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June 26th

June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events
363 - Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. General Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.
1284 - According to legend, the Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away.
1409 - Western Schism: The Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
1483 - Richard III is crowned king of England.
1541 - Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Diego is later caught and executed.
1718 - Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1723 - After a lasting siege and firing from the cannons Baku surrendered to Russians.
1848 - End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1857 - The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
1870 - The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1918 - World War I Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood - Allied Forces under John J. Pershing & James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1924 - American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic.
1927 - The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
1934 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1934 - Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
1940 - World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina.
1945 - The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
1948 - The Western allies start an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin.
1948 - William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
1959 - The Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
1960 - Former British Protectorate of Somaliland British Somaliland gains its independence
1963 - John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin.
1973 - On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
1974 - The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
1975 - Indira Gandhi establishes emergency rule in India.
1975 - Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1976 - The CN Tower, the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world, was opened.
1977 - The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
1978 - Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overran the runway and crashed into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers onboard died.
1991 - Ten-Day War- Yugoslav people's army began Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
1993 - The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
1995 - Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposed his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
1996 - Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.
2006 - The Republic of Montenegro becomes the 192nd member of the United Nations.

Births
1575 - Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1612)
1681 - Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (d. 1708)
1689 - Edward Holyoke, American academic (d. 1769)
1694 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (d. 1768)
1702 - Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (d. 1751)
1703 - Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)
1817 - Branwell Bronte, British painter and poet (d. 1848)
1819 - Abner Doubleday, American Major General (d. 1893)
1824 - Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (d. 1907)
1838 - Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali Novelist (d. 1894)
1854 - Robert Laird Borden, Canadian politician (d. 1937)
1865 - Bernard Berenson, American art historian (d. 1959)
1866 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier of Egyptian excavations (d. 1923)
1869 - Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer (d. 1954)
1880 - Natalia, Princess Brassova (d. 1952)
1892 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1895 - George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1950)
1898 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer (d. 1978)
1898 - Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (d. 1971)
1899 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1902 - Hugues Cuénod, Swiss Tenor
1904 - Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951)
1904 - Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1964)
1906 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer (d. 1974)
1906 - Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer (d. 2008)
1907 - Debs Garms, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1908 - Salvador Allende, Former President of Chile (1970-1973) (d. 1973)
1909 - Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997)
1911 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (d. 1956)
1913 - Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (d. 2008)
1914 - Laurie Lee, British writer (d. 1997)
1915 - Paul Castellano, American mafia boss (d. 1985)
1915 - Charlotte Zolotow, American author
1919 - Richard Neustadt, American political historian (d. 2003)
1921 - Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent (d. 1945)
1922 - Eleanor Parker, American actress
1923 - Barbara Graham, American murderer (d. 1955)
1924 - Costas Axelos, Greek philosopher
1925 - Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1970)
1928 - Jacob Druckman, American composer (d. 1996)
1928 - Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
1929 - Milton Glaser, American Designer
1933 - Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor
1933 - Gene Green, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1934 - Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist (d. 1965)
1934 - Dave Grusin, American jazz pianist
1936 - Robert Maclennan, British politician
1936 - Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte, Archbishop of Montreal
1937 - Sombat Metanee, Thai film actor
1937 - Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1938 - Gerald North, American climatologist
1940 - Billy Davis, Jr., American singer (The Fifth Dimension)
1941 - Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist
1942 - Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer and Minister of Culture
1943 - John Beasley, American actor
1943 - Georgie Fame, British singer
1945 - Malachi York, Nuwaubian leader
1951 - Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer
1954 - Steve Barton, American actor (d. 2001)
1955 - Mick Jones, British guitarist (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite)
1956 - Chris Isaak, American singer
1957 - Patty Smyth, American singer (Scandal)
1957 - Philippe Couillard, Quebec neurosurgeon and politician
1959 - Mark McKinney, Canadian actor
1960 - Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist
1961 - Greg LeMond, American cyclist
1961 - Terri Nunn, American singer (Berlin)
1961 - Manu Chao, French Musician
1963 - Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman
1963 - Richard Garfield, American game designer
1967 - Todd Pletcher, American horse trainer
1968 - Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
1968 - Shannon Sharpe, American football player
1969 - Colin Greenwood, British musician (Radiohead)
1969 - Mike Myers, American baseball player
1970 - Chris O'Donnell, American actor
1970 - Sean Hayes, American Actor
1970 - Irv Gotti, American record producer
1970 - Paul Thomas Anderson, American filmmaker
1970 - Nick Offerman, American actor
1971 - Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer
1972 - Garou, Canadian singer
1972 - Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper
1973 - Gretchen Wilson, American singer
1973 - Paweł Małaszyński, Polish actor
1973 - Jussi Sydänmaa, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1974 - Matt Striker, American professional wrestler
1974 - Derek Jeter, American baseball player
1974 - Jeff Frankenstein, American musician (Newsboys)
1974 - Jason Kendall, American baseball player
1974 - Nicole Saba, Lebanese singer
1975 - Jonah Sorrentino, American hip hop artist
1975 - Terry Skiverton, English football player
1976 - Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Chad Pennington, American football player
1976 - Joe Landon, American pornographic actor
1977 - Kubo Tite, Japanese cartoonist
1977 - Raul Gonzales, Spainish Football player
1978 - Alexandra, French singer, L5's singer
1979 - Kostas Katsouranis, Greek footballer
1979 - Wálter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball player
1979 - Andy O'Brien, English footballer
1979 - Ryo Fukuda, Japanese racing driver
1980 - Jason Schwartzman, American actor
1980 - Michael Vick, American football player
1980 - Chris Shelton, American baseball player
1980 - Sinik, French singer and rapper
1984 - Elijah Dukes, American baseball player
1984 - Raymond Felton, American basketball player
1984 - Deron Williams, American basketball player
1984 - Jose Juan Barea, American basketball player
1985 - Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader
1986 - Casey Desmond, American singer
1987 - Carlos Iaconelli, Brazilian racing driver
1987 - Samir Nasri, French footballer, currently playing for Marseille
1992 - Jennette McCurdy, American actress
2005 - Princess Alexia of the Netherlands

Deaths
363 - Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 331)
1291 - Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England
1541 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru (murdered)
1688 - Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (b. 1617)
1784 - Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1728)
1793 - Gilbert White, English ornithologist (b. 1720)
1810 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier, inventor of the hot air balloon (b. 1740)
1836 - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (La Marseillaise) (b. 1760)
1878 - Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (b. 1860)
1918 - Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
1922 - Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)
1939 - Ford Madox Ford, English writer (b. 1873)
1943 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1868)
1946 - Yosuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (b. 1880)
1946 - Max Kögel, SS officer (b. 1895)
1947 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
1948 - Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (murdered) (b. 1924)
1949 - Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (b. 1876)
1956 - Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1930)
1957 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
1958 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (b. 1873)
1958 - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)
1964 - Leo Dandurand, American-born Canadian sports executive (b. 1889)
1964 - Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (b. 1888)
1967 - Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b. 1942)
1975 - St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest (b. 1902)
1992 - Herman Rohde, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
1993 - William H. Riker, American political scientist (b. 1920)
1993 - Roy Campanella, Major League baseball player (b. 1921)
1994 - Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi writer and political activist (b. 1929)
1996 - Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
1997 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (b. 1959)
2001 - Soccer (dog actor) (b. 1988)
2002 - Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1913)
2002 - Jay Berwanger, American football player (b. 1914)
2003 - Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer (b. 1975)
2003 - Denver Randleman, U.S. Army Seargent (b. 1920)
2003 - Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator (b. 1902)
2003 - Sir Dennis Thatcher MBE, husband of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1915)
2004 - Yash Johar, Indian film producer (b. 1929)
2004 - Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer and song-writer (b. 1930)
2005 - Richard Whiteley, British television game show host (b. 1943)
2007 - Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (b. 1929)
2007 - Joey Sadler, All Black rugby player (b. 1914)

Holidays and observances

International Day in Support of Torture Victims
International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
Madagascar: Independence Day
Thailand: Sunthorn Phu Day



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June 27th

June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 187 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events
1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik founded
1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1743 - War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally led troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
1759 - General James Wolfe starts siege of Quebec.
1806 - The British capture Buenos Aires during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was murdered at the Carthage, Illinois jail, along with his brother, Hyrum Smith, by a mob.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
1867 - The Bank of California is created.
1893 - Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
1898 - The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
1905 - (June 14 according to the Julian calendar): Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
1923 - Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
1941 - German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
1950 - The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1954 - The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1957 - Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas.
1966 - The first broadcast of Dark Shadows is aired on ABC-TV.
1967 - The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.
1969 - The Stonewall riots that mark the beginning of the gay liberation movement begin in Greenwich Village in Manhattan.
1973 - The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup d'état.
1974 - U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R..
1976 - Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
1977 - France grants independence to Djibouti.
1980 - A commercial DC-9 (Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870) crashes near Ustica, Italy, killing 81
1984 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
1985 - U.S. Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S. highway.
1986 - The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in Nicaragua v. United States.
1987 - A commercial HS 748 (Philippine Airlines Flight 206) crashes near Baguio City, Philippines, killing 50
1991 - Slovenia, after declaring independence two days previous, is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.
1998 - Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Malaysia.
2001 - International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
2001 - Pope John Paul II beatified 28 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, including 27 martyrs most of whom were killed by the Soviet secret police. Beatification took place at the service in Lviv, western Ukraine during his first visit to this country.
2003 - The United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolled almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
2005 - AMD files broad antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.
2007 - The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
2007 - Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after over 10 years of Blair's premiership.

Births
1040 - King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
1350 - Manuel II Palaiologos, Eastern Roman Emperor
1462 - King Louis XII of France (d. 1515)
1550 - King Charles IX of France (d. 1574)
1696 - William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier (d. 1759)
1717 - Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
1838 - Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
1846 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish independence fighter (d. 1891)
1850 - Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-born author (d. 1904)
1850 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (d. 1919)
1869 - Emma Goldman, anarchist and feminist (d. 1940)
1869 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
1880 - Helen Keller, American deaf and blind activist (d. 1968)
1882 - Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and educator (d. 1963)
1884 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (d. 1962)
1888 - Antoinette Perry, American theater director (d. 1946}
1888 - Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian (d. 1960)
1892 - Paul Colin, French poster designer (d. 1985)
1899 - Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981)
1905 - Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
1907 - John McIntire, American actor (d. 1991)
1908 - João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer (d. 1967)
1913 - Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (d. 1993)
1914 - Robert Aickman, English author (d. 1981)
1914 - Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (d. 1988)
1921 - Muriel Pavlow, British actress
1923 - Jacques Berthier, French composer (d. 1994)
1924 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (d. 2003)
1924 - Bob Appleyard, English cricketer
1925 - Doc Pomus, American blues singer/songwriter (d. 1991)
1927 - Bob Keeshan, American actor (d. 2004)
1928 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995)
1929 - William Afflis, American wrestler (d. 1991)
1930 - Ross Perot, American businessman and politician
1931 - Charles Bronfman, Canadian industrialist
1931 - Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 - Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006)
1932 - Eddie Kasko, baseball player
1932 - Magali Noël, French actress
1935 - Laurent Terzieff, French actor
1935 - Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (d. 2007)
1936 - Lucille Clifton, American poet
1938 - Tommy Cannon, British comedian
1938 - Shirley Anne Field, British actress
1938 - Kathryn Beaumont, British voice actress
1939 - Rahul Dev Burman, Indian composer and actor (d. 1994)
1941 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (d. 1996)
1941 - Bill Baxley, American politician
1941 - James P. Hogan, British science fiction author
1941 - Avi Lerner, Israeli-born American film producer
1942 - Bruce Johnston, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1942 - Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer
1943 - Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player
1943 - Kjersti Døvigen, Norwegian actress
1944 - Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist
1948 - Camile Baudoin, American musician
1949 - Vera Wang, American fashion designer
1951 - Mary McAleese, President of Ireland
1951 - Julia Duffy, American actress
1952 - Madan Kumar Bhandari, Nepalese politician (d. 1993)
1955 - Isabelle Adjani, French actress
1956 - Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player
1956 - Brad Childress, American football coach
1956 - Ted Haggard, American evangelical preacher
1958 - Lisa Germano, American singer, songwriter and musician
1958 - Brian Helicopter, Musician, bass guitarist (The Shapes HellsBelles Rogue Male)
1958 - Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer
1958 - Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club) (d. 1996)
1959 - Dan Jurgens, American comic book writer
1959 - Lorrie Morgan, American country music singer
1961 - Meera Syal, British-Indian comedienne and actress
1961 - Margo Timmins, Canadian folk-rock singer (Cowboy Junkies)
1962 - Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor
1963 - Paul Roos, Australian rules footballer
1963 - Johnny Benson, American NASCAR driver
1964 - Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch film producer and director
1964 - Chuck Person, American basketball player
1966 - J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
1967 - Sylvie Fréchette, French-Canadian synchronized swimmer
1968 - Pascale Bussières, French-Canadian actress
1970 - John Eales , Australian Rugby Player
1970 - Jim Edmonds, American baseball player
1971 - Jo Frost, English nanny and television host
1974 - Big Moe, American musician (Screwed Up Click)
1975 - Tobey Maguire, American actor
1975 - Daryle Ward, American baseball player
1975 - Ace Darling, American professional wrestler
1975 - Sarah Evanetz, Canadian swimmer
1976 - Johnny Estrada, American baseball player
1977 - Raúl, Spanish footballer
1977 - Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footbaler
1979 - Kim Gyu-ri, South Korean actress
1978 - Anna Kumble, British Singer, also known as Lolly
1979 - John Warne, American musician (Relient K; Ace Troubleshooter)
1980 - Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer
1980 - Craig Terrill, American football player
1983 - Alsou, Russian singer
1983 - Dale Steyn, South African cricketer
1983 - Evan Taubenfeld, American musician
1984 - Rocio Guirao Diaz, Argentinian Model
1984 - Julie Ordon, Swiss model
1984 - Emma Lahana, New Zealand actress
1984 - Khloe Kardashian, American reality television star
1985 - Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
1985 - Nico Rosberg, German race car driver
1985 - James Hook, Welsh rugby player
1986 - Drake Bell, musician/ songwriter /actor, best known for his role on Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh
1988 - Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
1989 - Matthew Lewis, English actor
1991 - Madylin Sweeten, American actress

Deaths
1162 - Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
1458 - King Alfonso V of Aragon (b. 1396)
1574 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
1603 - Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop and diplomat (b. 1539)
1627 - John Hayward, English historian
1655 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
1672 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian (b. 1597)
1720 - Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
1773 - Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. circa 1706)
1794 - Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
1794 - Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
1827 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (b. 1754)
1829 - James Smithson, English scientist and philanthropist (b. 1765)
1831 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
1844 - Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (b. 1800)
1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1805)
1907 - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
1912 - George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (b. 1855)
1917 - Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (b. 1896)
1935 - Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857)
1944 - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
1952 - Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878)
1954 - Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1960 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
1962 - Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (b. 1904)
1970 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
1986 - George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
1988 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli American guitarist (b. 1962)
1989 - Alfred Jules Ayer, British philosopher (b. 1910)
1991 - Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (b. 1953)
1991 - Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
1996 - Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)
1998 - Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (b. 1935)
1999 - George Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b. 1919)
2001 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)
2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
2002 - John Entwistle, English bassist (The Who) (b. 1944)
2003 - David Newman, American filmmaker (b. 1937)
2004 - George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
2004 - Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
2005 - Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)
2005 - Frank Harte, Traditional Irish Singer and song collector
2005 - John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
2005 - Ray Holmes, Battle of Britain veteran (b. 1914)
2005 - Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969)
2006 - Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer, known as "The Railway Killer" (b. 1959)
2007 - Patrick Allotey, Ghana footballer (b. 1979)
2007 - Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet (b. 1905)
2007 - William Hutt, Canadian stage and film actor (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances
National HIV Testing Day in United States
National Veterans' Day in the United Kingdom
Mixed Race Day in Brazil
Siebenschläfertag (Seven Sleepers Day) in Germany



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June 28th

June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 186 days remaining until the end of the year.

In common years it is always in ISO week 26.

This date is the only date each year where both the month and day are different perfect numbers.

Events
1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
1389 - Ottoman and Serbian armies fight the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
1519 - Charles V elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1635 - Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
1651 - Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians, the biggest battle in the 17th century, starts.
1776 - Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, was hanged for mutiny and sedition.
1778 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton. Washington appoints Molly Pitcher a sergeant.
1807 - Second British invasion; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the fierce resistance of the locals.
1838 - The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1841 - The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
1855 - The Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded at Miami University
1859 - First conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
1865 - The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
1880 - Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
1881 - Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
1886 - First scheduled Canadian transcontinental passenger train departs from Montreal, Quebec for Port Moody, British Columbia.
1887 - Minot, North Dakota incorporated as a city.
1894 - Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
1895 - El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Central American Union.
1902 - The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
1904- The SS Norge Runs aground and sinks
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip , the casus belli of World War I.
1919 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side.
1922 - The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
1936 - The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
1948 - Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
1950 - Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea.
1956 - Protests and demonstrations in Poznań. Also called Poznański czerwiec (June of Poznań).
1964 - Malcom X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
1969 - Stonewall riots begin in New York City.
1973 - Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
1976 - The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
1978 - The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
1983 - The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.
1986 - ¡A Luchar! holds its first congress in Bogotá, Colombia.
1988 - The worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history occurs at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, killing five.
1990 - Paperback Software International Ltd. found guilty by a U.S. court of copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program.
1992 - The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
1994 - Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, 7 persons killed, 660 injured.
1996 - The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
1997 - Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II - Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece from Holyfield's ear.
2000 - Cuban exile Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order.
2001 - U.S. Appeals Court overturns a lower court's order to break up Microsoft in an antitrust case.
2004 - The 17th NATO Summit starts in Istanbul.
2004 - Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
2004 - Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism
2005 - Canada becomes the third country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
2005 - A final design for Manhattan's Freedom Tower is formally unveiled.
2006 - The Republic of Montenegro was admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.
2007 - Alistair Darling becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer, replacing new Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Births
1476 - Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
1490 - Albert of Mainz, bishop and elector of Mainz (d. 1545)
1491 - King Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
1503 - Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (d. 1556)
1547 (baptism) - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (d. 1599)
1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (d. 1640)
1641 - Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien, queen of Poland (d. 1716)
1703 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (d. 1778)
1719 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)
1806 - Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
1824 - Paul Broca, French physician (d. 1880)
1831 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (d. 1907)
1867 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
1873 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1944)
1875 - Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
1883 - Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
1884 - Lamina Sankoh, early Sierra Leonean nationalist (d. 1964)
1891 - Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
1891 - Esther Forbes, American writer (d. 1968)
1891 - Carl Spaatz, American Air Force general (d. 1974)
1902 - Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)
1906 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1972)
1909 - Eric Ambler, English writer (d. 1998)
1912 - Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor (d. 1996)
1912 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007)
1913 - Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker
1913 - Walter Oesau, German pilot (d. 1944)
1914 - Aribert Heim, Austrian physician
1917 - Katherine Rawls, American swimming champion (d. 1982)
1920 - A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright
1921 - P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
1922 - Michael Vale, American actor (d. 2005)
1923 - Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentine racing driver
1926 - Mel Brooks, American filmmaker
1927 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1928 - Dr Hans Blix, Swedish head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission 2000-2003
1928 - Harold Evans, English journalist and writer; editor of The Sunday Times 1967-1981
1930 - Itamar Franco, President of Brazil
1931 - Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver
1932 - Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
1933 - Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist politician
1934 - Carl Levin, United States Senator
1935 - John Inman, English actor (d. 2007)
1936 - Chuck Howley, American football player
1937 - Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)
1937 - George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)
1937 - Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (d. 1995)
1938 - John Byner, American comedian
1938 - Moy Yat, Chinese martial artist (d. 2001)
1938 - Leon Panetta, American White House Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton
1940 - Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1941 - Al Downing, American baseball player
1941 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)
1942 - Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party (d. 1993)
1942 - David Miner, American musician and record producer
1943 - Donald Johanson, American paleoanthropologist
1943 - Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1945 - David Knights, English bass guitarist (Procol Harum)
1946 - Bruce Davison, American actor
1946 - Gilda Radner, American comedienne (d. 1989)
1946 - Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician.
1947 - Robert Bondi, American politician
1947 - Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef
1947 - Anny Duperey, French film and television actress
1947 - Mark Helprin, American writer
1948 - Kathy Bates, American actress
1950 - Mauricio Rojas, Swedish politician
1952 - Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete
1954 - Alice Krige, South African actress
1955 - Shirley Cheriton, English actress
1955 - Eric Gates, English footballer
1955 - Thomas Hampson, American baritone
1956 - Noel Mugavin, Australian Rules Football player
1957 - Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
1957 - Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
1957 - Mike Skinner, American racecar driver
1958 - Félix Gray, French singer and songwriter
1960 - John Elway, American football player
1963 - Beverley Craven, English singer-songwriter
1964 - Mark Grace, American baseball player
1965 - Jessica Hecht, American actress
1966 - John Cusack, American actor
1966 - Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
1967 - Gil Bellows, Canadian actor
1967 - Lars Riedel, German discus thrower
1968 - Adam Woodyatt, English actor
1968 - Chayanne, Puerto Rican singer
1969 - Danielle Brisebois, American actress
1969 - Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress
1970 - Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer
1970 - Steve Burton, American actor
1970 - Mike White, American filmmaker and actor
1971 - Tichina Arnold, American actress
1971 - Fabien Barthez, French footballer
1971 - Kenny Cunningham, Irish footballer
1971 - Juan Carlos Echeverry, Colombian operatic tenor
1971 - Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and television personality
1971 - Ron Mahay, American baseball player
1971 - Aileen Quinn, American actress
1972 - Jon Heidenreich, American professional wrestler
1972 - Alessandro Nivola, American actor
1973 - Adrian Annus, Hungarian athlete
1974 - Rob Dyrdek, Professional skateboarder
1975 - Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish Musician, Former Lead Singer of Dissection
1976 - Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
1976 - Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
1977 - Mark Stoermer, American bass player (The Killers)
1977 - Chris Spurling, American baseball player
1978 - Simon Larose, Canadian professional tennis player
1979 - Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer
1979 - Randy McMichael, American football player
1979 - Florian Zeller, French novelist and playwright
1983 - Maui Taylor, Filipino model and singer
1985 - Phil Bardsley, English football player
1986 - Kellie Pickler, American singer
1986 - Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
1988 - Lacey Schwimmer, American dancer
1990 - Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
1994 - Madeline Duggan, English actress
1994 - Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II, Prince of Jordan

Deaths
548 - Theodora, Byzantine empress
767 - Pope Paul I
928 - Louis the Blind, King of Provence
1061 - Floris I, Count of Holland
1175 - Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince
1194 - Emperor Xiaozong of Song China (b. 1127)
1385 - Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1348)
1389 - Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia (b. 1329)
1586 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (b. 1508)
1598 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish-born cartographer (b. 1527)
1716 - George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
1813 - Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (b. 1755)
1834 - Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
1836 - James Madison, President of the United States (b. 1751)
1880 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846)
1881 - Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (b. 1798)
1892 - Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
1889 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b. 1818)
1913 - Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1914 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1863)
1914 - Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868)
1915 - Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
1916 - Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
1922 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
1929 - Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)
1960 - Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1898)
1962 - Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1962 - Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)
1965 - Red Nichols, American musician (b. 1905)
1971 - Franz Stangl, Austrian commandant of concentration camps (b. 1908)
1974 - Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
1975 - Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
1975 - Rod Serling, American television scriptwriter (b. 1924)
1976 - Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer (b. 1927)
1978 - Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
1980 - José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
1981 - Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)
1982 - Harry Mills, American singer (Mills Brothers) (b. 1913)
1985 - Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (b. 1913)
1989 - Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1898)
1992 - Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
1993 - GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
2000 - Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
2000 - Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (b. 1908)
2001 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
2001 - Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
2003 - Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
2004 - Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
2005 - Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
2006 - Jim Baen, American science fiction publisher and editor (b. 1943)
2006 - George Page, American television host (b. 1935)
2006 - Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author (b. 1919)
2006 - George Unwin, British WWII fighter ace (b. 1913)
2007 - Eugene Bennett Fluckey, American Navy Submariner (b. 1913)
2007 - Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances
Vidovdan, Orthodox religious holiday commemorating St. Vitus



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June 29th

June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 185 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events
512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
1194 - Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
1534 - Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
1613 - The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
1644 - Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
1659 - The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
1786 - Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1850 - Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island.
1850 - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.
1864 - Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
1874 - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
1880 - France annexes Tahiti.
1888 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
1891 - Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation.
1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
1922 - France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."
1925 - Canada House opens in London, England.
1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's Controllable pitch propeller.
1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
1956 - The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".
1974 - Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband President Juan Peron had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
1976 - The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.)
1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
2002 - Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2002 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
2006 - Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
2007 - Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
2007 - Apple Inc. released the iPhone for the United States market.

Births
1397 - John II of Aragon (d. 1479)
1482 - Maria of Aragon, queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
1517 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician (d. 1585)
1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
1798 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet (d. 1837)
1803 - John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
1849 - John Hunn, American businessman (d. 1926)
1858 - George Washington Goethals, American army engineer (d. 1928)
1861 - William Mayo, American physician (d. 1939)
1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 1986)
1866 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)
1880 - Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
1881 - Harry Frazee, American baseball team owner (d. 1929)
1881 - Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959)
1886 - Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
1889 - Willie MacFarlane, Scottish golfer (d. 1961)
1893 - Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer (d. 1958)
1897 - Fulgence Charpentier, French-Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
1901 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
1903 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
1906 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (d. 1945)
1908 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
1910 - Frank Loesser, American composer (d. 1969)
1910 - Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1911 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
1911 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (d. 1975)
1912 - John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)
1912 - Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
1914 - Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor (d. 1996)
1914 - Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek mathematician (d. 1976)
1915 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005)
1919 - Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
1919 - Lloyd Richards, American director (d. 2006)
1920 - Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker
1921 - Frédéric Dard, French writer (d. 2000)
1922 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
1923 - Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer
1924 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer (d. 2006)
1924 - Ezra Laderman, American composer
1925 - Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician
1925 - Hale Smith, American composer and editor
1925 - Cara Williams, American actress
1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
1928 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
1929 - Pat Crawford Brown, American actress
1929 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
1930 - Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
1931 - Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
1930 - Robert Evans, American film producer
1932 - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British politician
1933 - Bob Shaw, baseball player
1933 - John Bradshaw, American theologian
1935 - Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
1936 - Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player
1939 - Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
1939 - Lo Lieh, Hong Kong martial arts actor (d. 2002)
1940 - Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
1941 - John Boccabella, American baseball player
1941 - Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
1942 - Mike Willesee, Australian television presenter
1943 - Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
1944 - Gary Busey, American actor
1944 - Sean O'Malley, American Roman Catholic bishop
1945 - Chandrika Kumaratunga, President of Sri Lanka
1946 - Egon von Furstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
1946 - Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician
1947 - Michael Carter, British actor
1947 - Richard Lewis, American comedian
1948 - Ian Paice, English drummer
1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu, Spanish politician
1949 - Ann Veneman, American politician
1951 - Don Rosa, American ilustrator
1952 - Joe Johnson, English snooker player
1953 - Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer
1954 - Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player
1955 - Terence M. O'Sullivan, American activist
1955 - Charles J. Precourt, American astronaut
1956 - Pedro Guerrero, baseball player
1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes, Prime Minister of Portugal
1957 - María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
1957 - Robert Forster, Australian musician
1958 - Rosa Mota, Portuguese athlete
1958 - Jeff Coopwood, American actor, broadcaster and singer
1961 - Kimberlin Brown, American actress
1961 - Greg Hetson, American punk-rock guitarist
1961 - Sharon Lawrence, American actress
1962 - Amanda Donohoe, British actress
1962 - George Zamka, American astronaut
1963 - Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist
1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
1964 - Stedman Pearson, British singer
1965 - Tripp Eisen, American musician
1966 - John Part, Canadian darts player
1967 - Jeff Burton, American racing driver
1967 - Murray Foster, Canadian musician
1967 - Melora Hardin, American actress, singer
1968 - Theoren Fleury, Canadian hockey player
1969 - Claude Béchard, Canadian politician
1969 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith, American actor
1969 - Toru Hashimoto, Japanese politician
1970 - Mike Vallely, American skateboarder
1970 - Emily Skinner, American actress and singer
1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress
1971 - Matthew Good, Canadian musician
1971 - Anthony Hamilton, English snooker player
1972 - Samantha Smith, American activist (d. 1985)
1972 - Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
1973 - George Hincapie, American cyclist
1977 - Oleg Korenfeld, Russian-American poet
1978 - Sam Farrar, American bassist
1978 - Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and actress
1979 - Abs Breen, English singer
1979 - Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
1979 - Matthew Bode, Australian Rules football player
1979 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish singer and actor (d. 2007)
1980 - Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
1980 - Mel Peachey, British television personality
1980 - Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
1981 - Joe Johnson, American basketball player
1981 - Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
1983 - Aundrea Fimbres, American singer
1984 - Han Ji-hye, South Korean actress and model
1984 - Derek Lee Rock, American drummer
1985 - Quintin Demps, American football player
1986 - Austin Drage, English singer
1986 - Iya Villania, Filipina actress
1987 - Yasuka Saitou, Japanese actor
1988 - Éver Banega, Argentine footballer
1992 - Adam G. Sevani, American actor
1993 - George Sampson, English dancer

Deaths
1059 - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony
1252 - King Abel of Denmark (b. 1218)
1315 - Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
1509 - Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (b. 1443)
1725 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
1744 - André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
1764 - Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
1852 - Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)
1855 - John Gorrie, American scientist (b. 1802)
1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
1873 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet (b. 1824)
1875 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (b. 1825)
1900 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1919 - José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician (b. 1864)
1921 - Otto Seeck German classical historian (b. 1850)
1931 - Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
1933 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)
1935 - Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
1958 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (b. 1865)
1960 - Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
1964 - Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
1967 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
1969 - Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940)
1969 - Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician (b. 1919)
1973 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
1975 - Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
1977 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (b. 1895)
1978 - Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
1979 - Lowell George, American country-rock singer (b. 1945)
1982 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
1982 - Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
1990 - Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
1993 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1946)
1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
1995 - Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
1997 - William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
1998 - Horst Jankowski, German pianist (b. 1936)
1999 - Allan Carr, American film producer (b. 1937)
2000 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
2002 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1931)
2002 - François Périer, French actor (b. 1919)
2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
2004 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist (b. 1935)
2006 - Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
2006 - Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director (b. 1959)
2006 - Lloyd Richards, American actor and director (b. 1919)
2007 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (b. 1943)
2007 - Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director (b. 1947)

Holidays and observances
Seychelles - Independence Day.
The Netherlands - Veterans Day.
Malta - l-Imnarja



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June 30th

June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 184 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events
350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
1422 - Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
1520 - The Spaniards are expelled from Tenochtitlan.
1559 - King Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery.
1651 - The Deluge (Polish history): Khmelnytsky Uprising - The Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
1688 - The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, continuing the struggle for English independence from Rome which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
1758 - Seven Years' War: The Battle of Domstadtl occurs.
1805 - The U.S. Congress organizes Michigan Territory.
1859 - French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1860 - Historic debate about evolution at the Oxford University Museum.
1864 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation."
1882 - Charles Guiteau hanged in Washington, DC for the shooting death of President James Garfield.
1886 - The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4 of the same year.
1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", where he introduces special relativity.
1906 - The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
1908 - The Tunguska impact event occurs in Siberia.
1912 - The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
1921 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft chief justice of the United States.
1934 - The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
1935 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
1941 - World War II: Operation Barbarossa - Nazi Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
1953 - The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
1956 - A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 (Flight 718) collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States, killing all 128 on the two planes.
1960 - Congo gains independence from Belgium.
1963 - Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and military officers near Palermo.
1968 - Solemni hac liturgia by Pope Paul VI.
1969 - Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.
1971 - The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
1971 - Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
1972 - One leap second is added to the UTC time system.
1977 - Virginia Wade wins the Ladies Singles title at Wimbledon, the last British champion at the All England Club to date.
1985 - Thirty-nine American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
1986 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states could outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
1987 - The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie
1988 - French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Catholic church.
1990 - East and West Germany merge their economies.
1992 - Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joins the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.
1997 - The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
2005 - Spain legalizes same-sex marriage.
2007 - A car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist attack.

Births
1286 - John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey, English politician (d. 1347)
1470 - Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
1503 - John Frederick, Elector of Saxony (d. 1554)
1641 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (d. 1719)
1685 - John Gay, British writer (d. 1732)
1755 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (d. 1829)
1789 - Horace Vernet, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1863)
1803 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (d. 1849)
1807 - Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, German narrator, lyricist, and philosopher (d. 1887)
1817 - Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist (d. 1911)
1823 - Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Indian industrialist (d. 1901)
1843 - Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat (d. 1929)
1884 - Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966)
1891 - Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
1891 - Ed "Strangler" Lewis, American professional wrestler (d. 1966)
1892 - Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (d. 1951)
1893 - Walter Ulbricht, German politician (d. 1973)
1899 - Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990)
1899 - Harry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1971)
1906 - Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
1906 - Anthony Mann, American film actor and director (d. 1967)
1907 - Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian politician (d. 1950)
1908 - Winston Graham, British writer (d. 2003)
1911 - Czesław Miłosz, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1912 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003)
1912 - Dan Reeves - Owner of the Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams (d. 1971)
1913 - Harry Wismer, owner of the New York Jets (d. 1967)
1913 - Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (d. 2007)
1914 - Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (d. 2001)
1917 - Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975)
1917 - Lena Horne, American actress and singer
1919 - Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)
1926 - Paul Berg, Nobel Prize laureate
1929 - James Goldman, American screenwriter (d. 1998)
1931 - Bert Eriksson, Flemish neo-Nazi (d. 2005)
1931 - Andrew Hill, American jazz pianist (d. 2007)
1933 - Lea Massari, Italian actress
1933 - Orval Tessier, Canadian ice hockey player
1934 - Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (d. 1997)
1936 - Nancy Dussault, American actress
1936 - Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 2002)
1938 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
1939 - José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet
1940 - Mark Spoelstra, American folksinger (d. 2007)
1941 - Peter Pollock, South African cricket player
1942 - Robert Ballard, Oceanographer
1942 - Ron Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
1943 - Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)
1944 - Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
1944 - Terry Funk, American professional wrestler
1944 - Glenn Shorrock, Australian singer-songwriter; co-founding member of Little River Band
1944 - Ron Swoboda, American baseball player
1950 - Leonard Whiting, British actor
1951 - Stanley Clarke, American musician
1952 - David Garrison, Broadway and television actor
1952 - Athanassios S. Fokas, Greek mathematician
1953 - Hal Lindes, British-American musician (Dire Straits)
1954 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)
1955 - David Alan Grier, American actor and comedian
1957 - Sterling Marlin, American race car driver (NASCAR)
1958 - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer
1959 - Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
1959 - Brendan Perry, British musician (Dead Can Dance)
1960 - Murray Cook, Australian children's singer (The Wiggles)
1962 - Tony Fernández, Dominican baseball player
1963 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist
1964 - Alexandra Christina Manley, Former Danish princess, now countess
1965 - Mitch Richmond, American basketball player
1965 - Steve Duchesne, French Canadian ice hockey player
1965 - Gary Pallister, English footballer
1966 - Mike Tyson, American former boxer
1966 - Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor
1968 - Philip Anselmo, American musician
1969 - Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer
1970 - Mark Grudzielanek, American baseball player
1971 - Anette Michel, Mexican actress
1971 - Monica Potter, American actress
1972 - James Martin, English celebrity chef
1973 - Chan-ho Park, South Korean baseball player
1974 - Melanie Lambert American ice skater
1975 - Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver (F1)
1978 - Owen Lafave, ex-husband of Debra Lafave
1978 - Ben Cousins, Australian Football League player
1979 - Matisyahu, Hasidic Jewish Reggae singer
1979 - Rick Gonzalez, Hispanic-American actor
1979 - Travis Minor, National Football League Runningback
1980 - Rade Prica, Swedish footballer
1981 - Can Artam, Turkish racing driver
1981 - Matt Kirk, Canadian football Player
1981 - Karolina Sadalska, Polish kayaker
1982 - Dan Jacobs, American guitarist (Atreyu)
1982 - Andy Knowles, British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
1982 - Mitch Maier, American baseball player
1982 - Lizzy Caplan, American actress
1983 - Brendon James, British drummer (Thirteen Senses)
1983 - Marlin Jackson, American football player
1983 - Patrick Wolf, British musician
1983 - Cheryl Cole, British singer (Girls Aloud)
1984 - Fantasia Barrino, American singer
1984 - Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer
1985 - Rafal Blechacz, Polish classical pianist
1985 - Michael Phelps, American swimmer
1985 - Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
1985 - Cody Runnels, American wrestler
1986 - Victoria Crawford, American wrestler and model
1991 - Kaho,Japanese actress

Deaths
350 - Nepotianus, Roman usurper
1181 - Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
1224 - Adolf of Osnabrück, Saint Adolf (b. 1185)
1364 - Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
1538 - Charles of Egmond, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)
1579 - Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, Turkish Janissary
1607 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
1660 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
1666 - Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620)
1670 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)
1704 - John Quelch, a pirate was hanged (b. 1665)
1709 - Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
1785 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
1796 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1857 - Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
1882 - Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of President James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
1890 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819)
1919 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842)
1934 - Night of the Long Knives murders
Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
Gregor Strasser, former Nazi politician (b. 1892)
Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria (b. 1862)
Karl Ernst, SA-gruppenführer (b. 1904)
Erich Klausener, Catholic politician (b. 1885)
1953 - Charles William Miller, father of football in Brazil (b. 1874)
1959 - José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
1961 - Lee DeForest, American inventor (b. 1873)
1966 - Giuseppe Farina, Italian Formula One champion. First person to win an F1 championship. (b. 1906)
1971 - Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
1971 - Crew of Soyuz 11
Viktor Patsayev (b. 1933)
Georgi Dobrovolski (b. 1928)
Vladislav Volkov (b. 1935)
1973 - Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (b. 1903)
1974 - Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
1976 - Firpo Marberry, baseball player (b. 1898)
1984 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
1993 - George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
1993 - Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer (b. 1962)
1995 - Gale Gordon, American actor (b. 1906)
1995 - Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1921)
1995 - Phyllis Hyman, American jazz vocalist (b. 1949)
1997 - Larry O'Day, wrestler (b. 1944)
2001 - Chet Atkins, American country guitar player and producer (b. 1924)
2001 - Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1937)
2002 - Chico Xavier, popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement (b. 1910)
2003 - Buddy Hackett, American comic (b. 1924)
2003 - Robert McCloskey, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
2006 - Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
2007 - Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances
Independence Day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
First Martyrs of the See of Rome.



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July 1st

July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 183 days remaining until the end of the year. The end of this day marks the halfway point of a leap year. It also falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Day in a leap year.

Events
251 - The battle of Abrittus is won by Goths against Romans. Roman Emperors Decius and Herennius Etruscus are killed.
1097 - Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army under Qilich Arslan I.
1520 - La Noche Triste: Joint Mexican Indian force led by Aztecs under Cuitláhuac defeat Spanish Conquistadors under Hernán Cortés.
1569 - Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland (Polish Crown) and Great Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union, the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
1690 - Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne as reckoned under Julian calendar.
1782 - American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
1862 - Russian State Library is founded.
1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place, the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of the George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
1863 - American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
1867 - The British North America Act, 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation; John A. Macdonald sworn as first Prime Minister.
1870 - The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
1873 - Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
1878 - Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1879 - Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
1881 - World's first international telephone call takes place between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
1881 - General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, came into effect.
1885 - United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1890 - Canada and Bermuda linked by telegraph cable.
1892 - The Homestead Strike, a strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers against the Carnegie Steel Company, begins.
1898 - Spanish-American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill was fought in Santiago de Cuba.
1916 - World War I: First day on the Somme - On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 20,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
1921 - Communist Party of China was founded.
1931 - United Airlines began service (as Boeing Air Transport)
1933 - Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
1935 - Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
1942 - World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
1942 - Australian Federal Govt becomes sole collector of Income Tax (State Income Tax Abolished).
1943 - Tokyo City merged with Tokyo Prefecture and was dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo." (Present-day Tokyo is not a city.)
1947 - British parliament passed India independence act. According to this took a decision for giving independence to India on August 15.
1948 - Quaid-i-Azam inaugrates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
1957 - The International Geophysical Year begins (until December 31, 1958).
1958 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1958 - Flooding of the St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
1959 - The Party of the African Federation (PFA) holds its constitutive conference.
1960 - Independence of Somalia.
1960 - Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be the Head of state.
1962 - Independence of Rwanda.
1962 - Independence of Burundi.
1963 - ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
1963 - The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
1966 - First colour television transmission in Canada, from Toronto.
1967 - The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
1967 - Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867.
1968 - The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968 - The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
1968 - Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
1970 - President General Yahya Khan abolished One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
1972 - Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police.
1972 - First Gay Pride march in England
1976 - Portugal granted autonomy to Madeira.
1978 - Northern Territory (Aus) granted Self-Government.
1979 - Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 - O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1983 - A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
1984 - The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1987 - American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station
1988 - Bologna, Italy: Quartetto Cetra's last concert after over forty years' musical career.
1990 - German re-unification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
1991 - The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
1997 - The People's Republic of China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
1999 - The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth on the day powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
2000 - Vermont's civil unions law goes into effect.
2000 - The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic.
2002 - The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
2002 - A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.
2004 - Saturn Orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UT and ends at 02:48 UT.
2006 - The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.
2007 - Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces. With the ban already in force in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, this means it is illegal to smoke in indoor public places anywhere in the UK. Ban also put into effect in Australia.
2007 Prince William and Prince Harry throw a concert in memory of their mother the late Diana, Princess of Wales, on what would have been her 46th birthday.

Births
1481 - Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
1506 - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
1534 - Frederick II of Denmark (d. 1588)
1574 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (d. 1656)
1586 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (d. 1630)
1633 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)
1646 - Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716)
1676 - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
1723 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman (d. 1802)
1725 - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807)
1742 - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (d. 1799)
1788 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (d. 1867)
1804 - George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
1807 - Thomas Green Clemson, American university founder (d. 1888)
1818 - Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician (d. 1865)
1834 - Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908)
1863 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892)
1869 - William Strunk Jr., American grammarian (d. 1946)
1872 - Louis Blériot, French aviator (d. 1936)
1873 - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (d. 1968)
1879 - Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1954)
1883 - Arthur Borton, English soldier (d. 1933)
1899 - Thomas A. Dorsey, American composer (d. 1993)
1899 - Charles Laughton, English actor (d. 1962)
1902 - William Wyler, French-born film director (d. 1981)
1903 - Amy Johnson, English pilot (d. 1941)
1906 - Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur (d. 2004)
1906 - Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (d. 1992)
1908 - Peg Entwistle, Welsh actress (d. 1932)
1909 - Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971)
1911 - Sergei Sokolov, Soviet marshal
1912 - David R. Brower, American environmentalist (d. 2000)
1912 - Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989)
1913 - Frank Barrett, baseball player (d. 1998)
1915 - Willie Dixon, American musician (d. 1992)
1915 - Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
1916 - Olivia de Havilland, British-born actress
1917 - Humphry Osmond, British psychiatrist (d. 2004)
1920 - Harold Sakata, American actor (d. 1982)
1921 - Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana (d. 1980)
1925 - Farley Granger, American actor
1926 - Robert Fogel, Nobel laureate
1926 - Hans Werner Henze, German composer
1926 - Carl Hahn, German automotive executive
1929 - Gerald Edelman, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1930 - Bobby Day, American singer (d. 1990)
1930 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005)
1931 - Leslie Caron, French actress
1932 - Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (d. 2007)
1934 - Jamie Farr, American actor
1934 - Jean Marsh, English actress
1934 - Sydney Pollack, American film director (d. 2008)
1934 - Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter
1938 - Craig Anderson, baseball player
1939 - Karen Black, American actress
1941 - Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Twyla Tharp, American choreographer
1941 - Rod Gilbert, Canadian hockey player
1942 - Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress
1942 - Andraé Crouch, American singer
1942 - Mike Malloy, American talk radio host
1943 - Jeff Wayne, musician
1945 - Deborah Harry, American musician (Blondie)
1945 - Mike Burstyn, Israeli-American actor
1947 - Shirley Hemphill, American actress (d. 1999)
1947 - Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese racing driver
1949 - John Farnham, Australian singer
1950 - David Duke, American politician, K.K.K. member
1951 - Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's)
1951 - Anne Feeney, American protest singer
1951 - Terrence Mann, American actor and dancer
1952 - Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor
1952 - Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player
1952 - Timothy J. Tobias, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
1956 - Alan Ruck, American actor
1957 - Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
1960 - Evelyn King, American singer
1961 - Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American astronaut (d. 2003)
1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 1997)
1961 - Malcolm Elliott, British cyclist
1961 - Carl Lewis, American athlete
1961 - Michelle Wright, Canadian musician
1962 - Andre Braugher, American actor
1963 - Roddy Bottum, American musician (Faith No More and Imperial Teen)
1964 - Bernard Laporte, French rugby player & coach
1965 - Harald Zwart, Norwegian film director
1966 - Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer
1967 - Pamela Anderson, Canadian model
1968 - Tim Abell, American actor
1970 - Henry Simmons, American actor
1970 - Melissa Peterman, American actress
1971 - Missy Elliott, American rapper and singer
1971 - Julianne Nicholson, American actress
1971 - Steven W. Bailey, American actor
1971 - Jamie Walker, American baseball player
1972 - Claire Forlani, English actress
1972 - Alex Machacek, Austrian musician
1975 - Sufjan Stevens, American musician
1976 - Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer
1976 - Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
1976 - Justin Lo, Hong Kong singer and songwriter
1976 - Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
1977 - Jarome Iginla, Canadian hockey player
1977 - Liv Tyler, American actress
1977 - Keigo Hayashi, Japanese music artist
1980 - Patrick Aufiero, American hockey player
1981 - Tadhg Kennelly, Irish-born Australian Rules footballer
1982 - Hilarie Burton, American actress
1982 - Carmella DeCesare, American model
1982 - Romola Garai, English actress
1982 - Justin Huber, Australian baseball player
1982 - Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1982 - Adrian Ward, American football player
1983 - Marit Larsen, Norwegian musician (M2M)
1983 - Leeteuk, Korean singer
1988 - Evan Ellingson, American actor
1989 - Mitch Hewer, English actor
1989 - Hannah Murray, English actress

Deaths
251 - Decius, Roman Emperor (b. 207)
251 - Herennius Etruscus, Roman Emperor (b. ca. 227)
868 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (b. 828)
1109 - King Alfonso VI of Castile (b. 1040)
1277 - Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1223)
1592 - Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer
1614 - Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)
1622 - William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575)
1681 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (b. 1629)
1708 - Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
1774 - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (b. 1705)
1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1730)
1784 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
1819 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1752)
1860 - Charles Goodyear, American inventor (b. 1800)
1863 - John Fulton Reynolds, American Civil War general (b. 1820)
1894 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)
1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (b. 1811)
1925 - Erik Satie, French composer (b. 1866)
1944 - Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (b. 1930)
1948 - Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (b. 1904)
1950 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (b. 1865)
1950 - Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1873)
1961 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)
1964 - Pierre Monteux, French conductor (b. 1875)
1965 - Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
1968 - Fritz Bauer, German judge and prosecutor (b. 1903)
1971 - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
1974 - Juan Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
1976 - Anneliese Michel, German woman said to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
1978 - Kurt Student, German Luftwaffe general (b. 1890)
1981 - Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921)
1981 - Rushton Moreve, American bass player (b. 1948)
1983 - R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and philosopher (b. 1903)
1984 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born educator (b. 1904)
1987 - Snakefinger, British-born musician (b. 1949)
1991 - Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
1992 - Franco Cristaldi, Italian film producer (b. 1924)
1992 - Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissauan politician (b. 1933)
1995 - Wolfman Jack, American radio personality (b. 1938)
1996 - William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1904)
1996 - Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter (b. 1942)
1996 - Margaux Hemingway, American actress and model (b. 1954)
1997 - Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)
1999 - Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-born film director (b. 1908)
1999 - Guy Mitchell, American popular singer (b. 1927)
1999 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candy magnate (b. 1904)
1999 - Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
2000 - Sarah Payne, British murder victim (b. 1992)
2000 - Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
2001 - Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
2003 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (b. 1930)
2003 - Wesley Mouzon, American boxer (b. 1927)
2003 - N!xau, Namibian actor (b. 1944)
2004 - Peter Barnes, English writer (b. 1931)
2004 - Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (b. 1909)
2004 - Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924)
2005 - Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951)
2005 - Obie Benson, American musician (b. 1936)
2006 - Fred Trueman, English cricketer (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances
Canada Day (formerly Dominion Day) - the national holiday of Canada.
Moving Day in the province of Québec
Memorial Day in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Ghana - Republic Day.
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day.
Surinam Keti Koti (Breaking of Chains) Day of Liberty; On July 1, 1863 slavery was abolished.
Bulgaria, July Morning tradition.



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July 2nd

July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 182 days remaining until the end of the year.

It is the middle day of a non-leap year, because there are 182 days before and 182 days after (median of the year). It falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Day (on non-leap years).

Events
626 - In fear of assassination, Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Incident at Xuanwu Gate. On September 4, Shimin's father abdicated to him, and so Shimin became Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China.
706 - In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang had the remains of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, his wife and recently-deceased ruling empress Wu Zetian, her son Li Xian, her grandson Li Chongrun, and granddaughter Li Xianhui all interred in a new tomb complex outside Chang'an known as the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang.
963 - The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas to be Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
1298 - The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
1561 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
1578 - Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island.
1582 - Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
1613 - First English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia - led by Samuel Argall.
1644 - English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
1698 - Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine
1679 - Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi - led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
1776 - The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain; wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
1777 - Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
1808 - Simon Fraser reaches Pacific near New Westminster.
1823 - "Bahia Independence Day" - the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the diehard Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
1839 - Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinque take over the slave ship Amistad.
1850 - The self-contained gas mask is patented by Benjamin J. Lane.
1853 - The Russian Army invades Turkey, beginning the Crimean War.
1863 - American Civil War: Second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
1878 - The Brighton Beach Line (now the BMT Brighton Line) opens in the then-city of Brooklyn.
1881 - Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from infection on September 19.
1890 - The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
1900 - First zeppelin flight on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1917 - Forty-eight die in rioting in East St. Louis, Illinois, as lower-paid black laborers clash with whites.
1934 - The end of the Night of the Long Knives, with the death of the German Military Officer Ernst Röhm
1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
1940 - Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose arrested and detained in Calcutta.
1941 - Nazi massacre of Jews in Lutsk, Ukraine. Jewish men were summoned for work, about 2000 of them were taken to the Lubart Fortress and murdered. German soldiers from rearguard units stationed in the city participated in the murder.
1947 - An object speculated to be a UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, though the United States Air Force claims it is a weather balloon.
1950 - Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan was burned down.
1962 - The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.
1966 - The French military explode their nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
1971 - Australian Evonne Goolagong becomes the first Aborigine to win the Wimbledon singles tennis title.
1976 - North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1979 - The first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, is introduced.
1985 - Andrei Gromyko is appointed the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
1990 - A stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel leads to the deaths of 1,426 pilgrims in Mecca during hajj.
2000 - Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).
2001 - AbioCor self contained artificial heart created.
2002 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
2004 - ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) accepts Pakistan as the 24th member.

Births
419 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
1029 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (d. 1094)
1262 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
1489 - Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)
1492 - Elizabeth Tudor, English princess (d. 1495)
1647 - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councilor (d. 1730)
1665 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (d. 1726)
1667 - Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (d. 1740)
1714 - Christoph Willibald von Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
1724 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
1819 - Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (d. 1900)
1820 - George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (d. 1878)
1821 - Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)
1849 - Maria Theresia of Austria-Este, queen of Bavaria (d. 1919)
1862 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
1865 - Lily Braun, German writer (d. 1916)
1876 - Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933)
1877 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
1881 - Royal H. Weller, American politician (d. 1929)
1884 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
1890 - Earl Roy Curry, religious thinker and Kirtland Temple overseer (d. 1980)
1893 - Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center) (d. 1950)
1896 - Lydia Mei, Estonian artist (d. 1965)
1900 - Tyrone Guthrie, English actor (d. 1971)
1903 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
1903 - King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
1904 - René Lacoste, French tennis player (d. 1996)
1906 - Hans Bethe, German-born nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
1908 - Thurgood Marshall, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1993)
1914 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (d. 2004)
1914 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
1916 - Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
1916 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Combat pilot and highest-decorated German soldier of WWII (d. 1982)
1917 - Murry Wilson, American musician and producer (The Beach Boys) (d. 1973)
1918 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (d. 2005)
1919 - Jean Craighead George, American writer
1923 - Wisława Szymborska, Polish writer, Nobel laureate
1925 - Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
1925 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1961)
1926 - Octavian Paler, Romanian writer, journalist, (d. 2007)
1927 - Brock Peters, American actor (d. 2005)
1927 - Gene Ray, Founder of the Time Cube website and proponent of Time Cube philosophy
1929 - Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines
1929 - John A. Cade, American politician
1930 - Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
1932 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 2002)
1933 - Kenny Wharram, Canadian hockey player
1934 - Tom Springfield, British singer and songwriter (The Springfields)
1937 - Polly Holliday, American actress
1937 - Richard Petty, American race car driver
1939 - John H. Sununu, White House Chief of Staff under George HW Bush
1939 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet
1939 - Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1973)
1940 - Kenneth Harry Clarke, British politician
1941 - Stéphane Venne, French Canadian songwriter
1942 - Vicente Fox, Former Mexican president
1943 - Walter Godefroot, Belgian cyclist
1946 - Richard Axel, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1946 - Ron Silver, American actor
1947 - Larry David, American television producer
1948 - Saul Rubinek, Canadian film actor
1948 - Gene McFadden, American songwriter (d. 2006)
1949 - Roy Bittan, American musician (E Street Band)
1949 - Hanno Pöschl, Austrian actor
1949 - Robert Paquette, French Canadian singer and songwriter
1953 - Mark Hart, British musician (Crowded House and Supertramp)
1953 - Tony Armas, Venezuelan baseball player
1954 - Pete Briquette, Irish musician (Boomtown Rats)
1955 - Andrew Divoff, Venezuelan actor
1955 - Kevin Michael Grace, Canadian journalist
1956 - Jerry Hall, American actress
1957 - Bret "Hitman" Hart, Canadian wrestler
1958 - Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop
1959 - Mike Hallett, English snooker player
1960 - Terry Rossio, American screenwriter
1961 - Michael Lindsay, Voice actor
1963 - Mark Kermode, British film critic
1964 - José Canseco, Cuban-born American baseball player
1964 - Ozzie Canseco, Cuban-born American baseball player
1964 - Joe Magrane, American baseball player
1964 - Charles Robinson, American wrestling referee
1969 - Matthew Cox, American convicted felon
1970 - Yancy Butler, American actress
1970 - Colin Edwin, Australian musician (Porcupine Tree)
1970 - Scotty 2 Hotty, American wrestler
1970 - Monie Love, English rapper
1970 - Steve Morrow, Irish footballer
1971 - Evelyn Lau, Canadian author
1971 - Troy Brown, American football player
1972 - Darren Shan, Irish children's author
1973 - Peter Kay, British comedian
1974 - Sean Casey, American baseball player
1974 - Moon So-ri, South Korean actress
1974 - Matthew Reilly, Australian author
1974 - Rocky Gray, American musician
1975 - Erik Ohlsson, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
1975 - Eric Daze, French Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Krisztián Lisztes, Hungarian footballer
1976 - Tomáš Vokoun, Czech hockey player
1978 - Jüri Ratas, Estonian politician
1979 - Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer
1979 - Sam Hornish, Jr., American race car driver
1979 - Joe Thornton, Canadian hockey player
1981 - Alex Koroknay-Palicz, American youth rights activist
1981 - Angel Pagán, Puerto Rican baseball player
1982 - Olivia Munn, American television hostess
1983 - Michelle Branch, American Singer (The Wreckers)
1984 - Johnny Weir, American figure skater
1984 - Thomas Kortegaard, Danish footballer
1985 - Rhett Bomar, American football player
1985 - Chad Henne, American football player
1985 - Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
1986 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer
1987 - Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (d. 2008)
1992 - Stefan Roberts, British finance heir

Deaths
862 - St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester(b. 789)
1298 - Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg, King of the Romans(b. 1220)
1504 - Ştefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434)
1566 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)
1582 - Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (b. 1528)
1591 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
1621 - Thomas Harriot, English astronomer
1656 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b. 1611)
1674 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
1684 - John Rogers, president of Harvard University (b. 1630)
1743 - Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, second Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1746 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656)
1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (b. 1712)
1778 - Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer
1822 - Denmark Vesey, American who planned slave revolt, hanged (b. ca. 1767)
1833 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1757)
1843 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755)
1850 - Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788)
1903 - Ed Delahanty, American Hall of Fame baseball player (b. 1867)
1912 - Tom Richardson, English cricket player (b. 1870)
1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, Mayor of Birmingham and Father of Neville (b. 1836)
1915 - Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (b. 1830)
1920 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
1926 - Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857)
1929 - Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1893)
1932 - Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
1934 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (b. 1887)
1955 - Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
1961 - Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1964 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1929)
1966 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
1969 - Michael DiBiase, wrestler (b. 1923)
1972 - Joseph Fielding Smith, tenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1876)
1973 - Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
1973 - Chick Hafey, baseball player (b. 1903)
1973 - George McBride, baseball player (b. 1880)
1973 - Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1975 - James Robertson Justice, British actor (b. 1907)
1977 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (b. 1899)
1978 - Aris Alexandrou, Greek novelist, poet and translator (b. 1922)
1984 - Paul Dozois, Quebec politician (b. 1908)
1985 - David Purley, British Formula 1 driver (b. 1945)
1986 - Peanuts Lowrey, baseball player (b. 1917)
1989 - Franklin Schaffner, American film director (b. 1920)
1989 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (b. 1909)
1991 - Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
1992 - Camarón de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1950)
1993 - Fred Gwynne, American actor (b. 1926)
1993 - Sir Edward Dunlop, Australian war hero (b. 1907)
1994 - Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (b. 1967)
1995 - Krissy Taylor, American model (b. 1978)
1997 - Jimmy Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
1999 - Mario Puzo, American author (b. 1920)
2000 - Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
2002 - Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2004 - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese writer (b. 1919)
2004 - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (b. 1919)
2005 - Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
2006 - Jan Murray, American comedian (b. 1916)
2007 - Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances
Palio di Provenzano in Siena, Italy
Canada Day. Under the Holidays Act, Canada Day is always observed on July 1 unless that date falls on a Sunday, in which case it is observed on July 2.



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July 3

... is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 181 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events
324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
987 - Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty which ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792.
1250 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
1608 - Québec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1754 - French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
1767 - Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
1767 - Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date).
1775 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1778 - American Revolutionary War: British forces massacre 360 men, women and children in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
1778 - Prussia declares war on Austria.
1819 - The first savings bank in the United States (The Bank of Savings in New York City) opens.
1839 - The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.
1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
1848 - Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten.
1849 - The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
1852 - Congress establishes the United States's 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.
1863 - U.S. Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.
1866 - Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
1884 - Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.
1886 - Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen - the first purpose-built automobile.
1886 - The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
1890 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
1898 - Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
1938 - World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 mph.(203 km/h)
1944 - World War II: Minsk was liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
1952 - Puerto Rico's Constitution is approved by the Congress of the United States.
1962 - The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.
1969 - The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
1970 - A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 113 people.
1976 - Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda during Operation Yonatan.
1977 - The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded.
1979 - US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
1986 - US President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
1988 - United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
1988 - The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.
1989 - Fitzgerald Inquiry released in Queensland.
1994 - The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people were killed in crashes.
1996 - Stone of Destiny returned to Scotland.
2001 - A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
2004 - Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
2005 - The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.
2006 - Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth.

Births
1423 - King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
1442 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1530 - Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)
1676 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)
1683 - Edward Young, English poet (d. 1765)
1685 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)
1728 - Robert Adam, Scottish architect (d. 1792)
1738 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
1743 - Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1813)
1851 - Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1930)
1854 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
1870 - Richard Bedford Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
1875 - Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951)
1878 - George M. Cohan, American actor, director, singer and dancer (d. 1942)
1879 - Alfred Korzybski, Polish linguist (d. 1950)
1880 - Carl Schuricht, Polish-born German conductor (d. 1967)
1883 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (d. 1924)
1900 - Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director (d. 1987)
1903 - Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
1906 - George Sanders, British actor (d. 1972)
1908 - M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
1908 - Robert B. Meyner, American politician (d. 1990)
1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American columnist (d. 1965)
1917 - João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (d. 1990)
1918 - S. V. Ranga Rao, South Indian actor (d. 1974)
1920 - Paul O'Dea, baseball player (d. 1978)
1921 - Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)
1924 - S. R. Nathan, 6th president of Singapore
1927 - Ken Russell, British director
1930 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
1930 - Tommy Tedesco, American musician (d. 1997)
1930 - Pete Fountain, American clarinetist
1933 - Edward Brandt, American doctor and public health official (d. 2007)
1935 - Harrison Schmitt, American astronaut and politician
1937 - Tom Stoppard, Czech-born, British playwright
1938 - Bolo Yeung, Hong Kong actor
1939 - László Kovács, Hungarian politician and diplomat
1939 - Brigitte Fassbaender, German mezzo-soprano
1940 - César Tovar, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 1994)
1940 - Lamar Alexander, American politician
1940 - Jerzy Buzek, Prime Minister of Poland
1940 - Fontella Bass, American soul singer
1942 - Eddy Mitchell, French singer and actor
1942 - Paco Stanley, Mexican TV personality (d. 1999)
1943 - Kurtwood Smith, American actor
1944 - Michel Polnareff, French singer and songwriter
1945 - Michael Cole, American TV actor
1946 - Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland
1947 - Dave Barry, American humorist and author
1947 - Betty Buckley, American actress
1948 - Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist
1949 - Jan Smithers, American actress
1949 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave) (d. 2006)
1950 - James Hahn, American politician
1950 - Ewen Chatfield, New Zealand cricketer
1951 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
1951 - Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician
1955 - Sanma Akashiya, Japanese television performer
1956 - Montel Williams, American celebrity and former talk show host
1956 - Don Vito, American Viva La Bam castmember
1957 - Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
1958 - Matthew Fraser, Canadian-British journalist
1958 - Siân Lloyd, Welsh weather presenter
1958 - Aaron Tippin, American singer
1959 - Julie Burchill, British journalist and author
1959 - Stephen Pearcy, American singer (Ratt)
1960 - Vince Clarke, British songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure)
1961 - Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese dancer
1961 - Tim Smith, English musician (Cardiacs)
1962 - Tom Cruise, American actor
1962 - Hunter Tylo, American actress
1962 - Thomas Gibson, American actor
1964 - Joanne Harris, British author
1964 - Yeardley Smith, French-born American actress
1965 - Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (d. 2005)
1965 - Connie Nielsen, Danish actress
1966 - Moisés Alou, Dominican baseball player
1966 - Sandra Lee, American television host and cookbook author
1967 - Brian Cashman, American major league baseball executive
1969 - Kevin Hearn, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 - Teemu Selanne, Finnish ice hockey player
1970 - Shawnee Smith, American actress
1970 - Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist
1973 - Johnny Terris, Canadian-born actor and director
1973 - Patrick Wilson, American actor
1973 - Emma Cunniffe, British actress
1976 - Andrea Barber, American actress
1976 - Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Henry Olonga, Zimbabwean cricketer
1976 - Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1979 - Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
1979 - Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Greek footballer
1979 - David Bacani, American baseball player
1980 - Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer
1980 - Kevin Boyle, American basketballer
1982 - Kanika, Indian actress
1983 - Steph Jones, American singer and model
1984 - Syed Rasel, Bangladeshi cricketer
1984 - Corey Sevier, Canadian actor
1984 - Manny Lawson, American Football player
1987 - Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver

Deaths
1570 - Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist
1642 - Maria de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
1672 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
1704 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
1749 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
1778 - Anna Maria Walburga Mozart née Pertl, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
1790 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (b. 1736)
1795 - Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
1795 - Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
1809 - Joseph Quesnel, French Canadian composer, poet and playwright (b. 1746)
1858 - Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
1863 - George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)
1904 - Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)
1916 - Hetty Green, American businesswoman (b. 1834)
1918 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
1933 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
1935 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
1942 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)
1954 - Siegfried Handloser, German physician (b. 1895)
1957 - Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
1969 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (drowned) (b. 1942)
1971 - Jim Morrison, American poet, singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
1977 - Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (b. 1891)
1978 - James Daly, American actor (b. 1918)
1979 - Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
1981 - Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (b. 1920)
1985 - Frank Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (b. 1893)
1986 - Rudy Vallee, American singer (b. 1901)
1989 - Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
1993 - Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
1993 - Don Drysdale, baseball player (b. 1936)
1994 - Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
1995 - Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
1995 - Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1998 - Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
1999 - Mark Sandman, American musician (b. 1952)
2000 - Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
2001 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
2001 - Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
2003 - Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914)
2004 - Andrian Nikolayev, cosmonaut (b. 1929)
2005 - Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)
2005 - Gaylord Nelson, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1916)
2006 - Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
2006 - Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
2007 - Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (b. 1915)
2007 - Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances
Start of the Dog Days
Independence Day in Belarus (when German forces lost Belarus to the Red Army in 1944)


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July 4th

... is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 180 days remaining until the end of the year. Aphelion occurs around this date, this is the point in the year when the Earth is furthest from the Sun.

Events
836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
993 - Saint Ulrich of Augsburg canonized.
1054 - A supernova is observed by the Chinese, the Arabs and possibly Amerindians near the star ζ Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
1120 - Jordan II of Capua anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death
1187 - The Crusades: Battle of Hattin - Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
1253 - Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
1359 - Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
1634 - The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France, later to become the Canadian province of Quebec.
1636 - City of Providence, Rhode Island forms.
1754 - Lt-Col. George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
1776 - American Independence Day: The United States Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress declaring itself free of British rule.
1778 - Forces under George Rogers Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
1802 - At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
1803 - The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
1810 - The French occupy Amsterdam.
1817 - At Rome, New York, United States, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
1827 - Slavery is abolished in New York State.
1837 - Grand Junction Railway, world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
1838 - The Iowa Territory is organized.
1840 - The Cunard Line's 700 ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the first transatlantic crossing with a scheduled end.
1845 - Near Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau embarks on a two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond (see Walden).
1855 - In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems titled Leaves of Grass is published.
1859 - Austro-Sardinian War: The Battle of Magenta.
1862 - Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg - Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. 150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
1865 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published.
1881 - In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
1886 - The people of France offers the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
1886 - First scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
1887 - Founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah joined Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
1892 - Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
1894 - The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
1910 - African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.
1918 - Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
1918 - Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
1927 - First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
1934 - Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
1939 - Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth" as he announces his retirement from major league baseball.
1941 - Mass murder of Polish scientists and writers, committed by Nazi Germans in the captured Polish city of Lwów.
1946 - After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule, the Philippines is granted full independence by the United States.
1947 - "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before British House of Commons, suggesting bifurcation of British India into two sovereign countries - India and Pakistan.
1950 - First broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
1959 - With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1960 - Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaiˈi as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act).
1961 - Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on the Independence Day in The Rebild Hills at Skørping in Denmark
1966 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act goes into effect the next year.
1966 - The Beatles, in the Phillipines to give two concerts, are accused of 'standing up' Imelda Marcos. Their entourage is beat upat the airport.
1968 - Two teens are killed at Lake Herman Road in California. They were the first (known) victims of the Zodiac Killer.
1969 - The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie.
1976 - Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
1982 - Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982):Four Iranian diplomats kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
1987 - In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (aka the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
1992 - USS George Washington (CVN-73), a Nimitz Class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy is commissioned at Norfolk, Virginia.
1993 - Sumitomo Chemical's resin plant in Nihama explodes killing one and injuring three workers.
1997 - NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
2004 - The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. (This was largely a symbolic event; actual construction would not start for several weeks)
2005 - The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
2006 - Space Shuttle program: STS-121 Mission - Space Shuttle Discovery launches at 18:37:55 UTC.
2006 - North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan.
2007 - Zaca Fire Starts in Santa Barbara, California becomes second largest fire in California history.

Births
1330 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367)
1546 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595)
1694 - Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (d. 1772)
1715 - Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (d. 1769)
1719 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)
1790 - George Everest, Welsh surveyor (d. 1866)
1799 - King Oscar I of Sweden, French general (d. 1859)
1804 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d. 1864)
1807 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (d. 1882)
1816 - Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
1826 - Stephen Foster, American songwriter (d. 1864)
1845 - Thomas Barnardo, Irish humanitarian (d. 1905)
1847 - James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (d. 1906)
1854 - Victor Babeş, Romanian bacteriologist (d. 1926)
1868 - Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921)
1872 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (d. 1933)
1881 - Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (d. 1968)
1882 - Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (d. 1957)
1883 - Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (d. 1970)
1895 - Irving Caesar, American lyricist and composer (d. 1996)
1896 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981)
1898 - Dr. Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian (d. 1997)
1898 - Gertrude Lawrence, English-born actress (d. 1952)
1902 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born American gangster (d. 1983)
1902 - George Murphy, American entertainer (d. 1992)
1903 - Flor Peeters, Belgian composer, organist and teacher (d. 1986)
1904 - Angela Baddeley, English actress (d. 1976)
1905 - Irving Johnson, American adventurer (d. 1991)
1907 - Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
1907 - Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (d. 1996)
1910 - Gloria Stuart, American actress
1911 - Mitch Miller, American entertainer
1912 - Viviane Romance, French actress (d. 1991)
1916 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American World War II figure (d. 2006)
1917 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947)
1918 - Ann Landers, American advice columnist (d. 2002)
1918 - Abigail Van Buren, American advice columnist
1918 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (d. 2006)
1920 - Norm Drucker, American basketball referee
1920 - Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (d. 2007)
1921 - Gerard Debreu, French economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1921 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist (d. 2003)
1923 - Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor
1924 - Eva Marie Saint, American actress
1926 - Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer
1927 - Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
1927 - Neil Simon, American playwright
1929 - Al Davis, American businessman
1929 - Chuck Tanner, American baseball player
1929 - Bill Tuttle, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1930 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor
1930 - George Steinbrenner, American businessman
1930 - Yuri Tyukalov, Soviet Olympic rower
1931 - Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (d. 1977)
1931 - Sébastien Japrisot, French author, film director and sreenwriter (d. 2003)
1934 - Colin Welland, English actor
1935 - Paul Scoon, Governor General of Grenada
1937 - Sonja Haraldsen, Queen of Norway (spouse of King Harald V of Norway)
1937 - Thomas Nagel, American philosopher
1938 - Bill Withers, American singer and songwriter
1942 - Hal Lanier, American baseball player
1942 - Floyd Little, American football player
1942 - Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (d. 2008)
1943 - Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German musician
1943 - Geraldo Rivera, American reporter
1943 - Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician (d. 1970)
1943 - Emerson Boozer, American football player
1943 - Milan Máčala, Czech football coach
1944 - Ray Meagher, Australian actor
1946 - Tish Howard, American model
1946 - Ron Kovic, American peace activist
1946 - Michael Milken, American financier
1946 - Ed O'Ross, American actor
1947 - Morganna Roberts, American entertainer
1948 - Ed Armbrister, baseball player
1948 - René Arnoux, French race car driver
1948 - Tommy Körberg, Swedish singer and actor
1948 - Jeremy Spencer, English musician
1950 - David Jensen, Canadian-born British radio DJ
1951 - Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American politician
1952 - Álvaro Uribe Vélez, Colombian politician
1954 - Jim Beattie, American baseball player
1955 - John Waite, English singer
1957 - Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand
1958 - Kirk Pengilly, Australian musician
1959 - Victoria Abril, Spanish actress
1960 - Sid Eudy, American professional wrestler
1960 - Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1994)
1961 - Richard Garriott, English video game designer
1962 - Neil Morrissey, English actor
1962 - Pam Shriver, American former tennis player
1963 - Henri Leconte, French former tennis player
1963 - Matt Malley, American musician
1963 - José Oquendo, Puerto Rican baseball player
1964 - Cle Kooiman, American soccer player
1964 - Mark Slaughter, American singer
1965 - Horace Grant, American basketball player
1966 - Lee Reherman, American actor
1967 - Vinny Castilla, Mexican baseball player
1967 - Andy Walker, Canadian television personality
1967 - Rick Wilkins, American baseball player
1968 - Jack Frost, American musician
1970 - Tony Vidmar, Australian former footballer
1971 - Andy Creeggan, Canadian musician
1971 - Brendan Donnelly, American baseball player
1971 - Koko, sign-language gorilla
1971 - Andrew Murray, English entrepreneur
1971 - Ned Zelic, Australian soccer player
1973 - Gackt, Japanese singer
1973 - Keiko Ihara, Japanese racing driver
1973 - Michael Johnson, English-born Jamaican footballer
1973 - Jan Magnussen, Danish racing driver
1973 - Tony Popovic, Australian soccer player
1974 - La'Roi Glover, American football player
1974 - Vince Spadea, American tennis player
1975 - Tania Davis, Australian violist
1976 - Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
1977 - Katia Zygouli, Greek supermodel
1978 - Vicky Kaya, Greek supermodel and actress
1978 - Stephen McNally, British singer and songwriter (BBMak)
1978 - Emile Mpenza, Belgian footballer
1978 - Becki Newton, American actress
1981 - Francisco Cruceta, Dominican baseball player
1983 - Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian model
1983 - Ben Jorgensen, American musician
1983 - Andy Mrotek, American musician
1984 - Gina Glocksen, American singer
1984 - Akanishi Jin, Japanese singer
1986 - Takahisa Masuda, Japanese singer
1986 - Kriss Donald, Scottish murder victim (d. 2004)
2003 - Alessia di Matteo, Italian medical figure (d. 2005)

Deaths
907 - Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria
943 - Taejo of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (b. 877)
965 - Pope Benedict V, Italian Roman Catholic Pope (b. unknown)
973 - Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890)
1187 - Raynald of Chatillon, Prince of Antioch
1541 - Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish explorer (b. 1495)
1546 - Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the Ottoman Navy (b. 1478)
1603 - Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (b. 1521)
1623 - William Byrd, English composer
1648 - Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1601)
1742 - Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
1754 - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author (b. 1680)
1761 - Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
1780 - Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (b. 1712)
1787 - Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, Marshal of France (b. 1715)
1821 - Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
1826 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
1826 - Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
1831 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (b. 1758)
1848 - François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer (b. 1768)
1850 - William Kirby, English entomologist (b. 1759)
1854 - Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (b. 1781)
1857 - William L. Marcy, American statesman (b. 1786)
1881 - Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (b. 1806)
1882 - Joseph Brackett, American composer (b. 1797)
1891 - Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809)
1901 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (b. 1843)
1902 - Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1863)
1905 - Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
1910 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1833)
1910 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835)
1916 - Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
1922 - Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1894)
1926 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint (b. 1901)
1931 - Buddie Petit, American jazz musician (b. 1895)
1931 - Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1869)
1934 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics (b. 1867)
1938 - Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic politician (b. 1881)
1938 - Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. 1899)
1941 - Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
1946 - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
1948 - Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
1963 - Bernard Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889)
1970 - Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905)
1970 - Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1884)
1971 - August Derleth, American writer and editor (b. 1909)
1975 - Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902)
1976 - Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895)
1977 - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918)
1979 - Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer (b. 1905)
1980 - Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1895)
1982 - Terry Higgins, early British AIDS death (b. 1945)
1984 - Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
1986 - Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899)
1986 - Flor Peeters, Belgian composer, organist, and teacher (b. 1903)
1988 - Adrian Adonis, American artist (b. 1954)
1991 - Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
1992 - Ástor Piazzolla, Argentinian composer (b. 1921)
1993 - Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician and historian (b. 1903)
1994 - Joey Marella, American professional wrestling referee (b. 1964)
1995 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (b. 1919)
1995 - Bob Ross, American artist and television host (b. 1942)
1997 - Charles Kuralt, American television presenter (b. 1934)
1997 - John Zachary Young, English zoologist (b. 1907)
1999 - Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b.1917)
2000 - Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Polish writer (b. 1919)
2001 - Keenan Milton, Professional Skater (b. 1974)
2002 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American general (b. 1912)
2002 - Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (b. 1951)
2002 - Winnifred Quick, American Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
2003 - Barry White, American singer (b. 1944)
2003 - André Claveau, French singer (b. 1915)
2004 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (b. 1920)
2004 - Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), an eccentric street entertainer in Nottingham, England (b. 1932)
2005 - Hank Stram, American football coach (b. 1923)
2007 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish rock musician (b. 1979)
2007 - Bill Pinkney, American singer and performer (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances
United States - Independence Day (1776)
Filipino-American Friendship Day
In astronomy, the approximate date of Earth's aphelion.



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July 6th

July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 178 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events
1044 - Battle of Ménfő.
1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England.
1253 - Mindaugas is crowned king of Lithuania.
1348 - Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting Jews during the Black Death.
1415 - Jan Hus is burned at the stake.
1483 - Richard III is crowned king of England.
1484 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River.
1495 - First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo Charles VIII defeats the Holy League, but ultimately ends his attempted conquest of Italy.
1535 - Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII.
1560 - The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
1573 - Córdoba, Argentina is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
1609 - Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.
1630 - Thirty-Years War: 4,000 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Ticonderoga: Due to a bombardment by British artillery under General John Burgoyne, American forces retreat from Fort Ticonderoga, New York.
1785 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.
1801 - Battle of Algeciras: The French navy are defeated by the British Royal Navy.
1854 - In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the U.S. Republican Party is held.
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
1887 - David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
1892 - Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
1892 - 3,800 striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded.
1893 - The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
1905 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
1908 - Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic on the expedition on which he later reaches the North Pole.
1917 - World War I: Arabian troops led by Lawrence of Arabia and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Turks during the Arab Revolt.
1919 - The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.
1933 - The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeats the National League, 4 to 2.
1936 - A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet into the River Irwell.
1939 - Holocaust: The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
1942 - Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1944 - The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
1947 - The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
1957 - Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
1962 - Nuclear test shot Sedan; part of Operation Plowshare.
1964 - Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
1966 - Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as the first President.
1967 - Biafran War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
1970 - Air Canada Flight 621 caught fire after landing at Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Ontario, all 108 passengers and crew are killed.
1975 - The Comoros declare independence from France.
1978 - The Taunton sleeping car fire occurred in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.
1986 - Davis Phinney became the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
1988 - The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. 167 oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster.
1989 - The Israeli 405 Bus slaughter in which 14 bus passengers were killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus was driving by the edge of a cliff.
1998 - Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational.
1999 - US Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams.
2003 - The 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to 5 stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri, HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris that will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, 2044 and 2049 respectively
2006 - The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.

Births
1686 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758)
1747 - John Paul Jones, American naval commander (d. 1792)
1766 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born naturalist (d. 1813)
1782 - Maria Louisa of Spain, queen of Etruria (d. 1824)
1785 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (d. 1865)
1789 - Maria Isabella of Spain, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1846)
1796 - Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (d. 1855)
1817 - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (d. 1905)
1818 - Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (d. 1879)
1837 - Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, Indian scholar (d. 1925)
1838 - Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
1859 - Verner von Heidenstam, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
1865 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (d. 1865)
1868 - Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1935)
1878 - Eino Leino, Finnish poet (d. 1926)
1884 - Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1970)
1885 - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1887 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (d. 1975)
1898 - Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962)
1903 - Hugo Theorell, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)
1900 - Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright
1904 - Erik Wickberg, Salvation Army general (d. 1996)
1907 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
1907 - George Stanley, Canadian politician and designer of Canada's Flag (d. 2002)
1912 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2006)
1917 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (d. 2004)
1918 - Sebastian Cabot, English actor (d. 1977)
1919 - Ernst Haefliger, Swiss singer (d. 2007)
1921 - Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States
1923 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, President of Poland
1925 - Merv Griffin, American television show host (d. 2007)
1925 - Bill Haley, American singer (d. 1981)
1927 - Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player
1927 - Alan Freeman, British DJ known by his nickname 'Fluff' (d. 2006)
1927 - Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004)
1927 - Pat Paulsen, American comedian (d. 1997)
1927 - Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (d. 2004)
1931 - Jean Campeau, French Canadian businessman and politician
1931 - Della Reese, American singer
1933 - Frank Austin, English footballer
1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
1936 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005)
1937 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian-born pianist and conductor
1937 - Ned Beatty, American actor
1937 - Gene Chandler, American singer
1939 - Jet Harris, English bass guitarist
1940 - Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
1940 - Jeannie Seely, American singer
1945 - Burt Ward, American actor
1946 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
1946 - Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
1946 - Fred Dryer, American football player and actor
1946 - Sylvester Stallone, American Movie actor
1947 - Richard Beckinsale, English actor (d. 1979)
1947 - Lance Clemons, baseball player
1948 - Nathalie Baye, French actress
1948 - Jean-Pierre Blackburn, French Canadian politician
1948 - Brad Park, Canadian hockey player
1948 - Tom Curley, American media executive
1949 - Phyllis Hyman, American singer (d. 1995)
1950 - John Byrne, American comic book author & artist
1950 - Hélène Scherrer, Canadian politician
1951 - Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
1953 - Nanci Griffith, American singer
1954 - Allyce Beasley, American actress
1954 - Willie Randolph, former New York Mets manager
1955 - Frank Sontag, American radio personality
1955 - William Wall, Irish writer
1956 - Casey Sander, American actor
1957 - Ron Duguay, Canadian ice hockey player
1958 - Jennifer Saunders, English actress
1959 - Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
1961 - Rick Price, singer/songwriter
1963 - Todd Burns, baseball player
1963 - Lance Johnson, American baseball player
1966 - Brian Posehn, American actor
1967 - James Hannon, Bronx filmmaker
1967 - Heather Nova, Bermudian singer
1967 - Omar Olivares, Puerto Rican baseball player
1969 - Fernando Redondo, Argentine footballer
1970 - Inspectah Deck, American rapper
1970 - Frank Salvato II, Italian-American Sound Engineer and Composer
1970 - Martin Smith, English singer (Delirious?)
1971 - Kenya D. Williamson, American actress
1972 - Isabelle Boulay, French-Canadian singer
1972 - D-Styles, American scratch DJ
1972 - Greg Norton, American baseball player
1972 - Mark Gasser, British pianist
1974 - Zé Roberto, Brazilian footballer
1975 - Amir-Abbas Fakhravar, Iranian journalist and activist
1975 - Sebastián Rulli, Argentine actor
1975 - 50 Cent, American rapper
1977 - Con Blatsis, Australian footballer
1977 - Makhaya Ntini, South African cricketer
1977 - Craig Handley, British film director
1978 - Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry, American actresses
1978 - Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby player
1979 - Nic Cester, Australian musician (Jet)
1980 - Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
1981 - Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player
1982 - Tay Zonday, American singer and keyboardist
1983 - Gregory Smith, Canadian actor
1984 - Lauren Harris, British rock singer
1984 - James Henderson, American model
1986 - Derrick Williams, American football player
1987 - Kate Nash, English singer/songwriter
1987 - Matt O'Leary, American actor
1987 - Caroline Trentini, Brazilian model
1994 - Rebecca Rosso and Camilla Rosso, British actresses

Deaths
1189 - King Henry II of England (b. 1133)
1218 - Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
1249 - King Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1198)
1415 - Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (b. 1369)
1476 - Regiomantus, German astronomer (b. 1436)
1480 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (b. 1416)
1533 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474)
1535 - Sir Thomas More, English philosopher (b. 1478)
1553 - King Edward VI of England (b. 1537)
1583 - Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury
1585 - Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (b. 1552)
1684 - Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
1758 - George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general
1762 - Tsar Peter III of Russia (b. 1728)
1768 - Conrad Beissel, German-born religious leader (b. 1690)
1802 - Daniel Morgan, American Revolutionary general and politician (b. ~1735)
1809 - Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (b. 1775)
1813 - Granville Sharp, British abolitionist (b. 1735)
1835 - John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1755)
1854 - Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)
1868 - Sanosuke Harada, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840)
1893 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)
1901 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
1902 - St. Maria Goretti, Italian saint (b. 1890)
1907 - August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German Linguist, Theologian (b. 1826)
1916 - Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
1922 - Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (b. 1863)
1932 - Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
1950 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1923)
1952 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French Canadian politician (b. 1867)
1960 - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (b. 1897)
1961 - Scott LaFaro, American musician (b. 1936)
1961 - Woodall Rodgers, American politician (b. 1890)
1962 - William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)
1962 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1872)
1962 - Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1899)
1966 - Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
1971 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (b. 1901)
1972 - Brandon De Wilde, American actor (b. 1942)
1973 - Otto Klemperer, German conductor (b. 1885)
1975 - Otto Skorzeny, WWII German SS commando (b. 1908)
1975 - Ruffian, American racehorse (b. 1972)
1976 - Zhu De, Chinese Communist military leader and statesman (b. 1886)
1976 - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (b. 1887)
1979 - Van McCoy, American music producer, musician, songwriter and orchestra leader (b. 1940)
1982 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905)
1986 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
1989 - János Kádár, Hungarian politician (b. 1912)
1991 - Muda Lawal, Nigerian footballer (b. 1954)
1992 - Buddy Rogers, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
1994 - Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
1995 - Aziz Nesin, Turkish humorist and author (b. 1915)
1996 - Kathy Ahern, American golfer (b. 1949)
1998 - Roy Rogers, American actor (b. 1911)
1999 - Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938)
1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
1999 - Barry Winchell, American soldier (b. 1977)
2002 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (b. 1932)
2002 - John Frankenheimer, American film director (b. 1930)
2003 - Buddy Ebsen, American actor (b. 1908)
2004 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)
2004 - Syreeta Wright, American singer (b. 1946)
2005 - Bruno Augenstein, German-born mathematician (b. 1923)
2005 - L. Patrick Gray III, American FBI director (b. 1916)
2005 - Evan Hunter, American novelist (b. 1926)
2005 - Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
2005 - Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
2006 - Kasey Rogers, American actress (b. 1926)
2006 - Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster (b. 1914)

Holidays and observances
Comoros - Independence Day (1975).
Czech Republic - Jan Hus Day (1415).
Feast day of St Maria Goretti.
Lithuania - Statehood Day.
Malawi - Independence Day (1964).
Malawi - Republic Day (1966).



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July 7th

July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 177 days remaining until the end of the year.

The terms 7th July, July 7th, and 7/7 (pronounced "Seven-seven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London's transport system. In China, this term is used to denote the Battle of Lugou Bridge started on July 7, 1937, marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Events
1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
1534 - European colonization of the Americas: First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg.
1585 - Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
1798 - Quasi-War: The U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
1799 - Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore.
1807 - Napoleonic Wars: Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.
1846 - Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States conquest of California.
1863 - United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $100
1865 - American Civil War: Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged.
1892 - Katipunan: The Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia.
1898 - President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
1915 - World War I: End of First Battle of the Isonzo.
1915 - A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashed near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
1917 - Russian Revolution: Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov forms Provisional Government in Russia after the deposing of the Tsar Nicholas II.
1930 - Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
1937 - Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge - Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
1941 - World War II: American forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by Germany.
1941 - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
1946 - Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
1947 - Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.
1953 - Che Guevara set out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
1954 - Formation of the TANU in Tanzania
1956 - Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.
1959 - 14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event was used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
1967 - Beginning of the civil war in Biafra.
1969 - In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
1978 - The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.
1980 - Institution of sharia in Iran.
1980 - The Safra massacre in Lebanon.
1983 - Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
1991 - Yugoslav Wars: Brioni Agreement ended ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2002 - A scandal broke out in the United Kingdom when news reports alleged MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.
2003 - The United Communist Party of Armenia was formed.
2005 - A series of four terrorist explosions occur on London's transport system killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers.
2005 - Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledged to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010.
2007 - Pope Benedict XVI issues the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum, removing restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass.
2007 - Worldwide performances by charity event Live Earth.

Births
1053 - Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
1119 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
1528 - Anna of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria, daughter of Ferdinand I (d. 1590)
1586 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (d. 1646)
1656 - Guru Har Krishan, 8th Guru of Sikhism (d. 1664)
1746 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (d. 1826)
1752 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)
1766 - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (d. 1815)
1843 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and Nobel laureate (d. 1926)
1848 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician (d. 1919)
1851 - Charles Tindley, American gospel music composer (d. 1933)
1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
1860 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911)
1874 - Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
1884 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
1887 - Marc Chagall, Russian painter (d. 1985)
1891 - Virginia Rappe, Silent Film Actress (d. 1921)
1893 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (d. 1981)
1899 - George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
1900 - Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (d. 1990)
1901 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director (d. 1974)
1901 - Sam Katzman, American film producer (d. 1973)
1901 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film producer (d. 1970)
1902 - Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1904 - Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991)
1906 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d. 1970)
1906 - Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1906 - Anton Karas, Viennese musician (d. 1985)
1907 - Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (d. 1988)
1908 - Revilo P. Oliver, American professor (d. 1994)
1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (d. 2007)
1913 - Pinetop Perkins, American blues musician
1915 - Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander, African American Novelist and poet (d. 1998)
1917 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadorian politician (d. 2003)
1919 - Jon Pertwee, British actor (d. 1996)
1921 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
1921 - Ezzard Charles, American boxer (d. 1975)
1922 - Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer
1924 - Mary Ford, American singer (d. 1977)
1925 - Wally Phillips, American radio personality (d. 2008)
1929 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
1927 - Doc Severinsen, American composer and musician
1927 - Charlie Louvin, American country musician
1930 - Henry (Hank) Mobley, American Jazz composer and saxophonist (d. 1986)
1931 - David Eddings, American author
1932 - Josef Zawinul, Austrian composer and musician (d. 2007)
1933 - Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner
1933 - David McCullough, American historian and author
1936 - Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (d. 1980)
1936 - Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver (d.1971)
1937 - Tung Chee-Hwa, Hong Kong administrator
1940 - Ringo Starr, English drummer and singer (The Beatles)
1941 - Michael Howard, British politician
1941 - Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
1942 - Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
1943 - Toto Cutugno, Italian singer
1943 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)
1945 - Michael Ancram, British politician
1947 - Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat
1947 - Howard Rheingold, American author
1947 - Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal
1947 - Rob Townsend, English drummer (Family)
1947 - Víctor Manuel, Spanish songwriter and singer
1948 - Jean Leclerc, French-Canadian actor
1949 - Shelley Duvall, American actress
1952 - Mando Guerrero, Mexican professional wrestler
1955 - Len Barker, American baseball player
1957 - Jonathan Dayton, American film director
1957 - Berry Sakharof, Turkish-born Israeli guitarist (Minimal Compact)
1959 - Jessica Hahn, American model
1959 - Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)
1960 - Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut
1963 - Vonda Shepard, American singer
1965 - Paula Devicq, Canadian actress
1965 - Mo Collins, American actress
1965 - Jeremy Kyle, English television presenter
1966 - Gundula Krause, German folk violinist
1966 - Neil Tobin, American magician
1966 - Jim Gaffigan, American comedian
1967 - Tom Kristensen, Danish race car driver
1967 - Jackie Neal, American singer (d. 2005)
1968 - Jorja Fox, American actress
1968 - Jeff VanderMeer, American writer
1969 - Sylke Otto, German luger
1969 - Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 - Nathalie Simard, French Canadian singer
1969 - Cree Summer, Canadian voice actress
1969 - Robin Weigert, American actress
1970 - Wayne McCullough, Irish boxer
1970 - Erik Zabel, German cyclist
1970 - Robia LaMorte, American actress and dancer
1971 - Alistair Potts, British rower
1972 - Lisa Leslie, American basketball player
1972 - Manfred Stohl, Austrian rally driver
1973 - José Jiménez, Dominican baseball player
1973 - Matt Mantei, American baseball player
1973 - Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga-ka
1974 - Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player
1974 - Patrick Lalime, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 - Tony Benshoof, American luger
1975 - Michael Voss, Australian rules footballer
1976 - Dominic Foley, Irish footballer
1977 - Felix Vasquez, New York City Housing Authority employee
1979 - Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter
1979 - Carl Breeze, British racing driver
1980 - John Buck, American baseball player
1980 - Deidre Downs, American beauty queen
1980 - Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
1980 - Kaisa Jouhki, Finnish vocalist (Battlelore)
1980 - Dan Whitesides, American drummer (The Used)
1981 - Synyster Gates, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)
1981 - Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
1982 - Cassidy, American rapper
1982 - Mike Glita, American bassist (Senses Fail)
1982 - George Owu, Ghanaian footballer
1983 - Justin Davies, Australian rules footballer
1983 - D. Woods, American singer (Danity Kane)
1984 - Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler
1984 - Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer
1984 - Marie-Mai, Canadian singer
1987 - Lena Ma, Miss World Canada 4th runner-up
1988 - Kaci Brown, American singer
1989 - Giannoulis Fakinos, Greek footballer

Deaths
1304 - Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)
1307 - King Edward I of England (b. 1239)
1537 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
1572 - King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (b. 1520)
1573 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507)
1647 - Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (b. 1586)
1663 - Thomas Baltzar, German violinist
1701 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)
1713 - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)
1764 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
1776 - Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693)
1790 - François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721)
1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)
1855 - Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)
1865 - Mary Surratt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1823)
1865 - Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844)
1865 - David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842)
1865 - George Atzerodt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1833)
1878 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
1890 - Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A. (b. 1814)
1901 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)
1913 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b.1841)
1922 - Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)
1925 - Clarence Hudson White American photographer (b.. 1871)
1927 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (b. 1859)
1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
1949 - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
1956 - Gottfried Benn, German poet (b. 1886)
1964 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (b. 1904)
1965 - Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
1967 - Jo Schlesser, French Formula One racing driver (b. 1928)
1971 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
1971 - Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)
1972 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1886)
1972 - King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
1973 - Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1919)
1975 - Ruffian, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1972)
1976 - Walter Giesler, American soccer coach (b. 1910)
1980 - Dore Schary, American film producer and writer (b. 1905)
1981 - Mildred Lisette Norman a.k.a. Peace Pilgrim, American pacifist and activist
1984 - Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (b. 1941)
1990 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)
1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. 1958)
1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965)
1994 - Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (b. 1924)
1994 - Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (b. 1907)
2000 - Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
2001 - Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
2002 - Bison Dele, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)
2006 - Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
2006 - Syd Barrett, original guitarist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd (b. 1946)
2006 - John Money, Sexologist (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances
Tanzania: Saba Saba Day
Æthelburg of Faremoutiers
Russia, Ukraine: Ivan Kupala Day
Japan: Tanabata



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July 10th

July 10 is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 174 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events
48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedon.
988 - The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
1212 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1460 - Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
1553 - Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
1584 - William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
1645 - English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
1778 - American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1789 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.
1800 - The British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent.
1806 - The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
1821 - The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain.
1832 - U.S.President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1850 - Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.
1877 - The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
1890 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
1925 - The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union, is established.
1925 - Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, is accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
1940 - World War II: Vichy France government is established.
1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - The German Luftwaffe begin to hit British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
1941 - Jedwabne Pogrom is a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
1942 - The diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
1943 - World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign.
1947 - Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee.
1951 - Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.
1958 - Alaska, highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, at 524 m high.
1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
1967 - Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1968 - Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France.
1973 - The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1973 - National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on Bangladesh recognition.
1976 - The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
1976 - One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
1978 - World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
1978 - Mauritania, President Moktar Ould Daddah is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
1985 - Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.
1991 - The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) following the end of Apartheid.
1992 - In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
1997 - London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1997 - Spain, Partido Popular member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
1998 - Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
1999 - The United States women's national soccer team team wins the FIFA Women's World Cup in Pasadena, California at The Rose Bowl.
2000 - A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
2000 - EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
2002 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Kenneth, Lord Thomson.
2003 - A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
2005 - Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.
2006 - Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.

Births
1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
1509 - John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564)
1517 - Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (d. 1571)
1592 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)
1614 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)
1625 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)
1638 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685)
1666 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)
1682 - Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719)
1682 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
1711 - Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain (d. 1783)
1723 - William Blackstone, English jurist (d. 1780)
1736 - Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807)
1792 - George Mifflin Dallas, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the 11th Vice President of the United States (d. 1864)
1804 - Emma Smith Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1879)
1809 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)
1830 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
1835 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
1839 - Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)
1856 - Nikola Tesla, Serb-American inventor (d. 1943)
1867 - Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1871 - Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
1874 - Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
1875 - Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator (d. 1955)
1883 - Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (d. 1948)
1888 - Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978)
1895 - Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
1896 - Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator (d. 1981)
1897 - Karl Plagge, German officer (d. 1957)
1897 - Jack "Legs" Diamond", American bootlegger (d. 1931)
1899 - John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
1899 - Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
1900 - Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk, priest and wonder-worker (d. 1979)
1900 - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993)
1902 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1903 - John Wyndham, British author (d. 1969)
1903 - Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (d. 1989)
1905 - Thomas Gomez, American actor (d. 1971)
1905 - Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (d. 1948)
1913 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (d. 1985)
1914 - Joe Shuster, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1992)
1917 - Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host (d. 2007)
1920 - David Brinkley, American television reporter (d. 2003)
1920 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1921 - Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)
1921 - Jake LaMotta, American boxer
1921 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist
1923 - Earl Hamner Jr., American author and television producer
1923 - Jean Kerr, American author (d. 2003)
1923 - G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (d. 1987)
1923 - John Bradley, United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt. Suribachi(see Iwo Jima), (d. 1994)
1924 - Bobo Brazil, professional wrestler (d. 1998)
1924 - Johnny Bach, American basketball coach
1926 - Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
1927 - Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician
1927 - Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian film actor (d. 2003)
1928 - Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar
1928 - Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (d. 2003)
1928 - Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
1929 - Winnie Ewing, Scottish politician
1931 - Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
1931 - Alice Munro, Canadian writer
1932 - Carlo Mario Abate, Italian racing driver
1934 - Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer
1935 - Tura Satana, American actress
1938 - Paul Andreu, French architect
1939 - Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
1940 - Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, British economist
1940 - Helen Donath, American soprano
1940 - Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur
1941 - David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist
1941 - Ian Whitcomb, English songwriter, entertainer and producer
1942 - Ronnie James Dio, American musician
1942 - Pyotr Klimuk, cosmonaut
1943 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
1945 - John Motson, British sports (football) commentator
1945 - Jean-Marie Poiré, French film director
1945 - Virginia Wade, British tennis player
1945 - Ron Glass, American actor
1945 - Peter Michalica, Slovak violinist
1946 - Sue Lyon, American actress
1947 - Arlo Guthrie, American musician
1949 - Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer
1949 - Greg Kihn U.S. pop musician & radio personality.
1949 - John Whitehead, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
1950 - Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Greek politician
1951 - Phyllis Smith, American actress (The Office)
1951 - Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
1952 - Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast
1952 - Kim Mitchell, Canadian guitarist/singer
1952 - Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician
1953 - Zoogz Rift, singer/songwriter and wrestling booker
1953 - Rik Emmett, Canadian musician (Triumph)
1954 - Neil Tennant, British musician (Pet Shop Boys)
1954 - Andre Dawson, American baseball player
1956 - Tom McClintock, American politician
1957 - Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war/political activist
1958 - Béla Fleck, American musician
1958 - Fiona Shaw, Irish actress
1959 - Ellen Kuras, American cinematographer
1961 - Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
1964 - Urban Meyer, American football coach
1964 - Wilfried Peeters, Belgian cyclist
1965 - Alec Mapa, Filipino-American actor and comedian
1965 - Ken Mellons, American singer
1965 - Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
1966 - Johnny Grunge, wrestler (d. 2006)
1967 - Tom Meents, American Professional monster truck driver
1968 - Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete
1968 - Jonathan Gilbert, American actor (Little House on the Prairie)
1969 - Gale Harold, American actor
1969 - Alexandra Hedison, American actress
1970 - Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer and actress
1970 - Gary LeVox, American singer (Rascal Flatts)
1970 - Jason Orange, UK pop singer and dancer (Take That)
1970 - John Simm, British actor
1971 - Adam Foote, Canadian ice hockey player
1971 - Gregory Goodridge, Barbadian footballer
1972 - Peter Serafinowicz, British comedian and actor
1972 - Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress
1972 - Tilo Wolff, German musician (Lacrimosa)
1974 - Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
1975 - Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 - Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor
1976 - Elijah Blue Allman, American musician (Deadsy)
1976 - Adrian Grenier, American actor
1976 - Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
1976 - Brendon Lade, Australian rules footballer
1976 - Edmílson Gomes, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Gwendoline Yeo, American actress
1978 - Jesse Lacey, American musician (Brand New)
1979 - Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer
1980 - Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor
1980 - Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer and songwriter
1980 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
1980 - Jessica Simpson, American singer
1980 - Orlando Jordan, American wrestler
1982 - Alex Arrowsmith, American musician
1983 - Kim Heechul, Korean Singer
1982 - Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
1984 - Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, Miss World 2004
1985 - Mario Gómez, German footballer

Deaths
138 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
649 - Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b.599)
1099 - El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)
1103 - King Eric I of Denmark
1290 - King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
1460 - Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)
1480 - King René I of Naples (b. 1410)
1559 - King Henry II of France (b. 1519)
1584 - William I of Orange (b. 1533)
1590 - Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
1594 - Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554)
1621 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (b. 1571)
1653 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
1680 - Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)
1683 - François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
1686 - John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)
1776 - Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)
1806 - George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
1851 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (b. 1787)
1881 - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812)
1884 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
1908 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
1920 - Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
1941 - Jelly Roll Morton, American musician (b. 1890)
1954 - Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1877)
1956 - Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1963 - Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)
1970 - Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (b. 1908)
1972 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
1978 - John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)
1978 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
1979 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
1981 - Ken Rex McElroy, American hog rustler (b. 1936)
1987 - John H. Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910)
1989 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
1993 - Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
2000 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
2000 - Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
2002 - Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
2003 - Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
2003 - Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)
2003 - Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician
2005 - A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)
2005 - Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)
2005 - Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
2005- Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin, airshow performers
2006 - Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
2007 - Abdul Rashid Ghazi, radical Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
2007 - Doug Marlette, American cartoonist (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances
Bahamas - Independence Day.
Silence Day - celebrated by followers of Meher Baba.
Mauritania - Armed Forces Day.
Ancient Latvia - Septinu Bralu Diena observed.



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July 11

July 11 is the 192nd day of the year (193rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 173 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events
911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
1156 - Siege of Shirakawa-den in Japan.
1302 - Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) - a coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's huge knightly army.
1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1405 - Chinese fleet commander Zheng He set sail to explore the world for the first time.
1476 - Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
1576 - Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
1616 - Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
1735 - Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.
1740 - Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
1750 - Halifax, Nova Scotia almost completely destroyed by fire.
1776 - Captain James Cook begins third voyage.
1789 - Jacques Necker dismissed as Finance Minister for France sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
1796 - The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
1798 - The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.
1804 - Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
1811 - Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases.
1848 - The Waterloo railway station in London opens.
1859 - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published.
1864 - Confederate forces attempt an invasion of Washington, D.C.
1882 - The British Mediterranean fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
1889 - Tijuana, Mexico was founded
1893 - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
1895 - The brothers Lumière show film for scientists.
1897 - Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to try to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
1906 - Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy
1914 - Babe Ruth debuts in Major league baseball.
1919 - Eight-hour working day and free Sunday made into law in the Netherlands.
1921 - Truce called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar.
1921 - Former US President William Howard Taft sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
1921 - Outer Mongolia becomes independent (from the Republic of China).
1922 - Hollywood Bowl opens.
1936 - Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
1940 - World War II: Vichy France regime formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
1943 - Massacres of Poles in Volhynia
1943 - World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily - German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States.
1947 - The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
1950 - Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank.
1955 - The phrase In God We Trust is added to all US currency.
1957 - Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III
1960 - Independence of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger.
1960 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
1962 - First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
1971 - Copper mines in Chile nationalized.
1973 - A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 people of the 134 on-board.
1977 - Martin Luther King is posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom.
1978 - Los Alfaques Disaster: a truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
1979 - The space station Skylab returns to Earth.
1983 - A Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
1987 - According to the United Nations, the world population crossed the 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) mark.
1990 - Oka Crisis, First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
1991 - A Nationair DC-8 crashed during an emergency landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 261. The Canadian charter was ferrying Hajj pilgrims on behalf of Nigeria Airways.
1995 - Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam.
1995 - Srebrenica Genocide: Serb army from Yugoslavia and Bosnia, capture the Bosniak town of Srebrenica. More than eight thousands inhabitants are murdered. It is generally regarded to be the most horrific event in recent European history.
1995 - A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
2006 - 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.

Births
1274 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (d. 1329)
1366 - Anne of Bohemia, consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)
1561 - Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (d. 1627)
1603 - Kenelm Digby, English privateer (d. 1665)
1628 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1657 - King Frederick I of Prussia (d. 1713)
1662 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1726)
1709 - Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist (d. 1785)
1723 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (d. 1799)
1751 - Caroline Matilda of Wales, queen consort of Denmark and Norway (d. 1775)
1754 - Thomas Bowdler, English physician and censor (d. 1825)
1767 - John Quincy Adams, President of the United States (d. 1848)
1826 - Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist (d. 1871)
1832 - Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek politician (d. 1896)
1846 - Leon Bloy, French writer (d. 1917)
1850 - Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (d. 1938)
1851 - Millie and Christine McCoy, Conjoined twins (d. 1912)
1864 - Petar Danov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher (d. 1944)
1866 - Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1953)
1886 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1892 - Thomas Mitchell, American film actor and screenwriter (d. 1962)
1895 - Dolly Wilde, English socialite (d. 1941)
1897 - Bull Connor, American law enforcement official (d. 1973)
1899 - E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)
1903 - Rudolf Abel, Soviet intelligence officer (d. 1971)
1903 - Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (d. 1976)
1906 - Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
1910 - Irene Hervey, American actress (d. 1998)
1913 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (d. 1966)
1916 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1916 - Reg Varney, English actor
1916 - Gough Whitlam, 21st Prime Minister of Australia
1920 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
1921 - Ilse Werner, Dutch-born actress
1922 - Gene Evans, American actor (d. 1998)
1924 - César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (d. 2005)
1924 - Brett Somers, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
1924 - Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)
1925 - Nicolai Gedda, Swedish tenor
1926 - Frederick Buechner, American author
1929 - David Kelly, Irish actor
1929 - Hermann Prey, German baritone (d. 1998)
1930 - Harold Bloom, American literary critic
1931 - Thurston Harris, American singer (d. 1990)
1931 - Tab Hunter, American actor
1931 - Tullio Regge, Italian physicist
1932 - Jean-Guy Talbot, French Canadian ice hockey player
1933 - Bob McGrath, American actor
1934 - Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
1935 - Oliver Napier, Northern Irish politician
1937 - Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer
1940 - Yvon Charbonneau, French Canadian union leader and politician
1941 - Clive Puzey, Zimbabwean racing driver
1943 - Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (d. 1983)
1944 - Myra Gale Brown, former wife of Jerry Lee Lewis
1945 - Patrick Joseph McGrath, Catholic bishop
1946 - Cuthbert Johnson, Benedictine abbot.
1947 - Bo Lundgren, Swedish politician
1949 - Liona Boyd, English-born musician
1950 - Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani nuclear physicist
1950 - Bruce McGill, American actor
1950 - J. R. Morgan, British classical scholar
1950 - Bonnie Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
1952 - Bill Barber, Canadian ice hockey player
1952 - John Kettley, English weather forecaster
1953 - Peter Brown, American singer, songwriter and producer
1953 - Mindy Sterling, American actress
1953 - Leon Spinks, American former boxer
1954 - Butch Reed, American professional wrestler
1956 - Sela Ward, American actress
1957 - Peter Murphy, British musician - (Bauhaus)
1957 - Michael Rose, Jamaican musician (Black Uhuru)
1958 - Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
1958 - Andrew Gilbert-Scott, British racing driver
1959 - Richie Sambora, American musician (Bon Jovi)
1959 - Suzanne Vega, American singer
1962 - Gaetan Duchesne, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1962 - Pauline McLynn, Irish actress
1963 - Al MacInnis, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 - Lisa Rinna, American actress
1964 - Craig Charles, English actor
1964 - Kyrill, Prince of Preslav, titular Bulgarian royal family
1965 - Tony Cottee, English footballer
1965 - Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kickboxer
1965 - Scott Shriner, American musician (Weezer)
1966 - Greg Grunberg, American actor
1966 - Mick Molloy, Australian comedian
1967 - Jeff Corwin, American naturalist and TV personality
1968 - Michael Geist, Canadian academic
1968 - Esera Tuaolo, American football player
1969 - David Tao, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
1970 - Justin Chambers, American actor
1971 - Leisha Hailey, American actress and musician Uh Huh Her (band)
1972 - Jussi 69, Finnish musician (The 69 Eyes)
1972 - Steven Richards, Australian racing driver
1972 - Michael Rosenbaum, American actor
1973 - Andrew Bird, American musician
1973 - Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
1974 - Hermann Hreiðarsson, Icelandic footballer
1974 - André Ooijer, Dutch footballer
1975 - Willie Anderson, American football player
1975 - Rubén Baraja, Spanish footballer
1975 - Riona Hazuki, Japanese actress
1975 - Samer el Nahhal, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1975 - Lil' Kim, American rapper
1976 - Eduardo Nájera, Mexican-born basketball player
1977 - Brandon Short, American football player
1980 - T.J. Wilson, Canadian professional wrestler
1981 - Carla Campbell, Jamaican model
1981 - Andre Johnson, American football player
1981 - Aaron Proctor, American professional wrestling promoter & politician
1982 - Chris Cooley, American football player
1983 - Peter Cincotti, American singer songwriter
1983 - Kelly Poon, Singaporean singer
1983 - Evan Roberts, American radio broadcaster
1983 - Marie Serneholt, Swedish musician (A*Teens)
1983 - Kellie Shirley , Actress
1984 - Yorman Bazardo, Venezuelan baseball player
1984 - Tanith Belbin, Canadian ice dancer
1984 - Hitomi Hyuga, Japanese actress
1984 - Rachael Taylor, Australian actress
1985 - Aki Maeda, Japanese actress
1986 - Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer
1986 - Ryan Jarvis, English footballer
1987 - Shigeaki Kato, Japanese Idol (member of NEWS (band))
1989 - David Henrie, American Actor
1990 - Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player
1990 - Connor Paolo, Actor

Deaths
472 - Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire
937 - King Rudolph II of Burgundy
969 - Olga of Kiev
1174 - King Amalric I of Jerusalem (b. 1136)
1183 - Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
1302 - Robert II of Artois, French soldier (b. 1250)
1535 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (b. 1484)
1581 - Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero
1679 - William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
1688 - King Narai of Siam (b. 1629)
1766 - Elizabeth Farnese, wife of Philip V of Spain (b. 1692)
1774 - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Irish-born New York pioneer
1775 - Simon Boerum, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1797 - Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, Wallachian writer (b. 1740)
1806 - James Smith, American signer of the Declaration of Independence
1825 - Thomas P. Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War soldier (b. 1744)
1844 - Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (b. 1800)
1909 - Simon Newcomb, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
1929 - Billy Mosforth, English footballer (b. 1857)
1920 - Empress Eugénie de Montijo of France (b. 1826)
1936 - James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
1937 - George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
1959 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b. 1882)
1966 - Delmore Schwartz, American poet (b. 1913)
1967 - Guy Favreau, French Canadian lawyer, politician and judge (b. 1917)
1971 - John W. Campbell, American writer and editor (b. 1910)
1971 - Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (b. 1940)
1974 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
1979 - Claude Wagner, French Canadian judge and politician (b. 1925)
1983 - Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
1987 - Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
1989 - Sir Laurence Olivier, acclaimed English stage and screen actor (b. 1907)
1991 - Hitoshi Igarashi, English-Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses (b. 1947)
1994 - Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (b. 1942)
1994 - Savannah, American porn star (b. 1970)
1999 - Helen Forrest, American singer (b. 1917)
2000 - Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)
2000 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
2001 - Herman Brood, Dutch singer and artist (b. 1946)
2004 - Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910)
2005 - Gretchen Franklin, English actress (b. 1911)
2005 - Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1914)
2005 - Jesús Iglesias, Argentine professional racing driver (b. 1922)
2006 - Barnard Hughes, American actor (b. 1915)
2006 - John Spencer, English snooker player (b. 1935)
2007 - Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
2007 - Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (b. 1913)
2007 - Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1914)
2007 - Glenda Adams, Australian author (b. 1939)

Holidays and observances
United Nations - World Population Day
Flanders, region in Belgium (not a public holiday) - Flemish Day (1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs)
Ireland - National Day of Commemoration held on nearest Sunday to this date (see Irish calendar).
Mongolia - Naadam Holiday
China - China National Maritime Day
Bonfire night in Northern Ireland, precursor to The Twelfth
United States - Free Slurpee Day at 7-Eleven
Cheer Up the Lonely Day



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July 12

July 12 is the 193rd day of the year (194th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 172 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events
1191 - Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers.
1543 - King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace.
1580 - Ostrog Bible, the first printed Bible in a Slavic language, is published.
1641 - A Treaty of Offensive and Defensive Alliance is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic. The treaty had no effect in the Portuguese colonies (Brazil and Angola) that were under Dutch rule since it was not respected by both parties.
1690 - Battle of the Boyne (Gregorian calendar) - The armies of William III defeat those of the former James II.
1691 - Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar) - The decisive victory of William's forces in Ireland.
1790 - The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Assembly.
1804 - Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a duel.
1806 - Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.
1812 - War of 1812: The United States invades Canada at Windsor, Ontario.
1862 - The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.
1917 - The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1918 - The Japanese Imperial Navy battle ship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
1932 - Hedley Verity establishes a first-class record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
1943 - World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka - German and Soviet forces engage in largest tank engagement of all time.
1960 - Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
1973 - A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
1975 - São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
1979 - The island nation of Kiribati declares independence from Great Britain.
2006 - Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.

Births100 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman military and political leader (d. 44 BC) (born either July 12 or July 13)
1394 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441)
1596 - Tsar Michael I of Russia (d. 1645)
1675 - Evaristo Abaco, Italian composer (d. 1742)
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (d. 1795)
1803 - Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841)
1807 - Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (d. 1893)
1817 - Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (d. 1862)
1824 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
1828 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (d. 1889)
1849 - Sir William Osler, Canadian physician and author (d. 1919)
1850 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (d. 1912)
1852 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (d. 1933)
1854 - George Eastman, American inventor (d. 1932)
1863 - Albert Calmette, French physician (d. 1933)
1863 - Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist (d. 1906)
1864 - George Washington Carver, American botanist (d. 1943)
1868 - Stefan George, German poet (d. 1933)
1870 - Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949)
1876 - Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944)
1880 - Tod Browning, American film director (d. 1962)
1884 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920)
1886 - Jean Hersholt, Danish film director and actor (d. 1956)
1892 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1942)
1895 - Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (d. 1962)
1895 - Buckminster Fuller, American architect (d. 1983)
1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (d. 1960)
1904 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1908 - Milton Berle, American comedian (d. 2002)
1909 - Curly Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (d. 1993)
1909 - Fritz Leonhardt, German civil engineer (d. 1999)
1913 - Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
1917 - Andrew Wyeth, American artist
1920 - Pierre Berton, Canadian journalist and writer (d. 2004)
1920 - Beah Richards, American actress (d. 2000)
1921 - Bob Fillion, French Canadian ice hockey player
1922 - Mark Hatfield, U.S. Senator from Oregon
1925 - Roger Bonham Smith, former chairman and CEO of General Motors (d. 2007)
1928 - Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1930 - Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director, and writer
1932 - Otis Davis, American runner
1933 - Donald E. Westlake, American author
1934 - Van Cliburn, American pianist
1937 - Bill Cosby, American comedian and actor
1937 - Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France 1997-2002
1937 - Michel Louvain, French Canadian singer
1938 - Ron Fairly, American baseball player
1938 - Wieger Mensonides, Dutch swimmer
1941 - Benny Parsons, American NASCAR driver (d. 2007)
1941 - Joseph Whipp, American actor
1942 - Billy Smith, Australian rugby league footballer
1943 - Christine McVie, British singer, musician, and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
1943 - Paul Silas, American basketball player and head coach
1943 - Walter Murch, American film editor
1945 - Leopoldo Mastelloni, Italian actor
1947 - Gareth Edwards, Welsh rugby union footballer
1947 - Richard C. McCarty, American professor of psychology
1948 - Ben Burtt, American sound designer
1948 - Walter Egan, American singer
1948 - Richard Simmons, American fitness trainer
1948 - Jay Thomas, American actor
1949 - Rick Hendrick, American NASCAR team owner, and car dealer.
1950 - Eric Carr, American drummer (Kiss) (d. 1991)
1950 - Gilles Meloche, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 - Brian Grazer, American film producer
1951 - Cheryl Ladd, American actress
1951 - Sylvia Sass, Hungarian soprano
1951 - Jamey Sheridan, American actor
1952 - Philip Taylor Kramer, Bass Guitar Player (d. 1995)
1952 - Voja Antonić, Serbian inventor and writer
1954 - Wolfgang Dremmler, German footballer
1956 - Sandi Patty, American singer
1956 - Mario Soto, Dominican baseball player
1957 - Richard Douglas Husband, American astronaut (d. 2003)
1960 - Corynne Charby, French model, actress and singer
1962 - Julio César Chávez, Mexican boxer
1962 - Dan Murphy, American guitarist (Soul Asylum)
1962 - Dean Wilkins, English football manager
1964 - Tim Gane, English musician (Stereolab, McCarthy)
1964 - Gaby Roslin, English television presenter
1965 - Sanjay Manjrekar, Indian cricketer
1967 - Richard Herring, English comedian
1967 - John Petrucci, American guitar player (Dream Theater)
1967 - Bruny Surin, Canadian athlete
1968 - Catherine Plewinski, French swimmer
1969 - Jesse Pintado, American guitarist (Napalm Death) (d. 2006)
1969 - Alan Mullally, England cricketer
1970 - Brian Lee Byung-Hun, South Korean actor
1970 - Juba Kalamka, American artist/activist
1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
1972 - Travis Best, American basketball player
1972 - Brett Reed, American musician (Rancid)
1972 - Jake Wood, English actor
1973 - Magoo, American rapper
1973 - Christian Vieri, Italian footballer
1974 - Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer (Within Temptation)
1974 - Stelios Giannakopoulos, Greek footballer
1974 - Gregory Helms, American professional wrestler
1975 - Cheyenne Jackson, American actor and singer
1976 - Dan Boyle, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Anna Friel, British actress
1976 - Tracie Spencer, American singer and songwriter
1977 - Neil Harris, English footballer
1977 - Steve Howey, American actor
1977 - Brock Lesnar, American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
1978 - Topher Grace, American actor
1978 - Michelle Rodriguez, American actress
1978 - Claire Chitham, New Zealand actress
1979 - Nikos Barlos, Greek basketball player
1980 - Johanna Klum, German TV presenter
1981 - Adrienne Camp, South African singer/songwriter
1982 - Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer
1983 - Megumi Kawamura, Japanese volleyballer
1983 - Munaf Patel, Indian cricketer
1984 - Gareth Gates, British singer
1984 - Michael McGovern, Northern Irish footballer
1985 - Luiz Ejlli, Albanian singer
1985 - Natasha Poly, Russian supermodel
1986 - JP Pietersen, South African rugby union footballer
1986 - Krystal Forscutt, Australian model/reality TV contestant
1988 - Melissa O'Neil, Canadian singer
1991 - Erik Per Sullivan, American actor

Deaths
783 - Bertrada of Laon, wife of Pippin III (b. 720)
1441 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (b. 1394)
1536 - Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher
1584 - Steven Borough, English explorer (b. 1525)
1664 - Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (b. 1610)
1682 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620)
1693 - John Ashby, English admiral
1712 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1626)
1742 - Evaristo Abaco, Italian composer (b. 1675)
1749 - Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, Governor of New France
1773 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German flutist and composer (b. 1697)
1804 - Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1755)
1845 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (b. 1808)
1849 - Dolley Madison, 4th First Lady Of The United States (b. 1768)
1910 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator (b. 1887)
1918 - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b. 1864)
1926 - Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (b. 1868)
1931 - Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1866)
1934 - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and industrialist (b. 1877)
1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (b. 1859)
1944 - Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general, received Medal of Honor (b. 1887)
1945 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (b. 1895)
1945 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (b. 1871)
1947 - Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
1949 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
1950 - Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1865)
1961 - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (b. 1879)
1962 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907)
1971 - Yvon Robert, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1914)
1973 - Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (b. 1906)
1979 - Minnie Riperton, American soul singer (b. 1947)
1983 - Chris Wood, British musician, played with Traffic, (b. 1944)
1990 - João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (b. 1917)
1993 - Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (b. 1970)
1996 - John Chancellor, American television journalist (b. 1927)
1996 - Jonathan Melvoin, American musician and keyboardist (The Smashing Pumpkins) (b. 1961)
1998 - Serge Lemoyne, French Canadian artist (b. 1941)
1998 - Jimmy Driftwood, American folk songwriter and musician (b. 1907)
1999 - Bill Owen, British actor (b. 1914)
2000 - Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II (b. 1908)
2003 - Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907)
2004 - Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1918)
2005 - John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, Chief executive of British Airways since its privitisation (b. 1917)
2007 - Stan Zemanek, Australian radio personality (b.1947)
2007 - Mr. Butch, Iconic Boston street figure (b. 1951)
2007 - Robert Burås, Norwegian guitar player (b. 1975)

Holidays and observances

Northern Ireland - Battle of the Boyne Day (also known as Orangemen's Day or the Twelfth).
São Tomé and Príncipe - Independence Day.



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July 13

July 13 is the 194th day of the year (195th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 171 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events
1174 - William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
1558 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
1573 - Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
1643 - English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down - In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller.
1787 - The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
1794 - Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria
1854 - In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.
1863 - New York Draft Riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
1878 - Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman empire.
1919 - The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
1923 - The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
1941 - World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).
1973 - Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
1985 - The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow.
1985 - Vice President George H.W. Bush became the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan underwent surgery to remove polyps from his colon.

Births
100 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman military and political leader (d. 44 BC) (born either July 12 or July 13)
40 AD - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (d. 93 AD)
1527 - John Dee, English scientist (d. 1609)
1579 - Arthur Dee, English physician (d. 1651)
1590 - Pope Clement X (d. 1676)
1607 - Václav Hollar, Bohemian-born artist (d. 1677)
1608 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657)
1745 - Robert Calder, British naval officer (d. 1818)
1770 - Alexander Balashov, Russian general (d. 1837)
1776 - Caroline of Baden, queen of Bavaria (d. 1841)
1793 - John Clare, English poet (d. 1864)
1798 - Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1860)
1821 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate cavalry officer, and founder of the original Ku Klux Klan (d. 1877)
1841 - Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (d. 1918)
1858 - Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)
1859 - Sidney Webb, British socialist (d. 1947)
1864 - John Jacob Astor IV, American entrepreneur (d. 1912)
1889 - Louise of Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden (d. 1965)
1894 - Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (d. 1940)
1895 - Sidney Blackmer, American actor (d. 1973)
1896 - Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992)
1898 - Julius Schreck, member of the Nazi party (d. 1936)
1900 - George Lewis, American musician (d. 1969)
1901 - Eric Portman, English stage and film actor (d. 1969)
1903 - Kenneth Clark, English art historian (d. 1983)
1905 - Alfredo M. Santos, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (d. 1990)
1913 - Dave Garroway, American television host (d. 1982)
1913 - Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish shipping magnate
1918 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver, and two-time F1 world champion (d. 1955)
1920 - Bill Towers, English footballer (d. 2000)
1921 - Git Gay, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2007)
1921 - Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (d. 1999)
1921 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian poltitician (d. 2005)
1922 - Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
1922 - Anker Jørgensen, Danish Prime Minister, Democratic Socialist
1924 - Carlo Bergonzi, Italian singer
1924 - Michel Constantin, French film actor (d. 2003)
1927 - Simone Veil, French politician
1928 - Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (d. 2000)
1928 - Bob Crane, American actor (d. 1978)
1928 - Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz bassist
1929 - Sofia Muratova, Soviet gymnast (d. 2006)
1931 - Frank Ramsey, American basketball player
1932 - Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist
1933 - Patsy Byrne, English actress
1934 - Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate
1934 - Aleksei Yeliseyev, Soviet cosmonaut
1935 - Jack Kemp, American football player and politician
1936 - Albert Ayler, American musician (d. 1970)
1940 - Patrick Stewart, English actor
1941 - Robert Forster, American actor
1941 - Jacques Perrin, French actor and filmmaker
1942 - Harrison Ford, American actor
1942 - Roger McGuinn, American musician (The Byrds)
1944 - Ernő Rubik, Hungarian inventor
1946 - Cheech Marin, American actor
1948 - Catherine Breillat, French director and screenwriter
1948 - Daphne Maxwell Reid, Actress
1950 - George "Pinky" Nelson, American astronaut
1950 - Ma Ying-jeou, President of the Republic of China, former mayor of Taipei, former chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT)
1951 - Rob Bishop, American politician
1953 - Mila Mulroney, wife of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney
1954 - Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer
1954 - Rick Chartraw, American ice hockey player
1954 - Louise Mandrell, American musician
1954 - David Thompson, American basketball player
1956 - Claude Giroux, Canadian midget wrestler
1956 - Michael Spinks, American former boxer
1957 - Thierry Boutsen, Belgian racing driver
1957 - Cameron Crowe, American film director
1957 - Phil Margera, father of Bam Margera
1959 - Richard Leman, English field hockey player
1960 - Ian Hislop, English writer, editor of Private Eye
1961 - Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager
1961 - Tim Watson, Australian rules footballer
1962 - Tom Kenny, American voice actor
1962 - Rhonda Vincent, American singer
1963 - Neal Foulds, English snooker player
1963 - Spud Webb, American basketball player
1966 - Gerald Levert, American singer (d. 2006)
1967 - Benny Benassi, Italian disc jockey
1967 - Dean Barnett, American Conservative blogger
1968 - Robert Gant, American actor
1969 - Mark Greenway, British vocalist
1969 - Kakhi Kakhiashvili, Georgian-born Greek weightlifter
1969 - Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan politician and political scientist
1970 - Barry Pinches, English snooker player
1972 - Sean Waltman, American wrestler
1973 - Ariel Silvio Zárate, Argentine footballer
1974 - Deborah Cox, Canadian R&B singer
1974 - Jarno Trulli, Italian race car driver
1975 - Danni Boatwright, American model, sports caster, and Survivor contestant
1976 - Al Santos, American model and actor
1976 - Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Ashley Scott, American actress
1979 - Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer
1982 - Christopher Bauman, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1982 - Joost van den Broek, Dutch keyboard player (After Forever)
1982 - Shin-Soo Choo, South Korean baseball player
1982 - Simon Clist, English footballer
1982 - Yadier Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
1983 - Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdling athlete
1983 - Kristof Beyens, Belgian athlete
1985 - Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
1989 - Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1990 - Matt Weinberg, American actor
1992 - Dylan Patton, American actor
1992 - Elise Matthysen, Belgian swimmer

Deaths
939 - Pope Leo VII
1189 - Matilda of England, daughter of Henry II of England (b. 1156)
1205 - Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England
1357 - Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian jurist (b. 1313)
1399 - Peter Parler, German architect (b. 1330)
1402 - Jianwen Emperor of China (b. 1377)
1551 - John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)
1621 - Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (b. 1559)
1626 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (b. 1563)
1628 - Robert Shirley, English adventurer (b. 1581)
1629 - Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
1645 - Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. 1596)
1683 - Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
1693 - Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1636)
1705 - Titus Oates, English Protestant conspirator (b. 1649)
1755 - Edward Braddock, British general
1760 - Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (b. 1696)
1761 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)
1762 - James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1693)
1789 - Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715)
1793 - Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (b. 1743)
1807 - Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)
1882 - Johnny Ringo, American Gunfighter (b. 1850)
1889 - Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (b. 1830)
1890 - John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (b. 1813)
1896 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)
1921 - Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg scientist (b. 1845)
1922 - Martin Dies, American politician (b. 1870)
1946 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
1951 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
1954 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)
1955 - Ruth Ellis, last woman to get the death sentence in Britain (b. 1926)
1960 - Joy Gresham, American writer (b. 1915)
1967 - Tom Simpson, British cyclist (b. 1937)
1973 - Willy Fritsch, German film actor (b. 1901)
1974 - Patrick Blackett, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1976 - Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1884)
1976 - Joachim Peiper, German military leader (SS, by assassination; b. 1915)
1979 - Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (1913)
1980 - Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana (b. 1921)
1983 - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909)
1993 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (b. 1961)
1995 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish toy manufacturer (Lego Group) (b. 1920)
1996 - Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (b. 1905)
1997 - Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)
2002 - Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born Armenian photographer (b. 1908)
2003 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (b. 1907)
2004 - Arthur Kane, American musician (b. 1949)
2004 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)
2006 - Red Buttons, American comedian (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances
Mongolia - Naadam Holiday, 3rd day
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Kálimát (Words) - First day of the seventh month of the Bahá'í calendar
Bon Festival - Start of Buddhist festival to honor the dead (East Japan; date varies)
Abd-al-Masih, Christian saint and martyr
Abel of Tacla Haimonot in the Coptic Church


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1099 - The Crusaders launched their final assault on Muslims in Jerusalem.

1534 - The Ottoman armies captured Tabriz in northwestern Persia.

1558 - Led by the court of Egmont, the Spanish army defeated the French at Gravelines, France.

1585 - A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, NC.

1643 - In England, the Roundheads, led by Sir William Waller, were defeated by royalist troops under Lord Wilmot in the Battle of Roundway Down.

1754 - At the beginning of the French and Indian War, George Washington surrendered the small, circular Fort Necessity in southwestern Pennsylvania to the French.

1787 - The U.S. Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which established the rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery.

1793 - French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday. She was executed four days later.

1812 - The first pawnbroking ordinance was passed in New York City.

1832 - Henry Schoolcraft discovered the source of the Mississippi River in Minnesota.

1835 - John Ruggles received patent #1 from the U.S. Patent Office for a traction wheel used in locomotive steam engines. All 9,957 previous patents were not numbered.

1863 - Opponents of the Civil War draft began three days of rioting in New York City, which resulted in more than 1,000 casualties.

1875 - David Brown patented the first cash-carrier system.

1878 - The Congress of Berlin divided the Balkans among European powers.

1896 - Philadelphia’s Ed Delahanty became the second major league player to hit four home runs in a single game.

1931 - A major German financial institution, Danabank, failed. This led to the closing of all banks in Germany until August 5.

1941 - Britain and the Soviet Union signed a mutual aid pact, that provided the means for Britain to send war material to the Soviet Union.

1954 - In Geneva, the United States, Great Britain and France reached an accord on Indochina which divided Vietnam into two countries, North and South, along the 17th parallel.

1967 - Race-related rioting broke out in Newark, NJ. At the end of four days of violence 27 people had been killed.

1971 - The Army of Morocco executed ten leaders accused of leading a revolt.

1972 - Carroll Rosenbloom (owner of the Baltimore Colts) and Robert Irsay (owner of the Los Angeles Rams) traded teams.

1973 - David Bedford set a new world record in the 10,000-meter race in London. His time was 27 minutes, 31 seconds.

1978 - Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.

1979 - A 45-hour siege began at the Egyptian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. Four Palestinian guerrillas killed two security men and seized 20 hostages.

1982 - The All-Star Game was played outside the United States for the first time. They played in Montreal, Canada.

1984 - In Arkansas, Terry Wallis was injured in a car accident and was left comatose. He came out of the coma in June of 2003.

1994 - Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, was sentenced in Portland, OR, to two years in prison for his role in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan.

1998 - "Image of an Assassination" went on sale. The video documentary is of Abraham Zapruder's home video of U.S. President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas.

1998 - Four young cousins in Gallup, NM, died after becoming trapped in a car trunk.

1998 - RealNetworks Inc. rolled out a test version of RealSystem G2. G2 is a streaming video and audio delivery system.

2000 - The United States and Vietnam singed a major trade agreement. The pact still needed to be approved by the U.S. Congress.

2000 - Sprint Corp. and WorldCom canceled their planned merger due to opposition by regulators in the United States and Europe.​
 

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July 15

July 15 is the 196th day of the year (197th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 169 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events
1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
1207 - John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.
1240 - A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
1381 - John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England.
1410 - Battle of Grunwald, allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
1685 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemore on 6 July 1685.
1741 - Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends some men aboard in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
1789 - Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, by acclamation, named colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
1799 - Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta, by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard.
1806 - Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.
1815 - Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders from aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1823 - A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.
1870 - Post-American-Civil-War Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1870 - Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.
1870 - The Kingdom of Prussia and the Second French Empire commence the Franco-Prussian War
1888 - The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people.
1916 - In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
1918 - World War I: Second Battle of the Marne - The battle begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
1927 - Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
1929 - First weekly radio broadcast of Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word.
1931 - Kid Chocolate becomes Cuba's first world boxing champion.
1934 - Continental Airlines commenced operations
1954 - First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series
1955 - Eighteen Nobel laureates signed the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
1959 - The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
1974 - In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
1979 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his famous "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation."
1994 - The new Ivybridge railway station, costing £380,000, opens in the town of Ivybridge, Devon, England.
1996 - A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
1997 - In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and for the possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
2002 - Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan gave the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three other suspects in murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2003 - AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.

Births
1273 - Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (d. 1352)
1353 - Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
1458 - Juan Ponce de Leon, Spanish Explorer (d. 1521)
1471 - Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1494)
1553 - Archduke Ernest of Austria (d. 1595)
1573 - Inigo Jones, English architect (d. 1652)
1606 - Rembrandt, Dutch artist (d. 1669)
1631 - Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (d. 1700)
1704 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (d. 1792)
1737 - Princess Louise-Marie of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1787)
1779 - Clement Clarke Moore, American educator, author, and poet (d. 1863)
1796 - Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist (d. 1867)
1808 - Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, English Catholic archbishop (d. 1892)
1812 - James Hope-Scott, English barrister (d. 1873)
1837 - Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, queen of Portugal (d. 1859)
1848 - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923)
1851 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (d. 1889)
1850 - Mother Cabrini, Italian-born Catholic saint (d. 1917)
1864 - Marie Tempest, English singer and actress (d. 1942)
1865 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (d. 1945)
1870 - Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Russian publisher and politician (d. 1922)
1871 - Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908)
1892 - Walter Benjamin, German literary critic and writer (d. 1940)
1894 - Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
1899 - Seán Lemass, Irish leader (d. 1971)
1902 - Jean Rey, Belgian politician and President of the European Commission {d. 1983)
1903 - Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian politician (d. 1975)
1904 - Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author (d. 2007)
1905 - Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (d. 1974)
1906 - Rudolf "Rudi" Uhlenhaut, German automotive engineer and test driver (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1989)
1911 - Edward Shackleton, English explorer (d. 1994)
1913 - Cowboy Copas, American country singer (d. 1963)
1913 - Dorothy Schwartz, American violinist (d. 2007)
1913 - Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish language poet and memoirist.
1914 - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (d. 1999)
1914 - Hammond Innes, English writer (d. 1998)
1914 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 1996)
1918 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
1919 - Iris Murdoch, Irish writer (d. 1999)
1921 - Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1921 - Henri Colpi, French film director (d. 2006)
1922 - Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1925 - Philip Carey, American actor
1926 - Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan author
1926 - Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
1928 - Carl Woese, American microbiologist
1929 - Charles Anthony, American tenor
1930 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
1930 - Stephen Smale, American mathematician
1930 - Richard Garneau, French Canadian sports journalist
1931 - Clive Cussler, American author
1932 - Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player
1933 - Julian Bream, English guitarist and lutenist
1933 - Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)
1934 - Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
1934 - Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (d. 1977)
1935 - Donn Clendenon, baseball player (d. 2005)
1935 - Ken Kercheval, American actor
1935 - Alex Karras, American football player and actor
1938 - Ernie Barnes, American artist and football player
1939 - Aníbal Cavaco Silva, President of Portugal and former Prime Minister
1939 - Patrick Wayne, American actor
1941 - Denis Héroux, French Canadian film director and producer
1942 - Mil Mascaras, Mexican professional wrestler
1943 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Irish astrophysicist
1944 - Millie Jackson, American singer
1944 - Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor
1945 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003)
1946 - Linda Ronstadt, American singer
1946 - Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
1947 - Peter Banks, British guitarist (Yes)
1948 - Alicia Bridges, American singer
1948 - Artimus Pyle, American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1949 - Carl Bildt, Swedish politician
1949 - Trevor Horn, British music producer
1950 - Arianna Huffington, Greek-born newspaper columnist
1951 - Jesse Ventura, professional wrestler and former Governor of Minnesota
1952 - Johnny Thunders, American musician (d. 1991)
1952 - Terry O'Quinn, American actor
1952 - Judy McGrath, American television executive
1953 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former President of Haiti
1953 - John Denham, British politician
1954 - Mario Kempes, Argentine football player
1956 - Ian Curtis, British musician (d. 1980)
1956 - Barry Melrose, Canadian hockey player, coach, and commentator
1956 - Marky Ramone, American musician (Ramones)
1956 - Joe Satriani, American guitarist
1956 - Wayne Taylor, South African race car driver
1958 - Gary Heale, former professional English soccer player
1958 - Mac Thornberry, American politician
1959 - Vincent Lindon, French actor
1959 - Shep Pettibone, American record producer
1960 - Kim Alexis, American supermodel and actress
1960 - Willie Aames, American actor
1961 - Lolita Davidovich, Canadian-born actress
1961 - Jean-Christophe Grangé, French writer and screenwriter
1961 - Scott Ritter, UN weapons inspector in Iraq
1961 - Forest Whitaker, American actor
1962 - Steve Brown, American darts player
1963 - Steve Thomas, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 - Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-born actress
1965 - David Miliband, British politician
1966 - Jason Bonham, English drummer; son of John Bonham
1966 - Irène Jacob, French-born Swiss actress
1967 - Adam Savage, American actor
1968 - Eddie Griffin, American comedian
1968 - Stan Kirsch, American actor
1970 - Chi Cheng, American musician (Deftones)
1971 - Danijela, Croatian singer
1972 - Michael Barnett, UK musician / producer
1972 - Scott Foley, American actor
1972 - Beth Ostrosky, American model
1973 - John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down)
1973 - Brian Austin Green, American actor
1973 - Chris Taylor, Australian comedian, member of The Chaser
1974 - Chot Ulep, Filipino musician
1975 - Kara Drew, An American professional wrestler better known as Cherry
1975 - Ben Pepper, Australian basketball player
1976 - Jim Jones, African Puerto Rican American rapper
1976 - Diane Kruger, German actress and former fashion model
1977 - Ray Toro, American musician (My Chemical Romance)
1977 - Kitana Baker, American model (Miller Light Catfight commercial)
1977 - Faraz Anwar, Pakistani guitarist (Mizraab)
1977 - Lana Parrilla, American actress
1978 - Miguel Olivo, Dominican baseball player
1979 - Laura Benanti, American musical theatre actress
1979 - Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer
1980 - Jonathan Cheechoo, professional ice hockey player
1980 - Reggie Abercrombie, professional baseball player
1980 - Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor and film producer
1982 - Haley Scarnato, American American Idol contestant
1983 - Nelson Merlo, Brazilian racing driver
1984 - Vice Cooler, American musician
1989 - Tristan Wilds, American actor
1992 - Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)

Deaths
1085 - Robert Guiscard, French adventurer (b. c.1015)
1262 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1222)
1274 - Bonaventure, Italian theologian and saint (b. 1221)
1291 - Rudolph I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1218)
1381 - John Ball, English priest
1406 - Duke William of Austria (b. c.1370)
1410 - Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (killed in battle) (b. 1360)
1521 - Juan Ponce de León, Spanish Explorer (b. 1458)
1544 - René of Châlon, Prince of the House of Orange (b. 1519)
1571 - Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
1609 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1560)
1614 - Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer (b. c.1540)
1655 - Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
1685 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of England (b. 1649)
1750 - Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
1765 - Charles-André van Loo, French painter (b. 1705)
1767 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746)
1789 - Jacques Duphly, French composer (b. 1715)
1828 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
1839 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet (b. 1802)
1844 - Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
1857 - Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
1885 - Rosalia de Castro, Spanish writer and poet (b. 1837)
1890 - Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
1898 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1825)
1904 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
1919 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1929 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (b. 1874)
1930 - Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1845)
1931 - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868)
1932 - Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African politician and writer (b. 1873)
1933 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (b. 1865)
1933 - Freddie Keppard, American musician (b. 1890)
1940 - Robert Pershing Wadlow, American--at 8 ft. 11.1 in, the tallest human ever known (b. 1918)
1942 - Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader (bayoneted to death) (b. 1910)
1944 - Marie-Victorin, French Canadian Christian Brother and botanist (b. 1885)
1946 - Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1947 - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
1948 - John J. Pershing, U.S. general (b. 1860)
1953 - Servant of God Archbishop Mar Ivanios (b.1882)
1957 - James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870)
1957 - Vasily Maklakov, Russian orator and liberal politician (b. 1869)
1958 - Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon (b. 1914)
1959 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
1960 - Lawrence Tibbett, American opera singer and actor (b. 1896)
1960 - Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (b. 1897)
1961 - John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
1965 - Francis Cherry, American politician (b. 1908)
1974 - Christine Chubbuck, television news reporter (b.1944)
1979 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of Mexico (b. 1911)
1982 - Bill Justis, American musician and producer (b. 1926)
1986 - Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (b. 1923)
1989 - Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
1990 - Margaret Lockwood, British actress (b. 1916)
1991 - Bert Convy, American actor (b. 1933)
1992 - Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijan's most noted journalist (b. 1960)
1992 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
1993 - David Brian, American actor (b. 1914)
1993 - Bobby Kent, alleged Florida bully murdered by his friends (b. 1973)
1996 - Dana Hill, American actress (b. 1964)
1997 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
2000 - Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone (b. 1925)
2003 - Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)
2003 - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (b. 1920)
2006 - Robert H. Brooks, founder of Hooters of America (b. 1937)

Holidays and observances
Ancient Rome - Festival of Castor and Pollux
Palermo, Sicily - Festival of Santa Rosalia.
Japan - Third day of Obon feast period.



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July 16

July 16 is the 197th day of the year (198th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 168 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events
622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
1054 - Three Roman legates fractured relations between the Western and Eastern Christian churches by placing an invalid Papal Bull of Excommunication on the altar in the Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. This is often dated as the start of the East-West Schism.
1661 - The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
1683 - Manchu/Chinese Qing Dynasty naval forces under commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
1769 - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first mission in California. The mission later evolves into the city of San Diego.
1782 - First performance of Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio.
1790 - The signing of the Residence Bill establishes a site along the Potomac River as the District of Columbia (seat of government).
1862 - American Civil War: David G. Farragut becomes the first United States Navy rear admiral.
1880 - Dr. Emily Howard Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada.
1931 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
1941 - New York Yankees' Joe DiMaggio gets a hit in his 56th consecutive game.
1942 - Holocaust: Rafle du Vel'd'Hiv: The Vichy France government orders French police officers to round up 13,000-20,000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome. In 1995, president Jacques Chirac officially recognizes the French police's responsibility.
1945 - Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1948 - The city of Nazareth, hometown of Jesus, capitulated to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel led by Ben Dunkelman, after little more than token resistance, during 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1950 - Uruguay win the 1950 FIFA World Cup, beating hosts Brazil 2-1 in what is regarded as one of the biggest upsets in sporting history.
1951 - King Léopold III of Belgium abdicates in favour of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
1955 - Original Disneyland park opens in Anaheim, California
1957 - United States Marine Major John Glenn flies a F8U Crusader supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.
1965 - The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France with Italy opens.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida and will become the first manned space mission to land on the moon.
1973 - Watergate Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially-incriminating conversations.
1979 - Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
1981 - Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad becomes Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister until retired on October 31, 2003. Making him Asia's longest-serving political leaders (22 years as Prime Minister of Malaysia).
1983 - Sikorsky S-61 disaster: helicopter crash off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9:comet that collided with Jupiter in 1994. Impacts began on this date through July 22nd.
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy.
2004 - Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
2005 - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K.Rowling released, selling over 9 million copies in the 24 hours after release.
2007 - An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occur off the Niigata coast, Japan, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake.

Births
1194 - Saint Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (d. 1253)
1486 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530)
1611 - Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1644)
1714 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer (d. 1800)
1722 - Joseph Wilton, English sculptor (d. 1803)
1723 - Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)
1796 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875)
1821 - Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader (d. 1910)
1858 - Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist (d. 1931)
1862 - Ida B. Wells, American civil rights activist (d. 1931)
1870 - Lambert McKenna, Irish scholar (d. 1956)
1872 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (d. 1928)
1883 - Charles Sheeler, American photographer and artist (d. 1965)
1884 - Anna Vyrubova, Russian memoirist (d. 1964)
1888 - Percy Kilbride, American actor (d. 1964)
1888 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
1888 - "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)
1889 - Larry Semon, American comedian (d. 1928)
1896 - Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968)
1896 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (d. 1969)
1896 - Evelyn Preer, American actress (d. 1932)
1902 - Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist (d. 1977)
1903 - Carmen Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1971)
1903 - Mary Philbin, American actress (d. 1993)
1903 - Fritz Bauer, German judge (d. 1968)
1906 - Vincent Sherman, American film director (d. 2006)
1907 - Frances Horwich, American educator and television personality (d. 2001)
1907 - Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman (d. 1995)
1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
1911 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)
1911 - Sonny Tufts, American actor (d. 1970)
1912 - Milt Bocek, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1915 - Barnard Hughes, American actor (d. 2006)
1918 - Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 1989)
1919 - Choi Kyuha, President of South Korea (d. 2006)
1919 - Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (d. 1999)
1923 - Chris Argyris, American educator
1924 - Bess Myerson, American beauty queen
1925 - Cal Tjader, American musician (d. 1982)
1926 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1928 - Anita Brookner, English novelist
1928 - Robert Sheckley, American author (d. 2005)
1928 - David C. Treen, American politician
1928 - Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (d. 1993)
1930 - Michael Bilirakis, American politician
1930 - Guy Béart, Egyptian-born French singer and songwriter
1932 - Max McGee, American football player (d. 2007)
1932 - Dick Thornburgh, American politician
1934 - Don Payne, American politician
1936 - Buddy Merrill, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show)
1937 - Richard Bryan, American politician
1938 - Tony Jackson, English bass player (The Searchers) (d. 2003)
1939 - Corin Redgrave, English actor
1939 - Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director (d. 1995)
1941 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican musician (d. 2006)
1941 - Mišo Kovač, Croatian musician
1942 - Margaret Court, Australian tennis player
1943 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet (d. 1990)
1946 - Barbara Lee, American politician
1946 - Richard LeParmentier, American actor
1946 - Ron Yary, American football player
1947 - Alexis Herman, 23rd U.S. Secretary of Labor
1947 - Assata Shakur, American activist
1948 - Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer and actor
1948 - Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
1950 - Pierre Paradis, Quebec politician
1950 - Dennis Priestley, English darts player
1950 - Tom Terrell, musicologist, deejay
1951 - Jean-Luc Mongrain, French-Canadian journalist
1952 - Stewart Copeland, American drummer (The Police)
1952 - Robert David Steele, American spy
1953 - Douglas J. Feith, American Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
1954 - Jeanette Mott Oxford, American politician
1956 - Jerry Doyle, American actor
1956 - Tony Kushner, American playwright
1957 - Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer
1958 - Michael Flatley, Irish-born American dancer
1958 - Pierre Roland Renoir, Canadian artist
1958 - Mike D. Rogers, American politician
1959 - Gary Anderson, American football player
1959 - Doug Herzog, American television executive
1960 - Terry Pendleton, American baseball player
1963 - Phoebe Cates, American actress
1963 - Srečko Katanec, Slovenian footballer and coach
1964 - Phil Hellmuth, American poker player
1964 - Miguel Indurain, Spanish cyclist
1965 - Claude Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 - Tina Tyler, Canadian porn star
1966 - Johnny Vaughan, English writer and broadcaster
1967 - Will Ferrell, American comedian
1967 - Christopher Rocancourt, French con artist
1968 - Dhanraj Pillay, Former Indian field hockey player
1968 - Barry Sanders, American football player
1968 - Larry Sanger, American co-founder of Wikipedia
1969 - Kathryn Harby-Williams, Australian netballer
1969 - Daryl Mitchell, American actor
1969 - Rain Pryor, American actress
1970 - Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai film director
1971 - Edward Kowalczyk, American singer (Live)
1971 - Corey Feldman, American actor
1973 - Stefano Garzelli, Italian cyclist
1973 - Shaun Pollock, South African cricketer
1973 - Tim Ryan, American politician
1973 - Graham Robertson, American filmmaker and author
1974 - Jeremy Enigk, American singer/songwriter and guitarist (Sunny Day Real Estate, The Fire Theft)
1974 - Chris Pontius, American actor and Jackass cast member
1974 - Wendell Sailor, Australian rugby league and union footballer
1975 - Bas Leinders, Belgian racing car driver
1975 - Ana Paula Arósio, Brazilian actress
1975 - Jamie Oliver, Welsh keyboardist
1976 - Bobby Lashley, American Professional Wrestler
1976 - Carlos Humberto Paredes, Paraguyan footballer
1976 - Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player
1976 - Tomasz Kuchar, Polish Rally driver
1977 - Bryan Budd, British soldier (VC recipient) (d. 2006)
1978 - Taj Anwar, model and activist
1979 - Jayma Mays, American actress
1979 - Chris Mihm, American basketball player
1980 - Jesse Jane, American pornographic actress
1980 - Adam Scott, Australian golfer
1982 - Michael Umaña, Costa Rican footballer
1984 - Katrina Kaif, Indian Actress
1984 - Hayanari Shimoda, Japanese racing driver
1986 - Calum Gittins, New Zealand actor
1989 - Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer
1991 - Randall Bentley, American actor
1994 - Mark Indelicato, American singer and actor




[edit] Deaths
1324 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
1342 - King Charles I of Hungary
1546 - Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)
1557 - Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)
1594 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558)
1647 - Masaniello, Neapolitan rebel (b. 1622)
1664 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (b. 1616)
1686 - John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
1691 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (b. 1641)
1729 - Johann David Heinichen, German composer (b. 1683)
1747 - Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian painter (b. 1665)
1770 - Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
1796 - George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
1831 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
1879 - Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (b. 1800)
1882 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
1886 - Ned Buntline, American pulp novelist (b. 1823)
1896 - Edmond Goncourt, French writer and critic (b. 1822)
1915 - Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1827)
1916 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)
1917 - Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (b. 1847)
1947 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian (exact date of death uncertain) (b. 1912)
1949 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)
1953 - Hilaire Belloc, English writer (b. 1870)
1960 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1960 - John P. Marquand, American novelist (b. 1893)
1976 - Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat assassinated in 1976 by the Chilean DINA
1979 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
1981 - Harry Chapin, American musician (b. 1942)
1982 - Patrick Dewaere, French actor (b. 1947)
1982 - C.R. Swart, South African politician (b. 1894)
1985 - Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1985 - Wayne King, American musician, songwriter and bandleader (b. 1901)
1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
1990 - Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (b. 1927)
1990 - Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and organist (b. 1908)
1991 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915)
1991 - Frank Rizzo, American politician (b. 1920
1992 - Buck Buchanan, American football player (b. 1940)
1994 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
1994 - Marcel-Marie Desmarais, French Canadian priest, writer, preacher and broadcaster (b. 1908)
1995 - May Sarton, Belgian-born American poet (b. 1912)
1995 - Stephen Spender, English poet (b. 1909)
1996 - John Panozzo, American musician (Styx) (b. 1948)
1996 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician, (b. 1921)
1998 - John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
1999 - Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (b. 1966)
1999 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (b. 1960)
1999 - Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer (b. 1979)
2001 - Maurice De Bevere, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
2001 - Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2002 - John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
2003 - Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935)
2004 - George Busbee, Governor of Georgia (b. 1927)
2005 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
2005 - Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931)
2005 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, and entertainer (b. 1920)
2006 - Bob Orton, Sr., American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
2006 - Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (b. 1948)



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July 21

July 21 is the 202nd day of the year (203rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 163 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events
356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
285 - Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
1403 - Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
1545 - The first landing of French troops onto the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight occurs.
1568 - Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen - Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
1718 - The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
1774 - Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war.
1831 - Inauguration of Léopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
1861 - American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run - at Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins. The Confederate won.
1865 - In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Dave Tutt in what is regarded as the first true western showdown.
1873 - At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American West.
1877 - After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
1918 - U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
1919 - The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
1944 - World War II: Battle of Guam - American troops land on Guam starting the battle. It would end on August 10.
1949 - The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
1954 - First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
1960 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected prime minister of Sri Lanka and becomes the first woman prime minister in the world.
1961 - Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission - Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
1964 - Singapore race riot - every year since then, Racial Harmony Day is celebrated on this day.
1969 - Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission.
1970 - After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
1972 - Bloody Friday bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army around Belfast, Northern Ireland - 22 bomb explosions, 9 people killed and 130 people seriously injured.
1973 - In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in 1972's Munich Olympics Massacre.
1976 - Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
1977 - The start of a four day long Libyan-Egyptian War takes place.
1983 - The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2°C (−129°F).
1994 - Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving the way for him to become Prime Minister in 1997.
1995 - Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
1997 - The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
2002 - Telecom giant WorldCom files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the largest such filing in United States history.
2004 - The United Kingdom government publishes Delivering Security in a Changing World, a paper detailing wide-ranging reform of the country's armed forces.
2005 - Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London's public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.
2007 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is released at 00:01 worldwide, the book broke sales records as the fastest-selling book ever, selling more than 11 million copies in the first twenty-four hours following its release.

Births
810 - Imam Bukhari, Islamic scholar (d. 870)
1515 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (d. 1595)
1620 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)
1664 - Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (d. 1721)
1693 - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1768)
1710 - Paul Möhring, German physician (d. 1792)
1810 - Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist (d. 1878)
1816 - Paul Reuter, German-born British journalist and media owner (Reuters) (d. 1899)
1858 - Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
1858 - Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain (d. 1929)
1858 - Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (d. 1941)
1863 - Aubrey Smith, Former England cricketer and actor (d. 1948)
1870 - Emil Orlik, Czech painter (d. 1932)
1880 - Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (d. 1919)
1882 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (d. 1967)
1893 - Hans Fallada, German writer (d. 1947)
1899 - Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
1899 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1961)
1903 - Roy Neuberger, American financier
1908 - Harold "Jug" McSpaden, American professional golfer (d. 1996)
1911 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author (d. 1980)
1920 - Constance Dowling, American actress (d. 1969)
1920 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 2001)
1923 - Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
1922 - Kay Starr, American singer
1924 - Don Knotts, American actor (d. 2006)
1925 - Anne Meacham, American actress
1926 - Paul Burke, American actor
1926 - Norman Jewison, Canadian film director
1926 - Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general
1926 - Karel Reisz, British film director (d. 2002)
1926 - Queenie Watts, English actress (d. 1980)
1928 - Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (d. 1998)
1929 - Bob Orton, American wrestler (d. 2006)
1930 - Anand Bakshi, Indian lyricist (d. 2002)
1932 - Ernie Warlick, American football player
1933 - John Gardner, American author (d. 1982)
1934 - Chandu Borde, Former Indian cricketer
1935 - Norbert Blüm, German politician
1935 - Moe Drabowsky, baseball player (d. 2006)
1938 - Anton Kuerti, Canadian pianist, composer and conductor
1938 - Janet Reno, 79th United States Attorney General
1939 - John Negroponte, 1st United States Director of National Intelligence
1943 - Edward Herrmann, American actor
1944 - Tony Scott, British film director
1944 - Paul Wellstone, American politician (d. 2002)
1945 - John Lowe, English darts player
1945 - Lydia Shum, Hong Kong comedian and actress (d. 2008)
1945 - Barry Richards, Former South African cricketer
1945 - Geoff Dymock, Former Australian cricketer
1946 - Kenneth Starr, American lawyer
1946 - Barry Whitwam, British musician (Herman's Hermits)
1947 - Chetan Chauhan, Former Indian cricketer
1948 - Ed Hinton, American sportswriter
1948 - Yusuf Islam, stage name was "Cat Stevens", English singer/songwriter
1948 - Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
1949 - Al Hrabosky, baseball player
1950 - Ubaldo Fillol, Argentinian footballer
1951 - Robin Williams, American comedian/actor
1952 - John Barrasso, American politician, junior senator from Wyoming
1953 - Brian Talbot, British footballer
1953 - Jeff Fatt, Chinese Australian actor
1955 - Howie Epstein, American musician (d. 2003)
1955 - Taco Ockerse, Indonesian singer
1956 - Michael Connelly, American author
1957 - Jon Lovitz, American comedian
1957 - George Landress, American songwriter and music producer
1959 - Paul "Fatty" Vautin, Australian rugby league player
1960 - Lance Guest, American actor
1960 - Fritz Walter, German footballer
1961 - Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer
1961 - Jim Martin, American musician (Faith No More)
1963 - Kevin Poole, English footballer
1963 - Paulo Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
1964 - Jens Weißflog, German ski jumper
1965 - Gudni Bergsson, Icelandic footballer
1965 - Mike Bordick, American baseball player
1965 - Jovy Marcelo, Filipino racing driver (d. 1992)
1966 - Arija Bareikis, American actress
1968 - Brandi Chastain, American soccer player
1968 - Lyle Odelein, Canadian hockey player
1969 - Emerson Hart, American musician (Tonic)
1969 - Klaus Graf, German racing driver
1970 - Shawn Stasiak, American professional wrestler
1971 - Emmanuel Bangué, French long jumper
1971 - Charlotte Gainsbourg, French actress and singer
1971 - Nuno Markl, Portuguese comedian and radio host
1972 - Shinjiro Otani, Japanese professional wrestler
1974 - Geoff Jenkins, American baseball player
1975 - Mike Sellers, National Football League fullback
1975 - Ravindra Pushpakumara, Former Sri Lankan cricketer
1977 - Paul Casey, English golfer
1978 - Josh Hartnett, American actor
1978 - Justin Bartha, American actor
1978 - Damian Marley, Jamaican musician
1978 - Gary Teale, Scottish football player
1979 - David Carr, American football player
1979 - Tamika Catchings, American basketball player
1980 - Tailor James, Canadian model
1980 - CC Sabathia, American baseball player
1981 - Titus Bramble, English footballer
1981 - Stefan Schumacher, German cyclist
1981 - Joaquín Sánchez, Spanish footballer
1981 - Chrishell Stause, American actress
1983 - Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer
1983 - Kellen Winslow II, American football player
1984 - Liam Ridgewell, English footballer
1985 - Von Wafer, American basketball player
1987 - AnnaLynne McCord, American actress
1988 - Chris Mitchell, Scottish footballer
1989 - Jamie Waylett, British actor
1989 - Rory Culkin, American actor
1989 - Chris Gunter, Welsh footballer
1992 - Rachael Flatt, American figure skater

Deaths
1403 - Henry Percy, English nobleman and soldier (b. ca.1364)
1425 - Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350)
1688 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (b. 1610)
1793 - Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
1796 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
1798 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
1880 - Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
1889 - Nelson Dewey, American politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
1899 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
1932 - Bill Gleason, late 19th century baseball player
1938 - Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
1941 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
1943 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (b. 1900)
1944 - Claus von Stauffenberg, German, leader of failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, by execution (b. 1907)
1944 - Ludwig Beck, German Chief of Staff (b. 1880)
1946 - Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
1948 - Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born American artist (b. 1904)
1967 - Jimmie Foxx, baseball player (b. 1907)
1967 - Albert Lutuli, South African politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1967 - Basil Rathbone, English actor (b. 1892)
1968 - Ruth St. Denis, dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
1970 - Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
1970 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
1972 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889)
1982 - Dave Garroway, American television host (b. 1913)
1986 - Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
1991 - Paul Warwick, English racing driver (b. 1969)
1998 - Alan Shepard, astronaut (b. 1923)
1998 - Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
2001 - Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
2001 - Sivaji Ganesan, South Indian Tamil actor (b. 1927)
2003 - John Davies, New Zealand Olympic Committee president (b. 1938)
2003 - Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
2004 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
2004 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1918)
2005 - Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941)
2005 - Lord Alfred Hayes, British Wrestling Announcer for WWE (b. 1928)
2006 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933)
2006 - Ta Mok, "The Khmer Rouge Butcher", war criminal in Democratic Kampuchea (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances
Belgium: National holiday (1831 - inauguration of Léopold I, first king of the Belgians)
Guam: Liberation Day (1944)
Russia: summer Kazanskaya
Singapore: Racial Harmony Day


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