| 325 | * | The Council of Nicea closed. Regarded as the first 'ecumenical council,' its 300 ttending bishops drafted the Nicene Creed and fixed the formula for Easter Sunday. | Ref: 5 |
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| 326 | * | Emperor Constantine refuses to carry out traditional pagan sacrifices. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1360 | * | Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1394 | * | Charles VI of France issues a decree for the general expulsion of Jews from France. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1554 | * | Queen Mary marries Philip of Spain. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1564 | * | Maximillian II becomes emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1581 | * | Netherlands proclaim independence from Spain. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1587 | * | Hideyoshi bans Christianity in Japan and orders all Christians to leave. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1593 | * | France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1670 | * | Jews are expelled from Vienna Austria. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1729 | * | North Carolina becomes royal colony. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1775 | * | Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1822 | * | Gen Agustin de Iturbide crowned Agustin I, first emperor of Mexico. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1845 | | China grants Belgium equal trading rights with Britain, France and the United States. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1845 | * | Canadian-born Catholic missionary Francois Blanchet was consecrated bishop of the Pacific Northwest. He devoted 45 years to planting churches, and is remembered today as the 'Apostle of Oregon.' | Ref: 5 |
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| 1850 | * | Gold is discovered in the Rogue River in Oregon, extending the quest for gold up the Pacific coast. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1866 | * | Congress established a new rank, general of the armies of the United States, to which Grant was immediately appointed. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1867 | * | President Andrew Johnson signs an act creating the territory of Wyoming. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1868 | * | Congress authorizes the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad to purchase unallotted lands of Pottawatomie Indian Reservation near Topeka for $1 an acre; resales to farmers provide capital for construction. | |
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| 1868 | * | Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1888 | | World's first typing contest held in Cincinnati; court stenographer Frank McGurrin wins on QWERTY. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1890 | * | New York garment workers won the right to unionize after a seven-month strike. They secured agreements for a closed shop, and firing of all scabs. | Ref: 59 |
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| 1903 | * | Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1912 | * | Comoros proclaimed a French colonies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | Russia declares that it will act to protect Serbian sovereignty. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1916 | * | Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1917 | * | Mata Hari sentenced to death for espionage. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1918 | * | Annette Adams sworn in as first woman district attorney of US, CA. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | | Greece announces the deportation of 50,000 Armenians. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1936 | * | 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Jewish doctors prohibited by law from practicing medicine. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1941 | * | The US government freezes Japanese and Chinese assets. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1945 | * | Peer de Silva, the official courier for the Fatman core, signs for 6.1 kg of plutonium at Los Alamos. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1946 | | First bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | US detonates the first underwater A-bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific (5th atomic explosion). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Dept of Defense. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | US Deptartment of the Army created. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1952 | * | Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States (Constitution Day). | Ref: 70 |
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| 1953 | * | NYC transit fare rises from 10¢ to 15¢, first use of subway tokens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | | Monarchy in Tunisa abolished in favor of a republic. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1960 | * | Woolworth lunch counters opened to all races following 2/1/60 sit-in by four Black college students. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1963 | * | The US, Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1964 | * | Race riot in Rochester NY. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Pope Paul VI published the encyclical 'Humanae Vitae.' It restated the Catholic position on the family, and condemned all artificial methods of birth control. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Microsoft exceeds $1 billion in sales. | |
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| 1990 | * | US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | A deadline for Iraq to provide full details of its weapons of mass destruction passed, with US officials indicating military action was not imminent. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1991 | | Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev urged Communist leaders at a Central Committee meeting to reject "outdated ideological dogmas" and embrace a market economy. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1994 | | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old formal state of war. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1995 | * | A U.N. war crimes tribunal indicted Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, army commander Gen. Ratko Mladic, and 22 other Serbs for war crimes. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1996 | * | Divers searching the wreckage of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, NY, recovered the flight data and cockpit voice recorders. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1997 | * | K.R. Narayanan became India's president, the first member of an "untouchable" Dalits caste to do so. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1998 | * | The US Capitol was reopened, a day after a gunman killed two police officers. (XDG, p 4A, 7/25/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1998 | * | Two government officials revealed that special prosecutor Kenneth Starr had subpoenaed President Clinton to testify before a federal grand jury about the Monica Lewinsky case. (XDG, p 4A, 7/25/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2000 | | The Middle East summit at Camp David collapsed. | Ref: 6 |
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| 2000 | * | TX Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2002 | * | Encouraged by a tiny tapping sound coming up from the depths, rescuers in Somerset PA brought in a huge drill in a race to save nine coal miners trapped 240 feet underground by a flooded shaft. (XDG, p 4A, 7/25/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2002 | * | Zacarias Moussaoui declared he was guilty of conspiracy in the Sept 11 attacks, then dramatically withdrew his plea at his arraignment in Alexandria VA. (XDG, p 4A, 7/25/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1775 | * | Captain Cook returns to England after second voyage-Sandwich Islands discovered. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1806 | * | Lewis & Clark: Having reached the Yellowstone (with some guiding assistance from Sacagawea), Clark's group has re-entered the Great Plains, built two dugouts, been stopped on the river by a huge buffalo herd, and now comes to a sandstone outcropping east of present-day Billings, Montana. He names it Pompy's Tower, in honor of Sacagawea's son, nicknamed Little Pomp. And on the rock face, Clark inscribes his name and the date – the only physical evidence the Corps of Discovery left on the landscape that survives to this day. Lewis and three men, meanwhile, are now 300 miles away, near the Canadian border and what is now Cut Bank, Montana. | Ref: 65 |
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| 1814 | * | George Stephenson launches the first practical steam engine, called "Blusher" on the Cillingwood Railway, pulling 8 coal wagons at 4 mph. Ref | |
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| 1854 | * | The paper collar was patented by Walter Hunt of NY City. The once-popular collar was very much a part of a clergyman’s wardrobe. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1866 | * | David Farragut becomes the first naval officer to become an admiral. | Ref: 39 |
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| 1871 | * | Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, IA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1871 | * | Seth Wheeler of Albany, NY patented perforated wrapping paper. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1909 | * | Louis Bleriot of France crossed the English Channel (Calais to Dover) in a 28-hp monoplane with a wingspan of just 23 feet. It was the first time that trick had been accomplished. Actually, it was the world’s first international, overseas flight. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | | First Hovercraft crosses English Channel. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1972 | * | US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in a 40 year syphillis experiment. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | USSR launches Mars 5 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1981 | * | Voyager 2 encounters Saturn | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | First nonhuman primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1987 | * | USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1139 | | The Portuguese defeat the Moors at Ourique. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1261 | | A virtually undefended Constantinople falls to the Nicaean Army. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1759 | * | British capture Fort Niagara in Canada from French (7 Years' War). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1799 | * | On his way back from Syria, Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Ottomans at Aboukir, Egypt. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1814 | * | British and American forces fight each other to a standoff at Lundy's Lane, Canada. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1861 | * | The Crittenden Resolution, calling for the American Civil War to be fought to preserve the Union and not for slavery, is passed by Congress. Tall tales of the Civil War. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1894 | | Japanese forces sink the British steamer Kowshing which was bringing Chinese reinforcements to Korea. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1898 | * | Near the end of the Spanish-American War, U.S. troops under General Nelson A. Miles land on Puerto Rico and with little resistance were able to secure the island by mid-August. | Ref: 3 |
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| 1943 | * | (and 26th) Mussolini is arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls; Marshal Pietro Badoglio takes over and negotiates with Allies. | Ref: 36 |
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| 1944 | * | (through the 30th) Operation Cobra (U.S. troops break out west of St. Lô in Normandy). | Ref: 36 |
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| 1944 | * | First jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | German commander of Paris, France, Von Choltitz surrenders the city to Allied armies. | |
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| 1956 | * | Jordanians attack UN Palestine truce | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | | Israeli's ended a week of raids on guerrilla bases in south Lebanon, while guerrillas fired rockets into Israel; the fighting ended July 31st with a US-brokered cease-fire. (XDG, p 4A, 7/25/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1860 | * | Harvard and Yale University freshmen met in the first intercollegiate billiards match -- at Worcester, MA. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1902 | * | Bob Fitzsimmons fails in his attempt to regain the heavyweight boxing title when James J Jeffries drops him in the 8th round in San Francisco. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1913 | * | Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1913 | * | Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Phila Athletics triple steal in the first & 4th innings vs Cleveland. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | NY Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive wins. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | | John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hrs 46 mins in the Mississippi River. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | In his third try, 41-year old Lefty Grove joins Cy Young, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Grover Cleveland Alexander, and Eddie Plank to achieve 300 career wins. The Red Sox lefthander gives up 12 hits beating the Indians, 10-6. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1947 | * | Fortune Gordien of Oslo, Norway set a world record discus throw of 178.47 feet. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | St Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Bkln 14-1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | | "Sensational" Sherri Martel wins wrestling's WWF woman's title. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a double header. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Red Sox great Ted Williams and Yankee manager Casey Stengel are inducted into the Hall of Fame. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1972 | * | The National League wins the All Star game in Atlanta 3-2 thanks to Joe Morgan's single in the 10th inning. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1977 | * | With his 2,881st career hit, Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as the all-time hit leader among switch-hitters. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1978 | * | Cincinnati Reds’ first baseman Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Mike Schmidt becomes the all-time Phillie HR leader passing Del Ennis as he hits his 261st round tripper. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1981 | * | Walter Payton signed a contract to play with the Chicago Bears of the NFL on this, his 27th birthday. The famed running back earned almost $2 million over three years. Sweetness, as he was nicknamed (because of his disposition), became the highest-paid player in the National Football League. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | | Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | The Salt Lake City Trappers set a professional baseball record as the team won its 29th game in a row. The Class ‘A’ team beat Pocatello (Idaho) 13-3. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1990 | * | KC Royal George Brett hits for the cycle. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Nadezhda Ryashkina of US sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain | Ref: 5 |
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| 1996 | * | Bruce Ruffin, Colorado Rockies, strikes out 4 batters in the 9th inning. (Sporting News Complete Baseball Record Book, 2002, ISBN 0-89204-668-0) | |
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| 1998 | * | Neifi Perez becomes the second Colorado Rockies player to hit for the cycle. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1998 | * | San Diego Padre Trevor Hoffman closes out the Astros to convert his M.L. record-tying 41st consecutive save. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1999 | | Lance Armstrong rode to victory in the Tour de France, capping an amazing comeback from cancer. He was only the second American to win cycling’s showcase race. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1999 | * | Nolan Ryan, Robin Yount, George Brett, Nestor Chylak, Orlando Cepeda, Frank Selee and 'Smokey' Joe Williams are enshrined in the Hall of Fame. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | The Tampa Bay Devil Rays acquire left-handed pitcher Nick Bierbrodt, outfielder Jason Conti and cash considerations from Arizona in exchange for right-handed pitcher Albie Lopez and catcher Mike DiFelice. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1854 | * | Cleveland's first formal opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, is performed. | |
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| 1867 | | Das Kapital by Karl Marx is published | Ref: 62 |
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| 1925 | | Station 2XAG in Schenectady, NY became the first radio station in the US to broadcast with a 50,000-watt transmitter. The station, soon known as WGY Radio, could broadcast with 50,000 watts, since it was owned by the General Electric Company -- a company that knew lots about watts. Today, WGY still broadcasts with its original call letters and is still using 50,000 watts of power. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | W2XBS TV in New York City presented the first musical comedy seen on TV. The show was Topsy and Eva. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1942 | * | Capitol Records first number one hit made it to the top this day. It was one of their first six records released on July 1. The new company’s hit was Cow Cow Boogie, by Ella Mae Morse and Freddy Slack. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters recorded Cole Porter's "Don't Fence Me In" in Los Angeles for Decca Records. | Ref: 6 |
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| 1946 | | (Dean) Martin and (Jerry) Lewis team is formed. | |
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| 1956 | | (Dean) Martin and (Jerry) Lewis team perform together for the last time. | |
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| 1964 | * | Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1965 | * | Bob Dylan appeared on stage at the Newport Jazz Festival with an electric guitar. He was not well received, even with the classic folk song, Blowin’ in the Wind. The electrified “poet laureate of a generation” was booed and hissed by the audience for being amplified. He was, in fact, booed right off the stage. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1966 | * | Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love". | Ref: 5 |
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| 1969 | * | 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1973 | * | George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premiers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1985 | * | A spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed that the actor, hospitalized in Paris, was suffering from AIDS. (Hudson died the following October.) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem at San Diego Padre game | Ref: 5 |
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| 1997 | * | Autumn Jackson, a young woman who claimed to be Bill Cosby's out-of-wedlock daughter, is convicted by a federal jury of trying to extort $40M from the entertainer. (XDG, p 4A, 7/25/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 975 | * | Thietmar bishop of Merseburg, German chronicler, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1575 | * | Christoph Scheiner Germany, astronomer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1750 | * | Henry Knox, American Revolutionary war general and first U.S. secretary of war, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1775 | * | Anna Harrison (Symmes) wife of 9th US President Benjamin Harrison; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1806 | * | Maria Weston Chapman, American abolitionist, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1824 | * | Richard Oglesby, American governor of IL (1865-69, 1873, 1885-89) and U.S. senator (1873-79), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1840 | * | Flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1844 | * | Thomas Eakins, American realist painter, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1848 | * | Arthur Earl Balfour (C), British PM (1902-05) (Balfour Declaration), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1853 | * | David Belasco, American theatrical producer and playwright, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1870 | * | Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator and painter, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1876 | | Elizabeth Queen of Belgians is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1880 | * | Morris Raphel Cohen, American philosopher and mathematician, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1883 | * | Alfredo Casella Turin Italy, composer (La Giara), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1884 | * | Davidson Black, Canada, doctor of anatomy (identified Peking Man), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | Walter Brennan Swampscott Mass, actress (Real McCoys, At Gun Point), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1894 | * | Walter (Andrew) Brennan Academy Award-winning actor: Come and Get It [1936], Kentucky [1938], The Westerner [1940]; The Tycoon, To Rome with Love, The Real McCoys, The Guns of Will Sonnett; singer: Old Rivers, Dutchman’s Gold, Mama Sang a Song; died Sep 21, 1974 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1899 | * | Ralph Dumke Indiana, actor (Movieland Quiz), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1899 | * | Birth of Stuart K. Hine. While an English missionary to the Ukraine, Hine penned the English words to an oft-sung Swedish hymn, known today as 'How Great Thou Art.' | Ref: 5 |
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| 1902 | * | Eric Hoffer, American longshoreman, philosopher and writer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1905 | * | Elias Canetti Bulgarian/British novelist/essayist (Nobel 1981), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1906 | * | Johnny Hodges, American jazz saxophonist; soloist in Duke Ellington's orchestra, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1907 | * | Jack Gilford (Jacob Gellman) actor: Cocoon series, Arthur 2: On the Rocks, Caveman, Wholly Moses!, Save the Tiger, Catch-22, Enter Laughing, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, The Duck Factory, The David Frost Revue, The Arrow Show; is born in New York City. (TWA, 1986) | Ref: 95 |
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| 1914 | | Woody Strode is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1924 | * | Estelle Getty NYC, actress (Sophia Petrillo-Golden Girls), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | Frank Church (Sen-D-Id), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Jerry Paris SF Calif, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Whitey (Carroll Walter) Lockman baseball: NY Giants [World Series: 1951, 1954/all-star: 1952], SL Cardinals, SF Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | * | Midge Decter, writer and editor, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1927 | * | Stanley Dancer harness racer: Hall of Fame of the Trotter: only driver to win two trotting triple crowns [1968, 1972]; only driver to win the Yonkers Trot six times, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | * | Midge Decter St Paul Minn, anti woman's lib (Liberated Woman...), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Maureen Forrester Montreal Canada, contralto (Ressurection Symphony), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Paul J Weitz Erie Pennsylvania, astronaut (Skylab 2, STS 6), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Don Ellis Grammy Award-winning jazz musician: trumpet, composer: Theme from the French Connection [1973]; New Nine, 3-3-2-2-2-1-2-2-2, Tears of Joy, Milo’s Theme, Star Children; soloist: NY Philharmonic; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1935 | * | Adnan Khashnoggi, Saudi billionaire/arms dealer, is born. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1935 | * | Barbara Harris actress (Plaza Suite, Family Plot), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Laurent Terzieff Paris France, actor (Pharoah-Moses the Law Giver), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | John Pennel pole-vaulter: first to break 17' barrier [1963]: held world record [17'10 3/4"] 1969-73; 1963 Sullivan Award for outstanding amateur athlete of the year, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Manuel Charlton musician: guitar, singer: group: Nazareth: Love Hurts, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1941 | * | Nate Thurmond NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Janet Margolin NYC, actress (Take the Money & Run, David & Lisa), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1943 | * | Jim McCarty rocker (The Yardbirds-For Your Love), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Buddy (Charles William) Bradford baseball: Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, SL Cardinals, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1944 | * | Jim McCarty musician: drums: groups: Renaissance, Shoot, Box of Frogs, The Yardbirds: For Your Love, Heart Full of Soul, I’m a Man, Shapes of Things, Over Under Sideways Down; songwriter [w/Samwell-Smith]: Still I’m Sad, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1945 | * | Donna Theodore Broadway singer (Hollywood Talent Scouts), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Tony Cline football: DE: Oakland Raiders [1970-75], San Francisco 49ers [1976]; father of Buffalo Bills TE, Tony Cline, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | * | Steve Goodman Chicago, singer/songwriter (Somebody Elses Trouble), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1951 | * | Verdine White musician: bass, singer: group: Earth, Wind & Fire: Shining Star, Sing a Song, Got to Get You into My Life, After the Love Has Gone, Boogie Wonderland, Let’s Groove, Best of My Love, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Mark Rolston actor: Aliens, Steal the Sky, Lethal Weapon 2, Robocop 2, Body of Evidence, The Shawshank Redemption, Eraser, Profiler, Rush Hour, Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, Highway, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | Pro Football Hall of Famer Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1954 | * | Lynn Frederick Middlesex England, actress (Schizophrenia), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | * | Iman model/David Bowie's girlfriend/actress (Star Trek VI), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1957 | * | Ray Billingsley cartoonist: Curtis, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | Steve Podborski skier: World Cup Ski Champion, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | Bogdan Musiol German DR, bobsled (Olympic-bronze-1980), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1961 | * | Bobbie Eakes actress: The Bold and the Beautiful, JAG, Choosing Matthias, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | Katherine Kelly Lang LA Calif, actress (Brooke-Bold & Beautiful), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | Doug (Douglas Dean) Drabek baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros [all-star: 1994], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | Illeana Douglas actress: The Perfect Woman, To Die for, Grace of My Heart, Chasing Amy, Picture Perfect, Weapons of Mass Distraction, Bella Mafia, Message in a Bottle, The Next Best Thing, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1967 | * | Matt LeBlanc actor: Friends, TV 101, Reform School Girl, Ed, Lost in Space, Charlie’s Angels, All the Queen’s Men, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | X-rated actress Gail Force is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1970 | * | X-rated actor Billy Glyde is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1975 | * | Jay R Ferguson Jr Dallas TX, actor (Taylor Newton-Evening Shade), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1978 | * | Louise Brown, the world's first "test-tube baby," is born in Lancashire, England. She's a healthy 5 pounds, 12 ounces. It's the first authenticated birth of a baby "conceived" outside a mother's body. An egg cell is removed surgically from the mother and fertilized with the father's sperm in a petri dish. | Ref: 25 |
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| 1990 | * | Evan James Springsteen son of Bruce | Ref: 5 |
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| 44 | * | St James, Patron Saint (Spain) is beheaded by Herod in Jerusalem. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1492 | * | Pope Innocent VIII dies. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1616 | * | Andreas Libavius German alchemist, dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1790 | * | William Livingston, first governor of New Jersey, dies at age 66. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1832 | * | First railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1834 | * | Samuel Coleridge poet: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan; dies at age 61. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1843 | * | Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor, dies at age 76. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1852 | * | Gaspard Gourgaud, French historian, dies at age 68. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1918 | * | Race riot in Chester PA (3 blacks & 2 whites killed) | Ref: 5 |
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| 1934 | * | Chancellor Englebert Dollfus of Austria is assassinated by the Austrian SS. | Ref: 52 |
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| 1941 | * | (and 26th) 3,800 Jews killed during a pogrom by Lithuanians in Kovno. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1952 | * | Eva (Evita) Peron of Argentina, dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1956 | * | 52 of the 1,662 passengers and crew on board the Andrea Doria died in a collision with the Swedish-American liner Stockholm near Cape Cod. Launched on June 16, 1951 and named after a famous Italian admiral, the Andrea Doria was Italy’s most luxurious liner. For three years the Andrea Doria reigned supreme on the Atlantic cruise routes while gaining the moniker ‘Grand Dame of the Sea’. At 11:10 p.m., sixty miles from Nantucket Island, the heavily reinforced bow of the Stockholm tore through the starboard side of the Andrea Doria. Thanks to the ship’s S.O.S. signals, a group of ships soon arrived and provided much-needed lifeboats to complete the abandonment of the Andrea Doria. Newsmen and cameras caught her eventual fate and the entire world listened on the radio as she slid beneath the waves to settle in 225 feet of water at 10:09 a.m. All of the 52 who were lost died as a direct result of the initial collision. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1959 | * | Dr Isaac Halevi Herzog chief rabbi of Israel (1936-59), dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Frank O'Hara, American poet and critic, dies at age 40. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1981 | * | Ian Martin actor (Uncle Bill-O'Neills), dies at 69. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | (Green River Killer) Debra Lynn Bonner, 23, is last seen. She is the 3rd of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1983 | * | (Green River Killer) Tina Marie Thompson, 22, is last seen. She is the 29th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1984 | * | Willie Mae ‘Big Mama’ Thornton blues singer: pre-Elvis version of Hound Dog; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1986 | * | Vincente Minnelli (Lester Anthony Minnelli) Academy Award-winning director: Gigi [1958]; An American in Paris, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; Judy Garland’s husband; Liza Minnelli’s father; dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1987 | * | Charles Stark Draper, American engineer, dies at age 85. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1987 | * | Malcolm Baldrige Secretary of Commerce, dies of internal injuries | Ref: 5 |
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| 1992 | * | Alfred Drake (Capurro) Tony Award-winning actor: Kismet [1954]; Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma, dies at age 77. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1995 | * | Charlie Rich ‘The Silver Fox’: Grammy Award-winning singer: Behind Closed Doors [1973]; Lonely Weekends, The Most Beautiful Girl; dies. (also TWA, 1996) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1997 | * | Ben Hogan (golf champion: Masters [1951, 1953], U.S. Open [1948, 1950, 1951, 1953], British Open [1953], PGA [1946, 1948]) dies in Fort Worth TX at age 84. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1998 | * | Richard Eblerling (Sam Sheppard's former window washer) dies in the Orient (Ohio) Correctional Institution. (Ref:Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
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| 1999 | * | Martin (Zama) Agronsky journalist, TV moderator: Face the Nation [1965-69]; TV host: At Issue; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2000 | * | A NY-bound Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground; it was the first-ever crash of the supersonic jet. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2001 | * | Three masked men gun down Phoolan Devi, India's onetime "Bandit Queen" killing the outlaw-turned-legislator who was idolized by the poor. (XDG, p 4A, 7/25/2002) | Ref: 83 |
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| 2003 | * | John Schlesinger, director of "Midnight Cowboy", dies in Palm Springs CA. (WSG, p 1, 7/28/2003) | |
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