Ken Fussichen's History Of The Day For
July 14th

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1077*The Bayeux Tapestry is first shown. 
1223*In France, Louis VIII succeeds his father, Philip Augustus.Ref: 2
1771*Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California.Ref: 5
1773*The first annual conference of the Methodist Church in America convened at St.George's Church in Philadelphia, PA.Ref: 5
1789*This was the day the French Revolution began -- at the fall of the Bastille. It is still celebrated in many countries throughout the world and is a public holiday in France; generally called Bastille Day or Fete National. It is considered the day freedom was born in France.Ref: 4
1795*‘The Marseillaise' composed by Rouget de Lisle becomes the French National Anthem.Ref: 10
1798*First direct federal tax on the states-on dwellings, land & slaves.Ref: 5
1798*Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the U.S. government.Ref: 70
1803*The treaty between France and the United States transferring the Louisiana Purchase to the US for $15 million, reaches Washington.Ref: 4
1832*Opium exempted from federal tariff duty.Ref: 5
1845*First postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC.Ref: 5
1853*The Japanese government agrees to accept letters from President Filmore to establish relations with the US.Ref: 3
1877*A general strike halted the movement of U.S. railroads. In the following days, strike riots spread across the United States. The next week, federal troops were called out to force an end to the nationwide strike. At the "Battle of the Viaduct" in Chicago, federal troops (recently returned from an Indian massacre) killed 30 workers and wounded over 100.Ref: 59
1892*The Baptist Young People's Union held its first national convention in Detroit.The founding of the BYP Union was inspired by the earlier work of Francis E. Clark, aCongregational pastor who founded the first 'modern' youth fellowship in 1881.Ref: 5
1897*The Excelsior arrives in San Francisco carrying $750,000 in Klondike gold. (TWA, 1997)Ref: 95
1902*1,104 year-old Campanile in St. Marks' Square, Venice, collapses.Ref: 10
1911*46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Phillipines.Ref: 5
1921*The case goes to the jury. At 7:30 pm the jury returns its verdict: Sacco and Vanzetti are both found guilty of murder in the first degree.Ref: 87
1925*(Sweet) A meeting of "the Waterworks Park Improvement Association" is held at the Howe school to discuss the impending move of Ossian Sweet into his home on Garland Avenue. The main speaker at the meeting was the head of the group that organized for the eviction of Dr. Turner.Ref: 87
1927*First commercial airplane flight in Hawaii.Ref: 5
1933*The Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany; Also, Nazis pass Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship.Ref: 35
1933*Nazi Germany promulgates the Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health--the begining of the Euthanasia program.Ref: 2
1934*116ø F (47ø C), Orogrande, New Mexico (state record)Ref: 5
1936*116ø F (47ø C), Collegeville, Indiana (state record).Ref: 5
1940 Lithuania becomes the Lithuanian SSR.Ref: 5
1942*Beginning of deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz.Ref: 35
1945*Gadget is hoisted to the top of the 100 foot test tower, and the detonators are installed and connected. Final test preparations begin. Little Boy bomb units, accompanied by the U-235 projectile, are shipped out of San Francisco on the USS. Indianapolis for Tinian. The only full scale test of the implosion lens system (before Gadget) is conducted. Initial analysis indicates failure. Bethe later corrects mistaken calculations and finds that the measurements are consistent with optimum performance.Ref: 91
1951*The George Washington Carver National Monument in Joplin, Missouri becomes the first national park honoring an African American.Ref: 2
1953*First natl monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver.Ref: 5
1954*117ø F (47ø C), East St. Louis, Illinois (state record).Ref: 5
1954*118ø F (48ø C), Warsaw & Union, Missouri (state record).Ref: 5
1959*First atomic powered cruiser, the Long Beach, Quincy Mass.Ref: 5
1972*George McGovern won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Miami Beach.Ref: 70
1974*Bundy victms Janice Ott & Denise Naslund disappear, Lk Sammamish, WA.Ref: 5
1974*John Ehrlichman, a former aide to President Richard Nixon, and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg's former psychiatrist.Ref: 70
1976*Jimmy Carter won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York City.Ref: 70
1977*Sandy Allen, the world's tallest woman at 7' 7¼", undergoes a pituitary operation to inhibit further growth. (Guiness Book of World Records, 1998) 
1977*President Jimmy Carter defended Supreme Court decisions limiting government payments for poor women's abortions, saying, "There are many things in life that are not fair."Ref: 70
1978*Boeing begins production of the 767. 
1978*Anatoly Shcharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation.Ref: 5
1983*Crane (Rep-R-Il) & Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages.Ref: 5
1984*Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announced he had chosen U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running mate; Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket. (Go to article.)Ref: 70
1986*Richard W Miller became first FBI agent convicted of espionage.Ref: 5
1987*Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million.Ref: 5
1987*Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony.Ref: 5
1987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law.Ref: 5
1988 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak.Ref: 5
1990*Russian republic president Boris N. Yeltsin resigned from the Communist Party.Ref: 70
1994*President Clinton visited the eastern sector of Berlin, the first president to do so since Harry Truman.Ref: 70
1995*Under pressure from Congress, FBI Director Louis Freech removes his friend Larry Potts as the bureau's deputy directory because of the controversy over Potts' role in the 1992 FBI seige at Ruby Ridge, ID. (XDG, p 4A, 7/14/2000)Ref: 83
1997*(OJ Simpson) The Brentwood estate of OJ Simpson is auctioned off (and the new owner soon demolishes it).Ref: 87
1997 The international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced Dusan Tadic, a Bosnian Serb, to 20 years in prison for turning on his Muslim and Croat neighbors in a deadly campaign of terror and torture.Ref: 70
1999*Race-based school busing in Boston ended after 25 years.Ref: 70
2000*A Florida jury ordered five major tobacco companies to pay smokers a record $145 billion in punitive damages.Ref: 70
2001*Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant tortured in a New York City police station, agreed to an $8.7 million settlement.Ref: 70
2003*Jan Able, Executive Producer of the outdoor drama Blue Jacket, resigns after nealy two decades in the position. Her resignation is effective immediately. (XDG, p 1, 7/15/2003)Ref: 83
1850*The 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration.Ref: 5
1867*Dynamite first demonstrated in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey, England by inventor Alfred Nobel.Ref: 10
1868*Alvin J. Fellows of New Haven, CT patented the tape measure.Ref: 4
1891*John T. Smith of Brooklyn N.Y. receives patent on manufacturing corkboard.Ref: 10
1911*For the first time, a pilot flew an airplane onto the lawn of the White House! Harry N. Atwood flew in to accept an award from President William Taft. There wasn’t a National Airport at the time, you see. Today, if you land a plane on the White House lawn, you do so at your own risk. If you don’t get shot out of the sky first, you’ll probably receive a hail of bullets from the Secret Service as a welcoming salute. It’s not that people don’t keep trying. In 1994, a small plane crashed on the lawn and slammed into the White House, killing the pilot.Ref: 4
1914*Robert H. Goddard of Worcester, MA patents liquid rocket fuel.Ref: 4
1965*The Mariner 4 Mars flyby returns 22 pictures of the Martian surface plus atmospheric data.Ref: 40
1967*Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing.Ref: 5
1984*STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads.Ref: 5
1985*Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb.Ref: 5
1986*NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission.Ref: 5
1430*Joan of Arc, taken prisoner by the Burgundians in May, is handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.Ref: 2
1456 Hungarians defeat the Ottomans at the Battle of Belgrade, in present-day Yugoslavia.Ref: 2
1536 France and Portugal sign the Treaty of Lyons, aligning themselves against Spain.Ref: 2
1714*Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet.Ref: 5
1776*George Washington refuses a letter from Gen. Howe addressed to George Washington Esq. rather than General Washington.Ref: 62
1790*Louis XVI of France accepts a new consititution. 
1864*At Harrisburg, Mississippi, Federal troops under General Andrew Jackson Smith repulse an attack by General Nathan Bedford Forrest.Ref: 2
1900 European Allies retake Tientsin, China, from the rebelling Boxers.Ref: 2
1916*British penetrate German second line, using cavalry.Ref: 38
1940*A force of German bombers attacks Suez, Egypt, from bases in Crete.Ref: 2
1941*The British occupy Syria.Ref: 36
1941*Vichy French Foreign Legionaries sign an armistice in Damascus, allowing them to join the Free French Foreign Legion.Ref: 2
1945*American battleships and cruisers bombard the Japanese home islands for the first time.Ref: 2
1950*RE Wayne awarded first Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea.Ref: 5
1958*Iraqi army overthrows the monarchy of King Faisal II. A republic replaces the Hashemite dynasty.Ref: 5
1964*The United States sends 600 more troops to Vietnam.Ref: 2
1969 "Futbol War" between El Salvador & Honduras begins.Ref: 5
1972*The State Department criticizes Jane Fonda for making antiwar radio broadcasts in Hanoi, calling them "distressing". (XDG, p 4A, 7/14/2000)Ref: 83
1865 The first ascent of the Matterhorn.Ref: 5
1916*Brown Ernie Koob pitches a complete game going all 17-innings in 0-0 tie. Red Sox Carl Mays pitches first 15 innings for the Red Sox with Dutch Leonard finishing the game.Ref: 1
1934*At Navin Field in Detroit, in an effort to keep the consecutive game streak intact, the Yankees have lumbago-stricken Lou Gehrig's bat lead off and list him as the shortstop in the line up. After singling in the first inning, the 'Iron Horse' leaves the game without fielding as the Tigers pound out 11 doubles to edge the Yankees, 12-11.Ref: 1
1934*Babe Ruth hits the 700th home run of his career off Tommy Bridges in the second inning of a 4-2 Yankees' win at Detroit's Navin Field.Ref: 86
1934*NY Times erronously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time.Ref: 5
1934*Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beats Cincinnati 18-0.Ref: 5
1946*Despite a home run and four doubles by Lou Boudreau, the Indians still lose to the Red Sox 11-10 thanks to Ted Williams' three homers and eight RBIs. During the second game of the twin bill, player-manager Boudreau will become the first skipper to employ the 'Williams' Shift' which puts four infielders and two outfielders on the right side of the field. Laughing at the unusual alignment, the 'Splendid Splinter' doubles in his first at-bat against the new defense.Ref: 1
1951*Citation became the winningest thoroughbred in horse racing as he won the Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park. Citation earned a total of $1,085,760 in his career.Ref: 4
1951*The first sports event to be shown in color was the Molly Pitcher Handicap at Oceanport, New Jersey. The historic event was seen over CBS-TV this day, but not by many. A color TV system for wide use wouldn’t be available until the 1960s.Ref: 4
1953*NL beats AL 5-1 in 20th All Star Game (Crosley Field Cincinnati).Ref: 5
1956*At Fenway Park, Red Sox hurler Mel Parnell no-hits the White Sox, 4-0.Ref: 1
1967*Against Juan Marichal at Candlestick Park, Eddie Matthews hits home run #500 as an Astro. The former Brave third baseman, who hit 493 homers playing for the franchise in Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta, becomes the seventh major leaguer to reach this plateau.Ref: 1
1968*Hank Aaron hits home run #500 off Mike McCormick becoming the eighth major leaguer to reach this level. 'Hammerin' Hank's three-run homer over the left center field fence proves to be thee difference as the Braves beat the Giants at Atlanta Stadium, 4-2.Ref: 1
1968*Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes out 18 Cincinnati Reds in 6-1 win.Ref: 86
1970*In the first All-Star Game played at Riverfront Stadium, Pete Rose wins the All-Star Game for the National League, barreling over Cleveland catcher Ray Fosse for the deciding run.Ref: 86
1972*Tiger catcher Tom Haller looks over his shoulder and sees his brother Bill, the home plate ump a major league first.Ref: 1
1981*The All-Star Game was postponed because of a 33-day-old baseball players strike. Still, some 15,000 fans showed up to boo the players and to see an imaginary game! The 52nd All-Star classic was not held until August 9th (in Cleveland Municipal Stadium).Ref: 4
1985*Baltimore defeated Oakland, 28-24, to clinch their second consecutive United States Football League championship. The game was also significant, in that it brought the curtain down on the league’s spring schedule. Total losses were estimated at $63 million for all 14 teams. The USFL quickly faded away when owners refused to incur further losses. Plans calling for the league to resume play in the fall of 1986 never materialized.Ref: 4
1985*Kathy Baker beats Judy Clark to win golf's US Women's Open.Ref: 5
1986*Jane Geddes beats Sally Little to win golf's US Women's Open.Ref: 5
1987*The second-longest game in All-Star Game history was played as the National League defeated the American League in a 2-0 shutout in 13 innings. The game was played in Oakland, CA and lasted 3 hours, 39 minutes.Ref: 4
1988*Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th HR into 7th place.Ref: 5
1991*The Minnesota Twins retire Tony Oliva's uniform no. 6.Ref: 29
1992*Mariner outfielder Ken Griffey, Jr. homers off Cub hurler Greg Maddux making it the first time in history a father and a son have hit All-Star home runs. His dad hit one off the Yankees' Tommy John in the 1980 Mid-summer Classic.Ref: 1
1992*The San Diego Padres host the 63rd All-Star Game, a 13-6 A.L. win.Ref: 86
1994*St Louis Cardinal Ozzie Smith passes Luis Aparicio to become baseball's all-time assist leader at shortstop.Ref: 86
1995*Ramon Martinez no-hits the Marlins, 7-0. The Dodger hurler was perfect for 7 1-3 innings before walking Tommy Gregg.Ref: 1
1999*Major league umpires vote to resign Sept 2 and not work the final month of the season. (The strategy collapses with baseball owners accepting the resignation of 22 umpires.) (XDG, p 4A, 7/14/2000)Ref: 83
2000*John Olerud has a game-tying double disallowed because first base umpire Jim Wolf had called time, but then the Mariners' first baseman hits a three-run homer helping Seattle to beat the Padres, 7-5.Ref: 1
2000*Major League owners decide to return to playing an unbalanced schedule (teams play more games against teams in their own division) rather than the presently used balanced schedule (play approximately the same number of games against all teams within the league). The American League has used to a balanced schedule since 1977 and the National League started in 1993.Ref: 1
2000*A report presented to owners, The Commissioner's Initiative: Women and Baseball, finds women make up 46 percent of the average crowd at a big league game and urges major league franchises to make more of an effort to market to women patrons. According to the same report forty-three percent of women could not name a player on their home team's roster.Ref: 1
1853*Pres Franklin Pierce opens first industrial exposition (NY).Ref: 5
1908 The Adventures of Dolly opened at the Union Square Theatre in New York City. It was the first film release for director D.W. Griffith.Ref: 4
1933*Happy Boithday, Popeye! "Well Blow Me Down"- Fleischer's first "Popeye the Sailor" cartoon debuted. Vaudvillian Red Pepper Sam provided his salty mumbles throughout the post-sync track. When Sam asked for more money than Max Fleischer thought he was worth, he replaced him with assistant Jack Mercer, who was the voice ever after.Ref: 73
1942*Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly sang their last duet together as they recorded the famous Brazil with the Jimmy Dorsey band.Ref: 4
1946*Dr. Benjamin Spock’s "Baby and Child Care" was first published.Ref: 4
1948*Bella Siegal, wife of Jerry Siegal (one of the creators of Superman) sues him for divorce. (Daniels, Les, "Superman", 1998, ISBN 0-8118-2162-5) 
1951*The first sports event to be shown in color was the Molly Pitcher Handicap at Oceanport, New Jersey. The historic event was seen over CBS-TV this day, but not by many. A color TV system for wide use wouldn’t be available until the 1960s.Ref: 4
1957 Funnyman Stan Freberg debuted a new weekly comedy program on CBS radio beginning this night. Freberg was a late entry into the radio program race, though he was well known for many famous radio commercials over the years. The Freberg show only lasted a short time and that newfangled contraption, television, was blamed for the show’s quick demise.Ref: 4
1962*Bobby Vinton’s Roses are Red became the top song in the U.S. The song stayed at the top for four weeks and was the first of four #1 hits for Vinton. The others were: Blue Velvet, There! I’ve Said It Again and Mr. Lonely. Roses are Red was also Vinton’s first million-seller. He had two others: I Love How You Love Me (which made it to #9 in 1968) and My Melody of Love (which hit #3 in 1974.)Ref: 4
1975*EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced.Ref: 5
1978*Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissionable material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado.Ref: 5
1986*Paul McCartney releases "Press".Ref: 5
1987*Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.Ref: 5
1989 The 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premiers.Ref: 5
1486*Andrea del Sarto Italy, painter (Recollets), is born.Ref: 5
1602*Jules Mazarin, France, cardinal, French first Minister (1642-61), is born.Ref: 5
1794*John Gibson Lockhart, Scottish critic, novelist and biographer, is born.Ref: 70
1800*Birth of Anglican clergyman Matthew Bridges. In 1848 he converted to Catholicism, under the influence of the Oxford Movement in England. He is remembered today for authoringthe hymn, 'Crown Him with Many Crowns.'.Ref: 5
1824*Eugene Boudin, French landscape painter, is born.Ref: 70
1840*Benjamin Altman, American merchant; founded B. Altman department store chain, is born.Ref: 70
1857*Maytag, invented washing machine, is born.Ref: 5
1858*Emmeline Pankhurst, British founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, is born.Ref: 2
1860*Owen Wister, novelist (The Virginian), is born.Ref: 2
1862*Florence Bascom geologist: first woman geologist appointed to the US Geological Survey and 1st to be elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America; associate editor: American Geologist; educator: Bryn Mawr, Ohio State; first woman to receive a doctorate degree: Johns Hopkins University [1893]; died June 18, 1945Ref: 4
1862*Gustav Klimt Austria, Art Nouveau painter, is born.Ref: 5
1865*Annie Jones Virginia, bearded lady, is born.Ref: 5
1869*Owen Wister US, novelist (The Virginian), is born.Ref: 5
1872*Frederick Birkenhead, English lord chancellor (1919-22), is born.Ref: 70
1874*Abbas II last khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt (1892-1914), is born.Ref: 5
1880*Donald Meek Glasgow Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach), is born.Ref: 5
1884*Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor, is born.Ref: 70
1890*Ossip Zadkine sculptor (The Destroyed City), is born.Ref: 5
1893*Spencer Williams Vidalia La, actor (Andy-Amos 'n' Andy), is born.Ref: 5
1895*Cliff Edwards "Ukulele Ike", Hannibal Mo, singer (54th Street Revue), is born.Ref: 5
1895*Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic (Culture & Environment), is born.Ref: 5
1895*Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano, is born.Ref: 70
1895*Buckminster Fuller, American engineer and architect, is born.Ref: 70
1898*Happy Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (1945-51), is born.Ref: 70
1901*George Tobias NYC, actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched), is born.Ref: 5
1901*Pancho Barnes,American aviator and movie stunt pilot, is born.Ref: 70
1903*Ken Murray (Don Court) actor: Follow Me, Boys!, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Marshall’s Daughter; is born.Ref: 4
1903*Irving Stone US, author (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life), is born.Ref: 5
1904*Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish novelist (Enemies-Nobel 1978), is born.Ref: 5
1904*Pablo Neruda, Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet (1971) and politician, is born.Ref: 70
1906*Tom Carvel ice cream mogul (Carvels), is born.Ref: 5
1909*Annabella [Suzanne G Charpentier], Paris, actress (Dinner at Ritz), is born.Ref: 5
1910*William Hanna cartoonist: half of Hanna-Barbera team: The Flintstones; is born.Ref: 4
1911*Terry-Thomas (Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens) actor: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River; is born.Ref: 4
1912*Woody (Woodrow Wilson) Guthrie ‘father of modern American folk music’: singer, songwriter: This Land is Your Land, Hard Travelin’, Union Maid, So Long It’s Been Good to Know Yuh, Dirty Overhalls, Pretty Boy Floyd, The Sinking of the Reuben James, more than 1,000 original songs; father of folk singer Arlo Guthrie, is born.Ref: 4
1913*Gerald R Ford [Leslie King Jr (changed name to Gerald Ford after his adoptive father)], 41st VP (1973-74), 38th pres (R-1974-77), is born.Ref: 5
1916*Natalia Ginzberg, Italian novelist (The Dry Heat, Family Sayings), is born.Ref: 2
1917*Douglas Edwards TV’s first evening news anchor: CBS; TV panel moderator: Masquerade Party; host: F.Y.I., The Eyes Have It, Armstrong Circle Theatre; is born in Alda OK.Ref: 68
1918*Ingmar Bergman Academy Award-winning director: Through a Glass Darkly [1961]; The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, Fanny and AlexanderRef: 4
1918*Arthur Laurents NYC, playwright (West Side Story, Gypsy), is born.Ref: 5
1918*Jay Wright Forrester invented random-access magnetic core memory, is born.Ref: 5
1919*Lino Ventura Italy, actor (Happy New Year, Pain in the A--), is born.Ref: 5
1921*Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, English Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1973), is born.Ref: 70
1923*Dale Robertson actor: The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang, Melvin Purvis: G-Man, KS City Massacre, Son of Sinbad, Tales of Wells Fargo, J.J. Starbuck, Death Valley Days, is born.Ref: 4
1923*Frances Lear Larchmont NY, Woman's magazine publisher (Lears), is born.Ref: 5
1926*Harry Dean Stanton actor (Alien, Cool Hand Luke, Alien), is born.Ref: 5
1927*John Chancellor Chicago Ill, news anchor (NBC, VOA), is born.Ref: 5
1928*Nancy Olson Milwaukee, actress (Absent-Minded Professor, Pollyanna), is born.Ref: 5
1928*Pierre Olaf Cauderan France, actor (Kraft Music Hall), is born.Ref: 5
1930*Polly Bergen (Nellie Burgin) actress: The Winds of War, Cry-Baby, Escape from Fort Bravo; TV panelist: To Tell the Truth, is born.Ref: 4
1931*Donald Eugene Webb is born in Oklahoma City OK. He is being sought in connection with the murder of a police chief in Pennsylvania who was shot twice at close range after being brutally beaten about the head and face with a blunt instrument. (may, 1981)Ref: 14
1931*Robert Stephens Bristol England, actor (Uncle Kurt-Holocaust), is born.Ref: 5
1932*Roosevelt ‘Rosey’ Grier football: one of the LA Rams ‘Fearsome Foursome’ [w/Deacon Jones, Lamar Lundy and Merlin Olsen]; actor/ministor, is born.Ref: 68
1933*Del (Franklin Delano) Reeves singer: Slow Hand, Be Quiet Mind, The Girl on the Billboard, Looking at the World through a Windshield, The Philadelphia Phillies; films: Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar, Forty Acre Feud, is born.Ref: 4
1933*Robert Bourassa Montreal, premier of Quebec (1970-76, 1985- ), is born.Ref: 5
1934*Lee Elder golf: 5-time United Golf Association Champion, PGA winner: Monsanto Open [1974], Houston Open [1976], is born.Ref: 4
1934*Leo Joseph Koury Pitts, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), is born.Ref: 5
1936*Gloria Lambert Worcester Mass, singer (Sing Along With Mitch), is born.Ref: 5
1936*Robert F Overmyer Lorain Ohio, Col USMC/astronaut (STS 5, STS 51B), is born.Ref: 5
1938 Jerry Rubin is born.Ref: 10
1943*Lynn Loring NYC, actress (Patty-Fair Exchange, Barbara-FBI), is born.Ref: 5
1947*Steve (Steven Michael) Stone baseball: pitcher: SF Giants, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1979/Cy Young Award: 1980/all-star: 1980]; sportscaster, is born.Ref: 4
1948*Earl (Craig) Williams baseball: Atlanta Braves [Rookie of the Year: 1971], Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos, Oakland Athletics, is born.Ref: 4
1948*Tommy Matola rock manager/CEO (CBS records), is born.Ref: 5
1949*Mike Lewis football: Green Bay Packers, is born.Ref: 4
1952*Chris Cross rock singer (Arthur), is born.Ref: 5
1952*Eric Laneuville New Orleans La, actor (Larry-Room 222, St Elsewhere), is born.Ref: 5
1952*Jerry Houser LA Calif, actor (Slapshot, Summer of '42, Class of '44), is born.Ref: 5
1952*Stan Shaw Chic Ill, actor (Mississippi, Roots Next Generation), is born.Ref: 5
1961*Jackie Earle Haley Northridge Calif, actor (Breaking Away), is born.Ref: 5
1970*Missy Gold Great Falls Mont, actress (Katie-Benson), is born.Ref: 5
1977*Princess Victoria Ingrid Alicia Desire, heir apparent of Sweden, is born.Ref: 5
1223*Philip II Augustus, first great Capetian king of France (1179-1223), dies at age 57.Ref: 70
1817*Germaine de Stael, French-Swiss literary critic and novelist, dies at age 51.Ref: 70
1824*Hawaiian King Kamehameha II dies.Ref: 68
1881*Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, 21, at the Maxwell Ranch, in Fort Sumner NM, where the two had previously worked together. Ref 
1882*Johnny Ringo, member of the Clanton Gang and enemy of the Earps, dies in Tombstone, AZ.Ref: 68
1887 Alfred Krupp, German industrialist; developed and sold armaments, dies at age 75.Ref: 70
1904*Paulus Kruger Pres of South African Republic (1883), Boer leader, dies.Ref: 4
1953*Richard von Mises, Austrian-born American mathematician and aerodynamicist, dies at age 70.Ref: 70
1954*Benavente y Martinez Jacinto, Spanish Nobel Prize-winning dramatist (1922), dies at age 87.Ref: 70
1955*2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England.Ref: 5
1957*Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270.Ref: 5
1958*King Faisal II PM of Iraq, assassinated at Baghdad.Ref: 5
1960*Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300.Ref: 5
1965*Adlai Stevenson II, Democratic party candidate for US president [1952, 1956]; governor of Illinois, UN representative from U.S. [1961-1965]; dies in London at age 65.Ref: 4
1966*Richard Speck rapes & kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory.Ref: 5
1968*Westbrook Van Voorhis, American radio announcer, dies at age 63.Ref: 70
1970*Preston Foster actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger), dies at 69.Ref: 5
1973*Clarence White guitarist (Byrds), killed by a car.Ref: 5
1974*Carl Spaatz, American first chief of staff of the Air Force, dies at age 83.Ref: 70
1979*George De Witt TV host (Name that Tune), dies at 56.Ref: 5
1982*Jackie (Jack Eugene) Jensen baseball: NY Yankees [World Series: 1950], Washington Nationals [all-star: 1952], Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1955, 1958/Writer’s Award: 1958]; dies.Ref: 4
1984*Kenny Delmar comedian (School House), dies at 74Ref: 5
1986*Raymond Loewy inventor, engineer, industrial designing: ‘father of streamlining’: US Postal Service logo, Air Force One and many other products such as pens, appliances, cars and trains; dies at age 92.Ref: 4
1991*Dame Peggy (Edith Margaret Emily) Ashcroft Academy Award-winning actress: Passage to India [1984]; The Heat of the Day, The Jewel in the Crown, Secret Ceremony, The Nun’s Story, The 39 Steps; British Olivier Award [lifetime achievement 1991]; dies.Ref: 4
1993*A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck northern Japan, killing 196 people.Ref: 70
1994*Cesar (Leonardo) ‘Pepito’ Tovar baseball: Minnesota Twins, Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, NY Yankees; dies.Ref: 4
1998*In Ballymoney, Northern Ireland, three young brothers who had been asleep in their beds burned to death in a sectarian attack.Ref: 70
2000*Meredith MacRae Houston TX, actress (Petticoat Junction, My 3 Sons), dies.Ref: 4
2002*Nelson Barrera, Mexico's career home run and RBI leader, is electrocuted trying to free metal roofing from high-tension wires. The 44-year old 'Admiral', who hit 455 home runs during his 26-year Mexican Baseball League tenure, had hoped to continue playing so that he could hold the career Triple Crown by also reaching the career hit record.Ref: 1

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