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Historical Events

1896 – Indian born K S Ranjitsinhji completes an unbeaten 154 on Test cricket debut for England in 2nd Test against Australia at Old Trafford
1915 – WWI: Second Battle of Isonzo begins with Kingdom of Italy offensive against Austria-Hungary, ends 2-1/2 weeks later with over 91,000 combined casualties
1936 – Spanish Civil War: General Francisco Franco issues manifesto and leads an uprising in the Spanish army stationed in Morocco
1943 – British assault on Catania, Sicily
1944 – 7:45 Operation Goodwood: British assault east of Caen
1970 – Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time

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Famous Birthdays

1898 – John Stuart, Scottish actor (Kittie, Superman, Number Seventeen), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1979)
1921 – John Glenn, American astronaut (1st American to orbit the earth) and politician (Senator D-Ohio), born in Cambridge, Ohio (d. 2016)
1946 – Tim Lynch, rocker (Flaming Groovies)
1949 – Wally Bryson, American rock guitarist and vocalist (Fotomaker; Raspberries), born in Gastonia, North Carolina
1957 – Nick Faldo, English golfer (US Masters 1989, 90, 96; British Open 1987, 90, 92), born in Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire
1975 – Torii Hunter, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 2002, 07, 09, 10, 13; Gold Glove Award 2001–09; Minnesota Twins, LA Angels of Anaheim, Detroit Tigers), born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas

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Famous Deaths

1931 – Oskar Minkowski, German Biologist (pancreas and diabetes), dies at 73
1961 – Kit Guard, Danish actor (El Diablo Rides, Kid Courageous), dies of cancer at 67
1987 – Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist (Regionalist Manifesto), dies at 87
1996 – Hans Fellner, bookseller, dies at 71
2009 – Henry Allingham, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran, dies at 113
2016 – Billy Name [William Linich Jr], photographer (Andy Warhol’s factory), dies at 76

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Historical Events

1894 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Blanche Bingley-Hillyard beats Edith Austin 6-1 6-1 for her 3rd of 6 Wimbledon singles titles
1959 – “North by Northwest” directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint premieres in Los Angeles
1970 – 30,000 attend Randall’s Island Rock Festival, NYC
1981 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1987 – Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for 1st time
1989 – Paul McCartney releases single “This One”, from his album “Flowers In The Dirt”

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Famous Birthdays

1913 – Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and communist (convicted for Holocaust denial), born in Marseille, France (d. 2012)
1940 – Phyllis Davis, Port Arthur Tx, actress (Love American Style, Vega$)
1963 – John Ventimiglia, American actor (The Sopranos), born in Queens, New York
1967 – Kevin Pritchard, American NBA guard and basketball executive (Washington Bullets), born in Bloomington, Indiana
1972 – Eric Williams, American NBA forward (Denver Nuggets, Boston Celtics), born in Newark, New Jersey
1973 – Horacio Llamas, Mexican NBA center (Phoenix Suns), born in Rosario, Mexico

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Famous Deaths

1943 – Sir Patrick Duncan, Governor-general of the Union of South Africa (1937 to 1943), dies at 72
1961 – Ty Cobb, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (AL MVP 1911; Triple Crown 1909; 12 × AL batting champion; Detroit Tigers) and manager (Detroit Tigers 1921-26), dies of cancer at 74
1966 – August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi Suite), dies at 71
2004 – Julian Hodge, British financier and multi-millionaire (Hodge Group), dies at 99
2009 – Walter Cronkite, American broadcast journalist and news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81), dies of cerebrovascular disease at 92
2009 – Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher and writer (Conversations with the Devil), dies at 81

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Historical Events

1956 – Detroit Tigers and Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million
1980 – Ronald Reagan nominated for US President by Republicans in Detroit
1989 – US Open Women’s Golf, Indianwood G and CC: Betsy King wins the first of her 2 consecutive titles, 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Nancy Lopez
1990 – The ANC send a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demanded an end to “the shocking inhumanity” of police action in rural areas of South Africa
2015 – Shootings in Chattanooga at a US military recruitment centre and a naval reserve training center kill 5 and injure others
2017 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, Caves Valley GC: Scott McCarron wins his lone career major title by 1 stroke from Brandt Jobe and Germany’s Bernhard Langer

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Famous Birthdays

1746 – Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (found 1st asteroid-Ceres), born in Ponte in Valtellina, Italy (d. 1826)
1888 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, invented phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953), born in Amsterdam (d. 1966)
1907 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (Dynasty II, Big Valley, Thorn Birds), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1990)
1960 – Eus van Someren, Dutch pop guitarist (Scene, Blaauw), born in Beverwijk, Netherlands
1979 – Chris Mihm, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1989 – Gareth Bale, Welsh soccer winger (Tottenham, Real Madrid, Wales), born in Cardiff, Wales

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Famous Deaths

1594 – Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (The Spanish Tragedy), dies at 35
1796 – George Howard, British field marshal, dies at 78
1980 – Robert Brackman, American artist, dies at 81
1996 – John Panozzo, American rock drummer (Styx), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 47
2020 – Tony Taylor, Cuban baseball second baseman (MLB All Star 1960²; Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers), dies from stroke complications at 84
2020 – Brigid Berlin, American actress (Andy Warhol films), dies at 80

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Historical Events

1808 – French marshal Joachim Murat becomes King of Naples
1823 – A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome
1973 – Ray Davies announces his retirement from The Kinks, then attempts suicide; neither effort successful
1988 – “Die Hard” directed by John McTiernan and starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman is released in the US
1990 – US Open Women’s Golf, Atlanta Athletic Club: Defending champion Betsy King wins consecutive titles, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Patty Sheehan, the leader after each of first 3 rounds
2014 – 20 people are killed and 100 are injured after a train derails in Moscow

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Famous Birthdays

1353 – Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
1906 – Rudolf “Rudi” Uhlenhaut, German automotive engineer and test driver (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1989)
1906 – Edmund Davies, British judge (as Lord Justice of appeal, tried the Great Train Robbers, Edmund-Davies police pay review), born in Mountain Ash, Wales (d. 1992)
1922 – Leon M. Lederman, American experimental physicist (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988 – for research on quarks and leptons) and author (The God Particle), born in NYC, New York (d. 2018)
1957 – (Lyman) “Mac” McAnally, American session and touring country music singer-songwriter, and musician (Coral Reefer Band), born in Red Bay, Alabama
1968 – Eddie Griffin, American comedian (Black Dynamite), born in Kansas City, Missouri

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Famous Deaths

1750 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman, dies at 73
1958 – Nuri al-Said, Iraqi politician, 8-time Prime Minister of Iraq, assassinated while trying to escape during the revolution at 69
1986 – Benny Rubin, American actor and comedian (Benny Rubin Show), dies at 87
1989 – Laurie Cunningham, English soccer left winger (6 caps; Orient, West Bromwich Albion, Real Madrid, Marseille, Rayo Vallecano), dies in a car crash at 33
1994 – Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, Dutch painter/illustrator, dies
2013 – Earl Gros, American NFL running back (Green Bay), dies at 72

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