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This Day in History for 30th June


Famous Deaths

Physicist and Nobel Laureate
 John W Rayleigh (1919)


350 - Nepotianus, Roman usurper
1109 - Alfonso VI, (imperator totius Hispaniae), king of Leon, dies
1181 - Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
1224 - Adolf of Osnabrück, Saint Adolf (b. 1185)
1364 - Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
1520 - Montezuma II, the last Aztec emperor, killed
1538 - Charles van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen, dies at 70
1579 - Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, Turkish Janissary
1607 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
1649 - Simon Vouet, French painter
1655 - Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer, dies at 81
1660 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
1662 - Johannes C Verspronck, portrait painter, buried at about 64
1666 - Adam Krieger, German composer, dies at 32
1666 - Alexander Brome, British poet
1670 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)
1685 - Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55
1704 - John Quelch, a pirate was hanged (b. 1665)
1709 - Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
1785 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
1792 - Francesco Antonio Rosetti, composer, dies
1796 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1817 - Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist
1819 - Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer, dies at 72
1839 - Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies
1857 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
1862 - Richard Griffith, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 48
1882 - Charles J Guiteau, assassin (Pres Garfield), hanged
1882 - Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
1889 - Eugenio Terziani, composer, dies at 64
1890 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer, dies at 71
1899 - Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri), dies
1904 - Thomas Emmett, cricketer (English Test bowler of the sostenuter), dies
1905 - John Hay, US politician, dies
1914 - Bai Long, [White Wolf], Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies
1919 - John W S Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76
1919 - John W Rayleigh, English physicist, dies at 76
1920 - Lena Christ, writer, dies at 38
1923 - Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer, dies at 56
1924 - Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42
1934 - Ernst Rohm, German staff member, executed at 46
1934 - Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-leader, murdered at 42
1934 - Karl Ernst, German SA-leader, murdered
1934 - Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (1932-33), murdered at 52
1934 - Night of the Long Knives mur
1934 - Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria killed in the Night of the Long Knives
           murders (b. 1862)
1934 - Erich Klausener, Catholic politician killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1885)
1935 - William Brockwell, cricket (Brit all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99), dies
1938 - Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at 61
1942 - Arnoldus J H Aerts, Dutch bishop of New-Guinea, executed at 62
1946 - Michael Zadora, composer, dies at 64
1948 - Karl Wolfskehl, writer, dies at 78
1953 - Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children's book), dies at 79
1953 - Gote Carlid, composer, dies at 32
1953 - Charles William Miller, father of football in Brazil (b. 1874)
1959 - Lazare Saminsky, composer, dies at 76
1959 - José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
1960 - Clarence Cameron White, composer, dies at 79
1961 - Lee de Forest, American inventor (Electron Tube), dies at 87
1962 - Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist, dies at 65
1965 - Bessie Barriscale, actress (Plain Jane, Show Folks), dies
1968 - John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73
1969 - Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer, dies at 76
1971 - Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies at 43
1971 - Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11), dies at 35
1971 - Crew of Soyu
1971 - Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
1973 - Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died
1973 - Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (b. 1903)
1974 - Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated in church
1974 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
1976 - Firpo Marberry, baseball player (b. 1898)
1979 - Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72
1980 - Virginia Brown Faire, actress (Lonesome Trail, Temptress), dies
1983 - Bo Gentry, songwriter/producer, dies
1983 - Mary Livingstone, [Sadye Marks] Comedienne, (Jack Benny), dies at 77
1984 - Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), dies at 79
1985 - James Dewar, inventor (Twinkie), dies
1987 - Federico Mompou, composer, dies at 94
1987 - King Donovan, actor/director (Enforcer, Perfect Furlough), dies
1992 - Doug Delauder, entertainer, dies
1992 - Jim Alaimo, vocalist, dies after heart surgery at 53
1992 - Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies
1993 - George "Spanky" McFarland, child actor (Our Gang), dies at age 65
1994 - Nicholas Warner, test Pilot, dies at 51
1995 - Barney Simon, theatre director/writer, dies at 63
1995 - Gale Gordon, comedian (Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy), dies at 89
1995 - Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74
1995 - Phyllis Hyman, R&B/Jazz singer (Prime of My Life), suicides at 45
1995 - Sicco Mansholt, pres Commission of Europe (1972-1973), dies
1996 - Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet, dies at 76
1996 - Margaux Hemingway, model/actress (Lipstick), commits suicide at 41
1996 - Michael Parkin, journalist, dies at 74
1996 - Norman Aldridge, biochemical toxicologist, dies at 76
1997 - Larry O'Day, wrestler (b. 1944)
2001 - Chet Atkins, American country guitar player and producer (b. 1924)
2001 - Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1937)
2002 - Chico Xavier, popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement (b. 1910)
2003 - Buddy Hackett, American comic (b. 1924)
2003 - Robert McCloskey, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
2004 - Jamal Abro, Sindhi writer (b. 1924)
2006 - Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
2007 - Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
2009 - Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
2010 - Park Yong-ha, Korean actor and singer (b. 1977)
2011 - Barry Bremen, American sports imposter and business man (b. 1947)
2012 - Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 96

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This Day in History for 1st July


Historical Events

                                   
Naturalist Charles Darwin                       Soldier and Former Slave                      Abolitionist Frederick Douglass
                                                               Henry Ossian Flipper

                                   
Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco          Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio            Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

                                   
Dictator Fidel Castro                               Rocker/Beatle John Lennon                     Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix

                 
Heavyweight Boxing Champ                  Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Muhammad Ali                                      Mike Tyson


69 - Bataafs nobleman Gaius Julius Civilis proclaimed emperor of Syria
70 - Titus sets up batterig rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem
251 - The Battle of Abrittus is won by the Goths against the Romans. Roman Emperors Decius and
         Herennius Etruscus are killed.
649 - Pope Martinus I elected to succeed Theodore I
1097 - 1st Crusaders defeat Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea
1200 - In China, sunglasses are invented
1233 - Earl Otto II van Gelre grants Arnhem state justice
1252 - King Alfonso X "el Sabio" of Castile/Leon crowned
1253 - Battle at Westkapelle-Floris the Guardian beats Gwijde van Dampierre
1347 - Engagement of Count Louis of Male to Margaretha to daughter of Jan III
1390 - French & Genuese armada sails out against barbarian pirates
1517 - 1st burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands
1517 - Inquisitor Adrian Boeyens (pope Adrianus VI) becomes cardinal
1535 - Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason
1543 - England & Scotland sign Peace treaty of Greenwich
1569 - Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland
1600 - Prince Maurits' army occupies Newport Flanders Neth
1656 - 1st Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrives in Boston (arrested)
1674 - Spain, France & Netherlands form Triple Alliance
1689 - Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan
1690 - Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army
1690 - Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle
           of Boyne in Ireland
1745 - Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle [OS]
1747 - Battle at Lafeld: France beat English/Dutch army
1776 - 1st vote on Declaration of Independence
1782 - American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1795 - John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court
1798 - Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt
1810 - Louis Napoleon resigns as king of the Netherlands
1816 - Fr frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of Géricault's "Raft of the Medusa"
1820 - 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published"
1823 - 9th Postmaster General: John McLean of Ohio takes office
1823 - United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico
1831 - Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole
1839 - Abdul-Medjid succeeds Mahmud II as Sultan of Turkey
1847 - 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5 cent Franklin & 10 cent Washington, NYC
1850 - At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay
1858 - 1st Canadian coins minted (1, 5, 10 and 20 cent)
1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the
           Linnean Society.
1859 - 1st intercollegiate baseball game, Amherst beats Williams 66-32
1859 - Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St Louis
1861 - 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington & Mason St, SF
1861 - War Dept decrees the KA & TN are to be canvassed for volunteers
1862 - Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confed superior power driven out
1862 - Congress outlaws polygamy (1st time); bad news for Utah
1862 - US Civil War: Day 7 of 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill (Poindexter's Farm) Union forces repel
           Confederate attack
1862 - Emperor Alexander II grants Jews right to publish books
1862 - Battle of Holly Spring, MS
1862 - Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco & on incomes over
           $600 (progressive rate)
1862 - The Russian State Library is founded.
1863 - -2] Battle at Baltimore: Crump's Crossroads Virginia
1863 - Battle of Gettysburg, Pa; Lee's northward advance halted
1863 - Free city delivery of mail begins in 49 US cities; postage 3 cents per oz
1863 - Slavery abolished in Suriname & Netherlands Antilles
1864 - Battle of Petersburg, VA [->JUL 31] -front US3695 CS---
1867 - Dominion of Canada forms (New Bruns, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec)
1869 - Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed
1869 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens
1870 - James W Smith of SC is one of 1st African Americans to enter West Point
1871 - The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada
1873 - Henry Ossian Flipper of Georgia one of the first African Americans enters West Point Military
           Academy
1873 - Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province
1874 - 1st Chamber accept law against child labor
1874 - 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000
1874 - 1st US zoo opens (Philadelphia)
1875 - Universal Postal Union established
1877 - 1st edition of "Amsterdammer" published
1878 - Treaty of Berlin divide Africa up for colonization
1878 - Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1879 - Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha sails from Alexandria to Naples
1879 - Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
1881 - 1st international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St Stephen, NB
1881 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens
1881 - General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's
           organisation, comes into effect.
1883 - ANWB forms in Utrecht
1885 - The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1889 - Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti
1889 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens
1890 - Great-Britain & Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty
1890 - Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
1893 - SF Bay City Club opens 1st US bicycle race track, made of wood
1896 - Harbor of Ymuiden opens
1896 - Wilfrid Laurel sworn in as 1st French speaking premier
1897 - Bronx acquires Hutton Square
1898 - Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
1899 - Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels
1899 - SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
1902 - Ranji (230) & Newham (153) add 344 for 7th wkt, Sussex v Essex
1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (BG)
1903 - 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins
1904 - 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St Louis
1907 - World's 1st air force established (US Army)
1910 - Chicago's Comiskey Park opens - St Louis Browns beat White Sox 2-0
1910 - Union of South Africa becomes a dominion
1910 - White Sox Park (Comiskey Park) opens with 2-0 loss to Browns
1911 - German boat Panther nears for Agadir Morocco
1911 - Proclamation removes "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins
1913 - Serbia & Greece declare war on Bulgaria
1915 - Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service
1915 - Australian Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces
1916 - Battle on the Somme: British 4th Army walks to German lines
1916 - British court martial (Easter uprising)
1916 - Coca-Cola brings current coke formula to the market
1916 - Honus Wagner, 42, is oldest to hit an inside-the-park HR
1917 - 257cm-mirror for Mount Wilson Observatory mounted
1917 - Race riots in East St Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)
1917 - Reds Fred Toney pitches completes doubleheader victories over Pirates
1917 - Robins (Dodgers) play their 1st Sunday game in Brooklyn
1919 - 1st class postage drops from 3 cents to 2 cents
1919 - Scheveningen soccer team forms in Scheveningen
1920 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson no-hits Boston Red Sox, 1-0
1921 - The Communist Party of China is founded.
1923 - 1st permanent radio network-AT&T (WEAF NY & WMAF Mass)
1924 - Light Brigade forms
1924 - Through regular transcontinental airmail service forms, NYC-SF
1925 - NY Giant Hack Wilson hits 2 HRs in 3rd inning beating Phillies, 16-7
1925 - SDAP wins 4 chairs in Second-Parliamentary election
1925 - Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK
1926 - Canada restores gold standard
1929 - US Immigration law of 1924 in effect
1929 - US cartoonist Elzie Segar creates "Popeye"
1930 - Great-Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq
1931 - Cleveland Municipal Stadium is completed
1931 - Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15 cents
1931 - Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs Chicago Cubs
1931 - Trans African Railway in use (Benguela, Angola-Jadotville, Congo)
1932 - 45th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (63 61)
1932 - NY Gov FDR nominated for president at Dem Convention in Chicago
1932 - NY newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt
1933 - German nazi regime declares that married women shouldn't work
1933 - Strauss & von Hofmannsthal's opera "Arabella," premieres in Dresden
1933 - The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
1934 - 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY
1935 - General Neth Persbureau (ANP) forms in Amsterdam
1936 - AVRO radio broadcast studios in Hilversum opens
1936 - Watchfulness Committee forms in Amsterdam
1937 - Britain begins using an emergency phone number (999)
1937 - Rev Martin Niemöller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany
1937 - Spanish bishops support Franco & fascists
1938 - 58th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Don Budge beats Henry Austin (61 60 63)
1940 - Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees
1941 - 1st coml TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC
1941 - Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial
1941 - Joe Dimaggio on way to 56, ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hit streak
1941 - WCBW (now WCBS) TV channel 2 in NY, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1941 - WNBT TV (W2XBS, Now WNBC) channel 4 in NYC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1942 - German troops conquer Sebastopol
1943 - "Pay-as-you-go" - 1st withholding tax from paychecks
1944 - 2500+ killed in London/SE England by German flying bombs
1944 - Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank
1944 - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel
1944 - General Eisenhower visits front in Normandy
1944 - US headquarter moves to Colombières Normandy
1944 - Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Signs peace, idiots!"
1945 - 1st of the superstars returns from the WW II, Hank Greenberg homers
1945 - 55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office
1945 - Allies troop land on Balikpapan
1946 - Rajah cedes Sarawak to British crown
1946 - US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)
1947 - 192m long passenger ship Willem Ruys (Achille Lauro) launched
1947 - Brit Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office
1948 - Bradman scores 128 Australia v Surrey, 141 mins, 15 fours
1948 - Brooklyn's Roy Campanella debuts as catcher
1948 - NYC subway fare goes to 10 cents, bus fare to 7 cents and combo fare at 12 cents
1949 - 63rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ted Schroeder beat Drobny (36 60 63 46 64)
1949 - Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France
1949 - WBRC TV channel 6 in Birmingham, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - WCCO TV channel 4 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - "Lost in the Stars" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 281 perfs
1950 - 1st 407 US soldiers flown to South Korea
1950 - NYC bus fare rises to 10 cents equal to subway fare, combo fare at 15 cents
1950 - WHBF TV channel 4 in Rock Island, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1951 - Cleve Indian Bob Feller, 3rd no-hitter beats Det Tigers, 2-1
1953 - KLAS TV channel 8 in Las Vegas, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - KTVH (now KWCH) TV channel 12 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (CBS) begins
1954 - Cards' Joe Cunningham hits 2 HRs for record 3 HRs in his 1st 2 days
1954 - Test Cricket debut of Khalid Hassan, 16 yrs 352, then world record
1954 - WDBO (now WCPX) TV channel 6 in Orlando, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - 69th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Kurt Nielsen (63 75 61)
1955 - KOTA TV channel 3 in Rapid City, SD (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1956 - Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on Steve Allen Show
1956 - Ibrahim Hashiroe succeeds Said el-Moefti as premier of Jordan
1957 - International Geophysical Year begins (until Dec 31, 1958)
1957 - WRLP TV channel 32 in Greenfield/Keene/Brat, MA (IND) 1st broadcast
1958 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via
           microwave.
1959 - Heinrich Lubke elected pres of West-Germany
1959 - Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West-Germany
1959 - WVTV TV channel 18 in Milwaukee, WI (IND) begins broadcasting
1959 - World Refugee Year begins
1959 - The Party of the African Federation (PFA) holds its constitutive conference.
1960 - Benjamin Britten's cantate "Carmen Baseliense," premieres in Basel
1960 - British Somaliland becomes Somalia
1960 - Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba
1960 - Ghana becomes a republic
1960 - Italian Somaliland gains independence, unites with Somali Republic
1960 - No passports needed inside Benelux
1960 - USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane
1961 - 16th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1961 - Haleakala National Park forms in Hawaii
1961 - KNDU TV channel 25 in Richland-Pasco-Kennew, WA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1962 - Algeria votes for independence
1962 - Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days)
1963 - Beatles record "She Loves You" & "I'll Get You"
1963 - Pres Kennedy arrives in Rome
1963 - US postal service institutes (Zone Improvement Plan) zip code
1963 - ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
1965 - FC Twente '65 Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede
1965 - KUID TV channel 12 in Moscow, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 - Kinderstraf trial starts
1966 - 80th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: M Santana beats D Ralston (64 11-9 64)
1966 - Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART
1966 - Explorer 33 launched
1966 - Medicare goes into effect
1966 - VVV soccer team forms in Venlo
1966 - The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
1967 - "Funny Girl" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1348 perfs
1967 - 1st British color TV broadcast, on BBC 2
1967 - BBC starts their World Radio Club
1967 - Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," goes #1 for 15 weeks
1967 - Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867.
1968 - Bob Gibson's streak of 47 2/3 inn scoreless streak ends on wild pitch
1968 - Fortuna Sittard soccer team forms in Sittard
1968 - John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You are Here)
1968 - US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
1968 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1968 - The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968 - Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
1969 - Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales
1969 - John & Yoko are hospitalized after a car crash
1969 - Shelby Singleton buys Sun Records from Sam Phillips
1970 - Denny McLain returns, (leaves trailiing) Tigers beat Yankees in 11
1970 - FC Utrecht soccer team forms in Utrecht
1970 - Jimi Hendrix 1st recording session (NYC)
1971 - British & Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands
1971 - Debt raised to build San Franisco's Golden Gate Bridge paid off
1971 - State of Washington becomes 1st state to ban sex discrimination
1972 - "Follies" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 524 performances
1972 - "Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 1750 performances
1972 - Ms. magazine begins publishing
1972 - The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
1973 - "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 711 perfs
1973 - 1st US-China basketball game, US collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61
1973 - Mary Mills wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
1974 - 1st Laura Ashley-store in US opens (SF)
1974 - General Pinochet becomes president of Chile
1974 - Isabel Peron succeeds husband Juan as pres of Argentina
1974 - Monmouthshire renamed Gwent & becomes part of Wales
1975 - Muhammad Ali beats Joe Bugner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1975 - WEDway People Mover inaugurated
1976 - Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of US Conference of Mayors
1976 - Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
1977 - 84th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats B Stove (46 63 61)
1977 - FC Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam Neth
1977 - Marlies Gohr runs Europen record 100m (10.88 sec)
1978 - "Act" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 233 performances
1978 - Former Pres Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974
1978 - Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing
1979 - Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6" of snow
1979 - Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open
1979 - Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 - Steve Overt runs world record 3:48.8 mile in Oslo
1980 - O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1981 - Laurel Canyon California murders (4 die, 1 wounded)
1981 - NEC soccer team forms in Nijmegen
1981 - Nell Dunn's "Steaming," premieres in London
1981 - Prince Willem Alexander opens Willems Bridge in Rotterdam
1981 - Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3
1982 - 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1982 - ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened)
1982 - Challenger moves overland to Dryden
1982 - General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina
1982 - Kosmos 1383, 1st search & rescue satellite, launched
1982 - PEC Swells '82 soccer team forms in Swells
1983 - Arbitrator Raymond Goetz rules 43 players who are on Disabled List during 1981 players'
           strike not entitled to salaries for that period
1984 - "Baby" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 241 performances
1984 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1984 - Royals pitcher Paul Splittorff, retires
1984 - The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1987 - Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in Oct by senate
1987 - NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes 1st 24 hour all sports radio
1987 - WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN's country
           music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
1989 - NFL owners vote unanimously to form WLAF
1989 - Yanks beat Milwaukee Brewers 4-1, score is changed to 5-1 after game is over. Umpire rules
           Roberto Kelly scored before a double-play
1990 - 11th US Seniors Golf Open: Lee Trevino
1990 - 18th du Maurier Golf Classic: Cathy Johnston
1990 - 1st Zen winter session in Sydney Zen Center's Gorrick's Run Zendo
1990 - Despite Andy Hawkins no-hitting White Sox, Yankees lose 4-0
1990 - Dordrecht '90 soccer team forms in Dordrecht
1990 - FC Swells soccer team forms in Swells
1990 - German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency
1990 - In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal
1990 - NY Yankee Andy Hawkins throws no-hitter in Comiskey Park, losing 4-0
1992 - 6.6 earthquake in Big Bear Valley of Los Angeles
1992 - Ali Kafi becomes president of Algeria
1992 - Fox broadcasting adds Wednesday night TV programming
1993 - 1 second is added to the clock
1993 - Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit
1993 - STS-57 (Endeavour) lands
1994 - Fokker's-28 crashes at Tidjikja, Mauritania (94 killed)
1994 - Roman Herzog sworn in as German president
1994 - Soyuz TM-19 launches
1994 - Yassar Arafat returns to Gaza strip
1995 - "Kiss of the Spider Woman" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 906 perfs
1995 - Kiersten Rickenbach, of NJ, crowned America's Junior Miss
1996 - Kevan James scores 103 & takes 4 wkts in 4 balls, Hants v Ind
1996 - NHL Winnipeg Jets officially become the Phoenix Coyotes
1996 - Placido Domingo becomes art director of Washington Opera
1996 - WBSI TV replaces WNYC on channel 31 in NYC
1997 - Nevada Athletic Commission suspends Mike Tyson for biting Holyfield
1997 - STS 94 (Columbia 23) launches into orbit
1997 - UK returns Hong Kong to China
1999 - The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth on the day powers are officially
           transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in
           Edinburgh.
2000 - The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic.
2000 - Vermont's civil unions law goes into effect.
2002 - The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes
           against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
2002 - A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757
           collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.
2004 - Saturn Orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
2006 - The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.
2007 - Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces. With the ban already in force in
           Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, this means it is illegal to smoke in indoor public places
           anywhere in the UK. The ban is also put into effect in Australia.
2012 - 17 people are killed and 45 injured in an attack on two churches in Garissa, Kenya
2012 - Spain's football team crush Italy 4-0 to win the 2012 UEFA Euro Cup

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Famous Weddings

1916 - Dwight Eisenhower marries Mary `Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver, Colorado
1982 - Over 2000 Unification Church couples marry at NY Madison Square Garden
1989 - Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad
1995 - Crown Prince of Greece and the oldest son of the deposed King Constantine of Greece, Pavlos
           (28) weds Robert W. Miller's daughter Marie-Chantal Miller (26) at London's Cathedral of
           Saint Sophia
1995 - Princess Stephanie of Monaco (30) weds her bodyguard Daniel Ducruet (31) on a civil
           ceremony in Monaco
1998 - Eight-time Grammy Award-winning singer Barbra Streisand (57) weds actor James Brolin (58)
           in Malibu
2006 - "Hi-5" actress and singer Jennifer Peterson-Hind (26) weds recording artist Tom Korbee in
           Madison, Wisconsin
2011 - English model Kate Moss (37) weds English guitarist Jamie Hince (42) at St. Peter's Church,
           Southrop in Gloucestershire

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Famous Divorces

2011 - "Medium" actress Patricia Arquette (40) divorces actor Thomas Jane (39) due to irreconcilable
           differences after 5 years of marriage
2011 - Actor Ryan Reynolds (34) divorces actress Scarlett Johansson (26) due to irreconcilable
           differences after two years of marriage
2011 - Ann Serano Lopez divorces actor and talk show host George Lopez (49) due to irreconcilable
           differences
2011 - Journalist and executive producer Maria Shriver (55) divorces Hollywood action film icon
           Arnold Schwarzenegger (63) due to irreconcilable differences after 25 years of marriage

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Cosmetics Company CEO                         Princess of Wales                               Olympic Sprinter and Long jumper
Estée Lauder (1906)                                  Diana Spencer (1961)                                 Carl Lewis (1961)


Actress Liv Tyler (1977) 


1381 - Laurentius Justitianus, [Lorenzo Giustiniani], saint
1481 - Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
1506 - Louis II, king of Hungary/Bohemia (1516-26)
1511 - Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen de Jonghe], medical/historian/humanist
1534 - Frederick II, King of Denmark and Norway (1559-88)
1560 - Charles van Croij, prince of Chimay/duke of Aarschot
1574 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (d. 1656)
1586 - Claudio Saracini, composer
1633 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)
1646 - G W Leibniz, German mathematician/philosopher; postulated monads
1663 - Franz Xaver Murschhauser, composer
1688 - Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer
1723 - Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/historian/literary
1725 - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807)
1735 - James Lyon, composer
1742 - Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer (types of Lichtenberg)
1764 - Georg Christoph Grosheim, composer
1780 - Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist
1788 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founded projective geometry
1802 - Gideon Welles, Secy Navy (Union), died in 1878
1804 - George Sand, France, (female) novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro)
1807 - Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer, endowed Clemson University
1810 - Walter White, secretary (NAACP)
1812 - Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dutch genealogist/heraldicus
1818 - Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist
1833 - Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General (Union Army)
1834 - Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908)
1840 - Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer
1844 - Verney L Cameroon, English explorer (Tanganyika)
1857 - Roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants)
1861 - Samuel D Riddle, horse owner (Man 'o War)
1863 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892)
1869 - William Strunk Jr., American grammarian (d. 1946)
1872 - Louis Bleriot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel
1873 - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (d. 1968)
1874 - Michel H Campen, author/critic (Bikoerim)
1879 - Leon Jouhaux, France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO (Nobel 1951)
1881 - Piet[er] L Kramer, architect (Amsterdam School)
1883 - Arthur Borton, English soldier (d. 1933)
1887 - Charles D Brown, Iowa, actor (Barefoot Boy, Disbarred, Night Editor)
1892 - James M Cain, Minneapolis Mn, novelist (Postman Always Rings Twice)
1893 - Walter Francis White, Atlanta Georgia
1896 - Pavel G Antokolski, Russian poet/director (Syn) [NS]
1898 - Andre-Marie Charue, bishop of Namen Belgium
1899 - Cavan O'Connor, singer
1899 - Charles Laughton, England, actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Spartacus)
1899 - Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr, fictional character "Indiana Jones"
1899 - Konstantinos Tsatsos Greek politician and president (1975-1980)
1901 - Irna Phillips, Chicago, created 6 soap operas (Guiding Light)
1901 - Sylvia Mary Paget Chancellor, philanthropist
1902 - Billy Wyler, director (Ben Hur, Mrs Miniver)
1902 - Jose Luis Sert, Spanish/US architect
1903 - Amy Johnson, British pilot
1903 - Beatrix Lehmann, England, actress (Candles at Nine, Staircase)
1904 - Mary Calderone, physician/founder (planned parenthood)
1906 - Edward Lansing Gordon Jr, Jackson Miss, long jumper (Olympic-gold-32)
1906 - Frank Parker, NYC, actor (Shawn-Days of our Life)
1906 - Estée Lauder, New York, NY, CEO (Estée Lauder cosmetics) (d. 2004)
1907 - Bill Stern, Rochester NY, sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights)
1908 - Paul Hardy, Belgian writer (Best of Painted Furniture)
1908 - Peter Anders, German opera singer
1908 - Peg Entwistle, Welsh actress (d. 1932)
1909 - Juan Carlos Onetti, novelist
1909 - Madge Evans, Manhattan NYC, TV panelist (Masquerade Party)
1909 - Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971)
1911 - Alvino Rey, Cleve Ohio, orchestra leader (King Family)
1911 - Sergei Sokolov, Soviet marshal
1912 - Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier
1912 - David Brower, environmentalist/president (Sierra Club)
1912 - Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer
1912 - Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989)
1913 - Jo Sinclair, writer
1914 - Cristyl Cranz, Germany, slalom (Olympic-gold-1936)
1914 - Earle Warren, alto sax player
1914 - Magda Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (People vs Zsa Zsa Gabor)
1915 - Jean Stafford, US writer (Boston Adventure, Lion & Carpenter)
1915 - Viscount Leverhulm, English large landowner (Unilever)
1915 - Willie Dixon, Vicksburg Missisipi, blues artist (Walkin' the Blues, Mellow Down Easy)
1915 - Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
1916 - Olivia de Havilland, Tokyo Japan, actress (Adventures of Robin Hood)
1919 - Hans Bender, German poet
1920 - Harold Sakata, American actor (d. 1982)
1921 - Seretse Khama, 1st premier/president of Botswana (Bechuanaland)
1923 - Constance Ford, actress (Ada Hobson-Another World)
1925 - Farley Granger, San Jose CA, actor (Arnold, Rope, Deathmask)
1926 - Franclaois-Regis Bastide, writer/broadcaster
1926 - Robert Fogel, Nobel laureate
1926 - Carl Hahn, German automotive executive
1927 - Hans Eklund, composer
1927 - Ruben Gomez, baseball player
1928 - Constance Ford, US actress (Cabinet of Calgary, Ada-Another World)
1928 - Volker Wangenheim, composer
1929 - Gerald M Edelman, US biochemist (Nobel 1972)
1930 - Andreas JAI Bruggeman, Dutch mayor (Schipluiden/Leiderdorp)
1930 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005)
1931 - Leslie Caron, Boulogne-Biliancourt France, actr (Lili, Father Goose)
1931 - Tab Hunter, actor (Tab Hunter Show, Lust in the Dust)
1932 - Bobby Day, [Robert Byrd], Fort Worth Tx, rock vocalist (Rockin' Robin)
1932 - Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (d. 2007)
1933 - Frank Baumann, baseball player
1933 - Peter Walwyn, British race horse trainer
1934 - Jamie Farr, Toledo Oh, actor (Klinger-M*A*S*H, AfterMASH)
1934 - Jean Marsh, London England, actress (Dark Places, Eagle has Landed)
1934 - Sydney Pollack, Lafayette, director (Tootsie, Presumed Innocent)
1934 - Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter
1935 - James Cotton, blues vocalist
1935 - Seiji Ozawa, [Fentian Shenyan], Manchuria, orchestra conductor
1937 - Ebrahim I Ebrahim, South African ANCer/Umkhonto we Sizwe-leader
1938 - Chester Watson, West Indian cricket fast bowler (early 60s)
1938 - Don Pavletich, baseball player
1938 - Craig Anderson, baseball player
1939 - Charles Hatcher, (Rep-D-GA, 1981- )
1939 - Delaney Bramlett, Oklahoma, rocker (Shindogs, Delaney & Bonnie)
1939 - Karen Black, American actress
1940 - Jack Acker, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1940 - Kenneth Clarke, British minister
1941 - John Gould, British composer/musical comic
1941 - Rod Gilbert, Canada, NHL wing (NY Rangers)
1941 - Sally Quinn, Georgia, CBS newscaster (Morning Show)
1941 - Twyla Tharp, Portland Ind, choreographer (Twyla Tharp Dance Troupe)
1941 - Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel laureate
1942 - Genevieve Bujold, Montreal, actress (King of Hearts, Choose Me, Coma)
1942 - Karen Black, [Ziegler], Park Ridge Ill, (5 Easy Pieces, Pyx)
1942 - William Carney, (Rep-R-NY, 1979-86)
1942 - Andraé Crouch, American singer
1943 - Jeff Wayne, musician
1945 - Deborah Harry, Miami Fla, singer (Blondie-Heart of Glass)
1945 - Mike Burstyn, Israeli-American actor
1946 - June Montiero, US, vocalist (Toys-A Lover's Concerto)
1946 - Ron Silver, NYC, actor (Gary-Rhoda, Entity, Silkwood, Best Friends)
1947 - Marc Benno, rocker
1947 - Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese racing driver
1949 - John Farnham, Australian singer
1950 - David Duke, American politician, K.K.K. member
1951 - Daryl Anderson, Seattle, actor (Animal-Lou Grant)
1951 - Fred Schneider, Newark Ga, vocalist/guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster)
1951 - Trevor Eve, Wales, actor (Shadow Chasers)
1951 - Anne Feeney, American protest singer
1951 - Terrence Mann, American actor and dancer
1952 - Dan Aykroyd, Ottawa Canada, comedian/actor (SNL, Dragnet)
1952 - Timothy J. Tobias, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
1953 - Henry Percy, 11th duke of Northumberland, godchild of Elizabeth II
1954 - Michael Daniel Reid, Bainbridge MD, PGA golfer (1987 Seiko Tucson)
1955 - Keith Whitley, Sandy Hook Ky, country singer (Don't Close Your Eyes)
1956 - Adrian Wright, rocker (Human League-Only Human)
1956 - Bill Caudill, baseball player
1956 - Lorna Patterson, Whittier California, actress (Airplane, Pvt Benjamin)
1956 - Alan Ruck, American actor
1957 - Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
1958 - Nancy Lieberman Cline, Bkln, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury) (Oly-S-76)
1959 - Anne Smith, Dallas TX, tennis star
1960 - Alan Ruck, Cleve Oh, actor (Stuart-Spin City)
1960 - Evelyn "Champagne" King, Bronx NY, disco singer (Shame, I'm in Love)
1960 - Lynn Jennings, Princeton NJ, 5k runner
1960 - Mike Fitzgerald, baseball player
1961 - Diana Spencer, Sandringham England, Princess of Wales, (d. 1997)
1961 - Kalpana Chawla, Karnal India, astronaut (STS 87)
1961 - Carl Lewis [Frederick], Birmingham Alabama, sprinter and long jumper (Oly-9 gold-84-96)
1961 - Malcolm Elliott, British cyclist
1962 - Andre Braugher, Chicago Ill, actor (Frank Pembleton-Homicide)
1963 - Edward Tsang Lu, Springfield Mass, astronaut (STS 84)
1963 - Roddy Bottum, LA California, rock keyboardist (Faith No More-Real Thing)
1964 - Mike Twardoski, baseball player
1964 - Poi Burton, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
1964 - Theresa Lynn, Louisville KY, actress (Orgasm Girl-Private Parts)
1965 - Luc Rochefort, Trois-Rivieres Que, golfer (1991 Low Amateur Quebec)
1966 - Eric Ball, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1966 - Larisa Savchenko, Neiland Latvia, tennis star
1966 - Patrick McEnroe, Manhasset NY, tennis star
1966 - Shawn Burr, Sarnia, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1966 - Simon Arkell, Australian pole vaulter (Olympics-17th-92, 96)
1966 - Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer
1967 - Dave Richardson, CFL tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1967 - Mike Eastwood, Ottawa, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 - Pamela Anderson Lee, Ladysmith BC, playmate (Feb 90/Home Improvement)
1967 - Tony Bennett, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1968 - Charles Wilson, NFL wide receiver (NY Jets)
1968 - Roshumba Williams, Chicago Ill, model (Bride)
1968 - Tim Abell, American actor
1969 - Gary Brown, NFL running back (Houston Oilers)
1969 - Graham Lloyd, cricketer (son of David, Lancashire batsman, Eng ODI 96)
1970 - Kevin O'Brien, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1970 - Nicky Goetze, Milwaukee Wisc, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 NCAA Acad)
1970 - Van Malone, NFL safety (Detroit Lions)
1971 - Darick Holmes, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Oleg Antonenko, hockey forward (Team Belarus, Olympics-1998)
1971 - Wanda Gonzalez, Miss Connecticut USA (1996)
1971 - Melissa Peterman [Melissa Margaret], Minneapolis, Minnesota, American actress (Reba, Fargo)
1971 - Julianne Nicholson, American actress
1971 - Steven W. Bailey, American actor
1971 - Jamie Walker, American baseball player
1972 - Corey Hirsch, Medicine Hat, NHL goalie (Vancouver Canucks)
1972 - Darrick Bledose, WLAF cornerback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Claire Forlani, English actress
1972 - Alex Machacek, Austrian musician
1973 - Malina Milson, Australian softball 1st baseman (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 - Michele Krasnoo, Culver City California, actress (Kickboxer IV)
1975 - Sufjan Stevens, American musician
1976 - Patrick Stephan Kluivert, Surinam/Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1976 - Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
1976 - Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
1977 - Liv Tyler, New York City, American actress and daughter of Aerosmith's frontman, Steven
           Tyler (Stealing Beauty)
1977 - Misty Marriah Esplin, Preston Idaho, Miss America-Idaho (1997)
1977 - Keigo Hayashi, Japanese music artist
1977 - Birgit Schuurman, Dutch musician
1978 - Eisa Istok, Miss Illinois Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Jacqie Turner, west Covina California, figure skater, 1997 SW Pacific-2nd
1978 - Vicki Renee Hughes, Miss New Mexico Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist
1980 - Patrick Aufiero, American hockey player
1981 - Tadhg Kennelly, Irish-born Australian Rules footballer
1981 - Demetria McKinney, American Actress
1982 - Carmella DeCesare, American model
1982 - Romola Garai, English actress
1982 - Justin Huber, Australian baseball player
1982 - Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1982 - Adrian Ward, American football player
1982 - Hilarie Burton, American actress
1983 - Marit Larsen, Norwegian musician (M2M)
1983 - Leeteuk, Korean singer
1988 - Evan Ellingson, American actor
1989 - Mitch Hewer, English actor
1989 - Hannah Murray, English actress
1992 - Bryant Jones, Camarillo Ca, actor (Nate Hastings-Young & Restless)

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This Day in History for 1st July


Famous Deaths

                 
Inventor Charles Goodyear (1860)            Actor Marlon Brando (2004)


251 - Decius, Roman Emperor (b. 207)
251 - Herennius Etruscus, joint Roman Emperor with father Decius (b. ca. 227)
868 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (b. 828)
1109 - King Alfonso VI of Castile (b. 1040)
1277 - Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1223)
1378 - Jan I V van Arkel, bishop of Utrecht/Luik, dies
1523 - Hendrik Voes, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake
1523 - John of Esschen, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake
1589 - Christophe Plantin, French/Belgian book publisher, dies
1592 - Marc A Ingegneri, Italian violinist/composer (Responsoria), dies
1614 - Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)
1622 - William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575)
1627 - Nathaniel Bacon, English painter, dies at 41
1662 - Simon Ives, composer, dies at 61
1681 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (b. 1629)
1691 - Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, composer, dies at 77
1708 - Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
1723 - Willem van de Pose, gov of Cape Colony (1699-1797), dies at about 59
1742 - Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Czech monk/composer, dies at 58
1774 - Henry Fox Holland, English corrupt politician, dies at 68
1776 - Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War
1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth 2nd marquis of Rockingham, dies at 52
1784 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach, dies at 73
1805 - Georg Ritschel, composer, dies at 60
1819 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1752)
1839 - Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39), dies at 53
1847 - George F Kersting, German painter, dies at 61
1860 - Charles Goodyear, American inventor, dies at 59
1863 - John Fulton Reynolds, Union general-major, dies in battle at 42
1883 - Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer, dies at 39
1885 - Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens), dies at 73
1894 - Julius PJA van Nyevelt, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 77
1894 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)
1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, US author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies at 85
1910 - Marius Petipa, Fren ballet dancer/choreographer (Casse-noisette), dies
1916 - William Booth, cricketer (WW I 2 Tests for England 1913-14), dies
1922 - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I mala voglia), dies at 81
1925 - Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, French composer (Dreamy Fish), dies at 59
1925 - Jan P Veth, Dutch painter/lithographer/art historian, dies at 61
1939 - Louis Davids [Simon David], cabaret performer/chorus performer, dies
1943 - Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed
1943 - C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed
1943 - Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1943 - Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1944 - Carl Mayer, actor (Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise), dies at 49
1947 - Clarence Lucas, composer, dies at 80
1949 - Louis Davids, [Simon David], cabaret artist, dies at 65
1950 - Edward Faber Schneider, composer, dies at 77
1950 - Eliel Saarinen, Fins/US architect (Chicago Trib building), dies at 76
1950 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (b. 1865)
1953 - Azzedine Bey, Tunisian heir to the throne, murdered
1953 - Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies
1958 - Apie [Adrian P] Prince, Dutch writer (I Go Me Own Way), dies
1958 - Harry Nicholls Holmes, Dr (crystallized vitamin A), dies at 78
1958 - Rudolf von Laban, Czech/Ger choreographer (modern dance), dies at 78
1961 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)
1963 - Camille Chautemps, premier France, dies
1964 - Pierre Monteux, French/US conductor (Concert Bldg Orch), dies at 89
1965 - Claude Thornhill, composer, dies at 55
1965 - Wally Hammond, South African cricketer (7,249 runs for England), dies
1968 - Dick Young, cricketer (England wicketkeeper v Aust 1907-08), dies
1968 - Virginia Weidler, actress (All This & Heaven Too), dies at 42
1971 - Lord Learie Constantine, WI cricketer (all-rounder & fielder), dies
1973 - Mario La Broca, composer, dies at 76
1974 - Juan D Peron, president of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies at 78
1976 - Anneliese Michel, German woman said to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
1978 - Kurt Student, German Luftwaffe general (b. 1890)
1979 - Richard Ward, actor (Beacon Hill), dies at 64
1980 - Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends & Associates), dies at 75
1981 - George Voskovec, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag), dies at 76
1981 - Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921)
1981 - Rushton Moreve, American bass player (b. 1948)
1982 - John Everett Watts, composer, dies at 51
1982 - Vera [A Veronica] Bondam, actress, dies at 86
1983 - R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87
1984 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born educator (b. 1904)
1986 - Roy Poole, actor (Winds of War), dies at 62
1987 - Snakefinger, British-born musician (b. 1949)
1988 - Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer, dies at 82
1988 - Lex van Delden, Dutch composer/writer, dies at 68
1989 - William Ching, actor (Moonlighter, Terror in Haunted House), dies
1990 - Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead), dies of cancer at 48
1990 - Jurriaan Schrofer, graphic designer, dies
1991 - Joost Baljeu, painter/founder-editor Structure, dies
1991 - Michael Landon, actor (Bonanza, Hwy to Heaven), dies of cancer at 54
1992 - Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer (Amarcord), dies
1992 - Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissauan politician (b. 1933)
1994 - Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies
1995 - Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer (leading Test scorer with 3471), dies
1995 - Ronald Farrow, radio producer/priest, dies at 49
1995 - Wolfman Jack, disc jockey (Midnight Special), dies at 57
1996 - Alfred Marks, actor (Fanny Hill, Desert Mice), dies at 75
1996 - Margaux Hemmingway, actress (Lipstick), dies at 41
1996 - Richard Michael Fraser, political administrator, dies at 80
1996 - Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright, dies at 53
1997 - Joshua Hassan, head of Gibraltar (1964-69, 72-87), dies
1997 - Robert Mitchum, actor (Winds of War), dies at 79
1999 - Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-born film director (b. 1908)
1999 - Guy Mitchell, American popular singer dies at 72
1999 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candy magnate (b. 1904)
1999 - Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
2000 - Sarah Payne, British murder victim (b. 1992)
2000 - Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
2003 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (b. 1930)
2003 - Wesley Mouzon, American boxer (b. 1927)
2003 - N!xau, Namibian actor (b. 1944)
2004 - Marlon Brando, actor ("The Godfather", "A Street Cart Named Desire" and "On the Water
           Front") dies at 80
2004 - Peter Barnes, English writer (b. 1931)
2004 - Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (b. 1909)
2005 - Luther Vandross, American singer, dies at 54
2005 - Obie Benson, American musician (b. 1936)
2006 - Fred Trueman, English cricketer (b. 1931)
2008 - Mel Galley, English guitarist (b. 1948)
2009 - Karl Malden, American actor (b. 1912)
2009 - Onni Palaste, Finnish writer (b. 1917)
2009 - Mollie Sugden, English actress (b. 1922)
2009 - Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan professional boxer (b. 1952)
2009 - Marwa El-Sherbini, Egyptian housewife (b. 1977 or 1976)
2010 - Ilene Woods, American actress (b. 1929)
2011 - Leslie Brooks, American actress (b. 1922)
2012 - Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano, dies at 86

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This Day in History for 2nd July


Historical Events

                                   
Inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin          Heavyweight Boxing Champion           Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley
                                                              Jack Dempsey

                                   
Dictator Fidel Castro                               Tennis Player Steffi Graf                        264th Pope John Paul II


311 - St Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope
626 - In fear of assassination, Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li
         Jiancheng in the Incident at Xuanwu Gate. On September 4, Shimin's father abdicates in his
         favour and Shimin becomes Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China.
706 - In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang has the remains of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, his wife
         and recently-deceased ruling empress Wu Zetian, her son Li Xian, her grandson Li Chongrun,
         and granddaughter Li Xianhui all interred in a new tomb complex outside Chang'an known as
         the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang.
963 - The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas to be Emperor of the Romans on the plains             
         outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
1140 - Hartbert becomes bishop of Utrecht
1214 - Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines (Angers), part of King John of England attempt to reclaim
           Normandy from France
1298 - Battle on Hasenbuhl (Gollheim) between German kings Adolf & Albrecht I
1555 - Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.
1561 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
1576 - Muitende Spanish soldiers conquer Zierik Sea
1578 - Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island.
1582 - Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
1600 - Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army
1613 - The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall.
1644 - Battle of Marston Moor: Parliamentary forces defeat royalists
1679 - Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by
           Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
1681 - Earl of Shaftesbury arrested for high-treason
1687 - King James II disbands English parliament
1698 - Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine
1776 - NJ gave all adults who could show a net worth of 50 pounds right to vote
1776 - Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are & of right ought to be Free &
           Independent States"
1777 - Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery
1787 - De Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered
1794 - 2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria
1808 - Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam
1823 - Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the
           Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
1843 - An alligator falls from sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm
1847 - Envelope bearing 1st US 10 cent stamps, still exists today
1849 - Garibaldi in Rome begins hunger strike
1850 - Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus
1858 - Partial emancipation of Russian serfs
1861 - Battle of Hoke's Run, WV - small Union victory
1862 - Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges
1863 - Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)
1863 - R Morgan's: Burksville, KY to Salineville, OH [->JUL 26]
1864 - Gen Early & Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Wash DC
1864 - Statuary Hall in US Capitol forms
1865 - William Booth founds Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation)
1867 - 1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC
1870 - Jules Joseph d'Anethan is elected the tenth Prime Minister of Belgium.
1881 - Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker
1885 - Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear
1890 - Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act
1894 - Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers
1900 - Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1st airship LZ-1, flies
1900 - Sibelius' "Finlandia," premieres in Helsinki
1900 - First zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1901 - Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner Montana
1902 - John J McGraw becomes manager of NY Giants (stays for 30 years)
1903 - AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later
1903 - Pitcher Jack Doscher, 1 son of a major leaguer debuts with Cubs
1906 - Yanks win by forfeit, for their 1st time
1916 - Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism
1916 - Russian offensive in Armenia
1917 - Riots in East St Louis Mo
1921 - 41st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Tilden beats B Norton (46 26 61 60 75)
1921 - Jack Dempsey KOs George S Carpentier in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1st million dollar
           gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier)
1926 - US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized
1927 - 40th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 64)
1927 - Earthquake hits Palestine
1928 - British parliament accept female sufferage
1932 - 52nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ellsworth Vines beats H Austin (64 62 60)
1932 - FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech
1933 - Carl Hubbell shuts-out Cards 1-0 in 18 innings without a walk
1934 - General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico
1935 - Great Britain boxers beat US team in 1st intl Golden Gloves
1937 - 57th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Don Budge beats G von Cramm (63 64 62)
1937 - Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean
1938 - 51st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (64 60)
1940 - Dutch PM Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory)
1940 - Hitler orders invasion of England (Operation Sealion)
1940 - Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated
1940 - PM Churchill meets gen-mjr B Montgomery
1940 - Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
1941 - DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56)
1941 - Earthquake hits Palestine
1941 - Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)
1941 - Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," premieres in London
1943 - Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126
1943 - Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning & beat Yankees 12-0
1943 - Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane
1944 - Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt
1946 - Dutch Beel government forms
1946 - Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam & Amsterdam
1947 - Military coup discovered in France
1948 - 62nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Falkenburg beats Bromwich (75 06 62 36 75)
1949 - "High Button Shoes" closes at Century Theater NYC after 727 perfs
1949 - "Red Barber's Clubhouse" sports show premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1949 - 56th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: L Brough beats M duPont (10-8 16 10-8)
1950 - Indian Bob Feller, wins his 200th game, 5-3 over Detroit
1950 - Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down.
1950 - Henri Queuille is elected the seventh Prime Minister of the Fourth French Republic.
1951 - Bill Veeck buys St Louis Browns from Bill & Charlie DeWitt
1951 - Bob & Ray show premieres on NBC radio
1951 - Hugo Yarnold stumps 6 at Dundee, Worcester v Scotland
1951 - Island advisor of Curacao installed
1951 - Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system
1952 - Princess Beatrice opens miniature city of Madurodam
1954 - 68th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Drobny beats K Rosewall (13-11 46 62 97)
1954 - Denis Compton scores 278 in 290 minutes v Pakistan
1955 - "7th Heaven" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 44 performances
1955 - "Almost Crazy" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 16 performances
1955 - "Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC
1955 - 10th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Fay Crocker
1955 - 62nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats B Fleitz (75 86)
1956 - Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" & "Don't Be Cruel"
1956 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1957 - 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
1957 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Le pelerinage De Lourdes
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1959 - "Plan 9 From Outer Space," one of the worse films ever, premieres
1960 - "Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 perfs
1961 - Maris hits 29th & 30th en route to 61 homers
1962 - Cubans minister of Foreign affairs RaulCastro arrives in Moscow
1962 - Fidel Castro visits Moscow
1963 - Giant Willie Mays' HR in 16th inning gives them a 1-0 win over Braves
1963 - Juan Marichal (Giants) beats Warren Spahn (Braves), 1-0 in 16 innings
1964 - Cilla Black records Beatle's "Its For You," McCartney plays piano
1964 - Grand jury indicts Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers
1964 - Pres Johnson signs Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act into law
1965 - 79th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle (62 64 64)
1966 - 1st France nuclear explosion on Mururoa atoll
1966 - 73rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Frasier (63 36 61)
1966 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1967 - 22nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Catherine Lacoste
1967 - Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) & 1st amateur to US
           Women's open golf tournament
1969 - Ireland bowl out WI for 25 at Londonderry, win by 9 wkts
1969 - Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain
1970 - 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam & Brussels
1970 - NY Yankees Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for 3rd time in 28 days
1971 - 78th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats M Smith (64 61)
1971 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 - "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 3242 perfs
1972 - 27th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
1972 - Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m
1972 - India & Pakistan sign peace accord
1973 - James R Schlesinger, ends term as 9th director of CIA
1973 - Nation Black Network begins operation on radio
1974 - Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81)
1976 - 83rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats E Goolagong (63 46 86)
1976 - Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam
1976 - Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
1977 - 91st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Connors (36 62 61 57 64)
1978 - Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start
1979 - Susan B Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman
1980 - Grateful Dead's Bob Weir & Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement
1980 - Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Yr
1982 - Larry Walters using lawn chair & 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000'
1982 - Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
1983 - 90th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats A Jaeger (60 63)
1985 - Andrei Gromyko appointed president of USSR
1985 - European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby)
1986 - After 14 wins, Roger Clemens suffer his 1st loss of year
1986 - General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile
1986 - Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings
1987 - Jim Eisenreich, comeback after nervous disorder in 1984
1987 - Nilde Iotti is named as the first female President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
1988 - 95th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Navratilova (57 62 61)
1989 - 10th US Seniors Golf Open: Orville Moody
1989 - 17th du Maurier Golf Classic: Tammie Green
1990 - Imelda Marcos & Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering
1990 - Panic in tunnel of Mecca: 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death
1991 - Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St Louis
1991 - Donald Trump proposes to Marla Maples and gives her a 7½ karat diamond ring
1992 - Braniff Airlines goes out of business
1993 - Boat sinks at Bocaue Philippines, 325 die
1993 - F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die
1993 - Kansas Royals rename stadium Ewing Kaufman Stadium after founder
1993 - Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36
1993 - NY Met Anthony Young loses a record 25th straight game (goes to 27)
1993 - Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test
1994 - 101st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: C Martinez beats Navratilova (64 36 63)
1994 - 37 dies in US Air DC-9 crash in NC
1994 - John Wayne Bobbitt & Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery
1994 - Richard Johnson takes 10-45 for Middlesex against Derbyshire
1994 - US Air DC-9 crash in NC, 37 killed
1995 - "Rose Tattoo" closes at Circle in the Square NYC after 80 perfs
1995 - 16th US Seniors Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf
1995 - Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1995 - Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins election
2000 - Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the
           Partido Acción Nacional after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido
           Revolucionario Institucional.
2001 - AbioCor self contained artificial heart created.
2002 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
2003 - Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, insults German MP Martin Schulz by calling him a
          "kapo" during a session of the European Parliament.
2004 - ASEAN Regional Forum accepts Pakistan as its 24th member.¨
2008 - Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other FARC hostages are rescued by the Colombian armed forces.
2010 - Oil tanker truck explosion in South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least
           230 people
2012 - GlaxoSmithKline settle the largest healthcare fraud case in history for US$3 Billion
2012 - Monsoon rain in East India kills at least 79 people and leaves 2.2 million homeless

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Famous Weddings

1932 - Platinum blonde screen goddess Jean Harlow (21) weds MGM producer Paul Bern (42)
1939 - Syndicated columnist Ann Landers (21) weds business executive Julius Lederer
1952 - Zulu-leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi marries Irene Mzila
1953 - British writer ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") Ronald Dhal marries American actress
           Patricia Neal
1955 - Desmond Tutu marries Leah Nomalizo Shinxani
1959 - Belgian Albert, Prince of Liège marries Dona Paola, Princess Ruffo di Calabria in Brussels
2004 - Actress Mira Sorvino (36) weds actor Christopher Backus (23) in a private civil ceremony at
           the Santa Barbara Courthouse
2010 - Miss California USA 2009 Carrie Prejean (23) weds Oakland Raiders quarterback Kyle Boller
          (29) in San Diego
2011 - Charlene Princess of Monaco (33) weds Prince Albert II of Monaco (53) at the Church of St
           Devote of Monaco

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Nobel Laureate Novelist                       First Black Supreme Court Justice        Comedian/Writer Larry David (1947)
Hermann Hesse (1877)                               Thurgood Marshall (1908)


419 - Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55)
1029 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (d. 1094)
1262 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
1363 - Mary, Queen of Sicily (d. 1401)
1489 - Thomas Cranmer, England, archbishop/reformer/martyr
1492 - Elizabeth Tudor, English princess (d. 1495)
1581 - Johann Staden, composer
1589 - Guillaume van Messaus, composer
1636 - Daniel Speer, composer
1644 - Abraham a Santa Clara, [Johann Megerle], German court vicar
1647 - Daniel Finch 2nd earl of Nottingham, English min of foreign affairs
1652 - Guillielmus "Willem" Kerricx, Flemish sculptor (Rozenkrans)
1665 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (d. 1726)
1667 - Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (d. 1740)
1698 - Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena (d. 1780)
1714 - Christoph W Ritter von Gluck, Austria composer (Il there pastore)
1724 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet
1737 - Francois Leonard Rouwyzer, composer
1746 - Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer
1756 - Christian G Korner, German lawyer/father of Karl
1763 - Peter Ritter, composer
1793 - Antoine Prumier, composer
1810 - Robert Augustus Toombs, Secy State (Confederacy), died in 1885
1814 - Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer
1819 - Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (d. 1900)
1820 - George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (d. 1878)
1821 - Charles Tupper, (C) 6th Canadian PM (1896)
1822 - Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails/trains)
1830 - John Bordenave Villepigue, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1834 - Hendry P G Quack, lawyer/economist/secr Dutch Bank
1836 - Henry Eugene Davies, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1847 - Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer (tectonic geology)
1849 - Maria Theresia of Austria-Este, queen of Bavaria (d. 1919)
1857 - Francesco Spetrino, composer
1862 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
1865 - Lili Braun, Prussia, feminist/socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen)
1867 - Herbert Prior, England, actor (Caught Short, Slave of Desire)
1876 - Wilhelm Cuno, German ship owner/republic chancellor (1922-23)
1877 - Hermann Hesse, Switzerland, novelist/poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946), (d.1962)
1880 - Albert Szirmai, composer
1881 - Royal H. Weller, American politician (d. 1929)
1882 - Edgar Mayne, cricketer (Australian batsman, prolific for Victoria)
1884 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
1887 - Marcel Tabuteau, Compiègne France, oboist (Phila Orch 1915-54)
1888 - Selman Waksman, Russ/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951)
1889 - Cor Hermus, Dutch actor/director/writer (A Mother)
1890 - Earl Roy Curry, religious thinker and Kirtland Temple overseer (d. 1980)
1892 - Jack Hylton, English orchestra leader/impresario (Crazy Passage Show)
1893 - August Maes, Flemish actor/director (Shylock-Hamlet)
1893 - Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center) (d. 1950)
1894 - Walter Brennan, Swampscott Mass, actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point)
1896 - Lydia Mei, Estonian artist (d. 1965)
1900 - Tyrone Guthrie, English actor (d. 1971)
1901 - Arthur Rex Alston, sports commentator
1903 - Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, (C) British PM (1963-64)
1903 - Olav AFEC of Schleswig-Holstein-S-G, King Olav V of Norway (1957-91)
1904 - Carl Weinrich, composer
1904 - Gerarda "Meik" Rueter, Dutch (sculptress, if that word exists)
1905 - Jean-Rene Lacoste, France, US Open (1926)/alligator shirt designer
1906 - Alan Webb, actor (King Lear, Taming of Shrew, Challenge of Lassie)
1906 - Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker
1906 - Robert Levine Sanders, composer
1907 - Eppo Doeve, Dutch cartoonist/painter
1907 - Leo O'Brien, cricketer (Australian batsman in 5 Tests 1932-36)
1908 - Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner
1908 - Thurgood Marshall, Baltimore Maryland, 1st black Supreme Court justice (1967-91), (d. 1993)
1909 - Hermann Bengtson, German historian (Greeks Ancient Times)
1910 - Earl Hawley Robinson, composer
1910 - Hans Gunther Adler, German writer
1910 - William Douglas Denny, composer
1911 - Diego Fabbri, Italian, playwright/leader (Vatican movie bureau)
1913 - Edith Heerdegen, Dresden Germany, actress (Serpent's Egg, Monpti)
1914 - Frederick Fennell, Cleveland Ohio, conductor (Time & Winds)
1914 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
1915 - 8th duke of Wellington, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1915 - Bert Decorte, Flemish poet
1916 - Barry Gray, [Bernard Yaroslaw], interviewer (started call-in radio)
1916 - Ken Curtis, [Curtis Gates], Lamar CO, actor (Ripcord, Festus-Gunsmoke)
1916 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Combat pilot and highest-decorated German soldier of WWII (d. 1982)
1917 - Pierre Dubois, Dutch literary
1918 - Imam Elissa, singer
1918 - Sheikh Iman, player/singer
1918 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (d. 2005)
1919 - Johnny Bradford, Long Branch NJ, actor (Ransom Sherman Show)
1919 - Jean Craighead George, American writer
1920 - Eliseo Diego, latin American poet
1922 - Dan Rowan, Beggs Oklahoma, comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in)
1922 - Genrikh Matusovich Vagner, composer
1923 - Wislawa Szymborska, Prowent, Poland, poet referred to as the 'Mozart of Poetry' (Nobel
          1996), (d. 2012)
1924 - Rick Besoyan, composer
1925 - Marvin Rainwater, Wichita Ks, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1925 - Patrice E Lumumba, Zaire, revolutionary/1st premier of Congo
1925 - Yasushi Akutagawa, composer
1926 - Billy Usselton, saxophonist
1926 - Lee Allen, Pittsburg, Ks, tenor sax (Walkin' With Mr Lee)
1926 - Octavian Paler, Romanian writer, journalist, (d. 2007)
1927 - Brock Peters, NYC, actor/singer (Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird)
1927 - Jerome Meyer, horse trainer
1927 - Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director
1928 - Estelita Rodriguez, Cuba, actress (Cuban Fireball, Havana Rose)
1928 - Pavel Kohout, Czech, director/author (Poor Murderer)
1929 - Imelda Marcos, politician/shoe collector/former 1st lady of Philippines
1929 - John A. Cade, American politician
1930 - Carlos Saul Menem, president of Argentina (1989- )
1931 - Robert Ito, Vancouver BC, actor (Sam-Quincy ME)
1932 - Dave Thomas, founder (Wendy's Restaurants)
1932 - Ken McMillan, Bkln NY, actor (Malone, Concrete Beat)
1932 - Sammy Turner, Paterson NJ, vocalist (Lavender Blue)
1933 - David Benjamin Lewin, composer
1933 - Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner
1934 - Ivan Madray, WI cricket leg-spin all rounder, 2 Tests 3 runs 0-108)
1935 - Dick Dolman, economist/Dutch politician 2nd Chamber
1935 - Ed Bullins, Phila, playwright
1935 - Gilbert Kalish, Brooklyn NY, pianist/professor (SUNY Stony Brook)
1936 - Omar Suleiman, Qena, Egypt, army general and intelligence officer, (d. 2012)
1937 - Dick Berardino, baseball player
1937 - Polly Holliday, Jasper Ala, actress (Flo-Alice, Flo-Flo)
1937 - Richard Petty, auto race driver (Daytona 500-1979,81)
1939 - John H Sununu, US Secretary of State (R, 1989-91)
1939 - M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster, US, sci-fi author (Gameplayers of Zan)
1939 - Michael N Castle, (Rep-R-Delaware)
1939 - Paul Williams, rocker (Temptations-My Girl)
1939 - Valeri Vasilyevich Illarianov, Russia, cosmonaut
1939 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet
1941 - Stéphane Venne, French Canadian songwriter
1942 - Georgi Ivanov, Bulgaria, cosmonaut (Soyuz 33)
1942 - Vicente Fox, Former Mexican president
1943 - Walter Godefroot, Belgian cyclist
1945 - James Orville Fulkerson, composer
1946 - Richard Axel, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1946 - Ron Silver, American actor
1947 - Ervin Hall, Phila, 100m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1968)
1947 - Larry David, Brooklyn NY, actor/comedian/writer (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm)
1947 - Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, daughter of Pres LBJ
1948 - Saul Rubinek, Canadian film actor
1948 - Gene McFadden, American songwriter (d. 2006)
1949 - Roy Bittan, rocker (E Street Band)
1949 - Hanno Pöschl, Austrian actor
1950 - Johnny Colla, California, rock sax (Huey Lewis & The News-Need a New Drug)
1951 - Joey Puerta, rocker (Ambrosia)
1951 - Michele Santoro, Italian TV journalist
1952 - Johnny Coila, rocker
1952 - Linda M Godwin, Cape Girardeau Mo, PhD/astronaut (STS 37, 59, 76)
1952 - Wayne Haner, rock bassist (Axe)
1953 - Tony Armas, baseball player
1954 - Wendy Schaal, Chicago Ill, actress (It's a Living, Julie-Fantasy Is)
1955 - Andrew Divoff, Venezuelan actor
1955 - Kevin Michael Grace, Canadian journalist
1956 - Jeffrey Cooper, rock guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1956 - Jerry Hall, Mesquite Tx, model/Mrs Mick Jagger (Batman, Freejack)
1956 - Leslie Reid, Vancouver BC, equestrian dressage (Olympics-96)
1957 - Mike Anger, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1958 - Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop
1959 - Eduardo Bengoechea, Argentina, tennis star
1959 - Hoogie Drexler, jockey
1959 - Wendy B Lawrence, Jacksonville Fla, astronaut (STS 67, 86, sk:91)
1960 - Julia Montgomery, Kansas City, Missouri, American actress (One Life to Live, Revenge of the
           Nerds)
1960 - Terry Rossio, American screenwriter
1961 - Alba Parietti, Torino Italy, actress (Galagoal, Abbronzatissima)
1961 - James McNichol, LA California, actor (Fitzpatricks, California Fever)
1961 - Pat Dufficy, Westerly RI, female catcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1961 - Michael Lindsay, Voice actor
1962 - Brandel Eugene Chamblee, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (1994 Honda-3rd)
1963 - Mark Kermode, British film critic
1964 - Dave Parsons, rocker (Transvision Vamp, Sham 69-That's Life)
1964 - DeAnne Hemmens, SF California, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1964 - Joe Magrane, baseball player
1964 - Jose Canseco, Havana Cuba, outfielder (Oak A's, Red Sox, 1988 AL MVP)
1964 - Shannon Ritter, jockey
1964 - Ozzie Canseco, Cuban-born American baseball player
1964 - Charles Robinson, American wrestling referee
1966 - Blaise Rhodes, Berwyn Heights MD, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1966 - Tim Spehr, Excelsior Springs MO, catcher (Montreal Expos)
1967 - Debee Ashby, Coventry England, topless model (There's Girl in My Soup)
1968 - Mark Tewsksbury, Canada swimmer (world record backstroke)
1968 - Mike Lee, Neptune NJ, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Tommy Armour Tour)
1969 - Matthew Cox, American convicted felon
1969 - Jenni Rivera, Long Beach, California, singer-songwriter (Jenni, 2008), (d. 2012)
1970 - Derrick Ralph Adkins, Brooklyn NY, 400m hurdler (Olympics-gold-96)
1970 - Colin Edwin, Australian musician (Porcupine Tree)
1970 - Scotty 2 Hotty, American wrestler
1970 - Monie Love, English rapper
1970 - Steve Morrow, Irish footballer
1971 - Jared Palmer, NYC, tennis star
1971 - Troy Brown, NFL wide receiver (NE Patriots)
1971 - Evelyn Lau, Canadian author
1972 - Towanna Stone, Miss USA-Tennessee (1997, 3rd)
1972 - Darren Shan, Irish children's author
1973 - Peter Kay, British comedian
1974 - Natali Sacco, Miss Universe-Peru (1996)
1974 - Sean Casey, American baseball player
1974 - Moon So-ri, South Korean actress
1974 - Rocky Gray, American musician
1975 - Catalina Cristea, Bucharest Rom, tennis star (1995 quarter Jakarta)
1975 - Daniel Kowalski, Singapore, Aust swimmer (Olympics-bronze/silver-96)
1975 - Eric Daze, Montreal Quebec, NHL left wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1975 - Erik Ohlsson, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
1976 - Krisztián Lisztes, Hungarian footballer
1976 - Ivan Tomić,Croatian buissnesman
1976 - Tomáš Vokoun, Czech hockey player
1977 - Shannan McCray, Miss District of Columbia Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Jüri Ratas, Estonian politician
1979 - Sam Hornish, Jr., American race car driver
1979 - Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer
1979 - Joe Thornton, Canadian hockey player
1980 - Nicole Manske, American beauty queen and motorsports television commentator
1981 - Angel Pagán, Puerto Rican baseball player
1981 - Alex Koroknay-Palicz, American youth rights activist
1981 - Aaron Voros, Canadian hockey player
1982 - Olivia Munn, American television hostess
1983 - Michelle Branch, American singer (The Wreckers)
1983 - Sammy J, Australian comedian
1984 - Vanessa Lee Chester, American actress
1984 - Thomas Kortegaard, Danish footballer
1984 - Maarten Martens, Belgian footballer
1984 - Johnny Weir, American figure skater
1985 - Rhett Bomar, American football player
1985 - Chad Henne, American football player
1985 - Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
1986 - Lindsay Lohan, actress (Alli Fowler-Another World)
1987 - Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (d. 2008)

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This Day in History for 2nd July


Famous Deaths

                                   
Astrologer/Prophet                                 British Prime Minister                             Nobel Laureate Author
Nostradamus (1566)                                 Robert Peel (1850)                                 Ernest Hemingway (1961)

 
Novelist Mario Puzo (1999)


783 - Bert(h)a/Berthrada, mother of Charles the Great, dies
862 - St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester(b. 789)
936 - Henry I the Vogelaar, German king (919-36)/duke of Saxon 912-36, dies
1298 - Adolf van Nassau, RC-German king (1292-98), dies in battle at about 43
1504 - Stephen III (Stefan the Great), ruler of Moldavia (1457-1504), dies
1566 - Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist, dies at 62
1582 - Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (b. 1528)
1591 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
1619 - Olivier de Serres, French farming pioneer (silkworms), dies
1621 - Thomas Harriot, English astronomer
1644 - William Gascoigne, introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24
1656 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b. 1611)
1663 - Thomas Selle, composer, dies at 64
1674 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
1684 - John Rogers, president of Harvard University (b. 1630)
1700 - Lambert Doomer, painter/cartoonist, dies at about 77
1708 - Willem of Nassau, mister of Zuylenstein/lt-gen/baron Enfield, dies
1743 - Spencer Compton earl of Wilmington, English minister of Finance, dies
1746 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656)
1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composer, dies at 66
1778 - Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer
1794 - Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65
1798 - John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies
1822 - Denmark Vesey, & 5 aides hanged at Blake's Landing, Charleston, SC
1833 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1757)
1843 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, dies at 88
1850 - Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM/founder London Police, dies at 62
1857 - Carlo Pisacane, Italian patriot (b. 1818)
1861 - Peter A de Genestet, vicar/poet, dies at 31
1863 - Stephen Hinsdale Weed, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28
1878 - Francois-Emmanuel-Joseph Bazin, composer, dies at 61
1895 - William Rockstro, composer, dies at 72
1903 - Ed Delahanty, American Hall of Fame baseball player (b. 1867)
1911 - Felix Mottl, composer, dies at 54
1912 - Tom Richardson, English cricketer (88 wickets in 14 Tests for England), dies (b. 1870)
1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, dies at 78
1915 - Gen Porfirio [Jose de la Cruz] Diaz, president Mexico, dies
1917 - Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor/director (Hamlet), dies
1918 - Mohammed V Resjad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18), dies
1920 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
1921 - Edwin Evans, cricketer (6 Tests for Australia), dies
1926 - Emile Coué, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion), dies
1929 - Gladys Brockwell, actress (Oliver Twist), dies at 34
1930 - Anders Randolf, actor (Love of Sunya, Dangerous Curves), dies at 59
1932 - Manuel II, last King of Portugal (1908-10), dies at 43
1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, french colonel, dies
1936 - Harry Northrup, actor (Who's Knocking at My Door), dies at 60
1937 - Amelia Earhart Putnam, Dutch pilot/1st female to fly Atl, dies at 40
1937 - Fred L Noonan, US navigator, disappeared over Pacific Ocean
1939 - Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor of Rotterdam (1906-22), dies
1940 - Ben[jamin] Turpin, US comic (Saps at Sea, His New Job), dies
1940 - Bertram Shapleigh, composer, dies at 69
1941 - Mohammad Baqa Jilani, cricketer (Test for India), dies at 29
1946 - Anthony Overton, publisher/cosmetics manufacturer/banker, dies at 81
1949 - Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria premier (1946-49), dies at 67
1951 - Earnest F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon, dies at 75
1952 - Henriette H Bosmans, Dutch cello player/pianist/composer, dies at 56
1955 - Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
1961 - Ernest Hemingway, American author and Nobel laureate, dies from suicide at 61
1964 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, biggest NASCAR money winner, dies in crash
1965 - Theodora E "Betsy" Ranucci-Beckmann, actress (Klatergoud), dies at 88
1966 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
1968 - Francis Brennan, US cardinal of Philadelphia, dies at 74
1969 - Michael DiBiase, wrestler (b. 1923)
1970 - Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies
1971 - Edward Ballantine, composer, dies at 84
1972 - Joseph F Smith Jr, leader US mormon chuch, dies at 95
1973 - Betty Grable, US actress (How to Marry a Millionaire), dies at 56
1973 - George Macready, US, actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place), dies at 73
1973 - Swede Savage, dies of injuries at Indianapolis 500
1973 - Chick Hafey, baseball player (b. 1903)
1973 - George McBride, baseball player (b. 1880)
1973 - Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1975 - James Robertson Justice, actor (DR at Large, Dr om Love), dies at 70
1976 - Frances Howard, actress (Swan, Shock Punch), dies at 73
1977 - Vladimir V Nabokov, Russian/US writer (Lolita), dies at 78
1978 - Aris Alexandrou, Greek novelist, poet and translator (b. 1922)
1981 - Robert Emmett Keane, actor (Rookie Cop, Red Dragon), dies
1982 - Poul Rovsing Olsen, composer, dies at 59
1984 - Ramiro Cortes, composer, dies at 50
1984 - Paul Dozois, Quebec politician (b. 1908)
1985 - David Purley, British Formula 1 driver (b. 1945)
1986 - Peanuts Lowrey, baseball player (b. 1917)
1987 - Karl Linnas, accused Nazi, dies of heart failure in Russia
1987 - Michael Bennet, choreographer (Chorus Line), dies of AIDS at 44
1989 - Franklin Schaffner, American film director (b. 1920)
1990 - Muntu Myeza, S Afr anti-apartheid activist, dies in auto at 39
1990 - Snooky Lanson, singer, dies at 76
1991 - Lee Remick, actress (Days of Wine & Roses), dies of cancer at 55
1992 - Borisav Pekic, Serbian writer/politician, dies
1992 - Edith Valckaert, Belgian violinist, dies at 42
1992 - Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer/Claudia Cardinale's husband, dies
1992 - Jose Monje, [Camaron de la Isla], Spanish flamenco singer, dies
1993 - Fred Gwynne, actor (Herman-Munsters), dies of pancreatic cancer at 66
1993 - Sir Edward Dunlop, Australian war hero (b. 1907)
1994 - Andres Escobar, Colombia world cup soccer star, shot for losing to US
1994 - Marion Williams, gospel singer, dies of diabetes at 66
1994 - Maung Maung, premier of Burma (1988), dies at 69
1994 - Ralph C Rinzler, folklorist (Greenbriar Boys), dies at 59
1995 - Gail Gordon, actor (Our Miss Brooks, Lucy Show), dies of cancer at 89
1995 - George Seldes, journalist, dies at 104
1995 - Gervase F Ashworth Jackson-Stops, architectural adviser, dies at 48
1995 - Krissy Taylor, model (17 Mag), dies of respitory problems at 17
1996 - Hugh Davson, physiologist/writer, dies at 86
1997 - Jimmy Stewart, actor (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 89
1999 - Mario Puzo, American author, dies at 78
2000 - Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
2002 - Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2004 - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese writer (b. 1919)
2004 - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (b. 1919)
2005 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
2006 - Jan Murray, American comedian (b. 1916)
2007 - Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (b. 1929)
2008 - Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician (b. 1956)
2008 - Elizabeth Spriggs, English-Born Actress (b. 1929)
2010 - Beryl Bainbridge, Author (b. 1932)
2011 - Itamar Franco, Brazilian politician (b. 1930)
2012 - Ben Davidson, American professional footballer and actor, dies from prostate cancer at 72

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Historical Events

                                   
First US President                                    Outlaw Jesse James                               32nd US President
George Washington                                                                                              Franklin Roosevelt

                                   
Tennis Great John McEnroe                  Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry                Tennis Player Steffi Graf


324 - Battle of Adrianople Roman Emperor Constantine I defeats Co-Emperor Licinius, who flees to
         Byzantium.
683 - St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
987 - Hugo Capet crowned king of France
1090 - Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II
1187 - Crusaders enter Tiberias
1250 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in
           Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
1428 - Treaty of Delft-between Jacoba of Bayern & Philip the Good
1608 - Samuel de Champlain founded city of Quebec
1630 - Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament
1661 - Portugal gives Tanger & Bombay to English King Charles II
1720 - Sweden & Denmark sign peace treaty
1754 - George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War)
1767 - Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage
           commanded by Philip Carteret.
1767 - Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this
           date).
1775 - Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
1778 - British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa
1778 - Prussia declares war on Austria
1806 - Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
1814 - Americans capture Fort Erie Canada
1816 - French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm
           seas
1819 - 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
1839 - 1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students
1841 - John Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it
           causes in the motion of Uranus
1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
1848 - Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)
1849 - The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a
           major obstacle to Italian unification.
1852 - Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, California)
1853 - Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan
1861 - Colonel Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general
1861 - Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
1861 - Martinsburg, VA - Confederate forces pull out before US advance
1863 - Battle of Donaldsonville, LA
1863 - Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North
1864 - Battle of Chattahoochie River, GA [until Jul 9]
1864 - Harpers Ferry, WV - Federals evacuate in face of Early's advance
1871 - Jesse James robs bank in Corydon, Iowa ($45,000)
1876 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey
1883 - SS Daphne sinks on Clyde River Scotland; 195 die
1884 - Dow Jones published it's 1st stock avg
1886 - 1st NY Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine
1886 - In Germany, Karl Benz drives 1st automobile
1888 - NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak
1890 - Idaho admitted as 43rd US state
1890 - King Leopold II gives Congo to Belgium
1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Black Peter" (BG)
1898 - American troops captured deserted Wake Island
1898 - Dutch Automobile Club forms (KNAC)
1898 - Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe
1898 - US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba
1902 - Excelsior soccer team forms in Rotterdam
1905 - Kuyper government forms in Holland
1905 - Marvin Hart KOs Jack Hart in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1907 - Pope decree forbids modernization of theology
1911 - Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day
1912 - NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak
1913 - Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed
           the Atlantic)
1913 - Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching
           the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of
           friendship from Union survivors.
1915 - US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934
1916 - 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die)
1917 - Spontaneous demonstration at Tauride-palace Petrograd
1918 - SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament
1920 - 40th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Patterson (26 63 62 64)
1920 - Java Technical School Bandung opens
1920 - Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England
1923 - Harbor strike in Hull/Grimsby/Cardiff/Bristol over to London
1925 - 38th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Joan Fry (62 60)
1927 - 47th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: H Cochet beats Borotra (46 46 63 64 75)
1928 - 1st color TV broadcast in London (John Logic Baird)
1929 - Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
1930 - Veterans Administration created
1931 - 51st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Sid Wood Jr beats F X Shields (walkover)
1931 - Max Schmeling TKOs Young Stribling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1932 - 1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2
1932 - John McGraw retires from baseball
1934 - FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL
1936 - Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge U v MCC
1938 - President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal
           flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
1939 - Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler
1939 - Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech
1940 - ARP-leader/ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany
1940 - British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa
1940 - German occupiers forbids using Dutch royal names
1942 - Germany troop march into Sebastopol
1942 - Hitler visits fieldmarshal Von Bocks headquarter/d into/d Ukraine
1943 - Liberator bombers sinks U-628
1944 - Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore
1944 - US V-III-E Army corp opens assault on Coutances Cotentin
1946 - 1st Dutch government of Beel forms
1947 - 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC
1947 - Cleveland Indians purchase Larry Dolby, the 1st black in AL
1947 - Soviet Union doesn't partake in Marshall Plan
1948 - 55th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats Doris Hart (63 86)
1948 - Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death
1950 - 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in Korean War
1950 - Casey Stengel asks Joe DiMaggio to play 1st base (handles 13 chances)
1951 - 33rd PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa
1952 - Puerto Rico's constitution approved by US Congress
1953 - 67th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Vic Seixas beats Kurt Nielsen (97 63 64)
1954 - "Wonderful Town" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 559 perfs
1954 - 61st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (62 75)
1954 - 9th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
1954 - Food rationing ends in Britain
1958 - "Andy Williams Show" premieres on ABC (later on CBS & NBC)
1959 - 73rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Alex Olmedo beats Rod Laver (64 63 64)
1959 - 88th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 284 at Muirfield Gullane
1962 - Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5)
1964 - 78th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Stolle (64 12-10 46 63)
1965 - 72nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats M Fraiser (64 75)
1965 - Phillies Dick Allen & Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice
1965 - USSR & Persia sign dam building & economic aid pact
1966 - 21st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Spuzich
1966 - Brave pitcher Tony Cloninger, is 1st NL to hit 2 grand slams in a game
1966 - Race riots in Omaha Nebraska
1967 - "News at 10" premieres on English TV
1968 - 41°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
1968 - Cleve Indian Luis Tiant strikes out 19 Minnesota Twins
1969 - 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI
1970 - 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival
1970 - 77th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats King (14-12 11-9)
1970 - British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed
1970 - California Angels Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0
1971 - 85th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Newcombe beats S Smith (63 57 26 64 64)
1973 - Brothers Jim & Gaylord Perry face each other for only time, Tigers beat Indians 5-4, as
           Gaylord loses
1973 - General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA
1974 - Pitching in major league-record 13th consecutive game for Dodgers
1974 - Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3
1974 - Mike Marshall saves Tommy John's 4-1 win
1976 - 90th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Ilse Nastase (64 62 97)
1976 - Adolfo Suarez becomes premier of Spain
1976 - After 12 years, Brian Wilson performs with the Beach Boys
1976 - Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in
           Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers
1977 - 5th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Judy Rankin
1977 - Turkey: premier Ecevit goes off
1977 - The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded.
1978 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1978 - Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for
           broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words"
1980 - 1st US Seniors Golf Open: Roberto deVicenzo
1980 - 73,096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0
1981 - 88th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Mandlikova (62 62)
1981 - NYC transit fare rises from 60 cents to 75 cents, new brass Y-cut-out token
1982 - 89th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (61 36 62)
1982 - Riot at building Stopera Amsterdam (damages Ÿ1 million)
1983 - 11th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Hollis Stacy
1983 - 97th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Chris Lewis (62 62 62)
1983 - Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (9.93 for 100m)
1983 - Rangers explode for 12 runs in 15th inning of a 16-4 win over the A's
1984 - Derek Underwood's maiden FC century after 22 yrs of trying
1984 - Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island
1984 - Greenidge scores brilliant 214 off 241 balls to win Lord's Test
1984 - Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
1985 - CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover
1986 - Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves
1986 - Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty
1987 - 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic
1987 - NY Met Darryl Strawberry threatens teammates Wally Backman & Lee Mazzilli for criticizing his
           play
1988 - 16th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sally Little
1988 - A's Gene Nelson is 1st AL pitcher to steal a base since 1973
1988 - US Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290
1988 - The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second
           connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.
1989 - Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3k steeplechase rec (8:05.39) in Stockholm
1989 - Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions
1989 - The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million (10 days)
1990 - Members of 2 Live Crew formally charged with obscenity in Florida
1991 - Gateway Board of Trustees approve a 20-year lease with Cleve Indians
1993 - 100th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats J Novotna (76 16 64)
1993 - Boon completes 16th Test Cricket century, 101 at Trent Bridge
1994 - 108th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: P Sampras beats G Ivanisevic (76 76 60)
1994 - 15th US Seniors Golf Open: Simon Hobday
1994 - 30 die in 3 fatal auto accidents in Texas
1994 - Romania eliminates Argentina 3-2 in soccer world cup
1994 - Tammie Green wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1994 - The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
           Forty six people were killed in crashes.
1996 - Stone of Scone returned to Scotland.
1997 - Mississippi becomes 1st state to settle tobacco suit
2001 - A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia
           killing 145 people.
2004 - Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
2005 - The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.
2006 - Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth.
2009 - Mark II.5 Skytrain cars enter service in Metro Vancouver.
2012 - Truck bombing kills 25 people and wounds 40 in Diwaniyah, Iraq
2012 - Antonio Esfandiari wins a record $18.3 million in poker after winning the 2012 World Series of
           Poker $1,000,000 Buy-In

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Famous Weddings

1468 - Charles the Stout, Duke of Burgundy marries Princess Margaret of York
1960 - Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) weds Dee Alliot
1992 - Gary Dell'Abate (Howard Stern Show) marries Mary
1992 - Mass Senator Ted Kennedy marries Victoria Reggie (38)
1993 - Prince Alois of Liechtenstein weds Duchess Sophie of Bavaria
2004 - Actress Tori Spelling (31) weds actor-writer Charlie Shanian (35) at her parents 56,000-
           square foot mansion in Bel Air, California
2004 - The Bachelor actor Bob Guiney (33) weds "All My Children" soap opera actress Rebecca Budig
           (31) in Long Lake, Michigan
2010 - "The Office" actress Jenna Fischer (36) weds screenwriter Lee Kirk (38) in Malibu

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Famous Divorces

1929 - American Playwright and 1936 winner Nobel prize for literature Eugene O'Neill divorces 2nd wife
           novelist Agnes Boulton after 11 years of marriage

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Playwright Tom Stoppard (1937)                 Actor Tom Cruise (1962)                             Wikileaks founder
                                                                                                                                  Julian Assange (1971)


1423 - Louis XI, King of France (1461-83)
1442 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1530 - Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)
1567 - Samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain)
1676 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)
1683 - Edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint)
1685 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)
1687 - Arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch)
1728 - Robert Adam, architect/designer (Adelphi Terrace, London)
1731 - Samuel Huntington, (Gov-Ct), Continental Congress pres
1738 - John Singleton Copley, Mass, finest colonial American artist
1743 - Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1813)
1793 - John Claire, England, poet
1794 - Eberhard F Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt)
1796 - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [NS]
1802 - Joseph Labitzky, composer
1814 - Janis Cimze, composer
1819 - Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer
1821 - F Kornberger, writer
1828 - John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1846 - Achilles Alferaki, composer
1850 - Alfredo Kiel, composer
1854 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
1855 - Piotr Maszynski, composer
1860 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist
1860 - William Wallace, composer
1861 - Peter Jackson, heavyweight boxer (hall of famer)
1862 - Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer
1866 - Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter
1870 - Richard B Bennett, (C) 11th Canadian PM (1930-35)
1871 - Vicente Arregui Garay, composer
1872 - Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistam (1901-19)
1874 - Apirana Turupa Ngata, Kawaka NZ, Maori political/cultural leader
1875 - Ernst F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon
1878 - George M Cohan, actor/singer (Phantom Pres, Give My Regards to Bdwy)
1879 - Philippe Gaubert, composer
1879 - Alfred Korzybski, Polish linguist (d. 1950)
1880 - Carl Schuricht, composer
1881 - Leon Errol, Australian actor (Ziegfeld Follies, What a Blonde!)
1883 - Alfred Korzybski, Poland, scientist (Science & Sanity)
1883 - Franz Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika)
1883 - Moses Leverock Crossley, US bio-chemist
1886 - Raymond A Spruance, US admiral/fleet commander/ambassador
1892 - Wilhelm Rettich, composer
1893 - Mississippi John Hurt, Teoc Mississippi, American blues singer and guitarist
1895 - Oles' Semyonovich Chishko, composer
1896 - Doris Lloyd, actress (Bachelor Father, Charley's Aunt, Sarah & Son)
1899 - Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer
1899 - Otto Reinhold, composer
1900 - John Mason Brown, Louisville Ky, critic (Tonight on Broadway)
1902 - Jack Newman, NZ cricket lefty pace bowler (1932-33, later knighted)
1903 - Jean du Bela, [Simon Buytekant], singer/actor (Chaste Susanna)
1906 - Francis Steegmuller, US, biographer (Cocteau)
1906 - George Sanders, Russia, actor (All About Eve-Academy Award 1950)
1906 - Gwendolen Rees, zoologist
1906 - Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (d. 1952)
1907 - Arthur Steel, Dutch architect (Group '32)
1907 - Gene Gutche, composer
1908 - Thomas Narcejac, Rochefort-sur-Mer France, writer (Vertigo)
1908 - M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
1908 - Robert B. Meyner, American politician (d. 1990)
1909 - Earl L Butz, US Secretary of Agriculture (1971-76); a real Butz
1909 - Lucy Kroll, entertainment agent
1909 - Stavros Niachos, Greece, shipping magnate (Those Fabulous Greeks)
1910 - Bernard Burrows, British diplomat
1910 - Eric Franklin, Indian civil servant
1911 - Joe Hardstaff Jr, cricketer (son of Joseph, 23 Tests for England)
1912 - Edward Jones, North Ireland lord justice of appeals
1913 - Hugh Stirling MacKenzie, British vice admiral
1913 - William Deakin, warden (St Anthony's College Oxford)
1917 - Helene Cordet, entertainer/nightclub owner
1917 - João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (d. 1990)
1918 - Lord Mulley, British MP (Labour)
1920 - John Ayers Lessard, composer
1920 - Louise Allbritton, Oklahoma City, actr (Celia-Stage Door, Got a Secret)
1921 - Susan Peters, Spokane WA, actress (Random Harvest, Young Ideas)
1922 - Art Fowler, baseball player
1922 - Corneille [Cornelis G of Beverloo], Dutch painter (Africa, Antilles)
1922 - Francois Reichenbach, French director (La douceur du Village)
1922 - Tom Hudson, artist/teacher
1923 - Baroness Ryder, of Warsaw & Cavendish, worked for sick & disabled
1923 - Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist
1923 - William Mills, painter
1924 - Geoffrey Sammons, senior partner (Allen & Overy)
1924 - S. R. Nathan, 6th president of Singapore
1925 - Michael Oliver, cardiologist
1926 - Johnny Coles, trumpeter
1926 - Joseph M Gaydos, (Rep-D-PA, 1969- )
1926 - William Roll, Bremen, Germany, parapsychologist (The Poltergeist, Unsolved Mysteries), (d.
           2012)
1927 - Charles Vandenhove, Belgian architect (Standard-Omnisporthal, Luik)
1927 - Ken Russell, England, director (Tommy, Altered States, Gothic)
1927 - William McMillan, moderator (Gen Assembly of Church of Scot) [or 1/29]
1928 - Evelyn Anthony, English historical writer (Poellenberg Inheritance)
1928 - G B Fuchs, writer
1928 - John Wills, lord-lt of Avon England
1929 - Eustace Gibbs, vice marshal (Diplomatic Corps)
1930 - Carlos Kleiber, Berlin Germany, conductor (Bavarian State Orch 1968)
1930 - Pete Fountain, New Orleans, jazz clarinetist (Lawrence Welk 1957-59)
1931 - Andres Burnier, [Catharina Dessaur], criminologist/author (Jongensuur)
1933 - Edward Brandt, American doctor and public health official (d. 2007)
1934 - Manfred Bieler, writer
1935 - Harrison H "Jack" Schmitt, Santa Rita NM, astronaut (Apollo 17)
1935 - John Swan, PM (Bermuda)
1936 - Anthony Lester, CEO (Runnymede Trust)
1936 - Eric Russell, cricketer (England opening batsman early 60s)
1937 - Tom Stoppard, Zlin Czech, playwright (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern-1968 Tony)
1938 - David Gandolfo, horse trainer
1938 - Shin Geum Dan, North Korea, 400m/800m runner (1962 world record)
1939 - Jay Tarses, Balt Md, actor/writer (Open All Night, Duck Factory)
1940 - Cesar Tovar, baseball player
1940 - Fontella Bass, St Louis Mo, vocalist (Rescue Me)
1940 - Heather Steel, British judge
1940 - Lance Larson, US, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-silver-1960)
1940 - Lamar Alexander, American politician
1941 - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, cinematographer (Kathapurushan, Mathulikal)
1941 - Gloria Allred, feminist attorney
1941 - Wylie Walker Vale, Houston, Texas, Endocrinologist who discovered the stress hormone
1942 - Paco Stanley, Mexican TV personality (d. 1999)
1943 - Kurtwood Smith, New Lisbon, Wisconsin, American actor (That '70s Show, Robocop)
1943 - Gary Waldhorn, actor (To the Camp & Back)
1943 - Geraldo Rivera, [Gerry Rivers], NYC, news personality (20/20, Geraldo)
1943 - Judith Durham, singer
1943 - Norman E Thagard, Marianna Fl, MD/astro (STS 7, 51-B, 30, 42, 71, Mir)
1944 - Paul Young, actor (Another Time Another Place)
1945 - Iain MacDonald-Smith, England, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968)
1945 - Michael Cole, Madison Wisc, actor (Pete-Mod Squad)
1945 - Michael Martin, MP
1947 - Betty Buckley, Big Springs Tx, actress (Abby-8 is Enough, 1776, Cats)
1947 - Dave Barry, American humorist and author
1948 - Peter Ruzicka, composer
1948 - Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist
1949 - Jan Smithers, N Hollywood California, actress (Bailey-WKRP)
1949 - Susan Penhaligon, Manilla Philippines, actress (Dracula, Nasty Habits)
1949 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave) (d. 2006)
1950 - Damon Harris, Balt Md, rocker (Temptations-My Girl), (d. 2013)
1950 - Ewen Chatfield, NZ cricketer pace bowler (1975-89)
1950 - James Hahn, American politician
1951 - Mike Corby [Michael John], Windsor, Berkshire, English guitarist/keyboardist (The Babys)
1951 - Jean-Claude Duvalier, [Papa Doc], deposed Haitian president-for-life
1951 - Richard Hadlee, Christchurch, NZ, cricket bowler (431 wickets)
1952 - Alan Autry, NFLer (Green Bay Packers)/actor (Heat of the Night)
1952 - Bill Badgett Jr, horse trainer
1952 - Wasim Raja, cricketer (bro of Rameez, Pakistani lefty bat & leggie)
1953 - Alynne Beth Amkraut, Amityville NY, entertainer
1953 - Frank Tanana, baseball pitcher (California Angels)
1954 - Debbie Skinner, LPGA golfer
1955 - Julia Lyndon, Buffalo NY, playmate (August, 1977)
1955 - Matt Keough, baseball player (Oakland A's, NY Yankees)
1955 - Neil Clar, rock guitarist (Lloyd Cole & The Commotions)
1955 - Sanma Akashiya, Japanese television performer
1956 - Eddie Edwards, South Africa, tennis star
1956 - Montel Williams, TV talk show host (Montel)
1956 - Don Vito, American Viva La Bam castmember
1957 - Danny Heep, baseball player
1957 - Faye Resnick, author (Nicole Brown Simpson-Private Diary)
1957 - Laura Branigan, Brewster NY, vocalist (Gloria)
1957 - Orel Hershiser, Buffalo NY, pitcher (LA Dodgers, Cleveland Indians)
1958 - Aaron Tippin, Pensacola Fl, singer (You've Got to Stand for Something)
1958 - Robert Foth, Buffalo NY, air rifle (Olympics-1988, 92, 96)
1958 - Matthew Fraser, Canadian-British journalist
1958 - Siân Lloyd, Welsh weather presenter
1959 - Andreas Wisniewski, Berlin German FR, actor (Living Daylights)
1959 - Stephen Pearcy, LA California, heavy metal vocalist (RATT-Round & Round)
1959 - Stoyan Deltchev, Bulgaria, horizontal bar gymnist (Olympic-gold-1980)
1960 - Jack Daugherty, baseball player
1961 - Liz Stewart, SF California, playmate (July, 1984)
1961 - Vince Clarke, Basildon Essex, rock keyboardist (Erasure)
1961 - Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese dancer
1961 - Tim Smith, English musician (Cardiacs)
1962 - Taylor Dayne, [Lesley Wunderman], NY, vocalist (Tell it to My Heart)
1962 - Thomas Gibson, actor (Dr Daniel Nyland-Chicago Hope)
1962 - Tom Cruise, Syracuse, actor (Risky Business, Jerry MaGuire, Rainman)
1962 - Hunter Tylo, American actress
1963 - Tracey Emin, Croydon England, English artist
1963 - Don August, baseball player
1964 - Gary Ryan, rocker (Blackhearts)
1964 - Joe Hamorski, Peru IN, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Greater Greenville-9th)
1964 - Louis Clark, NFL receiver (Seattle)/WLAF coach (Amsterdam Admirals)
1964 - Pia Reyes, Manila Philipines, playmate (Nov, 1988)
1964 - Warren Newson, Newnan GA, outfielder (Texas Rangers)
1964 - Joanne Harris, British author
1964 - Yeardley Smith, French-born American actress
1965 - Arno Hofstede, Dutch soccer player (Willem II, Go Ahead Eagles)
1965 - Bobby Gage, Winsted CA, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE Wichita Open-16th)
1965 - Dan Land, NFL cornerback/safety (Oakland Raiders)
1965 - Greg Vaughn, Sacramento CA, outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers, SD Padres)
1965 - Shinya Hashimoto, wrestler (NJPW)
1965 - Vinson Smith, NFL linebacker (Chic Bears)
1966 - Moises Alou, Atlanta GA, outfielder (Montreal Expos)
1966 - Neil O'Donnell, NFL quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1967 - Amy Van Horne, actress (Carla Solieto-The City)
1967 - Brian Cashman, American major league baseball executive
1968 - Jeff Phillips, Westwood NJ, actor (Hart Jessup-Guiding Light)
1968 - Teppo Numminen, Tampere Fin, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets, Coyotes)
1969 - Elan Carter, Nutley NJ, playmate (June, 1994)
1969 - Kevin Hearn, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 - Preston Jones, WLAF quarterback (London Monarchs)
1970 - Teemu Selanne, Helsinki Fin, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1970 - Victor Bailey, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs)
1970 - Shawnee Smith, American actress
1970 - Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist
1971 - Terry Irving, NFL outside linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Julian Assange, Queensland, Australia, Wikileaks founder
1972 - Leigh Andrew-Pearso, North Vancouver BC Canada, 470 yachter (Oly-96)
1972 - Ontiwaun Carter, WLAF running back (Rhein Fire)
1973 - Adrian Aucoin, Ottawa, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1973 - Devin Bush, NFL strong safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 - Fred Rodriguez, Bogota Colombia, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1973 - Johnny Terris, Canadian actor and director
1973 - Patrick Wilson, American actor
1974 - Jamie Feick, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks)
1975 - Jennifer Salinas, Miss USA-Illinois (1997)
1975 - John Hargis, US, Little Rock Ark, 100m butterfly (Olympics-96)
1975 - Keri Houlihan, Penn, actress (Molly-Our House)
1976 - Andrea Barber, actress (Kimmy Gibbler-Full House)
1976 - Henry Olonga, cricketer (1st black Zimbabwe Test cricketer v Pak 1995)
1976 - Shane Lynch, Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1976 - Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1976 - Bobby Skinstad, Springbok Rugby player
1977 - Ludmila Richterova, Kosice Slovakia, tennis star
1979 - Lauren Alviti, Miss Rhode Island Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Greek footballer
1979 - Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
1979 - David Bacani, American baseball player
1980 - Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer
1980 - Kevin Boyle, American basketballer
1982 - Kanika, Indian actress
1983 - Steph Jones, American singer and model
1984 - Syed Rasel, Bangladeshi cricketer
1984 - Corey Sevier, Canadian actor
1984 - Manny Lawson, American Football player
1985 - Minami Keisuke, Japanese singer and actor.
1987 - Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 3rd July


Famous Deaths

   
The Witch of Wall Street
Hetty Green (1916)


683 - Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies
1090 - Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle
1570 - Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67
1642 - Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69
1672 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
1704 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
1749 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies
1778 - Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
1795 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
1795 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
1801 - Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56
1809 - Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)
1816 - Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65
1858 - Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
1862 - William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40
1863 - Alonzo Hersford Cushing, US Union lt, dies in battle at about 22
1863 - Lewis Addison Armistead, Confederate brigadier general Gettysburg/dies in battle at 46
1863 - Little Crow, [Ta-oya-te-duta], Santee Sioux indian chief, dies
1863 - Richard Brooke Garnett, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 45
1863 - Samuel Kosciuzko Zook, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 40
1863 - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
1873 - Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer, dies at 57
1891 - Stefano Golinelli, composer, dies at 72
1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist/Zionist, dies
1904 - Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
1908 - Joel Chandler Harris, created Uncle Remus, dies at 59
1910 - Julius Slabbe, Belgian writer, dies
1910 - Mordecai Sherwin, English cricket wicketkeeper (Aust 1886-88), dies
1916 - Henrietta (Hetty) Green, (Witch of Wall Street), dies at 81
1918 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
1933 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
1934 - Henry WAE, Prince of Netherlands/father of Queen Juliana, dies
1935 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
1940 - George Shepstone, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1896-99), dies
1942 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)
1948 - Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch SDAP-politician, dies at 90
1948 - Quintin McMillan, cricketer (13 Tests for South Africa), dies
1952 - Daniel Zamudio, composer, dies at 64
1952 - Henriette Bosmans, composer, dies
1954 - Siegfried Handloser, German physician (b. 1895)
1957 - Richard Mohaupt, German composer (Bucolica), dies at 52
1957 - Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
1960 - Alfred Henry Ackley, composer, dies at 73
1965 - Clarence Loomis, composer, dies at 75
1965 - Trigger, horse (Roy Rogers), dies at 25
1966 - Andre Gailhard, composer, dies at 81
1966 - Cornelis "Kees" Boeke, theorist, dies at 81
1966 - Joseph Deems Taylor, composer, dies at 80
1967 - John Clark, actor (Last Day of the War), dies at 50
1969 - Brian Jones, guitarist (Rolling Stones), drowns to death at 25
1969 - Hermann Grabner, composer, dies at 83
1971 - Jim Morrison, rock singer (Doors), dies of heart failure at 27
1971 - Ricci Riano, entertainer, dies after long illness at 71
1972 - Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist, dies at 68
1973 - Charles Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto), dies at 63
1974 - John C Ransom, US poet (World's Body), dies
1976 - Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train), dies at 58
1977 - Hugh Le Caine, composer, dies at 63
1977 - Mohammed al-Zahaby, Egyptian minister, murdered
1978 - James Daly, actor (Medical Center), dies at 59
1979 - Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
1981 - Ross Martin, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West), dies at 61
1982 - Henry King, US director (Song of Bernadette, Gunfighter), dies
1984 - Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85
1985 - Frank Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (b. 1893)
1986 - Rudy Vallee, singer (Vagabond Dreams), dies at 84
1987 - Viola Dana, actress (Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover), dies at 90
1988 - Gabriel Dell, actor (Dead End Kids), dies of leukemia at 68
1989 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday
1989 - Jim Backus, actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island), dies at 76 of pneumonia
1990 - Ludi Claire Hugo, entertainer, dies at 70
1990 - Maurice Girodias, French publisher, dies at 71
1991 - Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer, dies at 77
1992 - Arline Bletcher, entertainer, dies of natural causes at 99
1992 - Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II), dies at 66
1993 - Don Drysdale, American Major League Baseball player, dies of a heart attack at 56
1993 - "Curly" Joe DeRita, last of Three Stooges, dies of pneumonia at 83
1994 - Felix Kelly, artist, dies at 80
1994 - Harry Ebbeling, PC-corrector, dies at 54
1994 - Lewis A "Lew" Hoad, tennis star (Wimbledon 1953, 56), dies at 59
1994 - Pieter Hennipman, Dutch economist, dies at 85
1995 - Albert Hardy, photographer, dies at 82
1995 - Brad Lee Sexton, bass guitarist, dies at 47
1995 - Gil Wolman, situationist, dies at 65
1995 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1996 - Raaj Kumar, actor (Tiranga, Saudagar), dies at 68
1998 - Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
1999 - Mark Sandman, American musician (b. 1952)
2000 - Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
2001 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
2001 - Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
2003 - Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914)
2004 - Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1929)
2005 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)
2005 - Gaylord Nelson, American politician (b. 1916)
2006 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
2006 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
2007 - Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (b. 1915)
2007 - Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
2008 - Ernie Cooksey, English Footballer (b. 1980)
2008 - Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (b. 1925)
2008 - Clive Hornby, English soap actor - Emmerdale (b. 1944)
2008 - Oliver Schroer, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1956)
2009 - John A. Keel, American Fortean, television scriptwriter, author of The Mothman Prophecies (b.
           1930)
2012 - Andy Griffith,American actor, dies from a heart attack at 86