988 – The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey
1796 – Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers
1923 – All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy
1928 – Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout
1934 – 1st sitting US President to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee
1990 – All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers)
2000 – Coldplay release their debut album “Parachutes” (Grammy Award Best Alternative Album 2002)
2005 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, TPC of Michigan: Peter Jacobsen wins his second Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke from Hale Irwin
2019 – Kawhi Leonard signs with the Los Angeles Clippers to a reported three-year, $103 million contract
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Today in History for 10th July 2024
Historical Events
1936 – 112°F (44°C) at Martinsburg, West Virginia (state record)
1956 – 650,000 US steel workers go on strike
1971 – Failed assassination attempt on King Hassan II of Morocco, 101 killed
1990 – Final day of Test Cricket for Richard Hadlee as New Zealand go down by 114 runs in 3rd Test v England at Edgbaston
1994 – Revival of Henrik Ibsen’s stage drama “Hedda Gabler”, starring Kelly McGillis, opens at Criterion Theater, NYC; runs for 33 performances
2001 – Amerada Hess agrees to acquire Triton Energy for $2.7 billion in cash
Famous Birthdays
1419 – Emperor Go-Hanazono, 102nd Emperor of Japan (d. 1471)
1870 – Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism), born in Poissy, France (d. 1953)
1900 – Mitchell Parish [Michael Pashelinsky], Lithuanian-American lyricist (“Stardust”; “It’s Wonderful”; “Moonlight Serenade”; “Sweet Lorraine”), born in Lithuania, Russian Empire (d. 1993)
1921 – Harvey Ball, American inventor and designer of popular ‘smiley-face’ graphic, born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 2001)
1946 – Sue Lyon, American actress (Lolita, Night of the Iguana), born in Davenport, Iowa
1951 – Phyllis Smith, American actress (Phyllis Vance-The Office), born in The Hill, St. Louis, Missouri
Famous Deaths
1590 – Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)
1621 – Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (b. 1571)
1851 – Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (daguerreotype), dies at 63
1953 – Sidney Homer, American composer, dies at 88
1973 – Wallace “Bud” Smith, American boxer (World lightweight title 1955-56), dies of gunshot wounds at 49
2005 – Roland Bengtsson, Swedish guitarist, lute player and double bassist, dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 9th July 2024
1755 – Gottlob Harrer, German composer, dies at 52
1766 – Jonathan Mayhew, American Congregational minister, dies at 45
1969 – Pierre Capdevielle, French conductor, composer (Élégie de Duino), music critic (Monde musicale), and teacher, dies at 63
1994 – Sabby Lewis, American jazz pianist and arranger, dies at 79
1995 – John Eric Tieman, production Manager (The Guardian), dies at 67
1996 – Susan Cowdy, English ornithologist (Bardsey Island Trust) dies at 81
2011 – Don Ackerman, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2019 – William E. Dannemeyer, American politician who opposed LGBT rights (Rep-R-CA, 1979-93), dies at 89
2021 – Paul Mariner, English soccer striker (35 caps; Plymouth Argyle, Ipswich Town, Arsenal, Portsmouth) and coach (Plymouth Argyle, Toronto FC), dies from brain cancer at 68
2022 – Tommy Jacobs, American golfer (US Open 1964 runner-up; US Masters 1966 runner-up), dies at 87
Historical Events for 9th July 2024
1386 – Battle at Sempach: Swiss beat Duke Leopold III of Austria
1776 – US Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington’s troops in New York
1939 – A meeting of 6,000 Indians, held at the Indian Sports Ground in Johannesburg South Africa, launch the Passive Resistance Campaign against apartheid and racial policy in South Africa
1957 – 24th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-6 at Sportsman’s Park, St Louis
1963 – 34th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland
1973 – 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel
1975 – The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that paves way for a (albeit highly restricted) multi-party system
1979 – Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter
2006 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Roger Federer wins 4th straight Wimbledon title beating Rafael Nadal of Spain 6-0, 7-6, 6-7, 6-3
2022 – Thousands of Sri Lankan protesters storm the Presidential Palace and set the PM’s house on fire in Colombo, leading to promises both will resign amid continuing economic turmoil
Today in History for 9th July 2024
Historical Events
1910 – Walter Brookins, flying a Wright biplane over Atlantic City, New Jersey, becomes 1st to fly an airplane to an altitude of 1 mile (actually reaching 6,175 feet or 1.169 miles)
1941 – Dutch-American Physicist Abraham Pais is awarded his Ph.D. in Holland five days before a Nazi deadline banning Jews from receiving degrees
1946 – 13th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 12-0 at Fenway Park, Boston
1986 – Atlanta’s Dale Murphy doesn’t play ending consecutive streak at 740
2011 – Super Rugby Final, Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane: Queensland Reds beat Canterbury Crusaders 18-13 at home for their first SR title
2022 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan claims her first Grand Slam title with a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 win over Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur; first Kazakhstani player to win a major title
Famous Birthdays
1887 – Samuel Eliot Morison, American historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1976)
1926 – Murphy Anderson, American comic artist (DC Comics), born in Asheville, North Carolina (d. 2015)
1936 – David Zinman, American composer and conductor (Baltimore Symphony, 1985-98), born in New York City
1944 – Dorian Rudnytsky, American concert and session cellist (New York Rock and Roll Ensemble), and composer (Costa Blanca Suite), born in New York City
1969 – Robert Gordon, American CFL and Arena football receiver, 1991-2005 (Edmonton Eskimos, Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and 7 other teams), born in Detroit, Michigan
1990 – Fábio and Rafael da Silva, Brazilian footballers
Famous Deaths
1706 – Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville, French Canadian sailor and explorer and adventurer (explored Hudson Bay and Louisiana), dies of fever in Havana at 44
1932 – King C. Gillette, American businessman and inventor of inexpensive and disposable safety razor blades, dies at 77
1995 – Julian Graham Theodore Hough, actor (Deathwatch, Shout), dies at 47
2006 – Milan Williams, American keyboardist (Commodores – “Three Times A Lady”), dies of cancer at 58
2019 – Rip Torn [Elmore Rual Torn Jr], American actor, voice artist and comedian (Cross Creek, The Larry Sanders Show), dies at 88
2023 – Luis Suárez, Spanish soccer midfielder (32 caps; Barcelona, Inter Milan, Sampdoria) and manager (Spain 1988-91; Cagliari, SPAL, Como, Inter Milan, Deportivo La Coruña), dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 8th July 2024
1115 – Peter the Hermit, French priest, led the People’s Crusade, dies at about 64
1422 – Michelle of Valois, Duchess consort of Burgundy (1419-22), dies after falling ill at 27 possibly poisoned
1623 – Gregory XV [Alessandro Ludovisi], Italian Catholic pope (1621-23) and Archbishop of Bologna, dies at 69
1905 – Walter Kittredge, American musician during American Civil War, dies at 70
1933 – Anthony Hope, British novelist and playwright (The Prisoner of Zenda), dies of cancer at 70
1957 – Henry Février, French composer, dies at 81
1999 – Pete Conrad, American US Navy pilot and NASA astronaut (Gemini 5, Gemini 11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2), dies injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident at 59
2007 – Chandra Shekhar, Indian politician, 8th Prime Minister of India (1990-91), dies at 80
2008 – Alex d’Arbeloff, Georgian-American entrepreneur who co-founded Teradyne, dies at 80
2020 – Alex Pullin, Australian snowboarder (World C’ship gold snowboard cross 2011, 13), dies from drowning at 32
Historical Events for 8th July 2024
1849 – St Paul’s Place in the Bronx named
1902 – Baltimore manager John McGraw is accused by AL President Ban Johnson of trying to wreck the Orioles and Washington Senators; negotiates his release from the Orioles, having already signed with NY Giants
1913 – Alfred Carlton Gilbert’s patent for the Erector Set is issued, it becomes one of the most popular toys of all time
1939 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: American Alice Marble wins her only Wimbledon singles title beating Kay Stammers of England 6-2, 6-0
1943 – Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (Dutch National Socialist Movement) leader Anton Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler
1944 – British troops march into Caen, Normandy
1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico
1988 – Miami Arena opens in Miami, Florida
2014 – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu instructs his defence forces to “take their gloves off” against Hamas and to take any means necessary to “restore peace” to Israeli citizens
2023 – Airstrike on Sudanese district of Omdurman by the Sudanese army kills at least 22 people including women and children
Today in History for 8th July 2024
Historical Events
1862 – Theodore R. Timby is granted a US patent for discharging guns in a revolving turret, using electricity
1913 – Alfred Carlton Gilbert’s patent for the Erector Set is issued, it becomes one of the most popular toys of all time
1971 – During street disturbances, British soldiers shoot dead two Catholic civilians in Free Derry; riots erupt, the Social Democratic and Labour Party withdraw from Stormont in protest
2008 – American businessman T. Boone Pickens announces his “Pickens Plan”, an energy policy that moves away from imported oil
2012 – US Open Women’s Golf, Blackwolf Run: Na Yeon Choi of South Korea wins her first major championship, 4 strokes ahead of compatriot Amy Yang
2021 – Global known death toll from COVID-19 passes 4 million (equal to all deaths in battle since 1982)
Famous Birthdays
1545 – Don Carlos, Prince of Asturias, son of Spanish King Philip II, born in Valladolid, Spain (d. 1568)
1760 – Christian Kramp, French mathematician known for his work with factorials, born in Strasbourg, France (d. 1826)
1838 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and inventor (rigid dirigibles) who founded the Zeppelin airship company, born in Konstanz, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany (d. 1917)
1913 – Walter Kerr, American actor, writer (Goldilocks) and Broadway theatre critic, born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 1996)
1944 – Jeffrey Tambor, American character actor (Larry Sanders – “Hank”; Arrested Decelopment), born in San Francisco, California
1960 – Mal Meninga, Australian rugby league centre (46 Tests, 32 games Queensland; St. Helens, Canberra; RL “Immortal”) and coach (Australia, 30 games Queensland, Canberra), born in Bundaberg, Australia
Famous Deaths
1933 – Anthony Hope, British novelist and playwright (The Prisoner of Zenda), dies of cancer at 70
1956 – Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Dutch politician (1954 Nobel Peace Prize as High Commissioner for Refugees of the UN), dies at 55
1974 – Morris “Moose” Charlap, American Broadway composer (Peter Pan; Kelly), dies at 45
1977 – Rie Cramer, Dutch writer and illustrator, dies at 89
2015 – Ken Stabler, American Pro Football HOF quarterback (4 x Pro Bowl; NFL MVP, First-team All-Pro 1974; Super Bowl 1976; Oakland Raiders), dies of colon cancer at 69
2020 – Abdelmajid Tlemçani, Tunisian soccer striker (54 caps; Espérance Sportive de Tunis), dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 7th July 2024
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
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