Ken Fussichen's History Of The Day For
July 10th

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552 Origin of Armenian calendar.Ref: 5
1220*London Bridge collapses during fire in which 3,000 die.Ref: 10
1553*Lady Jane Grey takes the throne after Edward VI's death according to a paper he signed before his death.Ref: 62
1609 The Catholic states in Germany set up a league under the leadership of Maximillian of Bavaria.Ref: 2
1629*The first non-separatist Congregational church in America was established at Salem, MA.Ref: 5
1679*The British crown claims New Hampshire as a royal colony.Ref: 2
1770*(Boston Massacre) (day unspecified) Copies of A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston begin circulating in Boston. The narrative is seen as an attempt to influence potential jurors in the upcoming trials.Ref: 87
1774*Virginia's Governor Dunmore departs for the Ohio Valley in an expedition against the Shawnees, beginning Dunmore's War. He reached the Ohio River with about 1,300 men in early October. 
1782*(Burr) (day unspecified) Aaron Burr is married to Theodosia Prevost, a widow ten years his senior and the mother of five children. Ref 
1790*House of Representatives approves move of nation's capital from New York to Philadelphia.Ref: 10
1832*President Andrew Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.Ref: 70
1850*Millard Fillmore is sworn in as the 13th president of the United States following the death of Zachary Taylor.Ref: 2
1851*California Wesleyan College was chartered in Santa Clara, under sponsorship of the Methodist Church. In 1961 its name was changed to the University of the Pacific.Ref: 5
1886*Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand).Ref: 5
1890*(new state) Wyoming, the state with the smallest population entered the Union this day. The 44th state was named after an Algonquin Indian word meaning ‘large prairie place’. Appropriately, the Indian paintbrush that covers much of the large prairie is the state flower and the meadowlark, frequently seen circling the prairie land, is the state bird. Another Indian term, Cheyenne, is also the name of the state capital. Wyoming is called the Equality State because it is the first state to have granted women the right to vote (1869).Ref: 4
1892*First concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio).Ref: 5
1913*The highest temperature ever recorded in the continental United States was 134º in Death Valley, CA.Ref: 4
1917*Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing the draft.Ref: 5
1918*Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic established.Ref: 5
1919*President Wilson personally delivered the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate, and urged its ratification.Ref: 70
1919*Lenin (RFSFR) Constitution ratifiedRef: 89
1923*All non-fascist parties disolved in Italy.Ref: 5
1925 US's official news agency TASS established.Ref: 5
1925*The trial of TN teacher John T. Scopes opens, with Clarence Darrow appearing for the defense and William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution.Ref: 2
1925*(Sweet) Four thousand whites surround the home of John Fletcher, a black, one day after he moved into it. The crowd shouts "Lynch him!" and hurls bricks, rocks, and coal at the house. The next day Fletcher and his family, fearing for their lives, move out.Ref: 87
1929*The US government began issuing paper money in the small size we currently carry.Ref: 4
1931*(Scottsboro Boys) On the date first set for their executions, the Scottsboro boys listen to the execution of Willie Stokes, the first of ten blacks to be executed at the prison over the next ten years. After hearing gruesome reports of the execution, many of the boys report nightmares or sleepless nights.Ref: 87
1933*First police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY.Ref: 5
1934*First sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia.Ref: 5
1935*(date approximate) Melvin Purvis, senior agent in the Dillinger case, resigns from the FBI.Ref: 42
1936 New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles.Ref: 5
1936*109ø F (43ø C), Cumberland & Frederick, Maryland (state record).Ref: 5
1936*111ø F (44ø C), Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record).Ref: 5
1937*(Scottsboro Boys) (day unspecified) Clarence Norris is convicted of rape and sentenced to death. Andy Wright is convicted and sentenced to 99 years for rape. Charlie Weems is convicted and sentenced to 75 years. Ozzie Powell pleads guilty to assaulting the sheriff and is sentenced to 20 years.Ref: 87
1941*As many as 1600 Jews are said to have been beaten to death or burned alive in a barn in the Polish village of Jedwabne. Prosecutor Radoslaw Ignatiew says that evidence indicates that the murders were performed by Poles, not by Nazis as previously thought. (USA Today, 7/10/2002, p 4A)Ref: 13
1941*(day unspecified) Segre and Seaborg measure the fast fission cross section of Pu-239, finding a high value.Ref: 91
1942*(date given as July to Sept) Oppenheimer assembles theoretical study group in Berkeley to examine the principles of bomb design. Included are Oppenheimer, Hans Bethe, Teller, John Van Vleck, Felix Bloch, Robert Serber, and Emil Konopinski.Ref: 91
1942*(date given as July to Sept) During the summer the theoretical study group develops the principles of atomic bomb design, and examines the feasibility of fusion bombs.Ref: 91
1942*(date given as July to Sept) The theoretical study group estimates the mass of U-235 required for a high yield detonation at 30 kg (estimated at 100 Kt), megaton range fusion bombs are also considered highly likely.Ref: 91
1942*(date given as July to Sept) Robert Oppenheimer emerges as a natural leader of the theoretical study group.Ref: 91
1942*(date given as July to Sept) Richard C. Tolman and Serber discuss the idea of using explosives to collapse a shell of fissile material in place of the gun assembly method. Serber reports that they co-authored a short paper on the subject, although this paper has not been found.Ref: 91
1942*(date given as July to Sept) Fermi and his staff are busy arranging for the materials required for CP-1.Ref: 91
1943*(thru the 15th) The first nuclear physics experiment is conducted at Los Alamos (the measurement of Pu-239 fission neutron yield), inaugurating it as a functioning laboratory.Ref: 91
1944*(day unspecified) Experiments with explosive lens designs begin by mid-month when 2-D models are fired.Ref: 91
1944*(day unspecified) The design for the gun gadget neutron initiator is completed.Ref: 91
1945*(day unspecified) Final preparations begin at the New Mexico test site, the Jornada del Muerto at the Alamagordo Bombing Range, for the first atomic bomb test, code named Trinity. The date is set for July 16. Jumbo is not used in the test, since plutonium delivery schedules make recovery of active material (in the event of a fizzle) less important.Ref: 91
1945*The best available lens castings are selected for Trinity.Ref: 91
1948*(Scottsboro Boys) (day unspecified) Haywood Patterson escapes from prison.Ref: 87
1958*First parking meter installed in England (625 installed).Ref: 5
1958 First purges of the Chinese cultural revolution.Ref: 10
1962*Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia.Ref: 5
1964*(Mississippi Burning) J. Edgar Hoover arrives in Jackson to open a Mississippi office of the FBI.Ref: 87
1969 Chilean Association of Librarians created.Ref: 5
1972*Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida (McGovern).Ref: 5
1973*The Bahamas became independent after three centuries of British colonial rule.Ref: 70
1977*(Scottsboro Boys) (day unspecified) Victoria Price's suit against NBC for its movie "Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys," which she claimed defamed her and invaded her privacy, is dismissed. Price dies five years later.Ref: 87
1980*Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5ø C temp.Ref: 5
1980*Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen.Ref: 5
1982*Pope John Paul II names Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati to succeed the late Cardinal John Cody as head of the Archdiocese of Chicago. (XDG, p 4A, 7/10/2002)Ref: 83
1984*Dwight ‘Doc’ Gooden of the New York Mets became the youngest player to appear in an All-Star Game as a pitcher. Gooden was 19 years, 7 months and 24 days old. He led the National League to a 3-1 win at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, CA.Ref: 4
1984*The National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) was established at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia. Initially focusing on unsolved murders, the NCAVC used sophisticated behavioral science techniques and a complex computer system to assist state and local authorities to identify suspects and predict criminal behavior.Ref: 14
1985*Bowing to pressure from irate customers, the Coca-Cola Company said it would resume selling old-formula Coke, while continuing to sell New Coke. (TWA, 1986)Ref: 95
1985 French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, N.Z harbor.Ref: 5
1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev handily wins re-election as the leader of the Soviet Communist Party. (XDG, p 4A, 7/10/2000)Ref: 83
1991*After 1,000 years, the Russian people were finally permitted to elect a president. Boris Yeltsin took the oath of office this day, after he had resoundingly defeated the Communist Party candidate.Ref: 4
1991*President Bush announced he was appointing Alan Greenspan to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman.Ref: 6
1991*President George H.W. Bush lifted economic sanctions against South Africa, citing its "profound transformation" toward racial equality.Ref: 70
1992*A federal judge in Miami sentenced former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, convicted of drug and racketeering charges, to 40 years in prison. A judge later cut Noriega's sentence to 10 years. (XDG, p 4A, 7/10/2002)Ref: 83
1995*(OJ Simpson) The defense calls its first witness, Arnelle Simpson, O.J. Simpson's daughter.Ref: 87
1995*Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was freed from almost six years of house arrest in Yangon, Myanmar.Ref: 70
1996 In a tough speech to Congress laying out conditions for Mideast negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that Syria and the Palestinians stop terrorists from attacking Israel.Ref: 6
1997*President Clinton, visiting Poland, told cheering Poles in Warsaw that "never again will your fate be decided by others." (XDG, p 4A, 7/10/2002)Ref: 83
2000 Israeli President Ezer Weizman resigned, effectively ending a seven-year term that turned sour when he was found to have acted improperly by accepting gifts while in office.Ref: 6
2000*TX Governor George W. Bush, facing a skeptical audience, told the NAACP convention in Baltimore that "the party of Lincoln has not always carried the mantle of Lincoln," and promised to work to improve relations.Ref: 6
2002*A team sponsored by National Geographic announces it has discovered the wreck of PT-109, the boat that was commanded by Lt.(jg) John F. Kennedy when it was rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri on August 2nd, 1943. There are no plans to raise the ship. (USA Today, p 10D, 7/11/2002)Ref: 13
2003 (Hong Kong) (through the 12th) News emerges that Chinese officials have been arriving in the city since the July 1 rally to assess the crisis. (WSJ, p A14, 7/17/2003)Ref: 33
1847*Urbain J.J. Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune meet for first time at home of John Herschel.Ref: 5
1866*Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass.Ref: 5
1868*George Westinghouse files for a patent for air brakes.Ref: 7
1900*One of the most famous trademarks in the world, ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the US Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Recording Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine.Ref: 4
1938*Howard Hughes completed his flight around the world. It took him 91 hours to complete the odyssey.Ref: 4
1949*The first practical rectangular television picture tube was presented. The tube measured 12 by 16 inches and sold for $12.Ref: 4
1962*Bell Telephone's Telstar I was launched from Cape Canaveral FL, becoming the first private telecommunications satellite.Ref: 70
1962*Cosmonaut Micolaev sets record for longest space flight, 4 days.Ref: 62
1966*Orbiter 1 launched toward MoonRef: 5
1981 CERN achieves first proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)Ref: 5
1981*BSD UNIX 4.1 releasedRef: 62
1997*Scientists in London said that DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton supported a theory that all humanity descended from an "African Eve" 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. (XDG, p 4A, 7/10/2002)Ref: 83
1460*Yorkist defeat Lancastrians at Northampton and capture King Henry VI.Ref: 10
1520*The Spanish explorer Cortes is driven from Tenochtitlan and retreats to Tlaxcala.Ref: 2
1690 Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeats Anglo-Dutch fleet.Ref: 5
1763*(day unspecified) On their own initiative, but with sanction from Amherst and Bouquet, the garrison at Fort Pitt start an epidemic among the Indians by infecting besieging chiefs with blankets from the smallpox hospital.Ref: 92
1775*General Horatio Gates issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army.Ref: 5
1776*The statue of King George III is pulled down in NY City.Ref: 2
1778*In support of the American Revolution, Louis XVI declares war on England.Ref: 2
1940*In the North Sea, off Great Yarmouth, England, German aircraft bomb and sink Canadian merchant ship Waterloo. 
1940*64 German airplanes fly for Britain. Five squadrons of RAF Fighter Command are launched to intercept them. 12 German planes are shot down, at a cost of 3 British planes. This is considered the start of the Battle of Britain.Ref: 36
1941*Germans cross the River Dnieper in the Ukraine.Ref: 36
1942*General Carl Spaatz becomes the head of the US Air Force in Europe.Ref: 2
1943*Allied armada lands over 80 miles of shore line at Sicily. The attack is headed by Seventh United States Army under Lieut.-General George Patton, and the 8th British Army under General Sir Bernard Montgomery. The 1st Canadian Infantry Division and the 1st Canadian Army Tank Brigade are part of the British Army. (XDG, p 4A, 7/10/2000)Ref: 83
1945*US carrier-based aircraft begin airstrikes against Japan in preparation for invasion.Ref: 2
1951*Armistice talks between the United Nations and North Korea begin at Kaesong.Ref: 2
1978 Military coup in Mauritania.Ref: 5
1910*Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0.Ref: 5
1914*Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from the Baltimore Orioles.Ref: 5
1917*Thanks to Ray Calwell's nine and two-thirds innings of no-hit relief, the Yankees beat the Browns in St. Louis, 7-5 in a 17 inning game.Ref: 1
1920*One of the greatest horse races in America was run as Man o’ War defeated John P. Grier in the Dwyer Stakes. Man o’ War set a world-record time of 1 minute, 49-1/5 seconds in the 1-1/8 mile event.Ref: 4
1929*In game between Pirates & Phillies 9 HRs hit 1 in each inning.Ref: 5
1932*Indian Johnny Burnett collects a record nine hits in a seventeen inning game in which the Philadelphia A's defeat the Tribe, 18-17.Ref: 1
1932*After replacing A's starter Lew Krause in the second inning, Eddie Rommel pitches 17 innings giving up 29 hits and 14 runs, but still gets the win beating the Indians, 18-17. The slugfest featured Philadephia's first baseman Jimmy Foxx hitting 3 home runs and scoring 8 runs.Ref: 1
1934*At the Polo Grounds, the AL all-stars come back to beat the NL 9-7 in game which features Carl Hubbell striking out Foxx, Ruth, Simmons, and Cronin in succession.Ref: 1
1936*At Forbes Field, Chuck Klien hits 4 HRs in one game, including the tie breaker in the tenth, helping the Pirates defeat the Phillies, 9-6; he barely misses hitting an additional homer in the second when RFer Paul Waner catches his drive against the wall.Ref: 1
1947*Cleveland Indian Don Black no-hits Phila A's, 3-0.Ref: 5
1948*After yielding a two-run homer to A's Hank Majeski tying the score, reliever Satchel Paige gets his first major league win when Larry Doby hits two-run homer and Indians tack on another in the ninth to beat Philadelphia, 8-5.Ref: 1
1951*Using four home runs, the National League All-Stars defeat the AL in DetroitRef: 1
1951*Sugar Ray Robinson was defeated for only the second time in 133 fights. 7-2 underdog Randy Turpin took the middleweight crown from Robinson in a 15-round referee’s decision in London, England. (Sugar Ray took the title back September 12th at the Polo Grounds in NY.)Ref: 4
1956*NL beats AL 7-3 in 23rd All Star Game (Griffith Stad, Washington).Ref: 5
1962*NL beats AL 3-1 in 32nd All Star Game (DC Stadium, Wash).Ref: 5
1964*Giant outfielder Jesus Alou gets a hit off six different pitchers to go 6-for-6 as San Francisco beat the Cubs, 10-3.Ref: 1
1969*The National League was divided into two baseball divisions (wacky as the realignment turned out to be). For example, the Atlanta Braves were placed in the West Division, while the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs were Eastern Division teams. Cincinnati was also placed in the National League West. The Chicago Cubs sued to stay out of the west and remain in the east in the 1990s, when three divisions were formed. They ended up in the new Central division.Ref: 4
1971*Tony Conigliaro of the Boston Red Sox announced his retirement from major-league baseball. Conigliaro had suffered a vision impairment in his left eye after being hit in the head by a thrown fastball during a game. Despite efforts to make a comeback, Tony C. never regained the form he once brought to the game.Ref: 4
1982 Miguel Vasquez makes first public quadruple somersault on trapeze.Ref: 5
1982*Larry Parrish hits his third grand slam in seven days, helping TX beat the Tigers, 6-5. The Ranger catcher hit his first bases full homer on Indepenence Day and second on July 7.Ref: 1
1984*Dwight ‘Doc’ Gooden of the NY Mets became the youngest player to appear in an All-Star Game as a pitcher. Gooden was 19 years, 7 months and 24 days old. He led the National League to a 3-1 win at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, CA.Ref: 4
1986*Toronto Blue Jay Damaso Garcia becomes the first player to register 1000 hits in a Blue Jays uniform.Ref: 86
1990*AL beats NL 2-0 in 61st All Star Game (Wrigley Field Chicago)Ref: 5
1993*Kenyan runner Yobes Ondieki becomes the first man to run 10,000 meters in less than 27 minutes.Ref: 2
1999*The Yankees' winning streak of 124 consecutive games when they led entering the ninth ends as Met pinch-hitter Matt Franco singles off Mariano Rivera giving the Mets a dramatic come-from-behind Subway Series inter-league victory, 9-8.Ref: 1
1999*The US women's soccer team wins the World Cup beating China 5-4 in a shootout after 120 minutes of scoreless play at the Rose Bowl in CA. (XDG, p 4A, 7/10/2000)Ref: 83
2000*Basketball coach Matt Doherty leave Notre Dame to accept the University of North Carlolina's (UNC) head coaching job. (USA Today, p 3C, 2/02/2004)Ref: 13
2002*Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell, Ted Williams' oldest daughter, in an open letter urges former Senator John Glenn and President Bush to help in preventing her half-brother, John Henry, from freezing the body of their dad at a cryonics lab in Arizona. She believes it her father's wish to be cremated and not frozen.Ref: 1
1936*Billie Holiday recorded Billie’s Blues for Okeh Records in New York. Bunny Berigan, Artie Shaw and Cozy Cole supported Holiday, instrumentally, on the track.Ref: 4
1944 The Man Called X, starring Herbert Marshall, debuted on CBS radio.Ref: 4
1950*"Your Hit Parade" premiers on NBC (later CBS) TVRef: 5
1965*Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks.Ref: 5
1965*Rolling Stones score their first #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction".Ref: 5
1975*Cher files for divorce from rocker Greg Allman, just ten days after the couple had married. She said that Allman had been moonlighting with an old flame.Ref: 4
1990*Andrew Dice Clays cries on Arsenio Hall ShowRef: 5
1995*President Clinton embraces mandatory ratings for TV programs and legislation to put parental-control chips in new TV sets. (XDG, p 4A, 7/10/2000)Ref: 83
2002*Rubens "Massacre of the Innocents" sells for all time record of £49.5 million at Sotheby's London.Ref: 10
1086 King Canute IV Denmark is born.Ref: 10
1509*Birth of John Calvin, French religious reformer. His 'Institutes of the Christian Religion' became the most popular doctrinal statement of the Protestant Reformation.Ref: 5
1723*Sir William Blackstone England, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries), is born.Ref: 5
1792*George Mifflin Dallas (D) 11th VP (1845-49), is born.Ref: 5
1802*Robert Chambers, Scottish author and publisher, is born.Ref: 70
1830*Camille Pissarro, French painter, is born.Ref: 2
1834*James (Abbott McNeill) Whistler artist: Whistler’s Mother [The Artist’s Mother], is born.Ref: 68
1835*Henryk Wieniawski Lubin Poland, violinist/composer (Souv de Moscou), is born.Ref: 5
1839*Adolphus Busch brewer: founder of Anheuser-Busch, the world’s largest beer brewery; is born.Ref: 4
1856*Nikola Tesla physicist, developed alternating current, is born.Ref: 5
1867*Finley Peter Dunne, US, journalist/humorist (Mr Dooley), is born.Ref: 5
1871*Marcel Proust, French novelist (Remembrance of Things Past), is born.Ref: 2
1875*Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, founder of Bethune-Cookman College and the National Council of Negro Women, is born.Ref: 2
1875*E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley journalist, author: Trent’s Last Case; invented humorous voice form of two rhymed couplets of unequal length: the clerihew; is born.Ref: 4
1879*Dr Harry Nicholls Holmes Penn, crystallized vitamin A, is born.Ref: 5
1882*Ima Hogg Texas art patron/founder of the Houston Symphony, is born.Ref: 5
1888*Giorgio De Chirico Greece, Metaphysical painter (Soothsayer), is born.Ref: 5
1888*Graham McNamee sportscaster (1st Rose Bowl), is born.Ref: 5
1888*Toyohiko Kagawa Kobe, Japan, Christian social reformer, is born.Ref: 5
1895*Carl Orff Munchen (Munich) Germany, composer (Antigonae), is born.Ref: 5
1897*Lloyd Goodrich American Arts Museum director, is born.Ref: 5
1897*John Gilbert is born.Ref: 10
1899*John Gilbert (Pringle) silent film star: Bullets and Brown Eyes, The Merry Widow, The Big Parade; died Jan 9, 1936Ref: 4
1902*Kurt Alder, German Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1950), is born.Ref: 70
1905*Ivie Anderson, jazz singer, is born.Ref: 2
1906*Jorge Icaza, Ecuadorian novelist and playwright, is born.Ref: 70
1913*Ljuba Welitsch Borisovo, Bulgaria, soprano (Nedda-Pagliacci), is born.Ref: 5
1914*Joseph Shuster, co-creator of Superman, was bornRef: 62
1915*Milt Buckner musician: piano, organ, composer: Hamp’s Boogie Woogie, The Lamplighter, Count’s Basement; is born.Ref: 4
1916*Dick Cary jazz musician: trumpet, arranger; first pianist in Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars [1947-48]; is born.Ref: 4
1917*"Mr. Wizard" (Don Herbert) is born in Waconia Minn. Ref 
1919*Rusty Gill St Louis Mo, singer (Polka Time), is born.Ref: 5
1920*David Brinkley Wilmington NC, NBC News anchor (Huntley-Brinkley), is born.Ref: 5
1920*Owen Chamberlain codiscovered antiproton (Nobel 1959), is born.Ref: 5
1920*Eunice Kennedy Shriver is born.Ref: 68
1921*Jake LaMotta Bronx, middleweight boxing champ (1949-51) (Raging Bull), is born.Ref: 5
1921*Jeff Donnell South Windham Maine, actor (Gidget Goes to Rome), is born.Ref: 5
1922*Herb McKenley Jamacia, 4 X 400m relay runner (Olympic-gold-1952), is born.Ref: 5
1922*Middleweight boxing champion Jake (Giacobe) LaMotta ("The Bronx Bull") is born in Bronx, NY.Ref: 97
1923*Earl Hamner Jr. writer: Palm Springs Weekend, Spencer’s Mountain, The Homecoming: A Christmas Story; creator: Falcon Crest; executive producer, narrator: The Waltons, is born.Ref: 4
1923*Jean Kerr (Collins) author: Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, Finishing Touches; is born.Ref: 4
1925*Dorothea Hochletiner Austria, giant slalom (Olympic-bronze-1956), is born.Ref: 5
1926*Fred Gwynne NYC, actor (Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters), is born.Ref: 5
1926*Carleton Carpenter Bennington Vt, actor (Up Periscope, Summer Stock), is born.Ref: 5
1927*David Dinkins, first African-American mayor of NY City, is born.Ref: 2
1927*William Smithers, Richmond VA, actor (Witness, Peyton Place, Attack!), is born.Ref: 5
1931*Alice Munro, Canadian writer (Open Secrets, Friend of my Youth), is born.Ref: 2
1931*Del Insko harness racer (toothpick in mouth, 1969 money leader), is born.Ref: 5
1931*Nick Adams, Nanticoke Pa, actor (Johnny Yuma-The Rebel), is born.Ref: 5
1933*Chuan-Kwang Yang Taiwan, decathlete (Olympic-silver-1960), is born.Ref: 5
1933*Jerry Herman Broadway composer (Hello Dolly), is born.Ref: 5
1937*Sandy Stewart (Galitz) Phila PA, singer (Sing Along With Mitch, Mr President), is born.Ref: 5
1939*Lawrence Pressman Ky, actor (Man From Atlantis, Hellstrom Chronicle), is born.Ref: 5
1940*Mills Watson, Oakland Calif, actor (Harper Valley PTA, BJ & Bear), is born.Ref: 5
1941*Ian Whitcomb England, rocker (You Turn Me On), is born.Ref: 5
1941*Robert Pine Scarsdale NY, actor (Joe Getraer-CHiPs), is born.Ref: 5
1942*Pyotr I Klimuk cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18, 30), is born.Ref: 5
1943*Arthur Ashe, American tennis player, is born.Ref: 68
1943*Jerry Miller musician: guitar: group: Moby Grape: LPs: Moby Grape, Wow, Grape Jam, Truly Fine Citizen, 20 Granite Creek, Grape Live; The Jerry Miller Band: LP: Life is like That, is born.Ref: 4
1945*Ron Glass actor (Sgt Harris-Barney Miller, Frank's Place), is born.Ref: 5
1945*Virginia Wade tennis star (Wimbeldon 1977), is born.Ref: 5
1946*Hal (Harold Abraham) McRae baseball: Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1970, 1972], KC Royals [all-star: 1975, 1976, 1982/World Series: 1980, 1985], is born.Ref: 4
1946*Sue Lyon, Davenport Iowa, actress (Lolita, Evel Knievel), is born.Ref: 5
1947*Arlo Guthrie folk singer: The City of New Orleans, Alice’s Restaurant; son of legendary folk singer, Woody Guthrie, is born.Ref: 4
1949*Ronnie James Dio (Padavona) singer, songwriter: groups: Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio: Mystery, Stars, LPs: Holy Diver, The Last in Line, Dream Evil, is born.Ref: 4
1949*Winston Rekert actor: Agnes of God, Droids, Adderly, Glory! Glory!, Neon Rider, Moonlight Becomes You, Murder at the Cannes Film Festival, is born.Ref: 4
1949*Mark Shera Bayonne NJ, actor (SWAT, Barnaby Jones), is born.Ref: 5
1954*Andre Dawson Miami Fla, outfielder (Expos, Cubs, 1987 NL MVP), is born.Ref: 5
1954*Neil Francis Tennant rocker (Pet Shop Boys-Left to My Own Devices), is born.Ref: 5
1960*Roger Craig football: SF 49ers, LA Raiders, Minnesota Viking, is born.Ref: 4
1972*Sofía Vergara model, actress: Acapulco, cuerpo y alma, Big Trouble, is born.Ref: 4
1972*Damon Sharpe Cleveland Ohio, actor/musician (Guys Next Door)Ref: 5
1980*Thomas Ian Nicholas, actor: Radio Flyer, A Kid in King Arthur’s Court, American Pie, Party of Five, Halloween: The Homecoming, is born/Ref: 4
138*Hadrian Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall) dies.Ref: 68
983*Pope Benedict VII dies.Ref: 69
1559 -Henry II France dies.Ref: 10
1584*William of Orange is assassinated by Balthazar Gerand.Ref: 52
1605 Theodore II Russia dies.Ref: 10
1686*John Fell, English Anglican priest, author and typographer, dies at age 61.Ref: 70
1747*Persian ruler Nadir Shah is assassinated at Fathabad.Ref: 2
1805*Thomas Wedgwood, English physicist, photography pioneer, dies.Ref: 68
1826*Luther Martin, American lawyer, dies at age 78.Ref: 70
1851*Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor of the daguerreotype, dies at age 63.Ref: 70
1863*Clement Clarke Moore poet, author: ’Twas the Night before Christmas [A Visit from St. Nicholas]; dies at age 83.Ref: 4
1884*Paul Charles Murphy, the first American International Chess Master, dies.Ref: 72
1889*Julia Tyler (Gardiner) 2nd wife of 10th US President John Tyler (1841-45), dies at age 69.Ref: 4
1910*John Galle, German astronomer, first to sight Neptune, dies.Ref: 17
1919*Abraham Jacobi, German-born physician and pioneer in the field of pediatric medicine, dies at age 89.Ref: 70
1923*2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle. (Rostov, Russia).Ref: 5
1926*Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage.Ref: 5
1927*Kevin O'Higgins Irish Free State VP, is assassinated at age 35.Ref: 5
1941*Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton pioneer jazz pianist, dies at 56 in LA.Ref: 5
1943*Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer, dies at age 72.Ref: 70
1945*Robert Goddard Rocket pioneer, dies.Ref: 5
1946*Sidney Hillman, American labor leader and one of the founders of the C.I.O., dies at age 59.Ref: 70
1947*200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China.Ref: 5
1957*Sholem Asch, Polish-born American novelist and playwright, dies at age 76.Ref: 70
1957*Aga Khan (Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah), religious leader, dies at age 79 in Versoix, Switzerland. (TWA, 1958)Ref: 95
1966*Malvina Hoffman, American sculptor, dies at age 79.Ref: 70
1972 Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest IndiaRef: 5
1977*Norman Paris orch leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41.Ref: 5
1978*72 John D. III Rockefeller 3/21/1906 7/10/1978 American philanthropistRef: 70
1979*Conductor Arthur Fiedler, who had led the Boston Pops orchestra for a half-century, died in Brookline, Mass., at age 84.Ref: 70
1989*Mel[vin Jerome] Blanc San Francisco CA, voice (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig), dies at age 81.Ref: 4
1991*Gerome Ragal author (Hair), dies at 48 of cancerRef: 5
1993*Will Rogers Jr. actor: The Story of Will Rogers, Pall Mall Playhouse; TV host: The Pioneers; lecturer; dies.Ref: 4
2000*Bill Munson football: Utah State Univ., LA Rams, Seattle Seahawks, SD Chargers, Detroit Lions; Asst. G.M.: Buffalo Bills; dies.Ref: 4

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