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This Day in History for 17th July


Historical Events

                                   
English Monarch                                      Empress of Russia                                 Baseball Great Babe Ruth
Queen Elizabeth I                                     Catherine the Great

                                   
Soviet Union Premier                                American Baseball Player                       Rocker/Beatle John Lennon
Joseph Stalin                                                  Roger Maris

                                   
Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr                  US President & Actor                               Pop Singer & Beatle
                                                               Ronald Reagan                                           Paul McCartney


Golfer Tiger Woods


180 - 6 inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. Earliest record of
         Christianity in that part of the world.
561 - John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I
855 - St Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1054 - Emperor Henry III crowns his son Henry IV king
1070 - Arnulf III the Hapless becomes earl of Flanders
1203 - Venetianen conquer Constantinople, emperor Alexius III flees
1245 - Pope bans emperor Frederik II Hohenstaufen for 3rd time
1393 - Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria
1429 - Dauphin crowned king of France
1453 - 1st battle at Castillon: French beat English troops
1473 - Charles the Stout conquerors Nijmegen
1509 - Venice recaptures Padua
1549 - Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium
1552 - Siena drives Spanish troops out of Verdun
1583 - Spanish & Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk
1585 - English secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against queen Elizabeth I
1596 - At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya
1603 - Sir Walter Ralegh arrested
1686 - A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the
           formation of an 'evangelical' league of defence, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae',
           against the Catholic League.
1712 - England, Portugal & France sign ceasefire [or 19th]
1727 - Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor
1740 - Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV
1762 - Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III
1774 - Capt Cook arrives at New Hebrides (Vanuata)
1775 - 1st military hospital approved
1788 - Russian fleet destroys Swedish
1791 - Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on
           a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing
           as many as 50 people.
1794 - The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated
1794 - Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
1815 - Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British
           forces.
1821 - Spain cedes Florida to US
1841 - British humor magazine "Punch" 1st published
1850 - Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
1856 - The Great Train Wreck of 1856 between Camp Hill and Fort Washington, Pennsylvania kills
           over 60 people.
1861 - Congress authorizes paper money
1861 - Manassas, VA Gen Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, Gen Johnston is
           ordered to Manassas
1862 - Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition
1862 - US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers
1862 - United army officially divides corps
1862 - R John Hunt Morgan:Cynthiana, KY CS24 US17 Skirmish at Columbia, TN
1863 - Battle of Honey Springs - largest battle in Indian Territory
1864 - CSA President Davis replaces Gen Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
1866 - Italian fleet under adm Persano capture Austrian Fort Lissa
1867 - 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
1879 - 1st railroad opens in Hawaii
1890 - Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape colony
1893 - Arthur Shrewsbury is 1st to score 1,000 runs in Test Cricket
1897 - 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon
1898 - Spanish American War - Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba
1900 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson begins career losing to Bkln Superbas
1902 - Orioles forfeit to St Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their
           franchise back to the AL
1911 - Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army
1912 - IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
1914 - Giants outfielder Red Murray is knocked unconscious by lightning after catching a flyball,
           ending 21 inning game, Giants win 3-1
1915 - Italian offensive at Isonzo
1917 - British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor
1918 - Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings
1919 - Finland adopts constitution
1919 - Yanks 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play
1922 - Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
1922 - Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year
1923 - Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
1924 - St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1925 - Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
1926 - Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4)
1929 - USSR drops diplomatic relations with China
1933 - After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica
           crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
1934 - Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland
1935 - Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix"
1936 - Carl Hubbell begins winning streak, beating Pittsburgh 6-0
1936 - Military uprising under Gen Franco/begins Spanish civil war
1938 - Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland
1939 - 22nd PGA Championship: Henry Picard at Pomonok CC Flushing NY
1941 - NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland
1942 - 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15
1942 - Estimated 34.5" (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pa (state record)
1942 - Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde
1944 - 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322
1944 - Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland
1945 - Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting
1948 - Israeli army captures Nazareth
1948 - Proclamation of constitution of Republic of (South) Korea
1950 - Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka
1951 - King Leopold III of Belgium gives up throne to son Boudouin I
1951 - Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts is chartered.
1952 - Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh premier
1954 - 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
1954 - Construction begins on Disneyland. . .
1954 - Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany
1955 - Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County
1955 - Arco Idaho becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
1955 - Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
1958 - King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan/Iraqi federation
1958 - Peter Shaffer's "Five Finger Exercise," premieres in London
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak
1959 - 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis
1959 - Dr Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old)
1959 - Tibet abolishes serfdom
1959 - River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)
1961 - John Chancellor becomes news anchor of Today Show
1961 - Roger Maris loses a HR (of his 61) due to a rain-out in 5th
1962 - East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall
1962 - Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)
1962 - Senate rejects medicare for aged
1962 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Telstar soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
1964 - Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph)
1964 - Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (ABC) begins
1966 - "It's a Bird... It's Superman" closes at Alvin NYC after 129 perfs
1966 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1966 - Indians set club record by hitting 7 HR in 15-2 win over Detroit
1966 - Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
1966 - Pioneer 7 launched
1967 - Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act
1967 - Race riots in Cairo Illinois
1968 - Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London
1968 - Revolt in Iraq
1970 - 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC
1971 - Kathy Whitworth/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Four-Ball Golf Championship
1972 - 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico
1973 - Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees
1974 - 1st quadrophonic studio in UK is open by Moody Blues
1974 - Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 (Cesar Geronimo)
1974 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 - John Lennon is ordered to leave US in 60 days
1975 - Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make 1st US/USSR linkup in space
1975 - Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce
1976 - 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal
1976 - Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor
1976 - The opening of the Summer Olympics is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New
           Zealand team.
1977 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1978 - NY Yank manager Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson fight in dug out
1978 - Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend him
1979 - 50th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-6 at Kingdome, Seattle
1979 - All star MVP: Dave Parker (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1979 - David Gower 200* in England score of 5-633 v India at Edgbaston
1979 - Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza flees to Miami
1979 - Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo
1979 - Simone Veil becomes chairman of European Parliament
1980 - Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president
1980 - Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president
1980 - Zenko Suzuki becomes premier of Japan
1981 - "This is Burlesque" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 28 perfs
1981 - Humbar Estuary Bridge, UK, world's longest span (1.4 km), opens
1981 - Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut
1981 - Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse 114 die, 200 injured
1981 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 - Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23 year old photographers, for
           murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
1983 - 112th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 275 at Royal Birkdale
1983 - 1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Phila Stars 24-22)
1983 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic
1984 - Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France
1984 - Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
1986 - Emmy 13th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 7th time
1987 - "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo
1987 - 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx)
1987 - Don Mattingly is 2nd to hit HRs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8 )
1987 - Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for 1st time
1987 - Iran & France breaks diplomatic relations
1988 - 117th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots 273 at Royal Lytham
1988 - 4 Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute
1988 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 100m woman's record (10.49)
1988 - Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103°F (39°C)
1989 - 1st Test flight of US stealth-bomber
1989 - Paul McCartney releases "This One"
1989 - Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires after 1,070 appearances
1990 - Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
1990 - NY Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside park homer
1990 - Minnesota Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red
           Sox 1-0
1992 - Slovak parliament asks for self rule
1993 - Graeme Obree bicycles world record time, 51,596 km
1994 - 123rd British Golf Open: Nick Price shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland
1994 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1994 - Brazil beats Italy in a shoot out, for their 4th soccer world cup
1994 - French youngster (4) becomes Buddhist Lama Tulkou Kalou Rinpoche
1994 - Hulk Hogan beats Ric Flair to win WCW wrestling championship
1995 - Forbes Mag announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world ($12.9B)
1996 - 230 people die when TWA 800 crashes outside of NYC
1996 - Yank John Weteland blows save after record 24 consecutive saves
1996 - TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747
           explodes, killing all 230 on board.
1997 - STS 94 (Columbia 23), lands
1998 - Russia buries Tsar Nicholas II & family, 80 years after they died
2005 - Tiger Woods wins his 10th major winning The British Open Championship by 5 strokes.
           Woods becomes only the second golfer, after Jack Nicklaus, to win each major more than
           once
2007 - TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo.
           This is Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths.
2009 - Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4
           foreigners.
2012 - 17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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This Day in History for 17th July


Famous Weddings

1954 - Master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era
           Groucho Marx (63) weds actress Eden Hartford (24)
1988 - NHL ice hockey star player Wayne Gretzky (27) weds actress Janet Jones (27) at St. Joseph's
           Basilica in Edmonton, Canada
1990 - PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis
1999 - Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt (36) weds "The Simpsons" voice actor Hank
           Azaria (35) in Los Angeles, California
2005 - Actor Ethan Embry (27) weds actress Sunny Mabrey (29)
2006 - "Wheel of Fortune" Original host Chuck Woolery (65) weds Kim Barnes at The Bellagio Hotel
           and Casino in Las Vegas
2010 - Actress Khadijah Haqq (29) weds New Orleans Saints defensive end Bobby McCray (29) at
           Vibiana in downtown Los Angeles
2010 - Boston Celtics star player Paul Pierce (32) weds interior-designer Julie Landrum (27) at Pelican
           Hill Resort in Newport Coast, California

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This Day in History for 17th July


Famous Divorces

1975 - Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce

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This Day in History for 17th July


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Detective Writer                                     Duchess of Cornwall                               Actor David Hasselhoff (1952)
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889)                     Camilla Parker Bowles (1947)


1487 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia, converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah (d. 1524)
1674 - Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican)
1702 - Johann Schneider, composer
1744 - Elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering
1745 - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826)
1763 - Johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education
1763 - John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader
1775 - August Harder, composer
1797 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856)
1817 - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer
1827 - Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet)
1830 - Eelco Refer, linguist (Dictionary for the Dutch translator)
1831 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
1832 - Johan August Soderman, composer
1839 - Friedrich Gernsheim, composer
1839 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916)
1853 - Francesco Fanciulli, composer
1859 - Luis Munoz Rivera, Puerto Rico, journalist (founded Federalist Party)
1871 - Lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter
1873 - Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto)
1875 - Donald Francis Tovey, Eton England, musicologist/composer
1876 - Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat
1876 - Rosa Jackson Lumpkin, Georgia, lived to be 115 (died in 1991)
1876 - Vittorio Gnecchi, composer
1878 - Henri Zagwijn, composer
1883 - Bart de Ligt, anti militarist theologist (Acting Peace)
1883 - Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Erotikon)
1885 - Benjamin James Dale, composer
1888 - Shmuel Agnon, Israel, novelist (Day Before Yesterday-Nobel 1966)
1889 - Erle Stanley Gardner, Malden Mass., US detective writer (Perry Mason), (d. 1970)
1894 - Mary Clare, London England, actress (Evil Mind, Young & Innocent)
1897 - Elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge
1898 - Berenice Abbott, Springfield Oh, photographer (World of Atget)
1898 - Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cinematographer (d. 1999)
1899 - James Cagney, New York City, NY, American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1901 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
1902 - Christina Stead, Australia, novelist (Man Who Loved Children)
1903 - Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer
1904 - Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor
1905 - Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan
1905 - William Gargan, Bkln NY, actor (Dynamite, Ellery Queen)
1906 - John Carroll, [Julian LaFaye], New Orleans LA, actor (Wolf Call)
1908 - Rudolf Petzold, composer
1909 - Hardy Amies, London England, royal dressmaker (Queen Elizabeth II)
1911 - Ted Anderson, English footballer (d. 1979)
1912 - Art Linkletter, Saskatchewan Canada, TV host (People are Funny)
1913 - Everett Helm, composer
1913 - Roger Garaudy, French philosopher
1913 - Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d. 1997)
1914 - Lucille Benson, Scottsboro Ala, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies)
1914 - James Purdy, Hicksville, Ohio, writer (The House of the Solitary Maggot), (disputed birthdate,
           1923), (d. 2009)
1915 - Cass Daley, Philadelphia PA, actress (Red Garters)
1915 - Dorothy Poynton-Hill, US, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1932)
1915 - Esther Williamson Ballou, composer
1916 - Eleanor Steber, Wheeling WV, soprano (Metropolitan Opera-1940)
1917 - Lou Bourdeau, baseball player/manager (1948 AP Athlete of Year)
1917 - Phyllis Diller, Lima Ohio, comedienne (Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number), (d. 2012)
1917 - Red Sovine, American country music singer (d. 1980)
1918 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
1919 - Alex Moir, cricketer (New Zealand leg-spinner in 17 Tests 1950-59)
1920 - Bill Monroe, New Orleans La, newscaster (NBC-TV, Congressional Report)
1920 - Helen Walker, Worcester MA, actress (Brewster's Million)
1920 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, chairman (International Olympic Committee)
1920 - Rudolf Karpati, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1920 - Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (d. 2005)
1921 - Acquanetta, [Mildred Davenport], Wyo, actress (Tarzan & Leopard Woman)
1921 - George Barnes, Chicago Hgts, guitarist (Skip Farrell Show)
1921 - František Zvarík, Slovakian actor
1922 - Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic
1923 - John Cooper, English race car designer (d. 2000)
1926 - Édouard Carpentier, French-born professional wrestler
1926 - Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer
1928 - Jean Elizabeth Leuckert Muir, designer dressmaker
1928 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician and composer (d. 1976)
1929 - Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician
1930 - Ryohei Hirose, composer
1932 - Niccolo Castiglioni, composer
1932 - Vince Guaraldi, jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV specials)
1932 - Wojciech Kilar, composer
1932 - Hal Riney, American advertising executive (d. 2008)
1933 - Tony Pithey, cricketer (brother of David, South African batsman in 17 Tests)
1933 - Bruce Wells, British boxer & actor
1934 - Pat McCormick, comedian (Don Rickles Show)
1934 - Philippe Capdenat, composer
1934 - Rainer Kisch, writer
1935 - Donald Sutherland, St John New Brunswick, Canadian actor (M*A*S*H, Body Snatchers)
1935 - Diahann Carroll, Bronx, actress (Julia, Claudine, Dominique-Dynasty)
1935 - P D Q Bach, [Peter Schickele], Iowa, composer (5th of Beethoven)
1937 - Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer
1938 - Stan Bronstein, rocker
1939 - Spencer Davis, Wales, vocalist (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
1939 - Warwick Hutton, artist
1939 - Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
1939 - Andrée Champagne, French Canadian actress and politician
1940 - Phyllis Davis, Port Arthur Tx, actress (Love American Style, Vega$)
1940 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian
1941 - Bob Taylor, cricketer wicket-keeper (too often in Knotty's shadow)
1941 - Daryle Lamonica, Oakland Raider QB (AFL leading passer 1967)
1942 - Connie Hawkins, Harlem Globetrotter/NBA (Phoenix Suns, ABA MVP 1968)
1942 - Gale Garnett, Auckland NZ, singer (We'll Sing in the Sunshine)
1942 - Don Kessinger, American baseball player
1942 - Peter Sissons, British newsreader
1944 - Mark Burgess, cricketer (NZ batsman of the 70's)
1945 - Fenneken Fockema Andreae, Dutch actress (Sea Gull)
1945 - Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
1946 - Alun Armstrong, English actor
1947 - Camilla Parker Bowles (Duchess of Cornwall), London England, wife of Prince Charles
1947 - Wolfgang Flür, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1948 - Brian Glascock, rock drummer (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1948 - Cathy Ferguson, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1964)
1948 - Luc Bondy, Zurich Switzerland
1948 - Phillip Harris, rocker
1949 - Geezer Butler, Birmingham, rocker (Black Sabbath)
1949 - Mick Tucker, London, rock drummer (Sweet Harlesden)
1949 - Mike Vale, rock bassist (Tommy James & The Shondells)
1949 - Terry "Geezer" Butler, Birmingham, rock bassist (Black Sabbath)
1949 - Charlie Steiner, American sports broadcaster
1950 - Derek de Lint, Dutch actor
1950 - P.J. Soles, German-born American actress
1951 - Lucie Arnaz, Los Angeles California, actress (Kim-Here's Lucy, Jazz Singer)
1952 - Chet McCracken, Seattle Wash, rocker (Doobie Brothers)
1952 - David Hasselhoff, Balt Md, actor (Night Rider, Mitch-Baywatch)
1952 - Nicolette Larson, KC MO, rock vocalist (Twins, Lotta Love)
1952 - Phoebe Snow, singer (Theme from "It's a Different World")
1952 - Robert R[ick] McCammon, US, sci-fi author (Baal, Mystery Walk)
1954 - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
1954 - J. Michael Straczynski, American author
1955 - Paul Stamets, American mycologist and environmentalist
1955 - Christopher Chappell, Former Canadian Cricketer
1956 - Bryan Trottier, Val Marie Sask, NHL Center (NY Islanders)
1956 - Robert Romanus, American actor
1957 - Bruce Crump, rock drummer (Molly Hatchet)
1958 - Wong Kar-wai, Chinese film director
1959 - Janet Lynn Kavandi, Springfield Mo, PhD/astronaut (sk:STS 91)
1960 - Jan Wouters, Dutch soccer star (Ajax, Bayern Munich, PSV)
1960 - Karen Elaine Price, Pasadena California, playmate (January, 1981)
1960 - Kim Barnett, cricketer (England batsman & occasional leggie 1988-89)
1960 - Nancy Giles, NYC, actress (Connie-Delta, Off Beat, Big, Angie)
1960 - Robin Shou, martial arts actor (Mortal Kombat, Beverly Hills Ninja)
1960 - Scott Norwood, NFL kicker (Buffalo Bills-Superbowl XXV goat)
1960 - Mark Burnett, English-born television producer
1960 - Dawn Upshaw, American soprano
1961 - Jonathan Potts, Canadian actor
1962 - Jay Barrs, Jacksonville Fla, archer (Olympics-gold-1988, 92, 96)
1962 - Bill Sage, American actor
1963 - Denise Miller, Bkln NY, actress (Billie-Archie Bunker's Place)
1963 - Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper
1963 - Letsie III, King of Lesotho
1963 - John Ventimiglia, American actor
1964 - Heather Langenkamp, actress (Marie-Just the 10 of Us)
1965 - Alex Winter, London England, actor (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
1965 - Ken Evraire, CFL slot back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1965 - Craig Morgan, American singer
1965 - Santiago Segura, Spanish film director and actor
1966 - Michael John Bradley, Largo FL, PGA golfer (1993 Kemper Open-3rd)
1966 - Sten Tolgfors, Swedish politician
1967 - Kevin Pritchard, NBA guard (Washington Bullets)
1967 - Pearl Sinn, Seoul Korea, LPGA golfer (1995 LPGA Corning Classic-35th)
1968 - Beth Littleford, American comedian
1968 - Bitty Schram, American actress
1969 - Tommy Soderstrom, Stockholm SWE, NHL goalie (Sweden, NY Islanders)
1970 - Bronwyn Roye, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1970 - Mandy Smith, England, rocker (I Just Can't Wait)/wife of Bill Wyman
1971 - Calbert Cheaney, NBA forward/guard (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1971 - Daniel Kunce, Sumperk GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1971 - Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist
1971 - Nico Mattan, Belgian cyclist
1972 - Donny Marshall, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1972 - Eric Williams, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets, Boston Celtics)
1972 - Melissa "Missy" Schwen, Bloomington Ind, rower (Olympics-silver-96)
1972 - Michael Lampert, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1972 - Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer
1973 - Horacio Llamas, NBA center (Phoenix Suns)
1973 - Tony Dovolani, Albanian ballroom dancer
1973 - Liam Kyle Sullivan, American comedian and actor
1974 - Laura Macdonald, Scottish jazz musician
1975 - Troy Amos Ross, Georgetown Guyana, Canadian boxer (Olympics-96)
1975 - Gino D'Acampo, Italian celebrity chef
1975 - Elena Anaya, Spanish actress
1975 - Cécile de France, Belgian actress
1975 - Paul Hinojos, American guitarist (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
1975 - Konnie Huq, English television presenter
1975 - Terence Tao, Australian-Chinese mathematician
1975 - Andre Adams, Former New Zealand Cricketer
1976 - Dagmara Dominczyk, Polish actress
1976 - Eric Winter, American actor
1976 - Matthew Holmes, Australian actor
1977 - M.I.A., British rapper
1977 - Lehmber Hussainpuri, Famous Indian Singer
1977 - Marc Savard, Canadian hockey player
1978 - Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1978 - Mike Hettinga, American professional wrestler
1978 - Émilie Simon, French singer
1978 - Katharine Towne, American actress
1979 - Mike Vogel, American actor
1980 - Javier Camuñas, Spanish footballer
1980 - Ryan Miller, American hockey player
1981 - Elpida Romantzi, Greek archer
1982 - Natasha Hamilton, British singer (Atomic Kitten)
1982 - Omari Banks, West Indian Cricketer
1983 - Brooke Kinsella, British actress
1983 - Ryan Guettler, professional Australian BMX rider
1983 - Sarah Jones, American actress
1983 - Adam Lind, American baseball player
1984 - Sotiris Leontiou, Greek footballer
1984 - Asami Kimura, Japanese singer (Country Musume)
1985 - Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
1985 - Tom Fletcher, British singer (McFly)
1986 - Dana, Korean singer and actress (TSZX)
1987 - Darius Boyd, Australian rugby player
1987 - Jan Charouz, Czech racing driver
1987 - Moussa Dembélé, Belgian footballer
1988 - Summer Bishil, American actress
1989 - Marko Todorović, Swiss swimmer
1989 - Josie Lopez, American actress
1998 - Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y de Borbón, Spanish royal

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 17th July


Famous Deaths

                                   
Economist and Philosopher                     Last Tsar of Russia                               Jazz Singer Billie Holiday (1959)
Adam Smith (1790)                                  Nicholas II Aleksandrovitch (1918)


Jazz Musician
John Coltrane (1967)


180 - Christenen Cittinus/Donatus/Natzalus/Secunda/Speratus/Vestia sentenced to death as
         Christians in Carthage
521 - Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474)
656 - Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated.
924 - King Edward the Elder of England (899-924)
1025 - Boleslaw I Chobry, [the brave], duke/king of Poland, dies
1070 - Boudouin VI, count of Flanders/Henegouwen, dies
1345 - Jacob Van Artevelde, [Manner Man], Flemish broker, lynched
1453 - John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader
1510 - Tree of Commonwealth, beheaded at about 48
1531 - Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
1571 - Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
1588 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)
1627 - Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67
1645 - Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician
1682 - Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29
1704 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer
1709 - Pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60
1709 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
1746 - Anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46), dies at 53
1753 - Andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies
1762 - Peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34
1763 - Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45
1764 - Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82
1790 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)
1791 - Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)
1793 - Charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined
1794 - Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45
1794 - John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
1804 - Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80
1826 - Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65
1838 - John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82
1845 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
1851 - Beni Egressy, composer, dies at 37
1863 - James Johnston Pettigrew, US attorney/Confederate, dies at 35
1864 - Daniel McCook Jr, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 29
1864 - Dirk Dark Curtius, attorney/liberal minister of Justice, dies at 71
1871 - Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29
1875 - Gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77
1878 - Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Aust poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65
1879 - Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (b. 1856)
1881 - Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804)
1885 - Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811)
1887 - Dorothea Dix, french social activist (b. 1802)
1893 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
1894 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810)
1901 - John Farmer, composer, dies at 64
1903 - James A McNeill Whistler, US/Brit writer (Bride Tomorrow), dies at 69
1912 - J-Henri Poincaré, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58
1915 - Francesco Fanciulli, composer, dies on 62nd birthday
1918 - Aleksei N Romanov, son and heir of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 13
1918 - Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death at 46
1918 - Anastasia N Romanova, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 17
1918 - Botkin, personal physician of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Charitonov, cook of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Demidova, lady in waiting of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Maria Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Nicholas II Alexandrovich, last Tsar of Russia, executed at 50
1918 - Olga Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Tatyana Romanova, daughter of RussianTsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Trupp, lackey of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1922 - Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57
1928 - Alvaro Obregon, general/pres of Mexico, assassinated
1928 - Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921), dies
1935 - George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867)
1937 - Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne, composer, dies at 73
1944 - Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies
1944 - William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (b. 1898)
1946 - Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslav gen (Nazi), executed at 53
1947 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved Jews), dies at 34
1950 - Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
1953 - Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer, dies at 65
1953 - Maude K Adams, US actress (Little Minister), dies
1954 - Dirk B Nanninga, painter, dies at 85
1955 - Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer, dies at 73
1959 - Billie Holiday, jazz singer, dies at Metropolitan Hospital in New York of cirrhosis of the liver at
           44
1959 - Henri Pourrat, French writer (Le chasseur de la nuit), dies
1959 - Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (b. 1875)
1961 - Ty Cobb, baseball great (Det Tigers), dies of cancer at 74
1965 - Luiz Cosme, composer, dies at 57
1966 - August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi-suite), dies at 71
1967 - Cyril Ring, actor (Duffy's Tavern, Red Hot & Blue), dies at 74
1967 - Gertrude McCoy, silent screen actress (Blue Bird), dies at 77
1967 - John Coltrane, US jazz sax/composer (Round Midnight), dies at 40
1970 - Juano Hernandez, actor (St Louis Blues, Two Loves), dies at 74
1971 - Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76
1974 - Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, pitcher (St Louis Cards), dies at 63
1975 - Modoc, the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal)
1975 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
1978 - Thayer David, actor (Rocky, Roots, Savages), dies at 51
1979 - Doug Meintjes, South African cricket pace bowler (v England 1922-23), dies
1980 - Donald Barry, actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak), dies at 68
1980 - Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
1984 - J Delos Jewkes, singer/actor (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 89
1985 - Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer, dies at 93
1985 - Margo, actress (Rumba, Viva Zapata), dies at 68 of a brain tumor
1987 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
1988 - Bruiser Brody [Frank Goodish], professional wrestler, stabbed to death at 42
1990 - Bernard Cowan, TV announcer, dies of kidney disease at 68
1993 - Ineke Shutter, choreography (Black Girl Goes to School), dies at 61
1993 - Scott Salmon, US choreographer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 51
1993 - Vladimir Barmyn, Russian inventor (Stalinorgel), dies at 84
1994 - Jean Borotra, [Flying Basque], Fr tennis star (Davis Cup), dies at 95
1995 - Herbert Hippauf, baseball player, dies at 56
1995 - Joe Hutton, northumbrian piper/shepherd, dies at 71
1996 - Alan McGilvray, Australian cricketer (NSW 1933-37) and radio commentator (1935-85), dies
           at 85
1996 - Amancio D'Silva, musician, dies at 60
1996 - Bryan Chas Chandler, musician/manager, dies at 57
1996 - Chris Komar, dancer, dies at 48
1996 - Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect, dies at 95
1996 - John William Fozard, aircraft designer, dies at 68
1996 - Paul Touvier, French WW II criminal, dies at 81
1996 - Sid Sussman, beauty pageant organizer, dies of heart attack
2001 - Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917)
2003 - David Kelly, Welsh UN weapons inspector (b. 1944)
2003 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (b. 1914)
2004 - Pat Roach, British professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
2005 - Laurel Aitken, Jamaican singer (b. 1927)
2005 - Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born actress (b. 1913)
2005 - Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
2005 - Gavin Lambert, British-born screenwriter (b. 1924)
2005 - Joe Vialls, Australian writer (b. 1944)
2006 - Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (b. 1936)
2006 - Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918)
2007 - Júlio Redecker, Brazilian Politician (b. 1956)
2008 - Larry Haines, American actor (b. 1918)
2009 - Walter Cronkite, American broadcast journalist (b. 1916)
2009 - Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1927)
2011 - David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (b. 1967)
2012 - William Raspberry, American journalist, dies at 76

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This Day in History for 18th July


Historical Events

                                   
Russian Tsar Peter the Great                   Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco            The Pianoman Billy Joel

                 
Golfer Greg Norman                             Heavyweight Boxing Champion
                                                                          Mike Tyson


390 BC - Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia - a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls,
              leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
64 - Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle)
1290 - King Edward I of England orders expulsion of Jews
1330 - Battle of Velbuzd
1334 - The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower)
           of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
1536 - Pope's authority declared void in England
1572 - Willem van Orange recognized as viceroy of Holland/Friesland/Utrecht
1588 - Admiral Howard beats Spanish Armada
1630 - Spanish troops occupy Mantua
1656 - -20] Battle at Warsaw: Swedish king Karel X Gustaafbeats Johan II Kasimir & occupies
           Warsaw
1696 - Czar Peter I's fleet occupies Azov at mouth of Don River
1716 - Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels
1737 - Battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians
1743 - 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal)
1753 - Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham Mass
1766 - Society of the Dutch Literary forms
1768 - Boston Gazette publishes "Liberty Song," America's 1st patriotic song
1814 - British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)
1853 - Completion of Grand Trunk Line, trains begin running over 1st North American railroad
           between Portland, Maine & Montreal
1857 - Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes,
           effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French.
1861 - Battle of Blackburn's Ford, VA US57 CS68 - Manassas -
1862 - Battle of Newburgh, IN - captured by Union forces
1863 - Battle of Fort Wagner, SC - Second assault US1500 CS174
1864 - President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for milt service
1870 - Pontifical infalliability proclaimed
1872 - Britain introduces secret ballot voting
1882 - Louisville Tony Mullane is 1st to pitch righty then lefty
1893 - Harry Graham scores 107 on cricket debut Australia v England, Lord's
1896 - 2nd US Golf Open: James Foulis shoots a 152 at Shinnecock Hills NY
1896 - George Giffen is 1st to complete 1000/100 double, in 30th Test Cricket
1896 - Ranjitsinhji completes 154* on Test Cricket debut v Aust, Old Trafford
1897 - Cap Anson, is 1st to get 3,000 hits
1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1907," premieres in NYC
1907 - French troops occupy Casablanca
1912 - Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings
1913 - After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk
1914 - US army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps
1915 - 2nd Battle of Isonzo begins & ends with loss of 280,000 men
1915 - Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs
1918 - US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I
1921 - Black Sox trial begins in Chicago
1923 - England's House of Lords accepts new divorce law
1924 - KPD points out Rote Frontkampferbund against Nazi
1925 - Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
1927 - Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit
1930 - SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland
1931 - 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
1932 - Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign Unity treaty
1932 - US & Canada sign a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway
1935 - Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000
1936 - Spanish Civil War begins, Gen Francisco Franco led uprising
1938 - Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
1940 - 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct
1940 - British government signs Bruma law under Japanese pressure
1940 - Democratic Convention nominates FDR for a 3rd term
1941 - SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia
1942 - 1st legal NJ horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens
1942 - Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight
1942 - World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for 
           the first time.
1943 - British assault on Catania Sicily
1943 - Giants & Phillies strand record 30 baserunners, NY wins, 10-6
1944 - 7:45 Operation-Goodwood: British assault east of Caen
1944 - Allies air raid railways at Vaires Paris
1944 - Arne Andersson runs world record 1 mile (4:01.6)
1944 - British Mosquito's attack Cologne & Berlin
1944 - British air raid on German convoy SW of Helgoland
1944 - British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range Normandy
1944 - Polish troops under gen Anders occupy Ancona Italy
1944 - US troop march into St-Lo
1947 - British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine
1947 - King George VI signs Indian Independence Bill
1947 - President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act
1947 - Tigers shut out Yanks 2-0, end 19 game win streak
1947 - US begins administering Trust Territory of Pacific Islands
1948 - "Marinka" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 168 performances
1948 - Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 HRs in a game
1948 - White Sox Fat Pat Seerey, hits 4 HRs in 11 inning game
1951 - Uruguay accepts its constitution
1951 - Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion
1951 - Jersey Joe Walcott KOs Ezzard Charles in 7 for hw boxing title
1952 - KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting
1954 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Inverness Four-Ball Golf Tournament
1954 - Cards losing 8-1 to Phillies begin stalling in 5th, they forfeit game
1955 - 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1955 - 280 mm rain in Martinstown, Dorset (UK-record)
1956 - Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rákosi as party leader of Hungary
1959 - 1st black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright)
1960 - 1st UN troops reach Congo
1960 - Baseball's NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises
1960 - Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns
1961 - Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth's record of 60 HR in 154-game sched in 1927, must
           be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games
1962 - Minnesota Twins Bob Allison & Harmon Killebrew hit grand slams in 1st inn & Harmon Killebrew
           connect in a club-record, 11-run 1st inning
1962 - Minn is 1st AL team to hit 2 grand slams in an inning as Bob Allison
1963 - Failed military coup in Syria
1964 - Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln)
1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Yankee Golf Open
1965 - Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
1966 - Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old
1966 - Gemini 10 launched (John Young & Michael Collins)
1967 - Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY
1968 - Intel incorporates
1968 - The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
1969 - Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL
1970 - "Boy Friend" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 119 performances
1970 - Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
1970 - Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
1970 - WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 - Willie Mays becomes 10th baseball player to get 3,000 hits
1971 - Eddy Merckx wins his 3rd Tour de France
1972 - 200,000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns
1972 - Egypt president Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out
1972 - Mike Procter 8-73 with hat-trick, plus 51 & 102, Gloucs v Essex
1974 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1974 - World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
1975 - Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive
           violence during play)
1976 - "Something's Afoot" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 61 performances
1976 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1976 - Lucien van Impe wins Tour de France
1976 - Stockhausens "Sirius," premieres in NYC
1976 - Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut
1976 - Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in
           gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1977 - Hugh Leonard's "Da," premieres in London
1977 - Vietnam becomes member of UN
1978 - Billy Martin suspends Reggie Jackson for not bunting
1978 - Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks
1979 - Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London
1979 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts
1980 - Failed attack on Iran ex-premier Bakhtiar in Neuilly France
1980 - Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women
1980 - Quett Masire installed as president of Botswana
1980 - Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit
1981 - Part of Hyatt Regency Hotel KC caves in (113 killed)
1981 - Poland communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
1982 - "Blues in the Night" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 53 perfs
1982 - 111th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 284 at Royal Troon
1982 - Sally Little wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1983 - Despite being in 1st place in NL East, Phils fire manager Pat Corrales
1984 - James Huberty kills 21 McDonald's patrons in San Ysidro Calif
1984 - Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF
1985 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1986 - 115th British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 280 at Turnberry Scotld
1986 - Royals announce manager Dick Howser, 50, has a brain tumor
1986 - Videotapes released showing Titanic's sinksen remains
1987 - Molly Yard elected new pres of Natl Org for Women
1987 - NY Yanks Don Mattingly ties record of HRs in 8 cons games
1988 - Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship
1988 - Shooting begins on "License to Kill"
1989 - 48 cm rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia (state record)
1991 - Florida Marlins' logo unveiled
1991 - Mike Tyson meets Miss Black America contestants
1992 - Sharon Belden, of Fla, 25, crowned Miss World USA
1992 - The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima.
1993 - 122nd British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 267 at Royal St George
1993 - Afghanistan president Ishaq Khan & premier Nawaz Sharif resign
1993 - Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (51,596 K)
1993 - Hiromi Kobayash wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1993 - Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan's parliamentary election
1994 - Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed
1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter
1994 - Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights
1994 - Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons
1994 - Houston Astros tie NL comeback record, trailing 10-0, beat Cards 15-12
1994 - NY Jets sign USA soccer goalkeeper Tony Miola as a place kicker
1995 - DC3 crashes at Antananarivo Madagaskar, 34 die
1996 - Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Québec's costliest natural disasters ever.
1999 - 128th British Golf Open: at Carnoustie Scot Paul Lawrie wins after play off
2009 - Five members of one family are found murdered at Epping, New South Wales.
2012 - 6 Israeli tourists are killed and 30 injured after a bomb explodes on a tourist bus at Burgas
           Airport, Bulgaria
2012 - 14 people are killed after a bomb explosion at Pakistan's Orakzai Agency
2012 - Violence across Syria results in 97 deaths
2012 - Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria's Minister of
           Defence
2012 - 24 people are killed after a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar
2012 - Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of
           Marshal in the Korean People's Army

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This Day in History for 18th July


Famous Weddings

1922 - British naval officer Louis Mountbatten (22) weds Lord Mount Temple's daughter Edwina
           Cynthia Annette Ashley (20) at St. Margaret's in Westminster, London
1992 - Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith
1992 - Helen Windsor, daughter of British Duke and Duchess of Kent weds art dealer Timothy Taylor
           at Windsor Castle
1992 - Singers Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown marry
1994 - "The Cranberries" lead singer Dolores O'Riordan (22) weds Don Burton (32) in Ireland

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Famous Divorces

2012 - WWE wrestler John Cena (35) divorces Elizabeth Huberdeau (33) due to irretrievably broken
           marriage after 3 years of getting married

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Scientist Robert Hooke (1635)                        American Gangster                         Anti-apartheid activist/
                                                             George Machine Gun Kelly (1895)            South African President
                                                                                                                            Nelson Mandela (1918)


Business Magnate
Richard Branson (1950)


1340 - Philip van Artevelde, wine salesman/lord lt of Flanders
1501 - Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (d. 1526)
1504 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
1534 - Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger Catechism)
1552 - Rudolf II, of Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1576-1612)
1634 - Joannes Camphuys, governor-general of Dutch-Indies (1684-91)
1635 - Robert Hooke, Isle of Wight, Scientist (Micrographia)
1670 - Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian (opera)composer
1711 - Pierre-Joseph Le Blan, composer
1718 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (d. 1808)
1720 - Gilbert White, "father of British naturalists",,17660718::"Friedrich Fleischmann, composer
1796 - Feargus O'Connor, County Cork, leader of English Chartists
1797 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1879)
1810 - Peter Singer, composer
1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, England, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair)
1818 - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (d. 1896)
1821 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
1823 - Leonard Fulton Ross, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
1827 - Pierre L Goossens, archbishop of Mechelen/Cardinal
1837 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873)
1845 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (d. 1875)
1848 - William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer
1850 - Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (d. 1939)
1853 - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Holland, physicist (Nobel 1902)
1862 - Victor, Prince Napoleon (Napoleon V), French pretender to throne
1862 - Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich, Russian WWI general (d. 1933)
1864 - Ricarda Huch, writer
1864 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (d. 1937)
1865 - Laurence Housman, England, author/playwright (Victoria Regina)
1870 - Emil Mlynarski, composer
1871 - Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (Dog at a Rope)
1871 - Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (d. 1946)
1872 - Julius Fucik, composer
1880 - Otto Vrieslander, composer
1881 - Larry McLean, baseball player (d. 1921)
1882 - Manuel Galvez, Argentina writer/poet/historian (Paraguay)
1884 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (d.
          1979)
1887 - Vidkun Al Quisling, Norwegian minister of Defense/premier (1942-45)
1888 - Alexander Rosemeier, Indonesian/Dutch painter
1888 - Sydney Horler, English detective writer
1890 - Charles Wilson, Pres of General Motors (1940-53)/Sec of Def (1953-57)
1890 - Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1983)
1891 - Gene Lockhart, NYC, actor (Going My Way, Christmas Carol)
1892 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (d. 1969)
1893 - Josef Huttel, composer
1893 - Richard Dix, St Paul MN, actor (10 Commandments, Cimarron)
1894 - Bernard Wagenaar, Arnhem Holland, composer (3 Songs for Chinese)
1895 - Marie Ney, London England, actress (Brief Ecstasy, Simba, Witchcraft)
1895 - George Machine Gun Kelly [Georgio Barnes], Memphis Tennessee, American gangster, (d.
           1954)
1897 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (d. 1935)
1898 - Herbert Marcuse, Berlin, communist philosopher (Eros & Civilization)
1898 - John Stuart, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Number 17)
1899 - Willem Kernkamp, Dutch minister of Colonies (Islam & Woman)
1900 - Nathalie Sarraute [Tcherniak], Ivanovo, Russia, writer and lawyer (Portrait of a Man Unknown,
           The Golden Fruits)
1902 - Charles W J Mengelberg, Dutch composer/conductor
1903 - Bozidar Kunc, composer
1903 - Chill Wills, Seagoville Texas, actor (Fronteir Circus, Rounders)
1906 - Belle Stewart, singer
1906 - Clifford Odets, US, dramatist (1961 Award of Merit-Golden Boy)
1906 - S I Hayakawa, (Sen-R-CA), educator (Language in Action)
1907 - Yvonne Desportes, composer
1908 - Mildred Lisette Norman, American peace activist, earned the moniker Peace Pilgrim (d. 1981)
1909 - Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/5 OS]
1909 - Harriet Hilliard Nelson, Des Moines, Iowa, American singer/actress (Ozzie & Harriet, Follow the
           Fleet)
1909 - Lupe Velez, [Guadelupe Velez de Villabos], actress (Joe Palooka)
1909 - Mohammed Daoud Khan, President of Afghanistan (d. 1978)
1911 - Alexander Hyatt-King, scholar (Mozart)
1911 - Hume Cronyn, London Ontario, actor (World According to Garp, Cocoon)
1912 - Harry Levin, literary Scholar
1912 - Henry L "Hank" Miller, US pilot/lt adm (WW II-Pacific)
1912 - Max Rousié, French rugby footballer (d. 1950)
1913 - Jan Slot, Dutch mayor (Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede)
1913 - Marvin Miller, St Louis Mo, actor (Space Patrol, Millionaire)
1913 - Red Skelton, [Richard], Vincennes Ind, comedian (Red Skelton Show)
1914 - Herbert Collum, composer
1914 - John G Bearer, writer (Metro, Drunken Canary, Fast Heartbeat)
1914 - Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch premier (KVP, Mammoth Law)
1914 - Mack Robinson, US, 200m dash (Olympic-silver-1932)
1914 - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (d. 2000)
1915 - Anthony Cox, English architect
1915 - Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter
1916 - Isaac [Ietje] A Diepenhorst, Dutch lawyer/minister of Education
1916 - Kenneth Armitage, English sculptor
1916 - Johnny Hopp, baseball player (d. 2003)
1917 - Henri Salvador, French singer (d. 2008)
1918 - Jane Frazee, Duluth Minn, actress/singer (Alice-Beulah)
1918 - Nelson Mandela, Qunu South Africa, political prisoner (ANC)/President (1994-1999)/ Nobel
          (1993)
1918 - Pamela Brown, England, actress (Alice in Wonderland, Dracula)
1920 - Dolph Sweet, actor (Gil McGowan-Another World)
1920 - Eric Brandon, British racing driver (d. 1982)
1921 - John H Glenn Jr, Cambridge OH, astronaut (Mer 7, sk:STS 95)/(Sen-D-Oh)
1922 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher (d. 1996)
1923 - Hector Tosar, composer
1923 - Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (d. 1997)
1924 - Howard Roberts, Burlington NJ, choral director (Leslie Uggams Show)
1924 - John Cruickshank, French scholar
1924 - Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer
1925 - George Doggart, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1950)/MCC pres
1925 - Jaime de Mora y Aragon, actor/publicist (Last Judgement)
1925 - Shirley Strickland de la Hunty, Austria, 100m dash (Oly-bronze-1948)
1926 - Bryan Johnson, singer/actor
1926 - Jane Hylton, London England, actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot, Daybreak)
1926 - Richard Pasco, English actor (Gorgon, Arch of Triumph)
1926 - Robert Sloman, writer (d. 2005)
1926 - Margaret Laurence, Canadian writer (d. 1987)
1927 - Kurt Masur, German actor (Hotel Deutschland)
1927 - Ludwig Harig, writer
1927 - Zin Harris, cricketer (father of Chris NZ batsman in 50's & 60's)
1928 - Simon Vinkenoog, Dutch writer
1929 - "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, Cleveland, rocker (I Put a Spell on You)
1929 - Dick Totten Button, Englewood NJ, figure skater (Olympic-gold-48, 52)
1929 - Michael Medwin, English actor (Four in a Jeep, Scrooge, Checkpoint)
1930 - Siegfried Kurz, composer
1930 - Burt Kwouk, English actor
1931 - "Papa" Dee Allen, Wilmington DE, percussionist (War-World is a Ghetto)
1932 - Robert Ellis Miller, American film director
1933 - Aad Nuis, Dutch writer/undersecretary of Education (D66)
1933 - Raymund Murray Schafer, Sarnia Ontario, Canada, composer (Patria)
1933 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Zima Russia, poet (Bratsk Station)
1934 - Edward Bond, English playwright/director (Blow-up)
1934 - Darlene Conley, American actress (d. 2007)
1935 - Tenley Albright, Boston Mass, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1935 - Jayendra Saraswathi, Hindu religious leader
1936 - Ted Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
1937 - Roald Hoffman, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas) (d.
           2005)
1938 - Britt Leach, Gadsen Ala, actor (Mickey-Spencer's Pilots)
1938 - Dudu Pukwana, [Mtutuzel], South African/British saxophonist/composer
1938 - Paul Verhoeven, director (Basic Instinct, Total Recall)
1938 - Ian Stewart, Scottish pianist (d. 1985)
1938 - John Connelly, St Helens, Lancashire, footballer (20 English caps), (d. 2012)
1939 - Brian Auger, London, fusion keyboardist (Befour, Genesis)
1939 - Dion DiMucci, Bronx, rocker (Dion & Belmonts-Teenager in Love)
1939 - Edward Gramlich, American economics professor (d. 2007)
1939 - Jerry Moore, American football coach
1940 - James Brolin, Los Angeles California, actor (Dr Kiley-Marcus Welby, Peter-Hotel)
1940 - Joseph Torre, outfield/manager (Braves, Mets, 1971 NL MVP)
1941 - Jack Jersey, [de Nijs], Indonesian/Dutch singer/producer
1941 - Lonnie Mack, Aurora Indiana, rocker (Baby What's Wrong)
1941 - Marcia Jones Smoke, Oklahoma, 500m kayak (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1941 - Martha Reeves, Detroit Mich, singer (& Vandellas-Dancing in St)
1942 - Alexander EHAML, prince of the Belgians/son of Leopold III
1942 - Adolf Ogi, Swiss politician
1942 - Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (d. 2006)
1943 - Bobby Sherman, Santa Monica California, singer (Shindig, Here Comes Brides)
1943 - Calvin Peete, Detroit MI, PGA golfer (1979 Greater Milwaukee Open)
1943 - Robin McDonald, Scotland, rock guitarist (Billy J Kramer & Dakotas)
1944 - David Hemery, English 400m-hurdler (Oly-gold-1968) [or 1948]
1944 - Jonelle Allen, NYC, actress (Bessie-Palmerstown USA, Berringers)
1945 - Danny McCullock, London, rocker (Animals)
1946 - Tim Lynch, rocker (Flaming Groovies)
1946 - Leo Madder, Belgian actor
1947 - Ayn Rumen, Bkln NY, actress (Janet-McLean Stevenson Show)
1947 - Kurt Mann, Roslyn NY, actor (Bad Penny)
1947 - Steven W. Mahoney, Canadian politician
1948 - Cesar Zuiderwijk, Dutch rock drummer (Golden Earring, Radar Love)
1948 - Phil Harris, rocker (Ace)
1948 - Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel laureate
1948 - Carlos Colón, Sr., Puerto Rican professional wrestler
1949 - Dennis Lillee, Australian cricket fast bowler (1971-84)
1950 - Richard Branson, London, British music enterperneur (Virgin Atlantic)
1950 - Glenn Hughes, American singer (Village People) (d. 2001)
1950 - Jack Layton, Canadian politician
1950 - Kostas Eleftherakis, Greek footballer
1951 - Bruce Alan Lietzke, Kansas City KS, PGA golfer (1978 Canadian Open)
1951 - Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician
1951 - Margo Martindale, American actress
1952 - James Forbes, basketball player (Olympic-silver-1972)
1953 - Peter Greenall, English brewer (Greenall Witley)
1954 - Imtiaz Ali, cricketer (brother of Inshan One Test WI v India 1976)
1954 - Ricky Skaggs, Cordell Ky, country singer (Heartbroke, Toy Hearts)
1954 - Robert Cameron, CFL punter (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1954 - Tobias Picker, composer
1955 - Teresa Ann Savoy, London England, actress (Caligula)
1955 - Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician
1955 - Bernd Fasching, Austrian painter and sculptor
1956 - Audrey Landers [Hamburg], Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American actress/singer (Dallas,
          Chorus Line)
1956 - Razor Shines, American baseball player, manager and coach
1957 - Nicholas Alexander Faldo, England, PGA golfer (1992 British Open)
1958 - Margo [AM] Vliegenthart, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
1958 - Nigel Twist, Manchester, rock drummer (Alarm-In the Summertime)
1960 - Anne-Marie Johnson, Los Angeles California, actress (In the Heat of the Night)
1961 - Elizabeth McGovern, Evanston Ill, actress (Once Upon a Time in Amer)
1962 - Engelbert Linder, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1962 - Jensen Buchanan, Montgomery AL, actress (Vicky/Marley-Another World)
1962 - Lee Arenberg, American actor
1962 - Jack Irons, American drummer
1962 - Shaun Micallef, Australian comedian
1963 - Lonnie Young, NFL safety/cornerback (NY Jets)
1963 - Martín Torrijos Espino, President of Panama
1963 - Al Snow, American professional wrestler
1964 - Susan Marie Snyder, actress (Julie-As the World Turns)
1964 - Wendy Williams, radio host
1965 - Robert Holland, CFL defensive back (BC Lions)
1965 - Yugi Iga, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1966 - Dan[iel Dion] O'Brien, Portland Oregon, decathelete (Olympic-gold-96)
1967 - Jeff Lageman, NFL defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1967 - Vin Diesel, American actor
1969 - Masanori Murakawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 - Dusty Imoo, hockey goaltender (Team Japan 1998)
1970 - John Kalin, CFL safety (Calgary Stampeders)
1970 - Margaret Langford, Vancouver BC, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1970 - Patrick Dancy, TV rocker (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You)
1971 - Kristi Coats, LPGA golfer (1995 Ping/Welch-66th)
1971 - Sarah McLeod, New Zealand actress
1972 - Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway, Memphis, NBA guard (Orlando, Oly-gold-96)
1972 - Bernard Williams, NFL tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 - Bruce Walker, NFL nose tackle (NE Patriots)
1974 - Derek Anderson, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1974 - Alan Morrison, British poet
1975 - Torii Hunter, baseball player
1975 - Daron Malakian, American guitarist (System of a Down, Scars on Broadway)
1976 - Elsa Pataky, Spanish actress
1977 - Dylan Lane, American television host
1977 - Alfian bin Sa'at, Singaporean writer, poet and playwright
1978 - Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player
1978 - Ben Sheets, American baseball player
1978 - Mélissa Theuriau, French newscaster
1978 - Verónica Romeo, Spanish singer
1979 - Julie Gulbrandsen, Miss Arizona Teen USA (1997)
1979 - Rick Baxter, American politician
1979 - Jared Hess, American film director and screenwriter
1979 - Deion Branch, American football player
1979 - Joey Mercury, American professional wrestler
1979 - Jermaine Paul, American musician
1980 - Kristen Bell, American actress
1980 - Ryoko Hirosue, Japanese actress and singer
1982 - Panagiotis Lagos, Greek footballer
1982 - Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress and beauty queen
1982 - Ryan Cabrera, American musician and TV host
1983 - Carlos Diogo, Uruguayan footballer
1985 - Chace Crawford, American actor
1988 - César Villaluz, Mexican footballer
1991 - Karina Pasian, American singer and pianist
1994 - Ricardo Dela Corte, Italy, test tube baby born to oldest (62) mother

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 18th July


Famous Deaths

                     
Novelist Jane Austen (1817)                    American Gangster
                                                               George Machine Gun Kelly (1954)


640 - Arnulf, bishop of Metz (614-640)/politician, dies at about 58
715 - Muhammad bin Qasim (b. 695)
1100 - Godfried IV van Bouillon, count of Antwerp, dies
1374 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (Italia Mia), dies at 69
1488 - Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
1544 - René van Chalon, viceroy of Holland, dies in battle at 25
1591 - Jakob Handl, [Petelin], Austrian composer/bandmaster, dies at 40
1608 - Joachim III Frederik, ruler (Brandenburg), dies at 61
1610 - Michelangelo Merisi, Italian artist (b. 1573)
1639 - Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German prince and general (b. 1604)
1642 - Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, gov of Ft Emmerik/Heusden, dies
1650 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer, dies at 74
1695 - Joannes Camphuys, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 61
1698 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
1710 - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter, dies at 36
1721 - Jean Antoine Watteau, French painter, dies
1730 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
1735 - Johann Krieger, composer, dies at 83
1792 - John Paul Jones, American naval commander (b. 1747)
1817 - Jane Austen, English novelist, dies at 41
1831 - Thomas Greatorex, composer, dies at 72
1833 - Joseph Comb, missionary to Moluccas, dies at 63
1854 - Abbas Hilmi I, viceroy of Egypt, dies at about 41
1863 - William Dorsey Pender, US Confederate gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
1872 - Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66
1884 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist (b. 1829)
1892 - Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook & Son), dies at 83
1894 - Leconte de Lisle, writer, dies at 75
1898 - Emil Hartmann, composer, dies at 62
1899 - Horatio Alger Jr, American clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), dies
1901 - Alfredo Carlo Piatti, composer, dies at 79
1902 - John White, composer, dies at 47
1908 - Jaime Nuno, composer, dies at 83
1915 - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer, dies at 53
1916 - Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author
1918 - Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna (b. 1864)
1925 - Louis Nazaire Bégin, Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1840)
1937 - Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908)
1938 - Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35
1939 - Witold Maliszewski, composer, dies at 65
1941 - Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer, dies at 80
1944 - George A Hartland, English MP (Norwich 1931-35), dies at 60
1944 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs' Booty), dies at 74
1948 - Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian and politician (b. 1877)
1949 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (b. 1870)
1950 - Carl Clinton Van Doren, US literary (The Nation), dies at 64
1952 - Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect (b. 1862)
1952 - Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (b. 1906)
1953 - Lucy Booth, Daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1868)
1954 - George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster, dies at 59
1956 - Willem J A Kerncamp, Dut overseas minister (Islam & Woman), dies at 57
1958 - Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker), dies at 84
1958 - John Gobau, Flem/Dutch actor (Death of Business Traveller), dies at 67
1961 - Kit Guard, dies of cancer at 67
1963 - A H C Cooper, South African cricketer (Test v England 1914), dies
1965 - Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, composer, dies at 64
1966 - Bobby Fuller, American rock singer and guitarist (I Fought the Law), found dead at 23
1966 - German Germanovich Galinin, composer, dies at 44
1967 - Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil pres (1964-87), dies at 66
1968 - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1969 - Barbara Pepper, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 57
1970 - Lucien H d'Azambuja, Fren astronomer (chromosphere of Sun), dies at 86
1973 - Jack Hawkins, actor (Ben Hur, Ben-Four Just Men), dies at 62
1975 - Federico Ghisi, composer, dies at 74
1980 - Naoomal Jeoomal, cricketer (3 Tests for India 1932-34, 108 runs), dies
1981 - Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff, Dutch para-psychologist, dies at 87
1982 - Lionel Daunais, French-Canadian singer and composer (b. 1902)
1984 - James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds
1985 - Shahnawaz Bhutto, son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
1986 - Stanley Rous, British soccer official, dies at 91
1987 - Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer, dies at 87
1988 - Nico, US model/pop singer (Velvet Underground), dies at 43
1989 - Donnie Moore, pitcher (Angels), shoots himself at 35
1989 - Rebecca Schaeffer, actress (My Sister Sam), is shot by a fan at 21
1990 - Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix, Kuifje), dies at 78
1990 - Karl Menninger, psychatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at 96 of cancer
1990 - Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897)
1990 - Gerry Boulet, Quebec rock singer (b. 1946)
1991 - Andre Cools, Belgian budget minister, murdered at 63
1991 - Harold Butler, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1947-48, 12 wkts), dies
1992 - Jan Pelleboer, Dutch meteorologist, dies
1992 - Mollie Parnis, fashion designer (Mamie Eisenhower), dies
1992 - Rudolf Ising, cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies), dies at 88
1992 - Viktor Louis, Russian journalist, dies
1993 - Jean Negulesco, director (3 Coins in a Fountain), dies at 93
1993 - John Beck, US producer (Harvey, Singing Nun), dies at 83
1993 - Robert Davis, dies of emphysema at 76
1993 - Sergei Y Vozovikov, Russian major/cosmonaut, dies in accident at 35
1993 - Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin, Chief designer of Soviet launch pads, dies
1994 - Gottfried Reinhardt, [Goldmann], German/US director, dies at 83
1995 - Fabio Casartelli, Italian olympian (Oly-gold-92), dies at 24
1996 - Hans Fellner, bookseller, dies at 71
1997 - Eugene Shoemaker, astronomer (Shoemaker-Levy comet), dies at 69
2001 - James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958)
2001 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian automotive engineer (b. 1920)
2002 - Victor Emery, British theoretical physicist (b. 1933)
2004 - Paul Foot, British journalist (b. 1937)
2004 - Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (b. 1912)
2005 - William Westmoreland, American military officer (b. 1914)
2005 - Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2007 - George Caiazzo, American professional wrestler
2007 - Jerry Hadley, American opera singer, (b. 1952)
2007 - Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)
2008 - Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (b. 1944)
2009 - Henry Allingham, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran (b. 1896)
2012 - Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, dies from kidney problems at 69

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 19th July


Historical Events

                                   
Philosopher Thomas Hobbes                  Naturalist Charles Darwin                     British war time Prime Minister
                                                                                                                            Winston Churchill


Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Mike Tyson


64 - Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire
532 - Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle
711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.
1195 - Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia
1380 - Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais
1425 - Duke John VI van Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good
1510 - 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin Prussia
1524 - Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest
1525 - Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau
1544 - Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne began.
1545 - King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die
1551 - Treaty of Karlsburg: arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as king of
           Hungary/Transsylvania
1553 - 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days
1572 - Battle at Saint-Ghislain: Spanish army beats The Genlis' mercenaries
1575 - Spanish viceroy Gilles of Hierges attacks Oudewater
1590 - King Philip Ii's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail
1599 - Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java
1639 - French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan
1674 - Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer
1688 - Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo
1702 - Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Crackow
1760 - The formal request to found the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders.
1799 - A group of Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers discover what is now known as The Rosetta Stone,
           enabling the translation of hieroglyphics for the first time.
1816 - Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension
1843 - Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with
           an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1848 - 1st US women's rights convention (Seneca Falls NY)
1848 - German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg
1850 - Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die)
1860 - 1st railroad reaches Kansas
1862 - Forrest's 1st raid
1863 - Battle of Buffington's Island (St George Creek), Ohio
1864 - Battle of Winchester, VA (Stephenson's Depot) [->JUL 20]
1866 - Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights
1867 - Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto
1867 - Dutch Red Cross forms
1870 - France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins
1875 - Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC
1877 - 1st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64)
1879 - Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.
1880 - SF Public Library starts lending books
1899 - National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, forms
1900 - Michel Théato wins 2nd olympics marathon (2:59:45.0-40,260k)
1902 - NY Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw
1904 - Cleveland Nap's Neal Ball makes 1st unassisted triple play
1904 - Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber
1908 - Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam
1909 - Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play
1910 - Cleveland Indian baseball player Cy Young registers 500th career victory against Washington
           5-4 in 11 innings
1912 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo
           County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
1913 - Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs"
           Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
1914 - Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL
1915 - Dutch accidents at sea law enforced
1915 - Naval accident
1915 - Wash Nationals steal record 8 bases vs Cleve Indians in the 1st inning
1918 - German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)
1918 - Wash catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Sec of War Newton D
           Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt
1919 - Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and
           burnt down Luton Town Hall.
1923 - WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
1926 - 2nd French government of Herriot, forms
1927 - Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit
1928 - King Fuad of Egypt grabs power/disbands parliament
1933 - 1st time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox
1933 - Rick Ferrell homers off brother pitcher Wes of Cleve, who also homers
1936 - Indians' Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief
1936 - Spanish premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral
1937 - Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich
1937 - Joris Ivens' "Spanish Earth" premieres in Hollywood
1939 - Dr Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures
1940 - Hitler orders Great Britain to surrenders
1940 - Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald
1940 - Nazi occupiers in Neth forbid anti-nazi films
1941 - 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee Ala)
1941 - BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (...-) 5th of Beethoven
1941 - British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
1941 - President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee
1942 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in US
1942 - German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam & Hague
1943 - 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II
1944 - 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany
1944 - 500 15th Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity
1944 - 500 15th Air Force-Liberators surround Munich
1944 - Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen
1944 - Danish resistance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen
1944 - Democratic convention opens in Chicago
1944 - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem
1944 - General Bradley flies to England
1944 - Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas
1944 - NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe
1944 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann
1945 - Edwin Schlossberg, husband of Carolyn Kennedy
1945 - USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue
1947 - Prime minister of shadow Burma government ,Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2
           non-cabinet members were assassinated by British , which resulted in the political chaos in
           the country lasting until now.
1948 - French government of Schuman, resigns
1949 - Laos becomes associated state within French Union
1950 - French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh
1950 - NY Yanks obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard & Frank Barnes
1950 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris
1951 - "2 in the Aisle" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 perfs
1952 - "Paint Your Wagon" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 289 perfs
1952 - 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland
1952 - Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford
1952 - India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day
1953 - KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum
1955 - Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel
1956 - US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1957 - 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
1957 - Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)
1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - "Oh, Captain!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 192 performances
1958 - Charly Gaul wins Tour de France
1959 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance
1960 - Italian government Tambroni, resigns
1960 - SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies
1961 - 1st in-flight movie shown (TWA)
1962 - Hungarian communist party expels Rákosi & Gero
1963 - NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
1963 - Philadelphia Phillies Roy Siever hits HR # 300
1964 - 46th PGA Championship: Bobby Nichols shoots a 271 at Columbus CC Ohio
1964 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open
1964 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 - Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
1966 - France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island
1966 - Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
1967 - 1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line)
1967 - Race riots in Durham NC
1967 - US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
1969 - Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
1970 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open
1971 - Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees
1973 - Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial)
1974 - Cleve Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0
1974 - David Bowie's "Diamond Dog" tour ends in NYC
1974 - Soyuz 14 lands
1975 - Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
1975 - NY Yank catcher Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single & RBI are
1975 - Nullified because the tar on his bat handle exceeds 18" limit
1976 - Rock group Deep Purple disbands
1976 - Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the
           group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony
1976 - Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
1977 - 48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, NY
1977 - All star MVP: Don Sutton (LA Dodgers)
1977 - Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76
1978 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1978 - Yanks start 14 game comeback with 2-0 win
1979 - 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill
1979 - Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe
1979 - Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza
1979 - Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW
1980 - 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott
1980 - David Bowie appears in role of "Elephant Man" in Denver
1981 - 110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St George
1981 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1982 - 1st Old Timer's All star classic - AL wins 7-2 in Wash DC
1982 - Bolivian government resigns
1982 - David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon
1982 - 1st annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot HR off
           Warren Spahn, AL beats NL 7-2
1983 - The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
1984 - 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
1984 - Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), wins Democratic VP nomination
1985 - Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle
1985 - Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die
1985 - The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
1986 - Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with
1986 - Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 - 116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane
1987 - Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games
1987 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1989 - Cleve Indian Joe Carter has his 4th 3 HR game
1989 - United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112
1990 - BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 dies
1990 - Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion
1990 - Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif
1990 - Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most
           appearances as a NY Yankee
1991 - Cal Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
1991 - Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington)
1991 - With NY Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better
1992 - "Price" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 47 performances
1992 - 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1)
1992 - Ballet dancer Peter Martins charged with beating his wife
1992 - Ebony P Warren, crowned 24th Miss Black America
1992 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1992 - NYC Ballet star Peter Martins, arrested for beating his wife
1993 - Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes
1993 - Last day of 1st-class cricket for Ian Botham
1993 - Pres Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions
1994 - 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles)
1994 - Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon Panama, 21 killed
1994 - Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president
1996 - Ireland beats Netherlands in 1st European Championship Final
1996 - Jason Gallian scores 312 in 683 mins for Lancashire v Derbyshire
1996 - XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta Georgia
1998 - 127th British Golf Open: at Royal Birkdale
1998 - JAL Big Apple Golf Classic

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This Day in History for 19th July


Famous Weddings

1913 - Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs"
           Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
1932 - "Rebecca" author Daphne DuMaurier (25) weds commander of the I Airborne Corps Lt. Gen.
           Frederick Browning (35)
1966 - 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas
1971 - "The Who" lead singer Roger Daltrey (27) weds model Heather Taylor
1986 - Caroline Kennedy (28) weds Edwin Schlossberg (41) at the Church of Our Lady of Victory in
           Centerville, Massachusetts
2003 - "King of Queens" actress Leah Remini (33) weds actor/salsa musician Angelo Pagan (45) at
            the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas
2003 - "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch" actress Melissa Joan Hart (27) weds "Course of Nature" lead
            singer-guitarist Mark Wilkersonin (26) in Florence, Italy

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This Day in History for 19th July


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Inventor/Industrialist                              Murderer Lizzie Borden (1860)              Gymnast Sofia Muratova (1929)
Samuel Colt (1814)   


1592 - Erhard Buttner, composer
1670 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
1688 - Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
1735 - Garret Wesley Mornington, composer
1742 - Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer
1744 - Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806)
1750 - Alessio Prati, composer
1759 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
1782 - Jonathan Blewitt, composer
1789 - John Martin, English painter
1797 - Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer
1800 - Juan José Flores, military and first president of Ecuador (d. 1864)
1811 - Vincenz Lachner, composer
1814 - Samuel Colt, Hartford Connecticut, US inventor/industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver), (d. 1862)
1817 - Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, US, army nurse (union)
1819 - Gottfried Keller, writer
1822 - Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1916)
1823 - George Henry Gordon, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1827 - Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1857)
1828 - Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
1833 - John Wesley Turner, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1899
1834 - Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter (Bouquet)
1838 - Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (Rule of Allen)
1846 - Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist
1848 - Cornelis A Pekelharing, artist (fabric seller)
1849 - F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian
1849 - Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (d. 1906)
1851 - Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer (head of Jut)
1854 - Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer
1860 - Lizzie Borden, Fall River Massachusetts, acquitted of murder (gave her mother forty whacks),
           (d. 1927)
1863 - Hermann Bahr, Austria writer/director (New Men)
1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic)
1873 - Louis Zimmermann, violinist/1st concert master of Concert building
1876 - Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d.
           1972)
1876 - John Gunn, Former England cricketer (d. 1963)
1877 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
1878 - Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-1st-Member of parliament (About Plato)
1879 - Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director (KNMI)
1881 - Adriaan J Zoetmulder, Dutch writer/directer (Eindhovens Dagblad)
1881 - Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist (radiologist)
1883 - Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (d. 1972)
1888 - Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi
1892 - Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1957)
1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution)[OS=7/7]
1894 - Joris [Georges] of Severen, Flemish fascist/Member of parliament
1894 - Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
1894 - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)
1895 - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
1896 - A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (Citadel, Shining Victory) (d. 1981)
1898 - Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo, composer
1899 - Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician (CPN)/Editor (The Truth)
1900 - Arno Breker, German sculptor (3rd Reich sculptor
1900 - Charles Barnet "Roscoe" Harvey, soldier
1900 - Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer
1902 - Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Miraculous Life of Willem Parel)
1905 - Boyd Neel, Blackheath, Kent England, conductor (Story of an Orch)
1905 - Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist: Red star over China
1905 - Louis Philip Kentner, composer
1906 - Klaus Egge, Gransherad, Telemark Norway, composer (Noregsonger)
1906 - Wim van Doorne, Dutch car manufacturer (DAF)
1907 - Gunter Bialas, composer
1907 - Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)
1909 - Jeno Vecsey, composer
1912 - Norman Carr, British conservationist (b. 1997)
1914 - Josef Palenicek, composer
1914 - Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
1916 - James D Ramage, US lt-Adm (WW II-Palau/Guam/Philippines)
1916 - Phillip Cavaretta, baseball player (NL MVP 1945)
1917 - Robert Aitken, Phila, Zen co-founder (Diamond Sangha)
1917 - William W Scranton, (Gov-R-Pa)
1919 - Patricia Medina, Liverpool England, actress (High-Low), (d. 2012)
1919 - Robert Pinget, novelist/playwright
1919 - Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005)
1920 - Robert Christiani, cricketer (brother of Cyril WI batsman in 22 Tests)
1920 - Robert Mann, Portland Oregon, composer/violinist (String Quartet 1952)
1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist
1922 - George McGovern, (Sen-D-SD)/pres candidate (D-1972), (d. 2012)
1922 - Rachel Robinson, social activist/humanitarian/Mrs Jackie Robinson
1922 - Harold Camping, American evangelist, founder of Family Radio
1923 - William A. Rusher, American columnist
1924 - Pat Hingle [Martin Patterson], Miami, Florida, American actor (Splendor in the Grass, Batman
           Returns)
1924 - Sybren Polet, [Sijbe Minnema], Dutch writer/poet (Mannekino)
1924 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (d. 2005)
1925 - Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer
1926 - Helen Gallagher, Bkln, actress (Ryan's Hope, Strangers When We Meet)
1926 - Max Sordam, Suriname warden/writer (Dictionary Sranantongo)
1926 - Sue Thompson, [Eva Sue Mckee], rocker
1927 - Jan Myrdal, Swedish writer/journalist (Albania Defiant)
1928 - John Bratby, painter/writer (Breakdown)
1929 - Sofia Muratova, USSR, gymnist,(Olympic-6 gold/3 silv/4 bronze-1952-60), (d. 2006)
1932 - Buster Benton, singer/guitarist
1934 - Willem Nijholt, actor (De Nietsnut, Respect, Op Afbetaling)
1934 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
1935 - Vasily Livanov, Russian and Soviet film actor
1937 - George Hamilton IV, NC, actor (Evel Knievel, Love at 1st Bite)
1937 - Larry Boxx, founder (Land B Computer Serv)
1937 - Richard Jordan [Robert Anson Jordan Jr.], New York City, New York, American actor (Dune,
           Gettysburg)
1938 - Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
1938 - Nicholas Bethell, British historian (d. 2007)
1940 - Vikki Carr [Florencia Vicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona)], El Paso Texas, singer (Let it Be
           Him)
1940 - Dennis Cole, Detroit, actor (Felony Squad, Brackens's World)
1941 - Jennifer Dunn, (Rep-R-Washington)
1941 - Jerry Huckaby, (Rep-D-LA, 1977- )
1941 - Natalya Bessmertnova, Moscow, dancer (Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970)
1941 - Neelie Smit-Kroes, Dutch politician (VVD)/minister of Traffic
1943 - Roy Dunbard Bridges Jr, Atlanta Ga, Col USAF/astro (STS 51-F, 61-F)
1944 - Commander Cody, singer/pianist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)
1945 - George Dzunda, Rosenheim Germany, actor (Deer Hunter, Law & Order)
1946 - Alan Gorrie, Scotland, rock bassist/singer (Average White Band)
1946 - Ilie Nastase, Bucharest Romania, tennis player (US Open 1972)
1947 - Bernie Leadon, Minneapolis, guitarist/vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1947 - Brian May, London, rock guitarist (Queen-We are the Champions)
1947 - Gerard Schwarz, Weehawken NJ, trumpeter/conductor (LA Chamber Orch)
1947 - Mike Dutfield, documentary prodcuer
1947 - Hans-Jürgen Kreische, East German footballer
1948 - Beverly Archer, Oak Park Ill, actress (Iola-Mama's Family)
1948 - Keith Godchaux, rock keyboardist (Grateful Dead)
1949 - Ivar Kants, Australian actor
1950 - Simon Cadell, English actor (Hi-Di-Hi, Pride & Extreme Prejudice)
1950 - Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
1950 - Freddy Moore, American songwriter
1951 - Abel Ferrara, American filmmake
1951 - Jayson Stark, American sportswriter
1952 - Alan Collins, rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1952 - Dominic Muldowney, composer
1952 - Howard Donald Saunders, Danbury Ct, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1952 - Robert A. Ficano, American politician
1952 - John Griesheimer, American politician
1954 - Srđa Trifković, Serbian-American journalist
1955 - Roger Binny, Indian cricket medium-pace all-rounder (early 80's)
1956 - Great [Yoshiaki] Yatsu, wrestler (NJPW/WCCW/WWF)
1956 - Peter Barton, Valley Stream LI, actor (Powers of Matthew Star)
1957 - Cathy Reynolds, Kansas City MO, LPGA golfer (1981 Golden Lights)
1958 - Robert Gibson, American professional wrestler
1958 - David Robertson, American symphony orchestra conductor
1959 - Terri Treas, KC Kansas, actress (Hannah-7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1960 - Atom Egoyan, Cairo Egypt, director (Adjuster, Next of Kin)
1961 - Suzi Schott, Springfield Ill, playmate (August, 1984)
1961 - Campbell Scott, New York City, New York, American actor/director/producer (Saint Ralph, Big
           Night)
1961 - Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
1961 - Hideo Nakata, Japanese film director
1961 - Benoît Mariage, Belgian film director
1962 - Anthony Edwards, Santa Barbara Ca, actor (It Takes Two, Dr Greene-ER)
1962 - Brad Wilson, Pomona California, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 9 Pro-Am)
1962 - Craig Muni, Toronto, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1963 - Mark Carreon, Chicago IL, outfielder (SF Giants)
1963 - Marla Duncan, Fairfield California, Miss Northern California fitness (1990)
1963 - Sandor Wladar, Hungary, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1963 - Garth Nix, Australian author
1964 - Alexandra Curtis, model/daughter of Christine Kaufmann
1964 - Gina Procaccio, Drexel Hills Pennsylvania, 5k runner
1964 - Teresa Edwards, Cairo GA, basketball forward (Oly-gold-1984, 88,92,96)
1964 - André A. Jackson, founder African Diamond Producers Association
1965 - Kathleen Raine, equestrian dressage (Olympics-96)
1965 - Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist
1965 - Stuart Scott, American sportscaster
1966 - David Segui, KC KS, infielder (Montreal Expos)
1966 - Kate Rogerson, Pitts PA, LPGA golfer (1990 Circle K LPGA Tucson-2nd)
1966 - Nancy Walls, American actress
1967 - Christian Bergstrom, Sweden, tennis star
1967 - Dale Hurley Jr, Philadelphia, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Carolie DeVonne Howe, Chugwater Wyoming, Miss Wyoming-America (1991)
1968 - Leroy Butler, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers - Superbowl 31)
1968 - Robert Flynn, American musician (Machine Head)
1969 - David Goldsmith, New Brunswick NJ, actor (Eric-Models Inc)
1969 - Matthew Libatique, American cinematographer
1970 - Brooks Thompson, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Orlando Magic)
1970 - Kengy Gardiner, Providence RI, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-5th-1994)
1970 - Rhona Susan Robertson, Auckland NZ, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1971 - Rick Walters, CFL slot back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1971 - Urs Bühler, Swiss tenor (Il Divo)
1971 - Russell Allen, American musician (Symphony X)
1971 - Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
1972 - Adriaan J Zoetmulder, author/director (Eindhovens Newspaper)
1972 - Andrew Kavovit, actor (Paul-As the World Turns)
1972 - John Paci, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 - Tamarie Ivie, Ananheim CA, female infielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1972 - Naohito Fujiki, Japanese actor and singer
1972 - Ebbe Sand, Danish footballer
1973 - Angeline Putt, Miss Universe-Singapore (1996)
1973 - Martin Powell, English musician (Cradle of Filth)
1973 - Saïd Taghmaoui, French actor
1974 - Vincent Spadea, Chicago Ill, tennis star
1974 - Rey Bucanero, Mexican professional wrestler
1974 - Preston Wilson, baseball player
1975 - Alexi Komarov, Yekaterinburg Russia, dance skater (& Carr-1995 Pac Champ)
1976 - R J Williams, actor (General Hospital, Full House)
1976 - Gonzalo de los Santos, Uruguayan footballer
1976 - Vinessa Shaw, American actress
1977 - Haitham Mustafa, Sudanese footballer
1977 - Ed Smith, English cricketer
1977 - Tony Mamaluke, American professional wrestler
1977 - Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1978 - Nené, Brazilian footballer
1979 - Luke Young, English footballer
1979 - Rick Ankiel, Baseball pitcher/ outfielder
1979 - Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
1980 - Giorgio Mondini, Italian racing driver
1980 - Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player
1980 - Mark Webber, American actor
1981 - Naomi Grabow, lake Arrowhead California, pairs skater (& Benjamin Oberman)
1981 - Anderson Luiz de Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Didz Hammond, bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause)
1981 - Jimmy Gobble, American baseball player
1981 - David Bernard, West Indian cricketer
1982 - Jess Vanstrattan, Australian footballer
1982 - Jared Padalecki, American actor
1982 - Stuart Parnaby, English footballer
1984 - Holly Roffey, Englnd, youngest heart transplant
1984 - Lasse Gjertsen, Norwegian animator
1984 - Lewis Price, Welsh footballer
1984 - Alessandra De Rossi, Filipino actress
1990 - Steven Anthony Lawrence, American actor

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This Day in History for 19th July


Famous Deaths

First President of South Korea
Syngman Rhee (1965)


514 - Symmachus, Italian Pope (498-514), dies
931 - Uda, Emperor of Japan (b. 867)
1054 - Bernold[us] Benno/Bernulphus, bishop of Utrecht (1027-54)/saint, dies
1234 - Floris IV, count of Holland, killed in tournament
1346 - Dirk IV, mister of Valkenburg (1332-46), dies in battle
1374 - Francesco Petrarca, [Petracco], Italian mountaineer/poet, dies at 69
1415 - Philippa of Lancaster, wife of John I of Portugal (plague) (b. 1359)
1534 - Willem van Enkenvoirt, cardinal/bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 70
1543 - Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII of England
1545 - George Carew, English admiral, drowns
1545 - Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns
1625 - Samuel Besler, composer, dies at 50
1627 - Dirck R "Didericus" Camphuysen, poet/printer/vicar, dies at about 41
1631 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
1687 - Laura Martinozzi, Duchess of Modena (b. 1637)
1688 - Cornelis van Aerssen, governor of Suriname (1683-88), murdered at 50
1700 - Hieronymus Gradenthaler, composer, dies at 62
1730 - Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer, dies at 49
1740 - Francois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname), dies at 71
1742 - John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor, dies at 45
1742 - William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
1810 - Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III, dies at 34
1811 - Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer, dies at 76
1814 - Matthew Flinders, English cartographer (Australia coast), dies at 40
1824 - Agustín de Iturbide [crowned Agustin I], Mexican army general, politician and the 1st emperor
           of Mexico is executed by firing squad at 40
1838 - Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer, dies at 72
1844 - Heinrich Domnich, composer, dies at 77
1847 - Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer, dies at 75
1850 - Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis/revolutionary, drowned
1850 - [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, US feminist/revolutionary, dies
1852 - Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83
1857 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)
1868 - Soji Okita, Japanese samurai, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1842 or 1844)
1892 - Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau), dies at 83
1895 - Charles T Stork, great industrialist (cotton mach factory), dies at 73
1895 - Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies at 67
1896 - Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
1906 - Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (b. 1849)
1907 - Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77
1913 - Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
1914 - Alexander Conze, German archaeologist, dies at 82
1918 - Joost van Vollenhoven, Neth, gov-gen (French West-Africa), dies
1922 - Cornelis A Pekelharing, Dutch histologist, dies on 74th birthday
1930 - Robert Stout, NZ prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85
1939 - Tom Hayward, cricketer (35 Tests for England, 1999 runs), dies
1939 - Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (b. 1850)
1940 - Samuel H Chang, US newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai
1944 - Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated
1944 - Harry CA Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania), dies at 87
1944 - Will Marion Cook, composer, dies at 75
1945 - George Barbier, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 80
1947 - Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
1947 - U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
1951 - Max Ettinger, composer, dies at 77
1954 - Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer, dies at 81
1955 - Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch soc-democrat (SDAP/AJC/PvdA), dies at 64
1957 - Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E sorryert], Ital author (Kaputt), dies at 59
1958 - Robert Earl Hughes, weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32
1964 - Carol Veazie, actress (Maude-Norby), dies at 69
1965 - Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (1948-60), dies at 90
1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne, in Ted Kennedy's car, drowns at 28
1969 - Pavel I Apostolov, Russian military bandmaster, dies
1970 - Barry Wood, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61
1972 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (b. 1884)
1973 - Clarence White, rocker (Byrds), killed by drunken driver at 29
1973 - Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 33
1974 - Earl Warren, gov of Calif/Supreme court justice (1953-68), dies at 83
1974 - Joe Flynn, actor (McHale's Navy), dies at 59
1974 - Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (b. 1904)
1975 - Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1976 - Gene Roth, actor (Rosie, Tormented, Nightfall), dies at 73
1976 - Sal Tas, Dutch journalist, dies at 70
1977 - John R Powers, US director model bureau, dies at 80
1981 - Louis Cheslock, composer, dies at 81
1981 - Roger Doucet, French Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
1982 - John Harvey, stage and film actor (b. 1911)
1984 - Carol Eberts Veazie, actress (Maude Endles-Norby), dies at 89
1984 - Geert Lubberhuizen, Dutch publisher (Busy Bee), dies at 68
1984 - Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
1985 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
1989 - Carl-Heinz Schroth, dir/actor (Strafverteidiger), dies at 87
1989 - Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (b. 1913)
1990 - Eddie Quillan, actor (Brigadoon, Summer Magic), dies of cancer at 83
1990 - Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies of a stroke at 76
1990 - Johnny Wayne, comedian (Wayne & Shuster), dies of cancer at 72
1992 - Bert Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Dutch marionette theater), dies
1992 - Heinz Galinski, Pres (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79
1992 - Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, murdered by mafia
1993 - Elmar Klos, Czech director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83
1993 - Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist/conductor, dies at 84
1994 - Christian-Jaque, [Christian Maudet], French director (Nana), dies
1994 - Frederik "Frits" van der More, archaeologist/art historian, dies at 87
1994 - Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre Producer, dies at 81
1994 - Nathan Susskind, Slovak/US linguist (Yiddish), dies at 87
1994 - Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive, dies at 37
1995 - Dorothy McHugh, actress (I Fallen & I Can't Get Up), dies at 87
1995 - James Smiddy, high school basketball coach (1,216 wins), dies at 71
1995 - Michael Andrews, painter, dies at 66
1995 - Sydney Lipton, bandleader/violin, dies at 89
1995 - Yusef Bedri, educationist, dies at 82
1996 - David Nicolson, British businessman and politician, dies at 73
1996 - Emmanual Tettey Mensah, musician, dies at 77
1996 - Lawrence Martin Jenco, priest, dies at 61
1996 - Mervyn Hugh Cowie, willife conservationist, dies at 87
1996 - Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer, dies at 79
1996 - Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher, dies at 81
1998 - Elmer Valo, baseball player (b. 1921)
2002 - Alan Lomax, American folksong collector (b. 1915)
2003 - Bill Bright, American evangelist (b. 1921)
2003 - Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1908)
2004 - Reverend Francis Marzen, American Catholic prelate (b. 1924)
2004 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
2005 - John Tyndall, British politician (b. 1934)
2005 - Edward Bunker, American writer (b. 1933)
2006 - Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 - Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1944)
2007 - A. K. Faezul Huq, Lawyer, politician, and freelance journalist (b. 1945)
2008 - Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne (b. 1907)
2009 - Frank McCourt, Irish-American author. (b. 1930)
2009 - Henry Surtees, British racing driver. (b. 1991)
2010 - Lorenzen Wright, American basketball player (b. 1975)
2012 - Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general and intelligence officer, dies from a heart attack at 76

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This Day in History for 20th July


Historical Events

                                   
Naturalist Charles Darwin                         Aviator Charles Lindbergh                     US Admiral Chester Nimitz

                                   
First President of South Korea             Astronaut & 1st Man on the Moon             Baseball Player Hank Aaron
Syngman Rhee                                                 Neil Armstrong

                 
Heavyweight Boxing Champion              NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal
Mike Tyson                                                OJ Simpson


514 - St Hormisdas elected as Pope succeeding Pope Sympowerus
1031 - Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France
1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the
           last rebel stronghold of the war.
1495 - French viceroy of Naples Montpensier surrenders
1498 - Emperor Maximilian names Albrecht governor of Netherlands
1553 - PM John Dudley captured in Cambridge
1609 - Emperor Rudolf II grants Silezische protestants freedom of religion
1619 - Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader
1627 - English fleet under George Villiers reaches La Rochelle [OS=June 10]
1654 - Anglo-Portuguese treaty, Portugal comes under English control
1712 - The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain.
1738 - North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the
           western shore of Lake Michigan.
1749 - Earl of Chesterfield says "Idleness is only refuge of weak minds"
1773 - Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
1801 - Elisha Brown Jr pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm
1808 - Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names
1810 - Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), declare independence from Spain.
1836 - Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension
1847 - German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf
1849 - Start of 1st Lancashire-Yorkshire clash at Hyde Park, Sheffield
1855 - 1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands
1858 - Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)
1858 - Gathering of Plombieres - Napoleon III meets Cavour
1861 - Confederate state's congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Va
1862 - Guerrilla campaign in GA (Porter's & Poindexter's) [->SEP 20] US580 CS2866
1864 - Battle at Stephenson's Depot Virginia: 200 killed or injured
1864 - Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign
1866 - Sea battle of Lissa-Austria vs Italy
1868 - 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes
1871 - British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
1876 - 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins
1877 - Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9
1878 - 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii
1881 - Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops
1890 - "Gibbons Stamp Monthly" begins publishing
1890 - Snow & hail in Calais, ME
1894 - 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
1903 - Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X
1906 - Bkln Dodger Mal Eason no-hits St Louis Cards, 2-0
1907 - A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures
           seventy more.
1910 - Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption
1911 - Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
1911 - Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war
           with Germany
1912 - Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game
1913 - Turkish troop take Adrianopel & Erdine from Bulgaria
1914 - Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster
1916 - Giants trade Christy Mathewson to Cin Reds
1917 - Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats & Slovenes form Yugoslavia
1917 - WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn
1918 - World War I: German troops cross the Marne.
1920 - Heerenveen soccer team forms
1921 - Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the US House
           of Representatives.
1922 - Togo made a mandate of League of Nations
1923 - Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2
1924 - Federation Internationale des Echecs (FIDE) forms in Paris
1924 - Teheran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed
           by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people.
1925 - Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France
1925 - Italian-Serbian/Croatian/Slav treaty about Dalmatie
1926 - A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh begins NY flight (Spirit of St Louis)
1928 - The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways,
           settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other
           Hungarians.
1930 - 106°F (41°C), Washington, DC (district record)
1932 - In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus
           Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House.
1933 - Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler
1933 - In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism.
1933 - Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through
           the streets.
1934 - 118°F (48°C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record)
1935 - 1st broadcast of "Gang Busters" on NBC-radio
1935 - Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a
           Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
1938 - Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws
1940 - Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands
1940 - Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist
1940 - Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart (#1 is "I'll Never Smile Again" by Tommy
           Dorsey)
1941 - Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17
1942 - 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training
1942 - Barbados dismiss Trinidad for 16 in 69 minutes, Derek Sealy 8-8
1942 - Legion of Merit Medal authorized by congress
1942 - Time puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch on its cover
1943 - Joint Chiefs of Staff question adm Nimitz (landing Gilbert Island)
1944 - Brit/Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy
1944 - Browns Nelson Potter is 1st pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs
1944 - Canadian Cameroon Highlanders conquer St-Andre
1944 - Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins
1944 - Fieldmarshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen
1944 - Flying Fortresses of US 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau
1944 - Gen Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy
1944 - Heavy storm hampers British offensive at Caen
1944 - Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sinks by US air attack
1944 - July 20th Plot-Failed assassination attempt on Hitler
1944 - Liberators of US 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim/Eisenach
1944 - Pres FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention
1944 - US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen
1944 - US 9th AF bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux
1944 - US invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II
1944 - Violent battles in Verrieres-hill (Normandy)
1944 - Fifty are hurt in rioting in front of the presidential palace in Mexico City.
1947 - 1st political action of Neth Army on Java & Sumatra
1948 - Lou Thesz beats Bill Longson, to become NWA wrestling champ
1948 - Syngman Rhee elected President of South Korea
1948 - US Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested
1949 - Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
1949 - Vasil Kolarov elected premier of Bulgaria
1950 - "Arthur Murray Party" premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)
1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in
           Jerusalem.
1952 - Emile Zatopek runs Olympic Record 10K (29:17.0)
1952 - Fausto Coppi wins Tour de France
1953 - USSR/Israel recover diplomatic relations
1953 - The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency.
1954 - Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North & South
1954 - Tennis champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident
1954 - West German secret service head Otto John defects to German DR
1956 - France recognizes Tunisia's independence
1956 - Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1956 - Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs
1958 - 40th PGA Championship: Dow Finsterwald shoots a 276 at Llanerch CC PA
1958 - Betty Jameson/Mary Lena Faulk wins Homestead 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1958 - King Hussein of Jordan breaks off diplomatic relations with UAR
1960 - 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
1960 - Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon
1960 - USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
1960 - The head of the Physics Department at the Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is
           arrested for espionage.
1961 - French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
1962 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 13th Symphony
1962 - France & Tunisia recover diplomatic relations
1963 - 17 African states & Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC
1963 - 18th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mary Mills
1963 - Verne Gagne beats Crusher Lisowski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1964 - 1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's "Surf City"
1964 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 10th String quartet
1965 - 18.18" (46.18 cm) of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record)
1965 - NY Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam
1967 - Pablo Neruda receives 1st Viareggio-Versile prizes
1967 - Race riots in Memphis Tenn
1968 - Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV
1968 - Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in
           at #117
1969 - 1st men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. from Apollo 11
1969 - 1st men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. from Apollo 11
1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Danbury Lady Carling Golf Open
1969 - Eddy Merckx wins Tour de France
1970 - Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks
1972 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ
1973 - Chic's Wilbur Wood starts & loses both games of a doubleheader with NY Yankees, 12-2, &
           7-0
1973 - The US Senate passes the War Powers Act.
1974 - Heng Yo & Heng Ju, completes 1,000 mile (SF-Seattle) pilgrimage
1974 - Turkey invades Cyprus
1975 - 30th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer
1975 - India expels three reporters from The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek because
           they refused to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship.
1976 - Hank Aaron hits 755th & last home run off Angels Dick Drago
1976 - Last US troops leave Thailand
1976 - US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
1976 - Vietnam War: The US military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand.
1977 - Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pa, kills 80 & causing $350 mil damage
1977 - The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act
           revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
1979 - 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash
1980 - 109th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 271 at Muirfield Gullane
1980 - Joop Zoetemelk wins Tour de France
1980 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
1981 - England set for innings loss v Aust, Botham hits 100 in 87 balls
1981 - Irene Saez, of Venezuela, crowned 30th Miss Universe
1982 - Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks
1982 - IRA bomb attacks in London
1982 - T Macauly & D Vosburghs musical "Windy City," premieres in London
1983 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1984 - Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m
1984 - Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America
1985 - Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
1985 - The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
1986 - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1987 - Don Mattingly ties 1st base fielding record with 22 put-outs
1988 - Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee
1989 - 93°F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona
1989 - Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest
1989 - Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at Washington, D.C.'s Project for the Arts
           after the Smithsonian Institution's Corcoran Gallery cancels it.
1990 - Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years
1991 - Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant
1992 - 121st British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 272 at Muirfield Gullane
1992 - Round World Air Race begins in Paris
1992 - Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
1993 - Fire in the press box at Altanta Fulton County Stadium
1993 - Joe Petruzzi files for divorce from Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever)
1994 - Major parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (July 16th-22nd)
1994 - OJ Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife's klller
1995 - The Regents of the University of California vote to end all affirmative action in the UC system
           by 1997.
1996 - 26th Olympic games open at Atlanta, Georgia (sched)
1996 - In Spain, an ETA bomb at an airport kills 35
1997 - 126th British Golf Open: Billy Ray Brown shoots a 271 at Royal Troon
1997 - American Justin Leonard wins the British Open shooting at 272
1997 - Burnet Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Michele Redman wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Classic
1998 - Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Doctors Without Borders and other aid
           groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban.
1999 - Falun Gong is banned in the People's Republic of China, and a large scale crackdown of the
           practice is launched.
2000 - The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal
           grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering
2000 - In Zimbabwe, Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members for the first
           time in a decade.
2000 - Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly
           torturing him.
2001 - The London Stock Exchange goes public.
2001 - Italy: The 27th Annual G8 summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo
           Giuliani, is shot by police.
2002 - South America: A fire in a discotheque in Lima, Peru kills over twenty-five.
2003 - France: Sixteen people are injured after two bombs explode outside a tax office in Nice.
2005 - Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill
           C-38 receives its Royal Assent.
2012 - 12 people are killed and 59 injured after a gunman opens fire at a Dark Knight movie premier
           in Aurora, Colorado,
2012 - 21 people are killed and 29 injured in a bus accident in Nayarit, Mexico