| 455 | | Rome taken and pillaged by Genseric. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1662 | * | Charles II grants charter to establish Royal Society in London. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1789 | * | The electors of Paris set up a "Commune" to live without the authority of the government. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1806 | * | Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins his western expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1813 | * | Napoleon Bonaparte's representatives meet with the Allies in Prague to discuss peace terms. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1815 | * | Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders to the captain of the HMS Bellerophon. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1823 | * | In Rome, the church known as St Paul's Outside the Walls was destroyed by a fire. Its original edifice was erected in AD 324 by the Roman emperor Constantine. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1834 | * | Lord Napier of England arrives at Macao, China, as the first chief superintendent of trade. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1834 | * | Inquisition ends in Spain after 600 years of state-sanctioned death for heresy. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1856 | * | Natal established as a British colony separate from Cape Colony. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1867 | * | SF Merchant's Exchange opens | Ref: 5 |
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| 1869 | * | Margarine is patented in Paris, for use by French Navy. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | * | Georgia is readmitted to the Union after the Civil War, for the second time. (XDG, p 4A, 7/15/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1870 | * | Hudson's Bay & Northwest Territories transferred to Canada. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | * | Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province & NW Territories created. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1878 | * | The beginning of a five day gun battle at the McSween mansion where Billy the Kid and about 14 other fought off the Sheriff George "Dad" Peppin and about 40 others. After about 5 days, Billy the Kid and several other escaped. Ref | |
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| 1888 | * | Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for first time in 1,000 years | Ref: 5 |
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| 1892 | * | (Haywood Trial) Federal troops arrest 600 union men and sympathizers, placing them in warehouses surrounded by 14-foot high fences. For two months, the men are kept without hearing or formal charges, then most are released. Union leaders are tried. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1901 | * | Over 74,000 Pittsburgh steel workers go on strike. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1904 | * | The first Buddhist temple in the United States was established in Los Angeles, CA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1911 | * | The US Navy accepts delivery on its first Wright Flyer. | Ref: 46 |
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| 1911 | * | 46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Phillipines. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | National Health Insurance Act comes into force in Britain | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | The Boeing Co., originally known as Pacific Aero Products, was founded in Seattle by William Boeing. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1916 | * | 22.22" of rain falls in Altapass NC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | The duck-billed platypus arrived in America, direct from Australia. It was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo in NY City. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1929 | * | First airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | First betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Il. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | The MAUD Committee approves its final report and disbands. The report describes atomic bombs in some technical detail, provides specific proposals for developing them, and includes cost estimates. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1946 | * | British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | President Harry Truman was nominated for another term by the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia; his running mate, Sen. Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, was nominated by acclamation. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1951 | * | The First Southern Baptist Church to be constituted in the state of Wyoming was formed in Casper by a group of families principally related to the oil industry. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | The NY World-Telegram reported that the average white-collar worker would earn a lifetime income of $200,000 (forty years at $5,000 per year). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | John F. Kennedy accepts the Democratic nomination for president. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1964 | * | Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Commercial air travel began between the United States and the USSR. with the first plane, a Soviet Aeroflot jet, landing at Kennedy International Airport in NY. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1971 | * | President Richard Nixon announced he would visit the People's Republic of China to seek a "normalization of relations." | Ref: 70 |
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| 1976 | * | A 36-hour kidnap ordeal began for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver as they were abducted near Chowchilla, CA., by three gunmen and imprisoned in an underground cell. The captives escaped unharmed. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1978 | * | President Carter, in West Germany for an economic summit, presides over a "town meeting" during which he fields questions from about 1000 Berliners. (XDG, p 4A, 7/15/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1979 | * | President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech in which he lamented what he called a "crisis of confidence" in America. Though he didn't use the word, it became known as the "malaise" speech. "I am setting a clear goal for the energy policy of the United States. Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977 -- never." | Ref: 70 |
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| 1982 | * | Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th sec of state by vote of 97-0. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | 4,150 followers of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon are married in mass ceremony at Madison Square Gdn. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1987 | * | John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Group of Seven leaders opened their 17th annual economic summit in London, plunging into debate over aid to the Soviet Union. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1992 | * | Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton claimed the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York City. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1993 | * | Authorities in Los Angeles announce eight arrests in connection with an alleged plot by white supremacists to ignite a race war by bombing a black church and killing prominent black Americans. Christopher Fisher, leader of the Fourth Reich Skinheads, was later sentenced to more than eith years in federal prison while Daniel Boese was sentenced to nearly five years in prison; both pleaded guilty to arson and conspiracy. (XDG, p 4A, 7/15/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1995 | * | A 19-year old sales clerk is rescued after being buried in the rubble of a collapsed shopping mall in Seoul South Korea for 16 days. (XDG, p 4A, 7/15/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1996 | * | Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole tapped NY congresswoman Susan Molinari to deliver the keynote address at the upcoming GOP convention. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1996 | * | Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorce final; she receives £17 million and Kensington Palace apts. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1997 | * | Former Miller Brewing Company executive Jerold Mackenzie was vindicated by a jury in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mackenzie had brought a suit against Miller after the company fired him from his $95,000-a-year job for sexual harassment. He had been commenting on the Seinfeld episode, The Junior Mint, where Seinfeld’s TV character can’t remember the name of his new girlfriend -- only that it rhymes with a female body part. One of Mackenzie’s female co-workers complained to the Miller human resources director after she heard Mackenzie joking about the show. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1998 | * | Three days of ceremonies to bury Russia's last czar and his family began in the city of Yekaterinburg. (XDG, p 4A, 7/15/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1998 | * | The Congressional Budget Office estimates federal surpluses of $1.55T over the next decade. (XDG, p 4A, 7/15/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1999 | | China announces that it had invented its own neutron bomb. (XDG, p 4A, 7/15/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1999 | * | The government acknowledged for the first time that thousands of workers were made sick while making nuclear weapons and announced a plan to compensate many of them. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | * | The United Nations launched a successful military operation to help 222 Indian peacekeepers and eleven military observers break out of a rebel stronghold in Sierra Leone. | Ref: 6 |
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| 2002 | * | John Walker Lindh, an American who had fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty to two felonies in a deal sparing him life imprisonment. (XDG, p 4A, 7/15/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2002 | * | A Pakistani judge convicts four Islamic militants in the kidnap-slaying of Wall Street Journal correspondant Daniel Pearl. (XDG, p 4A, 7/15/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1783 | | Paddle wheel steamboat first exhibited in France. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1933 | * | Wiley Post began first solo flight around the world. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Howard Huges and crew set a new world record for an around-the-world flight. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1941 | * | Florey & Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Pencillin). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | First transatlantic helicopter flight begins. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | First coml jet transport plane built in US tested (Boeing 707). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | The Mariner IV spacecraft sent back the first close-up pictures of the planet Mars. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1975 | * | Three American astronauts blast off aboard an Apollo space ship hours after two Soviet cosmonauts are launched in a Soyez spacecraft for a mission that included a linkup of the two ships in orbit. (XDG, p 4A, 7/15/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1982 | * | Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1099 | * | The Muslim citizens of Jerusalem surrendered their city to the armies of the First Crusade. The Crusaders then proceeded, through misguided religious zeal, to massacre thousands of unarmed men, women and children. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1410 | | Poles and Lithuanians defeat the Teutonic knights at Tannenburg, Prussia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1863 | * | Confederate raider Bill Anderson and his Bushwackers attack Huntsville, Missouri, stealing $45,000 from the local bank. Bitter Bushwackers and Jayhawkers. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1864 | * | Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 and injuring 109 of 955 aboard. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1870 | | Franco-Prussian war begins. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1916 | * | Longueval captured by British. | Ref: 38 |
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| 1918 | * | The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1937 | * | Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | The first supply flight from India to China over the 'Hump' is flown. Successor to the Flying Tigers | Ref: 2 |
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| 1943 | * | The British war cabinet approves use of "Window" on bombing attacks. "Window" is the code name for using bundles of aluminum foil dropped from planes to confuse enemy radar. | |
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| 1943 | * | In Italy, Canadian troops of the 1st Infantry Brigade and tanks of the Three Rivers Regiment take the village of Grammichele from Germans of the Hermann Goering Division. | |
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| 1944 | * | Field-Marshal Gunther von Kludge and Field-Marshal Rommel meet with Adolf Hitler, and recommend negotiating for peace. | |
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| 1944 | * | Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | President Dwight Eisenhower sends 5,000 Marines to Lebanon to keep the peace. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1974 | | Macarios government in Cyprus temporarily overthrown. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1991 | * | US troops leave northern Iraq | Ref: 5 |
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| 1876 | * | George Washington Bradley pitched the first no-hitter in baseball by leading St. Louis to a 2-0 win over Hartford. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1901 | * | New York Giant Christy Mathewson tosses a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals, one of two in his Hall of Fame career. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1912 | * | Jim Thorpe wins the decathlon in the Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1920 | * | Ruth ties his record of 29 HRs in a season. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1921 | * | (Black Sox) The final juror is selected. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1939 | * | NL president Ford Frick orders two-foot screens affixed inside all foul poles after Billy Jurges of the Giants and umpire George Magerkurth spit at each other after a foul ball call down the left field line is disputed at the Polo Grounds. The AL will soon follows the Senior Circuit lead and will also install foul ball screens. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1949 | * | Czech tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny & Vladimir Cernik, defect to US | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | Citing the competition of television and radio, the Colonial League ceases its operation. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1960 | * | Giant Willie McCovey 'invisible triple' causes the umps to call a twenty-four minute fog delay at Candlestick Park, but the Dodgers go on to win 5-3. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1960 | * | Balt Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Cardinal pitcher Bob Gibson's right fibula is fractured by a Roberto Clemente line drive during a 6-3 loss to the Pirates. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1967 | * | LA Wolves beat Wash Whips 6-5 in OT to be United Soccer Association champs. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | NJ Americans moved to Comack & become NY Nets (ABA). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Rod Carew ties the record with his 7th steal of home in a season. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | Emile Griffith outpoints Dick Tiger in Madison Square Garden in a non-titleboxing match. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1970 | * | Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in first world female soccer championship. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1972 | * | Lee Trevino wins his 2nd consecutive golf's British Open. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | Angel Nolan Ryan pitches his second no-hitter of the season defeating the Tigers, 6-0 in front of 41,411 fans in Detroit. Ump Ron Luciano doesn't permit Norm Cash to use a piano leg instead of a bat in the ninth inning. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1973 | * | Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 HRs. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | NL beats AL 6-3 in 46th All Star Game (Milwaukee's County Stadium). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Johnny Bench hits his 314th HR as a catcher breaks Yogi Berra's record. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Hollis Stacy wins her 3rd US women's open golf title. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Baseball players voted to strike on August 6th if no contract was reached with baseball owners. The strike action turned out to be just a one-day interruption. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | AL beats NL for 2nd time in 15 yrs, winning 57th All-Star Game 3-2. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | For the second time this season, Red Sox Roger Clemens strikes out sixteen Royals. The doubleheader sweep over KS City marks Joe Morgan's Boston managerial debut. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1993 | * | Breaking Cub Hall of Fame Ernie Banks' previous record of 277, Cal Ripken hits his 278th homer as a shortstop, the most ever hit by a major leaguer playing that position. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1996 | * | After making 2,216 consecutive starts at shortstop, Oriole Cal Ripken returns to third base for the first time since June 30, 1982. The 2,216 straight starts is a major league record at any position. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1999 | * | The Brewers postpone game as a gesture of respect for the three workers who died when a huge crane collapsed lifting a portion of the roof for the team's new stadium, Miller Park. The crane broke in half as it lifted the 400-ton load damaging the partially completed stadium. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1999 | * | The Seattle Mariners paly their first game in their new home, Safeco Field, losing to the San Diego Padres. (XDG, p 4A, 7/15/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2000 | * | The American Tobacco Company's near-mint condition 1909 Honus Wagner card goes for $1.1 million in an eBay online auction; the high bidder will pay $1.265 million including a 15 percent buyer's premium for the 91 year-old card of the Hall of Fame Pirate shortstop. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2000 | * | Lennox Lewis stopped Francois Botha at 2:39 of the second round to retain his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles in London. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1888 | | The newspaper trade publication, Printers’ Ink, was first sold on this day. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Glenn Miller and his band recorded the classic Jukebox Saturday Night for Victor Records. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Singer Patti Page made her TV debut in a summer replacement series for Perry Como. The 15-minute program spotlighted Patti three times each week on CBS. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | | Musical comedy film "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell opens. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1963 | * | Paul McCartney is fined œ17 for speeding. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Comedy star Joan Rivers married Edgar Rosenberg. Edgar became a favorite target in her comedy routine on stage, TV and in recordings. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1966 | * | Singer Percy Sledge earned a gold record for When a Man Loves A Woman. It was his only song to make it to number one (5/28/66) and the only one of five to break into the top ten. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1968 | * | ABC-TV first presented the serial, One Life to Live. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1972 | * | Elton John landed at the top spot on the Billboard album chart for the first time as Honky Chateau made it to the top for a five-week stay. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Bob Dylan performed before the largest open-air concert audience (for a single artist). Some 200,000 fans turned out to hear Dylan at Blackbushe Airport in England. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1981 | * | Steven Ford, son of former President Gerald R. Ford, appeared in the much publicized seduction scene of The Young and the Restless on CBS-TV. Ford played the part of Andy, the macho maverick. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1985 | * | A gaunt-looking Rock Hudson appeared at a news conference with actress Doris Day (it was later revealed Hudson was suffering from AIDS). | Ref: 6 |
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| 1996 | * | MSNBC, a 24-hour all-news network, made its debut on cable TV and the Internet. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1573 | * | Inigo Jones, architect; restored St Paul's cathedral (1634-42), is born in London. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1606 | * | Rembrandt (Van Rijn) artist: 300 etchings, 1,400 drawings, 600 paintings: The Night Watch, Man with a Magnifying Glass, The Anatomy Lesson of Professor Tulp, Descent from the Cross, Rape of Ganymede; is born in Leiden, Netherlands. (XDG, p 4A, 7/15/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1701 | * | Pierre Joubert became oldest known Canadian (113 y 124 d at death), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1704 | * | August Gottlieb Spangenberg founder of Moravian Church in N America, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1779 | * | Clement Clarke Moore poet, author: ’Twas the Night before Christmas [A Visit from St. Nicholas]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1796 | * | Thomas Bulfinch, historian and mythologist (The Age of Fable), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1808 | * | Sir Henry Cole, English art patron and educator, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1814 | * | Birth of Edward Caswall, English clergyman and hymn translator. Today we still sing Caswall's English versions of the hymns 'Jesus, The Very Thought of Thee' and 'When Morning Gilds the Skies'. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1836 | * | William Winter, drama critic and essayist for The NY Times, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1850 | * | St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, 1st US saint, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1854 | | Marie Tempest is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1865 | * | Alfred Northcliffe, English newspaper publisher, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1867 | * | Maggie Lena Walker first woman bank founder and president: opened St. Luke Penny Savings Bank [Richmond VA: Nov 2, 1903]; women's rights/black pride advocate; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1872 | * | Jose Enrique Rod Montevideo, philosopher/educator/essayist, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1875 | * | Frank "Pop" Morgenweck basketball hall of famer (elected 1962), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1886 | * | Jacques Rivier, French writer, critic and editor, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1889 | * | Marjorie Rambeau SF Calif, actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | | Jean Rey Belgium, pres of European Commission (1967-70), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Dorothy Fields lyricist: w/Cy Coleman: Sweet Charity, Seesaw; w/Jimmy McHugh: I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, I’m in the Mood for Love, On the Sunny Side of the Street; daughter of comedian Lew Fields; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1906 | * | Richard W. Armour, humorist and author (Twisted Tales from Shakespeare), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1913 | * | Cowboy (Lloyd) Copas country singer: Alabam, Goodbye Kisses, Signed, Sealed and Delivered; is born. He is killed in plane crash with singer, Patsy Cline on Mar 2, 1963. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1913 | * | Hammond Innes, English novelist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1913 | * | Murvyn Vye Quincy Mass, actor (Bob Cummings Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Gavin Maxwell, Scottish writer and naturalist (Ring of Bright Water), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1919 | * | Dame Iris Murdoch, British novelist (A Severed Head, The Black Prince), is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1925 | * | Philip Carey actor: The Great Sioux Massacre, Philip Marlowe, Laredo, One Life to Live, The Time Travelers, Mister Roberts, is born in Hackensack NJ. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | * | Nan Clow Martin actress: Matters of the Heart, Goodbye Columbus, For Love of Ivy, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | * | Carmen Zapata NYC, actress (Hagen, Viva Valdez, Man & the City), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1931 | * | Clive Cussler author: Raise the Titanic, Deep Six, Sahara, Cyclops, NUMA and the Dirk Pitt series, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | Nina Van Pallandt Coopenhagen Denmark, actress (American Gigolo), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Julian Bream musician: classical guitar, lute, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1934 | * | Harrison Birtwistle Accringto, Lancashire, composer (Trombeau), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Ken Kercheval actor: Dallas, Search for Tomorrow, Corporate Affairs, Calamity Jane, is born in Wolcottville IN. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1935 | * | Donn (Alvin) Clendenon baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Expos, NY Mets [World Series: 1969], SL Cardinals, , is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1935 | * | Alex (Alexander G.) Karras football: U of IA line backer: Outland Trophy [1957], Detroit Lions defensive tackle: All-Pro [1960-62]; sportscaster: Monday Night Football [1974-76]; actor: Blazing Saddles, Against All Odds, Victor/Victoria, Webster, is born in Gary IN. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1936 | * | Senator George V. Voinovich (Republican, Ohio) is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1939 | * | Patrick Wayne actor: Chill Factor, Young Guns, McClintock, Big Jake; John Wayne’s son, is born in Los Angeles. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Roy Winston football: Minnesota Vikings line backer: Super Bowl IV, VIII, IX, XI, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Tommy Dee (Thomas Donaldson) singer: The Three Stars; record company executive; DJ: KFXM, San Bernardino, CA, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Bill Truax football: Dallas Cowboys tight end, Super Bowl VI, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | Diligenti quintuplets Buenos Aires, Argentina, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Jan-Michael Vincent actor: Airwolf, The Winds of War, Indecent Behavior, The World’s Greatest Athlete, Hooper, Born in East L.A., is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Peter Lewis musician: guitar, singer: group: Moby Grape: LPs: Moby Grape, Wow, Grape Jam, Truly Fine Citizen, 20 Granite Creek, Grape Live, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Gene Upshaw NFL offensive tackle (Oakland Raider), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Linda Ronstadt singer: group: The Stone Poneys: Different Drum; solo: Blue Bayou, You’re No Good, When Will I Be Loved, It’s So Easy, Ooh Baby Baby, Hurt So Bad; actress: Pirates of Penzance, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | | Sultan of Brunei is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1948 | * | Enrique Basilio hurler, first lady to light Olympic flame (Mexico-1968), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Trevor Horn rock producer (Buggles-Video Killed, Yes, Frankie), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Rick Kehoe hockey: NHL: Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins: player, scout, assistant coach, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | John Stallworth football: Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | * | David Pack singer: group: Ambrosia: The Biggest Part of Me, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1953 | | Jean-Bertrand Aristide is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1956 | * | Kathy Kreiner Canada, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1976), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Willie Aames actor: Eight is Enough, Charles in Charge, Frankenstein, Zapped!, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | Kim Alexis Lockport NY, model (Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Lolita Davidovich actress: Now and Then, Indictment: The McMartin Trial, For Better or Worse, Cobb, Boiling Point, Raising Cain, The Inner Circle, Recruits | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Forest Whitaker actor (Bloodsport, Platoon, Stakeout), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Brigitte Nielsen Eisinore Denmark, actress (Red Sonja, Rocky IV), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Brigitte Nielsen actress: Galaxis, Body Count, Chained Heat 2, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Cobra, Rocky 4, Red Sonja | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Shari Headley Brooklyn NY, actress (Mimi Reed-All My Children), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Irène Jacob actress: U.S. Marshals, Cuisine américaine, My Life So Far, The Pornographer: A Love Story, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1966 | * | Kristoff St John NYC, actor (Adam-Generations, Young & Restless), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | Thomas Francis, Jr., American microbiologist and epidemiologist, dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1973 | * | Brian Austin Green actor: Knots Landing, Beverly Hills 90210, An American Summer, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1262 | * | Richard de Clare, English nobleman, dies at age 40. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1291 | | King Rudolph I Germany dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1609 | * | Annibale Carracci, Italian artist, dies at age 48. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1685 | * | James, Duke of Monmouth, is executed for treason at Tower Hill, London. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1782 | * | Farinelli, Italian castrato singer, dies at age 77. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1828 | * | Jean-Antoine Houdon, French sculptor in the 18th century Rococo style, dies at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1852 | * | Louisa Adams (Johnson) wife of 6th U.S. President John Quincy Adams; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1868 | * | William Morton, American dental surgeon who first demonstrated anesthesia, dies at age 48. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1869 | * | A J Hayne, black captain of Arkansas militia, assassinated. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1871 | * | Thomas "Tad" Lincoln, fourth child of Mary and Abraham Lincoln, dies at age 18. (Ref) | |
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| 1883 | * | General Tom Thumb (Charles Stratton) entertainer: world’s most famous midget; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1895 | * | Ex-prime minister of Bulgaria, Stephen Stambulov, is murdered by Macedonian rebels. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1904 | * | Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright/short story writer: The Party, The Darling; playwright: The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, dies at age 44. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1909 | * | George Tyrrell, Irish-bn. English Jesuit priest/philosopher, dies at age 48. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1936 | * | Richard Dixon Oldham, English geologist who discovered evidence of the Earth's core, dies at age 77. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1939 | * | Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist; pioneered study of schizophrenics, dies at age 82. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1940 | * | Robert Wadlow was 8 feet, 11-1/10 inches tall and weighed 439 pounds when he died this day -- at the age of 22. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Max Kretzer, German Expressionist writer, dies at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1948 | * | John J. Pershing, American commander of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, dies at 87. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1957 | * | George Cleveland actor (Grampa-Lassie), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | James M. Cox, American newspaper publisher and governor of Ohio (1913-15, 1917-21), dies at age 87. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1958 | * | Julia Lennon mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Ernest Bloch Geneva, Switzerland, composer (MacBeth), dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1960 | * | Lawrence Tibbett Bakersfield CA, baritone (Metropolitan 1923-50), dies at age 63. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1972 | * | Fonty Flock (Truman Fontello) auto racer: NASCAR Hall of Famer; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1975 | * | Charles Weidman, American dancer and choreographer, dies at age 73. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1976 | | Paul Gallico dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1980 | * | Eddie Jackson comedian (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 84. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Wendy Caulfield first Green River victim, is found near Seattle. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Bill (William E.) Justis (Jr.) musician: saxophone: Raunchy; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1983 | * | Eddie Foy, Jr. actor: Yankee Doodle Dandy, Bells Are Ringing, The Pajama Game, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Four Jacks and a Jill; , dies of cancer at age 78. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1983 | * | 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | Philly Joe Jones, American jazz percussionist, dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1986 | * | Florence Halop actress (Florence-Night Court), dies at 63. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Benny Rubin actor/comedian (Benny Rubin Show), dies at 87. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1986 | * | Billy Haughton, American harness racer, dies at age 62. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1988 | * | Eleanor Estes author (Ginger Pye, Moffats), dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Troy Dixon rapper (Trouble T-Roy of Heavy D), dies at 22 from a fall. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Margaret Lockwood (Day) actress: The Wicked Lady, Cast a Dark Shadow, The Lady Vanishes; dies at age 73. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1991 | * | Bert Convy actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw), dies at age 57 in Brentwood CA. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1993 | * | David Brian actor: Pocketful of Miracles, Intruder in the Dust, Flamingo Road, Mr. District Attorney, The Immortal; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1997 | * | Fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot to death outside his home in Miami; suspected gunman Andrew Phillip Cunanan was found dead eight days later. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | * | John Pastore politician: first of Italian descent to become a state governor [Rhode Island: 1945-1950], then U.S. Senator [1950-1974]; dies at age 93. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2002 | * | Five-year old Samantha Runnion is kidnapped from her apartment complex in Stanton CA. Her body is found the next day; A suspect, Alejandro Avila, was later arrested. (XDG, p 4A, 7/15/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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