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This Day in History for 10th July


Famous Divorces

1975 - Cher files for divorce from Gregg Allman, 10 days after they married

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This Day in History for 10th July


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Jurist William Blackstone (1723)        World Middleweight Boxing Champion       Popstar Jessica Simpson (1980)
                                                                    Jake LaMotta (1921)

1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
1509 - John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian
1517 - Odet de Coligny, Cardinal of Châtillon/bishop
1526 - Philip III van Croij, duke of Aarschot/earl of Porcien
1592 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)
1614 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
1625 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)
1638 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (carpet cartons)
1666 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)
1682 - Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719)
1682 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
1697 - Francois Hanot, composer
1711 - Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain (d. 1783)
1723 - William Blackstone, London England, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries)
1736 - Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807)
1759 - Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer
1778 - Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master
1779 - Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer
1792 - George Mifflin Dallas, (D) 11th VP (1845-49)
1797 - Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull)
1804 - Emma Smith Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ
           of Latter-day Saints (d. 1879)
1809 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)
1818 - John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1820 - Andrew Porter, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1872
1821 - Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General (Union volunteers)
1824 - Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician
1826 - Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer
1830 - Camille Pissarro, Danish Antillean/French painter (impressionism)
1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
1833 - Lucius Eugene Polk, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1834 - James A McNeill Whistler, US/British painter (Whistler's Mother)
1835 - Henryk Wieniawski, Lubin Poland, violinist/composer (Souv de Moscou)
1839 - Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
1852 - Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister
1856 - Nikola Tesla, Croatian physicist, electrical engineer and inventor, developed alternating current
           and the Tesla Coil
1858 - Karl Flodin, composer
1865 - Jan "Pa" van der Steur, Dutch philanthropist (Steurtjes)
1867 - Finley Peter Dunne, US, journalist/humorist (Mr Dooley)
1867 - Max Prinz von Baden, German chancellor (Oct-Nov 1918)
1870 - Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism)
1871 - Marcel Proust, France, novelist (Remembrance of Things Past)
1874 - Austin Diamond, cricket non-Test capt (NSW batsman 1899-1919, Aust)
1874 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
1875 - Mary McLeod Bethune, SC, educator (Bethune-Cookman College)
1879 - Harry Nicholls Holmes, Penn, Dr (crystallized vitamin A)
1882 - Ima Hogg, Texas art patron/founder of Houston Symphony
1882 - Riccadro Pick-Mangiagalli, composer
1883 - Johann Blaskowitz, German general
1883 - Sam Wood, US, communist fighter/director (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
1886 - John SSPV Gort, viscount of Limerick/fieldmarshal of Palestine
1887 - Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer
1888 - Giorgio De Chirico, Greece, Metaphysical painter (Soothsayer)
1888 - Graham McNamee, sportscaster (1st Rose Bowl)
1888 - Toyohiko Kagawa, Kobe, Japan, Christian social reformer
1889 - Robert [Harriot] Barrat, NYC, actor (Go West, Distant Drums)
1890 - Andre Souris, composer
1892 - George "Slim" Summerville, US actor (Keystone Cops)
1894 - Jimmy Francis McHugh, composer
1895 - Carl Orff, Munich Germany, composer (Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969)
1895 - John Gilbert, [Pringle], Logan UT, actor (Heart o' the Hills)
1895 - Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/member High Court
1895 - Nahum Goldmann, Switz, pres Zionist World Organization
1896 - Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator (d. 1981)
1897 - Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director
1897 - Karl Plagge, German officer (d. 1957)
1897 - Jack "Legs" Diamond", American bootlegger (d. 1931)
1899 - John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
1899 - Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
1900 - Bob Catterall, cricketer (dashing South African batsman of 20's)
1900 - Elsie Evelyn Laye, English singer/actress (Bitter Sweet, Merry Widow)
1900 - Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk, priest and wonder-worker (d. 1979)
1900 - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993)
1902 - G Weisenborn, writer
1902 - Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950)
1903 - John Wyndham P L B Harris, US, sci-fi author (Day of the Triffids)
1904 - Isa Krejci, composer
1905 - Thomas Gomez, NYC, actor (Force of Evil, Key Largo, Kim, Sellout)
1905 - Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
1910 - Ronald Fletcher, broadcaster
1911 - Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier of Indonesia
1912 - Francis Showering, brewer
1913 - Ljuba Welitsch, Borisovo, Bulgaria, opera soprano (Nedda-Pagliacci)
1913 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (d. 1985)
1914 - Saul Bellow, Quebec, novelist (Nobel 1976-Mr Samler's Planet)
1914 - Joe Shuster, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1992)
1916 - Dick Cary, jazz Musician
1917 - Don Herbert, Waconia Minn, scientist/TV host (Watch Mr Wizard)
1917 - Reg Smyth, English cartoonist (Andy Capp)
1917 - Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (d. 2000)
1919 - Rusty Gill, St Louis Mo, singer (Polka Time)
1920 - David Brinkley, Wilmington NC, NBC news anchor (Huntley-Brinkley)
1920 - Owen Chamberlain, physicist/co-discoverer (antiproton, Nobel-1959)
1921 - Eunice Shriver, founder (Special Olympics)
1921 - Jake LaMotta, Bronx New York, middleweight boxing champ (1949-51) (Raging Bull)
1921 - Jeff Donnell, South Windham Maine, actor (Gidget Goes to Rome)
1921 - Revaz Il'yich Lagidze, composer
1921 - Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
1922 - Derek Prouse, writer actor/film festival director (Le Scandale)
1922 - Herb McKenley, Jamaica, 4 X 400m relay runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1923 - Jean Kerr, Scranton Pa, novelist (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1923 - G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (d. 1987)
1923 - John Bradley, United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt.
           Suribachi(see Iwo Jima) (d. 1994)
1924 - Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (d. 1998)
1924 - Johnny Bach, American basketball coach
1925 - Dorothea Hochletiner, Austria, giant slalom (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1926 - Carleton Carpenter, Bennington Vt, actor (Up Periscope, Summer Stock)
1926 - Fred Gwynne, NYC, actor (Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters)
1927 - David Norman Dinkins, (1st black Mayor-D-NYC, 1990-93)
1927 - Don Revie, English soccer coach (Leeds, National team)
1927 - William Smithers, Richmond Va, actor (Witness, Peyton Place, Attack!)
1927 - Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician
1927 - Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian film actor (d. 2003)
1928 - Jack Nel, cricketer (South African opening bat in 6 Tests 1949-57)
1928 - Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar
1928 - Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (d. 2003)
1928 - Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
1929 - Moe Norman, Kitchener Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1966 Quebec Open)
1929 - Winnie Ewing, Scottish politician
1930 - Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist
1931 - Alice Munro, author (Dance of the Happy Shades)
1931 - Del Insko, harness racer (toothpick in mouth, 1969 money leader)
1931 - Julian May, US, sci-fi author (Golden Torc, Magnificat)
1931 - Nick Adams, Nanticoke Pa, actor (Johnny Yuma-Rebel)
1932 - Jorgen Becker, writer
1932 - Carlo Mario Abate, Italian racing driver
1933 - Chuan-Kwang Yang, Taiwan, decathlete (Olympic-silver-1960)
1933 - Jerry Herman, Broadway composer (Hello Dolly)
1934 - Munir Malik, Pakistani cricket pace bowler (3 Tests 1959-62)
1934 - Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer, (d. 2012)
1935 - Tura Satana, American actress
1935 - Wilson Whineray, Auckland, New Zealand, All Black (1957-65), (d. 2012)
1936 - Barbara B Kennelly, (Rep-D-Connecticut, 1982- )
1936 - Jan Wincenty Hawel, composer
1937 - Sandy Stewart, Phila Pa, singer (Sing Along With Mitch, Mr President)
1938 - Paul Andreu, French architect
1938 - Lee Morgan, American hard-bop trumpeter
1939 - Lawrence Pressman, Ky, actor (Man From Atlantis, Hellstrom Chronicle)
1939 - Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
1940 - Dawid J "Dawie" de Villiers, South African minister of energy (1989- )
1940 - Keith Stackpole, cricketer (aggressive Australian opener 1966-74)
1940 - Mills Watson, Oakland California, actor (Harper Valley PTA, BJ & Bear)
1940 - Helen Donath, American soprano
1940 - Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur
1941 - Ian Whitcomb, England, rocker (You Turn Me On)
1941 - Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk, Poland, cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18B, 30)
1941 - Robert Pine, Scarsdale NY, actor (Joe Getraer-CHiPs)
1941 - David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist
1941 - Jake Eberts, Montreal, Quebec, film producer (Chariots of Fire, Dances with Wolves), (d.
           2012)
1942 - Ronnie James Dio, American musician (Dio-Holy Diver, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath)
1943 - Arthur Ashe, tennis pro (1968 US Open, 1975 Wimbledon)
1943 - Jerry Miller, Tacoma Wa, rock guitarist (Moby Grape)
1944 - Beaky, rocker
1945 - Ron Glass, Evansville IN, actor (Harris-Barney Miller, Frank's Place)
1945 - [Sarah] Virginia Wade, England, tennis star (Wimbledon 1977)
1945 - John Motson, British sports (football) commentator
1945 - Jean-Marie Poiré, French film director
1945 - Peter Michalica, Slovak violinist
1946 - Sue Lyon, Davenport Iowa, actress (Lolita, Night of the Iguana)
1947 - Arlo Guthrie, Bkln, singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans)
1947 - Jeff Hanna, Detroit, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) [or 8/11]
1947 - John Trevor Key, photographer
1949 - Dave Smally, rocker (Raspberries)
1949 - Mark Shera, Bayonne NJ, actor (SWAT, Barnaby Jones)
1949 - Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricket player (opener, 10122 Test runs)
1949 - Wally Bryson, NC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Fotomaker, Raspberries)
1949 - Greg Kihn U.S. pop musician & radio personality.
1949 - John Whitehead, American singer and record producer
1950 - Willie Ford, US R&B-singer (Dramatics-Me & Mrs Jones)
1950 - Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Greek politician
1951 - Phyllis Smith, American actress
1951 - Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
1952 - Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast
1952 - Kim Mitchell, Canadian guitarist/singer
1952 - Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician
1953 - Rik "The Rocket" Emmett, Toronto, rock vocalist (Triumph)
1954 - Andre Dawson, Miami Fla, outfielder (Expos, Cubs, 1987 NL MVP)
1954 - Gene Holder, rocker
1954 - Neil Tennant, North Shields, Tyne-and-Wear, English singer/songwriter (Pet Shop Boy-West
           End Girl)
1955 - Pamela Theresa Jiles, NO LA, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silver-1976)
1956 - Tom McClintock, American politician
1957 - Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war/political activist
1958 - Béla Fleck, American musician
1958 - Fiona Shaw, Irish actress
1960 - Roger Craig, NFL reciever (SF 49ers)
1961 - Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
1962 - Mike Saxon, NFL punter (Minnesota Vikings)
1964 - Felipe Martinez, jockey
1964 - Urban Meyer, American football coach
1964 - Wilfried Peeters, Belgian cyclist
1965 - Buddy Groom, Dallas TX, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1965 - Scott Michael McCarron, Sacramento CA, PGA golfer (1995 Las Vegas-3rd)
1965 - Alec Mapa, Filipino-American actor and comedian
1965 - Ken Mellons, American singer
1965 - Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
1966 - Alvoid Mays, NFL cornerback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1966 - Johnny Grunge, wrestler (d. 2006)
1967 - Alfred Jackson, NFL cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1967 - Virgil Breedveld, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1967 - Tom Meents, American monster truck driver
1968 - Hassisba Boulmerka, Algeria, 1500m (Olympics-gold-92)
1968 - Jonathan Gilbert, American actor
1969 - Marty Cordova, Las Vegas NV, outfielder (Minnesota Twins)
1969 - Gale Harold, American actor
1969 - Alexandra Hedison, American actress
1970 - Klaas Van Noortwijk, cricketer (Holland batsman 1996 World Cup)
1970 - Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer and actress
1970 - Gary LeVox, American singer (Rascal Flatts)
1970 - John Simm, British actor
1971 - Adam Foote, Toronto, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche, Team Canada)
1971 - Brent Alexander, NFL defensive back (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - Gregory Goodridge, Barbadian footballer
1972 - Damon Sharpe, Cleveland Ohio, actor/musician (Guys Next Door)
1972 - Peter Serafinowicz, British comedian and actor
1972 - Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress
1972 - Tilo Wolff, German musician (Lacrimosa)
1973 - Claudius Wright, WLAF CB (London Monarchs)
1974 - Idalmis Marina Vidal, Miss Florida USA (1996)
1974 - Jennifer Montica Curry, Muscatine Iowa, Miss America-Iowa (1996)
1974 - Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
1975 - Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 - Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor
1976 - Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
1976 - Elijah Blue Allman, American musician (Deadsy)
1976 - Adrian Grenier, American actor
1976 - Brendon Lade, Australian rules footballer
1976 - Edmílson Gomes, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Schapelle Corby, Australian convicted drug smuggler
1977 - Gwendoline Yeo, American actress
1978 - Jesse Lacey, American musician (Brand New)
1979 - Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer
1980 - Thomas Ian Nicholas, actor (Radio Flyer, Rookie of the Year)
1980 - Jessica Simpson, Abilene, Texas, singer and popstar ("I Wanna Love You Forever," "I Think
           I'm In Love," and "Where You Are.")
1980 - Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer and songwriter
1980 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
1982 - Alex Arrowsmith, American musician
1982 - Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
1983 - Kim Heechul, Korean Singer
1984 - Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, Miss World 2004
1985 - Mario Gómez, German footballer

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This Day in History for 10th July


Famous Deaths

King of France Henry II (1559)


138 - Publius A Hadrianus, Roman emperor (117-138), dies
518 - Anastasius I Dikoros, [Dyrrhachium/Durazzo], Byzantine emperor, dies
649 - Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b.599)
983 - Benedict VI, Italian Pope (974-83), dies
1086 - Knut IV, the Saint, king of Denmark (1080-86), murdered
1099 - El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)
1103 - Erik I Ejegod, the good hearted, King of Denmark (1095-1103), dies
1290 - King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
1460 - Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
1480 - King René I of Naples (b. 1410) last heir of house of Anjou
1535 - Jacob Van Campen, Reconstruction bishop, beheaded
1559 - Henry II, King of France (1547-59), dies
1573 - Willem van Bronkhorst, Brattenburg/Stein/army leader, dies
1584 - William I "the Silent", [William of Orange], earl of Nassau, is assassinated at 51
1590 - Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
1594 - Paulo Bellasio, composer, dies at 40
1621 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (b. 1571)
1653 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
1668 - Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer, dies at 45
1680 - Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
1683 - François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
1686 - Ercole Ferrata, Italian sculptor/restauranteur, dies at 76
1686 - John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
1690 - Domenico Gabrielli, composer, dies at 39
1690 - Jan van Brakel, Dutch vice admiral (Chatham), dies in battle at 48
1692 - Bridget Bishop, 1st Salem witch hanged
1762 - Johann F Gronovius, physician/botany, dies at 76
1776 - Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
1806 - George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
1838 - Willem earl van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial governor, dies at about 43
1839 - Fernando Joseph Maria Sor, composer, dies at 61
1851 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (b. 1787)
1863 - Clement Clarke Moore, ('Twas the Night Before Xmas), dies at 83
1863 - Paul Jones Semmes, US businessman/Confederate brig-general, dies at 48
1868 - Carlo Conti, composer, dies at 71
1881 - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812)
1884 - Paul Charles Morphy, US lawyer/chess wizard, dies at 47
1888 - Rafael Hernando, composer, dies at 66
1902 - Albert FA, king of Saxon (1873-1902), dies at 74
1908 - Eliza Laurillard, vicar/poet/writer, dies at 78
1908 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
1909 - Flooi Du Toit, cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892), dies
1910 - Johann G Galle, German discoverer of Neptune by telescope, dies
1915 - Hendrik W Mesdag, painter (Panorama Mesdag), dies
1920 - Eugenie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Emperor of France, dies at 94
1920 - John A "Jacky" Kilverston, adm/designer (dreadnought), dies at 79
1920 - Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
1924 - Johannes B van Heutsz, gov-gen of Dutch Indies (1904-09), dies at 73
1927 - Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State VP, assassinated
1937 - Attilio Brugnoli, composer, dies at 56
1937 - Johan[nes] B Schepers, Fries writer (Braga), dies at 71
1940 - Donald Francis Tovey, English musicologist/composer, dies at 64
1941 - Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, pioneer jazz pianist, dies in LA at 56
1943 - Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer, dies at 72
1952 - Rued Immanuel Langgaard, composer, dies at 58
1953 - Sidney Homer, composer, dies at 88
1954 - Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1877)
1955 - Henry W Methorst, Dutch director (Central Bureau of Statistic), dies
1956 - Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1957 - Sholem Asch, Polish/Israeli writer (East River), dies at 77
1963 - John Sutton, actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of heart attack at 54
1963 - Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)
1965 - Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Le cavalier seul), dies at 66
1971 - Harry M O'Connor, dies of pneumonia at 98
1971 - Mohamed Madbouh, Moroccan general/putschist, shot to death
1972 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
1975 - Achiel H van Acker, Belgian premier (1945-46, 1954-58), dies at 77
1977 - Norman Paris, orchestra leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41
1978 - Michel Gusikoff, composer, dies at 85
1978 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
1979 - Arthur Fiedler, orchestra leader (Boston Pops), dies at 84
1981 - Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (b. 1936)
1982 - Gustav MR von Koenigswald, German/Dutch paleontologist, dies at 79
1982 - Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Aust/US, singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies
1983 - Werner Egk, German composer (Die Zaubergeige), dies at 82
1985 - Fernando Pereira, military activist, murdered
1987 - John Hammond, Jazz reviewer (Melody Maker), dies at 76
1988 - Errol John, playwright, dies at 63
1989 - Mel Blanc, cartoon voice (Warner Bros cartoons), dies at 81
1989 - Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English comic (Bitter Springs), dies at 80
1990 - Hans Faverey, poet, dies
1990 - Irene Champlin, dies after long illness at 59
1991 - Gerome Ragal, author (Hair), dies of cancer at 48
1993 - Masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)), dies at 95
1993 - Ruth Krauss, author (Carrot Seed), dies at 91
1993 - Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
1994 - Earl Strum, referee (NBA), dies of brain cancer at 66
1994 - Otto Bonsema, soccer star/trainer (GVAV, Veendam), dies at 84
1995 - Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman, dies at 74
1996 - Eladio Rusconi, writer/publisher/businessman, dies at 79
2000 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
2000 - Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
2002 - Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
2003 - Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
2003 - Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
2003 - Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician
2005 - A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)
2005 - Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
2005 - Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
2005 - Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin, airshow performers
2006 - Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
2007 - Abdul Rashid Ghazi, radical Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
2007 - Doug Marlette, American cartoonist (b. 1949)
2007 - Zheng Xiaoyu, director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of
           China (b. 1944)
2008 - Hiroaki Aoki, founder of Benihana (b. 1938)
2008 - Mike Souchak, professional golfer (b. 1927)
2011 - Pierrette Alarie, Canadian operatic soprano (b. 1921)
2011 - Roland Petit, French choreographer and dancer (b. 1924)

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This Day in History for 11th July


Historical Events

                                   
Captain/Explorer James Cook                 Savant Amedeo Avogadro                       Inventor Thomas Edison

                                   
Baseball Great Babe Ruth                        Baseball Player Ted Williams           32nd US President Franklin Roosevelt


Country Singer Kenny Rogers


911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of
         Normandy.
1156 - Siege of Shirakawa-den in Japan.
1244 - Chwarizneense Turken defeats Jerusalem
1302 - Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) near Kortrijk, Belgium. Flemish
           coalition defeat French army
1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1347 - Bohemia heir to the throne elected German anti-king Charles IV
1376 - English "Good Parliament" meets
1405 - Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
1423 - Arnold van Egmont becomes duke of Gelre
1476 - Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
1525 - Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague
1533 - Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1576 - Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
1588 - French king Henri III accept demands of Catholic League
1616 - Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
1635 - Armies of Savoye/Mantua/Parma occupy Milan
1673 - Netherlands & Denmark signs defense treaty
1690 - Battle of Drogheda Boyne (Willem III (Neth-Engl) beat Jacobus II (Ire)
1708 - Battle at Oudenaarde: Great Alliance beats France
1735 - Mathematical calculations suggest that it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to
           the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.
1740 - Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne
1750 - Halifax, Nova Scotia is almost completely destroyed by fire.
1776 - Captain James Cook begins his third voyage
1781 - Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of US
1792 - Prussia army moves into French territory
1798 - US Marine Corps established by an act of Congress
1801 - French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet
1804 - Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the
           Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
1811 - Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases.
1812 - US invades Canada (Detroit frontier)
1818 - Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born," "Lines Written in the Highlands," &
           "Gadfly"
1848 - Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent v England)
1848 - London's Waterloo Station opens
1861 - Battle of Laurel Mountain VA - Gen Morris forces retreat of rebels
1861 - Battle of Rich Mountain, VA - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender
1862 - Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief
1863 - Battle at Green River Ky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)
1863 - Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4
1864 - Battle of Fort Stevens, DC (Early's Raid, Tennallytown, MD)
1864 - Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Wash DC
1882 - British fleet bombs Alexandria
1888 - 118°F (48°C), Bennett, Colorado (state record)
1888 - Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall
1889 - Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city
1892 - US Patent Office says J W Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light
           carbon for the incandescent lamp
1893 - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
1893 - A revolution led by the liberal general and politician, José Santos Zelaya, takes over state
           power in Nicaragua.
1895 - Auguste & Louis Lumière show film for scientists
1897 - Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole
1900 - Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys & Lincolns
1902 - British premier Lord Salisbury resigns
1905 - Black intellectuals & activists organize Niagara movement
1905 - Niagara Movement founded by WEB Dubois
1906 - The Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
1914 - Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleve 4-3
1915 - Germany cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam
1916 - 1st federal grant-in-aid for state roads enacted
1916 - Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act
1916 - Germany launches final offensive in the Battle of Verdun
1919 - Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day/No Sunday work
1921 - Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
1922 - The Hollywood Bowl opens.
1923 - Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M
1924 - Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi
1925 - Queen Wilhelmina names H Colijn head of government
1930 - Bradman scores 309 in a day vs England at Leeds, goes on to 334
1931 - NY Giants beat Phillies 23-8
1934 - FDR became 1st pres to travel through Panama Canal
1936 - Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens opens
1939 - 7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York NY Yankee/AL
           maanager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees
1940 - British & German dogfight above Lyme Bay
1941 - German troops attack Dnjepr
1943 - 7th day of battle at Kursk
1943 - Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armour division in Sicily
1943 - US 45th Division occupies airport Comiso Sicily
1943 - US 82nd Airborne division shot at, by "friendly fire" in Sicily
1943 - Massacres of Poles in Volhynia.
1944 - 12th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
1944 - FDR says he would run for a 4th term
1944 - Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United
           States.
1946 - Kingman Douglass, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1948 - 1st air bombing of Jerusalem
1950 - 17th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 in 14 at Comiskey Park, Chic Ted Williams breaks his
           elbow; 1st extra inning All Star Game
1952 - Gen Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate
1954 - 1st White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Miss
1955 - Congress authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust"
1955 - New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colo with 300 cadets
1960 - 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC
1960 - Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
1960 - Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence
1960 - Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independence
1961 - 30th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Pk, SF
1961 - Gene Kiniski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1962 - 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
1962 - Brothers Hank & Tommie Aaron homer in same inning
1962 - Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days
1962 - Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - South-African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested
1965 - Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion
1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Midwest Golf Open
1967 - 38th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 15 at Anaheim Stadium, CA
1967 - All star MVP: Tony Perez (Cin Reds)
1967 - Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition
1968 - Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles
1968 - Start of Colin Cowdrey's 100th Test, 1st person to do so
1969 - David Bowie releases "Space Oddity"
1969 - Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"
1971 - Chilean parliament nationalizes US copper mines
1971 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1971 - Phillies Deron Johnson 3 HRs caps his 4 in a row
1973 - Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed
1974 - House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
1974 - World Football League plays 1st games
1975 - Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating
           as early as 221 BC
1976 - 1st US football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American)
1976 - 31st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner
1976 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1976 - In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by
           Championship Wrestling "Headlocks & Wedlocks"
1977 - Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr
1978 - 49th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at San Diego Stadium
1978 - All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers)
1978 - Auto with liquid gas crashes & explodes in Spain, 160 killed
1979 - US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates
1980 - American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran
1981 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1981 - Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony
1981 - Sebastian Coe of UK sets record for 1K (2:12.18)
1982 - "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 5 perfs
1982 - 3rd US Seniors Golf Open: Miller Barber
1982 - Hollis Stacy wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
1982 - Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid
1983 - Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, of NZ, crowned 32nd Miss Universe
1984 - 55th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at Candlestick Park, SF
1984 - All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos)
1984 - England's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe
1984 - Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989
1984 - Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana
1985 - Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
1985 - Refurbished Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden
1985 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1986 - Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000 m in world record 30:13.74
1986 - Maricica Puica of Romania runs 2,000 m in 5:28.69 (record for women)
1986 - Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara
1987 - Heart's "Alone," single goes #1 for 3 weeks
1987 - Orioles Cal Ripkin becomes 1st to manage 2 sons, as Billy joins Cal
1988 - Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor
1989 - 60th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim All star MVP: Bo
           Jackson (KC Royals)
1989 - President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game
1990 - NYC police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
1990 - Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
1991 - Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy
1991 - Nigerian DC-8 crashes near Djeddah, 261 die
1991 - Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii
1992 - Pres candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"
1993 - 14th US Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus
1993 - Nancy Lopez wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1994 - Suriname guilder devalued: NŸ1 = SŸ105
1995 - 66th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 at Ballpark at Arlington Tx
1995 - All star MVP: Jeff Conine (Fla Marlins)
1999 - 20th US Seniors Golf Open: at Des Moines GC, W Des Moines, Iowa
2006 - 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
2011 - Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846.
2012 - POliciy academy suicide bombing kills 20 in Sana'a, Yemen
2012 - S/2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto is discovered

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Famous Weddings

1895 - Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy Mata Hari (18) weds Dutch colonial army
           Captain Rudolph MacLeod in Amsterdam
1937 - Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas (22) marries dancer Caitlin McNamara (22) in Penzance,
           Cornwall
1955 - "Gone with the Wind" actor Clark Gable (54) weds former fashion model and actress Kay
           Spreckles
1976 - Singer Andy Gibb (18) weds Kim Reeder in Australia
2003 - "The Sopranos" actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler (22) weds her manager A.J. Discala at Brooklyn
           Botanical Garden in New York
2009 - "Step Up" actor Channing Tatum (32) weds actress Jenna Dewan (31) at Church Estate
            Vineyards in Malibu, California
2009 - "Rushmore" actor Jason Schwartzman (30) weds fashion designer Brady Cunningham in San
           Fernando Valley
2009 - WWE star John Cena (32) weds Liz Huberdeau in Boston, Massachusetts
2009 - Actor and film director Robert Redford (71) weds artist Sibylle Szaggars (51) at the luxurious
           Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany
2010 - Former "Las Vegas" actress Vanessa Marcil (42) weds "CSI: NY" actor Corey Feldman (39) in
           New York City

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Writer E. B. White (1899)                         Fashion Designer                                   Rock guitarist
                                                               Giorgio Armani (1934)                            Richie Sambora (1959)


154 - Bar Daisan, [Bardesanes], Syrian theologist
1274 - Robert Bruce, King of Scots (1306-29)
1366 - Anne of Bohemia, consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)
1540 - Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich/Juliana of Stolberg
1558 - Robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist (Friar Bacon)
1561 - Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (d. 1627)
1603 - Kenelm Digby, English privateer (d. 1665)
1628 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1657 - Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13)
1662 - Maximilian II Emanuel, elect of Bayern
1694 - Charles-Antoine Coypel, French carpet designer
1697 - Jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer/cartographer
1709 - Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist (d. 1785)
1723 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (d. 1799)
1738 - Albert-Kasimir, duke of Saxon/viceroy of Hungary/Netherlands
1751 - Caroline Matilda of Wales, queen consort of Denmark and Norway (d. 1775)
1754 - Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare
1767 - John Quincy Adams, Braintree (Quincy) Mass, 6th Pres (D) (1825-1829)
1810 - Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor
1811 - Joseph Lanman, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874
1816 - French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect
1824 - Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, composer
1825 - Edward Henry Hobson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
1826 - Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist (d. 1871)
1832 - Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek politician (d. 1896)
1836 - Carlos Gomez, composer
1837 - Paul Lacombe, composer
1838 - John Wanamaker, merchant (Wanamakers Dept Store)
1841 - Daniel de Lange, Dutch composer
1841 - William Paul Roberts, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1844 - Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia
1846 - Leon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917)
1850 - Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (d. 1938)
1851 - Millie & Christine, NC, siamese twins
1857 - Alfred Binet, French child psychologist
1857 - Iacob Moresianu, composer
1860 - Johannis J van Laar, Dutch chemist (thermodynamics)
1861 - Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer
1861 - George William Norris, (Rep/Sen-Neb) (Lame duck-amendement)
1862 - Liza Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann, composer
1864 - Petar Danov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher (d. 1944)
1866 - R Beer-Hofmann, writer
1866 - Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1953)
1871 - Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Farmers' Party)
1885 - Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter
1886 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1888 - Carl Schmitt, German nazi-lawyer (Verfassungslehre)
1888 - Lyman Bryson, Valentine Nebr, educator (UN Casebook)
1889 - Alfred E Green, Perris CA, director (Copacabana, Jolson Story)
1890 - Arthur W Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II)
1890 - Georg Annenkov, Russian/French painter
1892 - Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer
1892 - Thomas Mitchell, NJ, academy award winning actor (Outlaw, Adventures)
1893 - Jack Durston, cricketer (England fast bowler against Australia 1921)
1894 - Walter Wanger, [Feuchtwanger], US producer (Stagecoach)
1895 - Dolly Wilde, English socialite (d. 1941)
1897 - Blind Lemon Jefferson, blues musician
1897 - Bull Connor, American law enforcement official (d. 1973)
1898 - Hendrik J Pos, Dutch philosopher/CEO (Committee of Watchfulness)
1898 - Herman de Man, [Salomon H Hamburger], Dutch writer/Radio Orange
1899 - E. B. White, writer (Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style), (d. 1985)
1902 - Leo Collard, Belgian minister of Education (1946/54-58)
1902 - Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Dutch/US phycist
1903 - Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (d. 1976)
1906 - Harry Von Zell, Indianapolis Ind, TV announcer (Burns & Allen)
1906 - Herbert Wehner, German communist/anti-communist politician (SPD)
1910 - Irene Hervey, Los Angeles California, actress (Aunt Meg-Honey West)
1910 - John Francis Boyd, journalist
1913 - Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, US, sci-fi author (Space Lords)
1913 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (d. 1966)
1914 - Ahti Sonninen, composer
1915 - Colin Purdie Kelly, US, 1st US air hero (during WW II)
1915 - George Ivan Smith, diplomat
1916 - Gough Whitlam, (ALP) Australia, PM (1972-75)
1916 - Howard Brubeck, composer
1916 - Reg Varney, English actor
1920 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
1921 - Ilse Werner, Dutch-born actress
1922 - Gene Evans, Hollbrook Az, actor (My Friend Flicka, Matt Helm, Alamo)
1924 - Claus Bremer, writer
1924 - César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (d. 2005)
1924 - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)
1925 - Mattiwilda Dobbs, Atlanta, Ga, soprano
1925 - Nicolai Gedda, Stockholm, Sweden, opera tenor (Opera Two to Six)
1926 - Patrick Wymark, Cleethorpes England, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia)
1926 - Ralph D Abernathy, US, president (SCLC)
1926 - Rodolfo Arizaga, composer
1926 - Frederick Buechner, American author
1927 - Herbert Blomstedt, Springfield Mass, conductor (Oslo Phil 1954-61)
1928 - Nic Jonk, sculptor/painter (Jonas & the Whale)
1928 - Robert Washburn, composer
1929 - David Kelly, Dublin, actor (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fawlty Towers), (d. 2012)
1929 - Hermann Prey, German baritone (d. 1998)
1930 - Gregory C Bell, Terre Haute Ind, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1930 - John Alabaster, cricketer (NZ most prolific leg-spinner with 49 wkts)
1930 - Harold Bloom, American literary critic
1931 - Hans Klein, politician
1931 - Herman de Vries, Dutch sculptor
1931 - Tab Hunter, actor (Damn Yankees, Lust in the Dust, Battle Cry)
1931 - Thurston Harris, Indianapolis, vocalist (Little Bitty Pretty One)
1931 - Tullio Regge, Italian physicist
1932 - Alex Hassilev, rocker (Limeliters)
1932 - Ron McAnally, horse trainer
1932 - Bob McGrath, American actor
1933 - Olga Havlova, political activist
1934 - Giorgio Armani, Milan Italy, fashion designer (American Gigolo)
1935 - Earlene Dennis Brown, Latero Tx, shot putter (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1935 - Oliver Napier, Northern Irish politician
1935 - Frederick Hemke, American saxophonist
1937 - Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer
1938 - Terry Garthwaite, US guitarist/singer (Joy of Cooking)
1939 - Larry Laoretti, Mahopac NJ, PGA golfer (US Seniors Open 1992)
1939 - Seth Gaaikema, Dutch night club performer
1940 - Rafael Martinez, horse trainer
1940 - Terry Patchett, politician
1940 - Yvon Charbonneau, French Canadian union leader and politician
1941 - Clive Puzey, Zimbabwean racing driver
1943 - Susan Seaforth Hayes, SF, actress (Days of our Life, Young & Restless)
1943 - Oscar D'León, Venezuelan musician
1944 - Bill Boggs, Phila, TV host/producer (Midday, Morton Downey Jr Show)
1944 - Peter de Savary, English financier/multi-millionaire
1944 - Myra Gale Brown, former wife of Jerry Lee Lewis
1945 - Adrienne Barbeau, Sacramento California, actress (Maude)
1945 - Robin Muyser, Dutch bassist (Les Baroques)
1945 - Patrick Joseph McGrath, Catholic bishop
1946 - Beverly Todd, Ohio, actress (Roots, Having Babies, Redd Foxx Show)
1946 - Edward J Markey, (Rep-D-MA, 1976- )
1946 - Cuthbert Johnson, Benedictine abbot.
1947 - Bo Lundgren, Swedish politician
1950 - Bonnie Pointer, singer (Pointer Sisters-Jump, I'm So Excited)
1950 - Jim Higgs, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner 1978-81)
1950 - Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani nuclear physicist
1950 - Bruce McGill, American actor
1951 - Lawrence J Delucas, Syracuse NY, PhD/astronaut (STS 50)
1951 - Sridharan Jeganathan, cricketer (two Tests for Sri Lanka v NZ 1983)
1952 - Stephen Lang, NYC, actor (Another You, Death of a Salesman)
1952 - John Kettley, English weather forecaster
1953 - Leon Spinks, US, heavyweight boxing champ (1978, Olympic-gold-1976)
1953 - Peter Bergman, Guantanamo Bay Cuba, actor (Eat or Be Eaten)
1954 - Benny Defranco, rocker (Defrnco Family)
1954 - Butch Reed, American professional wrestler
1955 - Sergey Babinov, USSR, ice hockey star (Olympic-gold-1972)
1956 - Sela Ward, Meridian Miss, actress (Hilary-Emerald Point NAS, Sisters)
1957 - Michael Rose, Kingston Jamaica, rocker (Black Uhuru-Brutal, Positive)
1957 - Pete Murphy, rocker (Love Hysteria)
1957 - Vince Williams, actor (Hamp-Guiding Light)
1957 - Peter Murphy, British musician (Bauhaus)
1958 - Mark Lester, Oxford England, actor (Oliver, Prince & Pauper)
1958 - Ray Dodds, rocker (Fairground Attraction-You Send Me)
1958 - Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
1959 - Richie Sambora, Perth Amboy, NJ, guitarist, (Bon Jovi), boyfriend of Cher & Heather Locklear
1959 - Suzanne Vega, rock vocalist (My Name is Luka, Tom's Diner)
1960 - David Baerwald American songwriter/composer
1962 - Dale Hellestrae, NFLer (Dallas Cowboys)
1962 - Pauline McLynn, Irish actress
1963 - Al MacInnis, Inverness NS, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, St Louis)
1963 - Lisa Rinna, Medford, Oregon, American actress (Days of Our Lives, Melrose Place)
1964 - Earl Jones, Inkster Mich, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1964 - Craig Charles, English actor
1964 - Kyrill, Prince of Preslav, titular Bulgarian royal family
1965 - Tony Cottee, English footballer
1965 - Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kickboxer
1965 - Scott Shriner, American musician (Weezer)
1966 - Butch Reid, horse trainer
1966 - Debbe Dunning, Burbank CA, actress (Tool Time Girl-Home Improvement)
1966 - Mel Appleby, rocker (Mel & Kim-Coming to America)
1966 - Rod Strickland, NBA guard (Portland Trail Blazers, Wash Wizards)
1966 - Greg Grunberg, American actor
1966 - Mick Molloy, Australian comedian
1967 - Andy Ashby, KC MO, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1967 - Donne Wall, Potosi MO, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1967 - Jeff Corwin, American naturalist and TV personality
1968 - Esera Tuaolo, NFL defensive tackle (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Michael Geist, Canadian academic
1969 - David Tao, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
1970 - Billy Ashley, Taylor MI, outfielder (LA Dodgers)
1970 - Pubudu Dissanayake, Sri Lanka cricket wicket-keeper (1993)
1970 - Justin Chambers, American actor
1971 - Brett Hauer, Edina Minn, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1971 - Leisha Hailey, American actress and musician (Uh Huh Her)
1972 - Jerrott Willard, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
1972 - Joe Johnson, NFL defensive end (NO Saints)
1972 - Ken Irvin, NFL cornerback (Buffalo Bills)
1972 - Jussi 69, Finnish musician (The 69 Eyes)
1972 - Steven Richards, Australian racing driver
1973 - Albert Guardado Jr, Redlands California, light flyweight boxer (Olymp-96)
1973 - Christine Monge, SF California, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1973 - Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
1973 - Andrew Bird, American musician
1974 - Andre Ooyer, soccer player (Ajax/FC Volendam)
1974 - Hermann Hreiðarsson, Icelandic footballer
1974 - André Ooijer, Dutch footballer
1975 - Dawn Piepenbrink, wildrose Wis, pairs skater (& Nick Castaneda)
1975 - Samer el Nahhal, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1975 - Willie Anderson, American football player
1975 - Rubén Baraja, Spanish footballer
1975 - Riona Hazuki, Japanese actress
1975 - Lil' Kim, American rapper
1976 - Eduardo Nájera, Mexican-born basketball player
1977 - Brandy Gold, Northridge California, actress (Annie-Baby Makes 5)
1977 - Brandon Short, American football player
1979 - Éric Abidal, French footballer
1980 - T.J. Wilson, Canadian professional wrestler
1981 - Mary Beth Arnold, Reno Nevada, gymnast (World-bronze-95)
1981 - Carla Campbell, Jamaican model
1981 - Andre Johnson, American football player
1981 - Aaron Proctor, American professional wrestling promoter & politician
1982 - Chris Cooley, American football player
1983 - Peter Cincotti, American singer songwriter
1983 - Kelly Poon, Singaporean singer
1983 - Evan Roberts, American radio broadcaster
1983 - Marie Serneholt, Swedish musician (A*Teens)
1983 - Kellie Shirley, British actress
1984 - Yorman Bazardo, Venezuelan baseball player
1984 - Tanith Belbin, Canadian ice dancer
1984 - Hitomi Hyuga, Japanese actress
1984 - Rachael Taylor, Australian actress
1985 - Aki Maeda, Japanese actress
1986 - Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer
1986 - Ryan Jarvis, English footballer
1987 - Matej Gaspar, Yugoslavia, 5,000,000,000th person (UN)
1987 - Shigeaki Kato, Japanese idol singer (NEWS)
1989 - David Henrie, American actor
1990 - Connor Paolo, American actor
1990 - Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player

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This Day in History for 11th July


Famous Deaths

                 
Archaelogist                                       48th Shia Iman Aga Khan III (1957)
Gertrude Bell (1926)


155 - Pius I, bishop of Rome (approx 140-155)/saint/martyr, dies
472 - Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
937 - King Rudolph II of Burgundy
969 - Olga of Kiev
1174 - Amalrik I, [Morri], French King of Jerusalem, dies
1183 - Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
1302 - Jacques de Châtillon, count of Saint-Pol/gov of Flaanders, dies
1302 - Pierre Flote, French 1st legist/chancellor of king Philip IV, dies
1302 - Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250)
1382 - Nicholas van Oresme, French philosopher/bishop of Lisieux, dies at 62
1535 - Joachim I Nestor, ruler (Brandenburg), dies at 51
1540 - Jan Szapolyai, anti-king of Hungarian, dies
1553 - Mauritius, duke/monarch of Saksen (1547-53), dies of injuries at 32
1581 - Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero
1593 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1st surrealist painter, dies (birth date unkn)
1649 - Margaret Coventry, 1st English earl of Shaftesbury, dies
1667 - John Fox, Amsterdam writer, buried
1679 - William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
1686 - Michel Anguier, French sculptor, dies at 75
1688 - King Narai of Siam (b. 1629)
1690 - Friedrich H duke van Schomberg, marshal, dies in battle at 75
1766 - Elizabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)
1768 - Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer, dies at 66
1774 - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer
1775 - Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1781 - Adolph Carl Kunzen, composer, dies at 60
1797 - Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
1806 - James Smith, Irish/US attorney/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 87
1825 - Thomas P. Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War soldier (b. 1744)
1826 - Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer, dies at 57
1844 - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
1847 - Joachim G le Sage at Trousers, RC foreman/publicist, dies at 71
1874 - Xavier FMG earl Merode, Belgium pontifical defense minister, dies at 54
1876 - Ottho G Heldring, vicar (H-gestichten), dies at 72
1882 - Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor, dies on 72nd birthday
1889 - Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet, dies at 34
1896 - Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia), dies at 81
1898 - Charles Chanoine, French lt/mass murderer in Senegal, dies
1909 - Simon Newcomb, celestial mechanics authority (Stars), dies at 74
1914 - Julius Rodenberg, [Levy], German writer (Die Deutsche Rundschau), dies
1916 - Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Doll Virgin), dies
1921 - Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, dies at 75
1926 - Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist, dies at 57
1929 - Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
1936 - James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
1937 - George Gershwin, composer (American in Paris), dies at 38
1942 - Simon de la Bella, Dutch president (NVV), dies in Dachau
1944 - Wolfgang Redlich, German major/pilot, dies in battle
1948 - Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semite theologist, dies
1948 - King Baggot, actor (Tish, San Francisco), dies at 68
1950 - Timotei Popovici, composer, dies at 79
1957 - Aga Khan III,Pakistani 48th Shia Iman, dies at 79
1958 - Karel Wellens, Flemish painter, dies at 69
1959 - C W L Parker, cricketer (3,776 1st-class wickets, 2nd best ever), dies
1964 - Maurice Thorez, sec-general French communist party, dies at 64
1965 - Ray Collins, actor (Halls of Ivy, Perry Mason), dies at 75
1966 - Delmore Schwartz, US poet/critic (Shenandoah), dies at 52
1967 - Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer, politician and judge (b. 1917)
1971 - Carleton Young, actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at 64
1971 - John W Campbell, US, sci-fi writer (Space Beyond), dies at 61
1971 - Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1940)
1973 - Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov, Russian composer (Zavod), dies at 72
1973 - Isabel Randolph, actress (Mrs Nester-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 83
1973 - Robert Ryan, US actor (Dirty Dozens, Longest Day), dies at 63
1974 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
1975 - Kurt Pinthus, writer, dies at 89
1979 - Claude Wagner, French Canadian judge and politician (b. 1925)
1980 - Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer, dies at 80
1980 - Peggy Knudson, actress (April-So This is Hollywood), dies at 57
1983 - Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
1984 - Karel Mengelberg, composer, dies at 81
1987 - Thomas F Waddell, founder (Gay Olympics), dies of AIDS at 50
1987 - Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
1987 - Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman, American Rosh Yeshiva (b. 1901)
1989 - Laurence Olivier, acting great (Hamlet), dies at 82
1990 - Onno Molenkamp, Dutch actor (Ciske the Rat, Lifespan), dies at 67
1991 - Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese interpreter (Satanic Verses), murdered
1991 - James McCallion, actor (PT 109, Big Combo), dies at 72
1992 - Annette Fischer, Danish chairman Amnesty Intl, dies
1992 - Antoon J Hubben, mayor of Maasbree/President KVM/Unie BLHP, dies at 73
1993 - Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88
1993 - Denis Tomlinson, South African cricket leg-spinner, dies
1993 - Henri van Soede, sub commandant (WW II), dies at about 83
1993 - Kelly Ahrendt, 1st death by rabies in NY since 1954, dies
1993 - Mario Bauza, Cubans/US jazz musician, dies at 82
1993 - Sergey Vozovikov, cosmonaut, dies during underwater test at 34
1994 - Alan David Melville, polymath, dies at 82
1994 - Bart Scheepens, actor/director, dies of AIDS at 50
1994 - Charles "Lefty" Edwards, saxophonist, dies at 67
1994 - Gary Kildall, creator of CP/M, dies at 52
1994 - James Topping, author of CP/M, dies at 52
1994 - Lex P Humphries, drummer, dies at 57
1994 - Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman (Werelddambond FMJD), dies at 49
1995 - John Cruickshank, French scholar, dies at 70
1996 - Louis Gottlieb, musician, dies at 72
1996 - Martin Corbett, gay activist, dies at 51
1999 - Helen Forrest, American singer (b. 1917)
2000 - Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)
2000 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
2001 - Herman Brood, Dutch singer and artist (b. 1946)
2004 - Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910)
2005 - Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
2005 - Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1914)
2005 - Jesús Iglesias, Argentine professional racing driver (b. 1922)
2006 - Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)
2006 - John Spencer, English snooker player (b. 1935)
2007 - Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
2007 - Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (b. 1913)
2007 - Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1914)
2007 - Glenda Adams, Australian author (b. 1939)
2008 - Michael DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908)
2009 - Arturo Gatti, Italian-Canadian professional boxer (b. 1972)
2009 - Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer (b.1911)
2010 - Walter Hawkins, Gospel music singer
2010 - Bob Sheppard, New York Yankees and New York Giants announcer (b. 1910)

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This Day in History for 12th July


Historical Events

                                   
Conquistador Diego de Almagro            Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr             Baseball Great Babe Ruth

                 
Russian President Boris Yeltsin            Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan


526 - St Felix IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1109 - Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli
1191 - Richard Coeur de Lion & Crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine
1191 - Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who
           has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the
           Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on
           the city's walls and towers.
1290 - Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I
1442 - King Alfonso V of Aragon becomes king of Naples
1537 - Battle of Albancay: Diego de Almagro defeated by army led by Alonso de Alvarado on behalf
           of Francisco Pizarro
1542 - French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupies Flanders
1549 - English boer army occupies Norwich
1580 - Ostrog Bible, the first printed Bible in a Slavic language, is published.
1627 - English fleet under George Villiers lands on the Rhe [NS=June 22]
1630 - New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island,
           it is later known as Ellis Island
1679 - Britain's King Charles II ratified Habeas Corpus Act
1689 - Orangeman's Day-Battle of Boyne, Protestant victory in Ireland
1690 - Battle of Boyne-King William III defeats catholic king James II
1691 - Antonio Pignatelli elected as Pope Innocentius XII
1691 - Battle of Aughrim (Aghrim) England, William III beats James II
1700 - Gelderland accepts Gregorian calendar; yesterday is June 30, 1700
1704 - Stanislaw Leszcynski becomes king of part of Poland
1730 - Lorenzo Corsini chosen as Pope Clemens XII
1745 - Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle [NS]
1771 - James Cook sails Endeavour back to Downs England
1774 - Citizens of Carlisle Penn, pass a declaration of independence
1774 - Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan
1776 - Capt Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean
1785 - 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands
1801 - Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French & Spanish
1804 - Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a
           duel.
1812 - US forces led by Gen Hull invade Canada (War of 1812)
1817 - 1st flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland)
1817 - Karl Drais von Sauerbronn demonstrates bicycle course
1843 - Mormon leader Joseph Smith say God OKs polygamy
1850 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States
1859 - Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale, Mass
1862 - Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
1862 - Federal troops occupy Helena Arkansas
1874 - Ontario Agricultural College founded
1874 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "Gloria Scott" (BG)
1878 - Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500
1882 - 1st ocean pier in US completed, Washington, DC
1898 - Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda Sudan
1900 - 114°F (46°C), Basin, Wyoming (state record)
1901 - Cy Young wins his 300th game
1902 - Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
1906 - Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France
1909 - 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes)
1912 - 1st foreign feature film exhibited in US-"Queen Elizabeth"-NYC
1914 - Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for Red Sox
1917 - The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners
           and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1918 - Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed
1918 - The Japanese Imperial Navy battle ship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan,
           killing at least 621.
1920 - Lithuania & USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent rep
1920 - Panama Canal opens
1921 - Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs
1921 - Indians (9) & Yankees (7) combine for an AL record 16 doubles
1926 - Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu
1926 - Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:26.2)
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs
1928 - 1st televised tennis match
1930 - 34th US Golf Open: Robert T "Bobby" Jones wins
1930 - Bradman out for 334 in Test Cricket at Headingley, 383 mins, 46 fours
1931 - 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St Louis, help cause many ground ruled doubles,
           11 in 1st game & 21 in 2nd game for 32
1932 - Hedley Verity establishes a first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs
           against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm
1933 - Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
1934 - US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
1934 - Willy de Supervise swims world record 400m (5:16.0)
1935 - Belgium recognizes Soviet Union
1937 - -13) Tupolev ANT-25 non-stop flight Moscow to San Jacinto Calif
1943 - Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula)
1943 - National Committee Freies Deutschland forms
1943 - Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker
1943 - Russian offensive at Orel
1943 - Tank battle at Prochorowka - Russians beat Nazis, about 12,000 die
1944 - Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
1944 - US government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle
1945 - Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games
1946 - Benjamin Britten's "Rape of Lucretia," premieres in Glyndebourne
1946 - Vance Dinges hits only Phillie pinch hit inside-the-park HR
1948 - 1st jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires)
1949 - 16th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-7 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
1949 - Baseball owners agree to erect warning paths before each fence
1949 - Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die
1949 - LA Rams sign Norm Van Brocklin
1950 - ILTF re-admit Germany & Japan in Davis Cup, Poland & Hungary withdraws
1950 - Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten & F
           Fischer to death
1951 - Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero Ill
1951 - NY Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleve Indians, 8-0
1952 - East German SED decides to form German DR army
1953 - KTVB TV channel 7 in Boise, ID (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Major League Baseball Players Association founded
1954 - Pres Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system
1955 - 22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at County Stad, Milw
1955 - Christian Democratic Party forms in Argentina
1957 - 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower
1957 - US Surgeon Gen Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
1958 - "Li'l Abner" closes at St James Theater NYC after 693 performances
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1959 - NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during ankee-Red Sox game
1960 - Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence
1960 - Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched
1960 - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
1960 - USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
1960 - XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1960 - Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
1962 - 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (USSR)
1962 - Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London)
1964 - 19th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1966 - 10.51" (26.70 cm) of rainfall, Sandusky Ohio (state record)
1966 - 37th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 10 at Busch Stad, St Louis
1966 - All star MVP: Brooks Robinson (Balt Orioles)
1966 - Race riot in Chicago
1966 - US Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia &
           Denver mints
1967 - 23 die in Newark race riot
1967 - 5th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-0
1967 - Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured & over 1000 arrested
1967 - Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship
1968 - Couve de Murville forms government in France
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - 98th British Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 280 at Royal Lytham
1970 - 99th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at St Andrews
1970 - Blues-Rock singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky
1970 - Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway
1970 - Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atl Ocean in "Ra" docks in Barbados
1971 - Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders
1972 - Democrats nominated George McGovern for president in Miami Fla
1973 - A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United
           States.
1974 - John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights
1975 - 104th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 279 at Carnoustie
1975 - Bob Taylor catches 7 in an innings, Derbyshire v Yorkshire
1975 - Sao Tomé e Príncipe gains independence from Portugal (Natl Day)
1976 - Ian Dury & Kilburns disband
1977 - John Edrich scores his 100th 100, Surrey v Derbyshire at The Oval
1978 - Sun Bank Building opens
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - Ian Palce joins Whitesnake
1979 - Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from UK
1979 - "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild & causes White Sox to
           forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers
1981 - Debbie Austin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1982 - Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs
1982 - FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail
1983 - Chad government troops reconquer Abéché
1984 - Geraldine Ferraro, NY becomes 1st woman major-party VP candidate
1985 - "Singin' in the Rain" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 367 perfs
1985 - Doctors discover a cancerous growth in Pres Reagan's colon
1985 - STS 51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown
1987 - 15th du Maurier Golf Classic: Jody Rosenthal
1987 - 1st time in 20 years a delegation from USSR lands in Israel
1987 - 50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar
1987 - 8th US Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player
1987 - Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief
1988 - 59th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
1988 - All star MVP: Terry Steinbach (Oakland A's)
1988 - Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Bogg's had an affair with her
1988 - USSR launches Phobos II for Martian orbit
1989 - NY Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA)
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at National Theatre, Washington
1990 - Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party
1990 - Chicago White Sox Melido Perez no-hits Yankees 8-0 in a rain shortened 6 inning game at
           Yankee Stadium (7th no-hitter of 1990)
1992 - 13th US Seniors Golf Open: Larry Laoretti
1992 - Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert
1992 - Betsy King wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
1993 - 7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed
1993 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Sunset Promenade" opens in London
1993 - Don Imus begins broadcasting to Boston on WEEI (590 AM)
1994 - 65th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-8 at 3 Rivers Stad, Pitts
1994 - All star MVP: Fred McGriff (Atlanta Braves)
1994 - Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for supreme court justice begins
1996 - Kirby Puckett, retires from Minnesota Twins
1996 - Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million
1996 - Start of 1st "Super 8's" tournament in Kuala Lumpur
1997 - Cubs play in their 5,000th consecutive gane with out being no-hit
1997 - Pirates Francisco Cordova & Ricardo Rincon no-hit Astros 3-0 in 10 inn
1998 - 16th Seniors Players Golf Championship:
1998 - Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic
2006 - Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.
2012 - 200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh
2012 - 90-155 people are killed after an oil tanker crashes and explodes in Okogbe, Rivers State,
           Nigeria

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This Day in History for 12th July


Famous Weddings

1472 - Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester and later King of England, marries Anne Neville,
           daughter of the Earl of Warwick, in Westminster Abbey.
1543 - England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th & last wife)
1933 - Fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time Fred Astaire (34) weds socialite Phyllis Livingston Potter
           (25)
1998 - "Dynasty" actress Catherine Oxenberg (36) weds "Chinatown" film producer Robert Evans
           (68) in Beverly Hills, California
2007 - World's tallest man who measures 7'9" Bao Xishun (56) weds Xia Shujian (28) in a traditional
           Mongolian ceremony at the tomb of Kublai Khan in Beijing, China
2008 - Black Eyed Peas rapper Taboo (32) weds fashion publicist Jaymie Dizon (29) at St. Andrews
           Catholic Church in Pasadena, California

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This Day in History for 12th July


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Naturalist/Pacifist                                   Actor/Comedian                              Rock vocalist Christine McVie (1943)
Henry David Thoreau (1817)                    Bill Cosby (1937)


1394 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441)
1644 - Arnold Moonen, Dutch vicar/literature (David's holy saint graduals)
1675 - Evaristo E Felice dall' Abaco, Italian cellist/composer
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, England, pottery designer/manufacturer (Wedgwood)
1757 - Christian Danner, composer
1794 - Heinrich Christian Pander, Russian zoologist
1801 - John Hill Hewitt, composer
1802 - Charles-Louis Hanssens, composer
1803 - Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841)
1807 - Silas Casey, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1817 - Henry David Thoreau, Concord Mass, naturalist/pacifist (Walden Pond), (d. 1862)
1821 - Cesare Dominiceti, composer
1821 - Daniel Harvey Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1889
1824 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
1828 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (d. 1889)
1840 - Abraham Goldfaden, Eastern European Yiddish dramatist
1849 - William Osler, Canada, physician/author (circulatory system)
1850 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (d. 1912)
1852 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (d. 1933)
1854 - George Eastman, Waterville NY, inventor (Kodak camera)
1861 - Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer
1863 - Albert Calmette, French physician (d. 1933)
1863 - Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist (d. 1906)
1864 - George Washington Carver, botanist (studied the peanut) [or Jan 10]
1868 - Stefan George, Germany, lyric poet (Algabal)
1870 - Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949)
1876 - Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944)
1880 - Tod Browning, American film director (d. 1962)
1881 - Ludwig Rubiner, writer [or June 12]
1884 - Louis B. Mayer, Dymer, Ukraine, American film producer and creator of the star system (MGM)
1884 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italy, painter/sculptor (Reclining Nude)
1884 - Joseph Crehan, Baltimore MD, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight)
1885 - George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer
1886 - Jean Hersholt, Copenhagen Denmark, actor (Men in White, Aryan)
1888 - Tojohiko Kagawa, Japan, Christian-social reformer (Grain of Wheat)
1892 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1942)
1895 - Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano (Wagner)
1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II, NYC, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
1895 - R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor (geodesic dome)
1900 - Fjodor Godunov-Tcherdynchev, Russian poet (Life of Tchernyshevsky)
1901 - Robert Allenby, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1902 - Gunther Anders, writer
1904 - Pablo Neruda, Chile, poet (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971)
1905 - John C F, son of English King George V
1908 - Alain Cuny, actor (Detective, Weite Land, Emmanuelle)
1908 - Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician
1908 - Johan Franco, composer
1908 - Milton Berle, Harlem NYC, comedian (Uncle Miltie, Mr Television)
1909 - 2nd viscount Camrose, British Conserv Lower house leader (1941-45)
1909 - Joey Faye, NYC, comedian (Joey Faye's Follies)
1909 - Souphanouvong, [Red Prince], president of Laos (1975-87)
1909 - Curly Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (d. 1993)
1909 - Fritz Leonhardt, German civil engineer (d. 1999)
1911 - Johanna Moosdorf, writer
1912 - Broderick Vernon Chinnery-Haldane, photographer
1913 - Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
1915 - Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer
1917 - Andrew Wyeth, Chadds Ford Pa, painter (Christina's World)
1919 - Vera Hruba Ralston, Prague Czech, actress (Dajkota) [or 6/12/1921]
1920 - Honoré Desmond Sharrer, West Point New York, American artist
1920 - Keith Andes, Ocean City NJ, actor (Farmer's Daughter, Away All Boats)
1920 - Paul Foster, singer
1920 - Beah Richards, American actress (d. 2000)
1921 - Trevor Illtyd Williams, scientific writer
1921 - Bob Fillion, French Canadian ice hockey player
1922 - Clark MacGregor, politician (involved in Watergate)
1922 - James E[dwin] Gunn, US, sci-fi author (Station in Space, Immortal)
1922 - Mark O Hatfield, (Sen-R Oregon, 1967- )
1924 - Jaap Geraedts, composer
1925 - Roger Smith, CEO (General Motors)
1926 - Beah Richards, Vicksburg MS, actress/playwright (Big Shot, Generation)
1927 - Gualberto T Hernandez, perfect minister Neth Antilles
1928 - Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1929 - Pavle Merku, composer
1930 - Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director, and writer
1931 - Andre Laporte, Flemish composer
1931 - Bob Traxler, (Rep-D-MI, 1974- )
1931 - Lord Clinton, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1932 - Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist
1932 - Otis Crandell Davis, Ala, 400m/4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1960)
1933 - Donald E. Westlake, American author
1934 - Van Cliburn Jr, [Harvey Lavan], La, pianist (Tchaikovsky 1958)
1935 - Barrie Wilson, academic
1935 - Chris Burger, cricketer (South African batsman v Australia 1957-58)
1936 - Jan Nemec, Prague Czech, director (Diamonds of the Night)
1937 - Bill Cosby, Phila, actor/comedian (I Spy, Cosby, Leonard Part 6)
1937 - Mickey Edwards, (Rep-R-OK, 1977- )
1937 - Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France 1997-2002
1937 - Michel Louvain, French Canadian singer
1938 - Mickey Stratton, Meriden Ct, softball catcher (Hall of Fame 1969)
1938 - Ron Fairly, American baseball player
1938 - Wieger Mensonides, Dutch swimmer
1938 - Eiko Ishioka, Tokyo, Japan, Costume Designer (Academy Award, Bram Stoker’s Dracula), (d.
           2012)
1939 - Phillip Adams, Australian broadcaster and journalist
1941 - Joseph Whipp, American actor
1942 - Richard Stoltzman, Omaha Nebraska, clarinetist (Tashi)
1942 - Billy Smith, Australian rugby league footballer
1943 - Bruce Taylor, cricketer (big-hitting NZ all-rounder 1965-73)
1943 - Christine McVie, Lancashire, rock vocalist (Fleetwood Mac-Got A Hold on Me)
1943 - Ernie Anastos, Nashua NH, news anchor (WCBS, WABC)
1943 - Paul Silas, NBAer (Boston Celtic, Seattle SuperSonic)
1943 - Walter Murch, American film editor
1944 - Bill McCollum, (Rep-R-Florida, 1981- )
1944 - Denise Nicholas, Detroit Mich, actress (Room 222, Baby I'm Back)
1945 - Dimitar Penev, Bulgaria soccer player/union coach (Lokomotiv/CSKA)
1945 - Leopoldo Mastelloni, Italian actor
1946 - Graham Roope, cricketer (England batsman in 21 Tests 1972-78)
1946 - Sian Barbara Allen, Reading PA, actress (Scream Pretty Peggy)
1947 - Pollamani Krishnamurthy, Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1971 WI tour)
1947 - Richard C. McCarty, American professor of psychology
1948 - Richard Simmons, exercise guru (Deal-a-Meal)
1948 - Walter Egan, NYC, rock vocalist (Not Shy, Fundamental Roll)
1948 - Ben Burtt, American sound designer
1948 - Jay Thomas [Jon Thomas Terrell], Kermit, Texas, American actor and comedian (Cheers,
           Murphy Brown)
1949 - John Wetton, rock vocalist/bassist (Asia, King Crisom)
1949 - Rick Hendrick, American NASCAR team owner, and car dealer.
1950 - Eric Carr, rock drummer (Kiss-Beth)
1951 - Cheryl Ladd, Huron SD, actress (Charlie's Angels, Purple Hearts)
1951 - Jamey Sheridan, Pasadena California, actor (Another World)
1951 - Brian Grazer, American film producer
1951 - Sylvia Sass, Hungarian soprano
1952 - Liz Mitchell, Jamaica, rock vocalist (Boney M)
1952 - Phil Kramer, Youngtown Oh, rocker (Iron Butterfly)
1952 - Voja Antonić, Serbian inventor and writer
1952 - Philip Taylor Kramer, Bass Guitar Player (d. 1995)
1954 - Wolfgang Dremmler, German footballer
1956 - Mel Harris, [Mary Ellen], Bethlehem Pa, actress (Hope-30 Something)
1956 - Mario Soto, Dominican baseball player
1957 - Buddy Foster, actor (Hondo, Mayberry RFD)
1957 - Rick Douglas Husband, Amarillo Texas, USAF mjr/astronaut
1958 - Tonya Lee Williams, Canadian actress
1959 - Judi Adams, Phoenix Az, archer (Olympics-1980, 96)
1959 - Rolonda Watts, talk show hostess (Rolanda)
1960 - Corynne Charby, French model, actress and singer
1961 - Bruce Braman, Greene NY, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1962 - Grecia Colmenares, Venezuela, actress (Esmeralda, Los Crinimales)
1962 - Stein Jorgesen, Los Angeles California, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1962 - Julio César Chávez, Mexican boxer
1962 - Dean Wilkins, English football manager
1963 - Norman Alvis, Fair Oaks California, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1963 - Thierry Tulasne, France, tennis star
1964 - Judi Evans Luciano, Montebello, actress (Paulina Cory-Another World)
1964 - Gaby Roslin, English television presenter
1965 - Eric Cullen, actor (Huntington Tower)
1965 - Michael Stewart, NFL safety (Miami Dolphins)
1965 - Robin Wilson, rocker (Gin Blossoms)
1965 - Russ Bertram, Indianapolis Ind, diver (Olympics-96)
1965 - Sanjay Manjrekar, cricketer (son of Vijay Indian middle-order batsman)
1966 - Allegra Curtis, London, model/daughter of Christine Kaufmann
1966 - Annabel Croft, England, tennis star
1966 - Peter Shorts, CFL tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1967 - Bruny Surin, Cap Haitien Haiti, Canadian 4X100m sprinter (Oly-gold-96)
1967 - Joan Pitcock, Fresno CA, LPGA golfer (1995 Standard Register PING-3rd)
1967 - Richard Herring, English comedian
1967 - John Petrucci, American guitar player (Dream Theater)
1968 - Catherine Plewinski, French swimmer
1969 - Alan Mullally, cricketer (England left-arm pace bowler 1996)
1969 - Sabine Hack, Ulm Germany, tennis star (1995 Jakarta)
1969 - Jesse Pintado, American guitarist (Napalm Death) (d. 2006)
1970 - Chad Brown, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1970 - Jaason Simmons, actor (Baywatch)
1970 - Jerry Ostroski, NFL guard (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Markus Thomas, WLAF running back (Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Marsha Guialdo, San Juan Trinidad, 100m hurdler
1970 - Brian Lee Byung-Hun, South Korean actor
1970 - Juba Kalamka, American artist/activist
1971 - Kristi Tsuya Yamaguchi, Hayward California, figure skater (Olympic-Gold-92)
1972 - Colin Quiney, CFL tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 - Travis Best, Springfield, Massachusetts, American basketball player (1995-2002 Indiana
           Pacers)
1972 - Brett Reed, American musician (Rancid)
1972 - Jake Wood, English actor
1973 - Christian Vieri, Italian footballer
1974 - Stelios Giannakopoulos, Greek footballer
1974 - Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer (Within Temptation)
1974 - Gregory Helms, American professional wrestler
1975 - Cheyenne Jackson, American actor and singer
1976 - Tracie Spencer, rocker
1976 - Anna Friel, British actress
1977 - Brock Lesnar, American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
1977 - Neil Harris, English footballer
1977 - Steve Howey, American actor
1978 - Claire Chitham, New Zealand actress
1978 - Topher Grace, American actor
1978 - Michelle Rodriguez, American actress
1979 - Nikos Barlos, Greek basketball player
1980 - Tina Tharp, Jacksonville Fla, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1980 - Johanna Klum, German TV presenter
1981 - Adrienne Camp, South African singer/songwriter
1982 - Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer
1983 - Megumi Kawamura, Japanese volleyballer
1983 - Munaf Patel, Indian cricketer
1984 - Michael McGovern, Northern Irish footballer
1984 - Gareth Gates, British singer
1985 - Luiz Ejlli, Albanian singer
1985 - Natasha Poly, Russian supermodel
1986 - JP Pietersen, South African rugby union footballer
1986 - Krystal Forscutt, Australian model/reality TV contestant
1988 - Melissa O'Neil, Canadian singer
1988 - Inbee Park, South Korean golfer
1991 - Erik Per Sullivan, American actor

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This Day in History for 12th July


Famous Deaths

1st US Secretary of Treasury
Alexander Hamilton (1804)


783 - Bertha "with the great feet", wife of French king Pippin III, dies
1073 - Johannes Gualbertus, Italian monk/saint, dies
1429 - John [Jean C] Gerson, Fren theologist (Theologica mystic), dies at 65
1441 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (b. 1394)
1450 - Jack Cade, slain in a revolt against British King Henry VI
1536 - Desiderius Erasmus, humanist/priest (Novum instrumentum omne), dies
1545 - Maria Manuela van Portugal, niece of Spanish king Philip II, dies
1575 - Renée/Renata de France, duchess of Ferara/daughter of Louis XII, dies
1584 - Steven Borough, English explorer (b. 1525)
1633 - Simon Besler, composer, dies at 49
1640 - Henry Casimir I, count of Nassau-Dietz, dies
1664 - Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (b. 1610)
1682 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620)
1693 - John Ashby, English admiral
1712 - Richard Cromwell, English Lord Protector (1658-59), dies at 85
1742 - Evaristo EF dall' Abaco, Ital cellist/composer, dies on 67th birthday
1749 - Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, Governor of New France
1773 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer, dies at 76
1804 - Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in pistol
           duel near Weehawken
1839 - Christian Traugott Tag, composer, dies at 62
1844 - Charles-Louis Panckoucke, French publisher, dies at 63
1845 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (b. 1808)
1849 - Dolley Madison, 4th First Lady Of The United States (b. 1768)
1874 - Fritz Reuter, writer, dies at 63
1882 - Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer, dies at 44
1883 - Hermann Zopff, composer, dies at 57
1897 - Felix Godefroid, composer, dies at 78
1898 - Paul Voulet, French captain/mass murderer in Senegal, dies
1899 - Esquire Mauritius A de Savornin Lohman, gov of Suriname, dies at 67
1902 - Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway), dies at 74
1906 - Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer, dies at 70
1910 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator (b. 1887)
1916 - Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture, dies at 52
1917 - Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp merchant/forger, dies
1918 - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b. 1864)
1926 - Charles Wood, composer, dies at 40
1929 - Robert Henri, US painter (The Eight), dies at 63
1933 - Willem H Drucker, lawyer, dies at 45
1934 - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and industrialist (b. 1877)
1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, French officier (Dreyfus Affair), dies
1945 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (b. 1871)
1947 - Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
1949 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
1950 - Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1865)
1953 - Joseph Jongen, Belgian composer, dies at 79
1953 - Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen, composer, dies at 79
1956 - Maurice Lippens, Belgian governor of Congo (1921-23), dies at 80
1961 - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (b. 1879)
1962 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907)
1964 - William Solomon, South African cricketer (Test 1898-99), dies
1966 - D T Suzuki, Zen Buddhism scholar, dies in Tokyo Japan at 96
1971 - Yvon Robert, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1914)
1973 - Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Wolfman), dies after long illness at 66
1976 - Ted Mack, TV host (Original Amateur Hour), dies at 72
1977 - Ed Holmes, actor (Growing Paynes, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 66
1977 - Frantisek Suchy, composer, dies at 75
1979 - Kalervo Tuukkanen, composer, dies at 69
1979 - Minnie Ripperton, [Andrea Davis], singer (Lovin' You), dies at 30
1980 - John W Davis, Pres (WV State college), dies at 92
1981 - Ben Seijes, historian (WW II), dies at 73
1982 - Kenneth More, Brit actor (Genevieve), dies of Parkinson disease at 67
1983 - Chris Wood, rocker (Traffic), dies at 39
1988 - Joshua Logan, Broadway producer, dies at 79 of palsy
1988 - Raymond W Goldsmith, US economist, dies at 83
1990 - Richard R Briggs, dies after short illness at 71
1990 - João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (b. 1917)
1992 - Albert Pierrepont, last British executioner (433 men/17 women), dies
1992 - Reginald Beck, English film editor (Robbery, Accident, Boom), dies
1993 - Gusti Huber, Mother of Bibi Besch, dies of heart failure at 78
1993 - Lily van Lugt Melsert, actress (Tomorrow will be better), dies at 91
1993 - Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (b. 1970)
1994 - David Malcolm Lewis, expert in Greek Epigraphy, dies at 56
1994 - Henk Terlingen, radio/TV-host (Sport in Image), dies at 52
1994 - James Bysse Joll, historian, dies at 76
1995 - Alan David Marks, pianist/composer, dies at 49
1995 - Earl Coleman, singer, dies at 69
1995 - Ernie Furtado, bassist, dies at 72
1995 - Michael Clegg, naturalist/broadcaster, dies at 62
1996 - Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar Naturalist, dies at 84
1996 - Gottfried von Einem, composer, dies at 78
1996 - John Boon, publisher, dies at 79
1996 - John Chancellor, news anchor (VOA, NBC), dies at 68
1996 - John William Chancellor, journalist, dies at 68
1996 - Jonathan Melvoin, keyboardist (Smashing Pumpkins), dies of heorin OD
1996 - Nazar Mohammad, cricketer (Pakistan's 1st five Tests 1952-53), dies
1996 - William Darling, journalist, dies at 73
1997 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian musician (b. 1959)
1998 - Serge Lemoyne, French Canadian artist (b. 1941)
1998 - Jimmy Driftwood, American folk songwriter and musician (b. 1907)
1999 - Bill Owen, British actor (b. 1914)
2000 - Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II
           (b. 1908)
2003 - Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907)
2004 - Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1918)
2005 - John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, Chief executive of British Airways since its privitisation
           (b. 1917)
2007 - Stan Zemanek, Australian radio personality (b.1947)
2007 - Mr. Butch, Iconic Boston street figure (b. 1951)
2007 - Robert Burås, Norwegian guitar player (b. 1975)
2008 - Tony Snow, former speechwriter for Presidents George H.W. Bush and press secretary for
           George W. Bush (b. 1955)
2008 - Bobby Murcer, center fielder for the New York Yankees,San Francisco Giants, and Chicago
           Cubs from 1965-1983(b. 1946)
2010 - Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer (b. 1939)
2010 - Paulo Moura, Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist (b. 1932)
2011 - Sherwood Schwartz, American Television Writer (b. 1916)

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This Day in History for 13th July


Historical Events

                                   
Captain/Explorer James Cook                 Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck                   Baseball Great Babe Ruth

                                   
Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra                      US President John F. Kennedy       Hall of Fame rocker Eddie Van Halen


NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal
OJ Simpson


574 - John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1174 - William I of Scotland, key rebel in Revolt of 1173-1174, captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to
           Henry II of England.
1522 - Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht
1558 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the
           French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
1568 - Dean of St Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer
1573 - Haarlem surrenders after 7 months to Spanish army
1643 - Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies
1645 - Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar of Russia
1657 - Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
1668 - Van Marco Cesti's opera "Il Pomo d'Oro," premieres in Vienna
1700 - Russian-Turkish peace
1772 - Capt James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas
1787 - Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)
1787 - Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop
1794 - Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria
1832 - Source of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft)
1836 - US patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels
1837 - Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace
1851 - John F Loudon discovers tin on East Indian Island of Billiton
1854 - US forces shell & burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
1854 - In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by
           Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.
1861 - Battle of Corrick's Ford, VA (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western
           Virginia CS20 US53
1862 - Battle of Murfreesboro, TN (Forrest's Raid) US895 CS150
1863 - Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die
1863 - Battle of Bayou La Fourche, LA
1863 - Battle of Tupelo, MS (Harrisburg) [->JUL 15] US648 CS700
1863 - Rebellion at Morgan's, Ohio [->JUL 26]
1864 - Early retreats from Washington City back to Shenandoah Valley
1865 - Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man"
1865 - P T Barnum's museum burns down
1868 - Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana
1870 - King Wilhelm of Prussia sends "Emser Depeche" on Bismarck
1876 - 29th Postmaster General: James N Tyner of Ind takes office
1878 - Congress of Berlin discussing division of African colonies ends
1878 - Treaty of Berlin amended terms of Treaty of San Stefano
1882 - 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
1896 - Ed Delahanty, becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 4 HRs in a game
1898 - SF Ferry Building at foot of Market St opens
1900 - Phillies beat Pittsburgh 23-8
1917 - Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal
1919 - Race riots in Longview & Gregg counties Texas
1919 - Chicago White Sox pitcher Carl Mays walks off mound blaming teammates for lack of support
           afield
1923 - Draft law passes
1923 - The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally
           reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
1924 - Albin Stenroos wins Olympic marathon (2:41:22.6)
1925 - French occupation force begins evacuating country
1926 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:20.4)
1930 - 1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay
1930 - Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
1934 - Babe Ruth hits HR #700 (against Detroit)
1935 - Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichskulturkammer
1935 - US-Russian commerce treaty takes effect
1936 - 112°F (44°C), Mio, Michigan (state record)
1936 - 114°F (46°C), Wisconsin Dells, Wisc (state record)
1938 - Kroller-Muller museum opens in Holland
1939 - Frank Sinatra made his recording debut
1941 - 24th PGA Championship: Vic Ghezzi at Cherry Hills CC Denver
1941 - Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder
1941 - World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski
           ustanak).
1942 - 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis
1942 - German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages
1942 - SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland
1943 - 11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
1943 - Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000
           tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany
1944 - Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated
1946 - "Tidbits of 1946" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 8 performances
1948 - 15th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-2 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
1949 - Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics
1950 - Doctors remove 7 bone fragments from Ted Williams elbow
1950 - René Pleven forms French government
1954 - 21st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
1954 - Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a batter, he threw out
           Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9
1956 - WCBI TV channel 4 in Columbus, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 - 13th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1958 - 87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham
1958 - Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1960 - 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
1960 - KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA
1960 - US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate
1962 - 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea
1962 - 91st British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Early Wynn, wins his 300th & last game at 43
1965 - 36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minn
1965 - All star MVP: Juan Marichal (SF Giant)
1966 - Richard Speck, murders 8 nurses in Chicago
1967 - Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die
1968 - 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland
1968 - French government-Couve de Murville forms
1969 - Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
1969 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Ladies' Supertest Golf Open
1970 - Building begins of Amsterdam metro
1971 - 42nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-4 at Tiger Stadium, Detroit
1971 - All star MVP: Frank Robinson (Baltimore Orioles)
1972 - LA Rams (Irsay) & Baltimore Colts (Rosenbloom) swap owners
1973 - Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating KC 5-0
1973 - Hector de Campora resigns as pres of Argentina
1974 - 103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham
1974 - India's 1st one-day international (v England, Headingley)
1975 - 8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record)
1975 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1976 - 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Phila
1976 - All star MVP: George Foster (Cin Reds)
1976 - Court martial begins in USSR for Valeri Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct)
1976 - Last day of Test Cricket for Brian Close, aged 45
1977 - NYC experiences 25 hr black-out
1978 - Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR
1978 - Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years
1978 - BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"
1978 - Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor Pres by chairman Henry Ford II
1978 - Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp
1978 - Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida
1979 - Calif's Nolan Ryan & Boston's Steve Renko each lose no-hitters in 9th
1979 - George Harrison releases "Faster"
1980 - 35th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - 53rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Montreal
1982 - All star MVP: Dave Conception (Cin Reds)
1982 - Train crash at Aalter Belgium, 5 killed
1984 - Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert
1984 - Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows
1984 - Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m
1985 - "Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief
1985 - NY Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) & Elston Howard (32) uniforms
1987 - Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a
           sound alike voice for their TV commercials
1988 - 9th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1988 - Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan
1988 - Sting performs his 1st Rain Forest benefit concert
1991 - Bob Milacki & 3 other Balt Oriole pitchers no-hit A's 2-0
1993 - 64th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-3 at Camden Yards, Baltimore
1993 - All star MVP: Kirby Puckett (Minnesota Twins)
1994 - Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1994 - OJ Simpson (charged with murder) gives hair samples for testing
1995 - Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), launches
1996 - Cigar wins record 16th straight win, (ties Citation in 1940)
1997 - 15th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Larry Gilbert
1997 - 52nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Alison Nicholas
1997 - David Toms wins Quad City Golf Classic at 265
1997 - Ford Senior Players Golf Championship
1997 - Indonesian ferry sinks, killing at least 77
2011 - Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring
          130.
2012 - China's economic growth drops to 7.6%, its lowest level for three years
2012 - 19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa
2012 - Financially troubled Scottish football club, Rangers, is voted into the third division

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This Day in History for 13th July


Famous Weddings

1925 - Film producer and co-founder of Walt Disney Productions Walt Disney (23) weds Lillian 
           Bounds (26) at Lewiston's Episcopal Church of the Nativity in Lewiston, Idaho
1949 - Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Jones (30) weds "Rebecca" film producer David O. Selznick
           (47) in Beverly Hills, California
2008 - American Pie actor Jason Biggs (30) weds actress Jenny Mollen (28) at Honig Winery and
           Vineyard in Napa, California

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This Day in History for 13th July


Famous Divorces

1914 - British poet and writer David Herbert (D. H.) Lawrence (28) marries Frieda Weekley (34) after
           obtaining Frieda's divorce from her 1st husband

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This Day in History for 13th July


Famous Birthdays

                 
Confederate General/                                 Actor Harrison Ford (1942)
KKK Grand Wizard
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821)


100 BC - Julius Caesar, Rome, Roman military and political leader, (d. 44 BC), (or July 12)
1396 - Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
1527 - John Dee, London, alchemist/astrologer/mathematician (d. 1609)
1579 - Arthur Dee, English physician (d. 1651)
1590 - Clement X, [Emilio Altieri], Italy, Pope (1670-76)
1607 - Václav Hollar, Bohemian-born artist (d. 1677)
1608 - Ferdinand III, King of Hungary/Bohemia/German Emperor (1637-57)
1745 - Robert Calder, British naval officer (d. 1818)
1770 - Alexander Balashov, Russian general (d. 1837)
1773 - Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies about Art)
1776 - Caroline of Baden, queen of Bavaria (d. 1841)
1793 - John Clare, Northamptonshire peasant poet (Shepard's Calendar)
1798 - Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1860)
1815 - James Alexander Seddon, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1880
1816 - Gustav Freytag, writer
1821 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, Chapel Hill Tennessee, slave trader/Confed lt-gen/KKK Grand
           Wizard, (d. 1877)
1826 - Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (Reaction of Cannizzaro)
1841 - Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (d. 1918)
1850 - Hipolito Irigoyen, president Argentina (1916-22, 1928-30)
1858 - Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)
1859 - Sydney Webb, England, writer/husband of Beatrice Potter
1863 - Emma Mary Wooley, educator (Mary Anna Wells)
1864 - John Jacob Astor IV, American entrepreneur (d. 1912)
1872 - Alfons van de Perre, Flemish physician/MP
1877 - Karl Erb, German tenor
1883 - [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Potasch & Perlemoer)
1884 - Francis B Young, British physician/writer (White Ladies)
1884 - John Francis Larchet, composer
1888 - Fernando A N de Seabra Pessoa, Portuguese poet (Mensagem)
1888 - Jean Murat, Pergneux France, actor (Eternal Rain, Carnival Flanders)
1889 - Louise of Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden (d. 1965)
1891 - Franco Casavola, composer
1894 - Isaak Babel, Rus short-story writer/dramatist (Red Calvary) [or 6/13]
1895 - Sidney Blackmer, Salisbury NC, actor (Ted Roosevelt in 12 movies)
1896 - Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992)
1898 - Martin David, German/Neth law historian
1898 - Julius Schreck, member of the Nazi party (d. 1936)
1900 - JH Scheps, Dutch 2nd-Member of parliament (social democratic)
1900 - George Lewis, American musician (d. 1969)
1901 - Mickey "Toy Bulldog" Walker, welterweight boxing champ (1922-26)
1901 - Tillie Ehrlich Lewin, leading industrialist (tomato queen)
1901 - Eric Portman, Yorkshire England, actor (Naked Edge, Canterbury Tale), (d. 1969)
1903 - Kenneth Clark, English art historian (d. 1983)
1905 - Alfredo M. Santos, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War
           II hero (d. 1990)
1906 - Harry Sosnik, Chicago, orchestra leader (Jack Carter Show, Your Hit Parade)
1909 - David Branson, composer
1909 - Paul Constantinescu, composer
1909 - Washington Castro, composer
1913 - Carolina Gisolf, Holland, high jumper (Olympic-silver-1928)
1913 - Dave Garroway, Schnectady NY, TV host (Today Show)
1913 - Ladislav Holoubek, composer
1913 - Walter Landor, designer
1913 - Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Hellerup Denmark, Danish shipping magnate, (d. 2012)
1920 - Hans Blumenberg, philosopher
1920 - Bill Towers, English footballer (d. 2000)
1921 - Charles Scribner Jr, music publisher (Scribner)
1921 - Ernest Gold, composer
1921 - Git Gay, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2007)
1921 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian poltitician (d. 2005)
1922 - Anchor Jorgenson, premier of Denmark (1972-82)
1922 - Lois Kibbee, actress (Edge of Night)
1922 - Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
1923 - Sudie Bond, Louisville Ky, actress (Flo, Temperature Rising)
1924 - George Handy, horse trainer
1924 - Carlo Bergonzi, Italian singer
1925 - Hilary Grover Barratt Brown, conservationist
1926 - Meyer Kupferman, NYC, composer (In Fimi Tres)
1927 - Karl I Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor
1927 - Simone Veil, Pres European parliament (France)
1928 - Bob Crane, Waterbury Ct, actor (Col Hogan-Hogan's Heroes, Donna Reed)
1928 - Donal Michalsky, composer
1928 - Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (d. 2000)
1928 - Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz bassist
1929 - Red Terrill Jr, horse trainer
1931 - Bill Moor, Toledo Oh, actor (Hanky Panky)
1932 - Per Norgard, composer
1932 - Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist
1932 - Antonio Roma, Buenos Aires, Argentina, football goalkeeper (42 caps), (d. 2013)
1933 - David M Storey, British rugby player/playwright (Home)
1933 - Patsy Byrne, Ashford England, actress (Stealing Heaven)
1934 - Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 8, 10)
1934 - Ivor Mendonca, WI cricket wicket-keeper (2 Tests 1962)
1934 - Roger Reynolds, composer
1934 - Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, dramatist (Road, Kongi's Harvest-Nobel 1986)
1935 - Jack F Kemp, (Rep-R-NY)/right-wing/US Secretary of Housing (1989-93)
1936 - Albert Ayler, American musician (d. 1970)
1937 - Charles Coody, Stamford TX, PGA golfer (1971 Masters)
1940 - Patrick Stewart, England, actor (Picard-Star Trek Next Generation)
1940 - Paul Prudhomme, cajun chef (K-Paul)
1941 - Graeme Corling, Australian cricket fast bowler (1964 England tour)
1941 - Jacques Perrin, Paris France, actress (Cinema Paradiso, 317th Platoon)
1941 - Lut[guard] Tomsin, actress/director (Knock on the Door)
1941 - Robert Forster, Rochester NY, actor (Lady in Red, Alligator)
1942 - Giancarlo Giannini, Spezia Italy,actor (NY Stories, Sensual Man)
1942 - Harrison Ford, Chicago Illinois, actor (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Frantic)
1942 - Jay Uzzell, rocker (Corsairs)
1942 - Jim McGuinn, rocker
1942 - Rod Chandler, (Rep-R-WA, 1983- )
1942 - Roger McGuinn, guitarist (Byrds-Turn Turn Turn, Mr Tambourine Man)
1942 - Stephen Jo Bladd, Boston Ma, rocker (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1943 - Danny Lockin, Lanai, Hawaii, actor/dancer (Hello Dolly), (d. 1977)
1944 - Eric Freeman, Australian cricket pace bowler (late 60's)
1944 - Erno Rubik, Budapest, inventor (Rubik's cube)
1945 - Ashley "Rowdy" Mallett, Australian cricket off-spinner (1968-80)
1945 - Jean-Pierre E Plooij, Dutch writer (Duvelsmoer)
1946 - Cheech Marin, [Richard], comedian (Cheech & Chong-Up in Smoke)
1946 - Michael Shea, US, sci-fi author (Fat Face, Polyphemus)
1948 - Alf Hansen, Norway, double sculls (Olympic-gold-1976)
1948 - Daphne Maxwell Reid, actress (Frank's Place)
1948 - Don Sweet, Vancouver, CFL, NFL place kicker (Montreal, Green Bay)
1948 - Linda Ann Simon, airline capt
1948 - Robert Underwood, (Rep-D-Guam)
1948 - Ronald K Machtley, (Rep-R-Rhode Island)
1948 - Tony Kornheiser, American sports journalist
1949 - Helena Fibingerova, Czech, shot putter (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1950 - George D "Pinky" Nelson, Iowa, PhD/astro (STS 41C, STS 61-C, STS-26)
1950 - Ma Ying-jeou, President of the Republic of China, former mayor of Taipei, former chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT)
1951 - Didi Conn, [Bernstein], Bkln NY, actress (Denise-Benson, Grease)
1951 - Rob Bishop, American politician
1953 - Larry Gomes, dependable WI cricket left-handed batsman (1976-87)
1953 - Mila Mulroney, wife of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney
1954 - David Thompson, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Seattle Supersonics)
1954 - Louise Mandrell, Corpus Christi Tx, country singer (Mandrell Sisters)
1954 - Ray "Candles" Bright, Australian cricket slow-left armer (1977-86)
1954 - Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer
1954 - Rick Chartraw, American ice hockey player
1956 - Mark "The Animal' Mendoza [Glickman], Long Island, New York, American bassist (Twisted
           Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It)
1956 - Claude Giroux, Canadian midget wrestler
1957 - Cameron Crowe, director (Jerry Maguire, Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
1957 - Phil Margera, father of Bam Margera
1958 - Joy Scott, jockey
1959 - Danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL, Little Man Tate, Limit Up)
1960 - Ian Hislop, English writer, editor of Private Eye
1961 - Anders Jarryd, Lidkoping Sweden, tennis star
1961 - Lawrence Donegan, rock bassist
1961 - Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager
1961 - Tim Watson, Australian rules footballer
1962 - Tom Kenny, American voice actor
1962 - Rhonda Vincent, American singer
1963 - Anthony Webb, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1963 - Bob Carpenter, Beverly, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)
1963 - Bobby Rock, Houston Texas, rock drummer (Nelson-Love & Affection)
1963 - Martin Meza, jockey
1963 - Spud Webb, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1964 - Utpal Chatterjee, cricketer (Bengal slow left-arm bowler)
1966 - Myong Hui Choe, North Korea, gymnist (Olympic-1980)
1966 - Gerald Levert, American singer (d. 2006)
1967 - Pat Rapp, Jennings LA, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1967 - Tony Massenburg, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1967 - Benny Benassi, Italian disc jockey
1967 - Dean Barnett, American Conservative blogger
1968 - Kai Bjorn, CFL offensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1968 - Silke Meier, Wiesbaden Germany, tennis star (1994 Futures-Bad Gogging)
1968 - Robert Gant, American actor
1968 - Christian Taylor, British screenwriter
1969 - Ewan Beaton, Winnipeg Manitoba, 60 kg judoka (Olympics-9-92, 96)
1969 - Jamie Walter, actor (Pirate Island)
1969 - Kim Braatz, Santa Ana California, female outfielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1969 - Richard Roelofsen, soccer player (Vitesse/MVV)
1969 - Kakhi Kakhiashvili, Georgian-born Greek weightlifter
1969 - Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan politician and political scientist
1970 - Steven J Brown, Hackensack NJ, guitarist (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
1971 - Scott Brodie, St Catharines Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Clint Sodowsky, Ponca City OK, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1972 - Sean Waltman, American wrestler
1973 - Gavin Hassett, Saint John New Brunswick, rower (Olympics-96)
1973 - Ariel Silvio Zárate, Argentine footballer
1974 - Jean ..., Miss Suriname 1993
1974 - Deborah Cox, Canadian R&B singer
1974 - Jarno Trulli, Italian race car driver
1975 - Danni Boatwright, Tonganoxie, Kansas, American model/beauty queen (Miss Teen USA 1992
           2nd runner-up)
1976 - Al Santos, American model and actor
1976 - Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Ashley Scott, American actress
1978 - Ryan Ludwick, American baseball player
1979 - Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer
1980 - Lori Fredrickson, Aurora Ill, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
1982 - Joost van den Broek, Dutch keyboard player (After Forever)
1982 - Shin-Soo Choo, South Korean baseball player
1982 - Simon Clist, English footballer
1982 - Yadier Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
1982 - Christopher Bauman, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1983 - Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdling athlete
1983 - Kristof Beyens, Belgian athlete
1985 - Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
1988 - Steven R. McQueen, American Actor
1989 - Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1990 - Matt Weinberg, American actor
1992 - Elise Matthysen, Belgian swimmer
1992 - Dylan Patton, American actor
1994 - Ridge Canipe, American actor
2305 - Jean Loc Picard, fictional capt on Star Trek Next Generation