| 514 | * | St Hormisdas begins his reign as Catholic Pope. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1270 | * | Louis IX once again set out on Crusade, not to the east but towards Tunis. Charles, the brother of Louis, influenced the direction as Charles had plans in the East (?). At Cathage in July, the plague broke out and in August Louis dies. | |
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| 1429 | * | Clemens VIII, the Spanish anti-pope, ends his reign. He will live until 1446. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1553 | * | Mary Tudor proclaimed Queen of England. | |
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| 1648 | * | The Westminster Larger Catechism was adopted by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland at Edinburgh. This and the Shorter Catechism have both been in regular use among Presbyterians, Baptists and Congregationalists ever since. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1715 | * | Riot Act passed in England making assembly of more than twelve persons on street unlawful. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1726 | * | Colonial clergyman Jonathan Edwards, 23, married Sarah Pierpont, 16. Their marriage prospered for over 30 years, before his premature death in 1758. Sarah herself died only six months later, at 48. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1773 | * | Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1801 | * | A 1,235 pound cheese ball was pressed at the farm of Elisha Brown, Jr. The huge ball of cheese was later loaded on a horse-driven wagon and presented to President Thomas Jefferson at the White House. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1810 | * | Columbia gains its independence from Spain. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1846 | * | Donner Party: The Donner Party reaches the Little Sandy River. Most wagons turn right (based on the advice of James Climon) taking the more reliable route. Twenty wagons, including the Donner Party go left to Ft. Bridger and the Hastings Cutoff. | Ref: 27 |
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| 1868 | * | Legislation that ordered US tax stamps to be placed on all cigarette packs was passed this day. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1871 | * | British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1878 | * | First telephone introduced in Hawaii. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1881 | * | Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1890 | * | Snow & hail in Calais, ME. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1903 | * | Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1922 | * | Togo made a mandate of the League of Nations. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | 106ø F (41ø C), Washington, DC (district record). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | 118ø F (48ø C), Keokuk, IA (state record). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | The SS (Schutzstaffel) is made an independent organization from the SA. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1942 | * | The first members of the WAACS, the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps began training at Fort Des Moines, IA. In 1943, the name was changed to WACS (Women’s Army Corps) and the organization became a part of the US Army. All WAACS were given the choice of joining the new WACS (and joining the army) or returning to civilian life (75% stayed on). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | President Roosevelt is nominated for a fourth term by Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (XDG, p 4A, 7/20/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1944 | * | The Los Alamos Administrative Board decides on a reorganization plan to direct the laboratory's full resources on implosion. Instead of being organized around scientific and engineering areas of expertise, all work is organized around whether it applies to implosion, or the uranium gun weapon, with the former receiving most of the resources. The reorganization is completed in less than two weeks. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1945 | * | The 509th begins flying practice missions over Japan. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1945 | * | Stimson, in Potsdam for meeting between Truman and Stalin, receives current target list. In order of choice it is: Hiroshima, Kokura, and Niigata. He also receives an estimate of atomic bomb availability: Fat Man should be ready for use on Aug. 6, second Fat Man-type by Aug. 24, 3 should be available in September, and more each month - reaching 7 or more in December. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1945 | * | First A-bomb test unit dropped by 509th at Tinian. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1945 | * | Combat hemispheres for Fatman are fabricated. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1956 | * | France recognizes Tunisia's independence. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | First submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Pope John XXIII sent invitations to all 'separated Christian churches and communities,' asking each to send delegate-observers to the upcoming Vatican II Ecumenical Council in Rome. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | 46.18 cm (18.18") of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Race riots in Memphis Tenn. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | A Japan Airlines 747 was hijacked over the Netherlands. Four days later it was blown up at Benghazi. | |
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| 1982 | * | Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | | Treasure hunters began hauling off $400 million in coins and silver ingots from the sea floor in the biggest underwater jackpot in history. The bounty came from the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha, which sank 40 miles off the coast of Key West, Florida in 1622. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | Kilauea begins a long eruption that as of May 1990 had not stopped. In the process over 650M cubic yards of lava will be released | Ref: 62 |
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| 1988 | * | Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1989 | * | 93ø F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Justice William Brennan resigns from the Supreme Court after 36 years. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | A federal appeals court sets aside Oliver North's Iran-Contra convictions. (XDG, p 4A, 7/20/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1992 | * | Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led the Velvet Revolution against communism, stepped down as president of Czechoslovakia. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1995 | * | University of California drops its affirmative action policies on admissions and hiring. (XDG, p 4A, 7/20/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1997 | * | Seven people were arrested after New York City police found scores of deaf Mexicans kept in slave-like conditions and forced to peddle trinkets for the smugglers who had brought them to the United States. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2003 | * | News reports suggest that krypton 85 gas, a sign of nuclear activity, has been detected from a site other than Yongbyon. (WSJ, p A4, 7/22/2003) | Ref: 33 |
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| 1845 | * | First white man enters Simpson's desert, Central Australia (Charles Stuart). | Ref: 10 |
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| 1872 | * | Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... the radio is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | USSR recovers 2 dogs, first living organisms to return from space | Ref: 62 |
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| 1969 | * | Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon. Michael Collins pilots the orbiting spacecraft. (XDG, p 4A, 7/20/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1969 | * | President Richard Nixon places first earth-to-moon telephone call. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1976 | * | Viking 1 lands on Mars. It was the first spacecraft to reach the red planet. Data collected by Viking 1 and Viking 2 (landed September 3, 1976) showed Mars to be a barren, rocky planet. Viking I will continue working for six and a half years. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Voyager 2 launched | Ref: 62 |
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| 1999 | * | After 38 years at the bottom of the Atlantic, astronaut Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule was lifted to the surface. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1402 | | Tamerlane, leading a large force of Tartars, defeats and captures the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Angora. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1588 | | The Spanish Armada sets sail from Corunna. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1777 | * | The Cherokees make peace with Virginia and North Carolina, giving up lands east of the Blue Ridge Mountains and north of the Nolichucky River. Some Cherokees rejected this and other treaties, withdrawing to Chickamauga (in what is today Georgia) and continuing to fight for several years. | |
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| 1861 | * | The Congress of the Confederate States of America begins holding sessions in Richmond VA. (XDG, p 4A, 7/20/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1864 | * | Confederate General John Bell Hood attacks Union forces under General William T. Sherman outside Atlanta. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1864 | * | Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1866 | | In the Seven Weeks' War, the Austrians partially destroyed the Italian fleet at Lissa Island, killing over 1100. | |
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| 1867 | | Imperial troops in Guizhou, China, kill 20,000 Miao rebels. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1917 | * | Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian premier, succeeding Lvoff. | Ref: 38 |
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| 1917 | * | WW I draft lottery held; #258 is first drawn. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Pact of Corfu leads to establishment of kingdom of Yugoslavia under Prince Alex II Serbia. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1942 | * | Legion of Merit Medal authorized by congress. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | A joint Canadian-American scientific report on potential use of chemical-warfare in taking Japanese-held islands refuses to recommend the use of gas over conventional high explosives. | |
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| 1944 | * | In Rastenburg, East Prussia, in Hitler's war headquarters, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg purposely breaks an acid capsule, releasing the acid to slowly break a wire holding back the firing pin of a two-pound home-made bomb designed to assassinate Adolf Hitler and many of his senior staff. Amazingly, only a stenographer is killed, and three others die later of wounds. Several, including Hitler, are slightly wounded. Colonel von Stauffenberg is shot by a firing squad later that night. (XDG, p 4A, 7/20/2001) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1944 | * | US invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | | Israel's 19 month war of independence ends. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | The Geneva Conference on Indochina declares a demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel. | Ref: 41 |
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| 1974 | | Turkey invades Cyprus. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | | South Africa, Cuba and Angola reach an agreement in principle on a plan to end the war in Angola and grant independence to Namibia. | |
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| 1988 | | Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini ends eight-year war with Iraq;Accepts UN Cease-fire Resolution 598. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1994 | | Bosnian Serbs rejected an international peace plan sponsored by the United States, Russia, France, Britain and Germany. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1859 | * | Brooklyn and NY played baseball at Fashion Park Race Course on Long Island, NY. New York beats Brooklyn, 22-18. The game marked the first time that admission had been charged for spectators to see a ball game. It cost 50¢ to get in and the players on the field received no salary (until 1863). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1876 | * | First US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Sir Allen Lane, English publisher; pioneered paperback publishing. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1906 | * | At St. Louis, Brooklyn hurler Mal Eason no-hits against the Cardinals, 2-0. The 'Kid' was the losing pitcher when Johnny Lush pitch a no-hitter against the Superbas in May. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1911 | * | Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1923 | * | Yanks hit into a triple-play but beat A's 9-2. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | The Browns' Nels Potter, banned for ten days, is the first pitcher ever to be suspended for throwing a spitball. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1947 | * | The National Football League ruled that no professional team could sign a player who had college eligibility remaining. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | Tennis Champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Pitcher Jim Bunning threw a no-hitter and led the Detroit Tigers to a baseball 3-0 win over the Boston Red Sox. The no-hitter was the last by a Tiger pitcher until Jack Morris did the same 26 years later. This turned out to be a major-league record for time between no-hitters. The future Hall of famer will become the first modern pitcher to toss a no-hitter in both leagues when throws a perfect against the Mets in 1964. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1960 | * | Solly Hemus, manager of the St Louis Cardinals, pulls Ken Boyer from the lineup. Subsequent examination shows that Boyer is suffering from abdominal strain, a condition that would be controllable with medication. (Lipman, David, "Ken Boyer", ©1967) | |
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| 1962 | * | Cassius Clay KOs Alejandro Laborante in the 5th round in Los Angeles CA. | Ref: 96 |
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| 1965 | * | Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside the park grand slam against the Red Sox en route to a 6-3 victory. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1969 | * | In 1963, Gaylord Perry said, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On this day, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Perry hits his first and only major league home run. (Ref: Gear Magazine, 5/2002, p. 128) | |
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| 1970 | * | Whiffing 10 batters, Dodger Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies, 5-0. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1973 | * | White Sox pitcher Wilbur Wood loses both ends of a doubleheader to the Yankees. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1976 | * | Home Run King - Hank Aaron hits home run #755 at Milwaukee County Stadium. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1979 | | 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Baseball great Hank Aaron broke Ty Cobb’s record, as he appeared in game number 3,034 of his career. Aaron, age 40, was playing in his 20th season of major-league baseball. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1984 | * | Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly ties a major league mark as he is credited with 22 putouts in one game matching Hal Chase's feat of 1906. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1987 | * | Mike McCallum of Jamaica KO's Don Curry in the 5th round to retain the WBA light-middleweight boxing title. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1996 | * | 26th Olympic Summer games opens in Atlanta, Georgia | Ref: 5 |
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| 1910 | * | The Christian Endeavor Society of Missouri began a campaign to ban all motion pictures that depicted kissing between non-relatives. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | | NBC radio debuted G-men. The show was later renamed Gangbusters and stayed on the air until 1957. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | * | Singles record charts first published by Billboard-Tommy Dorsey #1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1950 | * | "Arthur Murray Party" premiers on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | | Stop the World, I Want to Get Off opened in London. The show went to Broadway in 1962. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1963 | * | Ray Conniff received two gold-record awards -- for the albums, Concert in Rhythm and Memories are Made of This -- on Columbia Records. Conniff recorded dozens of albums of easy listening music for the label. He had been a trombonist and arranger with Bunny Berigan, Bob Crosby, Harry James, Vaughn Monroe and Artie Shaw. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | First surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's "Surf City". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes the first heavy metal song to hit the charts, it comes in at #117. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Kirk Cameron marries Growing Pains co-star Chelsea Noble in upstate NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1304 | * | Francesco Petrarch Italy, poet (Italia Mia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1519 | * | Innocent IX 230th Roman Catholic pope (1591), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1591 | * | Anne Hutchinson, religious liberal, one of the founders of Rhode Island, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1785 | * | Mahmud II Ottoman sultan, Westernizer, reformer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1815 | * | Giuseppe La Farina, Italian writer and leader of the Risorgimento, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1838 | * | Augustin Daly, American playwright and theatrical manager, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1838 | * | Sir George Otto Trevelyan, English historian, statesman and biographer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1847 | * | Max Liebermann, German painter and etcher, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1850 | * | John Graves Shedd, president of Marshall Field and Company, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1864 | * | Erik Karlfeldt Sweden, poet (Nobel 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1868 | * | Miron Cristea, Romanian; first patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1869 | * | Howard Thurston, magician, is born in Columbus OH. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1873 | * | Santos-Dumont Alberto, Brazilian aviation pioneer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1874 | * | Gustav Holst, English composer and teacher, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1877 | * | Birth of Jesse Overholtzer, who in 1937 incorporated Child Evangelism Fellowship in Chicago. Today the CEF mission agency works in over 60 countries worldwide. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1885 | * | Theda Bara (Goodman) actress: A Fool There Was, The Unchastened Woman, The Love Goddesses; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1890 | * | Theda Bara actress (Under Two Flags, Cleopatra) (or 0729), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1890 | * | Verna Felton Salinas CA, actress (Hilda-December Bride), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1890 | * | George II, Greek king (1922-4; 1935-47), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1894 | * | Errett Lobban Cord, American automobile manufacturer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1904 | * | Westbrook Van Voorhis, American radio announcer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1904 | * | Hans Hartung, German-born French painter, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1919 | * | Sir Edmund Hillary one of first 2 men to scale Mt Everest, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Lev Aronin USSR, International Chess Master (1950), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Tommy Prothro Jr. football: coach: Oregon State Univ., UCLA, Los Angeles Rams, San Diego Chargers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1920 | * | Elliot Richardson, the American public official best known for his refusal to obey President Richard M. Nixon's order to fire a special prosecutor, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1921 | * | Ted Schroeder tennis: champ: U.S. Open [1941], Wimbledon [1949], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1924 | * | Lola Albright, Akron OH, actress (Delta Country, Kid Galahad), is born. (TWA, 1986) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1924 | * | Thomas Berger US, novelist (Vital Parts, Little Big Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Mike Ilitch entrepreneur: owner of Detroit Red Wings, Little Caesar’s Pizza franchises, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1930 | * | Sally Ann Howes London England, actress (Dead of Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Nam June Paik Seoul Korea, video artist (The Medium is the Medium), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Nelson Doubleday publisher (Doubleday)/owner (NY Mets), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | | -Sally Ann Howes is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1936 | * | Butch (Fred) Baird golf: champ: PGA: Waco Turner Open Invitational [1961], 1976 San Antonio Texas Open [1976]; champ: Senior PGA: Cuyahoga Seniors [1986], Northville Long Island Classic [1989], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1938 | * | Actress Natalie Wood (Natasha Nikolaevna Gurdin) is born. | Ref: 24 |
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| 1938 | * | Jo Ann Campbell Jacksonville Fla, Lawrence Welk's champagne lady, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Diana Rigg Tony Award-winning actress: Medea; King Lear, Witness for the Prosecution, The Avengers, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | Judy Chicago [Cohen], Chicago, artist (The Dinner Party), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Tony Oliva ball player, batting champ (AL Rookie of Year 1964), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Vladimir A Lyakhov cosmonaut (Soyuz 32, T-9), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Pete Hamilton auto racer: Daytona 500 winner [1970], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Mickey (Mitchell Jack) Stanley baseball: Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1968], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1943 | * | John Lodge bassist (Moody Blues), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Chris Amon auto racer: “…the New Zealander led lots of races, started from pole yet never ever managed to win a Grand Prix.”, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | T.G. Sheppard country singer (Only 1 You, Without You), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1945 | * | Betty Burfeindt golf champion: LPGA [1976] | Ref: 4 |
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| 1946 | * | Kim Carnes singer (Bette Davis Eyes), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | John Almond musician: reeds, keyboards, vibes: group: Johnny Almond and the Music Machine, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1947 | * | James Harris Monroe La, NFL quarterback (Buffalo, LA, San Diego), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Carlos Santana Mexico, musician (Santana-Black Magic Woman), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Gerd Binnig Frankfurt, physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1954 | * | Jay Jay French NYC, guitarist (Twisted Sister-Not Gonna Take It), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Paul Cook drummer (Sex Pistols), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1956 | * | Mima Jausovec Yugoslavia, tennis player (French Open-1977), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Donna Dixon Va, actress, Mrs Dan Ackwoyd (Couch Trip, Bossom Buddies), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Michael McNeill rocker (Simple Minds-Don't You Forget About Me), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | Dino Esposito singer: I Like It, Romeo, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Chris Cornell Grammy Award-winning musician: drums, singer, songwriter: group: Soundgarden: Spoonman [1994], Black Hole Sun [1994], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1968 | * | Chris Kennedy actor (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1970 | * | First baby born on Alcatraz Island. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Charlie Korsmo actor (Dick Tracy, What About Bob), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1031 | * | Robert II, King of France, dies. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1609 | * | Federico Zuccari Italian Mannerist painter, dies (birth date unknown). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1851 | * | A bridge near Moscow gives way under a procession of 200 Waldimar monks drowning 158. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1870 | * | Albrecht von Grafe, German surgeon and pioneering ophthalmologist, dies at age 42. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1890 | * | Sir Richard Wallace, English art collector and philanthropist, dies at age 72. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1903 | * | Pope Leo XIII (Giocchino Vincenzo Pecci) (256th pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1878-1903]; dies. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1923 | * | Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary guerrilla leader, is assassinated at age 45. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1937 | * | Guglieimo Marconi, Italian physicist and pioneer of wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909), dies at age 63. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1940 | * | Elmer Maytag, American industrialist who built and sold Maytag washing machines, dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1944 | * | Ludwig Beck, German general; opposed Hitler, dies at age 64. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1951 | * | King Abdullah (Ibn Hussein) of Jordan is assasinated. | Ref: 15 |
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| 1954 | * | Blair Moody (Sen-Mich), dies at 52. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Phil Hanna singer (Once Upon a Tune), dies at 46. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | William Daniel Leahy, American admiral; chief of staff during World War II, dies at age 84. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1969 | * | Roy Hamilton singer: You’ll Never Walk Alone, If I Loved You, Ebb Tide, Unchained Melody, Don’t Let Go, You Can Have Her; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | Bruce Lee (Lee Jun Fan) actor: martial arts cult star; The Green Hornet, Game of Death, Return of the Dragon, Fists of Fury, Enter the Dragon, Chinese Connection, Marlowe; subject of the movie, Dragon; dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1974 | * | Allen Jenkins actor (Fugitive from a Chain Gang), dies at 74. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pa, kills 80 & causing $350 mil damage. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Frank Reynolds, anchor of the nightly ABC News, died at the age of 59. He was replaced by ABC News correspondent, Peter Jennings. Through his years at ABC, Reynolds was noted for being temperamental. That personality came through on the air from time to time. During the assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan, Reynolds scolded staff members while he was on camera. Reynolds had to retract previously broadcast statements that Reagan’s Press Secretary James Brady had been killed in the attack. The misinformation embarrassed Reynolds, causing the on-air reaction. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | Helen Craig actress (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 74 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Richard Egan actor: Love Me Tender, The Hunters, A Summer Place, Blackbeard the Pirate; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1992 | | John Bratby dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1993 | * | White House deputy counsel Vince Foster was found shot to death in a park near Washington in an apparent suicide. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1997 | * | Linda Stirling (Louise Schultz) actress: Jesse James Rides Again, Rio Grande Raiders, Zorro’s Black Whip, Cyclotrode "X"; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2004 | * | Scott Mink, age 40, is executed at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville OH for the September 2000 murder of his parents. (Dayton Daily News, p 1, 7/20/2004) | |
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