| 70 | | The foundation stone for the Capitoline Temple is laid in Rome. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1498 | * | Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1607 | * | First Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1675 | * | Christopher Wren begins work on rebuilding St. Paul's Cathedral in London after the Great Fire. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1684 | * | Massachusetts Bay Colony's charter revoked. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1756 | | 23 surviving prisoners in Black Hole of Calcutta (out of 146) released. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1768 | * | First US bachelor of medicine degree (Dr John Archer). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1770 | * | (Boston Massacre) (thru Jun 25th) Captain Preston's London letter, much to his dismay, is published in Boston papers, turning public sentiment against him. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1776 | * | Thomas Jefferson completes the draft of The Declaration of Independence and sends it to Benjamin Franklin for comment. Franklin suggests only minor changes. (Ref: Smithsonian Magazine, p 86, 8/2003) | |
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| 1787 | * | (Shays' Rebellion) Five "traitors" of Shays' Rebellion are marched to the gallows and receive a planned last-minute reprieve. Ref | |
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| 1788 | * | (new state) The colony of New Hampshire became the ninth state to enter the United States of America. It had been a long time coming. For 38 years, the fishing colony, first settled in 1623, and named in 1630 by Captain John Mason after his Hampshire, England home, was a part of the Massachusetts colony. Then, in 1679 it became a separate royal colony. Concord, the capital of the Granite State, was also central to much of the Revolutionary War. The official state bird is the purple finch, and has a matching state flower, the purple lilac. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1821 | * | The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church was formally constituted in New York City. Nineteen clergymen were present, representing six African-American churches from New York City; Philadelphia; New Haven, CT and Newark, NJ. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1868 | * | Georgia is readmitted to the Union after the Civil War, for the first time. | |
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| 1879 | * | F W Woolworth opens first store (failed almost immediately). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1887 | * | Zululand is annexed by the British | Ref: 62 |
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| 1887 | * | Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1900 | * | General Arthur MacArthur offers amnesty to Filipinos rebelling against American rule. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1908 | * | Mulai Hafid again proclaims himself the true sultan of Morocco. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1911 | * | Porforio Diaz, the ex-president of Mexico, exiles himself to Paris. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1917 | * | Hawaiian Red Cross founded | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Proctor, a ballistics expert, testifies that shells found at the scene and taken from the bodies of the decedents were "consistent with" having been fired by Sacco's pistol; it was later challenged that the word "consistent" was used purposely to lead the jury to believe that Sacco's pistol was the murder weapon without explicitly saying so. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1923 | * | Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using the mail to defraud. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | First Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Richard M. Nixon married Thelma Catherine ‘Pat’ Ryan this day. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | 129ø F (54ø C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | The first implosion initiator is ready. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1948 | * | The Republican national convention opened in Philadelphia. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1957 | * | The FBI arrested Colonel Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, a Soviet espionage agent. | Ref: 14 |
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| 1958 | * | A federal judge allows Little Rock, Arkansas to delay school integration. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1962 | * | USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | France announces it will withdraw from the NATO fleet in the North Atlantic. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1963 | * | Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope took the name Paul VI. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1964 | * | (Mississippi Burning) Mickey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney drive to site of burned church in Neshoba County. On their way back to Meridian, they are arrested by Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price and taken to the county jail in Philadelphia, Miss. In a conspiracy with at local members of the Klan, Price releases the three from jail at 10 pm. The civil rights workers' station wagon is overtaken on a rural road, the three are beaten and shot and their bodies buried in an earthen dam. (XDG, p. 4A, 6/21/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1966 | * | (Mississippi Burning) Civil rights workers James E. Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Following the FBI's MIBURN investigation, eight men, including Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price and Sam Holloway Bowers, Jr., the Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the KKK of Mississippi, were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment under the federal civil rights statutes for the crime. | Ref: 14 |
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| 1968 | * | Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | The Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1977 | * | Menachem Begin becomes Israel's sixth prime minister. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1977 | * | Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | (Chairman, Joint Chiefs) General David C Jones, USAF, becomes chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1982 | * | A jury in Washington DC found John Hinckley Junior innocent by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Reagan and three other men. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Pres Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | The US Supreme Court in TX v. Johnson ruled that burning the American flag as a political protest is protected by the First Amendment. In 1984, on Dallas City Hall property, Gregory Lee Johnson burned an American flag to protest Reagan administration policies. He was tried and convicted (one year in jail and $2,000 fine) under a TX law outlawing flag desecration. The TX Court of Criminal Appeals had reversed the conviction and the state then appealed to the Supreme Court, which ruled 5-to-4 against the TX law. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1989 | * | Original script of "Citizen Kane"sold at a New York auction for a record $210,000. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1990 | * | At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a NY Yankee baseball cap & proclaims "I am a Yankee!". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | US House of Reps vote 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Secretary of State James Baker visited Yugoslavia, where he pleaded for a peaceful solution to multiethnic conflicts that were threatening to erupt into civil war. | Ref: 64 |
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| 1991 | * | Eleanor Mondale marries Greg "Thunder" Malban (Minn DJ). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | The U.S. Senate votes against the nomination of Dr. Henry W. Foster for Surgeon General. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1995 | * | Microsoft and Netscape officials met at Netscape headquarters in Mountain View, CA. Notes taken by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen indicate that Microsoft offered to buy a share of its rival if Netscape would stop making Navigator for the Windows market. The Andreessen notes would be used later in the US government’s massive antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. (Microsoft founder Bill Gates was painted as the master string-puller in a no-holds-barred plan to destroy Netscape Communications Corp. when it refused to collaborate on a plot to divide the market for Internet browser software.) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1996 | * | European leaders agreed to gradually lift a global ban on British beef exports imposed nearly three months earlier following a scare over "mad cow" disease. | Ref: 64 |
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| 1999 | * | America Online announced its investment of $1.5 billion in DirecTV creator Hughes Electronics Corp. The agreement gave AOL new high-speed options and expanded ties between the world’s largest Internet provider and the leading US satellite TV service. A combination of AOL’s Internet services and Hughes’ digital TV system would help increase DirecTV’s subscriber base while boosting the market for AOL’s interactive TV and high-speed Internet services. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | Prince William, the ‘people’s prince’, turned 17. Princess Diana’s handsome eldest son was given a VW Golf by his dad, Prince Charles. This was the second birthday William had spent without his mother, who was killed in a car crash in August 1997. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2000 | * | North Korea promised to refrain from long-range missile tests after the United States lifted some economic sanctions against it. | Ref: 64 |
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| 2000 | * | Some 55 years after World War II ended, 22 Asian-American veterans received the Medal of Honor for bravery on the battlefield during a White House ceremony. | Ref: 64 |
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| 2001 | * | A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., indicted 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2002 | * | Judge Thomas M. Rose of Xenia is sworn in as a federal judge at the University of Dayton School of Law. It is the first time Dayton has two judges on the federal bench. Chief US District Judge Walter H. Rice is in his 23rd year in Dayton. (XDG, p 1A, 6/13/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1633 | * | Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1805 | * | Great Stoneface Mt found in NH. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1834 | * | Cyrus McCormick patents the first practical reaper for farming. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1853 | * | The envelope folding machine was patented by Dr. Russell L. Hawes of Worcester, MA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1859 | * | Andrew Lanergan of Boston, MA received the first rocket patent. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1913 | * | Georgia Broadwick became the first woman to jump from an airplane -- over Los Angeles, CA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | The Small-Scale Experimental Machine, known as SSEM, or the "Baby", was designed and built at the University of Manchester, and made its first successful run of a program. It was the first machine that had all the components now classically regarded as characteristic of the basic computer. Most importantly it was the first computer that could store not only data but any (short!) user program in electronic memory and process it at electronic speed. Ref | |
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| 1948 | * | First stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Dr Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrates "long playing record" Columbia commits to 33 1/3 rpm records, plans to phase out 78's | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | Soyuz 19 returns to Earth. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB. | Ref: 5 |
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| -217 | | -BC- Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal destroy a Roman army under consul Gaius Flaminicy in a battle at Lake Trasimenus in central Italy. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1314 | * | The Scots, under Robert the Bruce, defeat Edward II's army at Bannockburn. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1667 | | The Peace of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War as the Dutch cede New Amsterdam to the English. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1752 | * | A party of Chippewas, Potawatomies, and Ottawas, led by Charles Langlade, attack the Indian village of Picawillany, destroy Croghan's trading post, killing one British trader, and taking others prisoner. | Ref: 92 |
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| 1792 | | Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil & Mexicana off Vancouver, BC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1798 | | The Irish Rebellion ends with the rebel defeat at Vinegar Hill. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1862 | * | Union and Confederate forces skirmish at the Chickahominy Creek. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1863 | * | In the second day of fighting, Confederate troops fails to dislodge a Union force at the Battle of LaFourche Crossing. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1915 | * | Germany uses poison gas for the first time in warfare in the Argonne Forest. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1916 | * | Allies demand Greek demobilization. | Ref: 38 |
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| 1919 | * | The German High Seas Fleet scuttled at Scapa Flow. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | German General Erwin Rommel captures the port city of Tobruk in North Africa. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | Japanese submarine I-25 shells the harbor defenses of the Columbia River in Washington state. | Ref: 37 |
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| 1943 | * | Allies advance to New Georgia, Solomon Islands. | |
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| 1945 | * | During World War II, American soldiers on Okinawa found the body of the Japanese commander, Lt. Gen. Mitsuru Ushijima, who had committed suicide. | Ref: 64 |
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| 1945 | * | Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to US during WW II. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Pentagon officials said American troops destroyed an Iraqi ammunition depot in March 1991 that may have contained chemical weapons. | Ref: 64 |
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| 1858 | * | Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1879 | * | William Edward White plays his only professional baseball game for the Providence Greys of the National League. Recent research indicates White may have been the first black to break Major League Baseball's color barrier. (USA Today, p 24C, 2/02/2004) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1880 | * | Paddy Ryan won the world heavyweight boxing title by beating up Joe Goss in -- are you ready? -- the 87th round, near Colliers Station, WV. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1900 | * | Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | * | Harley "Doc" Parker is pummeled for 26 hits and 21 runs (both National League records which still stand) in his only Cincinnati Reds outing. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1904 | * | Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade "Dougherty as a Yankee," first known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | Boston Rube Forster no-hits NY Yankees, 2-0. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Max Schnelling loses a 15-round heavyweight boxing title fight by a decision to Jack Sharkey prompting Schnelling's manager, Joe Jacobs, to exclaim, "We was robbed!" (XDG, p. 4A, 6/21/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1937 | * | Wimbledon tennis tournament first televised. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1938 | * | Baseball's Pinky Higgins gets 12th straight hit. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Baseball legend Lou Gehrig is forced to quit baseball because of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis--a disease which wastes muscles. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1941 | * | Lefty Grove's Fenway consecutive win streak, which started on May 3, 1938, ends at 20 games with a 13-9 loss to the St. Louis Browns. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1942 | * | Ben Hogan recorded the lowest score (to that time) in a major golf tournament. Hogan shot a 271 for 72 holes in Chicago, IL. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Chicago and Baltimore one-hit one another as White Sox pitcher Jack Harshman beats Oriole hurlers Connie Johnson and George Zuverink, 1-0. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1964 | * | Jim Bunning (later to become a US Senator from Kentucky), a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, threw the first perfect game in the National League in 84 years, leading the Phils to a 6-0 win over the NY Mets. Bunning worked his magic in the first game of a Father’s Day doubleheader. Byrum Saam called the play-by-play on radio. In the second game of the twin-bill, 18-year-old Rick Wise won his first major-league game, 8-2, as the Phillies swept the Mets that summer day. (Bunning was also the first hurler in 61 years to get a no-hitter in both leagues.) (2003 Sports Illustrated Almanac, ISBN 1-929049-55-2) | |
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| 1965 | * | Gary Player won the US Open golf tournament to become only the fourth winner to earn all four top pro golf titles. Player from South Africa was the first non-American to achieve the feat. The Grand Slam of golf, incidentally, includes the US Open, the British Open, the Masters and the PGA Championship. The other professional golfers who have won all four events are Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, and Gene Sarazen. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1967 | * | Yanks take 5-3 lead in 11th & lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th & Yanks beat them 6-3. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Tiger shortstop Cesar Gutierrez goes seven hits for seven, including six singles and a double, to help edge the Indians in 12 innings, 12-8 . | Ref: 1 |
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| 1970 | * | Tony Jacklin was the second British golfer in 50 years to win the US Open golf tournament. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1970 | * | Brazil wins last Jules Rimet Trophy, soccer championship. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Dave Machemer of the California Angels hits a home run in his first major league at bat. | Ref: 12 |
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| 1984 | * | Ray Miller replaces Billy Gardner as the Minnesota Twins' field manager. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1985 | * | Ray Miller replaced Billy Gardner as manager of the Minnesota Twins. Miller became the fourth new manager to unpack his suitcase in the American League since the season started, two months previous. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendent. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Los Angeles beats Detroit, for the NBA championship. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | White Sox Carlton Fisk surpasses Yogi Berra as AL leader for career home runs by a catcher as his 307th HR helps to beat the Yanks, 7-3. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1991 | * | Islanders Denis Potvan & Michael Bossy inducted into NHL Hall of Fame | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Tom Kite fought fellow golfers and the elements as he won the US Open. Scoring records had given way to survival at Pebble Beach, CA. Howling winds made the greens as hard as concrete. Kite's final-round even-par score of 72 was enough to give him a two-stroke victory over Jeff Sluman. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1996 | * | (thru Jul 27th) Newly acquired San Diego Padre John Flaherty hits in 27 consecutive games, the 2nd-longest streak in Padres history and, at the time, the 2nd-longest ever by a catcher. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1997 | * | The NY Liberty defeated the Los Angeles Sparks, 67-57, in the innaugural WNBA game before a sold-out crowd of 14,284 fans at the Great Western Forum. In other opening-day action: The Houston Comets beat Cleveland, 76-56, and the Sacramento Monarchs beat the Utah Starzz, 70-60. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1998 | * | The Los Angeles Dodgers replace, on an interim basis, manager Bill Russell and general manager Fred Claire with Glenn Hoffman and Tom Lasorda. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1998 | * | Raymond, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays' mascot, debuts prior to the Devil Rays-Red Sox game at Tropicana Field. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1999 | * | Blue Jay Tony Fernandez becomes the Dominican-born career hits leader with his 2,178th hit to move ahead of Julio Franco. The shortstop's hit plated the winning run with two outs in the ninth in Toronto's 2-1 victory over the Royals. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2000 | * | The Florida Legislature passes a bill that creates a nine-member Community Improvement Authority in Miami-Dade County to study ways to finance a new ballpark. Two of the members are to be appointed by the Governor, three by the County Commission, two by the City Commission and one each by the Mayors of Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2001 | * | Returning to major leagues after a stint with Newark Bears of the independent Atlantic League, Jose Canseco starts as the designated hitter for the White Sox. The former All Star, who has 446 career home runs (23rd all time), didn't get any offers after being released by the Angels in the spring. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | During the New York-Penn League game between New Jersey Cardinals and Staten Island Yankees, a fan hops a fence goes and goes onto the field to argue an umpire's call at first base. The 38-year old woman is at the game with her 8-year-old daughter's Brownie troop. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | Luis Castillo hits safely in his 35th consecutive game tying Fred Clarke (1895), Ty Cobb (1917), and George Sisler (1924-25) for the 10-longest streak in major league history. The Marlin's infielder third inning infield hit off knuckleballer Steve Sparks's glove also surpasses 1987 Benito Santiago's for longest streak established by a Latin player. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1869 | * | The opera "Die Meistersinger" is produced (Munich). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | First Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Fiction: Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of The Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Wayne King and his orchestra recorded Time Was, with Buddy Clark providing the vocal accompaniment, for Victor Records. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | The Examiner patriotic song "Knit One, Purl Two" was recorded by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra. Words to the song appeared in the American Weekly section of today's newspaper. | Ref: 37 |
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| 1954 | | NBC radio presented the final broadcast of The Railroad Hour, hosted by Gordon MacRae. The program had been on the air for 16 years. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | Splish Splash was recorded by Bobby Darin. It was his first hit and it took Darin only ten minutes to write the song. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert, McCrea Louisana. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Billy Preston received a gold record for the instrumental hit, Outa-Space. Preston, who played for gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, back in 1956, was also in the film St. Louis Blues as a piano player. He was a regular on the Shindig TV show in the 1960s; and recorded with The Beatles on the hits Get Back and Let It Be. Preston also performed at The Concert for Bangladesh in 1969. Many well-known artists have utilized his keyboard talents, including Sly & The Family Stone and the Rolling Stones. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1981 | * | 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Paul McCartney releases "Take it Away". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Ron Howard directed his first music video. The TV star of The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days also directed the film Cocoon, which included Gravity, the song used in the video. Michael Sembello, a guitarist who played on Stevie Wonder’s hits between 1974 and 1979 was responsible for Gravity. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1989 | * | Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson remarry. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1002 | * | Saint/Pope Leo IX is born Bruno, son of Count Hug of Egisheim, Alsace. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1639 | * | Birth of Increase Mather, early American theologian. He published nearly 100 books, and is credited with helping end executions for witchcraft in colonial America. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1764 | * | Willaim Sydney Smith, British seaman during the Napoleonic Wars, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1774 | * | Daniel D Tompkins (D-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1812 | * | Moses Hess, German journalist; espoused socialism and Zionism, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1818 | * | Sir Richard Wallace, English art collector and philanthropist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1821 | * | Birth of Henry W. Baker, compiler of 'Hymns Ancient and Modern' Ä the unofficial Anglican church hymnal. He also authored the hymn based on Psalm 23: 'The King of Love My Shepherd Is.' | Ref: 5 |
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| 1851 | * | Daniel Carter Beard US, organized first boy scout troop, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1859 | * | Henry Ossawa Tanner, African-American painter, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1868 | * | Jose Graca Aranha, Brazilian novelist and diplomat | Ref: 70 |
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| 1880 | * | Arnold Lucius Gesell, psychologist and pediatrician, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1882 | * | Rockwell Kent artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1887 | * | Joseph Hayne Rainey, American politician; first African-American in the U.S. House of Representatives (1870-9), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1891 | * | Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1891 | * | Hermann Scherchen Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | Hilding Rosenberg Bosjkloster Sweden, composer (Babels Torn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | Reinhold Niebuhr US, theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Al Hirschfeld cartoonist (1975 Tony Award), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Dorothy Stickney actress (And So They Were Married), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Jean-Paul Sartre France, philosopher/writer (Nobel 1964; declined), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Randy (Randolph Edward) Moore baseball: Chicago White Sox, Boston Braves, Brooklyn Dodgers, SL Cardinals; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1911 | * | Albert Hirschfield, illustrator, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1912 | * | Mary McCarthy, American novelist (Memories of Catholic Girlhood, The Group), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1918 | * | Ed (Edmund Walter) Lopat (Lopatynski) baseball: pitcher: Chicago White Sox, NY Yankees [World Series: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953/all-star: 1951], Baltimore Orioles; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1921 | * | Jane (Ernestine) Russell actress: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Outlaw, Paleface, The Road to Bali; activist for homeless children, is born in Bemidji, MN. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1921 | * | Judy Holliday (Tuvim) actress: Adam’s Rib, Bells are Ringing, Born Yesterday, It Should Happen to You; died June 7, 1965 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1921 | * | Frank Scott Fargo ND, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | Jean Kent London England, actress (Adv of Sir Francis Drake), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Judy Holliday NYC, comedienne/actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | John Compton Lynchburg Tn, actor (Shannon-The D.A.'s Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Maureen Stapleton Troy NY, actress (Airport, Coccoon, Plaza Suite), is born. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1927 | * | Carl Stokes politician: first black elected mayor of a major city: Cleveland [1967, 1969]; Cleveland Municipal Court Judge, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1928 | * | Judith Raskin NYC, soprano (Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Helen Merrill (Jelena Ana Milcetic) jazz singer: LPs: Helen Merrill, Brownie, Clear Out of This World, Dream of You; Swing Journal readers’ poll: Best American Jazz Singer [1989], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1930 | * | Mike McCormack NFL offensive tackle (NY Yankees, Cleveland, Phila), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Lawrence K Grossman News president (NBC-TV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Margaret Heckler US Secretary of Health & Human Services (1983-85), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | O.C. (Ocie Lee) Smith singer: (Little Green Apples) is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | Lalo (Boris) Schifrin Buenos Aires Argentina, composer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Bernie Kopell NYC, actor (Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl), is born. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1935 | * | Françoise Sagan (Quoirez), France, author: Aimez-Vous Brahms, Bonjour Tristesse, Evasion, A Certain Smile, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1935 | * | Monte Markham Manatee Fla, actor (Second Hundred Years, Dallas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Ron Ely (Ronald Pierce) actor: Tarzan, Slavers, Doc Savage; host: Miss America Pageant, is born in Hereford TX. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Mariette Hartley NYC, actress (Poloroid spokesperson, Marooned), is born. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1940 | * | Joe Flaherty Pitts Pa, comedian (SCTV, Blue Monday), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Joe Flaherty Emmy Award-winning writer: SCTV Network 90 [1983]; actor: Second City TV, Maniac Mansion. Happy Gilmore, A Pig’s Tale, Who’s Harry Crumb, Back to the Future, Part 2, Speed Zone, Stripes, Used Cars, Tunnelvision, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | William Bradford Reynolds Conn, US asst attorney general, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Brian Sternberg pole-vaulter: Univ. of Washington: world pole vault record [16’-7": 1963], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Rock singer-musician Ray Davies (The Kinks) is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1944 | * | Corinna Tsopel Athens Greece, actress (Man Called Horse), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Chris Britton musician: guitar: group: The Troggs: Wild Thing, Any Way that You Want Me, Give It to Me, Night of the Long Grass, Little Girl, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Meredith Baxter Birney actress: Family Ties, Bridget Loves Bernie, Til Murder Do Us Part, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Duane Thomas football: Dallas Cowboys running back: Super Bowl V, VI | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Wade Phillips football: coach: Denver Broncos | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | Michael Gross Chicago Ill, actor (Family Ties), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Joey Molland musician: guitar, keyboards, singer: groups: Natural Gas, Badfinger: Day After Day, No Matter What, Baby Blue, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Leo Sayers rocker (You Make Me Feel Like Dancing), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Joey Kramer NYC, rock drummer (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Nils Lofgren musician: guitar, keyboards, singer, songwriter: Back It Up, Keith Don’t Go [Ode to the Glimmer Twin], Beggars Day, No Mercy, Secrets in the Street, Delivery Night; groups: Grin, E Street Band, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | Benazir Bhutto first female leader of a Moslem nation (Pakistan), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1953 | * | Robyn Douglass Sendai Japan, actress (Lonely Guy, Romantic Comedy), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Robert Pastorelli actor: I Married a Centerfold, Beverly Hills Cop II, Murphy Brown, Dances with Wolves, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Striking Distance, Eraser, South Pacific [2001], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Rick (Richard Lee) Sutcliffe baseball: pitcher: LA Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs [Cy Young Award-winner: 1984], Baltimore Orioles, SL Cardinals, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | Mikhail Burtsev USSR, sabres (Olympic-gold-1976), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Berk Breathed cartoonist: Bloom County, Outland, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | Mark Brzezicki rocker (Big Country-Wonderland), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Eric Douglas actor: The Flamingo Kid, Delta Force 3: The Killing Game, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | Tom Chambers NBA forward, center (Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Marc Copage LA Calif, actor (Corey Baker-Julia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Sammi Davis-Voss actress: The Lair of the White Worm, Hope and Glory, Homefront, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Doug Savant actor: Melrose Place, Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence, Shaking the Tree, Red Surf, Masquerade, Godzilla [1998], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Kari Kennell Colorado Springs Co, playmate (Feb, 1988), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Nan Woods actress (1 More Saturday Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Derrick Coleman basketball: Syracuse Univ, Seattle SuperSonics, Philadelphia 76ers, Charlotte Hornets, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1967 | * | Tim Simenson rocker (Bomb the Bass), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Juliette Lewis actress: Cape Fear, Husbands and Wives, Natural Born Killers, Romeo is Bleeding, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, My Stepmother is an Alien, Too Young to Die, I Married Dora, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1974 | * | Sindee Coxx, actress of X-rated films, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1982 | * | Prince William (William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor) Prince of Wales, son of England’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1305 | | King Wenceslas II Bohemia dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1377 | * | Edward III of England dies at Sheen Palace, Richmond, Surrey at age 64. | Ref: 53 |
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| 1527 | * | (or 22nd) Niccol Machiavelli, political advisor and writer (The Prince), dies at age 58. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1631 | * | John Smith, the man saved by Pocahontas, dies in London, England. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1652 | * | Inigo Jones, architect, landscape designer and antiquary, dies in Somerset House, London at age 78. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1852 | * | Friedrich Froebel, educator and developer of the idea of the kindergarten, dies. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1876 | * | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, best known as the Mexican General who commanded the forces against the Alamo, dies at age 82. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1877 | * | Ten coal-mining activists ("Molly Maguires") were hanged in Pennsylvania. | Ref: 59 |
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| 1877 | * | Nathaniel B. Palmer, American discoverer of the frozen continent of Antarctica, dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1893 | | Leland Stanford dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1908 | * | Nikolai (Nikolay Andreyevich) Rimski-Korsakov composer: Scheherazade, Song of India, The Flight of the Bumblebee; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1914 | * | Bertha von Suttner Austria, novelist/pacifist (Nobel 1905), dies at age 71. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1932 | * | Alexander Winton, Scottish-born American automobile manufacturer, dies at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1934 | * | (James) Thorne Smith Jr. author: Topper, Rain in the Doorway, The Stray Lamb; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Francois-Emile b. Matthes, Dutch-born American geologist and topographer, dies at age 74. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1951 | * | Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer, dies at age 83. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1953 | * | (Rosenberg) Funeral of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1957 | * | Johannes Stark, German Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1919), dies at age 83. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1957 | * | Don McBride actor (Mr Clyde-My Friend Flicka), dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney disappeared in Philadelphia, Miss.; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. | Ref: 64 |
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| 1969 | * | Maureen Connolly, the first woman to win the tennis Grand Slam, dies. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1970 | * | Sukarno, Indonesian statesman; leader of independence movement and first president (1949-66), dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1972 | * | Sir Gavin de Beer, British zoologist, dies at age 72. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1973 | * | Frank Leahy, American Notre Dame football coach (1941-53), dies at age 64. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1980 | * | Bert Kaempfert musician: Wonderland by Night, Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Three O’Clock in the Morning; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | * | Tage Erlander, Swedish prime minister (1946-69), dies at age 84. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1990 | * | June Christy (Shirley Luster) singer: My Heart Belongs to Only You; sang with Stan Kenton band; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1990 | * | NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2001 | * | Carroll O’Connor Emmy Award-winning actor: All in the Family, dies at age 76. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2001 | * | A 4.2 earthquake kills 1 in Germany. | Ref: 85 |
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| 2001 | * | Blues musician John Lee Hooker died at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | * | George Axelrod playwright: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Bus Stop, The Seven Year Itch, The Manchurian Candidate; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2003 | * | Leon Uris, writer whose works include Battle Cry and Exodus, dies at age 78. | Ref: 2 |
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