311 – St Miltiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1140 – Hartbert becomes bishop of Utrecht
1864 – General Early and Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington, D.C.
1903 – Pitcher Jack Doscher, debuts for the Chicago Cubs, the first son of a major leaguer to play MLB, father Herm 1882-92
1921 – Warren G. Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring the official end of war with Germany
1950 – Cleveland Indians’ pitcher Bob Feller wins his 200th MLB game, 5-3 v Detroit Tigers
1956 – US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1966 – 1st France nuclear test on Mururoa atoll
1969 – Ireland cricketers dismiss West Indies for just 25 (Dougie Goodwin 5 for 6, Alec O’Riordan 4 for 18) to set up a huge upset in Londonderry
2017 – Women’s PGA Championship, Olympia Fields CC: American Danielle Kang scores her first professional win, 1 stroke ahead of defending champion Brooke Henderson of Canada
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Today in History for 2nd July 2023
Historical Events
1644 – Battle of Marston Moor, North Yorkshire: Parliamentary forces under Lords Fairfax and Manchester defeat royalists led by Prince Rupert
1947 – Military coup discovered in France
1955 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Louise Brough beats fellow American Beverly Fleitz 7-5, 8-6 for her 4th Wimbledon singles title
1972 – “Fiddler on the Roof” closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 3242 performances
1972 – India and Pakistan sign Simla Agreement peace accord
2020 – More than 160 people die after a landslide at a jade mine in northern Hpakant area of Myanmar
Famous Birthdays
1916 – Ken Curtis, American actor (Ripcord, Festus – Gunsmoke), born in Lamar, Colorado (d. 1991)
1935 – Ed Bullins, playwright, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1946 – Ron Silver, American actor (Reversal of Fortune, Timecop) and political activist, born in NYC, New York (d. 2009)
1947 – Larry David, American actor, comedian and screenwriter (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm), born in Brooklyn, New York
1952 – Linda M Godwin, Cape Girardeau Mo, PhD/astronaut (STS 37, 59, 76)
1975 – Erik Ohlsson, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
Famous Deaths
1591 – Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
1644 – William Gascoigne, English astronomer and mathematician (introduced telescopic sights), is killed in the Battle of Marston Moor at 24
1912 – Tom Richardson, England cricket fast bowler (14 Tests, 88 wickets, BB 8/94; Surrey CCC), dies of a heart attack at 41
1995 – George Seldes, American investigative journalist, dies at 104
1999 – Mario Puzo, American novelist (The Godfather, Cotton Club, Earthquake), dies at 78
2019 – Pat Crawford Brown, American actress (Desperate Housewives – “Ida”; General Hospital), dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 1st July 2023
1109 – Alfonso VI, King of Castile and Leon (conquered Toledo) (b. c. 1040)
1614 – Isaac Casaubon, English classical scholar (Atheneaus), dies at 55
1943 – Johan Brouwer, Dutch writer, Hispanist, and anti-Nazi resistance fighter, executed at 45
1953 – Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies
1958 – Harry Nicholls Holmes, American chemist (crystallized vitamin A), dies at 78
1978 – Kurt Student, German Luftwaffe general (b. 1890)
1996 – William T. Cahill, American politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (1970-74), dies at 84
1998 – Lucy Reed [Dollinger], American jazz vocalist (Woody Herman; Charlie Ventura), dies at 77
2003 – Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (“Hijack”; Push Push; Memphis Underground), dies at 73
2012 – Loyd Gentry, American thoroughbred trainer (Kentucky Derby 1967 Proud Clarion), dies of heart failure at 86
Historical Events for 1st July 2023
1863 – Slavery abolished in Dutch territories including Sint Maarten, Suriname and the Dutch Antilles, (now marked as Keti Koti Day in Suriname and the Netherlands)
1874 – 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000
1898 – Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
1931 – Ice vending machines introduced in Los Angeles 25 lbs, 15 cents
1937 – Rev Martin Niemöller arrested in Nazi Germany for activities against the State
1947 – Basketball Association of America (BAA), which later became the National Basketball Association (NBA), holds its inaugural college player draft
1948 – NYC subway fare goes to 10 cents, bus fare to 7 cents and combo fare at 12 cents
1963 – ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) Codes are introduced for United States mail
1980 – ‘O Canada’ officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1981 – Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3
Today in History for 1st July 2023
Historical Events
1946 – US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)
1973 – 1st US-China basketball game, US collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61
1982 – 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1987 – WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN’s country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
1996 – WBSI TV replaces WNYC on channel 31 in NYC
2016 – Islamic militants storm a cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 20 hostages and 2 police, country’s worse terror attack
Famous Birthdays
1844 – Verney Lovett Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), born in Radipole, Dorset, England (d. 1894)
1899 – Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr., American fictional film character (Indiana Jones films)
1903 – Beatrix Lehmann, British actress (Candles at Nine, Staircase), born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England (d. 1979)
1906 – Estée Lauder [Josephine Esther Mentzer], American entrepreneur (Estée Lauder cosmetics), born in Corona, Queens, New York City (d. 2004)
1925 – Frank Lowson, England cricket batsman (7 Tests, 2 x 50s; Yorkshire CCC), born in Bradford, England (d. 1984)
1948 – Wang Qishan, Chinese Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, born in Qingdao, Shandong
Famous Deaths
1627 – Nathaniel Bacon, English painter, dies at 41
1681 – Oliver Plunkett, Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and last Catholic martyr (later beatified) to die in England, hanged, drawn and quartered for treason at Tyburn at 55
1877 – William Henry Davenport, American stage magician, claimed to be a spirit medium, dies at 36
1974 – Juan Perón, Argentine military officer and President of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies of a heart attack at 78
2014 – Walter Dean Myers, African-American author, dies at 76
2022 – Richard Taruskin, American musicologist (Oxford History of Western Music), and educator, dies of esophageal cancer at 77
Famous Deaths for 30th June 2023
1882 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman, dies at 55
1914 – Bai Long [White Wolf], Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies
1935 – Bill Brockwell, English cricketer (British all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99), dies at 70
1953 – Charles William Miller, father of football in Brazil (b. 1874)
1992 – Nico Booken, Dutch director (Jewish Labor Social), dies at 72
1995 – Sicco Mansholt, Dutch politician, (President of the Commission of Europe 1972-1973), dies at 86
1996 – Jef Maes, Belgian composer and violinist, dies at 91
1997 – Albus Dumbledore [Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore], fictional character, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, dies at 115
2001 – Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist, dies at 64
2016 – Geoffrey Hill, English poet, dies at 84
Historical Events for 30th June 2023
1294 – Jews are expelled from Berne, Switzerland
1598 – King Philip II of Spain moves to El Escorial royal palace (dies there three months later)
1851 – Battle of Viervoet: Basotho forces led by Moshoeshoe defeat the British over the British imposed Walden line
1939 – Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde
1956 – Harry Warren, James Lawrence, Ribert E. Lee, and James Hilton’s musical “Shangri-La”, based on Hilton’s novel “Lost Horizon”, and featuring Jack Cassidy and Alice Ghostley, closes at Winter Garden Theater, NYC, after 21 performances
1966 – Vice Admiral William F. Raborn Jr., USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA
1977 – US President Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later “B-1’s the B-52”
1988 – French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church
2014 – Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is convicted of indecent assault in London, England
2022 – Ketanji Brown Jackson (51) sworn in as 104th justice of US Supreme Court, replacing Stephen Breyer (83) upon his retirement; 1st Black woman (6th female, and 3rd Black) to be seated
Today in History for 30th June 2023
Historical Events
1909 – Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to a no decision in 6 rounds at Duquesne Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to retain his heavyweight boxing title
1966 – Vice Admiral William F. Raborn Jr., USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA
1979 – “Got To Go Disco” closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 8 performances
1981 – Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, is detained
1989 – US Congressman Donald Lukens found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl
2002 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Caves Valley GC: Don Pooley wins by 1 stroke in a playoff with Tom Watson
Famous Birthdays
1468 – Johann the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony (1525-32), born in Meissen, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1532)
1641 – Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general, born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1719)
1917 – Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician, born in Ingelmunster, Belgium (d. 1980)
1933 – Lea Massari, Italian actress (Anna-L’avventura), born in Rome, Lazio, Italy
1936 – Assia Djebar [Fatma-Zohra Imalhayène], Algerian writer and filmmaker, born in Iol, Algeria (d. 2015)
1936 – Tony Musante, American actor (David Toma-Toma, Nowhere to Hide), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut (d. 2013)
Famous Deaths
1607 – Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian, dies at 68
1662 – Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, Dutch portrait painter, buried at about 64
1960 – Clarence Cameron White, American concert violinist, and composer (Elegy; Ouanga!), dies from cancer at 79
1992 – Nico Booken, Dutch director (Jewish Labor Social), dies at 72
1995 – Phyllis Hyman, American jazz singer (Prime of My Life), commits suicide at 45
2021 – Janet Moreau Stone, American athlete (Olympic gold 4x100m relay 1952), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 29th June 2023
1306 – Musho [Hokai], Zen teacher (found subtemple at Jochiji), dies
1880 – George Willem Vreede, Dutch lawyer and politician, dies at 71
1933 – Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, American actor (The Bell Boy, Moonshine, Keystone comedies), dies from a heart attack at 46
1964 – Eric Dolphy, American jazz saxophone, bass clarinet, and flute player, dies of insulin shock at 36
1994 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor, dies at 85
1995 – Lana Turner, American pin-up model and actress (Peyton Place; The Postman Always Rings Twice; Imitation of Life), dies of cancer at 74
1997 – William Hickey, American actor (Prizzi’s Honor, The Nightmare Before Christmas), dies of emphysema at 69
1998 – Horst Jankowski, German jazz and easy listening pianist (“A Walk In The Black Forest”), dies of lung cancer at 62
2000 – Arnie Weinmeister, Canadian Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive tackle (Pro Bowl 1950–53; First-team All-Pro 1950–53; NY Yankees, NY Giants; BC Lions), dies at 77
2021 – Carlos Vilar, Argentine sailor (Snipe World Championships gold 1948, 51), dies from COVID-19 at 91
Historical Events for 29th June 2023
1694 – Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports
1776 – Mission Dolores founded at San Francisco Bay by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Francisco Palóu
1906 – US Open Men’s Golf, Onwentsia GC: Scotsman Alex Smith wins first of his 2 Open titles, 7 strokes ahead of runner-up and younger brother Willie Smith
1931 – 109°F (43°C), Monticello, Florida (state record, until broken in 2015)
1944 – German generals Rommel and von Rundstedt travel to Berchtesgaden
1968 – “Tip-Toe Thru’ The Tulips With Me” by Tiny Tim peaks at #17
1985 – STS 51-F vehicle moves to launch pad
1986 – Richard Branson aboard Virgin Atlantic Challenger II reaches Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly, fastest crossing of Atlantic
1989 – Emmy 16th Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 10th time
2018 – Drake releases his fifth studio album “Scorpion”, a double album with 25 tracks