b. 1787)
1872 - Friedrich Kaiser, astronomer (Kaiser-Compass), dies
1878 - George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (b. 1820)
1895 - Joannes Kappeyne van Coppello, Internal minister (1877-89), dies at 72
1904 - Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage), dies
1915 - Vilbrun G Sam, rebellion leader/president of Haiti, lynched
1934 - Louis Tancred, cricketer (fourteen Tests batting for South Africa 1905-14), dies
1934 - Marie Dressler, actress (Dinner at 8, Anna Christie), dies at 64
1937 - Abdul Muslim Mahomayev, composer, dies at 51
1937 - Joseph Lee, father of Playgrounds movement, dies
1939 - William J Mayo, US surgeon/co-founder Mayo Clinic, dies at 78
1940 - Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer, dies at 66
1956 - Ludwig Klages, German philosopher/graphologist, dies at 83
1957 - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
1965 - Maurice Yvain, composer, dies at 74
1965 - Minor Watson, actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid), dies at 75
1965 - Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (b. 1894)
1967 - Karl W. Richter, Lieutenant, USAF, American aviator (b. 1942)
1968 - Charles W Mayo, US surgeon, dies at 70
1968 - Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89
1969 - Ernst Tittel, composer, dies at 59
1969 - Frank H Loesser, US songwriter/composer (Guys & Dolls), dies at 59
1969 - Gabriel von Wayditch, composer, dies at 80
1969 - Ramón Grau, Cuban president (b. 1882)
1970 - John Barbirolli, English conductor (NY Philharmonic Orch), dies at 70
1971 - Diane Arbus, [Nemerov], photographer (Vogue), commits suicide at 48
1971 - Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
1971 - Charles E. Pont, American artist (b. 1898)
1972 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
1972 - Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)
1973 - Royal Butler, actor, dies at 80
1974 - Jack Ellis, cricketer (Victorian WK, Ashes tourist 1926), dies
1974 - Truman Bradley, TV host (Science Fiction Theater), dies at 69
1976 - Jacob Soetendorp, rabbi, dies at 62
1976 - Lucie Mannheim, actress (39 Steps), dies at 77
1978 - Jan Willem van Otterloo, composer, dies at 70
1979 - Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
1980 - Cecil Burleigh, composer, dies at 95
1981 - Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (b. 1935)
1982 - George Kleinsinger, US composer (Tubby the Tuba), dies at 68
1983 - Alec Marks, cricketer (good NSW batsman 1928-37), dies
1984 - Bess Flowers, actress (View from Pompey's Head), dies at 85
1985 - Grant Williams, actor (Shrinking Man), dies of toxic poisoning at 54
1986 - Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter/sculptor (Iron Tower), dies at 91
1986 - Syd Curnow, South African cricketer (168 runs in 7 Tests), dies
1987 - James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism), dies at 81
1989 - Jeff Richards, actor (Don't Go Near the Water), dies at 66
1990 - Armando Frid, of Argentina (Born May 24, 1866 Guin rec), dies at 124
1990 - Jill Esmond, actress (13 Women, My Pal Wolfe, FP 1), dies at 82
1990 - Maurice Braddell, actor (Things to Come), dies
1991 - Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer/exiled to Netherlands, dies at 45
1993 - Herbert Joeks, [van Hugten], Dutch actor (Pipo the Clown), dies at 77
1994 - Bernard Delfont, Rus/Brit impresario (Thorn EMI), dies at 84
1994 - Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, dies at 69
1994 - Selwyn Powell, art Editor, dies at 82
1996 - Harold C Fox, Fashion designer/musician, dies at 86
1996 - Mickey Fenn, docker/socialist, dies at 58
1996 - Roger Tory Peterson, ornithologist/artist, dies at 87
1997 - Louis Cohen, physicist, dies at 71
1997 - Seni Pramoj, PM of Thailand (1945-46, 75, 76), dies
1998 - Lenny McLean, English bareknuckle fighter (b. 1949)
1999 - Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
2000 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
2002 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
2003 - Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish politician and activist (b. 1918)
2004 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2004 - Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
2004 - Eugene Roche, American actor (b. 1928)
2004 - Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
2006 - David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
2007 - Jim LeRoy, Airshow pilot (b. 1961)
2007 - Karl Gotch, Belgian professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2008 - Susan Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress, murdered (b. 1977)
2009 - Jim Johnson, NFL Assistant Coach, Eagles Defensive Coordinator from 1999-2009 (b.1941)
2010 - Ivy Bean, English internet celebrity (b. 1905)
2011 - Abdul Fatah Younis, Former Libyan Interior Minister, assassinated for pro-Gadaffi ties (b.
          1944)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 29th July


Historical Events

                                   
The Sun King Louis XIV                     Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein                     Animator Walt Disney

                 
Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan                Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible


362 - Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws
626 - Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople
904 - Thessalonica is sacked by Saracen pirates led by renegade Leo of Tripoli
1014 - Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies
1030 - Battle at Stiklestad (Trondheim)
1179 - Lando Sittino proclaimed (anti-)pope Innocent III
1560 - Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden
1563 - League of High Nobles routes King Philip II
1567 - James VI is crowned King of Scots at Stirling.
1579 - Antwerp request union with Utrecht
1579 - King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez & princess van Eboli
1585 - Friese academy opens
1588 - Attacking Spanish Armada defeated & scattered by English defenders
1588 - Duke Farneses troops ready for invasion of England
1634 - Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curacao
1655 - Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam
1676 - Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians
1693 - War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen/Neerwinden - France wins Pyrrhic victory over
           Allied forces in the Netherlands.
1696 - French king Louis XIV & Victor Amadeua van Savoye signs peace
1715 - 10 Spanish treasure galleons sinks off Florida coast by hurricane
1751 - 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of
           France in 29 mins in England
1773 - 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
1783 - Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000
1786 - 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette
1793 - John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the
           bay there.
1835 - 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins
1836 - Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
1844 - NY Yacht Club forms
1847 - Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA. At the end of 1847 only 15
           law schools exist in the United States.
1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against
           British rule is put down by police.
1851 - Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
1858 - Treaty of Amity and Commerce/Harris Treaty signed between US & Japan opening Japanese
           ports to trade
1864 - 3rd & last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
1864 - Battle of Macon, GA (Stoneman's Raid)
1864 - American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at
           the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.
1874 - Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
1899 - 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY
1899 - Southern California Golf Association forms
1899 - The First Hague Convention is signed.
1900 - In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
1902 - Union of Orthodox Rabbis of US & Canada forms
1907 - 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France
1907 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
1908 - St Louis Browns Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Phila Athletics
1910 - JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory
1911 - Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
1913 - Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied
1914 - 1st transcontinental phone link made between NYC & SF
1914 - Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade
1914 - British fleet leaves Portland/passes Straits of Dover
1914 - Russia mobilize troops along Austrian boundary
1915 - Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR
1916 - Postal check & Girodienst establishes
1920 - 1st transcontinental airmail flight from NY to SF
1920 - Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders
1920 - Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
1921 - Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 inn
1921 - New rules of language assumed (equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium)
1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1923 - Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin
1923 - KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany
1924 - Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship
1927 - 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY)
1927 - Phil Mead scores his 100th 100, Hampshire v Northants
1928 - Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released
1928 - Cleve Indians score 17 in 1st 2 inns to beat Yanks 24-6 at Dunn Field they also set a record
           with 24 singles in 1 game
1929 - Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France
1930 - 115°F (46°C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)
1930 - Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
1932 - Great Depression: in Washington, DC, U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of
           World War I veterans.
1934 - 17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville NY
1936 - RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show &
           monologue from Tobacco Road & comedy)
1937 - Japanese troops occupies Peking & Tientsin
1937 - Tongzhou Incident
1938 - Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears
1938 - Olympic National Park forms
1940 - Urk soccer team forms
1942 - Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Blvd
1943 - 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg
1943 - Nazi's evacuate Hollandsche Theater in Amsterdam
1944 - Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours
1944 - Frank McCormick (Reds) HR off Ace Adams (Giants) in both games of DH
1944 - US 4th Armour division occupiers Avranches
1945 - After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed
           & sunk by a Japanese submarine
1947 - Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg Va
1948 - King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London
1949 - Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends
1949 - BBC radio begins broadcasting
1950 - Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run
1952 - 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1953 - US bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok
1955 - Smokey Burgess hits 3 HRS to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5
1955 - USSR performs nuclear Test
1956 - 11th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius
1956 - Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
1956 - WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting
1957 - Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1957 - International Atomic Energy Agency forms by UN
1957 - Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres
1958 - US President Eisenhower signs into law National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
1958 - Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running
1959 - First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
1961 - Bob Dylan injured in car accident
1961 - Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games
1961 - Wallis & Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory
1965 - Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
1965 - Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
1965 - Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
1965 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 - Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock NY
1966 - Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup
1967 - Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134
1967 - Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage
1967 - U S S Forrestal explodes kills 134. $100 million damage
1968 - Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
1968 - Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
1968 - Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
1968 - Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial
           forms of birth control prohibited
1968 - Wash DC Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs Cleve
1969 - Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
1970 - 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct
1972 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1973 - $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from NY Hilton
1973 - Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
1974 - 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee
1974 - Episcopal Church ordained female priests
1974 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 - St Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base
1975 - Ford became 1st US pres to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
1975 - Military coup by Gen Mohammed/Pres Jakubu Gowon fired
1976 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1976 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first
           of a series of attacks.
1978 - 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, NY
1978 - Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h40m
1978 - Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings
1978 - On Old Timer's Day, NY Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as NY Yankee manager
           in 1980 & Bob Lemon will become GM
1979 - 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott
1981 - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated
1981 - Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris
1983 - "Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV
1983 - Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
1984 - 12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster
1984 - 23rd Summer Olympics opens in LA
1985 - 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
1986 - Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed
1986 - Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire v Lancashire
1986 - NY jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
1987 - Ben & Jerry's & Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
1988 - FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
1988 - Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in March, 1989
1988 - Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
1988 - Last US Playboy Club (Lansing Mich) closes
1988 - South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"
1988 - Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson & Curt Schilling
1988 - Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home
1989 - Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan
1989 - Phillies retire Steve Carlton's # 32
1989 - Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases
1989 - White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher & Sam Sosa
1990 - 26th Curtis Cup: US wins 14-4
1990 - 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats USSR in Atlanta Georgia (2-1)
1990 - 36th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Beth Daniel
1990 - Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game
1990 - South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference
1991 - 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium (Mets beat Cubs 6-0)
1991 - Yankee Stadium fans throw cups & blowup dolls at Jose Canseco
1992 - "Chinese Coffee" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 18 perfs
1992 - Evgueni Sadovyi swims world record/OR 400m freestyle (3:45.00)
1992 - Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguys), arrested for narcotic possession
1993 - Cin Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession
1993 - Walter Koenig (Checkov-Star Trek) suffers a mild heart attack
1993 - Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough
           evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible
1994 - 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin
1994 - Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8½ year jail sentenced
1994 - H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election
1994 - India army kills 27 Moslem militants
1994 - Jesse Timmedequas, rapes & murders Megan Kanka, 7 (Megan's Law)
1994 - Parliamentary election in Aruba
1995 - Monica Seles beats Martina Naratilova in her return to tennis
1995 - Carolina Panthers beat Jacksonville Jaguars in their 1st NFL exhibition game 20-14
1996 - The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is
           struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court.
1997 - US Senior Golf Open ends at Olympia Fields GC Ill
2005 - Astronomers announce their discovery of Eris.
2012 - Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea

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Famous Weddings

1565 - Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
1934 - "Titanic" actress Gloria Stuart (24) weds screenwriter Arthur Sheekman (33)
1981 - Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer at St Pauls' Cathedral, London
1982 - Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson
2000 - American actress Jennifer Aniston (31) weds actor and film producer Brad Pitt (36) in a
           private ceremony at Malibu, California
2006 - "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (39) weds singer Kid Rock (35) at Thunder Gulch yacht
           in Saint-Tropez, France
2006 - "Providence" actress Paula Cale (36) weds screenwriter Michael Lisbe at Sopris Mountain Ranch
            in Basalt, Colorado
2006 - "Primal Scream" lead singer Bobby Gillespie (44) weds stylist Katy England at St. Margaret's
            Church in Betley, Staffordshire

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Famous Divorces

2006 - Robyn Denise Moore divorces Oscar-winning actor Mel Gibson (55) due to irreconcilable
           differences after 31 years of marriage

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Italian Dictator                                            Silent Screen Actress                                Rush lead vocalist
Benito Mussolini (1883)                                Clara Bow (1905)                                       Geddy Lee (1953)


1166 - Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
1590 - Gilles Hayne, composer
1605 - Simon Dach, German poet
1620 - Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philologist/diplomat
1646 - Johann Theile, German composer (Adam & Eve)
1723 - Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer
1739 - Johannes Ritschel, composer
1755 - Franz Gotz, composer
1758 - Antonius van Gils, Dutch RC theologist (opposed Enlightenment)
1778 - Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer
1797 - Daniel Drew, American financier (d. 1879)
1801 - George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America)
1817 - James Blair Steedman, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1820 - Clement Laird Vallandigham, MC (Union), died in 1871
1828 - Cuvier Grover, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1885
1830 - Alvan Cullem Gillem, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1875
1843 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
1849 - Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
1853 - Esther de Boer-van Rijk, Dutch actress (Kniertje-Hope of Blessing)
1853 - Henry Morton Dunham, composer
1854 - Georg Kerschensteiner, German educator (Theory of Education)
1861 - Alica Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, 1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt
1861 - Sergei D Sazonov, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs (1910-16)
1865 - Nicola Spinelli, composer
1867 - Enrique Granados, Spain, composer
1869 - Booth Tarkington, US, novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons)
1872 - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
1874 - August Stramm, writer
1874 - James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Tula Russia, actress (Waterloo Bridge)
1878 - Don Marquis, Ill, journalist/poet (archy & mehitabel) (d. 1937)
1883 - Benito Mussolini, [Il Duce], Forli Kingdom of Italy, Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43), (d. 1945)
1883 - Manuel Infante, Spanish composer/conductor
1883 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
1884 - Henri Liebrecht, Belgian playwright/journalist
1884 - Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)
1885 - Theda Bara, American film actress (d. 1955)
1887 - Rudi Stephan, composer
1887 - Sigmund Romberg, Nagykanizsa Hungary, operetta composer (Blossom Time)
1888 - Niles Welch, Hartford CT, actor (Cornered)
1889 - Karl Otten, writer
1891 - Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist
1892 - Charles L Bass, actor (Business in White Slavery)
1892 - Ernst van Raalte, lawyer (Seen, heard... wrote)
1892 - Karel L Baars, Dutch actor (White Slaves Trade)
1892 - William Powell, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Thin Man, My Man Godfrey)
1893 - Arre Merikanto, Finnish composer (12-tones music)
1895 - Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author
1897 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, Poland, physicist (explored atom, Nobel 1944)
1899 - Walter Beall, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1900 - Alexander Vasil'yevich Mosolov, composer [OS]
1900 - Don Redman, Piedmont WV, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times)
1900 - Eyvind Johnson, Sweden, novelist (Return to Ithaca-Nobel 1974)
1900 - Don Redman, American musician (d. 1964)
1904 - J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1993)
1905 - Clara Bow, Brooklyn New York, silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid), (d. 1965)
1905 - Dag Hammarskjoeld, Sweden, 2nd UN Sect-General (1953-61) (Nobel 1961)
1905 - Thelma Todd, [Alison Loyd], Lawrence MA, actress (Dangerous Female)
1905 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
1906 - Diana Vreeland, French-born fashion editor (d. 1989)
1907 - Melvin Mouron Belli, Sonora California, lawyer (SF's "King of Torts")
1909 - Georgy Mushel, composer
1910 - Henry Brian Boyne, journalist
1911 - Jan Cikker, composer
1911 - Foster Furcolo, 60th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1995)
1911 - Iakovos, Archbishop of America (d. 2005)
1913 - Stephen McNally, NYC, actor (Split Second, 30 Seconds over Tokyo)
1913 - Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
1914 - "Professor" Irwin Corey, comedian (Car Wash)
1914 - Abram Games, graphic artist
1914 - Dovie Hudson, community activist in rural Mississippi
1915 - Bruce R. McConkie, LDS apostle and author (d. 1985)
1915 - Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1998)
1916 - Charlie Christian, American jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
1916 - Budd Boetticher, American film director (d. 2001)
1918 - Vladimir Dudentzev, Russian writer
1920 - Rodolfo Acosta, Chihuahua Mexico, actor (Passion, Littlest Outlaw)
1920 - Neville Jeffress, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia (d. 2007)
1921 - Aled Eames, maritime historian
1921 - Richard Egan, SF California, actor (Empire, Redigo, Pollyanna)
1923 - Gordon Mitchell, American actor (d. 2003)
1924 - Arnold Weinstock, English industrial/multi-millionaire (GEC)
1924 - Robert Horton, Los Angeles California, actor (Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena)
1924 - Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
1924 - Elizabeth Short, victim in the Black Dahlia case (d. 1947)
1925 - Mikis Michael George Theodorakis, Chios Greece, composer (Raven)
1925 - Ted Lindsay, Canadian hockey player
1926 - Don Carter, bowler, 6-time Bowler of Year (1953-54, 57-58, 60-61)
1926 - Russel Firestone, polo great (Circle F-1959 champs)
1926 - Donald Carter, St Louis, Missouri, professional bowler, six-time bowler of the year, (d. 2012)
1927 - Harry K V Mulisch, writer (Message to King Rat)
1928 - Bidzina Alexandrovich Kvernadze, composer
1929 - Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
1930 - Paul Taylor, dancer/choreographer (Paul Taylor Dance Company) [or 6/5]
1932 - Marguerite Empey, [Diane Webber], Los Angelas California, playmate (May 1955, Feb 1956)
1932 - Nancy Landon Kassebaum, (Sen-R-Kansas, 1979- )
1933 - Cammie Smith, WI cricket opening batsman (1960-62)
1933 - Robert Fuller, Troy NY, actor (Laramie, Wagon Train)
1933 - Lou Albano, American pro wrestling manager
1934 - Alfred Scott, WI cricket leg-spinner (son of O C, Test 0-140)
1935 - Leonard Lee, rocker (Shirley & Lee)
1935 - Peter Schreier, Meissen Germany, tenor (Dresden State Opera 1961)
1936 - Elizabeth Hanford Dole, US Secretary of Transportation (1983-87)
1937 - Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1938 - Peter Jennings, Toronto Canada, news anchor (ABC Evening News)
1938 - Jean Rochon, Quebec politician
1939 - Annea Lockwood, composer
1941 - David Warner, Manchester NH, actor (Star Trek VI, Time Bandits)
1942 - Sharon Gans, actress (Slaughterhouse 5)
1942 - Tony Sirico, American actor
1943 - Charles Hallahan, actor (Hunter)
1943 - Ingrid Kramer, Dresden Germany, diver (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 - Roz Kelly, Mt Vernon NY, actress (Owl & Pussycat, Happy Days)
1943 - David Taylor, English snooker player
1944 - Terry Jarvis, NZ cricket opener (387 partnership w/Turner v WI 1972)
1945 - Michelle Angelo, Kingsville Tx, actress (Funny Girl)
1946 - Bill Forsyth, director (Local Hero, Breaking In, Housekeeping)
1946 - Neal Doughty, Evantson Ill, rock keyboardist (Reo Speedwagon)
1947 - Janet LePera, LPGA golfer
1947 - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (d. 2006)
1949 - Marilyn Tucker Quayle, novelist/wife of Vice President Dan Quayle (1989-93)
1949 - Stephen Burleigh, Wheeling WV, actor (Love & Betrayal, Afterburn)
1949 - Leslie Easterbrook, Los Angeles, California, American actress (The Devil's Rejects, Police
           Academy)
1950 - Maricica Puica, Romania, 2K runner (world record)
1950 - Radu Voina, Romania, team handball (Oly-silver/2 bronze-1972, 76, 80)
1951 - Dean Pitchford, rocker
1951 - Deborah Pryor, California, actress (The Godson)/(Rep-R-Ohio)
1951 - Dan Driessen, American baseball player
1953 - Geddy Lee, Toronto Canada, lead vocalist/bassist (Rush-Tom Sawyer)
1953 - Ken Burns [Kenneth Lauren], Brooklyn, New York, American director and documentary film
           producer (The Civil War, Baseball)
1953 - Tim Gunn, American television personality
1954 - Flo Hyman, Inglewood California, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)
1955 - "Country" Jem Finer, English banjo player (Pogues-Straight to Hell)
1955 - Dave Stevens, American illustrator
1955 - Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor
1956 - Brenda Hocott, LPGA golfer
1956 - Patti Scialfa, singer (As Long as I Can Be)/Mrs Bruce Springsteen
1956 - Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator
1956 - Ronnie Musgrove, Former Governor of Mississippi
1957 - Nellie Kim, Shurab, Tajik SSR, Soviet gymnast (Olympic-3 golds-1976)
1957 - Alessandra Marc, American operatic soprano
1959 - Brian James Claar, Santa Monica CA, PGA golfer (1991 AT&T-2nd)
1959 - Gary Springer, NYC, actor (Bernice Bobs Her Hair)
1959 - John Sykes, Irish hard rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy-Blue Murder)
1959 - Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
1959 - Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and artist
1962 - Corinne Dibnah, Brisbane Australia, LPGA golfer (1988 Brit Open)
1962 - Steve Pelluer, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1962 - Vincent Rousseau, Belgian athlete
1962 - Scott Steiner, American professional wrestler
1963 - Alexandra Paul, NYC, actress (Christine, American Flyers, Dragnet)
1963 - Azeem Hafeez, cricketer (fingerless Pakistani lefty quick)
1963 - Damon Allen, CFL quarterback (BC Lions)
1963 - Michel Boerebach, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
1963 - Patty Dodd, Bogota Columbia, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-2nd-1988)
1963 - Steve Frey, Meadowbrook PA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1963 - Graham Poll, English football referee
1963 - Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator
1964 - Lisa Peluso, Phila, actress (Search for Tomorrow, Ava-Loving)
1965 - Doug Burden, Rutland Vt, rower (Olympics-5th-88, 92, 96)
1965 - Henry James, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1965 - Karen Doell, Winkler Manitoba, softball 2nd baseman (Olympics-96)
1965 - Luis Alicea, Santurce Puerto Rico, infielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1965 - Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author
1966 - Jeff Herrod, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1966 - Martina McBride, country singer
1966 - Sally Gunnell, 400m hurdler, (Olympic-gold-92)
1966 - Richard Steven Horvitz, American comic voiceactor
1968 - Kristen Babb-Sprague, California, US synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-92)
1968 - Mike Williams, Radford VA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1968 - Paavo Lotjonen, Finnish Cellist (Apocalyptica)
1969 - Alison Dunlap, Denver Colorado, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1970 - John Rennie, cricketer (Zimbabwe pace bowler 1993)
1970 - Maria Checca, Bogota Colombia, playmate (Aug, 1994)
1970 - Sean LaChapelle, NFL/WLAF receiver (KC Chiefs, Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Steve Wojciechowski, Blue Island IL, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1971 - Bryan Dattilo, Kankakee IL, actor (California Dreaming, Days of Our Lives)
1971 - Jayne Fenner, Four Marks England, US sailing (Olympic-92)
1971 - Johnny Ruffin, Butler AL, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1971 - Monica Calhoun, American actress
1971 - Lisa Ekdahl, Swedish singer songwriter
1972 - Steven Branscombe, WLAF WR (Scotland Claymores)
1972 - Wil Wheaton, CA, actor (Star Trek Next Generation-Wesley, Stand By Me)
1973 - Stephen Dorff, Atlanta, actor (I Know My Name is Steven)
1973 - Wanya Morris, [Squirt], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
1974 - Derek Wilkinson, Lasalle, NHL goalie (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1975 - Seth Greisinger, Kansas City KS, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 - Sheya Shipanga, Miss Namibia Universe (1997)
1975 - Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer
1977 - Greg Burgess, US, 200m individual medley (Olympics-silver-92, 96)
1979 - Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer
1979 - Ronald Murray, American basketball player
1980 - Ryan Braun, Kitchener, Onatrio, Canadian baseball player (Los Angeles Angels)
1980 - Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
1980 - Rachel Miner, American actress
1981 - Jennie Thompson, Wichita Falls TX, gymnast (Jr Natl-champ-93, Oly-96)
1981 - Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula 1 Driver
1981 - Andrés Madrid, Argentine footballer
1981 - Troy Perkins, American soccer player
1982 - Janez Aljančič, Slovenian footballer
1982 - Jônatas Domingos, Brazilian footballer
1982 - Allison Mack, American actress
1983 - Alexei Kaigorodov, Russian hockey player
1984 - Chad Billingsley, American baseball player
1987 - Sabra Johnson, American dancer
1991 - Miki Ishikawa, American actress

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Famous Deaths

King of France King Philip I (1108)


238 - Pupienus, Roman Emperor
238 - Balbinus, Roman Emperor
1030 - Olaf Haraldsson, King of Norway, dies in battle of Stiklestad
1095 - Ladislaus I Arpad de Heilige, King of Hungary, dies
1099 - Urban II, [Odo van Lagery], French Pope (1088-99), dies
1108 - King Philip I, King of the Franks 1059, 1060-1108), dies at 56
1164 - Olaf, King of Norway, dies
1507 - Martin Behaim, German-born navigator and geographer (b. 1459)
1573 - Spanish prince of Eboli, dies
1596 - Jacobus Latomus, Flemish poet (Psalms/Jeremias) dies at about 84
1612 - Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
1632 - Samuel Ampzing, vicar/poet (Biblical Treasures), dies
1644 - Urban VIII, [Maffeo Barberini], Pope (1623-44), dies
1649 - David Teniers I, Flemish painter (altaar stukken), dies
1669 - Christopher Simpson, composer, dies
1752 - Peter Warren, British admiral
1781 - Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
1786 - Franz Asplmayr, composer, dies at 58
1792 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
1797 - Christoph Rheineck, composer, dies at 48
1808 - Selam III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808), dies
1813 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
1825 - Micah Hawkins, composer, dies at 48
1833 - William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (b. 1759)
1838 - Jonathan Huntington, composer, dies at 66
1839 - Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1844 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer, dies at 53
1856 - Robert A Schumann, German pianist/composer (Humoresque), dies at 46
1857 - Charles LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino, dies at 54
1857 - Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (b. 1774)
1859 - Auguste Mathieu Panseron, composer, dies at 63
1863 - Edward Needle Kirk, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at about 35
1886 - Adolf Muller, composer, dies at 84
1886 - Solomon Gazfried, rabbi/author (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch), dies
1887 - Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
1890 - Vincent Van Gogh, painter, dies in Auvers, France
1897 - Joost G Kist, lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97), dies at 74
1900 - Umberto I, Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci
1906 - Alexandre Luigini, composer, dies at 56
1913 - Tobias MC Asser, lawyer (Nobel 1911), dies
1918 - Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (b. 1863)
1922 - Edward Gailliard, Flemish language/archaeologist, dies at 81
1930 - Alexander von Fielitz, composer, dies at 69
1933 - Gerhard Rusenkrone Schjelderup, composer, dies at 73
1934 - Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
1938 - Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
1941 - James Stephenson, actor (Sea Hawk, River's End), dies at 52
1950 - Joe Fry, British racing driver (b. 1915)
1954 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
1956 - Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (Study of Graves), dies at 83
1958 - Charles O'Malley, actor in silent westerns (Iron Horse), dies at 61
1960 - Richard Simon, co-founder (Simon & Shuster), dies
1963 - Dave Smith, cricketer (2 Tests in 1912 Australian side), dies
1963 - Dorian Le Gallienne, composer, dies at 48
1964 - Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1966 - Pal Jardanyi, composer, dies at 44
1970 - John G B Barbirolli, English conductor/composer, dies at 70
1970 - Jonel Perlea, composer, dies at 69
1973 - Eileen Percy, silent film actress (Wicked, Backstage), dies at 72
1973 - Norm Smith, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
1973 - Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948)
1974 - Cass Elliot, singer (Mamas & Papas), dies from heart attack in London at 32
1974 - Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
1975 - James [Benjamin] Blish, sci-fi author (Star Trek Reader), dies at 54
1976 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
1977 - Austin Matthews, cricketer (Test Eng v NZ 1937), dies
1978 - Wesley La Violette, composer, dies at 84
1979 - Herbert Marcuse, philosopher (Eros & Civilization), dies at 81
1979 - Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916)
1980 - Jan Tausinger, composer, dies at 58
1981 - Robert Moses, American urban planner (b. 1888)
1982 - Cor[nelis R J] Kieboom, resistor/President Feyenoord, dies at 81
1982 - Harold Sakata, actor (Kenji-Sarge), dies at 62
1982 - Richard N Gale, English general/paracommandant, dies at 86
1983 - David Niven, actor (Rugues), dies in Switzerland at 73
1983 - J B Charles, [Willem Nagel], Dutch criminologist/writer, dies at 83
1983 - Luis Buñuel, director (Monk), dies of cirrhosis of liver at 83
1983 - Raymond Massey, actor (Dr Kildare), dies of pneumonia at 86
1984 - Fred Waring, orchestra leader (Fred Waring Show), dies at 84
1984 - Woodrow Parfey, actor (Time Express), dies at 61 of a heart attack
1985 - James F Nolan, actor (Dante), dies of cancer at 69
1987 - Arthur Chipperfield, cricketer (14 Tests for Australia), dies
1987 - Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (b. 1894)
1988 - Ellin Berlin, [MacKay], Mrs Irving Berlin, dies at 86
1990 - Bruno Kreisky, union chancellor Austria, dies
1992 - Tavio Amorin, Togolese politician, murdered
1993 - AJA Quintus Bosz, Indonesian/Suriname lawyer, dies at 78
1994 - Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, chemist (B-12, Nobel 1964), dies at 78
1994 - Francisco Veguillas, Spanish general, murdered at 68
1994 - John Bayard Britton, abortion doctor, killed by Paul Hill
1996 - Aruna Asaf Ali, politician, dies at 88
1996 - Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
1996 - Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967)
1998 - Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (b. 1918)
2001 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
2001 - Wau Holland, German computer hacker (b. 1951)
2003 - Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
2004 - Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (b. 1923)
2007 - Mike Reid, English comedian and actor (b. 1940)
2007 - Michel Serrault, French actor (b. 1928)
2007 - Tom Snyder, American television personality (b. 1936)
2007 - Marvin Zindler, American television reporter (b. 1921)
2008 - Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian Playback Singer (b. 1989)
2009 - Gayatri Devi, Ex-Maharani of Indian state Jaipur. (b. 1919)