~ On This Day in History ~

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 4th July


Historical Events

                                   
First US President                                    Naturalist/Pacifist                                Author of Alice in Wonderland
 George Washington                                Henry David Thoreau                                         Lewis Carroll

                                   
Education Pioneer Booker                       Heavyweight Boxing Champion                     Pathologist and Nobel
Taliaferro Washington                            Jack Dempsey                                               Laureate Howard Florey

                                   
Tennis Great John McEnroe                      Actress Drew Barrymore                        Champion Tennis Player
                                                                                                                             Pete Sampras


836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
993 - Saint Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized.
1054 - Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)
1120 - Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death.
1187 - Battle of Hittin (Tiberias): Saladin defeats Reinoud of Châtillon
1301 - Battle at Breukelen: Holland vs Lichtenberg
1359 - Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
1415 - Angelo Correr renounces his claim to the Papacy as Pope Gregory XII
1453 - 41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau
1534 - Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
1609 - Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York setting
           the tone of French-Iroquois relations for the next 150 years
1610 - Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russian & Sweden
1634 - The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France, later to become the Canadian province of
           Quebec.
1636 - City of Providence, Rhode Island form
1652 - Prince of Condé starts blood bath in Paris
1653 - British Barebones Parliament goes into session
1672 - States of Holland declares "Eternal Edict" void
1693 - Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army
1708 - Swedish King Karel XII beats Russians
1754 - George Washington gives Ft Necessity to France
1774 - Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against
           the British Parliament's Coercive Acts
1776 - US congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain
1779 - French fleet occupies Grenada
1789 - 1st US tariff act
1796 - 1st Independence Day celebration is held
1802 - US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
1803 - The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
1810 - French troops occupy Amsterdam
1817 - Construction on Erie Canal begins
1819 - William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
1827 - Slavery abolished in NY
1828 - Construction begins on B & O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
1829 - Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)
1831 - "America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" is 1st sung in Boston
1836 - Wisconsin Territory forms
1837 - Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham
           and Liverpool.
1838 - Huskar Colliery Mining Disaster in Silkstone England: Mining pit floods during a rainstorm
           drowning 26 children, leads to the 1842 commission on the employment of children and
           women in mines which resulted in the banning of female and child labour underground
1840 - The Cunard Line's 700 ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool
           bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the first transatlantic crossing with a scheduled end.
1845 - Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
1845 - Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
1855 - In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of
           Grass, is published.
1859 - Austro-Sardinian War: the Battle of Magenta.
1861 - In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops
1861 - Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, WV
1862 - Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell
1862 - Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
1862 - R Morgan's: Tomkinsville, KY to Somerset, KY [->JUL 28]
1863 - Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
1863 - Failed Confederate assault on Helena Arkansas (640 casualties)
1863 - General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg
1863 - Skirmish at Smithburg, TN
1863 - Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
1864 - -9] Battle at Chattahoochee River, Georgia
1865 - 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published
1866 - Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying half of Portland, Mainee, US
1868 - Battle at Ueno, Japan: last Tokugawa armies defeated
1873 - Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
1874 - Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
1875 - White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
1876 - 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
1876 - Batholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty
1879 - Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony
1881 - Booker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
1882 - Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF
1883 - Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr
1884 - 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
1884 - Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
1886 - 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
1887 - The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam,
           Karachi.
1888 - 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz
1889 - Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
1892 - James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
1892 - Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this
           country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
1894 - Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH
1894 - Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as president
1895 - Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
1898 - French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die
1898 - US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
1903 - Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message
1905 - Phila A's beat Boston Red Sox 4-2 in 20 inning game
1906 - Gr Brit, France & Italy grant Independence to Ethiopia
1907 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1908 - NY Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn
1910 - Jack Johnson KOs James J Jeffries in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1911 - 105°F (41°C) at Vernon, Vermont (state record)
1911 - 106°F (41°C) at Nashua, New Hampshire (state record)
1911 - Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 & ends a 40 game hit streak
1911 - White Sox Ed Walsh stops Ty Cobb's 40-game hitting streak
1912 - Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0
1912 - Jack Johnson TKOs Jim Flynn in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1913 - 37th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A F Wilding beats McLoughlin (86 63 10-8)
1914 - 1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
1918 - Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa
1918 - Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
1919 - ADGB (Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund) party forms
1919 - Cincinnati Reds are 10½ games back in NL, & win World Series
1919 - Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship
1923 - Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbon in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1925 - 44 die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses
1925 - 45th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats J Borotra (63 63 46 86)
1925 - A's Lefty Grove beats Yanks Herb Pennock 1-0 in 15 innings
1926 - Baronie soccer team forms in Breda Neth
1926 - NSDAP-party forms in Weimar
1927 - Ir Sukarno forms PNI (Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia) in Batavia
1927 - First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
1929 - AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down
1930 - 43rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Elizabeth Ryan (62 62)
1931 - 1st fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium
1931 - 1st trailside museum opens in Cleveland Metroparks
1932 - Bradman scores 260, a North American record, v Western Ontario
1933 - Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
1934 - Jordanians revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment
1934 - Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
1936 - 49th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Hull Jacobs beats H Sperling (62 46 75)
1936 - League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy
1938 - 1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5
1938 - France-Turkish friendship treaty
1939 - Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game
1939 - Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day
1940 - British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die
1940 - German occupiers forbids anti-nazis speeches
1941 - Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead
1941 - Politburo of Yugoslav communist party reorganizes
1941 - Howard Florey & Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate
           penicillin
1942 - 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
1942 - US air offensive against nazi-Germany begins
1944 - 1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy
1944 - 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima
1944 - Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen
1944 - Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber
1946 - Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die
1946 - Philippines gains independence from US
1947 - 61st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom P Brown (61 63 62)
1950 - Braves Sid Gordon ties season grand slam record with 4
1950 - Harry Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
1950 - The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
1952 - 66th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats J Drobny (46 62 63 62)
1952 - Canadain Currency, Mint & Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be
           minted
1953 - 60th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats D Hart (86 75)
1953 - Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas Rákosi as premier of Hungary
1954 - WMSL (WYUR, now WAFF) TV channel 48 in Huntsville, AL (ABC) begins
1954 - West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern
1954 - Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime)
1956 - Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia
1956 - US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland
1957 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase
1958 - 72nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A Cooper beats N Fraser (36 63 64 13-11)
1959 - 66th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Darlene Hard (64 63)
1959 - America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
1959 - Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
1960 - 6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
1960 - America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
1960 - Mickey Mantle is 18th to hit 300 HRs
1961 - Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on the Independence Day in The Rebuild Hills at
           Skørping in Denmark
1962 - Island Records begins
1962 - KIKU (now KHNL) TV channel 13 in Honolulu, HI (IND) 1st broadcast
1964 - 71st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats M Court (64 79 63)
1964 - Beachboy's "I Get Around" reaches #1
1965 - 20th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Carol Mann
1966 - Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos
1966 - LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
1967 - Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
1967 - Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader
1968 - Arthur Kopit's "Indians," premieres in London
1968 - Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched
1969 - "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in UK
1969 - 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin
1969 - 76th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Ann Jones beats Billie J King (36 63 62)
1969 - Italian Rumor government resigns
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie.
1970 - 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ
1970 - 84th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Newcombe beats K Rosewall (57 63 62 36 61)
1970 - Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio
1970 - Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112
           vacationing Britons
1971 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 - Alan Ayckbourne's "Absurd Person Singular," premieres in London
1973 - CARICOM - Caribbean Community & Common Market, forms
1973 - In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show
           of a healthy, strong, generous youth"
1974 - Mike Marshall goes 9-0 with 3 saves in 20 appearances in 30 days
1975 - 82nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (60 61)
1975 - Ted Bundy victim Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah
1976 - Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt NY
1976 - Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
1976 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Bloomington Golf Classic Bicentennial
1977 - Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher
1977 - Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
1977 - Red Sox wallop a major league-record 8 HRs beating Toronto 9-6
1978 - Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order
1979 - Algerian ex-president Ben Bella freed
1980 - Nolan Ryan is 4th to strikeout 3,000
1981 - 95th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats B Borg (46 76 76 64)
1981 - Clive Rice 105* out of 143 all out, Notts v Hants at Bournemouth
1982 - 10th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Sandra Haynie
1982 - 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB
1982 - 96th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Connors beats J McEnroe (36 63 67 76 64)
1982 - Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico
1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - Yankees bat out of order against Indians in 1st inning
1983 - NY Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox
1984 - Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki
1984 - Kallicharran gets 206 & 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game
1984 - NY Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000
1984 - Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m
1985 - Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
1987 - 94th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (75 63)
1987 - Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission
1987 - Imran Khan takes 300th Test Cricket wicket, only Pakistani to do so
1987 - Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France
1988 - 102nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Becker (46 76 64 62)
1988 - KC releases pitcher Dan Quisenberry, whose 238 saves are the 4th most
1988 - US navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
1989 - 14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide
1989 - Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)
1989 - Red's Tom Browning is 3 outs away from his 2nd career perfect game when Phillie Dickie Thon
           doubles
1990 - 400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in Minn
1990 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1990 - Wrestler Brutus Beefcake injured during para-sailing
1990 - 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner & Gettysburg
           Address
1992 - 99th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (62 61)
1992 - John Phillips, rocker (Mamas & Papas), undergoes a liver transplant
1993 - 107th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Courier (76 76 36 63)
1993 - Brandie Burton wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1993 - Dave Winfield hits 442nd HR to move into 19th place
1993 - Pilar Fort, crowned 25th Miss Black America
1993 - Pizza Hut blimp deflates & lands safely on W 56th street in NYC
1994 - Russian manned space craft TM-18, lands
1994 - Rwandese Patriot Front occupies Kigali
1994 - US loses to Brazil 1-0 in 1994 World Cup quarter finals
1995 - Birmingham Barracudas play 1st CFL game (vs Winnipeg)
1996 - Hot Mail, a free internet E-mail service begins
1997 - US space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars
2004 - The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New
           York City. (This was largely a symbolic event; actual construction would not start for several
           weeks)
2005 - The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
2006 - Space Shuttle program: STS-121 Mission - Space Shuttle Discovery launches at 18:37:55
           UTC.
2006 - North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a long-range
           Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of
           Japan/East Sea.
2009 - The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after 8 years, due to security reasons
           following the World Trade Center attacks.

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 4th July


Famous Weddings

1925 - American writer ("Gone with the Wind") Margaret Mitchell (24) marries 2nd husband John
           Marsh (29)
1931 - Irish writer (Ulysses) James Joyce and Nora Barnacle finally marry in London registry office
           after meeting in 1904.
1973 - British Army officer Andrew Parker Bowles (33) weds Camilla Rosemary Shand (26) at Guards
           Chapel in Birdcage Walk in London, England
1975 - Fictional wedding date of Coneheads
1992 - US actress Bobbie Eakes marries author David Stone
1997 - "Beverly Hills 90210" actor Ian Ziering (34) weds model-actress Nikki Schieler (26) in Beverly
           Hills, California
1999 - Los Angeles Galaxy soccer star player David Beckham (24) weds Spice Girls singer Victoria
           Adams (25) at the 560-acre Luttrellstown Castle outside Dublin, Ireland
2002 - Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts (34) weds L.A. cameraman Danny Moder (33) at her 82-
           acre ranch in Taos, New Mexico
2003 - Screenwriter and producer Dean Devlin (40) weds "Another World" actress Lisa Brenner (29)
2004 - Hollywood star Julia Roberts (36) weds Danny Moder in Taos, New Mexico
2004 - Actor Dennis Quaid (50) weds real estate agent Kimberly Buffington (32) at his 500-acre
           Montana ranch in Paradise Valley, Montana
2010 - "Survivor: Thailand" star Tanya Vance weds Joseph Luczaj in Maui, Hawaii
2012 - NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson (34) weds "Basketball Wives" TV personality Evelyn Lozada in
           Saint Martin
2012 - "Grey's Anatomy" actress Sara Ramirez (36) weds TIMEC's business analyst Ryan Debolt in a
           private beachside ceremony in New York

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 4th July


Famous Birthdays

                                   
30th US President                                    Actor and Senator                                  Actress Gloria Stuart (1910)
Calvin Coolidge (1872)                            George Murphy (1902)


New York Yankees Owner
George Steinbrenner (1930)


1330 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367)
1546 - Murad/Murat III, Sultan of Turkey (1574-95)
1610 - Cornelis Evertsen, the Elder, Dutch/Swiss vice-admiral
1610 - Paul Scarron, French playwright (Virgile Travesti)
1669 - Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor
1694 - Louis-Claude Daquin, [d'Acquin], French organist/composer (La Rose)
1715 - Christian F Gellert, Saxony, poet/novelist (Fables & Tales)
1719 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)
1753 - Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US
1762 - Marco Santucci, composer
1769 - Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer
1790 - George Everest, Welsh surveyor (d. 1866)
1793 - Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer
1799 - F J Oscar I, King of Sweden/Norway (1844-59)
1804 - Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader
1804 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mass, author (House of 7 Gables, Scarlet Letter)
1807 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, freedom fighter (Risorgimento)/unified Italy
1810 - Phineas T Barnum, circus magnate
1816 - Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
1819 - Reuben Eaton Fenton, Governor (Union), died in 1885
1826 - Green Clay Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1826 - Stephen Foster, Lawrencevil, Pa, composer (Oh! Susanna, Swanee River)
1828 - James Johnston Pettigrew, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1828 - Theodor W Ahlwardt, German orientalist
1829 - Hermann Kotzchmar, composer
1840 - James McGranahan, composer
1841 - Edward Gailliard, Flemish linguist/archaeologicalist
1841 - Marie von Wied, Princess of Orange Nassau
1842 - Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria, sociologist/judge/fieldmarshal
1842 - Gyula Erkel, composer
1845 - Thomas John Barnardo, English social worker
1847 - James Anthony Bailey, Detroit, circus impresario (Barnum & Bailey)
1850 - Ole Olsen, composer
1854 - Heinrich Zollner, composer
1854 - Victor Babeş, Romanian bacteriologist (d. 1926)
1867 - Stephen Mather, organized US National Park Service
1868 - Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921)
1869 - Karl Seitz, president of Austria
1870 - Pieter van der Lijn, Dutch geologist (Dutch boulders)
1872 - Calvin Coolidge, [Silent Cal], Plymouth Vt, (R) 30th pres (1923-29), (d. 1933)
1875 - Giovanni & Giacomo Tocci, Italy, siamese twins
1876 - William Farnum, Boston MA, actor (Spoilers, Man who Fights Alone)
1880 - George Mullin, pitcher (Detroit Tigers-no-hitter on 7/4/1912)
1880 - Pat Rooney, vaudevillian/actor (Night Club)
1881 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (d. 1968)
1882 - Cornelis van der Lugt Melsert, Dutch actor/dir (Willem van Oranje)
1883 - Alan Brooke, English general [or Jul 23]
1883 - Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer
1883 - Rube Goldberg, cartoonist (who made the easy outrageously difficult)
1884 - Alexander Byvanck, Dutch art historian/archaeologist
1886 - Heinrich Kaminski, composer
1888 - Henry Armetta, Italian/US actor (Bell for Adano, Big Store)
1894 - Henry Carlson, basketball coach (originated figure 8 play)
1895 - Irving Caesar, songwriter
1895 - Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator
1895 - Walderman Marx, cricketer (S Af, 240 on FC debut (then world record))
1896 - Adolf Hallis, composer
1896 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981)
1898 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (Mimi, Rembrandt)
1898 - Johnny Lee, Missouri, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy)
1898 - Dr. Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian (d. 1997)
1902 - George Murphy, New Haven Ct, (Sen-R-California)/actor/dancer (MGM Parade)
1902 - Meyer Lansky, mobster (Started numbers)
1902 - Vince Barnett, Pittsburgh, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle)
1903 - Flor Peeters, Antwerp Belgium, organist/composer (Lied Symphony)
1904 - Angela Baddeley, London England, actress (Ghost Train, Tom Jones)
1904 - Artur Malawski, composer
1904 - Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist
1905 - Dante Fiorillo, composer
1905 - Lionel Trilling, author (1969 Poses Award, Liberal Imagination)
1905 - Irving Johnson, American adventurer (d. 1991)
1907 - Elliott Sullivan, San Antonio TX, actor (Sergeant)
1907 - Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
1907 - Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (d. 1996)
1908 - Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/chairman (Club of Rome)
1909 - Alec Templeton, Cardiff Wales, pianist/composer (Concertino Lirico)
1909 - Lynette Roberts, poet
1909 - Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine
1910 - Francis D Foley, US lt adm (WW II, Guadalcanal)
1910 - Gloria Stuart, Santa Monica California, actress (Rose-Titanic)/founder (Screen Actors Guild),
           (d. 2010)
1910 - William T "Champion Jack" Dupree, US boxer/slaughterhouse pianist
1911 - Mitch Miller, Rochester NY, sing along with Mitch (Yellow Rose of Tx)
1912 - Virginia Graham, Chicago Ill, TV personality (Girl Talk, Where Was I)
1912 - Viviane Romance, French actress (d. 1991)
1914 - Giuseppe 'Nuccio' Bertone, car designer
1915 - Christine Lavant, writer
1915 - Jimmie Rogers, Detroit Mich, singer (Sugar Hill Time)
1916 - Tokyo Rose, [Iva Toguri D'Aquino], propagandist (WW II)
1917 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947)
1918 - Abigail Van Buren, [Mrs Morton Phillips], Sioux City Iowa, columnist
1918 - Alec Bedser, cricketer (mighty post-war England medium-pacer)
1918 - Ann Landers, Sioux City Iowa, twin sister/advice columnist
1918 - Buster Davis, Johnstown Pa, choral director (Garry Moore Show)
1918 - Eric Bedser, cricketer (bro of Alec, Surrey bowler but not England)
1918 - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (1965- )
1918 - Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984)
1918 - Pauline Phillips, Sioux City, Iowa, advice columnist (Dear Abby), (d. 2013)
1920 - Leona Helmsley, (wife of Harry), real estate billionaire/tax cheat
1920 - Norm Drucker, American basketball referee
1921 - Gerard Debreu, France, economist (Nobel 1983)
1921 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist/orchestra leader (Ripley's Game)
1922 - Ghulam Ahmed, cricketer (off-spinner in 22 Tests for India in 1950's)
1923 - Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor
1924 - Eva Marie Saint, Newark NJ, actress (On the Waterfront, North by Northwest)
1926 - Mary Stuart, Miami Fla, actress (Jo-Search for Tomorrow)
1926 - Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer
1927 - Gina Lollobrigida, Subiaco Italy, actress (Trapeze, Falcon Crest)
1927 - Neil Simon, Bronx, playwright (Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues)
1928 - Cathy Berberian, Armenia, US singer
1928 - Lloyd Lambert, bassist
1928 - Patrick Tilley, UK, sci-fi author (1st Family, Blood River)
1928 - Paul de Wispelaere, Flemish writer/essayist/critic
1928 - Sylvius G M "Boy" Rozendal, premier (Netherland's Antilles)
1929 - Al Davis, Brocton Mass, American businessman and NFL team owner (LA Raiders)
1929 - Bill Tuttle, baseball player
1929 - Chuck Tanner, baseball player
1930 - George Steinbrenner, Rocky River Ohio, owner (NY Yankees)/ship builder/horse owner, (d.
           2010)
1930 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor
1930 - Yuri Tyukalov, Soviet Olympic rower
1931 - Stephen Boyd [William Millar], Glengormley, County Antrim, Irish actor (Fantastic Voyage,
           Ben-Hur)
1931 - Peter Richardson, cricketer (England batsman mid-50's)
1932 - Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian athlete
1934 - Colin Welland, Liverpool England, actor (Straw Dogs, Sweeney)
1935 - Paul Scoon, governor-general of Grenada (1978-92)
1937 - Hector Palma, horse trainer
1937 - Thomas Nagel, American philosopher
1938 - Bill Withers, Slab Fork WV, rhythm & blues singer (Lean on Me)
1938 - Cyril Mitchley, cricket wicket-keeper (Transvaal, later Test umpire)
1939 - Ed Bernard, Phila, actor (Joe-Police Woman, Jim-White Shadow)
1940 - Joost P van Iersel, Dutch MP (CDA)
1940 - Walter Greenman, horse trainer
1940 - Karolyn Grimes, American actress
1941 - Brian Willson, American peace activist
1941 - Sergio Oliva, Cuba, American body builder (The Myth, IFBB Mr. Olympia, 1967-9), (d. 2012)
1942 - Hal Lanier, baseball player
1942 - Michael G C F, English prince of Kent
1942 - Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (d. 2008)
1943 - Al "Blind Owl" Wilson, rock guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat)
1943 - Dave Rowberry, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1943 - Emerson Boozer, NFL running back (NY Jet)/sportscaster
1943 - Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German musician
1943 - Milan Máčala, Czech football coach
1944 - Ray Meagher, Australian actor
1946 - Michael Milken, LA California, partner (Intl Capital Access Group)
1946 - Ron Kovic, disabled vietnam vet (Born on 4th of July)
1946 - Tish Howard, playmate (July, 1966)
1946 - Ed O'Ross, American actor
1947 - Morganna Roberts, Louisville Ky, (Baseball's kissing bandit)
1948 - Ed Armbrister, baseball player
1948 - Jeremy Spencer, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well)
1948 - René Arnoux, France, formula-1 racer (6th place-1980)
1949 - Tonio K, American singer
1950 - David Jensen, rock British DJ
1951 - Ralph Johnson, rock drummer (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star)
1951 - Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American politician
1952 - Álvaro Uribe Vélez, Colombian politician
1954 - Jim Beattie, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1955 - John Waite, vocalist (Babies/Bad English-Forget Me Not, Missing You)
1957 - Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand
1958 - Kirk Pengilly, Sydney Australia, rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
1959 - Bill McCorvey, Montgomery Ala, singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake)
1959 - Victoria Abril, [Victoria Rojas], Madrid Spain, actress (Libertarias)
1960 - Sid Eudy, American professional wrestler
1961 - Connie Paraskevin-Young, Detroit, sprint cyclist (Olymp-br-88, 92, 96)
1961 - Richard Allen Garriott, Austin TX, computer game designer (Origin)
1962 - Pam Shriver, Balt MD, tennis star (1991 US Open doubles/Oly-gold-88)
1962 - Roland Ratzenberger, driver
1962 - Neil Morrissey, English actor
1963 - Henri Leconte, France, tennis player (French finalist 1988)
1963 - Jose Oquendo, baseball player
1964 - Kevin Sutherland, Sacramento CA, Nike golfer (1992 Hawkeye Open-2nd)
1964 - Mark Allen Slaughter, Las Vegas, guitarist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1964 - Cle Kooiman, American soccer player
1964 - Mark Whiting, American filmmaker and actor
1965 - Eva Dahllof, Ornskoldsvik Sweden, golfer (1995 McCall's Classic-18th)
1965 - Harvey Grant, NBA forward (Trail Blazers, Orlando Magic, Wizards)
1965 - John Frawley, Australia, tennis star
1965 - Shelley Oates, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1965 - Suzanne Peta Strudwick, Knutsford England, golfer (1995 Brit Open-7th)
1965 - Jo Whiley, English radio DJ
1966 - Adrian Caldwell, NBA forward/center (Indiana Pacers)
1966 - Lee Reherman, American actor
1967 - Rick Wilkins, baseball player
1967 - Vinny Castilla, Oaxaca Mexico, infielder (Colorado Rockies)
1967 - Andy Walker, Canadian television personality
1968 - Derek Loville, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
1968 - Loville Derek, NFL running back (Denver Broncos, Superbowl 32)
1968 - Mark Lenzi, Huntsville Ala, diver (Olympics-Gold-92, bronze-96), (d. 2012)
1968 - Jack Frost, American musician
1969 - David Wittman Buffalo, NY, 1.5k runner
1969 - Tim Jackson, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-96)
1970 - Andrei Cherkasov, USSR, tennis star
1970 - Louise Van Voorhis, Rochester NY, 470 yachter (Olympics-4th-1992, 96)
1970 - Tony Vidmar, Australian former footballer
1971 - Steve Rucchin, Thunder Bay, NHL center (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1971 - Koko, sign-language gorilla
1971 - Andy Creeggan, Canadian musician
1971 - Brendan Donnelly, American baseball player
1971 - Andrew Murray, English entrepreneur
1972 - Steve Giles, St Stephens New Brunswick, canoeist (Olympics-6-92, 96)
1973 - Justin Ring, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1973 - Gackt, Japanese singer
1973 - Keiko Ihara, Japanese racing driver
1973 - Michael Johnson, English-born Jamaican footballer
1973 - Jan Magnussen, Danish racing driver
1974 - Kellee Nicole Kattleman, Miss Wyoming USA (1996)
1974 - La'Roi Glover, American football player
1975 - Reinhard Davis, hockey goaltender (Team Austria 1998)
1975 - Tania Davis, Australian violist
1976 - Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
1977 - Katia Zygouli, Greek supermodel
1977 - Jonas Kjellgren, Swedish musician (Scar Symmetry)
1978 - Tatyana Jecmenica, Novi Sad Yugo, tennis star (1995 Futures-Novi Sad)
1978 - Emile Mpenza, Belgian footballer
1978 - Vicky Kaya, Greek supermodel and actress
1978 - Stephen McNally, British singer and songwriter (BBMak)
1978 - Becki Newton, American actress
1980 - Muhammad Ali Hasan, American filmmaker
1980 - Max Elliott Slade, American film actor
1981 - Francisco Cruceta, Dominican baseball player
1983 - Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian model
1983 - Ben Jorgensen, American musician
1983 - Andy Mrotek, American musician
1984 - Gina Glocksen, American singer
1984 - Akanishi Jin, Japanese singer
1986 - Takahisa Masuda, Japanese singer
2003 - Alessia di Matteo, Italian medical figure (d. 2005)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 4th July


Famous Deaths

                                   
US President                                                       Surgeon                                              Discoverer of Radium
Thomas Jefferson (1826)                       Karl Ferdinand von Graefe (1840)                        Marie Curie (1934) 


Singer Barry White (2003)


907 - Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria
943 - Taejo of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (b. 877)
965 - Pope Benedict V, Italian Roman Catholic Pope (b. unknown)
973 - Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890)
1187 - Reinoud van Châtillon, French prince of Antioch, dies
1301 - Willem II Berthout van Mechelen, bishop of Utrecht, dies in battle
1307 - Rudolf III, Duke of Austria/King of Bohemia dies
1336 - Elisabeth van Portugal, queen of Portugal/saint, dies at about 65
1498 - Filips van Burgundy, admiral-general of Netherlands, dies
1541 - Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish occupier, dies at about 56
1546 - Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the Ottoman Navy (b. 1478)
1578 - Charles de Berlaymont, baron of Hierges, gov/viceroy of Names, dies
1603 - Philippus the Monte, priest/bandmaster/composer, dies at 82
1623 - William Byrd, English composer (Ave verum corpus), dies at 80
1627 - Thomas Middleton, Elizabethan dramatist (Women Beware Women), dies
1648 - Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1601)
1672 - Ambrosius Reiner, composer, dies at 67
1672 - Govert D Camphuysen, (court)painter, dies at about 48
1742 - Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
1754 - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author (b. 1680)
1757 - Jean-Joseph Vade, composer, dies at 38
1761 - Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
1768 - Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide), dies at 58
1780 - Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen South Neth, dies at 67
1787 - Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71
1789 - Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian conductor, dies at 59
1821 - Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
1826 - John Adams, 2nd president (1797-1801), dies at 90
1826 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83
1831 - James Monroe, 5th president (1817-25), dies at 73
1840 - Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, German surgeon who helped create modern plastic surgery dies at
           53
1845 - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies
1848 - Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies
1850 - William Kirby, English entomologist (b. 1759)
1851 - Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer, dies at 67
1854 - Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian, dies at 72
1856 - Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor, dies at 64
1857 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (b. 1786)
1863 - Paul Joseph Revere, US grandson of Paul Revere/Union brig-gen, dies
1881 - Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (b. 1806)
1882 - Joseph Brackett, American composer (b. 1797)
1888 - Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Schimmelreiter), dies at 70
1889 - Auguste Mermet, composer, dies at 79
1891 - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer, dies at 67
1891 - Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809)
1901 - John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher, dies
1902 - Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1863)
1905 - Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
1910 - Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars), dies at 75
1910 - Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer, dies at 70
1910 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1833)
1916 - Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
1917 - Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskreet), dies at 84
1922 - Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1894)
1923 - Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 67
1926 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint (b. 1901)
1929 - Otto Taubmann, composer, dies at 70
1931 - Emanuele F duke of Aosta, Italian WW I-general/fascist, dies at 62
1931 - Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies
1934 - Chaim Nachman Bialik, zionist poet, dies
1934 - Marie Curie, French-Polish Physicist/Chemist, dies at 66
1938 - Otto Bauer, Austrian social democrat, dies at 56
1938 - Suzanne Lenglen, 6 time Wimbledon champ, dies at 39 of anemia
1941 - Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
1943 - Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/PM of Poland in exile (1939-43), dies at 62
1946 - Othenio Able, Austria paleontology, dies at 71
1946 - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
1948 - Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
1952 - Walter Long, dies at 73
1957 - Judy Tyler, actress (Princess-Howdy Doody), dies at 24 in car crash
1958 - Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79
1961 - Franklyn Farnum, dies of cancer at 83
1962 - Rex Bell, actor/lt-gov (Nevada), dies of heart attack at 56
1963 - Fritz Reuter, composer, dies at 66
1963 - Grant Richards, actor (Doug-Doorway to Danger), dies at 48
1963 - Bernard Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
1970 - Harold Vanderbilt, America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85
1970 - Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905)
1971 - Don McPherson, rocker, dies at 29
1971 - Joe Cox, cricketer (4 wickets in 3 Tests for South Africa), dies
1971 - Thomas C Hart, US admiral/commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94
1971 - August Derleth, American writer and editor (b. 1909)
1973 - Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39
1974 - Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/pres Com Palestine, dies
1975 - Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902)
1976 - Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895)
1977 - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918)
1979 - Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer (b. 1905)
1980 - Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1895)
1982 - Sylvestre A Guzman Fernandez, pres Dominican Rep, commits suicide
1982 - Terry Higgins, early British AIDS death (b. 1945)
1983 - Claus Adam, composer, dies at 65
1984 - Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
1985 - John de Quay, Dutch premier (1959-63), dies at 83
1986 - Flor Peeters, Flemish baron/organist/composer, dies at 83
1986 - Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899)
1988 - Adrian Adonis, [Keith Franke], WWF wrestler, killed in auto accident
1991 - Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
1992 - Astor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (Tango Nuevo), dies at 71
1992 - Joe Newman, US jazz trumpetist (Count Basie), dies
1993 - Anne Shirley, actress (Stella Dallas), dies of lung cancer at 75
1993 - Charles Crain, actor, dies in Hollywood at 83
1993 - Felix White, choreographer (Black Vibrations Theatre), dies at 65
1994 - Arthur Berry, artist, dies at 69
1994 - Juan Gil Poet-Albert, dies at 90
1994 - Liesbeth Struppert, actress (Pipo the Clown, Anne Frank), dies at 55
1994 - Rupert Davies, methodist scholar, dies at 84
1994 - Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies
1994 - Joey Marella, American professional wrestling referee (b. 1964)
1995 - Bob Ross, artist, dies at 52
1995 - Eva Gabor, actress (Green Acres), dies at 74
1995 - Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar, dies at 85
1995 - Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez, tennis great, dies of stomach cancer at 67
1996 - Clay Jones, gardener, dies at 72
1996 - Leo Avery, abbot of Quarr, dies at 58
1997 - Charles Kuralt, news anchor (CBS Sunday Morning), dies at 62
1999 - Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b.1917)
2000 - Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Polish writer (b. 1919)
2001 - Keenan Milton, Professional Skater (b. 1974)
2002 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American general (b. 1912)
2002 - Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (b. 1951)
2002 - Winnifred Quick, American Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
2003 - Barry White, American singer, dies at 58
2003 - André Claveau, French singer (b. 1915)
2004 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (b. 1920)
2004 - Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), an eccentric street entertainer in Nottingham, England (b.
           1932)
2005 - Hank Stram, American football coach (b. 1923)
2007 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish rock musician (b. 1979)
2007 - Bill Pinkney, American singer and performer (b. 1925)
2008 - Charles Wheeler, British journalist (b. 1923)
2008 - Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
2008 - Terrence Kiel, American Football Player (b. 1980)
2008 - Thomas M. Disch, American science fiction author (b. 1940)
2008 - Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
2009 - Brenda Joyce, American actress (b. 1917)
2009 - Allen Klein, American record label executive (b. 1931)
2009 - Drake Levin, American rock musician (b. 1946)
2009 - Steve McNair, American football player (b. 1973)
2009 - Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish writer (b. 1935)
2009 - Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese politician (b.1938)
2009 - Jim Chapin, American drummer (b.1919)
2010 - Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-born Lebanese Shiite Muslim cleric and Hezbollah mentor
           (b. 1935)
2011 - Otto von Habsburg, last crown prince of Austria-Hungary and MEP (1979-1999) (b. 1912)
2012 - Jimmy Bivins [James], American Hall of Fame boxer, dies from pneumonia at 92

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 5th July


Historical Events

                                   
Physicist & Mathematician                       Naturalist Charles Darwin                        Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Isaac Newton   

                                   
Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio                     Zimbabwean President                        Tennis Player Steffi Graf
                                                                     Robert Mugabe

 
Anti-apartheid activist/
South African President
 Nelson Mandela


649 - St Martin I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
767 - Duke of Nepi names his brother (leek) Pope Constantine II
1054 - Brightest supernova (Crab Nebula) 1st reported
1294 - Pietro del Murrone elected as Pope Coelestinus V
1295 - Scotland and France form an alliance, the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England.
1436 - German emperor Sigismund signs peace with Hussieten
1450 - Pope Nicolas V names Walraven van Meurs bishop of Munster
1596 - English fleet under the earl of Essex plunder Cadiz
1610 - John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
1626 - Battle at Lenz: Rebel Austrian Boers defeated
1643 - 1st recorded tornado in US (Essex County, Massachusetts)
1687 - Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England
1750 - Slave revolt on Curacao
1770 - Battle of Chesma and Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
1775 - US Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
1791 - Jose Maria Narvaez discovers Point Grey (now Vancouver BC)
1803 - The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been
           ruled by the British king).
1808 - Battle of Buenos Aires
1809 - -6) Battle of Wagram - Napoleon beats archduke Charles
1811 - Venezuela, 1st South American country to gain independence from Spain
1813 - War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, 
           New York begin.
1814 - Americans defeat British & Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario
1830 - France invades Algeria, begins a 40 year conquest
1832 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de Janeiro
1834 - Provisional government forms in Oregon Country
1841 - Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency
1843 - Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country
1859 - Capt N C Brooks discovers Midway Islands
1861 - Battle of Carthage, MO - US Gen Sigel attacks pro-secessionist
1863 - Battle of Jackson, MS & Battle of Birdsong Ferry, MS
1864 - Battle of Smith's Expedition, MS (Tupelo, Harrisburg)
1865 - Great Britain delegate's world 1st maximum speed laws
1865 - US Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department
1871 - Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) & Big Tree, begins
1878 - The coat of arms of the Baku governorate was established.
1884 - German consul-general Gustav Nachtigal takes possession of Cameroon
1884 - US Congress accept 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act
1891 - Hail kills 6 horses in Rapid City, SD
1900 - Compulsory education law passes Dutch 1st Chamber
1902 - Australia won the one & only Test Cricket played at Sheffield
1904 - Giants 18-game winning streak ends as Phillies win 6-5 in 10 inn
1913 - Queen Wilhelmina meets SDAP-leader Troelstra
1914 - Boston Braves are 15 games back in NL, & win World Series
1914 - Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia
1919 - 32nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Lenglen beats Chambers (10-8 46 97)
1919 - Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a game for his 1st of 72 times
1922 - 1st general election in Netherlands
1922 - Uprising of social righteousness in Rio de Janeiro
1922 - Women 1st vote in Dutch elections, Christian parties win
1924 - Military revolt in Sao Paulo Brazil
1929 - 42nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (61 62)
1929 - WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter burns down
1930 - 50th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W Allison (63 97 64)
1932 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes premier/dictator of Portugal
1933 - German party Catholic Center disbands
1934 - "Bloody Thursday" - Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
1935 - 1st "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast
1935 - 1st time brothers on opposing teams hit HRs, Tony & Al Cuccunello
1935 - Chicago Cubs are 10½ games back in NL, & go on to win the pennant
1935 - FDR signs National Labor Relations Act
1936 - 120°F (49°C), Gannvalley, South Dakota (state record)
1937 - 117°F (47°C), Medicine Lake, Montana (state record)
1937 - Chicago Cub Frank Demaree gets 6 hits in 1st game & 2 in 2nd game
1937 - Joe DiMaggio's 1st grand slammer
1937 - Republican offensive by Brunete in Spain
1937 - Spam, the luncheon meat, was introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
1938 - Herb Caen's 1st column in SF Chronicle
1940 - Diplomatic relations broken between Britain & Vichy government in France
1941 - German occupiers disband political parties
1942 - 1st performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Choros 6/9/11
1942 - Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada
1943 - Battle of Gulf of Kula
1943 - Battle of Koersk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks)
1943 - Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biskaye
1943 - US invasion fleet (96 ships) sails to Sicily
1944 - Harry Crosby takes 1st rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight
1945 - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Philippines declared.
1946 - Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashion show
1947 - "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 108 perfs
1947 - 54th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Osborne beat Doris Hart (62 64)
1947 - Larry Doby signs with Cleveland Indians-1st black player in AL
1948 - Britain's National Health Service Act begins
1949 - NY Giants purchase Monty Irvin & Henry Thompson, their 1st blacks
1950 - Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel
1951 - Dodgers sweep the Giants & lead by 7½ games (Giants will win pennant)
1951 - Dr William Shockley invents junction transistor (Murray Hill NJ)
1952 - "Of Thee I Sing" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances
1952 - 59th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats L Brough (75 63)
1953 - Jackie Pung wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1953 - WANC TV channel 21 in Asheville, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
1954 - B-52A bomber made its maiden flight
1954 - Last day of Test Cricket for Khalid Hassan aged 16 yrs, 356 days
1954 - The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
1955 - English harbor strike ends
1956 - France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria
1957 - 71st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ashley J Cooper (62 61 62)
1957 - Tom Graveney scores 258 v West Indies at Trent Bridge
1958 - 65th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Mortimer (86 62)
1958 - J Pengel forms government/Emanuels premier of Suriname
1958 - First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest peak on the earth.
1959 - Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigns
1959 - Indonesia restores constitution
1959 - Jack Gelber's "Connection," premieres in NYC
1960 - Mongolia adopts constitution
1961 - 80 die in collisions in Algiers
1961 - KUSD TV channel 2 in Vermillion, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 - St Louis Cardinal Bill White hits 3 HRs & a double
1962 - 96 murder at massacre in Oran, Algeria
1962 - Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
1962 - Mantle hits 2 homers en route to 4 consecutive homers
1963 - 1st Beatle tune to hit US charts, Del Shannon "From Me to You" at #87
1966 - NYC transit fare rises from 15 cents to 20 cents
1966 - National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting
1966 - Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy
1967 - Congo uprising under Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme
1968 - "Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague
1968 - 82nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Tony Roche (63 64 62)
1968 - John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce
1968 - Phila 76'ers trade Wilt Chamberlain to LA Lakers
1969 - 83rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats J Newcombe (64 57 64 64)
1969 - Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park
1970 - 25th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1970 - Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109
1971 - 26th amendment certified (reduces voting age to 18)
1971 - Simon Gray's "Butley," premieres in London
1972 - Pierre Messmer appointed French premier
1973 - "Live & Let Die," James Bond film premieres
1973 - Isle of Man begins issuing their own postage stamps
1973 - Maj Gen Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda
1973 - Rwanda military coup under general-major Habyalimana
1973 - Test Cricket umpiring debut of H D "Dickie" Bird v NZ at Leeds
1974 - 81st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Olga Morzova (60 64)
1975 - 89th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats J Connors (61 61 57 64)
1975 - Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
1977 - Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power
1978 - Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - 87th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats C Evert (61 76)
1980 - 94th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats McEnroe (16 75 63 67 86)
1981 - 9th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Jan Stephenson
1981 - Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections
1981 - Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of π (Pi) from memory
1981 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
1982 - ICC Trophy record p/ship, 257 Schoonheim/Liffman, Hol v Malay
1983 - France invades Algeria
1983 - NJ Devils purchase AHL Maine Mariners as their farm team
1983 - Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, VA)
1984 - Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court
           warrants can now be used in criminal trials
1985 - Premier Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections
1985 - Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of globe, covering 13,035 road
           miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min
1986 - 93rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats H Mandlikova (76 63)
1986 - Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 10K woman's record (30:13.74)
1986 - Nancy Reagan cuts red, white & blue ribbon; reopens Statue of Liberty
1986 - Statue of Liberty is reopened after it is refurbished
1987 - 101st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pat Cash beats Ivan Lendl (76 62 75)
1987 - A's Mark McGwire is 1st rookie to hit 30 home runs before All Star break
1987 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1988 - Malcolm Marshall takes 7-22 at Old Trafford, England all out 93
1989 - Barry Bond's HR sets father-son (Bobby) HR record at 408
1989 - Mark McGwire's gets 100th HR, 2nd fastest (1400 at bats) (to Kiner)
1989 - Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage & knocks himself out
1989 - South-African Pres Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela
1989 - Toronto Blue Jays are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East
1990 - Zina Garrison upsets Steffi Graf in Wimbledon semi-finals
1991 - Colorado Rockies & Florida Marlins given final approval by owners
1991 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1991 - Lillian Cucuzza wins name Florida baseball team contest (Marlins)
1992 - 106th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Agassi beats Ivanisevic (67 64 64 16 64)
1992 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1992 - Sixto Durán Ballén elected president of Ecuador
1993 - A's Rickey Henderson is 2nd to hit leadoff homers in doubleheader
1993 - Kurd guerrilla's murder 32 villager in East Turkey
1993 - Richard Chelimo run world record 10 km (27:07.91)
1994 - Boxer Buster Douglas comes out of a diabetic coma
1994 - US changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people back
1994 - The United States announced it would refuse further unrestricted immigration from Haiti.
1995 - Columbia U beats Hartferd College to be 1st US to win Henley Regatta
1996 - A's scores 13 in 1st vs Angels
1996 - NY Yank John Weteland ties Lee Smith's record of 19 consecutive saves
1997 - 104th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats Jana Novotna
1997 - NY Yanks withdraw Kenny Rogers & Mariano Duncon deal for SD Padre
1998 - 53rd US Women's Open Golf Championship at Blackwolf Run GC, Kohler WI
2003 - SARS is declared to be contained by the WHO.
2004 - First Indonesian presidential election by the nation.
2006 - North Korea launched at least two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one SCUD missile and one
           long-range Taepodong-2 missile.
2006 - Emergency United Nations Security Council meeting held at the U.N in New York City because
           of the North Korean missile tests a day before.
2009 - Roger Federer wins a record 15th Grand Slam (tennis) in tennis, winning a five set match
           against Andy Roddick at Wimbledon.
2009 - Ethnic rioting broke out in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China
2012 - The Shard, the tallest building in Europe, is opened and stands at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft)
2012 - South Korea announce plans to begin "scientific' whaling of minke whales
2012 - Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is elected President of Mexico after
           a recount following irregularities

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 5th July


Famous Weddings

1911 - "Anne of Green Gables" author Lucy Maud Montgomery (36) weds Ewen MacDonald in Prince
           Edward Island, Canada
1943 - Actress Betty Grable (26) weds big band leader Harry James (27)
2002 - "Smallville" actor Tom Welling (25) weds model Jamie White in Martha's Vineyard,
           Massachusetts
2003 - TV personality Debbie Matenopoulos (28) weds Lions Gate Entertainment president Jay Faires
           at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Los Angeles, California
2003 - "Dawson's Creek" actor James Van Der Beek (26) weds actress Heather Ann McComb (26) at
           Saddlerock Ranch in Malibu, California
2008 - "The Bachelor" TV personality Andrew Firestone (32) weds Serbian model and actress Ivana
           Bozilovic (30) at St Mark's in the Valley Episcopal Church in Los Olivos, California

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 5th July


Famous Divorces

2007 - Burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese (34) divorces rocker Marilyn Manson (38) due to irreconcilable
           differences after a year of marriage

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 5th July


Famous Birthdays

                                   
US Civil War Admiral                        Nazi Physician Eugen Fischer (1874)                        French President
David Farragut (1801)                                                                                           Georges Pompidou (1911)


The World´s First Cloned Sheep
Dolly (1996)


1321 - Joan of The Tower, Queen consort of Scotland (d. 1362)
1546 - Johann Steuerlein, composer
1586 - Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (d. 1647)
1653 - Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (d. 1726)
1654 - Antonio Maria Pacchioni, composer
1675 - Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials
1717 - Pedro III of Portugal, consort of Maria I of Portugal (d. 1786)
1718 - Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Viceroy of Ireland (d. 1794)
1729 - Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian poet
1755 - Sarah Kemble Siddons, Brecon England, tragic actress (Fatal Marriage)
1764 - Janos Lavotta, composer
1775 - William Crotch, composer
1793 - Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer
1794 - Sylvester Graham, developed graham cracker
1801 - David Farragut, Campbell's Station, Tennessee, US Admiral ("Damn the
           torpedoes, full speed ahead!")
1805 - Robert Fitz Roy, British naval officer and scientist (d. 1865)
1810 - Phineas Taylor Barnum, Bethel Conn, circus promoter (Barnum & Bailey)
1820 - William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish engineer and physicist (d. 1872)
1828 - Paul J C Gabriel, painter/water colors painter/etcher
1829 - Ignacio Mariscal, Writer and Mexican diplomat (d. 1910)
1841 - William C. Whitney, American financier (d. 1904)
1843 - Mandell Creighton, English bishop/historian
1847 - Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann, composer
1852 - Stefano Gobatti, composer
1853 - Cecil John Rhodes, South Africa, politician/diamond merchant
1857 - Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist
1858 - Maria J "Marie" Bakker, Dutch actress
1860 - Robert Bacon, American politician (d. 1919)
1867 - Andrew Ellicott Douglass, Dendrochronologer (study of tree rings)
1868 - William H Singer, US painter/collector (Singer Museum, Laren)
1872 - Edouard Herriot, French politician (d. 1957)
1874 - Gerhard von Keussler, composer
1874 - Eugen Fischer, Bade Germany, Nazi physician (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute), (d. 1967)
1878 - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/conductor/composer
1879 - Wanda Landowska, Warsaw Poland, harpsichordist (Musique Ancienne)
1879 - Dwight Filley Davis, US Sect of War/donated tennis' Davis Cup
1879 - Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor/composer (Tonhalle Orchestra)
1880 - Jan Kubelik, composer
1881 - Augustyn Hlond, Polish cardinal
1882 - Inayat Khan, Indian sufi (d. 1927).
1885 - Andre Lhote, French painter/art historian (Traité du paysage)
1886 - Felix Timmermans, Flemish writer/painter/cartoonist (Pallieter)
1886 - Willem Drees, PM of Netherland (PvdA, 1948-58)/Indonesia (AOW)
1889 - Jean Cocteau, France, writer/artist/director (Le Potamak, Orphée)
1890 - Frederick Lewis Allen, American social historian (d. 1954)
1891 - John Northrop, US, biochemist, crystallized enzymes (Nobel 1946)
1891 - Tin Ujević, Croatian poet (d. 1955)
1895 - Gordon Jacob, composer
1897 - Paul Ben-Haim, [Frankenburger], Munich Germany, Israeli composer
1898 - Yip Man, Ving Tsun Sifu and Master of Style (Gung-Gung) (d. 1972)
1899 - Anna Arnold Hedgeman, social activist (NYC cabinet)
1899 - Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson, composer
1899 - Marcel Achard, French screen/playwright (Jean de la Lune)
1900 - Bernardus J Cardinal Alfrink, cardinal of Utrecht Netherlands
1901 - Sergey Obraztsov, Soviet puppet master (d. 1992)
1902 - Frank Waters, writer
1902 - Henry Cabot Lodge, (Sen-R)/ambassador (VP candidate 1960)
1903 - Irwin Fischer, composer
1904 - Don Goddard, Binghamton NY, news anchor (ABC Evening News 1958-59)
1904 - Franz Adolf Syberg, composer
1904 - Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector
1904 - Milburn Stone, Bruton Ks, actor (Doc-Gunsmoke)
1904 - Ernst Mayr, American biologist (d. 2005)
1905 - Isa Miranda, [Ines Sampietro], Italian model/actress (La ronde)
1905 - Jock Cameron, South African cricket keeper (captain)
1905 - Myles Horton, American educator and Civil Rights Movement teacher (d. 1990)
1909 - Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/18 NS]
1910 - Robert K Meston, US sociologist (functionalism)
1911 - Georges Pompidou, Paris, President/Prime Minister of France (1962-74), (d. 1974)
1913 - Smiley Lewis, Louisiana, vocalist (I Hear You Knockin')
1914 - Jacob Soetendorp, Dutch rabbi
1915 - John Woodruff, American athlete (d. 2007)
1917 - Glenn Reeves, Massillon OH, actor (Defending Your Life)
1918 - George Rochberg, Paterson NJ, composer (Concord Quartet)
1920 - Issachar Miron, composer
1920 - Mary Louise Hancock, American politician and activist
1923 - John McKay, WV, football coach (USC, Tampa Bay, 5X Rose Bowl champ)
1924 - Beverly Tyler, Scranton Pa, actress (Fireball, Lorelei-Big Town)
1924 - Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (d. 2001)
1924 - János Starker, Hungarian cellist
1926 - Haya van Someren-Downer, 2nd Member of parliament (Dutch Lib Party)
1926 - Kenneth Gaburo, composer
1927 - W M Diggelmann, writer
1928 - Warren Oates, Depoy Ky, actor (East of Eden, Stoney Burke)
1928 - Pierre Mauroy, French politician
1929 - Graham Anthony Richard Lock, cricketer
1929 - Katherine Helmond, Galveston Tx, actress (Soap, Mona-Who's the Boss)
1929 - Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates
1929 - Tony Lock, cricketer (highly successful England slow lefty bowler)
1930 - Tommy Cook, Duluth MN, actor (Missile to the Moon)
1930 - Yutaka Makino, composer
1931 - James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, criminal
1932 - Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter
1932 - Billy Laughlin, American actor (d. 1948)
1932 - Gyula Horn, former Hungarian prime minister
1933 - Terence Cooper, Northern Ireland, actor (Casino Royale)
1935 - Edward McInnes, German scholar
1935 - John Gilmore, American true crime author
1936 - Shirley Knight, Goessei Kansas, actress (Endless Love, Secrets)
1936 - James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Brooke Hayward, LA California, author (Haywire)
1937 - Frouwke J Laning-Boersema, Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber
1937 - Nita M Lowey, (Rep-D-New York)
1938 - Stanley Joel Silverman, composer
1939 - Booker Edgerson, American football player
1940 - Karen Shepherd, (Rep-D-Utah)
1940 - Chuck Close, American painter and photographer
1941 - Barbara Frischmuth, writer
1942 - Ada J Bas-Jansen, Dutch MP (CDA)
1942 - Johannes Löhr, German footballer and trainer
1943 - Robbie Robertson, [Jamie], Toronto Canada, rock guitarist (Band)
1943 - Curt Blefary [Curtis Le Roy], Brooklyn, New York, American baseball player (1965 AL rookie of
           year, The Sporting News Rookie of the Year)
1945 - Dick Scoppettone, rocker
1945 - Jeffrey Kramer, NYC, actor (Ted Stein-Struck by Lightning)
1945 - Humberto Benítez Treviño, Mexican Politician and Attorney General of México.
1946 - Pierre-Marc Johnson, Québécois lawyer, physician and politician
1946 - Paul Smith, British fashion designer
1946 - Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laurete
1948 - Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Wash DC, daughter of Richard Milhaus
1948 - William Hootkins, American actor (d. 2005)
1949 - Benny Stolovitz, fictional character on LA Law
1950 - Gary Matthews, baseball player (1973 NL rookie of year)
1950 - Huey Lewis, rocker
1950 - Michael Monarch, LA California, rock guitarist (Steppenwolf)
1951 - Geert Jan Hessing, Dutch rock drummer (Catapult)
1951 - Richard "Goose" Gossage, relief pitcher (Yankees, Padres, A's)
1951 - Keiko Fuji, Japanese enka singer
1952 - David Dreier, (Rep-R-California, 1981- )
1952 - Michael Don McNabb, composer
1952 - Terence Tom Henricks, Bryan Oh, USAF/astronaut (STS 44, 55, 70, 78)
1954 - John Wright, NZ cricketer (opening batsman 1978-92)
1954 - Leni Björklund, Swedish politician
1954 - Jimmy Crespo, American guitarist (Aerosmith)
1955 - Michael Gismondi, rock saxophonist (Michael Stanley Band)
1956 - James Lofton, NFL wide reciever (Bills, Packers, Raiders)
1956 - Patsy Pease, American actress
1957 - David Hanson, politician
1957 - David Pinkney , British Touring Car Racer
1957 - Doug Wilson, Canadian hockey player
1958 - Meredith Ann Pierce, US, sci-fi author (Darkangel)
1958 - Patsy Pease, Winston-Salem NC, actress (Kimberly-Days of Our Lives)
1958 - Tzipi Livni, Israeli politician
1958 - Paul Daniel, British opera and symphony conductor
1958 - Bill Watterson, American cartoonist
1959 - Marc Cohn, singer (Walking in Memphis)
1959 - Patricia Pease Jeffers, NC, actress (Kimberly-Days of our Life)
1959 - Tim Shaw, cricketer (South African ODI slow lefty 1991)
1959 - Veronica Guerin, journalist
1960 - James M. Kelly, American politician
1960 - Brad Loree, Canadian actor and stunt performer
1961 - Isabelle Poulenard, French soprano
1963 - Edie Falco, American actress
1963 - Russ Lorenson, American singer and actor
1964 - Mark H Lascells, grandson of English princess Mary
1964 - Salim Raza, UAE cricket all-rounder (1996 World Cup)
1965 - Lucy Han, Hartford, Conn, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-7th-1994)
1965 - Eyran Katsenelenbogen, Israeli jazz pianist
1966 - Kathryn Erbe, American actress
1966 - Susannah Doyle, British actress
1966 - Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer
1967 - Tim Worrell, Pasadena California, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1967 - Silvia Ziche, Italian comics artist
1968 - Molly Brock, Berkeley California, rower (Olympics-96)
1968 - Nate Singleton, NFL wide receiver (SF 49ers)
1968 - Shahid Anwar, cricketer (Pakistani all-rounder 1996 England tour)
1968 - Ken Akamatsu, Mangaka
1968 - Kenji Ito, Japanese composer
1968 - John Ruskin a.k.a. Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Canadian journalist
1968 - Alex Zülle, Swiss cyclist
1969 - Haylea Petrie, Australian softball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1969 - John Leclair, St Albans VT, NHL forward (Team USA, Philadelphia)
1969 - John Oostendorp, Iowa City Iowa, 220 lbs greco-roman wrestler (Oly-96)
1969 - Joshua Crayton, Redondo Beach California, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1969 - RZA, American rapper (Wu-Tang Clan)
1969 - Jenji Kohan, American television writer and producer
1970 - Doug Bochtler, West Palm Beach FL, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1970 - Maureen Lee, Melbourne Australia, golfer
1970 - Mac Dre, American rapper (d. 2004)
1971 - Donna Faber, East Orange NJ, tennis star
1971 - Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer
1972 - Michael Bays, Enrico California, actor (Bronx Zoo, Days of Our Live)
1972 - Robert Esmie, Jamaica, Canadian 4X100m runner (Olympics-gold-96)
1972 - Tatsuhito Takaiwa, wrestler (NJPW)
1973 - Christy Rowe, St Paul Minn, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1973 - Michael Sykora, Pardubice CZE, NHL defenseman (Sharks, Oly-gold-98)
1973 - Marcus Allbäck, Swedish footballer
1973 - Bengt Lagerberg, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1973 - Róisín Murphy, Irish musician
1973 - René Spies, German bobsledder
1974 - Márcio Amoroso, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Ai Sugiyama, Tokyo Japan, tennis star
1975 - Chris Gratton, Brantford, NHL center (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1975 - Christoph Brandner, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1975 - Todd Macdonald, Charlestown, NHL goalie (Florida Panthers)
1975 - Hernán Crespo, Argentinian footballer
1975 - Gunnar H. Thomsen, Faroese musician (Týr)
1975 - Kip Gamblin, Australian dancer and actor
1976 - Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
1976 - Marina Dias, Brazilian model
1976 - Bizarre, American rapper (D12)
1977 - Royce Da 5'9", American rapper
1977 - Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player.
1978 - Carmen Kempt, Miss Canada Universe (1997)
1979 - Stiliyan Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
1979 - Shane Filan, Irish musician (Westlife)
1979 - Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
1980 - Eva Green, French actress
1980 - Jason Wade, American musician (Lifehouse)
1980 - David Rozehnal, Czech footballer
1981 - Jesse Crain, Canadian baseball player
1981 - Ryan Hansen, American actor
1982 - Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer
1982 - Philippe Gilbert, Belgian cyclist
1983 - Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
1984 - Yu Yamada, Ryukyuan model, actress and singer
1985 - Stephanie McIntosh, Australian pop singer and actress
1985 - Nick O'Malley, British musician (Arctic Monkeys)
1989 - Joseph King, American musician (Canvas)
1991 - Jason Dolley, American actor
1996 - Dolly the sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell born in Scotland

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 5th July


Famous Deaths

                 
British Statesman and                        Baseball Player Ted Williams (2002)
Founder of Singapore
Stamford Raffles (1826)


1316 - Infante Ferdinand of Majorca (b. 1278)
1375 - Charles III of Alençon, French archbishop (b. 1337)
1472 - Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)
1539 - Antonio M Zaccaria, Italian physician/saint, dies
1626 - Stephan Fadinger, Austrian boer leader, dies in battle
1666 - Albert VI of Bavaria (b. 1584)
1676 - Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish soldier (b. 1613)
1681 - Fjodor Aleksejevitsj, tsar of Russia, dies
1715 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1659)
1719 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (b. 1641)
1773 - Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
1803 - William Jackson, composer, dies at 73
1826 - Stamford Raffles, British statesman and founder of Singapore dies at 44 of apoplexy
1833 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (b. 1765)
1851 - Juanita, Mexican, lynched by California gold diggers
1852 - Johann Baptist Weigl, composer, dies at 69
1859 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (b. 1777)
1862 - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (b. 1800)
1871 - Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess, dies
1883 - Frederick Scotson Clark, composer, dies at 42
1884 - Victor Masse, composer, dies at 62
1886 - Henry Gerhard, founder (Social-Democratic Union), dies at 57
1887 - August F Pott, German philological (That Personennamen), dies
1894 - Betty Paoli, writer, dies
1904 - Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
1905 - Carel V Gerritsen, free thinker, dies
1907 - Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahler's eldest daughter, dies at 5
1908 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833)
1909 - Emil Bohn, composer, dies at 70
1911 - George J Stoney, Irish physicist, dies at 85
1913 - Alfred Lyttelton, cricketer (Eng wk 1880-84 demon lob bowler), dies
1920 - John Shuter, cricketer (scored 28 in only Test for England 1888), dies
1920 - Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor, dies at 63
1925 - Hjalmar Borgstrom, composer, dies at 61
1927 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
          1853)
1929 - Henry Lincoln Johnson, Member of 369th regiment (aka Harlem Hell Fighters), first American to receive the Croix de guerre (b. 1897)
1932 - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (b. 1880)
1935 - Daniel Plooy, Dutch new testament expert, dies at 58
1938 - John McIlwraith, cricketer (Tests for Australia), dies
1941 - Oskar Fried, composer, dies at 69
1944 - William Gillies Whittaker, composer, dies at 67
1945 - John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
1948 - Carole Landis, US actress (1 Million BC, Topper Returns), dies at 29
1948 - G Bernanos, writer, dies at 60
1948 - Peter JM Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor, dies at 77
1950 - Kenneth Shadrick, Pvt from WV becomes 1st US fatality in Korean War
1950 - Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit, shot by police
1957 - Charles Sherwood Noble, American-born inventor
1963 - Daniel Ruyneman, composer, dies at 76
1965 - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (b. 1909)
1966 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
1969 - Ben Alexander, dies at 58
1969 - Tom Mboya, Kenyian economics minister, assassinated in Narobi at 65
1969 - Walter Gropius, architect/found (Bauhaus school of design), dies at 86
1969 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (Rubinstein-1905), dies at 85
1969 - Leo McCarey, American film director (b. 1898)
1975 - Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano (b. 1892)
1979 - Elizabeth Ryan, tennis ace (won 19 Wimbledon titles), dies at 87
1979 - Judson Laire, actor/singer (Papa-Mama), dies at 76
1980 - Archibald James Potter, composer, dies at 61
1981 - Jorge Urrutia Blondel, composer, dies at 75
1983 - Arie Querido, psychiatrist (social psychiatry), dies
1983 - Harry James, swing-era bandleader/trumpet player, dies at 67
1983 - Vaclav Trojan, composer, dies at 76
1985 - Gerard Schmook, Flemish literature historian/custodian, dies at 86
1985 - Jack Robertson, South African cricket spinner (3 Tests v Aust 1935-36), dies
1985 - Marion Byron, actress (Steamboat Bill Jr), dies at 73
1989 - Ernesto Halffter, composer, dies at 84
1990 - Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate, commits suicide by hanging at 46
1991 - Howard Nemerow, US poet laureate (Pulitzer), dies
1991 - Mildred Dunnock, dies at 87
1992 - Georgia Brown, British singer/actress (Love at Stake), dies at 59
1993 - Harrison E Salisbury, US journalist (NY Times), dies at 84
1994 - Ad Gang, Dutch Liberal Party asst sec of state, dies at 67
1995 - Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor, dies at 69
1996 - Anne Schumacher Hummert, radio pioneer, dies at 91
1996 - Clyde Wiegand, physicist, dies at 81
1996 - Lorna Young, salesperson, dies at 44
1996 - Erik Wickberg, The Salvation Army general (b. 1904)
1997 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (b. 1907)
1998 - Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
2001 - Ernie K-Doe, American singer (b. 1936)
2002 - Ted Williams, baseball hall of famer and last player to bat over.400 in a single season (Boston
           Red Sox) dies at 84
2002 - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
2003 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1979)
2004 - Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
2004 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (b. 1921)
2005 - James Stockdale, U.S. Navy vice admiral (b. 1923)
2005 - Shirley Goodman, American singer (b. 1936)
2006 - Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
2007 - Régine Crespin, French operatic soprano (b. 1927)
2007 - Kerwin Mathews, American actor (b. 1926)
2007 - George Melly, British jazz & blues musician (b. 1926)
2008 - Hasan Doğan, 37th president of the Turkish Football Federation (b. 1956)
2010 - Bob Probert, Canadian professional ice hockey forward. (b. 1965)
2011 - Cy Twombly, American artist (b. 1928)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 6th July


Historical Events

                                   
Pirate Legend William Kidd                      Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur                 Jewish Victim & Diarist of the
                                                                                                                                 Holocaust Anne Frank

                                   
US General George S Patton                     Tennis Player Steffi Graf                        Champion Tennis Player
                                                                                                                               Pete Sampras


1044 - The Battle of Ménfő takes place.
1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England.
1253 - Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
1348 - Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting Jews during the Black Death.
1415 - Jan Hus is burned at the stake.
1483 - England's King Richard III crowned
1484 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
1491 - Opening ceremony of Daitokuji's Shinju at subtemple
1495 - Battle at Fornovo] French king Charles VIII beats St League
1560 - England/Scotland signs Treaty of Edinburgh
1573 - Pacificatie of Boulogne: new peace treaty with huguenots
1573 - Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
1590 - English admiral Francis Drake takes Portuguese Forts at Taag
1609 - Majesteitsbrief: Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of religion
1621 - Dutch gov-gen John Pieterszoon Coen takes Banda-islands, 15,000 die
1630 - Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf land at Peenemunde
1634 - Johan van Walbeecks ships bypass St-Anna Bay, Curacao
1641 - Battle at La Marfée Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French government army
1652 - Fire on Dutch Dam (Amsterdam's city hall burns)
1669 - LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River
1673 - French troops conquer Maastricht as part of the Franco-Dutch War
1685 - Battle at Sedgemoor: King James II beats duke of Monmouth
1687 - Newton publishes "Principia"
1699 - Pirate Capt William Kidd is captured in Boston
1770 - Battle at Cesme: Russian fleet beats Turkish
1775 - Congress issues "Declaration of the Causes & Necessity of Taking up Arms," listing grievances
           but denying intent to be independent
1776 - Dec of Ind announced on front page of "PA Evening Gazette"
1777 - British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
1782 - British-French sea battle at Negapatam (South-Indies)
1785 - Congress unanimously resolves US currency named "dollar" & adopts decimal coinage
1787 - French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax
1787 - Orange troops occupy Area at Duurstede
1798 - US law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, ... & removed as alien enemies"
1801 - Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British
1840 - Christian Hebbel's "Judith," premieres in Berlin
1848 - Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo
1853 - National Black convention meets (Rochester NY)
1853 - William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel," 1st novel by black American
1854 - 1st Republican state convention (Ripon Wisc)
1858 - Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
1862 - Skirmish at Devall's Bluff Arkansas (106 casualties)
1863 - Battle of Williamsport, MD [-Jul 07]
1863 - Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia
1864 - Battle of Chattahoochee River, GA [->JUL 10] US730 CS600
1869 - Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr J H Harris, defeated
1882 - 14 Russian Jews of Bilu, arrive in Jaffa Palestine
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine
1886 - Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public
1887 - 4th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (62 60)
1892 - Dr Jose Rizal forms League Filipina
1892 - Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pa fire on scabs, killing 7
1892 - Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
1893 - The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and
           injures 200.
1894 - Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike
1903 - George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of SF
1905 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
1908 - Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for north pole
1912 - Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)
1917 - T E Lawrence captures Port of Agaba from Turkey
1919 - British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)
1919 - William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs president
1920 - Yankees score 14 in 5th inning & beat Washington Senators, 17-0
1922 - Dutch auto/airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy
1923 - 36th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (62 62)
1923 - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form
1924 - 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England
1928 - 1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY)
1928 - Worlds largest record hailstone 1.5 lbs (7 inchs in diameter)) at the time falls in Potter
           Nebraska
1929 - St Louis has 2, 10 run innings & beats Phillies 28-6
1931 - 35th US Golf Open: Billy Burke shoots a 292 at Inverness Club Ohio
1932 - 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents
1932 - Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet
           Popovich Valli
1933 - 1st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at Comiskey Park, Chicago
1935 - 48th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats H Jacobs (63 36 75)
1935 - Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens
1936 - 114°F (46°C), Moorhead, Minnesota (state record)
1936 - 121°F (49°C), Steele, North Dakota (state record)
1936 - A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons
           of water cascading 200 feet into the River Irwell.
1938 - 6th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1939 - German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises
1941 - NY Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield
1942 - 10th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York
1942 - Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam
1942 - Von Hoth' IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj
1943 - 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed
1943 - US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched
1944 - 170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford Conn
1944 - French General De Gaulle arrives in Washington, DC
1944 - US General Patton lands in France
1945 - Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept UN Charter
1945 - Harry Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom
1945 - Wash Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games
1946 - "St Louis Woman" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 perfs
1946 - 53rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Louise Brough (62 64)
1946 - 60th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Yvon Petra beats G Brown (62 64 79 57 64)
1947 - The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
1949 - Cin Red Walker Cooper gets 10 RBIs
1949 - Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158°F for 2 minutes
1950 - German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland
1951 - 65th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Dick Savitt beats Ken McGregor (64 64 64)
1952 - Last tram ride in London
1954 - KMOS TV channel 6 in Sedalia-Warrensburg, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - Tunisian government of M'zali, resigns
1956 - 70th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ken Rosewall (62 46 75 64)
1956 - 85th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 286 at Hoylake England
1956 - Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honor to outstanding pitcher
1956 - Indians' Jim Busby hits a grand slam in two consecutive at bats
1957 - 64th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard (63 62)
1957 - Harry S Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri
1958 - Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected pres of Mexico
1958 - Alaska becomes 49th state
1959 - 5th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1959 - Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic
1959 - WENH TV channel 11 in Durham, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC
1961 - Portuguese ship explode near Mozambique, kills 300
1962 - 76th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Martin Mulligan (62 62 61)
1962 - Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria
1962 - Mantle hits his 3rd & 4th consecutive homer
1962 - Nuclear test shot Sedan; part of Operation Plowshare.
1963 - 70th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Smith beats Billie J King (63 64)
1963 - 77th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: C McKinley beats Fred Stolle (97 61 64)
1963 - South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1964 - Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premieres in London
1964 - Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from UK
1965 - Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms
1966 - Malawi becomes a republic, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes pres
1967 - Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade
1968 - 75th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats J Tegart (97 75)
1968 - Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words"
1969 - Filming begins on "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger
1969 - Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao
1970 - California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law
1970 - Italian Rumor government resigns
1971 - Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi
1971 - White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
1974 - 88th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats K Rosewall (61 61 64)
1975 - Argentine government falls
1975 - Comoros declare independence from France (most of them)
1975 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes Sonate for alto opus 147
1975 - Susie McAllister wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
1976 - Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station
1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 - Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut
1978 - The Taunton sleeping car fire occurred in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.
1979 - 86th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (64 64)
1979 - IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp
1980 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1980 - France performs nuclear test
1980 - Steve Carlton (14-4) pitches most strikeouts by a lefty (2,836)
1983 - 54th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-3 at Comiskey Park, Chicago
1983 - Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
1983 - Fred Lynn of Angels hits All Star game 1st grand slam (AL wins 13-3)
1986 - 100th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (64 63 75)
1986 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
1986 - Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a game
1986 - Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in Philippines
1986 - Premier Nakasones Liberal Democr Party wins Japan's election
1987 - 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
1987 - Pakistan score their 1st innings win over England, at Leeds
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test
1988 - Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico
1988 - North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die
1988 - Wrestler Jake Roberts convicted of battery
1989 - Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star game
1989 - US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn
1990 - "Jetson's the Movie" with Tiffany, premieres
1990 - After pitching a no-hitter lose, NY Yankee Andy Hawkins pitches a complete 12 inn game &
           loses 2-0
1991 - 98th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats G Sabatini (64 36 86)
1992 - Fay Vincent realigns NL, putting Cubs, Cards & Rockies in West & Cards, Braves & Marlins in
           East
1993 - Graham Thorpe scores 114 on Test Cricket debut, England v Australia
1993 - John F Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan
1994 - Irina Privalova runs 100m European Record (10.77)
1994 - Lerou Burrell runs world record 100m (9.85)
1994 - Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL game (vs Ottawa)
1995 - Lottie Dod, 15, beats Blanch Bingley at Wimbledon
1996 - 103rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Graf beats Aranxta S Vicaro (63, 75)
1996 - Yankee John Weteland sets record of 20th cons saves en route to 24
1997 - "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," closes at Royale NYC after 109 perfs
1997 - 111th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats C Pioline (64 62 64)
1997 - Jamie Farr Kroger Classic
1997 - Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Classic
1997 - Montreal Expos retire Andre Dawson's uniform #10
1997 - Wimbledon Gigi Fernandez & Natasha Zvereva beat N Arendt & M Bollegraf
1998 - Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek
           Lap Kok becomes operational.
1999 - U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the
           previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former
           Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams.
2003 - The 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to 5 stars: Hip
           4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri, HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris that will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, 2044 and 2049 respectively.
2006 - The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for
           trade after 44 years.
2009 - Jadranka Kosor became first female Prime minister of Croatia.
2012 - Gunmen kill 18 people in Turbat, Pakistan

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 6th July


Famous Weddings

1893 - British Prince George Duke of York (later George V) marries Princess Victoria of Teck (Queen
           Mary) at St James's Palace
1953 - "James Bond" actor Roger Moore (25) weds Welsh singer Dorothy Squires (38) in Jersey City
1966 - American science fiction writer "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Philip K Dick marries
           4th wife Nancy Hackett
1968 - US Army General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr (33) weds Brenda Halsinger
1971 - ABBA member Bjorn Ulvaeus (26) weds fellow singer Agnetha Faltskog (21)
1973 - "The Avengers" actress Diana Rigg (35) weds Israeli painter Menachen Gueffen (43)
2006 - "National Treasure" director Jon Turteltaub (42) weds co-founder of Creative Visions
           Foundation Amy Eldon at Saddlerock Ranch and Vineyard in Malibu, California

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 6th July


Famous Divorces

2009 - Actress Rachael Bella (25) divorces "Terminator 2" actor Eddie Furlong (31) due to irreconcilable
           differences after 3 years of marriage

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 6th July


Famous Birthdays

                                   
British Statesman and                             Actress Janet Leigh (1927)                       43rd US President
Founder of Singapore                                                                                           George W.Bush (1946)
Stamford Raffles (1781)                                                                                                                                                                                 



Actor/Director
Sylvester Stallone (1946)


1542 - Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Willem/Juliana van Stolberg
1580 - Johann Stobaeus, composer
1632 - Albert Schop, composer
1632 - Pietro Reggio, composer
1638 - Gerrit A Berckheyde, Dutch painter
1668 - Peter Burmannus, [Pieter Burman], Dutch attorney/classicist
1678 - Nicola Francesco Haym, composer
1686 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758)
1702 - Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer
1739 - Freidrich Wilhelm Rust, composer
1747 - Coelestin Jungbauer, composer
1747 - John Paul Jones, naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight")
1753 - John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, baptized
1755 - John Flaxman, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey tomb stones)
1766 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born naturalist (d. 1813)
1773 - Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer
1781 - Stamford Raffles, British statesman and founder of Singapore
1782 - Luis [Philippus] Brion, Curacao commander of Colombian fleet
1782 - Maria Louisa of Spain, queen of Etruria (d. 1824)
1785 - William J Hooker, English botanist/director (Kew Gardens)
1789 - Maria Isabella of Spain, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1846)
1793 - Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch lawyer/min of Internal Affairs (1848-49)
1796 - Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55)
1800 - Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer
1814 - Justus McKinstry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1817 - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (d. 1905)
1818 - Adolf Anderssen, Prussia, world chess champion (1851-66)
1821 - Edward Winston Pettus, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1832 - Maximilian F J, archduke of Austria/Emperor of Mexico
1837 - Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer
1838 - Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
1852 - John Albert Delany, composer
1856 - Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail/PTT
1859 - Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet/novelist (Charles Men, Nobel 1916)
1864 - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazil, composer/conductor (Artemis)
1865 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (d. 1950)
1868 - Petrus A Euwens, Dutch vicar/editor (Amigoe di Curacao)
1868 - Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1935)
1873 - Paul Keller, German writer (Ferien vom Ich)
1877 - David Stanley Smith, composer
1877 - Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier/president of Spain (1931-36)
1878 - Eino Leino, Finnish poet (d. 1926)
1881 - Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Quadriga, Pumpernickel)
1882 - Ralph Morgan, [Wupperman], NYC, actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London)
1884 - Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter/cartoonist
1884 - Harold Vanderbilt, NY, America Cup (1930,34,37)/inv contract bridge
1884 - Willem Dudok, Dutch architect (town hall Hilversum/Beehive Rotterdam)
1885 - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1888 - Annette Kellerman, Sydney Australia, swimmer (Million Dollar Mermaid)
1890 - Andrew Sandham, cricketer (Test cricket's 1st triple centurion)
1892 - Baron Willy Coppens de Houthulst, Belgian WW I pilot
1893 - Wilton St Hill, WI cricketer (3 Tests 1928-30)
1896 - Thomas W McKnew, president (National Geographic Society)
1897 - Richard Krautheimer, art Historian
1898 - Hanns Eisler, German/US composer/German DR-minister for propaganda
1900 - Emil Barth, writer
1900 - Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright and screen writer (d. 2012)
1903 - Axel Theorell, Sweden, biochemist, studied enzymes (Nobel 1955)
1904 - Robert Whitney, Newcastle-on-Tyne England, conductor (Sospiro do Roma)
1904 - Erik Wickberg, Salvation Army general (d. 1996)
1906 - Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, composer
1907 - M C Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter/wife of Diego Rivera
1908 - Leonce Grass, Flemish singer/conductor
1912 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2006)
1914 - Jens Rohiner, composer
1915 - Dorothy Kirsten, Montclair NJ, soprano (Time to Sing, Chevy Show)
1915 - Laverne Andrews, Minneapolis MN, singer (Andrews Sisters)
1915 - Marcel Quinet, Belgian pianist/composer (Vague et Sillon)
1916 - Unica Zorn, writer
1917 - Hugo Cole, composer
1917 - Hugo Yarnold, cricketer (Worcestershire keeper & Test umpire)
1917 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (d. 2004)
1918 - Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch journalist/poet (Crossing)
1918 - Eugene List, Phila Penn, pianist/prof (Eastman School of Music)
1918 - Sebastian Cabot, London, actor (Mr French-Family Affair, Time Machine)
1919 - Dorothy Kirsten, opera singer/Alzheimer disease activist
1920 - William Worthington, horse trainer
1921 - Nancy Davis Reagan, [Anne Francis Robbins], NYC, 1st Lady (1981-89)
1922 - Francisco Moncion, dancer
1922 - William Schallert, LA California, actor (Patty Duke Show, Get Smart)
1923 - Cathy O'Donnell, Siluria AL, actress (Miniver Story, Man from Laramie)
1923 - Marie McDonald, Burgin KY, singer/actress (Promises Promises)
1923 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general/pres (1989-90)
1924 - Robert Michael White, NYC, test pilot (X-15)
1925 - Bill Haley, Highland Park Mich, rock vocalist (Rock Around the Clock)
1925 - Huub H Jacobse, member of Dutch 2nd chamber (Liberal)
1925 - Merv Griffin, San Mateo California, TV host (Merv Griffin Show)
1926 - Nicky Hilton, 1st husband of Elizabeth Taylor
1927 - Charles Whittenberg, composer
1927 - Janet Leigh, [Jeanetta Morrison], Merced CA, actress (Psycho), (d. 2004)
1927 - Pat Paulsen, Wash, comedian/pres candidate (Smothers Bros Show)
1927 - Susan Cabot, Boston, actress (Carnival Rock)
1927 - [Jan] Hein Donner, Dutch chess master
1927 - Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (d. 2004)
1929 - Gerd Zacher, composer
1930 - Francoise Mallet-Joris, [F Lilar], Belgian writer (Signs & Wonders)
1930 - H J Heise, writer
1931 - Donal Donnelly, Bradford Yorkshire England, actor (Dead)
1931 - Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader
1931 - Jean Campeau, French Canadian businessman and politician
1932 - Della Reese, Detroit, singer/actress (Della Reese Show, Royal Family)
1933 - Frank Austin, English footballer
1935 - 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet, spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists
1936 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005)
1937 - Gene Chandler, [Eugene Dixon], Chicago, rocker (Duke of Earl)
1937 - Ned Beatty, Lexington Ky, actor (Deliverance, Repossed, Network)
1937 - Tony Lewis, cricketer (England batsman, captain 1972-73)
1937 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gorki Russia, pianist/conductor (Tchakowsky-1961)
1938 - Franco, Zaire, composer/guitarist/leader (Masumbuku)
1939 - Helena Dupont, US, equestrian 3-day even (Olympic-33rd place-1964)
1939 - Jet Harris, [Terence Harris], London, rock bassist (Drifters)
1939 - Man Mohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India)
1939 - Mary Peters, England, pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1972)
1939 - Jet Harris, English bass guitarist
1940 - Viktor Kuzkin, USSR, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1940 - Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
1940 - Jeannie Seely, American singer
1944 - Byron Berline, rocker
1944 - Gunhild Hoffmeister, German FR, 800m/1500m runner (Oly-silver-72)
1945 - Burt Ward, [Gervis], LA California, actor (Robin-Batman)
1945 - Rik Elswit, rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show-In the Right Place)
1945 - Rodney Matthews, English fantasy artist and illustrator
1946 - Fred Dryer, Hawthone California, NFLer (NY Giants, LA Rams)/actor (Hunter)
1946 - George W. Bush Jr, New Have, Connecticut, 43rd President of the United States (2001-09)
           and 46th Governor of Texas (1995-2000) (R-TX)
1946 - James Naughton, US, actor (Trauma center) [or June 12, 1945]
1946 - Jamie Wyeth, Penn, artist (An American Vision-Boston)
1946 - Rick Hunter, actor
1946 - Sylvester Stallone, NYC, actor/director (Rocky, Rambo, Cobra)
1946 - Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
1947 - Richard Beckinsale, Nottingham England, actor (Porridge, Doing Time)
1947 - Lance Clemons, baseball player
1948 - Brad Park, Scarborough Ontario, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers, Boston Bruins)
1948 - Nathalie Baye, Mainneville France, actress (Beau Pere, Honeymoon)
1948 - Wadih Saadeh, Lebanese-Australian poet
1948 - Tom Curley, American media executive
1949 - Shelley Hack, Greenwich Ct, actress (Tiffany Welles-Charlie's Angel)
1950 - Phyllis Hyman, jazz Singer
1950 - Ramon Guzman, jockey
1950 - Sultan Rakhmanov, Super heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1980)
1950 - John Byrne, American comic book author & artist
1950 - Hélène Scherrer, Canadian politician
1951 - Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
1952 - Grant Goodeve, Middlebury CT, actor (Northern Exposure)
1952 - Jesse Harms, musician, of REO Speedwagon
1953 - Nanci Griffith, US singer/songwriter (Poet in My Window)
1954 - Allyce Beasley, Bkln, actress (Agnes Dipesto-Moonlighting)
1954 - James Kiberd, actor (Trevor Dillon-Loving, All My Children)
1954 - Willie Randolph, former New York Mets manager
1955 - William Wall, Irish writer
1956 - John Jorgenson, Madison Wisc, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1956 - Matt Bahr, NFL kicker (NE Patriots, NY Giants)
1956 - Casey Sander, American actor
1957 - Mario Martinez, Salinas Ca, US Olympic weightlifter (Olympic-4th-1988)
1957 - Ron Duguay, Canada, hockey player (NY Rangers, Detroit Red Wings)
1958 - Jennifer Saunders, Sleaford England, actress (Absolutely Fabulous)
1958 - Mark Benson, cricketer (played Test England v India 1986, 30 & 21)
1958 - Ossie Moore, Murwillumbah NSW, Australasia golfer
1959 - John Keeble, London, rock drummer (Spandau Ballet-True)
1959 - Tahir Naqqash, cricketer (Pakistani pace-bowler in 15 Tests 1982-85)
1960 - Caroll-Ann Alie, Ottawa Ontario, yachter (Olympics-14-92, 96)
1960 - Jozef/Josef Pribilinec, Czech, speed walker (world record 10K)
1960 - Lauri Merten, Waukesha WI, LPGA golfer (1993 US Women's Open)
1960 - Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Greenwood Ms, 200m/400m runner (Olympic-gold-84)
1961 - Benita Fitzgerald-Brown, Virg, 100m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1984)
1961 - Kimberly Foster, actress (It Takes Two)
1963 - Edwin Gorter, soccer player (Lommel/FC Utrecht)
1964 - Lillie Leatherwood, Northport Ala, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1965 - Glenn Scarpelli, Staten Is NY, actor (Alex-One Day At a Time, Fantasy)
1965 - Tim Camargo, jockey
1966 - Brian Posehn, American actor
1967 - David Whitmore, NFL strong safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Omar Olivares, Mayaguez Puerto Rico, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1967 - Heather Nova, Bermudian singer
1968 - Alvin Harper, NFL wide receiver (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1968 - Anthony Kershler, cricketer (NSW left-arm spinner 1994-95)
1969 - Michael Grant, vocalist (Musical Youth)
1969 - Sophia Witherspoon, WNBA guard (NY Liberty)
1969 - Brian Van Holt, American actor
1970 - Antonio Harvey, NBA center/forward (LA Clippers)
1970 - Inspectah Deck, American rapper
1970 - Frank Salvato II, Italian-American Sound Engineer and Composer
1970 - Martin Smith, English singer (Delirious?)
1971 - Adam Laurent, Santa Cruz California, pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
1971 - Kari Kupcinet, Chicago, actress (Julie Sanderson-Young & Restless)
1971 - Owen Lance Bill Hughes, Palmerston North NZ, kayaker (Olympics-96)
1971 - Kenya D. Williamson, American actress
1972 - Billy Davis, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 - Isabelle Boulay, French-Canadian singer
1972 - D-Styles, American scratch DJ
1972 - Greg Norton, American baseball player
1972 - Mark Gasser, British pianist
1973 - Karl Ballard, WLAF linebacker (London Monarchs)
1974 - Steve Sullivan, Timmins, NHL center (NJ Devils)
1974 - Zé Roberto, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Amir-Abbas Fakhravar, Iranian journalist and activist
1975 - Sebastián Rulli, Argentine actor
1975 - 50 Cent, American rapper
1976 - Michelle Stanley, Littleton Colorado, Miss America-Colorado (1997)
1976 - Nikki Mott, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1977 - Con Blatsis, Australian footballer
1977 - Makhaya Ntini, South African cricketer
1977 - Craig Handley, British film director
1978 - Rachel Rochelli, Houston TX, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1978 - Tamera Mowry, twin actress (Sisters)
1978 - Tia Mowry, twin actress (Sisters)
1978 - Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby player
1979 - Nicolas Daniel Maricio, Prince of Netherlands
1979 - Nic Cester, Australian musician (Jet)
1980 - Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
1981 - Nicole Kantek, NSW Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 - Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player
1982 - Tay Zonday, American singer and keyboardist
1983 - Gregory Smith, Canadian actor
1984 - Lauren Harris, British rock singer
1984 - James Henderson, American model
1986 - Derrick Williams, American football player
1987 - Caroline Trentini, Brazilian model
1987 - Kate Nash, English singer/songwriter
1987 - Matt O'Leary, American actor
1994 - Rebecca Rosso and Camilla Rosso, British actresses

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 6th July


Famous Deaths

                 
Author and Nobel Laureate                   Jazz Trumpeter Louis Armstrong (1971)
William Faulkner (1962)


1189 - Henry II, King of England (1154-89), dies at 56
1218 - Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
1415 - Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (b. 1369), burned for heresy by the Church at Constance,
           Germany
1476 - Regiomontanus, [Johannes Muller of Königsberg], German astronomer (b. 1436)
1480 - Antonio Squarcialupi, composer, dies at 64
1533 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (Orlando Furioso), dies at 57
1535 - Thomas More, philosopher (Utopia), executed for treason at 57
1553 - Edward VI Tudor, King of England (1547-53), dies at 15
1568 - Johann Oporinus, Swiss book publisher/publisher, dies at 61
1583 - Edmund Grindal, English bishop of London/archbhp of York, dies at 64
1585 - Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (b. 1552)
1587 - Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed
1684 - Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
1734 - Nicolas Bernier, composer, dies at 69
1758 - George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general
1762 - Peter III Feodorovich, tsar of Russia (1761-62), murdered at 34
1765 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 76
1768 - Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer, dies at 78
1795 - Georg Gottfried Petri, composer, dies at 79
1802 - Daniel Morgan, American Revolutionary general and politician (b. ~1735)
1809 - Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (b. 1775)
1813 - Granville Sharp, British abolitionist (b. 1735)
1816 - Philipp Meissner, composer, dies at 67
1835 - John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1755)
1854 - Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)
1858 - Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer, dies at 78
1860 - Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer, dies at 37
1863 - Strong Vincent, US Union brig-general, dies
1864 - Samuel Allen Rice, US Union brig-gen, dies of injuries at 36
1868 - Samuel Lover, composer, dies at 71
1868 - Sanosuke Harada, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840)
1871 - Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34
1879 - Henry Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 65
1893 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)
1896 - Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer, dies at 54
1901 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
1902 - Leopoldo Miguez, composer, dies at 51
1907 - August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German Linguist, Theologian (b. 1826)
1914 - Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet, murdered at 27
1916 - Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
1918 - Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Moscow, dies
1922 - Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (b. 1863)
1932 - Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
1933 - Robert Kajanus, composer, dies at 76
1934 - Warden Uncle, [Edward Vermeulen], Flemish landlord/writer, dies at 73
1950 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1923)
1951 - Josef Huttel, composer, dies at 57
1952 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French Canadian politician (b. 1867)
1954 - Dirk Verbeek, actor/director (Hofstad Stage), dies at 70
1955 - Paolo Gallico, composer, dies at 87
1959 - George Grosz, German cartoonist/painter (Ecce Homo), dies at 65
1960 - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (b. 1897)
1961 - Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter, dies at 93
1961 - Enrique Larreta, [E Rodriguez Maza], Argentine diplomat/writer, dies
1961 - Scott LaFaro, American musician (b. 1936)
1961 - Woodall Rodgers, American politician (b. 1890)
1962 - William Faulkner, US author (Nobel 1949), dies at 64
1962 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1872)
1962 - Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1899)
1966 - Anne Nagel, dies of cancer at 50
1966 - Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
1970 - Marjorie Rambeau, dies at 80
1971 - Horst Lange, writer, dies at 66
1971 - Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, jazz musician (Hello Dolly), dies at 71
1971 - Thomas C Heart, US admiral/commander (Asiatic fleet), dies
1971 - Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer, dies at 69
1972 - Brandon De Wilde, actor (Jamie), dies at 30 in a car crash
1972 - Sam de Grasse, dies at 97
1972 - Vincent Valentine, WI cricket pace bowler (England 1933), dies
1973 - Joe E Brown, comedian, dies after long illness at 80
1973 - Otto Klemperer, German/US conductor, dies at 88
1973 - Patrick McVey, actor (Manhunt, Big Town), dies at 63
1974 - Carlos Isamitt, composer, dies at 87
1975 - Otto Skorzeny, German/Austrian SS (Mussolini/Ardennen), dies
1975 - Ruffian, American racehorse (b. 1972)
1976 - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (b. 1887)
1977 - Oedoen Partos, composer, dies at 69
1979 - Van McCoy, singer/songwriter (Hey Mr DJ, Hustle), dies at 35
1980 - Gail Patrick, actress (My Man Godfrey), dies of leukemia at 69
1982 - Russell Thorson, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 72
1982 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905)
1986 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
1989 - Janos Kádár, premier of Hungary (1956-58), dies at 77
1990 - Jim Samuels, comedian, dies of spinal meningitis at 41
1990 - Paul Wynne, KGO-TV SF reporter, dies of AIDS at 46
1991 - Thorley Walters, actor (Trog, Edwardians, Daisy), dies at 78
1991 - Muda Lawal, Nigerian footballer (b. 1954)
1992 - Edgardo Pallero, Argentina producer (Los hijos de fierro), dies
1993 - Ruth Lady Fermoy, maternal grandmother of Princess Diane, dies at 84
1994 - Cameron Mitchell, actor (High Chapparral), dies of lung cancer at 75
1994 - Geoffrey McQueen, TV writer, dies at 46
1995 - Aziz Nesin, writer, dies at 79
1995 - Helene Johnson, poet, dies at 87
1995 - Ivor Keys, musician/teacher, dies at 76
1996 - John Sturdy, scholar, dies at 62
1996 - Kathy Ahern, American golfer (b. 1949)
1998 - Roy Rogers, American actor (b. 1911)
1999 - Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938)
1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
1999 - Barry Winchell, American soldier (b. 1977)
2002 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932)
2002 - John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930)
2003 - Buddy Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908)
2003 - Skip Battin, American rocker, dies at 69
2004 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)
2004 - Syreeta Wright, American singer (b. 1946)
2005 - Bruno Augenstein, German-born mathematician (b. 1923)
2005 - L. Patrick Gray III, American FBI director (b. 1916)
2005 - Evan Hunter, American novelist (b. 1926)
2005 - Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
2005 - Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
2006 - Kasey Rogers, American actress (b. 1926)
2006 - Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster (b. 1914)
2008 - Bobby Durham, American jazz drummer (b. 1937)
2009 - Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1916)
2009 - Leo Mol, Ukrainian Canadian artist and sculptor (b. 1915)
2009 - Johnny Collins, British folk and maritime music singer (b. 1938)
2009 - Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (b. 1932)
2012 - Charles David Ganao, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, dies at 85

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 7th July


Historical Events

                                   
Composer George Friedrich Handel                Outlaw Jesse James                        Baseball Legend Connie Mack

                  
Argentine Revolutionary                        Golfer Tiger Woods
Che Guevara


1124 - Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders
1438 - French church/King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie of Bourges
1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
1495 - King Ferdinand II returns to Naples
1498 - Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel
1534 - European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives
           of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg
1550 - Chocolate introduced
1585 - King Henri III & Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots lose all freedoms
1607 - "God Save the King" is 1st sung
1647 - People's uprising against high prices & Spanish rule in Naples
1668 - Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
1713 - 1st performance of Georg F Handel's "Te Deum" & "Jubilate"
1753 - British Museum founded by an Act of Parliament (opens in 1759)
1753 - English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship
1754 - Kings College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College)
1768 - Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
1798 - Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
1799 - Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore.
1801 - Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence
1802 - 1st comic book "The Wasp," is published
1807 - France, Russia & Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit
1814 - Walter Scott's "Waverley" published
1829 - Royal Military Chapel forms
1838 - Central American federation is dissolved
1846 - US annexs California
1850 - Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia
1861 - Battle of Laurel Hill, VA
1862 - Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land
1863 - 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)
1863 - Orders barring Jews from serving under US Grant are revoked
1864 - S Middleton, MD -Early's Washington Raid-
1868 - Ed Pooley takes 12 dismissals as keeper in match Surrey v Sussex
1874 - 27th Postmaster General: James W Marshall of NJ takes office
1875 - Jesse James robs train in Otterville Missouri
1878 - Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam
1891 - Travelers checks patents
1892 - Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the
           Spanish Empire in Asia.
1898 - US annexes Hawaii
1900 - Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory
1905 - 127°F (53°C), Parker Ariz (state record)
1908 - Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay
1911 - 28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby (60 60)
1911 - Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record
1913 - British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law
1914 - Balt Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore & Ben Egan for $10,000 to
           Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty
1915 - A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers
           crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
1919 - Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game
1923 - 43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61)
1923 - Cleve Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning
1923 - University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
1924 - Robert LeGendre of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 5½"
1928 - 41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 63)
1928 - Edward Hamm of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 11"
1928 - Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe,
           Missouri. It is described as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was
           wrapped".
1929 - Romania & Vatican sign concord
1930 - Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
1932 - Bradman scores a cricket double century in Montreal
1934 - Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship
1936 - 4th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston
1937 - 5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash
1937 - Japanese & Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II
1939 - 52nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60)
1941 - Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono Lithuania
1941 - US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
1941 - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
1942 - Germany troop march into Woronezj
1942 - Milt all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0
1943 - -10] Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java
1943 - 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova
1943 - Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk
1943 - Liberator bombers sinks U-517
1943 - U-951 sunk
1944 - Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
1944 - Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
1947 - Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.
1948 - 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy
1948 - Cleveland Indians sign Leroy "Satchel" Paige
1948 - Indians sign Satchel Paige at 42
1949 - "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" opens at Broadway NYC for 76 perfs
1949 - "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 & 1967
1950 - 1st Farnborough airshow held
1950 - 64th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Budge Patty beats Sedgman (61 8-10 62 63)
1950 - 79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon
1951 - 58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (61 60)
1952 - SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40
1953 - 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Mich
1953 - Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica,
           Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
1954 - T.A.N.U. party forms in Tanzania
1954 - Formation of the TANU in Tanzania
1955 - 1st LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson
1956 - 63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61)
1956 - Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres
1956 - 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200,
           destroying 2,000 buildings
1956 - Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
1957 - Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast
1958 - C A Milton scores 104* on Test Cricket debut, England v NZ Headingley
1958 - Pres Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood
1958 - William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows NY
1959 - 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
1960 - Neth-US cemetery Margraten official opens
1960 - USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea
1961 - 75th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64)
1961 - James R Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters
1962 - 69th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (64 64)
1962 - Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open
1964 - 35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York
1964 - All star MVP: John Callison (Philadelphia Phillies)
1965 - Otis Redding records "Respect"
1967 - 81st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61)
1967 - Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released
1967 - Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1
1967 - Beginning of the civil war in Biafra.
1968 - 23rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
1968 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1968 - Rock group "Yardbirds" disband
1969 - Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English lang
1969 - Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal
1972 - 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley & Joanne E Pierce)
1972 - 79th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (63 63)
1972 - Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage
1973 - 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)
1973 - 80th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats C Evert (60 75)
1973 - 87th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jan Kodes beats Alex Metreveli (61 98 63)
1973 - All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels
1973 - Balt Orioles pull their 4th triple play (5-4-3 vs Oakland)
1973 - Glenda Reiser (Canada) sets record women's mile (4:34.9)
1973 - Shoelace Park in the Bronx named
1973 - 1st all-US women's Wimbledon, Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert
1974 - Brewer Don Money sets record of consec errorless games at 3rd (78)
1974 - Sue Roberts wins LPGA Niagara Frontier Golf Classic
1974 - West Germany beats Neth 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich
1975 - TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres
1976 - E Henry Knoche, becomes deputy director of CIA
1976 - Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1976 - Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars
1977 - 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City
1978 - 85th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (26 64 75)
1978 - Solomon Islands declares independence from UK
1979 - 93rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats R Tanner (67 61 36 63 64)
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Az Judge Sandra Day O'Connor 1st female nominated to Supreme Court
1980 - Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
1980 - Larry Holmes TKOs Scott LeDoux in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 - Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe
1980 - Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Univ) as 29th Miss USA
1980 - Institution of sharia in Iran.
1980 - The Safra massacre in Lebanon.
1981 - The solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, successfully completes a 163 mile flight across
           the English Channel
1981 - Ben Plucknett of US throws discus 72.34 m, but throw is disqualified
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court
1982 - David Moorcroft of UK sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41
1982 - Steve Scott of US runs mile in a record 3:47.69
1983 - 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR
1984 - 5 die in a train crash in Williston Vt
1984 - 91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62)
1985 - 92nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (46 63 62)
1985 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
1986 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released
1986 - It is reported Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction
1986 - Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices
1986 - Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
1987 - Alan & Colin Wells make 303* partnership for Sussex v Kent
1987 - Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women
1987 - Lt Col Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing
1987 - Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 & 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7
1988 - Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 - 97th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Z Garrison (64 61)
1990 - NJ Devils sign Russians Viacheslav Fetisov & Sergei Starikov
1990 - Italy beats England in soccer's World Cup consolation game
1991 - 105th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Michael Stich beats B Becker (64 76 64)
1991 - Alice Miller wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1991 - Nolan Ryan possible 8th no-hitter ends in the 8th inning
1993 - Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
1993 - NY Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game (goes to 27)
1993 - Philadelphia Phillies beat SF Giants 7-6 in 20 innings
1993 - Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers
1993 - Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building
           across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500
1994 - "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo
1994 - Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert
1994 - North Yemenite troops occupy Aden
1995 - Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game (vs BC Lions)
1995 - Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), lands
1996 - 110th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: R Krajicek beats M Washington (63 64 63)
1996 - 17th US Seniors Golf Open: Dave Stockton
1996 - Joan Pitcock wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), lands
1997 - Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open
1997 - Tower Minn temps dip to 24°F
1998 - 69th All Star Baseball Game: at Coors Field, Denver
2002 - A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu
           Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.
2003 - The United Communist Party of Armenia is formed.
2005 - Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike London's public transport system during the
           morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 700
2005 - Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledge to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25
           to US$50 billion by the year 2010.
2007 - Pope Benedict XVI issues the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum, removing restrictions
           on celebrating the old Tridentine Mass.
2007 - Worldwide performances by charity event Live Earth.
2011 - Roof of a stand in De Grolsch Veste Stadium in Enschede which was under construction
           collapsed, one killed and 14 injured.
2012 - Floods in the Krasnodar region, Russia, kill 140 people