Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Reproductive Rights "In the last half of the twentieth century, the greatest advancement in women's health was not made in an operating room or research laboratory, but instead in the Supreme Court in 1972." — Anat Maytal
Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Gynephobia "Women's liberation and gay liberation [are] part of the same thing: a weakening of the moral standards of this nation." — Nancy Reagan
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "Natural gas is hemispheric . . . because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods." — Hall of Shame Member #1, George W. Bush
Thought for the day: "The only red menace in America is the sunburn."
{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Apollo 11: East Crater Panorama
Credit: Apollo 11 Crew, NASA; Mosaic Assembly: Mike Constantine
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EVENTS
● 0514 – St. Hormisdas begins his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1247 - The Ka-Khan of the Mongols demands homage of the Pope.
● 1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold of the war.
● 1402 - Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara - Timur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeated forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I.
● 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.
● 1712 - The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain.
● 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.
● 1738 - North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
● 1773 - Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
● 1801 - A 1,235 pound cheese ball was pressed at the farm of Elisha Brown, Jr. The ball of cheese was later loaded on a horse-driven wagon and presented to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson at the White House.
● 1810 - Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
● 1833 - An anti-Mormon mob in Independence, Missouri, destroys the printing press for the Book of Commandments, now among the most valuable 19th century books.
● 1861 - American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States of America begins sitting in Richmond, Virginia.
● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek - Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
● 1866 - Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Lissa - The Austrian Navy , led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea.
● 1868 - Legislation that ordered U.S. tax stamps to be placed on all cigarette packs was passed.
● 1871 - British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada becoming its sixth province.
● 1872 - The US Patent Office awards the first patent for wireless telegraphy to Mahlon Loomis.
● 1874 - Gen. Custer and first official exploring expedition enters Black Hills with 110 wagons and 1,000 men, in direct violation of treaty of 1868 that barred whites from the sacred hills.
● 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.
● 1877 - Rioting in Baltimore, Maryland by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers is put down by the state militia, resulting in nine deaths.
● 1878 - 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii
● 1881 - Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops.
● 1890 - Snow & hail in Calais, ME
● 1894 - 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
● 1903 - Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X
● 1907 - A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more.
● 1910 - The Christian Endeavor Society of Missouri began a campaign to ban all motion pictures that depicted kissing between non-relatives.
● 1916 - World War I: In Armenia, Russian troops capture Gumiskhanek.
● 1917 - Alexander Kerensky becomes Prime Minister and President of the Russian provisional government and survives an assassination attempt.
● 1917 - World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
● 1917 - WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn
● 1918 - World War I: German troops cross the Marne.
● 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, was born.
● 1921 - Air mail service begins between New York City and San Francisco.
● 1921 - Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives.
● 1922 - The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
● 1924 - Teheran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people.
● 1925 - Birth of Algerian psychaitrist and revolutionist Frantz Fanon.
● 1926 - A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.
● 1928 - The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians.
● 1929 - Soviet troops attempt to cross the Amur River into Manchuria near Blagoveschensk as tensions mount between the Soviet Union and the Republic of China.
● 1930 - 106° F (41° C), Washington, DC (district record)
● 1932 - Crowds in the capitals of Bolivia and Paraguay demand their governments declare war on the other after fighting on their border.
● 1932 - In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House.
● 1933 - Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets.
● 1933 - In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism.
● 1933 - Vice-Chancellor of Germany Franz von Papen and Vatican Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli sign a concordat on behalf of their respective nations.
● 1934 - 118° F (48° C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record)
● 1934 - Labor unrest in the US, as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, wounding fifty; Seattle police led by the mayor police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen, and the governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
● 1935 - Riots between Muslims and Sikhs over a mosque in Lahore, India leave eleven dead.
● 1935 - Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
● 1936 - The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
● 1937 - Two black men accused of stabbing a policeman are taken by a mob from the county jail in Tallahassee, Florida and lynched.
● 1938 - Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws
● 1938 - The Justice Department files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of anti-trust law. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
● 1939 - Birth of Judy Chicago, innovative feminist artist.
● 1940 - Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
● 1940 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Hatch Act, limiting political activity by Federal government employees.
● 1941 - Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrenti Beria its chief.
● 1942 - Legion of Merit Medal authorized by congress
● 1942 - The first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, (WACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
● 1942 - World War II: Red Army troops take bridgeheads over the Don River near Voronezh.
● 1943 - World War II: American and Canadian troops conquer Enna on Sicily.
● 1944 - Clique of German officers plots to kill Adolf Hitler and stage a coup. Colonel Klaus von Stauffenberg left a briefcase concealing a time bomb at Hitler's feet during a meeting. The bomb killed 4 people, but a table shielded Hitler. In Berlin, conspirators took over, believing Hitler was dead. By midnight, they and von Stauffenberg had been shot.
● 1944 - Fifty are hurt in rioting in front of the presidential palace in Mexico City.
● 1944 - U.S. President Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term of office at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
● 1944 - US invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II
● 1944 - World War II: American troops land on Guam near Port Apra.
● 1945 - The US Congress approves the Bretton Woods Agreement.
● 1946 - World War II: The US Congress's Pearl Harbor Committee says Franklin D. Roosevelt was completely blameless for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and calls for a unified command structure in the armed forces.
● 1947 - Police in Burma arrest former Prime Minister U Saw and 19 others on charges of assassinating Prime Minister U Aung San and seven members of his cabinet.
● 1947 - The Viceroy of India says the people of the Northwest Frontier Province overwhelmingly voted the previous day to join Pakistan rather than India.
● 1948 - In New York City, twelve leaders of the Communist Party USA are indicted under the Smith Act, charging them with advocating overthrow of government, including William Z. Foster and Gus Hall.
● 1948 - US President Harry S. Truman issues a peacetime military draft in the US amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union.
● 1949 - Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war.
● 1950 - Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
● 1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan by a Palestinian is assassinated while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
● 1951 - Mattachine Society, early gay rights organization, formally organized in California.
● 1953 - The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency.
● 1954 - At Geneva, Switzerland, an armistice is signed that ends fighting in Vietnam and divides the country along the 17th parallel.
● 1954 - Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
● 1956 - All-Vietnamese election to reunite the country, scheduled for today by the Geneva agreements, fails to take place. The South rejected it on grounds that falsified votes from the North might overrule honest elections in the South. France and the U.S. feared the communists would win any election, honest or dishonest thus began a deadly civil war that did end until 1974.
● 1956 - France recognizes Tunisia's independence
● 1956 - Relationships between U.S. government and Siletz tribe are terminated, leaving no recognized Indian tribes in western Oregon.
● 1957 - Britons 'have never had it so good'; British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan tells a Conservative rally in Bedford "we have never had it so good" but calls on pay restraint to combat inflation.
● 1958 - Twenty-six are dead in an explosion at a military base near Kokin Breg, Yugoslavia.
● 1959 - The Organization for European Economic Cooperation admits Spain.
● 1960 - Belgium defends its intervention in the Congo to the United Nations Security Council while the government of the Congo appeals to the Soviet Union to send troops to push back the Belgians. The governments of the US and France and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization warn the Soviets to stay out of the dispute.
● 1960 - Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
● 1960 - The head of the Physics Department at the Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is arrested for espionage.
● 1960 - The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
● 1960 - USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
● 1961 - French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
● 1962 - Earthquakes in Colombia kill 40.
● 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.
● 1964 - Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attack the capital of Dinh Tuong Province, Cai Be, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of which are children).
● 1965 - 46.18 cm (18.18") of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record)
● 1965 - In Hayneville, Alabama, two civil rights protesters, one a priest and the other a seminarian, are shot by a deputy sheriff. The seminarian dies of his wounds.
● 1965 - Turkish prime minister Suat Hayri Urguplu returns from a visit to Moscow and announces the Soviet Union will provide aid to his country.
● 1966 - Blacks begin several days of rioting in New York City.
● 1967 - The first National Conference of Black Power opens in Newark, N.J. The four-day meeting is attended by 1,100 African-Americans. Meanwhile, a night of rioting occurs in Memphis, Tenn.
● 1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.
● 1969 - Cease fire announced between Honduras and El Salvador, 6 days after the beginning of the "Football War"
● 1970 - 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island
● 1971 - First labor contract in the history of the federal government signed by postal unions and the Postal Service through the collective bargaining process.
● 1971 - President Richard M. Nixon tells Taiwan the US will continue to sell it arms.
● 1971 - The Soviet Union says it will support the People's Republic of China's admission to the United Nations
● 1973 - First coast-to-coast black-owned and operated radio network: The National Black Network (NBN) begins operations.
● 1973 - Palestianian terrorists hijack a Japan Airlines jet en route from Amsterdam to Japan and force it down in Dubai.
● 1973 - Seventy-three government officials and military officers are charged with conspiracy to overthrow the Greek government.
● 1973 - The US Senate passes the War Powers Act.
● 1973 - Vietnam War: In testimony by Assistant Secretary of Defense Jerry Friedheim to the US Senate Committee on Armed Services, the US Defense Department admits it lied to US Congress about bombing Cambodia .
● 1974 - Turkish occupation of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a "coup d' etat", organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios. NATO's Council praises the US and the United Kingdom for attempts to settle the dispute. Syria and Egypt put their militaries on alert.
● 1975 - India expels three reporters from The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek because they refused to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship.
● 1976 - US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
● 1976 - Vietnam War: The US military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand.
● 1977 - A flash flood hit Johnstown, PA, killing 80 people and causing $350 million worth of damage.
● 1977 - The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
● 1979 - 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash
● 1979 - Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier escapes Lompoc federal penitentiary, California.
● 1980 - The United Nations Security Council votes 14-0 that member states should not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
● 1982 - Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regents Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.
● 1982 - Neil Mitchell becomes first Catholic conscientious objector jailed in South Africa.
● 1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan pulled the U.S. out of comprehensive test ban negotiations indefinitely.
● 1983 - The Israeli cabinet votes to withdraw troops from Beirut but to remain in southern Lebanon.
● 1985 - Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
● 1985 - The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
● 1985 - Treasure hunters began raising $400 million in coins and silver from the Spanish galleon "Nuestra Senora de Atocha." The ship sank in 1622 40 miles of the coast of Key West, FL.
● 1986 - In Cambridge, Gerald Amirault of the Fells Acres Day Care Center is convicted of molesting nine children.
● 1986 - In South Africa, police fire tear gas into a church service for families of those held under the government's emergency decrees.
● 1987 - President Ronald Reagan appoints Larry Kramer, co-founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis, to a federal panel on AIDS.
● 1988 - Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee
● 1989 - 93° F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona
● 1989 - Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
● 1989 - Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at Washington, D.C.'s Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institution's Corcoran Gallery cancels it.
● 1990 - A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes at the International Stock Exchange in London.
● 1990 - Haiti asks the US to send observers to monitor its upcoming elections.
● 1990 - Justice William Brennan resigns from the Supreme Court after 36 years
● 1991 - Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant
● 1992 - A TU-154 cargo plane crashes in the suburbs of Tbilisi, Georgia, killing forty.
● 1992 - Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led the Velvet Revolution against communism, stepped down as president of Czechoslovakia.
● 1993 - White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster Jr. was found shot to death, a suicide, in a park near Washington, DC.
● 1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter.
● 1994 - Israel's Shimon Peres visits Jordan, the highest ranking Israeli official to do so
● 1995 - The Regents of the University of California vote to end all affirmative action in the UC system by 1997.
● 1996 - In Spain, an ETA bomb at an airport kills 35
● 1997 - Launch of the U.S.S. Seawolf, flagship for a new series of attack submarines of the same name, is accompanied by protests and 25 arrests. Groton, Conn.
● 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 U.S.
● 1998 - Five thousand Korean workers and families take over Hyundai plant; 15,000 police summoned.
● 1998 - Russia won a $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency.
● 1998 - Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban.
● 1999 - Falun Gong is officially banned and defined as an "evil cult" (xiejiao) by the Chinese government, and a large-scale persecution of its practitioners is launched.
● 1999 - After 38 years at the bottom of the Atlantic, astronaut Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule was lifted to the surface.
● 2000 - In Zimbabwe, Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members for the first time in a decade.
● 2000 - Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him.
● 2000 - The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering.
● 2001 - 23-year-old Carlo Giuliani is shot and killed by paramilitary police, and hundreds of others are seriously wounded in unprovoked police attacks, during demonstrations at the G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy. Over 150,000 gathered for three days to protest the heads of state of the eight leading industrialized nations.
● 2002 - South America: A fire in a discotheque in Lima, Peru kills over twenty-five.
● 2003 - France: Sixteen people are injured after two bombs explode outside a tax office in Nice.
● 2003 - In India, elephants used for commercial work began wearing reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during night work.
● 2003 - Richard Sambrook, the Director of BBC News, reveals that David Kelly was the source of claims that Downing Street had "sexed up" the "Dodgy Dossier".
● 2003 – The true love of A Proud Liberal discovers the joys of sobriety.
● 2004 - The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution demanding that Israel tear down the barrier it was building to seal off the West Bank.
● 2005 - Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent.
● 2005 - In China's Shaanxi province, a coal mine explosion kills two dozen.
BIRTHS
● 356 B.C.E. - Alexander the Great, Greek king and military leader (d. 323 B.C.E.)
● 810 - Imam Bukhari, Muslim scholar and compiler of Hadith (d. 870)
● 1304 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374)
● 1537 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)
● 1620 - Nikolaes Heinsius, Dutch scholar (d. 1681)
● 1659 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d. 1743)
● 1661 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French founder of the colony of Louisiana (d. 1706)
● 1673 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (d. 1747)
● 1754 - Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (d. 1836)
● 1757 - Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (d. 1811)
● 1774 - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852)
● 1797 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873)
● 1815 - Giuseppe La Farina, Italian writer and leader of the Risorgimento (d. 1863)
● 1822 - Gregor Mendel, father of modern genetics (d. 1884)
● 1838 - Augustin Daly, American playwright and theatrical manager (d. 1899)
● 1838 - George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
● 1847 - Max Liebermann, German artist (d. 1935)
● 1849 - Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d. 1918)
● 1858 - Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925)
● 1864 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1931)
● 1868 - Miron Cristea, 1st Patriarch of All Romania (d. 1939)
● 1873 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d. 1932)
● 1876 - Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (d. 1944)
● 1889 - John Reith, British broadcast executive (d. 1971)
● 1890 - Theda Bara, American actress (d. 1955)
● 1890 - King George II of Greece (1922-24; 1935-47) (d. 1947)
● 1893 - George Llewelyn-Davies, one of the 'Lost Boys' for the Peter Pan book (d. 1915)
● 1894 - Errett Lobban Cord, American automobile manufacturer (d. 1974)
● 1895 - László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)
● 1897 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1996)
● 1901 - Heinie Manush, baseball player (d. 1971)
● 1902 - Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d. 1984)
● 1909 - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (d. 1969)
● 1910 - Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (d. 2004)
● 1912 - Tom McDermott, American actor (d. 1996)
● 1918 - Cindy Walker, American singer (d. 2006)
● 1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountain climber
● 1920 - Elliot Richardson, American politician (d. 1999)
● 1920 - Dick Lucas, American animator (d. 1997)
● 1922 - Alan Stephenson Boyd, American politician
● 1923 - Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005)
● 1924 - Thomas Berger, American novelist
● 1924 - Mort Garson, Canadian composer
● 1925 - Jacques Delors, French President of the European Commission
● 1925 - Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (d. 1961)
● 1926 - Lola Albright, American actress
● 1926 - Patricia Cutts, British actress (d. 1974)
● 1929 - Mike Ilitch, American businessman, sports executive, and philanthropist
● 1929 - Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1999)
● 1930 - Sally Ann Howes, British singer and actress
● 1930 - James Kenney, British actor (d. 1982)
● 1930 - Chuck Daly, Basketball Hall of Famer
● 1932 - Otto Schily, German politician
● 1932 - Nam June Paik, Korean-born artist (d. 2006)
● 1933 - Chuck Daly, American basketball coach
● 1933 - Nelson Doubleday, American publisher and baseball executive
● 1933 - Cormac McCarthy, American author
● 1933 - Rex Williams, English snooker player
● 1934 - Uwe Johnson, German writer
● 1934 - Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (d. 1996)
● 1935 - Sleepy LaBeef, Rockabilly singer
● 1936 - Barbara Mikulski, U.S. Senator from Maryland
● 1937 - Ken Ogata, Japanese actor
● 1938 - Dame Diana Rigg, British actress ("The Avengers")
● 1938 - Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981)
● 1938 - Roger Hunt, English footballer
● 1939 - Judy Chicago, American artist
● 1940 - Tony Oliva, Cuban-born Major League Baseball player
● 1941 - Kurt Raab, German actor (d. 1988)
● 1942 - Pete Hamilton, American race car driver
● 1942 - Ron Bowden, Australian politician
● 1943 - Wendy Richard, British actress
● 1944 - T.G. Sheppard, Country singer
● 1945 - Larry Craig, American politician
● 1945 - John Lodge, British musician (Moody Blues)
● 1945 - Bo Rein, American football coach (d. 1980)
● 1945(46? NYT) - Kim Carnes, American singer and songwriter
● 1946 - Randal Kleiser, American film director
● 1947 - Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
● 1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist
● 1948 - Niki Haris, American dancer
● 1948 - Muse Watson, American actor
● 1950 - Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress
● 1950 - Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor
● 1951 - Jeff Rawle, English actor
● 1952 - Keiko Matsuzaka, Japanese actress
● 1953 - Marcia Hines, American-born Australian singer
● 1953 - Thomas Friedman, American journalist
● 1954 - Moira Harris, American actress
● 1956 - Paul Cook, English musician (The Sex Pistols)
● 1957 - Donna Dixon, American actress
● 1959 - Radney Foster, American singer
● 1962 - Carlos Alazraqui, Argentine-American actor and comedian
● 1963 - Frank Whaley, American actor
● 1963 - Amir Derakh, American guitarist (Orgy)
● 1964 - Chris Cornell, American musician
● 1964 - Dean Winters, American actor
● 1964 - Terri Irwin, American television personality
● 1964 - Kool G Rap, American musician
● 1966 - Stone Gossard, American musician (Pearl Jam)
● 1967 - Reed Diamond, American actor
● 1968 - Michael Park, American actor
● 1968 - Jimmy Carson, American NHL ice hockey player
● 1968 - Julian Rhind-Tutt, English actor
● 1969 - Josh Holloway, American actor ("Lost")
● 1969 - Giovanni Lombardi, Italian cyclist
● 1969 - Vitamin C, American singer
● 1971 - Charles Johnson, baseball player
● 1971 - Sandra Oh, Korean Canadian actress
● 1971 - DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (d. 2000)
● 1972 - Erik Ullenhag, Swedish jurist and politician
● 1973 - Peter Forsberg, Swedish-born ice hockey player
● 1973 - Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
● 1973 - Claudio Reyna, American soccer player
● 1973 - Courtney Taylor-Taylor, American singer (The Dandy Warhols)
● 1974 - Simon Rex, American actor
● 1974 - Bengie Molina, American baseball player
● 1975 - Erik Hagen, Norwegian footballer
● 1975 - Birgitta Ohlsson, Swedish politician
● 1975 - Ray Allen, NBA Player
● 1975 - Judy Greer, Actress
● 1976 - Alex Yoong, Malaysian racing driver
● 1976 - Andrew Stockdale, Australian musician (Wolfmother)
● 1976 - Erica Hill, American news anchor
● 1977 - Kiki Musampa, Congolese footballer
● 1977 - Alessandro dos Santos, Brazilian-born Japanese footballer
● 1978 - Tamsyn Lewis, Australian athlete
● 1978 - Charlie Korsmo, American actor
● 1978 - Elliott Yamin, American Idol contestant
● 1978 - Pavel Datsyuk, Russian ice hockey player
● 1979 - Miklos Feher, Hungarian football player (d. 2004)
● 1980 - Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian model
● 1980 - Mike Kennerty, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects)
● 1981 - Thorsten Engelmann, German rower
● 1984 - Troy Smith, 2006 Heisman Trophy winner; former Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback
● 1985 - John Francis Daley, American actor
● 1988 - Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer; actress; singer
● 1992 - Nicki Prian, American actress
● 1997(96? NYT) - Billi Bruno, American actress ("According to Jim")
DEATHS
● 985 - Pope Boniface VII
● 1031 - King Robert II of France (b. 972)
● 1156 - Emperor Toba of Japan (b. 1103)
● 1160 - Peter Lombard, French theologian
● 1320 - King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)
● 1351 - Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (b. 1291)
● 1387 - Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (b. 1356)
● 1398 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b. 1374)
● 1453 - Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler
● 1454 - King John II of Castile (b. 1405)
● 1524 - Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (b. 1499)
● 1616 - Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, English soldier
● 1704 - Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1620)
● 1752 - Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (b. 1667)
● 1816 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743)
● 1866 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b. 1826)
● 1870 - Jules de Goncourt, French writer (b. 1830)
● 1897 - Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820)
● 1901 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
● 1903 - Pope Leo XIII (b. 1810)
● 1908 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author, president of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1835)
● 1922 - Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
● 1923 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)
● 1926 - Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, head of the Soviet secret police (b. 1877)
● 1927 - King Ferdinand of Romania (b. 1865)
● 1928 - Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (b. 1896)
● 1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1874)
● 1941 - Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
● 1944 - Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
● 1945 - Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
● 1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan (b. 1882)
● 1951 - Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany (b. 1882)
● 1953 - Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (b. 1900)
● 1953 - Jan Struther, British author (b. 1901)
● 1959 - William D. Leahy, American admiral (b. 1875)
● 1967 - Albert Lutuli, South African civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
● 1970 - Iain Macleod, Conservative Party Politician and Chancellor of Exchequer at time of his death {b. 1913
● 1973 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
● 1973 - Robert Smithson, American land artist (b. 1938)
● 1982 - Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (b. 1931)
● 1983 - Frank Reynolds, American television news anchor (b. 1923)
● 1990 - Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta's longest serving police chief (b. 1907)
● 1991 - Earl Robinson, American singer and composer (b. 1910)
● 1993 - Vincent Foster Jr., White House deputy counsel (b. 1945)
● 1997 - John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (b. 1949)
● 1999 - Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
● 2000 - Gregory Hill (also known as Malaclypse the Younger,) American writer (b. 1941)
● 2003 - Nicolas Freeling, English writer (b. 1927)
● 2004 - Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fiji chieftainess, wife of Kamisese Mara (b. 1931)
● 2005 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (b. 1920)
● 2005 - Charles Chibitty, World War II Comanche code talker (b. 1921)
● 2005 - Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1926)
● 2005 - Kayo Hatta, American film director (b. 1958)
● 2005 - Alfred Hayes, British-born wrestling announcer (b. 1928)
● 2006 - Gérard Oury, French filmmaker (b. 1919)
● 2006 - Ted Grant, British Trotskyist (b. 1913)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Arbogast, bishop, confessor
● St. Aurelius, bishop of Carthage
● St. Barhadbesciabas
● St. Ceslas
● St. Elias, prophet
● St. Etheidwitha
● St. Euspicius, confessor
● Sts. Flavian & Elias
● St. Jerome Aemeliani
● St. John of Pulsano
● St. Joseph of Barsabas or Joseph Barsabas, confessor
● Sts. Justa and Rufina, martyrs
● St. Margaret of Antioch, virgin, martyr 305
● St. Marinus, priest, confessor
● St. Paul of St. Zoilus
● St. Sabinus
● St. Severa, virgin (at Trier)
● St. Severinus of Noricum, bishop, confessor
● St. Thorlac, bishop, confessor (Translation)
● St. Wilgefortis
● St. Wulmar/Ulmar, abbot (of Samer), confessor
● Bl. Margareth of Ypres, died 1237
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for July 7 (Civil Date: July 20)
● St. Thomas of Mt. Maleon.
● St. Acacius of Sinai, who is mentioned in The Ladder.
● Martyrs Epictetus, presbyter, and Astion in Scythia.
● Martyr Cyriaca of Nicomedia.
● Martyrs Peregrinus, Lucian, Pompeius, Hesychius, Pappias, Saturninus, and Germanus, of Dyrrachium in Macedonia.
● Martyr Evangelus, Bishop of Tomi (Constanta) in Rumania.
● St. Eudocia, in monasticism Euphrosyne, grand-duchess of Moscow.
● Greek Calendar:
● Hieromartyr Eustace.
● Martyr Polycarp the New.
● Argentina - Día del Amigo (Friendship Day)
● Brazil - Friendship Day
● Columbia-1819, Tunisia-1956 : Independence Day/D¡a de la Independencia
● Japan - Ocean Day
● Northern Cyprus - Peace and Freedom Day
● US : Moon Day (1969)
● International chess day
Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.
Additional facts taken from:
On this day in the New York Times
The BBC’s Take on the day
On This Day Website
Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.
Scope Systems Any Day Website
Roman Catholic Saint of the Day
Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar
Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004
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