1879 – George Caleb Bingham, American politician and painter (Country Election), dies at 68
1919 – Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), dies
1930 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British author who brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice, dies at 71
1932 – Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian, dies at 87
1965 – Bill Hitch, England cricket fast-bowler (7 Tests 1911-21), dies
1967 – Jo Schlesser, French Formula One racing driver (b. 1928)
1973 – Veronica Lake [Constance Ockleman], American actress (Sullivan’s Travels, I Married a Witch), dies from hepatitis and acute kidney injury at 50
1975 – Barbara Brown, American actress dies at 73
1979 – Dalton Conyngham, South African cricket medium-pace bowler (1 Test, 2 wickets; Natal, Transvaal, Western Province), dies at 82
1985 – Guido Kisch, Czech-American Jewish historian (Jews in medieval Germany), dies at 96
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Historical Events for 7th July 2024
1124 – Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders
1534 – European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick
1892 – Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia
1942 – Germany troop march into Woronezj
1949 – Musical revue “Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)” opens at the Broadway Theatre, NYC; runs for 76 performances
1950 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Troon: Bobby Locke of South Africa retains title by 2 strokes from Roberto De Vicenzo of Argentina
1954 – British runner Jim Peters, 17 minutes ahead of any rival, collapses on the final stadium lap of the Commonwealth Games marathon in Vancouver
1973 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Czech Jan Kodeš beats Alex Metreveli of Russia 6-1, 9-8, 6-3 for his 3rd Grand Slam singles success
1980 – Jineane Ford of Arizona replaces Shawn Weatherly (Miss Universe) as the 29th Miss USA
1983 – 11-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR
Today in History for 7th July 2024
Historical Events
1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
1850 – Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, Western Australia
1891 – Marcellus F. Berry, an American Express employee is granted four copyrights for what he called “the travelers cheque”
1939 – “The Rules of the Game”, French film directed by Jean Renoir, starring Nora Gregor and Paulette Dubost, premieres in Paris
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins her first Grand Slam singles title beating Chris Evert 2-6, 6-4, 7-5
Famous Birthdays
1813 – William Scott Ketchum, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Norwalk, Connecticut (d. 1871)
1947 – Howard Rheingold, American critic and writer on virtual communities, born in Phoenix, Arizona
1952 – Mando Guerrero, Mexican professional wrestler, born in Mexico City
1968 – Chuck Knoblauch, American baseball shortstop (NY Yankees, Minnesota Twins), born in Houston, Texas
1969 – Robin Weigert, American actress, born in Washington, D.C.
1982 – George Owu, Ghanaian footballer, born in Accra, Ghana
Famous Deaths
1794 – Pascal Boyer, French composer, dies at 51
1816 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright (The Rivals, The School for Scandal) and Whig MP, dies at 64
1990 – Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, German Jesuit priest and Buddhism Zen teacher, dies at 92
1992 – Clint Frank, American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1937; unanimous All-American 1937; Yale), dies at 76
2001 – Edward Fiennes-Clinton, Australian-born 18th Earl of Lincoln, dies at 88
2014 – Lois Johnson, American country music singer (“Loving You Will Never Grow Old”), dies at 72
Famous Deaths for 6th July 2024
1218 – Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
1809 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (b. 1775)
1854 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (Ohm’s law), dies at 65
1922 – Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (founded the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver), dies at 59
1932 – Kenneth Grahame, British author (The Wind in the Willows), dies at 73
1961 – Enrique Larreta [E Rodriguez Maza], Argentine diplomat and writer, dies at 86
1971 – Horst Lange, German writer (The Long Lament), dies at 66
1976 – Zhu De, Chinese general and politician (commander-in-chief of Eighth Route Army), dies at 89
2005 – L. Patrick Gray III, American lawyer and bureaucrat (Acting FBI Director, 1972-73), dies at 88
2006 – Kasey Rogers, American actress (Bewitched), dies at 80
Historical Events for 6th July 2024
1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River
1621 – Dutch governor general John Pieterszoon Coen takes Banda islands, 15,000 die
1853 – National Black convention meets in Rochester NY, ex-slave Frederick Douglass attends
1892 – Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain
1905 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time
1907 – Tom Reece takes 5 weeks to compile the highest recorded billiards break in a match (499,135) in London, his ‘cradle’ cannon method is soon banned
1932 – 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents
1941 – New York Yankees team unveils a monument to former captain Lou Gehrig in center field at Yankee Stadium; the future Hall of Famer died the previous month
1949 – Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158°F for 2 minutes
1986 – 100th Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Germany’s Boris Becker successfully defends his title beating Ivan Lendl 6-4, 6-3, 7-5
Today in History for 6th July 2024
Historical Events
1529 – Conquistador Hernán Cortés granted lands and title of Marquisate of the Oaxaca Valley by Spanish King Charles V
1947 – The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union
1964 – The Beatles’ film “A Hard Day’s Night” premieres at The Pavilion in London, England
1984 – New Zealand sisters Liz and Rose Signal become the first twins to play in the same cricket Test match, v England at Headingley
1992 – Fay Vincent institutes plans to realign NL
1999 – U.S. 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
Famous Birthdays
1903 – (Axel) Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist (Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology, 1955, for discovery of oxidoreductase enzymes), born in Linköping, Sweden (d. 1982)
1930 – Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian writer (Signs and Wonders), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 2016)
1944 – Byron Berline, American world champion bluegrass fiddle player, born in Caldwell, Kansas (d. 2021)
1951 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor (Shakespeare in Love, The King’s Speech), born in Toowoomba, Queensland
1965 – Glenn Scarpelli, American actor (Alex-One Day At a Time, Fantasy), born in Staten Island, New York
1980 – Eva Green, French actress and model (Kingdom of Heaven, Casino Royale), born in Paris, France
Famous Deaths
1795 – Georg Gottfried Petri, German composer, dies at 79
1871 – Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34
1893 – Guy de Maupassant, French author (Boule de Suif), dies four days after trying to commit suicide by cutting his throat at 42
1973 – Joe E. Brown, American comedian (Buck Circus Hour), dies after long illness at 80
1989 – Janos Kádár, 46th Prime Minister of Hungary 5th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People’s Republic of Hungary (1956-58), dies at 77
2015 – Masabumi Kikuchi, Japanese jazz pianist, synthesizer player, and composer, dies of a subdural hematoma at 75
Famous Deaths for 5th July 2024
1894 – Austen Henry Layard, British archaeologist and diplomat (work in Mesopotamia including rediscovery of Nineveh), dies at 77
1965 – Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat, race car driver, and international playboy, dies when he crashes his Ferrari into a tree at 56
1983 – Arie Querido, psychiatrist (social psychiatry), dies
1983 – Harry James, American swing-era bandleader, trumpeter and husband to Betty Grable, dies from lymphatic cancer at 67
2002 – Harold “Duke” Dejan, Creole-American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader (Olympia Brass Band), dies at 93
2011 – Malcolm Forsyth, South African-Canadian trombonist and composer (Atayoskewin), dies of pancreatic cancer at 74
2015 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-born American Physicist (Nobel Prize 2008), dies at 94
2019 – Ugo Gregoretti, Italian director and actor (Rogopag, Common Sense of Modesty), dies at 88
2020 – Bob Reade, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (NCAA Div III C’ship 1983-86; AFCA Div III Coach of the Year 1983–86; Augustana Vikings), dies at 87
2023 – Andrés Oliva, Spanish road cyclist (Mountains Classification Giro d’Italia
1975, 76; Vuelta a España 1975, 76, 78), dies at 74
Historical Events for 5th July 2024
1803 – The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king)
1943 – Battle of Gulf of Kula
1961 – KUSD TV channel 2 in Vermillion, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: In an all-Australian final Rod Laver beats John Newcombe 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 for the 3rd leg of his Grand Slam
1989 – Barry Bonds homers in Pittsburgh’s 6-4 loss vs SF Giants, joining father Bobby Bonds as MLB father-son HR record holders (408)
1991 – MLB owners approve Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins as new NL franchises to start play in 1993
1998 – Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Roger Clemens collects his 3,000th career strikeout in 2-1 win vs Tampa Bay (11th to achieve milestone)
2008 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Venus Williams successfully defends her title beating younger sister Serena 7-5, 6-4
2019 – Second stronger earthquake in Southern California at 7.1 magnitude centered near Ridgecrest
2022 – Amid Greater Sydney’s fourth major flood in 18 months, the Australian government declares a natural disaster as 45,000 people threatened with evacuation orders
Today in History for 5th July 2024
Historical Events
1643 – 1st recorded tornado in US (Essex County, Massachusetts)
1814 – Americans defeat British and Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario
1859 – American sealing ship Captain N. C. Brooks discovers the uninhabited Midway Islands in the North Pacific Ocean and claims for the US
1907 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: American May Sutton avenges previous year’s defeat, beating Dorothea Chambers 6-1, 6-4
1987 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Pat Cash of Australia scores his only Grand Slam singles success 7-6, 6-2, 7-5 over Ivan Lendl
2023 – Meta launches Threads – Instagram’s new public conversations app – a day later it becomes the most rapidly downloaded app ever with 30 million downloads
Famous Birthdays
1852 – Stefano Gobatti, Italian composer, born in Bergantino, Italy (d. 1913)
1879 – Dwight F. Davis, American politician (49th United States Secretary of War) and founder of Davis Cup, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1945)
1946 – Gerard ‘t Hooft, Dutch physicist (1999 Nobel Prize for Physics -for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions), born in Den Helder, Netherlands
1947 – Atanas Golomeev, Bulgarian basketball center (FIBA EuroBasket Top Scorer 1973 Academic Sofia, 1975 Levski Sofia; FIBA European Selection 1971, 73, 75, 77), born in Sofia, Bulgaria (d. 2023)
1957 – David Hanson, British Labour politician, born in Liverpool
1995 – P.V. Sindhu, Indian badminton player (World C’ship gold women’s singles 2019; Olympic silver 2016, bronze 2020), born in Hyderabad, India
Famous Deaths
1626 – Stephan Fadinger, Austrian boer leader, dies in battle
1981 – Jorge Urrutia Blondel, Chilean composer, dies at 75
1985 – Marion Byron, actress (Steamboat Bill Jr), dies at 73
1989 – Ernesto Halffter, Spanish classical and film score composer (Rapsodia portuguesa; is Don Quixote de la Mancha), and conductor, dies at 84
2007 – Régine Crespin, French operatic mezzo-soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1962-87; Sheherazade, Les Nuits D’ete), dies of liver cancer at 80
2020 – Volodymyr Troshkin, Ukrainian soccer defender (31 caps, USSR; Dynamo Kiev 205 games), dies at 72
Famous Deaths for 4th July 2024
1307 – Rudolf I, Habsburg nobleman (King of Bohemia, 1306-07; Duke of Austria and Styria 1298-1307), dies of stomach issues at about 26
1546 – Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the Ottoman Navy (b. 1478)
1854 – Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist, dies at 72
1910 – Melville Fuller, American 8th Chief Justice of the United States, dies at 77
1963 – Grant Richards, American actor (Doug-Doorway to Danger), dies at 48
1970 – Harold Vanderbilt, American yachtsman and America’s Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85
2009 – Brenda Joyce [Betty Graffina Leabo], American actress (Tarzan, The Rains Came), dies of complications from pneumonia at 92
2010 – Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-born Lebanese Shiite Muslim cleric and Hezbollah mentor (b. 1935)
2012 – Larance Marable, American jazz drummer (Charlie Haden’s Quartet West; Stan Getz; Groove Holmes), dies at 83
2022 – Janusz Kupcewicz, Polish soccer midfielder (20 caps; KS Arka Gdynia, ASSE Saint-Étienne), dies from a stroke at 66