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This Day in History for 7th July


Famous Weddings

1977 - "American Bandstand" TV host Dick Clark (47) weds Kari Wigton (34) in Malibu, California
1984 - Frankie Valli marries Randy Clohessy
1986 - US actress Deborah Hunter marries actor Michael Tylo
1987 - "The Bold and the Beautiful" actress Hunter Tylo (25) weds actor Michael Tylo (38)
2001 - "Charlie's Angels" star Drew Barrymore (26) weds actor-comedian Tom Green (29) in Malibu
2006 - "Extreme Makeover" Bill Dorfman (47) weds former contestant on "The Apprentice" and
            beauty queen Jennifer Murphy (27) at the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes,
           California
2006 - Three-time "Survivor" contestant Stephanie LaGrossa (26) weds Michael Ward in Seaside
           Heights, New Jersey
2006 - Anchor and Skating with Celebrities runner-up Jillian Barberie (39) weds actor Grant Reynolds
           (33) in Tarzana, California
2007 - Actress and model Eva Longoria (37) weds NBA player Tony Parker (30) at The Church of
           Saint Germain l'Auxerrois in Paris, France
2007 - Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck (38) weds handbag designer Gelila Assefa (38) in a three-day
           celebration on the Italian island of Capri
2012 - "The Office" Ellie Kemper (32) weds former "Conan O'Brien" writer Michael Koman at the
           Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church in New York City

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Famous Divorces

1994 - Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert
2008 - Cynthia Rodriguez (35) divorces New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez (32) due to
           long period of infidelity and emotional abandonment after 6 years of marriage

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Nobel Laureat Physician                        Jazz Guitarist Tiny Grimes (1916)        Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr (1940)
Camillo Golgi (1843)


Actress Shelley Duvall (1949)


1053 - Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
1119 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
1528 - Anna of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria, daughter of Ferdinand I (d. 1590)
1586 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (d. 1646)
1656 - Guru Har Krishan, 8th Guru of Sikhism (d. 1664)
1690 - Johann Tobias Krebs, composer
1710 - Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer
1746 - Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer
1752 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented programmable loom
1778 - Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer
1806 - Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education
1813 - William Scott Ketchum, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871
1816 - Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1824 - Alfred Pleasonton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1827 - James Murrell Shackelford, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1827 - William Montague Browne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1843 - Camillo Golgi, Lombary Austrian Empire, physician/cytologist (Nobel 1906), (d. 1926)
1851 - Lillien Jane Martin, psychologist, found gerontology clinic
1851 - Charles Tindley, American gospel music composer (d. 1933)
1853 - Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Le Pacha Bonneval)
1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
1856 - George Hearne, cricketer (brother of Frank & Alec, Test for England)
1860 - Gustav Mahler, Kalischat Bohemia Austria, composer/conductor (Titan)
1872 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer
1874 - Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
1879 - Jacob Weinberg, composer
1882 - Zdzislaw Jachimecki, composer
1883 - Toivo Kuula, composer
1884 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
1885 - Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer
1887 - Dirk Koster, literary (New Noises)
1887 - Marc Chagall, Vitebsk Russia, artist (I & The Village)
1887 - Raymond Hatton, Red Oak IA, actor (Girls in Prison, Lady Killer)
1890 - Tom Powers, Owensboro KY, actor (Station West, Destination Moon)
1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution)[NS=7/19]
1893 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (d. 1981)
1897 - Anna Luther, NJ, silent screen actress (Sinners in Silk)
1898 - Hanns Eisler, composer
1899 - George Cukor, producer/director (Adam's Rib, Philadelphia Story)
1900 - Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (d. 1990)
1901 - Gustav Knuth, Braunschweig Germany, actor (Freddy Unter Fremden)
1901 - Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor/director (Fietsendieven)
1902 - James McCartney, father of Beatle (Paul)
1902 - Vittorio De Sica, Sora Italy, director/actor (2 Women)
1902 - Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1904 - Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991)
1905 - Marcel Rubin, composer
1906 - Harry Von Zell, sidekick (George Burns Show)
1906 - [Leroy] Satchel Paige, baseball pitcher, never look back
1906 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d. 1970)
1906 - Anton Karas, Viennese musician (d. 1985)
1907 - Helene Johnson, poet
1907 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein, US, sci-fi author (4 Hugos, Red Planet)
1908 - Evert W Beth, Dutch mathematician/philosopher
1908 - Harriette Arnow, Wayne Co, Ky, novelist (Dollmaker)
1908 - Revilo P. Oliver, American professor (d. 1994)
1911 - Eddie Mayehoff, Balt Md, actor (Hour Glass, How to Murder Your Wife)
1911 - Gian-Carlo Menotti, Italy, composer (Amahl & Night Visitors)
1911 - Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress (Hands of a Stranger)
1912 - Tiny Alma, [Catharina E J Stam], operetta singer (Vienna Blood)
1914 - Cor de Groot, pianist/conductor/composer (Old-Dutch Suite)
1914 - Serafim Sergeyevich Tulikov, composer
1915 - Margaret Walker Alexander, poet/novelist (For My People)
1916 - Luc Peire, Flemish painter/graphic artist
1916 - Robert Stevens Baker, composer
1916 - Tiny Grimes, Newport News Virginia, Jazz guitarist
1917 - Elton Britt, Marshall Ark, country singer (Sat Night Jamboree)
1917 - Lawrence F O'Brien, (Watergate conspirators broke into his office)
1917 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadoran politician (d. 2003)
1919 - Jon Pertwee, English comic/actor (Dr Who, Worzel Gummidge)
1919 - William Moses Kunstler, defense attorney (Chicago 8 )
1921 - Ezzard Charles, world heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51 )
1921 - Stanislaw Wislocki, composer
1921 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
1922 - Artie Malvin, US music director (Julie LaRosa/Steve Lawrence)
1922 - Pierre Cardin, Paris France, fashion designer (Unisex)
1923 - Richard Lumley, English insurance magnate/multi-millionaire
1923 - Roberto Caamano, composer
1924 - Dieter Nowka, composer
1924 - Mary Ford, [Colleen Summer], vocalist/actress (Queen of Outer Space)
1925 - Yvonne Mitchell, London England, writer (Johnny Nobody, Genghis Khan)
1925 - Wally Phillips, American radio personality (d. 2008)
1927 - Alan J Dixon, (Sen-D-IL, 1981- )
1927 - Charlie Louvin, Rainsville Ala, country singer (Louvin Brothers)
1927 - Doc Severinson, [Carl], Arlington Oregon, bandleader/trumpeter on the Tonight Show
1928 - Colleen Summers, Pasadena California, vocal overdubber
1929 - Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian
1929 - R Baumgart, writer
1929 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
1930 - Hank Mobley, US jazz saxophonist
1931 - David Eddings, US, sci-fi author (Belgariad, Malloreon)
1931 - Stanley Brock, Bkln, actor (Ivan-He's the Mayor)
1932 - Josef Zawinul, Austrian-American jazz keyboardist, composer and musician (d. 2007)
1933 - David McCullough, actor (Huey Long)
1933 - Dick Kallman, Brooklyn NY, actor (Borned to Be Loved, Verboten!)
1933 - Murray Halberg, New Zealand, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 - Vinko Globokar, composer
1936 - Friedhelm Dohl, composer
1936 - Stuart Ross Dempster, composer
1936 - Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (d. 1980)
1937 - Carroll Hubbard Jr, (Rep-D-KY, 1975- )
1939 - Laurie Silvers, horse trainer
1940 - James Toner, horse trainer
1940 - Richard K Armey, (Rep-R-Texas, 1985- )
1940 - Ringo Starr, [Richard Starkey], Liverpool, Beatles drummer (Magic Christian)
1941 - Michael Howard, British politician
1941 - Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
1942 - Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
1943 - Toto Cutugno, Italian singer
1943 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)
1944 - Tony Jacklin, Scunthorpe England, PGA golfer (1970 US Open)
1944 - Warren Entner, Boston Mass, rock vocalist/guitarist (Grass Roots)
1945 - James Rodford, English rock vocalist/bassist (Kinks-Mr Pleasant)
1945 - Matti Salminen, Turku Finland, bass player (King Philipp-Don Carlos)
1945 - Michael Ancram, British politician
1946 - Jean LeClerc, actor (Jeremy Hunter-All My Children)
1946 - Jim Day, Canada, equestrian show jumper (Olympic-gold-1968)
1946 - Joe Spano, SF California, actor (Henry Goldblume-Hill St Blues)
1947 - Rob Townsend, rock drummer (Family Leicester)
1947 - Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat
1947 - Howard Rheingold, American author
1947 - Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal
1948 - Fred Brown, NBAer (Seattle SuperSonic)
1948 - Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly) (d. 2012)
1948 - Jean Leclerc, French-Canadian actor
1949 - Shelley Duvall, Houston Texas, actress (Popeye, Faery Tale Theater)
1951 - Roz Ryan, Detroit Mich, actress (Amelia-Amen, Occupied)
1952 - Mando Guerrero, Mexican professional wrestler
1953 - Lynval Golding, rocker (Fun Boy Three)
1955 - Len Barker, American baseball player
1956 - Bill Lagattuta, NYC, news correspondent (CBS, 48 Hours, Eye to Eye)
1956 - Jesus Bazan, jockey
1957 - Jonathan Dayton, American film director
1957 - Berry Sakharof, Turkish-born Israeli guitarist (Minimal Compact)
1958 - Michael Marx, Portland Or, US fencer-epee (Olympic-84, 88, 92, 96)
1959 - Jessica Hahn, evangelist rape victim/model (playboy)/actress
1959 - Billy Campbell [William Oliver], Charlottesville, Virginia, American actor (Once and Again,
           Dracula)
1959 - Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)
1960 - Barbara Bierman, Miami Fla, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1994)
1960 - Ralph Sampson, NBA center (Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets)
1960 - Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut
1962 - Clive "Doctor" Jackson, rocker (Dr & Medics-Laughing at Pieces)
1962 - Shawn Paddock, rocker (Red Rockers)
1963 - Lance Johnson, Cincinnati OH, outfielder (NY Mets)
1963 - Naved Anjum, cricketer (Pakistani all-rounder, two Tests 1989-90)
1963 - Perry Richardson, SC, bassist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
1963 - Vonda Shepard, American singer
1965 - Paula Devicq, Canadian actress
1965 - Mo Collins, American actress
1966 - Hector Burba, Dayton OH, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1966 - Jeff Shaw, Washington Ohio, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1966 - Jim Gaffigan, American comedian
1966 - Gundula Krause, German folk violinist
1966 - Neil Tobin, American magician
1967 - Alfred Jackson, CFL receiver (BC Lions)
1967 - Erik van der More, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1967 - Jason R Rich, Irvington NY, writer (Celebrity Teen Talk)
1967 - Tom Kristensen, Danish race car driver
1967 - Jackie Neal, American singer (d. 2005)
1968 - Chuck Knoblauch, Houston Texas, shortstop (NY Yankees, Minnesota Twins)
1968 - Reggie Cobb, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 - Jorja Fox, American actress
1968 - Jeff VanderMeer, American writer
1969 - Amy Carlson, Elmhurst Il, actress (Josie-Another World) [1969-Approx]
1969 - Cree Summer, actress (Freddie-Different World)
1969 - Joe Sakic, Burnaby BC, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche, Canada 1998)
1969 - Sylke Otto, German luger
1969 - Nathalie Simard, French Canadian singer
1969 - Robin Weigert, American actress
1970 - Michael McCrary, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Min Patel, cricketer (in Mumbai England left-arm spinner v India 1996)
1970 - Wayne McCullough, Irish boxer
1970 - Erik Zabel, German cyclist
1970 - Robia LaMorte, American actress and dancer
1971 - Darren Krein, WLAF defensive end (Barcelona Dragons)
1971 - Alistair Potts, British rower
1972 - Aldi Henry, CFL defensive back (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Darnay Scott, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1972 - Lisa Leslie, California, WNBA center (LA Sparks)/foward (Oly-gold-1996)
1972 - Michael Westbrook, NFL wide receiver (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Stoney Case, NFL quarterback (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 - Manfred Stohl, Austrian rally driver
1973 - Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga-ka
1973 - Troy Garity, American actor
1973 - Matt Mantei, American baseball player
1973 - Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player
1974 - Patrick Lalime, St Bonaventure, NHL goalie (Pitts Penguins)
1975 - Tony Benshoof, American luger
1975 - Michael Voss, Australian rules footballer
1976 - Dominic Foley, Irish footballer
1977 - Felix Vasquez, New York City Housing Authority employee
1979 - America Martin, model (Not macaroni & cheese, cheese & macaroni)
1979 - Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter
1979 - Carl Breeze, British racing driver
1980 - Michele Kwan, Torrance California, figure skater (Oly-94, Oly-silver-98)
1980 - John Buck, American baseball player
1980 - Deidre Downs, American beauty queen
1980 - Kaisa Jouhki, Finnish vocalist (Battlelore)
1980 - Dan Whitesides, American drummer (The Used)
1981 - Synyster Gates, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)
1981 - Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
1982 - Mike Glita, American bassist (Senses Fail)
1982 - George Owu, Ghanaian footballer
1982 - Cassidy (Barry Adrian Reese), American rapper
1983 - Justin Davies, Australian rules footballer
1983 - D. Woods, American singer (Danity Kane)
1984 - Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler
1984 - Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer
1984 - Marie-Mai, Canadian singer
1987 - Lena Ma, Miss World Canada 4th runner-up
1988 - Kaci Brown, American singer
1989 - Giannoulis Fakinos, Greek footballer

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This Day in History for 7th July


Famous Deaths

                 
Author of Sherlock Holmes                      Rocker Syd Barrett (2006)
Arthur Conan Doyle (1930)


1129 - Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (1072-86)/budhist monk, dies at 76
1304 - Benedict XI, [Niccolo Boccasini], Pope (1303-04), dies
1307 - Edward I, King of England (1272-1307), dies at 68
1348 - John Andreae, Italian canonist, dies
1537 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
1572 - Sigismund II August, last Jagellonen king of Poland, dies at 51
1573 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507)
1647 - Thomas Hooker, clergyman, father of American democracy, dies
1656 - Michelangelo Rossi, Italian opera composer, buried at about 55
1663 - Thomas Baltzar, German violinist
1694 - Dokusho, Zen teacher, Obaku line, dies
1701 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)
1713 - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)
1764 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
1771 - Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy), dies at 54
1773 - Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer, dies at 60
1774 - Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer, dies at 83
1776 - Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693)
1790 - Franciscus "Frans" Hemsterhuis, Frisian philosopher, dies at 68
1794 - Pascal Boyer, composer, dies at 51
1799 - William Curtis, English botanist (Botanical Magazine), dies at 53
1814 - Robert Jasper van der Capellen, Dutch politician, dies at 71
1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)
1826 - Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer, dies at 56
1855 - Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)
1861 - John Willis Ellis, US governor of NC (1858-61), dies
1865 - Mary Surratt, & 3 other Lincoln conspirators, hanged
1865 - Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844)
1865 - David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842)
1878 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
1885 - Nicola De Giosa, composer, dies at 66
1889 - Giovanni Bottesini, composer, dies at 67
1890 - Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A. (b. 1814)
1893 - Guy de Maupassant, writer, dies at 42
1898 - Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader, dies
1901 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)
1903 - Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer, dies at 64
1903 - Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, composer, dies at 64
1907 - James McGranahan, composer, dies at 67
1913 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b.1841)
1919 - Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), dies
1922 - Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)
1925 - Clarence Hudson White American photographer (b.. 1871)
1927 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71
1931 - Johannes Jacobus "Kodgee" Kotze, cricketer (South Africa 1902-07), dies
1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
1933 - John M Acket, literary (New Friends), dies at 70
1934 - Doodles Tapscott, cricketer (South African batsman 1922-23), dies
1939 - James Deacon White, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi), dies at 91
1944 - Erich Salomon, German photographer, dies
1944 - Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French foreign min (-1940), dies
1945 - Salomeja Neris, [S Bacinskaite-Buciene], Latvian poet, dies at 40
1949 - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
1955 - Franco Casavola, composer, dies at 63
1956 - Gottfried Benn, writer, dies at 70
1958 - Raymond Hackett, dies at 55
1965 - Bill Hitch, England cricket fast-bowler (7 Tests 1911-21), dies
1965 - Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
1966 - Carmelita Geraghty, dies of heart attack at 65
1967 - Vivian Leigh, actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind), dies at 53
1967 - Jo Schlesser, French Formula One racing driver (b. 1928)
1968 - Leo Sowerby, composer (Pulitzer Prize), dies at 73
1969 - Erskine Sanford, dies at 83
1969 - Gladys Swarthout, US mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda), dies at 69
1970 - Allen Lane [Williams], English publisher (Penguin Books), dies at 67
1970 - Louise Harrison, mother of Beatle George, dies
1970 - Marjorie Rambeau, actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song), dies at 80
1970 - Sylvester Wiere, comedian (Wiere Brothers-Ford Festival), dies at 60
1970 - Dame Laura Knight, British impressionist artist
1971 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
1971 - Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)
1972 - Athenagoras, 268th patriarch of Constantinople, dies
1972 - King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 78
1973 - Veronica Lake, [Constance Ockleman], actress (Ramrod), dies at 58
1975 - Barbara Brown
1975 - Vito Frazzi, composer, dies at 86
1975 - Ruffian, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1972)
1976 - Gustav Heinemann, German president, dies at 76
1976 - Norman Foster, dies at 75
1976 - Walter Giesler, American soccer coach (b. 1910)
1979 - D P Conyngham, cricketer (one Test for South Africa), dies
1980 - Reginald Gardiner, actor (Great Dictator), dies at 77
1981 - Keefe Brasselle, actor (Be Our Guest), dies at 58
1981 - Mildred Lisette Norman a.k.a. Peace Pilgrim, American pacifist and activist
1982 - Bep [Elisa H] Bakhuis, soccer star/writer, dies at 76
1982 - Fred Stuthman, actor (Henry Adler-Hello Larry), dies at 63
1983 - George Cukor, director (My Fair Lady), dies on 84th birthday
1983 - Herman Kahn, US futurist/nuclear strategist, dies at 71
1983 - Vicki Morgan, mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl), murdered at 30
1984 - Flora Robson, actress (Great Day, Frieda), dies in her sleep at 82
1984 - Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (b. 1941)
1985 - Patti McCarty, actress (Gangster of the Frontier), dies at 64
1988 - Jimmy Edwards, actor (Plank, Bottoms Up, Late Mr H), dies at 68
1990 - Bill Cullen, game show host (Price is Right), dies at 70 of cancer
1990 - Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Jes priest/apprentice Zen teacher, dies at 92
1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. 1958)
1992 - Ruurd Faber, mayor of Aalten (1971-75), dies at 79
1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965)
1994 - Anita Garvin, US actress (Sailors Beware), dies at 80
1994 - Rosa Chacel, spanish Novelist, dies at 96
1994 - Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (b. 1924)
1995 - Gabor Ormai, viola Player, dies at 40
1995 - Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer, dies at 73
1996 - Albrecht Luitpold Michael Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 91
1997 - Jerry Doggett, sportscaster (Bkln/LA Dodgers), dies at 80
1999 - Captain Vikram Batra, Indian Army officer, awarded Param Vir Chakra (September 9,1974)
2000 - Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
2001 - Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
2002 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian business tycoon (b. 1933)
2002 - Bison Dele, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)
2006 - Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
2006 - Syd Barrett, original guitarist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd (b. 1946)
2006 - John Money, Sexologist (b. 1921)
2008 - Bruce Conner, American artist (b. 1933)
2008 - Dorian Leigh, American supermodel (b. 1917)

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This Day in History for 8th July


Historical Events

                                   
Naturalist Charles Darwin                        Baseball Great Babe Ruth                  WW2 General Douglas MacArthur

                                   
Tennis Great John McEnroe                 Singer-Songwriter Stevie Wonder                  NFL Running Back and
                                                                                                                         Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson


939 - The Major Occultation, or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi
951 - Paris is founded
1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around
           Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
1283 - War of the Sicilian Vespers: Battle of Malta
1497 - Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India
1579 - Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground
           in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
1663 - King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island
1672 - Willem II becomes captain-/admiral-general
1680 - The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1693 - NYC authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies
1709 - Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes
1716 - Great Northern War: Battle of Dynekilen
1758 - English & Colonial assault on France at Ticonderoga, NY
1776 - Col John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Dec of Independence (Phila)
1777 - Vt becomes 1st state abolishing slavery, adopts male suffrage
1778 - George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army
1792 - France declares war on Prussia
1796 - US State Dept issues 1st American passport
1797 - 1st US senator (William Blount of Tennessee) expelled by impeachment
1800 - Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox
1805 - American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England
1816 - Frost in Waltham, MA
1822 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
1833 - Russia & Turkey sign defense treaty
1835 - Liberty Bell cracks (again)
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Saint-Helena
1838 - Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed
1849 - St Paul's Place in the Bronx named
1853 - Commodore Matthew Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay
1859 - King Charles XV/Carl IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1861 - CS Gen Sibley is given command of rebel troops in NM territory
1861 - Skirmish at Florida, MI - A rebel encampment is attacked & dispersed
1862 - Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret
1864 - The Shinsengumi sabotage the Choshu-han shishi's planned attack on Kyoto, Japan at
           Ikedaya. This event is known as Ikedaya Jiken.
1870 - Congress authorizes registration of trademarks
1870 - Gov Holden of NC declares Casswell County in a state of insurrection
1874 - The Mounties begin their March West.
1876 - White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg SC, killing 5
1889 - John L Sullivan KOs Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds (last bare-knuckle bout)
1889 - Wall Street Journal begins publishing
1891 - 61°F, highest temp for July 1891, in Baltimore & Phila
1892 - American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Mass
1892 - St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
1895 - Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South-Africa
1896 - William Jennings Bryan "cross of gold" speech at Dem convention
1897 - Harbor Hospital formally opens
1898 - Phillies Red Donahue no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1898 - US battle fleet under adm Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila
1898 - The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
1900 - 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids)
1902 - John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck Baltimore & Washington clubs,
           negotiates his release from the Orioles
1905 - Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
1909 - 1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights
1911 - Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse
1912 - G E V Crutchley (Oxford) 99 retired measles v Cambridge
1912 - Giants Rube Marquard loses after winning 21 straight
1918 - Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway scores Amos Strunk, the Red Sox win 1-0 over
           Cleve, prevailing rules reduce Babe's HR to a triple
1919 - Pres Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference
1922 - 35th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats M Mallory (62 60)
1923 - Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)
1923 - Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland
1928 - Phillies set record of errorless 25 inning doubleheader
1932 - Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22
1932 - Herbert Sutcliffe scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Gloucs
1933 - 46th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats D Round (64 68 63)
1933 - Public Works Administration becomes effective
1935 - 3rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
1938 - Would be start of Eng/Aust Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout
1939 - 59th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bobby Riggs beats E Cooke (26 86 36 63 62)
1941 - 9th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
1941 - All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star
1943 - 4th day of battle at Kursk: Gen Model uses last tank reserve
1943 - British air raid sinks U-232
1943 - NSB-leader A Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler
1943 - US invasion fleet passes Bizerta Tunisia
1944 - British troops march into Caen
1944 - Japanese kamakize attacks on US lines at Saipan
1946 - "Tidbits of 1946" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 8 performances
1946 - Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary
1947 - 14th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1947 - Demolition begins for UN HQ in NYC
1947 - Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crashed landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
1948 - 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow
1949 - Monte Irvin & Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for NY Giants
1950 - 33.4 cm rain fall at York, Nebraska (state record)
1950 - 57th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats M duPont (61 36 61)
1950 - Gen Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, UN forces in Korea
1950 - Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea
1951 - Yankee Joe DiMaggio & mgr Casey Stengel feud
1952 - 19th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 in 5 at Shibe Park, Phila
1953 - US stops aid to Persia
1954 - KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) 1st broadcast
1954 - Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala
1956 - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Syracuse Golf Open
1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1957 - Baeball Owners re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick
1957 - CDC incorporates
1957 - Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders
1958 - 25th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Memorial Stadium, Balt
1960 - Fidel Castro ends Havana's Intl League team, Sugar Kings move to NJ
1961 - Fred Trueman takes 5-0 in 24 balls to rip through Aussies
1961 - Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die
1962 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kelly Girls Golf Open
1963 - Reports of Charlie Finley's intention to move KC A's to Oakland
1963 - US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba
1965 - Joe Morgan is 1st Houston player with 6 hits in a game
1966 - US airline strike (until Aug 19th)
1966 - King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
1967 - 74th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats A Jones (63 64)
1967 - Helen Weston of Detroit rolls a record 4,585 in 24 games
1968 - Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal
1969 - Thor Heyerdahl & reed raft Ra II land in Barbados 57 days from Morocco
1969 - US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam
1969 - IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer.
1970 - SF Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
1971 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 - US sells grain to USSR for $750 million
1973 - Mary Lou Crocker wins LPGA MARC Equity Golf Classic Crocker
1973 - NY Mets are 12½ games back in NL and go on to win pennant
1974 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 - Yank shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 inn game
1975 - Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany
1975 - Pres Ford announced he'll seek Republican nomination for pres
1975 - Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of
           Thandawgya decapitated
1976 - Randy Jones wins NL record 16 games before All Star break
1977 - Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs)
1978 - 92nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Jimmy Connors (62 62 63)
1978 - Alessandro Pertini elected pres of Italy
1978 - Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus
1979 - Congo adopts constitution
1979 - Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles
1979 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1979 - Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14)
1980 - 51st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-2 at Dodger Stadium, LA
1980 - All star MVP: Ken Griffey (Cin Reds)
1981 - France performs nuclear test
1981 - PM Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France
1981 - Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0)
1982 - "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 5 perfs
1982 - Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager
1982 - Porn star John Homes convicted of receiving stolen property
1982 - Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized.
1983 - Rudi Koopmans retains European middleweight title
1984 - 98th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats J Connors (61 61 62)
1984 - Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1985 - 99th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats K Curren (63 67 76 64)
1985 - Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red
1986 - Farthest thrown object-an "Aerobie" flying ring, 383 m (1,257')
1986 - NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain & Quality Assurance
1986 - Zimbabwe beats Netherlands by 25 runs to win ICC Trophy
1987 - Kitty Dukakis, revealed addiction to amphetamines for 26 years
1988 - Indians' Bud Black sets club record for most batters hit in inning (3)
1988 - Miami Arena opens
1988 - Rockers Jonathan "Chico" & Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking
1988 - Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992
1989 - Carlos Saul Menum becomes pres of Argentina
1989 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1990 - 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890)
1990 - Brewers beat Angels 20-7, including 13 in 5th inning
1990 - Germany beats Argentina 1-0 for soccer's 14th World Cup at Rome
1990 - Greg Lemond wins his 3rd Tour de France (90:43:20 avg 23.3 mph)
1990 - Tina Purtzer wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1990 - Trailing 7-0, Brewers tie Angels & then score 13 in 5th to win 20-7
1991 - Pitts Pirate Pres Carl Barger becomes 1st pres of Fla Marlins
1991 - Major league umpire Steve Palermo & former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot
           trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed
1992 - Florida Marlins unveil their uniform
1992 - Thomas Klestil installed as president of Austria
1992 - Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner
           on National Minorities.
1994 - Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try OJ Simpson
1994 - Sonia O'Sullivan runs female 2K world record (5:25.36)
1994 - Space shuttle STS-65 (Columbia 17), launches
1994 - St Maarten "Godfather" Claude Wathey sentenced to 1½ years
1995 - 102nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Graf beats Arantxa S Vicario (46 61 75)
1995 - 1st CFL game between 2 US teams, Las Vegas Posse vs Sacramento Gold
1997 - 68th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Jacobs Field, Cleveland
1997 - NATO invites Poland, Hungary & Czech Republic to join
1999 - Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric
           chair for capital punishment in Florida.
2003 - Sudan Airways Flight 39, with 116 people on board, crashes in Sudan; the only survivor is a
           two-year-old boy who subsequently dies as a result of his injuries.
2011 - Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
2012 - Roadside car bomb kills 14 civilians in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province
2012 - Tens of thousands protest over election corruption in Mexico City after Enrique Pe

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Famous Weddings

1290 - Princess Margaret (15), daughter of Edward I of England marries John II of Brabant at
           Westminster Abbey
1551 - Willem of Orange weds countess Anna van Egmond & Buren
1891 - Future president Harding marries Florence K DeWolfe in Marion Ohio
1942 - British born actor "His Girl Friday" Cary Grant (38) weds American heiress and socialite
           Barbara Hutton (29)
1972 - English prince Richard marries Birgitte of Deurs (Henriksen)
1979 - Singer Marianne Faithfull (32) weds Ben Briefly
1991 - "Sanford and Son" actor-comedian Redd Foxx (68) weds Ka Ho Cho at The Little Church of
           the West in Las Vegas
2000 - Olympic figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi (28) weds Carolina Hurricanes ice hockey player Bret
           Hedican (29) at the Mauna Lani Resort in Kona, Hawaii
2006 - "Good Day L.A." co-host Jillian Barberie (39) weds actor Grant Reynolds in San Fernando
            Valley, Los Angeles
2006 - "The Surreal Life" actress Brigitte Nielsen (43) weds model Mattia Dessi at the Radisson SAS
          Golden Sands Resort and Spa in Malta
2006 - "The Surreal Life" actress Brigitte Nielsen (43) weds Italian model Mattia Dessi (27) in Malta

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Inventor Ferdinand von                           Oil Industrialist                                 WW2 Musician Louis Jordan (1908)
Zeppelin (1838)                                        John D. Rockefeller (1839)


Actress Anjelica Huston (1951)


1528 - Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherland
1545 - Don Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip II
1574 - Giovanni Battista Stefanini, composer
1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
1604 - Heinrich Albert, Germany, composer (Arien oder Melodien)
1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables)
1637 - Johann Georg Ebeling, composer
1638 - Matteo Coferati, composer
1757 - Richard Wainwright, composer
1760 - Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826)
1766 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842)
1792 - Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
1809 - Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja)
1819 - Alexander Hays, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1819 - Vatroslav Lisinski, composer
1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907)
1821 - William Harvey Lamb Wallace, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1824 - Waldimir "Kriz" Krzyzanowski, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Benjamin Henry Grierson, Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Robert Kingston Scott, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 - Pierre A Vicomte de Ponson du Terrail, French serial writer
1830 - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915)
1830 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Altenburg (d. 1911)
1836 - Joseph Chamberlain, British minister of Commerce/Colonies
1838 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Baden Germany, inventor (rigid dirigibles), (d. 1917)
1839 - John D Rockefeller, Richford New York, US capitalist/founder (Standard Oil), (d. 1937)
1844 - Mary Johnson Lincoln, educator (Boston Cooking School)
1851 - Arthur J Evans, English archaeologist (Crete)
1857 - Rudolf Dellinger, composer
1867 - Kathe Kollwitz, Germany, print maker/sculptor (Bauernkrieg)
1869 - William V Moody, US poet (Death of Eve, Faith Healer)
1870 - Marie C of Zeggelen, Dutch novelist (Koloniaaltje)
1871 - Clement Harris, composer
1871 - Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam)
1878 - Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (d. 1945)
1882 - Percy Grainger, Melbourne, composer/pianist/conductor (Hill Songs)
1882 - Waverley John Anderson, Scottish viscount/governor of Bengal
1885 - Ann Jemima Flower, oldest resident of Netherlands
1885 - Emil Bloch, German philosopher
1889 - Eugene Pallette, Winfield KS, actor (Adv of Robin Hood, Mark of Zorro)
1890 - W Hasenvlever, writer
1891 - Elisabeth Zernike, Dutch writer (Poor Part, Bruidstijd)
1891 - Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Working Day)
1892 - Richard Aldington, writer
1892 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967)
1893 - Fritz Perls, father of Gestalt therapy
1894 - Clemens VI Trefois, Flemish architect/sociologist
1895 - Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer/director (God & the Worms)
1898 - Alec Waugh, London, novelist (Island in the Sun); brother of Evelyn
1898 - Melville Ruick, Boise Idaho, actor (Barton-City Hospital)
1899 - David Eli Lilienthal, US government organizer (Wisconsin)
1900 - George Antheil, Trenton NJ, composer (Airplane Sonata)
1901 - Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist
1904 - Bill Challis, arranger/pianist
1904 - Henri Cartan, French mathematician
1905 - Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (d. 1997)
1906 - Philip Johnson, Cleveland Ohio, Cortalyou architect
1907 - George W Romney, (Gov-R-Mich)/US Secretary of HUD (1969-73)
1907 - Kishio Hirao, composer
1908 - Louis Jordan, Ark, alto saxman (Caldonia)
1908 - Nelson A Rockefeller, (Gov-R-NY) 41st VP (1974-77)
1909 - Petar Segedin, Croatian novelist (Holy Devil)
1910 - Govan AM Mbeki, South African leader (ANC/SACP)
1911 - Gertrude Niesen, NY, actress (Start Cheering)
1911 - Ken Farnes, cricket bowler (fast England in pre-WW II years)
1912 - Jacques Stehman, composer
1913 - Walter Kerr, NY drama critic (Sad Clowns)
1914 - Billy Eckstine, Pittsburgh PA, jazz singer (Tenderly, A Fool in Love)
1914 - Jyoti Basu, Indian politician
1915 - Charles Hard Townes, Greenville SC, physicist (developed lasers)
1917 - Faye Emerson, Elizabeth La, actress (I've Got a Secret)
1917 - Glenn Langan, Denver Colorado, actor (Amazing Colossal Man, Margie)
1917 - Pamela Brown, London England, actress (Cleopatra, Beckett)
1918 - Craig Stevens, Liberty Mo, actor (Craig-Dallas, Peter Gunn)
1919 - Walter Scheel, German Foreign minister/president
1920 - Dolph Sweet, NYC, actor (Gimme a Break, Which Way is Up)
1920 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish industrialist (Lego Group) (d. 1995)
1923 - Harrison Dillard, Cleve, 100m runner (Oly-4 gold-1948, 52)
1924 - Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (d. 2005)
1926 - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, author/physician/educator
1926 - John D Dingell, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1955- )
1927 - Carlo Franci, composer
1927 - Maurice Hayes, Irish politician
1928 - Carol Henry, Newark NJ, choreographer (Garry Moore Show)
1928 - Norma Donaldson, singer/actress (Poetic Justice, 5 Heartbeats)
1929 - Shirley Ann Grau, author (Keepers of the House)
1930 - Valeri Aleksandrovich Yazdovsky, Russian cosmonaut
1931 - Jerry Vale, [Genaro Louis Vitaliano], NYC, singer (Arriverderci Roma)
1931 - Louis Ballard, composer
1931 - Roone Arledge, Forest Hills NY, head of sports broadcasting (ABC)
1933 - Antonio Lamer, French Canadian lawyer and chief justice
1934 - Marty Feldman, London England, comedian (Young Frankenstein)
1934 - Ed Lumley, Canadian corporate executive and former politician
1935 - John David Crow, football player (Heisman Trophy 1957)
1935 - Steve Lawrence, Bkln, singer/actor (Go Away Little Girl, Lonely Guy)
1935 - Vitali Ivanovich Sevastiyanov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 9, 18B)
1936 - Rudolf W de Korte, Dutch Unilever-director/minister EA (L)
1937 - Barbara Ann Loden, actress (Ernie Kovac's Show)
1938 - Marian Ackerman, women's rights advocacy administrator
1940 - Marcia Rodd, actress (Little Murders, T R Baskins)
1941 - Dario Gradi, Italian-born football manager
1942 - Chuck Negron, Bronx NY, rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1942 - Janice Pennington, Kansas, playmate (May 1971)/model (Price is Right)
1942 - Phil Gramm, (Sen-R Texas, 1985- )
1943 - Faye Wattleton, St Louis Mo, sociologist/pres (Planned Parenthood)
1944 - Jaimoe "Johnny" Johanson, US rock drummer (Allman Brothers)
1944 - Jeffrey Tambor, SF California, actor (Jeffrey-Ropers, Larry Sanders)
1945 - Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss politician
1946 - Cynthia Gregory, LA, ballerina (NY Ballet Co)
1947 - Kim Darby, American actress
1947 - Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian founder of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae
1948 - Kim Darby, N Hollywood, actr (True Grit, Enola Gay, Rich Man Poor Man)
1948 - Raffi, children's singer (Baby Beluga)
1949 - Frank Delima, American comedian
1949 - Dale Hoganson, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 - Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-born celebrity chef
1951 - Anjelica Huston, Los Angeles California, actress (Prizzi's Honor, Alien)
1951 - Greg T Walker, rock bassist (Blackfoot)
1951 - Pleas Ned Sublette, composer
1952 - Ulrich Wehling, German DR, cross country (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80)
1952 - Jack Lambert, American football player
1952 - Anna Quindlen, American columnist
1953 - Jonathan Segal, NYC, actor (Jonathan-Paper Chase)
1955 - Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress
1956 - Millard Frank Hampton, Fresno Cal, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 - Russell Christian, rocker (Christians-Harvest the World)
1957 - Clyde Butts, cricketer (West Indies off-spinner late eighties)
1958 - Carlos Cavazo, rocker (Quiet Riot - Metal Health)
1958 - Fred Young, Glasgow Ky, singer (Kentucky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1958 - Kevin Bacon, Phila Pa, actor (Diner, Footloose, She's Having a Baby)
1958 - Tzipi Livni, Israeli politician
1958 - Pauline Quirke, British actress
1958 - Andreas Carlgren, Swedish politician
1959 - Robert Knepper, American actor
1960 - Jeff Stork, Longview Wash, volleyball setter (Olympics-G-88,B-92, 96)
1960 - Valerie Pettiford, Queens, New York, American actress (One Life to Live, Half & Half)
1961 - Andy Fletcher, rocker (Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough)
1961 - Graham Jones, rock guitarist (Haircut 100)
1961 - Toby Keith, American singer
1962 - Martin Pavlu, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1962 - Rob Burnett, North Caldwell NJ, head writer (David Letterman)
1963 - Bob Ctvrtlik, Long Beach Cal, volleyball outsider (Oly-G-88,B-92, 96)
1963 - Mike Ridley, Winnipeg, NHL center (Vancouver Canucks)
1963 - Pablo Magallon, jockey
1964 - Alexei Gusarov, Moscow Russia, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche)
1964 - Maryalice Demler, N Tonawanda NY, Miss NY-America (1991)
1965 - Corey Parker, NYC, actor (How I Got into College, Roger-Eddie Dodd)
1965 - Lee Tergesen, American actor
1967 - Mikhail Borodulin, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan 1998)
1967 - Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
1968 - C B Washington, NFLer (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 - Glen Featherstone, Toronto, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
1968 - Michael Weatherly, NYC, actor (Cooper Alden-The City/Loving)
1968 - Michel Langerak, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1968 - Akio Suyama, Japanese seiyu
1968 - Billy Crudup, American actor
1969 - Bobby Ayala, Oxnard CA, pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1969 - Dana Hall, NFL safety (Cleveland Browns)
1969 - Ernie Young, Chicago IL, outfielder (Oakland A's)
1969 - Lisa Arce, Manhattan Beach CA, WPVA volleyballer (National-4th-1995)
1969 - Lori Hallier, Victoria BC Canada, actress (Shannon-Santa Barbara)
1969 - Sugizo Japanese guitarist and singer
1970 - Lisa Powell, Sydney NSW Australia, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1970 - Marlies Askamp, WNBA forward (Phoenix Mercury)
1970 - Todd Martin, Hinsdale Ill, tennis star (1988 USTA Boys' 18)
1970 - Beck, American singer
1971 - Jeff Kopp, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1971 - John Achterberg, soccer player (NAC)
1971 - Wendy Benson, NYC, actress (Meredith-As the World Turns)
1972 - Brandon Rock, Las Vegas Nevada, 800m runner
1972 - Jay Bellamy, NFL safety (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Karl Dykhuis, Sept-iles, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1972 - Saurav Ganguly, cricketer (centuries in 1st two Tests for India 1996)
1972 - Tom Hutton, NFL punter/kicker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 - Shōsuke Tanihara, Japanese actor
1973 - Kathleen Robertson, actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
1974 - Demetrius Allen, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - Zhanna Friske, Russian actress and singer
1974 - Tami Erin, American actress and model
1975 - Elias Viljanen, Finnish Guitarist
1976 - Michael Renfurm, Surinam/Dutch soccer player (Sparta)
1976 - Staci Wilson, Livingston NJ, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1976 - Talal El Karkouri, Moroccan footballer
1976 - David Kennedy, American guitarist (Angels & Airwaves)
1977 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
1977 - Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
1980 - Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
1981 - Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
1982 - Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
1982 - Joshua Alba, American actor
1982 - Sophia Bush, American actress
1983 - Jaroslav Janiš, Czech racing car driver
1983 - Elizabeth Del Mar, American pornographic actress
1983 - John Bowker, American baseball player
1984 - Alexis Dziena, American actress
1985 - Jamie Cook, British musician (Arctic Monkeys)
1986 - Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer
1987 - Vlada Roslyakova, Russian model
1992 - Taylor Maine Pearl Brooks, daughter of country singer Garth Brooks
1992 - Benjamin Grosvenor, British pianist
1998 - Jaden Smith, American actor

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Famous Deaths

                   
Conquistador                                        US First Lady Betty Ford (2011)
Diego de Almagro (1538)


810 - Pepin, son of Charlemagne, King of Italy, dies (birth date unknown)
975 - Edgar, King of England (959-75), dies
1115 - Petrus van Amiens, French Crusades predictor, dies
1153 - Eugene III, [Bernardo], Italian Pope (1145-53), dies
1249 - Alexander II, King of Scots (1215-49), dies at 51
1253 - Thibaud IV, poet/count of Champagne/King of Navarra, dies
1496 - Benedetto Bonfiglio, Italian painter, dies
1531 - Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor, dies at 71
1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish conquistador (Chile/Peru), killed at Las Salinas at about 63
1623 - Gregory XV, [Alessandro Ludovisi], bishop of Bologna/Pope, dies at 69
1656 - Alexander van der Capellen, mister of Aartsbergen, dies at about 64
1679 - Samuel J Columbus, Swedish poet (Odae Sveticae), dies
1681 - Georg Neumark, composer, dies at 60
1689 - Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622)
1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (b. 1629)
1716 - Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
1721 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649)
1726 - John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
1784 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735)
1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns at 29
1826 - Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
1850 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
1855 - Sir William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer (b. 1790)
1859 - F J Oscar I, King of Sweden/Norway (1844-59), dies at 60
1863 - Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 65
1870 - John D Zocher Jr, architect (Soestdijk Palace), dies at 79
1876 - Josef Dessauer, composer, dies at 78
1885 - Henry Waelput, Flemish composer/conductor (Blessing of Arms), dies
1894 - Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, composer, dies
1895 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
1898 - Soapy Smith, American con artist (b. 1860)
1905 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (b. 1834)
1909 - Gaston AA marquis de Gallifet, Fren min of War (1899-1900), dies at 79
1913 - Louis Hémon, French-born writer (b. 1880)
1917 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld, US theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies
1933 - Anthony Hope, British author (b. 1863)
1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)
1939 - [Henry] Havelock Ellis, English sexologist (Man & Woman), dies at 80
1941 - Philippe Gaubert, composer, dies at 62
1941 - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (b. 1874)
1942 - Catherinus Elling, composer, dies at 83
1943 - Harry Oakes, Canadian ruler of Bahamas, murdered
1943 - Jean "Max" Moulin, French resistance fighter, executed
1946 - Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor, dies at 63
1948 - Dave Nourse, cricketer (45 Tests for South Africa 1902-24), dies
1949 - Antun Sa'ada, Syrian rightwing politician, executed in Lebanon
1949 - Riccadro Pick-Mangiagalli, composer, dies at 66
1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian economist/sociologist (Wahre State), dies at 71
1956 - Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, dutch min of Justice (Nobel 54), dies
1956 - Giovanni Papini, Italian author/poet (Un Uomo Finito), dies at 75
1957 - Grace Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29), dies at 78
1957 - Henry Fevrier, composer, dies at 81
1957 - William Cadbury, chocolate maker, dies at 89
1959 - Dale Buisand & Chester Ovnand, 1st Americans killed in Vietnam War
1961 - Julian Bautista, composer, dies at 60
1962 - Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher (b. 1897)
1967 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani political figure (b. 1893)
1971 - Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1920)
1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, cricketer (4187 1st-class wickets, most ever), dies
1979 - Michael Wilding, actor (Waterloo, Zarakm Naked Edge), dies
1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
1979 - Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1981 - Loring Smith, actor (Hartmans), dies at 86
1982 - Isa Miranda, model/actress (Summertime), dies of infected bone at 77
1984 - Christine McIntyre, actress (3 Stooges), dies at 73
1985 - Gardner Cowles Jr, US publisher (Look Magazine), dies at 82
1985 - Phil Foster, comedian (Frank De Fazio-Laverne & Shirley), dies at 72
1985 - Simon Kuznets, US economist (Nobel 1971), dies at 84
1986 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (b. 1909)
1987 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
1987 - Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
1988 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
1990 - Howard Duff, actor (Heist, Knots Landing), dies of heart attack at 72
1990 - Malcolm Hilton, English cricket slow left-arm (4 Tests), dies
1991 - James Franciscus, actor (Mr Novak), dies at of emphysema 57
1991 - Lotte Palfi Andor, actress (Lovesick, All the Jazz), dies
1994 - Christian-Jaque, French director (Babette s'and va-t-and guerre), dies
1994 - Dick Sargent, actor (Darren-Bewitched), dies of cancer at 64
1994 - Dominic Lucero, dancer/singer, dies of lymphatic cancer
1994 - Kim Il Sung, president of North-Korea (1948-94), dies at 82
1994 - Robert E Lee, dies of cancer at 75
1994 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (b. 1927)
1995 - Elizabeth Adams, madam, dies at 65
1996 - Amschel Rothschild, banker, dies at 41
1996 - Ernest Armstrong, miner/politician, dies at 81
1996 - James Woodie Alexander, songwriter/vocalist, dies at 80
1996 - Thomas Mitchell, architect/engineer, dies at 90
1997 - Charles Drake, geologist, dies of heart attack at 92
1999 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
2001 - John O'Shea, New Zealand film director (b. 1920)
2002 - Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914)
2004 - Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944)
2004 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (b. 1922)
2006 - June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
2006 - Peter Hawkins, British actor/voice actor (b. 1924)
2011 - Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (b. 1924)
2011 - Mary Fenech Adami, First Lady of Malta (b. 1933)
2011 - Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (b. 1918)
2012 - Ernest Borgnine, American actor, dies from renal failure at 95

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This Day in History for 9th July


Historical Events

                                   
Astronomer Johannes Kepler                Physician and Explorer                           Heart surgeon Daniel Williams
                                                                       David Livingstone

                                   
Jewish Victim & Diarist of the                33rd US President Harry Truman            Pop Singer & Beatle
Holocaust Anne Frank                                                                                          Paul McCartney

                                   
British Prime Minister                             Composer Georges Bizet                          Golfer Jack Nicklaus
Margaret Thatcher

455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
711 - Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupies North Spain
1357 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assists laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in
           Prague.
1371 - Pope Gregory XI names Arnold II of Horne as bishop of Utrecht
1386 - Battle at Sempach: Swiss beat duke Leopold III of Austria
1401 - Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad
1517 - Gelderse crowd robber murders population of Asperen
1536 - French navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada
1541 - Estevão da Gama departs Massawa, leaving behind 400 matchlock men and 150 slaves under
           his brother Christovão da Gama, with orders to help the Emperor of Ethiopia defeat Ahmad
           ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi who has invaded his Empire.
1553 - Battle at Sievershausen Solingen: van Saksen beats Alcibiades
1572 - 19 Catholic priests hanged in Gorcum
1595 - Johannes Kepler inscribes geometric solid construction of universe
1609 - Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemian protestants freedom of religion
1672 - Prince Willem III inaugurated as viceroy of Holland/Zealand
1686 - Germany, Sweden & Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies "Elisabeth" battles with HMS Lion
1755 - Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British
1755 - British General E Braddock mortally wounded during French & Indian War
1766 - English premier Rockingham resigns
1776 - Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops (NY)
1780 - Denmark declares neutrality
1790 - Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy
           captures one third of the Russian fleet.
1795 - James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt
1800 - Mt Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theater in US
1807 - Treaties of Tilsit signed by Napoleon I and Alexander I.
1810 - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
1815 - 1st natural gas well in US is discovered
1815 - King Louis XVIII leaves Ghent for France
1815 - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of
           France.
1816 - Argentina declares independence from Spain
1835 - St Etienne-Lyons railway opens in France
1842 - Notary Stamp Law passes
1846 - Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (SF) for US
1846 - The territory of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100
           km²) is returned to Virginia through an Act of Congress.
1852 - Fire destroys 1,100 construction sites in Montreal Canada & no one die
1853 - Adm Perry & US Navy visit Japan
1860 - Temperature hits 115°F in Ft Scott & 112°F in Topeka Kansas
1862 - Gen John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Ky
1863 - R Morgan's: Indiana [->JUL 13]
1863 - Union troops enter Port Hudson
1864 - Battle of Monocacy, MD US1959 CS400
1867 - An unsuccessful expedition led by E.D Young sets out to search for Dr David Livingstone
          (Scottish missionary and explorer).
1868 - 1st black cabinet member in SC (Francis L Cardozo-sect of state)
1869 - Concord pipe, made from small corn kernels, invented
1872 - Doughnut cutter patents by John Blondel, Thomaston, Me
1876 - Black landowner murdered in Hamburg SC
1877 - 1st Wimbledon tennis championship is held
1878 - An improved corncob pipe patents by Henry Tibbe, Washington, Mo
1893 - Daniel Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anesthesia
1900 - Australia accepts its constitution
1904 - 10th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 303 at Glen View Club IL
1908 - CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms
1910 - Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude
1914 - 1st US duplicate auction bridge championship held, Lake Placid, NY
1915 - Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa
1916 - 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in US from Germany
1917 - British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804
1918 - 101 killed & 171 injured in worst US train wreck, Nashville, Tenn
1918 - Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal
1922 - Johnny Weissmuller swims 1st 100 m free style under 1 minute
1926 - Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander
1926 - Coup under Gen Sinel de Cordes in Portugal
1927 - Atty William T Francis named minister to Liberia
1932 - Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) forms
1932 - Yanks' Ben Chapman hits 2 inside-the-park HRs, tying record
1932 - The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the
           Constitutionalist Revolution
1933 - Frankford Yellowjackets sold, rechristened Philadelphia Eagles
1934 - SS-Reichs Fuhrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps
1940 - 8th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-0 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
1940 - German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pogroms
1940 - RAF bombs Germany
1942 - Anne Frank, 13, goes into hiding with her family & 4 other Jews
1943 - 5th day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Verchopenje
1943 - British air raid sinks U-435
1944 - In World War II, US troops secure Saipan as Japan fell
1944 - U-740 sinks
1944 - World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum & Bailey 2nd
           performance, 168 die (Hartford Conn)
1946 - 13th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 12-0 at Fenway Park, Boston
1947 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth & Lt Philip Mountbatten's engagement
1947 - Spain votes for Franco monarchy
1948 - Satchel Paige, 42, debuts in majors pitching 2 scoreless inn for Cleve
1949 - Benjamin Britten's Jump Symphony, premieres
1950 - 13.15" (33.40 cm) of rainfall, York, Nebraska (state 24-hour record)
1951 - Pres Harry Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
1953 - 1st helicopter passenger service (NYC)
1953 - Phillies Robin Roberts ends streak of 28 consecutive complete games
1955 - First black executive on White House staff (E Frederic Morrow)
1955 - Bill Haley & Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops billboards chart
1955 - Strike in Belgium for 5 day work week
1955 - The Russell-Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London.
1956 - Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand
1957 - 24th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-6 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
1957 - Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced
1958 - Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock & ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes
           1,800 feet up the mountain
1959 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Open
1959 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 - 34th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
1963 - All star MVP: Willie Mays (SF Giants)
1963 - Crusher Lisowski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1963 - Federation of Malaysia forms
1965 - 94th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 285 at Royal Birkdale
1965 - John Edrich completes 310* v NZ in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes
1965 - Senators Frank Howard ties record with 7 strikeouts in DH
1966 - 95th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 282 at Muirfield Gullane
1967 - 13th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1967 - WRET TV channel 36 in Charlotte, NC (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - 15.68" (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Miss (state 24-hour record)
1968 - 39th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 1-0 at Astrodome, Houston
1968 - All star MVP: Willie Mays (SF Giants)
1969 - Tom Seaver's no-hit bid against Cubs ends with 1 out in 9th
1970 - In Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn
1971 - Henry Kissinger visits China PR
1972 - 1st tour of Paul McCartney & Wings (France)
1972 - 86th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Smith beats I Nastase (46 63 63 46 75)
1972 - Kathy Ahern wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1972 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1973 - 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel
1974 - Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election
1975 - The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that paves way for a (albeit highly restricted)
           multi-party system.
1976 - England all out for 71 v WI at Old Trafford, Holding 14 5-7-17-5
1976 - Houston Astro Larry Dierker no-hits Montreal Expos, 6-0
1976 - Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe
1977 - 106th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland
1978 - "Hello, Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 152 perfs
1978 - American Nazi Party, holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago
1978 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1978 - Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Wash DC for ERA
1979 - Dr Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab
1979 - Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter
1979 - A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at
           their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
1980 - 7 die in a stampede to see Pope in Brazil
1980 - Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years
1980 - Walt Disney's "Fox & The Hound," released
1981 - Jacksons begin a 36-city tour
1982 - Botham scores 208 in 225 balls, England v India at The Oval
1982 - Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British Prime Minster
1982 - Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner La, killing 153
1984 - 12th minster of York destroyed in lightening storm
1984 - Yvonne Ryding, of Sweden, crowned 33rd Miss Universe
1985 - South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong
1986 - Atlanta's Dale Murphy doesn't play ending consecutive streak at 740
1986 - Attorney General's Commission on Pornography links hard-core porn to sex crimes
1986 - Padres trade pitcher Tim Stoddard to Yankees for pitcher Ed Whitson
1987 - 1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime
1987 - Col Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence
1988 - Chris Speier hits for the cycle & Ernest Riles hits 10,000th Giant HR
1988 - Jessye Norman begins recording Bizets "Carmen"
1988 - Nolan Ryan is 7th to win 100 game on 2 teams, as Astro beat Mets 6-3
1989 - 103rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Becker beats Stefan Edberg (60 76 64)
1989 - 96th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Graf beats M Navratilova (62 67 61)
1989 - Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1989 - Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
1990 - 104th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats B Becker (62 62 36 36 64)
1990 - Richard Hadlee takes 5-53 to end his Test Cricket career with 431 wkts
1991 - "Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 7 perfs
1991 - 62nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at SkyDome, Toronto
1991 - All star MVP: Cal Ripken Jr (Balt Orioles)
1991 - South Africa readmitted to Olympics
1992 - Kim Basinger gets 1,959th star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992 - Space Shuttle STS 50 (Columbia 13) lands
1994 - 11,000th HR in NY Yankees history (Matt Nokes)
1994 - Sonia O'Sullivan runs world record 2k (5:25.36)
1994 - Soyuz TM-19 lands
1995 - "Play's the Thing" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 75 performances
1995 - 109th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats B Becker (67 62 64 62)
1995 - Jack Nicklaus wins Golf's British Open (4th to win all 4 majors)
1995 - Kathryn Marshall wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1995 - US international postage rates rise to 60 cents per ounce
1996 - 67th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Veterans Stadium, Phila
1996 - All star MVP: Mike Piazza (LA Dodgers)
1996 - US Senate approves 90 cent raise to $4.25 minimum wage
1997 - Baseball's triple A American Association (formed in 1902) votes to disband
1997 - Mike Tyson is banned from boxing, for biting Holyfield's ear
1999 - Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory
           at the University of Tehran.
2000 - Pete Sampras wins his 13th Grand Slam tennis title at Wimbledon
2002 - The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman is Thabo Mbeki,
           President of South Africa.
2006 - At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200
           passengers on board veers off the runway while landing at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia in wet
           conditions.
2011 - South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.

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Famous Weddings

1735 - Author,poet, critic and lexicographer and writer of the first English dictionary Dr. Samuel
           Johnson (25) marries the widow Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, 21 years his senior.
1842 - American writer "The Scarlett Letter" Nathaniel Hawthorne (38) marries painter and illustrator
           Sophia Peabody (33) in the Peabody's home, Boston
1952 - American educator, Presbyterian minister and TV host Fred Rogers (24) weds Sara Joanne
           Byrd
1966 - Major League Baseball pitcher Tom Seaver (21) weds Nancy Lynn McIntyre
1988 - "Facts of Life," Lisa Whelchel weds Steve Cauble
2005 - "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" actress Diane Neal (28) weds Marcus Fitzgerald on a beach
           in the Dominican Republic
2005 - Former Beverly Hills 90210 actress Tiffani Thiessen (31) weds actor-artist Brady Smith (33) at
           a private estate in Montecito, California
2006 - Former Beverly Hills, 90210 mean girl actress Tiffani Thiessen (31) weds actor-artist Brady
           Smith (33) at a French-Italian estate in Montecito, California
2009 - "The Hot Chick" actress Anna Faris (32) weds actor Chris Pratt (30) in a small ceremony in
           Bali, Indonesia
2011 - NBA Charlotte Bobcats forward Tyrus Thomas (24) weds long-term girlfriend Jaime Collins at
           Louisiana

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Famous Divorces

1540 - English King Henry VIII annuls his 6 month marriage to his 4th wife Anne of Cleves, on the
           grounds of non-consummation and her pre-contract to Francis of Lorraine
2007 - Former contestant on "The Apprentice" and beauty queen Jennifer Murphy (28) divorces
           "Extreme Makeover" Bill Dorfman (48) due to irreconcilable differences after 1 year of marriage

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
NFL Running Back and                            Actor Tom Hanks (1956)              Singer-Songwriter Courtney Love (1964)
Convicted Criminal
OJ Simpson (1947)

1511 - Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1571)
1513 - John van Hembyze, Flemish calvinist
1535 - Emanuel van Meteren, Southern Neth, merchant/historian
1577 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Jamestown colonist (d. 1618)
1578 - Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hungary/German Emperor (1619-37)
1589 - Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist
1654 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732)
1686 - Philip Livingston, Albany, New York, American businessman and politician (d. 1749)
1689 - Alexis Piron, French writer (d. 1773)
1721 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (d. 1781)
1753 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1825)
1764 - Ann Ward Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (Italian)
1766 - J Schopenhauer, writer
1775 - Matthew Lewis, English novelist (d. 1818)
1777 - Henry Hallam, British lawyer/historian
1786 - Sophie Hélène Béatrix, Princess of France (d. 1787)
1791 - Nicolas Ledesma, composer
1800 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (d. 1885)
1802 - Thomas Davenport, invented 1st coml electric motor
1805 - Henry John Gauntlett, composer
1808 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (d. 1887)
1809 - Frederick Henle, Germany, pathologist
1819 - Elias Howe, Spencer Mass, invented sewing machine
1825 - Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters)
1828 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman (d. 1913)
1831 - Johan P van der Kellen, Dutch stamp cutter/lithographer/writer
1836 - Camille de Renesse, Belgian count (d. 1904)
1839 - Carl Baermann, composer
1841 - Carl Christian Lumbye, composer
1848 - Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (d. 1907)
1855 - Johann P Zilcher, German composer
1856 - Daniel Guggenheim, US (Guggenheim Museum)
1857 - Frederik II W, grandduke of Baden (1907-18)
1858 - Franz Boas, anthropologist/linguist (Mind of Primitive Man)
1864 - Franz Miller, becomes first Train Murderer
1879 - Friedrich Adler, Austria social-democrat/murderer of premier Storgkh
1879 - Ottorino Respighi, Bologna Italy, composer (Pines of Rome)
1879 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (d. 1934)
1882 - Richard Hageman, Dutch/US pianist/composer/conductor (Caponsacchi)
1887 - Samuel Eliot Morison, historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea)
1889 - Leo Dandurand, American-born Canadian hockey executive (d. 1964)
1893 - George Geary, cricketer (sturdy pace bowler for England 1924-34)
1894 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1895 - Cullen Landis, Nashville TN, actor (Soul of the Beast)
1898 - Gerard Walschap, Flemish writer/journalist (Mary, Revolt in Congo)
1898 - Marcel Delannoy, composer
1900 - Robert Oboussier, composer
1901 - Barbara Cartland, romance author (Camfield #69)
1901 - Jester Hairston, NC, actor (Thats My Mama, Rolly-Amen)
1902 - Gerhard Pohl, German writer (Crazy Ferdinand)
1905 - Clarence Campbell, Saskatchewan, 3rd NHL pres (1946-77)
1906 - Beene Dubbelboer, Dutch writer (Secret Resistance)
1906 - Walter Sande, Denver CO, actor (Navy vs Night Monsters)
1908 - Allama Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani scholar, orator and philosopher (d. 1973)
1910 - Harold C Fox, fashion designer/musician
1911 - Clan Fraser of Lovat, soldier/landowner
1911 - Lord Lovat, [Shimi], Scottish cattle breeder/leader of clan Fraser
1911 - Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (d. 1968)
1911 - John A. Wheeler, American physicist (d. 2008)
1914 - Bill Tallon, cricketer (brother of Don, Queensland leggie)
1914 - Willi Stoph, president German DR
1915 - David Leo Diamond, Rochester NY, composer (Paderewski Prize-1943)
1916 - Edward Heath, (C) British PM (1970-74)
1916 - Joe Liggins, US composer (Pink Champagne)
1916 - Sir Dean Goffin, New Zealand composer (d. 1984)
1917 - Ted Steele, Hartford Ct, orchestra leader (Cavalcade of Stars)
1918 - Herbert Brun, composer
1918 - Rowley I Arenstein, South African attorney/communist/ANC'er
1919 - Peggy Braithwaite, lighthouse-keeper
1921 - Jacob J Hage, Dutch farmer/WW II resistance fighter
1922 - Rey Hassan, Morroco, King of Morocco (1961- )
1924 - Leonard Pennario, Buffalo NY, pianist (LA Philharmonic)
1924 - Pierre Cochereau, composer
1925 - Alan Dale, Bkln NY, singer (Alan Dale Show)
1925 - Peter Ludwig, businessman/art collector
1925 - Thomas A Luken, (Rep-D-OH, 1973-74, 77- )
1926 - Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Ed Ames, Malden Mass, actor (Mingo-Daniel Boone)
1927 - Leonard Patrick "Red" Kelly, NHL hall of famer (Norris trophy)
1927 - Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player
1928 - Vince Edwards, Bkln NY, actor (Ben Casey, Matt Lincoln, Firehouse)
1928 - Federico Bahamontes, Spanish cyclist
1929 - Lee Hazelwood, Ok, country singer/songwriter (Summer Wine, Jackson)
1929 - Mawlai al-Hassan II, King of Morocco (1961- )
1929 - Jesse McReynolds, American singer and mandolinist
1930 - Buddy Bregman, Chicago, orchestra leader (Eddie Fisher Show)
1930 - Roy McLean, cricketer (prolific South African batsman played 40 Tests)
1932 - Donald Rumsfeld, politician (involved in Watergate)
1932 - John Paul Getty II, US/British oil magnate/billionaire (Getty Oil)
1933 - Nodar Kalistratovich Gabuniya, composer
1934 - Michael Graves, American architect
1935 - Mercedes Sosa, [La Negra], Argentina, singer
1935 - Ronnie Burns, Evanston Ill, adopted son of George Burns
1935 - Willem Duisenberg, minister of Finance (PvdA)/pres (Nethche Bank)
1936 - David Joel Zinman, NYC, composer/conductor (Balt Symphony-1983)
1936 - James Hampton, Oklahoma City OK, actor (Bugler Dobbs-F Troop, Teen Wolf)
1936 - June Jordan, US playwright/poet (His Own Where)
1937 - Clemon Daniels, AFL player of year 1963, halfback (Oak, Dallas SF)
1937 - David Hockney, Bradford England, artist (Pop Art)
1937 - Richard Roundtree, New Rochelle NY, actor (Getting Even, Shaft)
1937 - Marty Springstead, Nyack, New York, American Major League baseball umpire and umpire
           supervisor
1938 - Brian Dennehy, Ct, actor (Check is in the Mail, F/X, Cocoon, Ants)
1938 - Paul Seiko Chihara, Seattle Washington, US/Japanese composer
1940 - John Salvito, rocker (Duprees)
1941 - Don McPherson, rocker
1941 - James Scott, director (Strike it Rich)
1941 - Karin von Aroldingen, Germany, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet Co)
1941 - Scotty Baesler, (Rep-D-Kentucky)
1941 - Takehide Nakatani, Japan, lightweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1942 - Edy Williams, Salt Lake City Utah, actress (Dr Minx)
1942 - Hermann Burger, writer
1942 - Paul B Henry, (Rep-R-Michigan, 1985- )
1942 - Robert Frankel, horse trainer
1943 - John H Casper, Greenville SC, USAF/astronaut (STS 36, 54, 62, 77)
1944 - Glen [Charles] Cook, US, sci-fi author (Shadowline, Star's End)
1945 - Dean R[ay] Koontz, US, sci-fi author (Star Quest, Beastchild)
1945 - Lewis F Payne Jr, (Rep-D-Virginia)
1945 - Root Boy Slim, American entertainer (d. 1993)
1946 - Bon Scott, [Ronald Belford], Kirriemuir Scotland, rocker (AC/DC)
1946 - Joe Micelli, rocker
1946 - Natasha Pyne, English actress
1947 - Mitch Mitchell, drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
1947 - Jerney Kaagman, Dutch singer (Earth & Fire)
1947 - OJ Simpson [Orenthal James], Santa Fey California, NFL running back (Buf Bills)
1947 - Haruomi Hosono, Japanese musician
1948 - Hassan Wirajuda, Indonesian current foreign minister
1951 - Chris Cooper, Kansas City MO, actor (Thousand Pieces of Gold, Matewan)
1952 - John Tesh, Garden City NY, New age pianist/TV host (ET)
1952 - Rod Boll, Fillmore Saskatchwan, trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1953 - Dave Camp, (Rep-R-Michigan)
1953 - Irina D Latysheva, Russian cosmonaut
1953 - Thomas Ligotti, American author
1953 - Margie Gillis, Canadian dancer and choreographer
1954 - Debbie Sledge, Phila, vocalist (Sister Sledge-We are Family)
1955 - Fred Norris, comedy writer/singer (Howard Stern Show)
1955 - Jimmy Smits, Bkln, actor (Victor-LA Law, Running Scared, NYPD Blue)
1955 - Lisa Banes, Chagrin Falls OH, actress (Cocktail, Look Back in Anger)
1955 - Sergei Vladimirovich Krichevsky, Russia, lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1955 - Willie Wilson, American baseball player
1956 - Tom Hanks, Concord California, actor (Bossom Buddies, Forrest Gump, Phila)
1957 - [Peter] Marc Almond, Merseyside England, vocalist (Soft Cell)
1957 - Kelly McGillis, Newport Beach Ca, actress (Top Gun, Accused, Witness)
1957 - Tim Kring, American writer and producer
1957 - Paul Merton, British comedian
1958 - Bob Crudgington, Australian softball head coach (Olympics-bronze-96)
1959 - Jim Kerr, Glasgow Scotland, rock vocalist (Simple Minds)
1959 - Kevin Nash, American professional wrestler
1959 - Clive Stafford Smith, British human-rights lawyer
1960 - Christopher J "Gus" Loria, Newton Mass, Major USMC/astronaut
1960 - Marc Mero, American professional wrestler
1961 - Mohammad Aslam, UAE cricketer batsman (1996 World Cup)
1963 - Pamela Annette Sanders, Miami Florida, playmate (November, 1985)
1964 - Courtney Love, Santa Fey California, vocalist (Hole)/actress (People vs Larry Flynt)
1964 - Ronnie Grandison, NBA forward (NY Knicks)
1964 - Scott Rachal Verplank, Dallas TX, PGA golfer (1985 Western Open)
1965 - Bob Hess Jr, horse trainer
1965 - Frank Bello, American heavy metal musician (Anthrax)
1965 - David O'Hara, Irish-Scottish actor
1965 - Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (d. 2006)
1966 - Pamela Adlon, American voice actress
1967 - Gunnar Axén, Swedish politician
1968 - Shawn Harper, NFL tackle (Indianapolis Colts, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 - Vardis A Fisher, US writer (Darkness & Deep), dies at 73
1968 - Paolo Di Canio, Italian football player
1968 - Lars Gyllenhaal, Swedish author
1969 - Jerry Drake, NFL defensive linesman (Arizona Cardinals)
1969 - Robert Gordon, CFL receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1969 - Venkatapathy Raju, cricketer (Indian slow left-armer)
1970 - Steve Dubinsky, Montreal, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1970 - Trent Green, NFL quarterback (Washington Redskins)
1970 - Masami Tsuda, Japanese manga author
1971 - Anthony Fieldings, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Bobby Leslie, TV rocker (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You)
1971 - Chadrick Brown, NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Danalee Bragado, Honolulu, WPVA volleyballer (Best of Beach-9th-1995)
1971 - Ger Senden, soccer player (Roda JC)
1971 - Jill Simon, Miss Iowa USA (1996)
1971 - Scott Grimes, Lowell Mass, actor (Together We Stand)
1971 - Marc Andreessen, American software developer
1971 - Dani Behr, Model & TV Presenter
1972 - Derek Mills, Wash DC, 400m runner
1972 - Pete Kendall, NFL guard (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 - Katasha Artis, WNBA forward (Charlotte Sting)
1973 - Kelly Holcomb, NFL/WLAF quarterback (Buccaneers, Barcelona Dragons)
1973 - Enrique Murciano, American actor
1974 - Nikola Sarcevic, Swedish bassist and singer (Millencolin)
1974 - Sian Berry, British politician
1975 - Jack White, American musician (The White Stripes}
1975 - Shelton Benjamin, American professional wrestler
1976 - Fred Aaron Savage, Ill, actor (Kevin-Wonder Years, Vice Versa)
1977 - Isaac Brock, American musician
1978 - Linda Park, Korean-born actress
1978 - Mark Medlock, German singer
1979 - Ella Koon, Hong Kong singer and actress
1979 - Suzanne Stokes American model, (Playmate of the Month February 2000)
1981 - Kimveer Gill, Canadian spree shooter (Dawson College shooting) (d. 2006)
1982 - Ashly DelGrosso, American ballroom dancer
1982 - Alecko Eskandarian, Armenian-American footballer
1982 - Maggie Ma, Canadian actress
1982 - Sakon Yamamoto, Japanese race-car driver
1983 - Lucia Micarelli, American musician
1984 - Jacob Hoggard, singer of Canadian band Hedley (band)
1985 - Paweł Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer
1985 - Ashley Young, English footballer
1986 - Dominic Cervi, American footballer
1986 - Kiely Williams, American singer and actress
1990 - Fábio and Rafael da Silva, Brazilian footballers
1991 - Mitchel Musso, American actor
1991 - Spencer Elden, Baby/Model on Nirvana (band)'s Nevermind album
1995 - Georgie Henley, English actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 9th July


Famous Deaths

                 
Savant Amedeo Avogadro (1856)             Nazi Physician Eugen Fischer

1228 - Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
1386 - Leopold III of Austria (b. 1351)
1441 - Jan/Johannes van Eyck, Flemish painter (Lamb Gods), dies
1553 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)
1639 - Entonius Walaeus, calvinist theologist, dies at 65
1654 - Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, Bohemia and Hungary of smallpox (b. 1633)
1677 - Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffer], German medical/mystic poet, dies
1696 - Waclaw Potocki, Polish poet (Wojna Chocimska), dies
1706 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French Canadian sailor and explorer (b. 1661)
1716 - Joseph Sauveur, French sound engineer, dies at 63
1737 - de' Medici, last Medici-grand duke of Toscane, dies
1742 - John Oldmixon, English historian (b. 1673)
1746 - Philip V, French King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46), dies at 62
1747 - Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian opera-composer, dies at 76
1755 - Edward Braddock, British General, mortally wounded at Fort Duquesne during French & Indian
           War. Dies 13th July.
1755 - Gottlob Harrer, composer, dies at 52
1756 - Pieter Langendijk, painter/etcher/playwright, dies at 72
1766 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (b. 1720)
1795 - Henry Seymour Conway, British general and statesman (b. 1721)
1797 - Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68
1805 - Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian, dies at 76
1821 - Tommaso Sogner, composer, dies at 58
1843 - Washington Allston, US painter/author, dies at 63
1845 - Jacob earl of Rechteren/Appeltern, gov of Gelderland, dies at 57
1850 - Sajjid Ali Mohammed Bab, Persian founder of Babism
1850 - Zachary Taylor, 12th pres (1849-50), dies in White House at 65
1852 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (b. 1794)
1855 - Lord Raglan Commander of the British forces during the Crimean War
1856 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist, dies at 79
1856 - James Strang, Mormon splinter group leader (b. 1813)
1875 - Francis Preston Blair Jr, famed St Louis lawyer, dies at 54
1880 - Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)
1882 - Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero(b. 1848)
1883 - Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer, dies at 67
1893 - William Scotton, cricketer (wicket in 15 Tests for Eng), suicide
1903 - Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist (b. 1842)
1909 - Kasimir Felix Badeni, Premier of Polish/Austria (1895-97), dies at 62
1927 - John Drew Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
1932 - Henry Howell, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests 1920-24), dies
1932 - King C. Gillette, American inventor (b. 1885)
1934 - Otakar Zich, composer, dies at 55
1937 - Oliver Law, first African-American commander of U.S. troops (b. 1899)
1938 - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (b. 1870)
1947 - Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish general (b. 1865)
1949 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer, dies at 75
1951 - Harry Heilmann, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Det), dies at 56
1951 - Jorgen Bentzon, composer, dies at 54
1955 - Don Beauman, British racing driver (b. 1928)
1957 - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer, dies at 80
1957 - Manfred Julius Susskind, South African cricketer (1924 Test series), dies
1960 - Edward Burlingame Hill, composer, dies at 86
1960 - Vallance Jupp, cricketer (28 wkts in 8 Tests for England 1921-28), dies
1961 - Alan Marshal, actor (Lydia, Irene, Exile Express), dies at 52
1962 - Louis A van Gasteren, Dutch actor (Willem van Oranje), dies at 74
1963 - Frank Mayo, actor (Santa Fe Trail), dies of heart attack at 74
1967 - Douglas MacLean, silent film comedian turned producer, dies at 77
1967 - Eugen Fischer, Nazi physician dies at 93
1968 - Allyn Edwards, host (One Minute Please, Mr Citizen), dies at 53
1968 - John Indrisano, actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 62
1968 - Vardis A Fisher, US writer (Passion Spin the Plot), dies at 73
1969 - Gertrude Dixon, compiler of Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, dies
1969 - Pierre Capdevielle, composer, dies at 63
1969 - Rob de Vries, actor/director (Ciske de Rat, Silent Raid), dies at 51
1972 - Kwame Nkrumah, re-buried in Nkroful Ghana
1972 - Robert Weede, American baritone (b. 1903)
1974 - Sonia Gaskell, Russian/Neth choreographer (Diaghilev), dies at 70
1974 - Ted Bowley, cricketer (England batsman in 5 Tests 1929-30), dies
1977 - Loren C Eiseley, US anthropologist/writer (Animal Secrets), dies at 69
1978 - Abdul Razak al-Naif, premier of Iraq, murdered
1978 - Aladar Zoltan, composer, dies at 49
1979 - Betty Evans Grayson, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1959), dies at 53
1979 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, dies at 78
1979 - Janardhan Gnanoba Navle, cricketer (2 Tests for India), dies
1980 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and lyricist (b. 1913)
1981 - Allen Ludden, TV show host (Password), dies at 61
1981 - Oscar van Hemel, composer, dies at 88
1981 - Wilhelm H C Tenhaeff, para-psychologist, dies at 87
1983 - Keith Wickenden, British Politician (b. 1932)
1984 - Randall Thompson, US composer (Trip to Nahant), dies at 85
1985 - Rafael Campos, actor (Ramon-Rhoda, Sancho-V), dies of cancer at 49
1985 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
1985 - Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
1986 - Karl-Heinz Beckurts, West german Siemens manager, murdered
1986 - Le Duan, Vietnamese politician, dies at 78
1988 - Anthony Holland, AIDS sufferer committed suicide at 60
1988 - Barbara Woodhouse, dog trainer, dies at 78 of a stroke
1990 - Brigitte D'Ortschy, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies in Japan at 69
1990 - Howard Duff, actor (Kramer vs Kramer), dies at 76 of a heart attack
1992 - Eric Savareid, News correspondent (CBS), dies at 79
1992 - Kelvin Coe, Australian ballerina (A'sch Ballet/Bolshoi Ballet), dies
1992 - Eric Sevareid, American reporter (b. 1912)
1993 - Cut Meijer, [Saul Messel], historian/rabbi to Paramaribo, dies at 80
1993 - Will Rogers Jr, (Rep-D)/actor (Boy from Okla), commits suicide at 81
1994 - Cornelius Boyson, bassist, dies at 57
1994 - William "Sabby" Lewis, jazz Pianist/Arranger, dies at 79
1994 - Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
1995 - Jacques Molicard, translator/Navigator, dies at 62
1995 - James Cameron Tudor, politician, dies at 66
1995 - John Eric Tieman, production Manager (Guardian), dies at 67
1995 - Julian Graham Theodore Hough, actor (Deathwatch, Shout), dies at 47
1995 - W Fenton Morley, preacher, dies at 83
1996 - Christopher Casson, actor (Educating Rita, Zardoz), dies at 84
1996 - Douglas G Chapman, biomathematical statistician, dies at 76
1996 - Melvin Mouron Belli, attorney/actor (Star Trek), dies at 88
1996 - Peter Martini, British journalist, dies at 31
1996 - Susan Cowdy, British ornithologist, dies at 81
1999 - Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician (b. 1944)
2000 - Doug Fisher, English actor (b. 1941)
2002 - Laurence Janifer, American writer (b. 1933)
2002 - Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
2004 - Chuck Cadman, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
2004 - Paul Klebnikov, American journalist (b. 1963)
2004 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917)
2005 - Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater (b. 1931)
2005 - Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
2005 - Kevin Hagen, American actor (b.1928)
2006 - Milan Williams, American musician (The Commodores) (b. 1948)
2007 - Charles Lane, American actor (b. 1905)
2008 - Séamus Brennan, Irish politicain (b. 1948)
2010 - Jessica Anderson, Australian novelist (b. 1916)
2011 - Don Ackerman, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2011 - Facundo Cabral, Argentine musician (b. 1937)
2012 - Terepai Maoate, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, dies from prostate cancer at 78

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This Day in History for 10th July


Historical Events

                                   
Composer                                           13th US President Millard Fillmore              Baseball Great Babe Ruth
George Friedrich Handel 

                 
Inventor Samuel Morse                        Russian President Boris Yeltsin


48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in
            Macedonia.
552 - Origin of Armenian calendar
988 - The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
1040 - Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower
           taxes
1212 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1460 - Wars of Roses: Richard of York defeats King Henry VI at Northampton
1520 - King Charles V & King Henry VIII signs treaty of Calais
1553 - Lady Jane Grey becomes queen of England
1568 - Battle on Eems: Dutch Water garrison beats Spanish
1584 - Spanish army leader Richebourg conquerors Liefkenshoek, Belgium
1584 - William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
1598 - Spanish theater plays "Moros y Los Cristianos" in Rio Grande
1609 - Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League
1627 - English fleet under George Villiers reach La Rochelle [NS=June 20]
1629 - 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in US founded (Salem, MA)
1645 - Battle at Langport Somerset: Cromwell's New Model-army beats Royalists
1652 - England declares war on Netherlands
1690 - Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet under Cornelis Evertsen
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye
1762 - Roubiliacs monument for Handel unveiled at Westminster Abbey
1775 - Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
1778 - American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most
           three triangular numbers.
1797 - 1st US frigate, the "United States," is launched in Phila
1800 - The British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi
           and other vernaculars of sub continent.
1806 - The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East
           India Company.
1810 - Emperor Napoleon corpse leaves Netherlands for France
1832 - Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US
1847 - Urbain J J Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune meet for 1st time at
           home of John Herschel
1850 - Millard Fillmore sworn-in as president of US (replacing Taylor)
1861 - Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia & says Union troops will not enter that state
1862 - US begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad
1863 - Battle of Charleston, SC (Morris Island) [->SEP 06]
1863 - Battle of Jackson, MS - captured by federals [->JUL 16] US1000 CS1339
1866 - Indelible pencil patents by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass
1873 - French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol
1877 - The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown 
           of Spain.
1884 - 1st Test Cricket to be played at Old Trafford 1st day washed out
1886 - George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company
1886 - Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white calcium carbonate hot-spring
           terraces (North Island, New Zealand)
1890 - Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage)
1892 - 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
1898 - Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo
1905 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court
1908 - H Kamerlingh Onnes makes helium liquid (-269°C)
1910 - Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0
1911 - 105°F (41°C) at North Bridgton, Maine (state record)
1912 - Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6)
1913 - 134°F (57°C), Greenland Ranch, California (US record)
1913 - Romania declares war on Bulgaria
1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in
           the United States.
1914 - Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles
1915 - British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa
1917 - Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing draft
1918 - Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms
1919 - Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage
1919 - Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
1920 - Tris Speaker is stopped at 11 consecutive hits by Tom Zachary
1923 - 2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle (Rostov, Russia)
1923 - All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy
1924 - Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim
1924 - Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam
1925 - Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial
1925 - USSR's official news agency TASS forms
1925 - Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date
           in commemoration.
1926 - 30th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto CC in Ohio
1926 - Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
1928 - Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout
1929 - In game between Pirates & Phillies 9 HRs hit 1 in each inning
1929 - US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
1932 - Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats
           Indians in longest relief job
1933 - 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY
1934 - 1st sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
1934 - 2nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, New York
1934 - Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig & Foxx in All star game
1936 - 109°F (43°C) Cumberland & Frederick, Maryland (state record)
1936 - 110°F (43°C) at Runyon, New Jersey (state record
1936 - 111°F (44°C) Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record)
1936 - 112°F (44°C) at Martinsburg, West Virginia (state record
1936 - New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles
1936 - Phillies Chuck Klein becomes 4th to hit 4 HRs in a game
1937 - Dutch Django Reinhardts "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club"
1938 - "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic
1938 - Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours
1940 - Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air (114 days)
1940 - German planes attack British ships in the Canal
1941 - Jedwabne Pogrom is a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in
           Poland.
1942 - Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp
1942 - Netherland's government in exile (London) recognizes Soviet Union
1943 - 6th day of battle at Kursk
1943 - US, British and Canadian forces invade Sicily in WW II (Operation Husky)
1944 - U-821 sinks
1945 - Lt-adm Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff
1946 - Belgian government of Acker, resigns
1947 - 200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China
1947 - Cleveland Indian Don Black no-hits Phila A's, 3-0
1947 - Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan
           by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee.
1948 - "Allegro" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 318 performances
1948 - "Ballet Ballads" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 62 performances
1948 - "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 188 perfs
1948 - Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army
1949 - 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh
1949 - WJAR TV channel 10 in Providence, RI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 - "Your Hit Parade" premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV
1951 - 18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
1951 - Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
1953 - 82nd British Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 282 at Carnoustie Dai Rees
1953 - Pravda reports arrest of Beria [affiliate of imperialist]
1956 - 23rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash DC
1956 - 650,000 US steel workers go on strike
1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1958 - 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
1958 - Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed premier of Cambodia
1960 - Belgium sends troops to Congo
1960 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Youngstown Kitchens (Trumball Golf Open)
1962 - 32nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at D.C. Stadium, Washington
1962 - All star MVP: Maury Wills (LA Dodgers)
1962 - Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia
1962 - Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1964 - Jesus Alou is 1st Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game
1964 - Moise Tsjombe becomes premier of Congo
1965 - Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1965 - Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
1966 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
1966 - US launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon
1967 - Bobbie Gentry records "Ode to Billie Joe"
1967 - Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1968 - NL announces break into 2 divisions for 1969
1968 - NL votes to split into 2 divisions
1969 - Chilean Association of Librarians created
1971 - 100th British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 278 at Royal Birkdale
1971 - Failed attempt on King Hassan II Shirat Morocco, 101 killed
1972 - Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida (McGovern)
1972 - Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
1973 - Bahamas declares Independence from UK & adopts constitution
1974 - OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands
1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - Gladys Knight & Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV
1975 - Test Cricket debut of Graham Gooch, v Australia, out for a pair
1976 - 105th British Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale
1976 - Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud)
1976 - The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
1976 - One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
1977 - "Happy End" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 75 performances
1977 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic
1978 - Bloodless military coup in Mauritania
1978 - Military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees
1978 - World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
1979 - Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion
1980 - Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen
1980 - Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5°C temp
1980 - Alexandra Palace burnt down for a second time.
1981 - CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)
1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze
1982 - Rangers Larry Parrish hits his 3rd grand slam of the week
1982 - Samuel Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" sells for $3,250,000
1982 - Zimbabwe beats Bermuda by 5 wickets to win ICC Trophy
1985 - Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
1985 - French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in NZ
1985 - Playboy publishes full frontal nude pictures of Madonna
1988 - Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1989 - Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61)
1990 - 61st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1990 - All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers)
1990 - Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall Show
1990 - Last day of Test Cricket for Richard Hadlee
1991 - Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Rep
1991 - L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13
1992 - John Ellis becomes CEO of Seattle Mariners
1992 - Spaceship Giotto (Halley 1986) approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup
1992 - SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival
1992 - US Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons
1993 - Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi pres/Sylvie Kinigi, PM
1993 - Yobes Ondieki runs world record 10km (26:58.38)
1994 - "Hedda Gabler" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 33 performances
1994 - Kelly Robbins wins Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic by Owens-Corning
1994 - Nepal premier Girija Prasadkoirala resigns
1994 - Sonia O'Sullivan runs female world record 2K (5:25.36)
1997 - Hideki Irabu makes his debut as a NY Yankee, he beats Tigers 10-3
1997 - Louise Woodward's trial begins in Mass, Nanny murder trial
1997 - RJR Nabisco announces it will replace Joe Camel in new ads
1997 - Spain, Partido Popular member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua
           by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
1998 - Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine
           former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
2000 - EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-
           Matra, DASA, and CASA.
2000 - A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging
           gasoline.
2002 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for
           £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Kenneth, Lord Thomson.
2003 - A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen
           Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the
           deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
2005 - Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.
2006 - Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all
           45 people on board.
2008 - Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a UN
           Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
2011 - British tabloid News of the World publishes its last edition after 168 years in the wake of a
           phone hacking scandal.
2012 - The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages

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This Day in History for 10th July


Famous Weddings

1994 - The "Anthrax" heavy-metal guitarist Scott Ian (31) weds Debbie Leavitt (23) in Huntington
           Beach, California
1994 - Fred Norris (from the Howard Stern Show) marries Allison Furman
1999 - "It Could Happen To You" actress Rosie Perez (34) weds playwright and screenwriter Seth Zvi
           Rosenfeld (37) in Brooklyn, New York
2004 - "The West Wing" actor Dule Hill (29) weds actress Nicole Lyn (26) in Montego Bay, Jamaica
2010 - Actress and fourth season American Idol winner Carrie Underwood (29) weds Nashville
           Predators ice hockey player Mike Fisher (32) at Ritz Carlton Lodge in Greensboro, Georgia
2010 - Actress Emily Blunt (29) weds actor John Krasinski (32) at the luxurious Villa D'este hotel in
           Como, Italy
2010 - NBA star Carmelo Anthony (25) weds actress Lala Vasquez (30) at Cipriani 42nd St. in New
           York City
2010 - "Big Momma's House" actor Martin Lawrence (45) weds longtime girlfriend Shamicka Gibbs
           (35) on an intimate wedding in Beverly Hills