| 1174 | * | Henry II accepted his part, even though indirect, in the killing of Thomas Becket. He was whipped by the monks of Canterbury. | |
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| 1220 | * | Stephen Langton returned to England and resumed the role of Archbishop of Canterbury, performed a ceremony in Canterbury in which relics from St. Thomas Becket are put in a tomb. 7th July became St. Thomas of Canterbury's Day, a major holy day. | |
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| 1668 | * | Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1754 | * | Kings College opened in NY City. The institution of higher learning admitted eight students and one faculty member, Dr. Samuel Johnson, who also served as school president. These were humble beginnings for a school which would become one of the largest in the United States. Kings was renamed Columbia College in 1784 and, later, became Columbia University. Many prestigious awards come from this university, including the Columbia Award for Journalism and the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism (named after Joseph Pulitzer, a former Columbia professor). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1768 | * | Fiction: Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1791 | * | Benjamin Rush, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones found the Non-denominational African Church. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1795 | * | Thomas Paine defends the principal of universal suffrage at the Constitutional Convention in Paris. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1806 | * | Cornerstone laid on first American Cathedral-Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1807 | * | Czar Alexander meets with Napoleon Bonaparte. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1818 | * | George Townsly becomes the second Xenia Ohio's Postmaster (XDG, 9/16/1982) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1838 | | Central American federation is dissolved. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1861 | * | The first U.S. paper money is printed. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1862 | * | The Land Grant Act passes Congress, allowing the establishment of land grant colleges and universities. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1862 | * | The first railroad post office was tested on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad in Missouri. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1863 | * | First military draft by US (exemptions cost $100). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1865 | * | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Judge Wylie of the Supreme Court of the the District of Columbia issues the writ of habeas corpus requested by Surratt's lawyers. Attorney General Speed and President Johnson are informed of the writ's issuance. The President signs an order: "I hereby declare that the writ of habeas corpus is suspended in cases such as this." | Ref: 87 |
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| 1875 | * | The James Gang rob the Missouri-Pacific Express of $75,000 outside Otterville MO. | Ref: 52 |
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| 1884 | * | By act of Congress a new "Great Seal of the United States" was recut based on the original design and the old seal, known as the "illegal seal", made illegally by the Secretary of State in 1841, was removed from use. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1896 | * | The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago. (XDG, p 4A, 7/7/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1898 | * | President McKinley signs resolution of annexation of the Hawaiian Islands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | The International Workers of the World found their labor organization in Chicago. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1905 | * | 127ø F (53ø C), Parker Ariz (state record). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | During cross-examination, Sacco, too, is questioned at length concerning his political views. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1923 | * | University of Delaware invents the "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | (Sweet) Several hundred whites, many of them armed, gather in front of the home of Vollington Bristol only hours after he moved into his home in a previously all-white neighborhood. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1925 | | Afrikaans is recognized as one of the official languages of South Africa, along with English and Dutch. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1930 | * | Construction began on Boulder Dam on the Colorado River. It is now known as Hoover Dam. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1937 | * | AL beats NL 8-3 in 5th All Star Game (Griffith Stad, Washington). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Explosives lens casting for Trinity completed. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1946 | * | Italian-American educator, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917) became the first American citizen to be made a saint in the Catholic Church. She arrived in the U.S.in 1889, and was naturalized in 1909. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | 6 female reservists become first women sworn into regular US Navy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Six churches met to form the Southern Baptist Association of Colorado, the firstorganization of this denomination in the state. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | | T.A.N.U. party founded in Tanzania. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska statehood bill. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1959 | * | Bill Campbell actor: Dynasty, Moon Over Miami, Gettysburg, The Brylcreem Boys, Once and Again, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure making the French language equal to English throughout the national government. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1973 | * | Shoelace Park in the Bronx named. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Solomon Is gains independence from Britain (National Day). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | I-675 completion from US 35 (near Xenia Ohio) to I-75 is approved by US Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis. (XDG, 12/31/1981) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1981 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman nominated Justice of Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1983 | * | Eleven-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1984 | * | Richard Eberling, former window washer to Sam and Marilyn Sheppard, is convicted of killing 90-year old widow Ethel Durkin for her $1.5M estate. He gets life in prison. (Ref:Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
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| 1986 | * | Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 & 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Lt. Col. Oliver North began his public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing, telling Congress that he had "never carried out a single act, not one" without authorization. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1994 | * | Viacom Inc. was having a very good year. The movie, publishing and sports company bought Paramount Communications Inc. this day for $10 billion. The company that became Viacom was spun off from CBS in the 1970s because of government rules (later repealed), that prevented networks from owning their own programming. Since then, Viacom has grown to become a major player in media and cable, forming the pay channel Showtime in 1978 And acquiring MTV in 1986. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | It was the first lawsuit brought by a group of individual smokers to get all the way to the trial stage. And a jury in Miami held cigarette makers liable for marketing a dangerous product that causes deadly diseases (emphysema, lung cancer and other illnesses). The jury held the tobacco industry liable for damages worth hundreds of billions of dollars. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | President Clinton became the first president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to visit an Indian reservation as he toured the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | * | (Columbia Shuttle) A chunk of foam fired at a mockup of a shuttle wing blows open a 16-inch hole. An investigator calls it "the smoking gun". (USA Today, p 3A, 2/02/2004) | Ref: 13 |
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| 2003 | | (Hong Kong) Hong Kong's Tung Chee Hwa announces the antisubversion bill will not be put to a vote on July 9th, as origninally planned. (WSJ, p A14, 7/17/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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| 1885 | * | G. Moore Peters of Xenia, OH patented the cartridge-loading machine. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1891 | * | A patent is granted for the travelers cheque. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time on a US Navy airplane near Norfolk, Virginia. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1976 | * | Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | First solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | First solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1742 | * | A Spanish force invading Georgia runs headlong into the colony's British defenders. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1777 | * | American troops give up Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, to the British. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1798 | * | Napoleon Bonaparte's army begins its march towards Cairo from Alexandria. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1807 | | Treaty of Tilsit between France, Russia & Prussia begins negotiations. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1815 | * | After defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the victorious Allies march into Paris. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1846 | * | U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1863 | * | Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in Hagerstown, Maryland, reports his defeat at Gettysburg to President Jefferson Davis. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1937 | * | Japanese & Chinese troops clash, which will become WW II. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Although a neutral country, the United States sends troops to occupy Iceland to keep it out of Germany's hands. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | Himmler grants permission for sterilization experiments at Auschwitz. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1943 | * | Adolf Hitler makes the V-2 missile program a top priority in armament planning. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1966 | * | The U.S. Marine Corps launches Operation Hasting to drive the North Vietnamese Army back across the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1969 | * | The first U.S. units to withdraw from South Vietnam leave Saigon. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1900 | * | By defeating the Cubs, 11-4, Beaneater hurler Kid Nichols takes only nine seasons to win 300 games. The 30-year old righty will amass 361 victories during his 15-year career and will remain the youngest player ever to accomplish the feat. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1911 | * | Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record 25 minutes for Wimbeldon championship. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Lefty O'Doul, who will become an outstanding major league hitter later in his career, gives up 13 runs in the sixth inning as the Indians rout the Red Sox, 27-3. He will finish his 11-year stint in the majors with a lifetime batting average of .349. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1924 | * | Robert LeGendre of the US, sets then long jump record at 25' 5½". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Edward Hamm of the US, sets then long jump record at 25' 11". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbeldon doubles championship. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1936 | * | The Senior Circuit wins its first All-Star game edging the AL at Braves Field in Boston, 4-3. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1937 | * | With President Franklin D. Roosevelt in attendance at Griffith Stadium in Washington, Yankee first baseman Lou Gehrig drives in four runs with a home run and a double to lead the AL to an 8-3 victory over the NL in All-Star action. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1948 | * | The Indians signed forty-two year old Negro League star Satchel Paige, Though viewed as a publicity stunt, the crafty veteran will finish the season 6-1. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1950 | | Jack Walsh had a lot of weight on his shoulders. Walsh from Trenton, NJ set a world weightlifting record of 4,235 pounds! (Like lifting two medium-sized cars). He beat the record that was set in 1905 when a weightlifter hoisted 4,140 pounds on his back. Weighty issues, indeed. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | Tiger outfielder Hoot Evers goes 5-for-5 and scores five times against the Indians. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1953 | * | The Dodgers set major league mark for most home runs in consecutive games by a team with 24 games with a least one round tripper. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1953 | * | The Browns set a major league record losing their 20th consecutive home game. The non-winning streak dates back to June 3. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1959 | * | At Forbes Field, Hank Aaron's eighth inning single ties the score and a triple hit by Willie Mays plates Aaron with the winning run in the 5-4 All-Star victory in the first of the two Mid-Summer Classics to be played during the season. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1962 | * | Race jockey Bill Hartack won race number 3,000. He was riding Big Steve at Arlington Park in Chicago, | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | NL beats AL 7-4 at 35th All Star Game (Shea Stadium, NY). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1971 | * | Commissioner Kuhn and Hall of Fame president Paul Kirk announce former Negro League players will have full membership in the Cooperstown shrine, not a separate wing as previously planned. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1972 | * | Billie Jean King beats Evonne Goolagong to win Wimbeldon. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | First all-US women's Wimbeldon, Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Balt Orioles pull their 4th triple play (5-4-3 vs Oakland). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Glenda Reiser (Canada) sets record women's mile (4:34.9). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | West Germany beats Neth 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Martina Navratilova captures Wimbledon defeating Chris Evert. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Billy Jean King wins 20th Wimbledon title breaking old record of Elizabeth Ryan who died yesterday. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1980 | | Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Ben Plucknett of US throws discus 72.34 m, but throw is disqualified. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Harold Baines hits three consecutive home runs, including a grand slam, to lead the White Sox over the Tigers, 7-0. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1982 | * | David Moorcroft of UK sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Steve Scott of US runs the mile in a record 3:47.69. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Boris Becker won the Wimbledon tennis title by defeating Kevin Curren 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4. Becker became the youngest, the first German and the first unseeded player to win the title in the 108-year history of Wimbledon. Becker was only 17 years old at the time -- not even old enough to drive a car in his own country! | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | The USA enjoyed great success at the Goodwill Games (in Moscow) as Jackie Joyner-Kersee broke the heptathlon world record with 7,148 points. She was the first woman to crack the 7,000-point barrier. Jackie extended the record that same year to 7,158 points in the US Olympic Sports Festival where she won all seven events of the heptathlon. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1990 | | Greg Lemond wins his 3rd Tour de France (90:43:20 avg 23.3 mph). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Martina Navratilova won a record ninth women's title at Wimbledon, defeating Zina Garrison 6-4, 6-1. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1991 | * | Michael Stich beats Boris Becker for Wimbeldon championship | Ref: 5 |
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| 1995 | * | National League manager Felipe Alou selects both Dante Bichette and Vinny Castilla to the All-Star squad, marking the first time the Colorado Rockies placed more than one representative in the contest. Castilla gets the starting assignment in place of an injured Matt Williams, becoming the first All-Star starter in club history. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1996 | * | Rene Lacheman is relieved of his managerial for the Florida Marlins position and John Boles is named as the second manager in club history on the following day. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1998 | * | In the highest-scoring game in All-Star history, the American League beats the senior circuit, 13-8 in the thin air at Coors Field in Denver. The 21-run total surpasses the previous record set in 1954 when the American League beat the Nationals,11-9 in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1999 | * | Morocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj sets a record for the mile at 3:43:13 at the Golden Gala Meet, Rome, Italy. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | The Rockies tie a 1903 major league record scoring in 15 consecutive innings. Phillies' ace Curt Schilling ends the streak. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2000 | * | Drawing one of its largest crowds, the Butte Copper Kings newest promotion, 'John Rocker Awareness Night' is a huge success as the Angel farm club of the Pioneer League offers free admission to anyone belonging to a group insulted by the Atlanta reliever in his Sports Illustrated interview. The 672 fans in attendance include single moms with multiple children, people with purple hair, 'foreigners', as well as people with alternative life styles. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | Jim Thome hits three homers and has six RBI as the Cleveland Indians routes the Cardinals, 14-2. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1802 | * | The first comic book was published in Hudson, NY. It was about The Wasp and was created by Robert Rusticoat. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1814 | | Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverly is published anonymously so as not to damage his reputation as a poet. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1927 | * | Christopher Stone becomes the first British 'disc jockey' when he plays records for the BBC. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1943 | | For the first time, Flashgun Casey was heard on radio. Not much later, the name of the program was altered to Casey, Crime Reporter, and became much more popular. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | | "Dragnet" premiers on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 & 1967. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Elvis Presley makes his radio debut in Memphis TN as station WHBQ plays his first recording for Sun Records "That's All Right Momma". (XDG, p 4A, 7/7/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1962 | * | Orchestra leader David Rose reached the top spot on the popular music charts. The Stripper stayed at the pinnacle of musicdom for one week. Rose’s previous musical success on the charts was in 1944 with Holiday for Strings. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | Otis Redding records "Respect". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Rock group "The Yardbirds" disband. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres. | Ref: 5 |
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| 2000 | * | June Foray, performer of numerous cartoon voices, best known for Rocky the Flying Squirrel receives her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. | Ref: 73 |
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| 1586 | * | Birth of Thomas Hooker, colonial American pastor and an originator of the earliest system of federal government in America. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1752 | * | Joseph-Marie Jacquard, inventor of the punch card weaving machine, is born in Lyons, France. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1843 | * | Camillo Golgi Italy, physician, cytologist (Nobel 1906), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1851 | * | Lillien Jane Martin psychologist. found gerontology clinic, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1851 | * | Birth of Charles A. Tindley, African-American Methodist preacher and songwriter. His most enduring gospel hymns include 'Stand By Me,' 'Nothing Between,' 'Leave It There'and 'By and By.'. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1860 | * | Gustav Mahler, Kalischat Bohemia Austria, composer/conductor (Titan), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1860 | * | Abraham Cahan, Russian-born American editor of the Jewish Daily Forward (1903-51), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1887 | * | Marc Chagall Vitebsk Russia, artist (I & The Village), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | Vladimir Mayakovsky Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | George Cukor, American producer/director (Adam's Rib, Philadelphia Story), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | * | Vittorio De Sica, director: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Marriage Italian Style, Two Women, The Bicycle Thief; actor: The Shoes of the Fisherman, It Started in Naples; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1902 | * | James McCartney father of Beatle (Paul), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Satchel Paige, baseball pitching legend, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1907 | * | Robert A Heinlein sci-fi author (Stranger in a Strange Land), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | Harriette Arnow Wayne Co, Ky, novelist (The Dollmaker), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | Gian Carlo Menotti Pulitzer prize-winning opera composer: The Consul [1950], The Saint of Bleeker Street [1955], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1911 | * | Eddie Mayehoff Balt Md, actor (Hour Glass, Doc Corkle), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Eddie Mayehoff Baltimore, actor (Luv, How to Murder Your Wife), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1915 | * | Ruth Ford actress: The Woman Who Came Back, The Lady is Willing, The Eyes of the Amaryllis, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1917 | * | Elton Britt Marshall Ark, country singer (Sat Night Jamboree), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Lawrence F O'Brien, former head of U.S. Postal Service, N.B.A. commissioner (1975-84), Watergate conspirators broke into his office, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | (Chicago 7) William Kunstler defense attorney: Tom Hayden, Chicago Seven, Abbie Hoffman, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1921 | * | Ezzard Charles International Boxing Hall of Famer: world heavyweight champion [1949-51]; bouts: 122: won 96, lost 25, drew 1, 59 Kos; is born in Lawrenceville GA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1922 | * | Artie Malivn NYC, music director (Julie LaRosa, Steve Lawrence), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Pierre Cardin Paris France, fashion designer (Unisex), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Eduardo Fal£ Argentine guitarist (Zamba de Vargas), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Jean Kerr, Scranton Pa, novelist (Please Don't Eat the Daisies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Mary Ford (Iris Colleen Summers) singer w/Les Paul: How High the Moon, Vaya Con Dios, The World is Waiting for the Sunrise; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | * | Doc (Carl) Severinsen trumpeter, bandleader: The Tonight Show Band, The Doc Severinsen Band; played with Charlie Barnet and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras; owner: trumpet factory, is born in Arlington OR. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1927 | * | Alan Dixon (Sen-D-Ill), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | * | Charlie Louvin (Loudermilk), Rainsville AL, country singer (Louvin Brothers), is born in Arlington OR. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1928 | * | Vince Edwards (Vincent Edward Zoino) actor: Ben Casey, The Devil’s Brigade, The Dirty Dozen, The Three Faces of Eve, dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1928 | * | Colleen Summers Pasadena Calif, vocal overdubber, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Murray Halberg New Zealand, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1960), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) drummer: group: The Beatles; singer: It Don’t Come Easy, Photograph, You’re Sixteen; actor: Candy, The Magic Christian, Blindman, Caveman, Give My Regards to Broad Street; married to actress, Barbara Bach, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Warren Entner musician: guitar, singer: group: The Grass Roots, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Bill (William Edwin) Melton baseball: Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1971], California Angels, Cleveland Indians, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Matti Salminen Turku Finland, bass player (King Philipp-Don Carlos), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Jean LeClerc actor (Jeremy Hunter-All My Children), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Jim Day Canada, equestrian show jumper (Olympic-gold-1968), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Joe Spano SF Calif, actor (Henry Goldblume-Hill St Blues), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Fred Brown NBAer (Seattle SuperSonic), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Shelley Duvall actress: Popeye, Nashville, Roxanne, Brewster McCloud, The Shining, Annie Hall, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1950 | * | David Hodo singer: group: The Village People: YMCA, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | Roz Ryan Detroit Mich, actress (Amelia-Amen), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Cherry Boone singer; daughter of singer Pat Boone, sister of singer Debby Boone, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | * | Joey Scarbury singer: The Greatest American Hero [Believe It or Not], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1958 | * | Matt Suhey football: Chicago Bears, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | Jessica Hahn model: Playboy; scandal subject [w/PTL’s Jim Bakker], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | Bill Campbell actor (The Rocketeer), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Ralph Sampson basketball: Golden State Warriors; one of the Twin Towers of the Houston Rockets: Rookie of the Year [1983]; College Player of the Year [1981-83], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | Isabelle Boeri-B‚gard France, foils (Olympic-gold-1980), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Clive "Doctor" Jackson rocker (Dr & the Medics-Laughing at Pieces), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Perry Richardson SC, bassist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Jason R Rich Irvington NY, writer (Celebrity Teen Talk), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Jorja Fox actress: C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation, Missing Persons, ER, The West Wing, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Joe Sakic hockey: NHL: Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Cree Summer actress (Freddie-Different World), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Cree Summer actress/character voice: A Different World, Inspector Gadget, Tiny Toons, Wild Thing, The Return of Billy Jack; songwriter, singer: LP: Street Faërie | Ref: 4 |
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| 1972 | * | Lisa Leslie basketball: Olympics women's basketball gold medalist: Atlanta: 1996, Sydney: 2000; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1980 | * | Michelle Kwan Olympic Figure Skating Champion [silver, 1998], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1304 | * | Pope Blessed Benedict XI dies of dysentary. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1307 | * | Edward I (Longshanks), King of England (1272-1307), dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1647 | * | Thomas Hooker clergyman, father of American democracy, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1764 | * | William Pulteney Bath, English Whig politician; opposed Sir Robert Walpole, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1816 | * | Richard Sheridan playwright: The Critic, School for Scandal, The Rivals; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1854 | * | George Simon Ohm physicist (discovered Ohm's Law), is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1865 | * | (Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy) Shortly before 1:30 in the afternoon in the courtyard of the Old Arsenal Building, with George Atzerodt's last words, "May we meet in another world," the trap of the gallows is sprung and Atzerodt, Mary Surratt, Herold, and Powell are hanged. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1879 | * | George Caleb Bingham artist: County Election, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, Jolly Flatboat Men, Boatmen on the Missouri; dies at age 68. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1901 | | Pierre Lorillard IV dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1930 | * | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (physician; writer: Sherlock Holmes: 56 short stories, 3 novels: The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear) dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1939 | * | James Deacon White ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi), dies at 91. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Erich Salomon, German photographer; a founder of photojournalism, dies at age 58. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1956 | * | 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in the middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1100-1200, destroyimg 2,000 buildings. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Enrique Larreta, Argentine novelist, dies at age 86. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1967 | * | Vivien Leigh (Vivian Mary Hartley) Academy Award-winning actress: Gone with the Wind [1939], A Streetcar Named Desire [1951]; Ship of Fools, Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Anna Karenina; dies at age 53. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1968 | * | Leo Sowerby Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: The Canticle of the Sun [1946]; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1970 | * | Sir Allen Lane, English publisher; pioneered paperback publishing, dies at age 67. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Louise Harrison mother of Beatle George, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Marjorie Rambeau actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song), dies at 80. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Sylvester Wiere comedian (Wiere Brothers-Ford Festival), dies at 60. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Veronica Lake actress, dies at 58 in Burlington VT. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1973 | * | 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Baseball pitcher Dizzy Dean dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1975 | * | George Morgan singer: Candy Kisses, Rainbow in My Heart, Room Full of Roses, Crybaby Heart, I’m in Love Again; DJ: WSM, Nashville; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1980 | * | Dore Schary, American producer, director, screenwriter and playwright, dies at age 74. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1980 | * | Reginald Gardiner actor (Great Dictator), dies at 77. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | Keefe Brasselle (Brusselle) actor: Skirts Ahoy!, Streets of Sin; Eddie Cantor Story: singer in title role; dies at age 58. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1982 | * | Fred Stuthman actor (Henry Adler-Hello Larry), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Vic (Victor Woodrow) Wertz baseball: Detroit Tigers [all-star: 1949, 1951, 1952], St. Louis Browns, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians [World Series: 1954/all-star: 1957], Boston Red Sox, Minnesota Twins; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1983 | | Herman Kahn dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1984 | * | Flora Robson actress, dies in her sleep at 82. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | 5 die in a train crash in Williston Vt. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Patti McCarty actress, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Bill Cullen TV host: I’ve Got a Secret, The Price is Right, The Joker’s Wild, Name that Tune; dies at age 70 of cancer. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2000 | * | Ray Scherer newsman: NBC: White House correspondent; author w/Robert Donovan]: Unsilent Revolution: Television News and AmericanPublic Life; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2001 | * | A 7.6 earthquake kills 1 near the coast of Peru. | Ref: 85 |
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| 2001 | * | A 4.7 earthquake kills 4 in Northern Italy. | Ref: 85 |
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