1618 – Prince Maurits’ troops pull into Utrecht
1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed after being found guilty of treason by the Spanish military in Chihuahua, Mexico
1907 – The Filipinos elect their first legislature; it will meet on 16 October
1944 – US 30th division reaches the suburbs of Saint-Lô, Normandy with heavy battles also occurring at Tessy-sur-Vire and Villebaudon
1968 – Washington shortstop Ron Hansen makes 8th unassisted triple-play in MLB history and first in 41 years as Senators lose, 10-1 to Cleveland Indians
1970 – -Aug 5] Hurricane Celia, kills 31 in Cuba, Florida and Texas
1981 – Simon Gray’s “Quartermaine’s Terms” premieres in London
1990 – Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die
2002 – Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen’s 12th studio album “The Rising”, his first new record with the E Street Band since 1985 tops the charts in 7 countries
2020 – Federal law enforcement officers begin a phased withdrawal from Portland amid criticism of their actions to shut down Black Lives Matter protests
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Today in History for 30th July 2022
Historical Events
657 – St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I
1905 – Dutch Covenant of Worker’s union, NVV, forms
1942 – FDR signs bill creating women’s Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1953 – Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance
1960 – 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
1997 – Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia
Famous Birthdays
1875 – James W. Tate, English composer, born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire (d. 1922)
1880 – Robert R. McCormick, American editor and publisher (Chicago Tribune), born in Chicago (d. 1955)
1940 – Clive Sinclair, British consumer electronics inventor (Executive pocket calculator; ZX Spectrum computer), born in Richmond, Surrey, England (d. 2021)
1959 – Petra Felke, German javelin thrower (world record 1988), born in Saalfeld, East Germany
1981 – Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (MotoGP Champion 2006), born in Owensboro, Kentucky (d. 2017)
1982 – Jimmy Anderson, English cricket fast bowler (most wickets for England in both Test and ODI cricket), born in Burnley, Lancashire
Famous Deaths
1965 – Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (Key), dies at 79
1982 – Roberta Pedon, American glamour model, dies at 28
1994 – Theo van Scheltinga, skater, dies at 80
2008 – Anne Armstrong U.S. ambassador to Britain and first female counsel to the President, dies at 80
2009 – Peter Zadek, German theatre director (b. 1926)
2012 – Maeve Binchy [Snell], Irish novelist (Light a Penny Candle), dies at 72
Famous Deaths for 29th July 2022
1573 – John Caius, English physician, dies at 62
1752 – Peter Warren, British admiral who served in the Americas, dies at 47 or 48
1808 – Selam III, Turkish sultan (1789-1808) poet and composer, assassinated at 46
1833 – William Wilberforce, English abolitionist, dies at 73
1887 – Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman, Prime Minister of Italy (1876-78, 1778-79, 1881-87), dies at 74
1933 – Gerhard Schjelderup, Norwegian opera composer and musicologist, dies at 73
1976 – Mickey Cohen, American gangster (Cohen crime family), dies at 62
1979 – Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916)
1992 – Tavio Amorin, Togolese politician, murdered
2000 – Kobie Coetsee, South African Minister of Defense (1993-94) and Minister of Justice (1980-93), dies at 69
Historical Events for 29th July 2022
362 – Emperor Julianus of Constantinople’s “School Edict” prohibited Christian teachers from using pagan literature which were standard texts for classical education at the time
1014 – Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies
1847 – Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States
1934 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Park CC: Paul Runyan wins first of his 2 PGA crowns, defeating Craig Wood in 38 holes
1968 – Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
1983 – Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
1993 – Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible
1995 – Monica Seles beats Martina Navratilova in her return to tennis
2018 – British Senior Open Men’s Golf, St. Andrews: Spaniard Miguel Ángel Jiménez wins by 1 shot from defending champion Bernhard Langer of Germany
2021 – Following Simone Biles’ withdrawal, teammate Sunisa Lee becomes first Hmong-American Olympic champion in any sport when she wins women’s artistic individual all-around gymnastics gold in Tokyo
Today in History for 29th July 2022
Historical Events
1928 – Test footage first created for Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” with Mickey Mouse
1942 – Eastern Blvd in the Bronx renamed Bruckner Boulevard, in honor of former Bronx Borough President and US Congressman, Henry Bruckner
1956 – WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting
1978 – American Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7 hrs, 40 min; record holds until 1995
1994 – 200,000 Muslims demand the death of feminist writer Taslima Nasrin in Bangladesh
1995 – Monica Seles beats Martina Navratilova in her return to tennis
Famous Birthdays
1866 – George Morrison, American entrepreneur (owner of Mammoth Caves), born border of Ohio and Pennsylvania (d. 1937)
1914 – Dovie Hudson, American community activist in rural Mississippi (filed lawsuit to desegregate the public schools)
1935 – Peter Schreier, German tenor and conductor (Dresden State Opera, 1962-2000), born in Meissen, Saxony, Germany (d. 2019)
1937 – Daniel McFadden, American economist and Nobel Prize Laureate who developed theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice, born in Raleigh, North Carolina
1981 – Troy Perkins, American professional soccer goalkeeper, born in Springfield, Ohio
1990 – Shin Se-kyung, South Korean actress (Deep Rooted Tree), born in Yangcheon, South Korea
Famous Deaths
1108 – King Philip I, King of the Franks 1059, 1060-1108), dies at 56
1887 – Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman, Prime Minister of Italy (1876-78, 1778-79, 1881-87), dies at 74
1954 – Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (World Alllround Speed Skating champion 1905), dies at 75
1984 – Fred Waring, American bandleader, conductor, and Waring Blender namesake, dies at 84
2007 – Michel Serrault, French actor (Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud, La Cage aux Folles), dies at 79
2016 – Marta Marzotto, Italian countess and designer, dies at 85
Famous Deaths for 28th July 2022
1631 – Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
1778 – Arvid Niclas von Höpken, Swedish nobleman, soldier, and composer (Il Re Pastore), dies at 68
1895 – Edward Beecher, American theologian, dies at 91
1969 – Frank Loesser, American songwriter and composer (Guys And Dolls, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”; Most Happy Fella), dies at 59
1969 – Ramón Grau, Cuban politician, 6th and 10th President of Cuba, dies at 87
1976 – Jacob Soetendorp, Dutch rabbi, dies at 62
1989 – Jeff Richards [Richard Mansfield Taylor], American actor (Don’t Go Near the Water), dies of acute respiratory failure at 64
1996 – Harold Fox, American fashion designer and musician, dies at 86
2004 – Francis Crick, English molecular biologist who co-discovered DNA’s structure, with James Watson (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1962), dies of colon cancer at 88
2013 – William Scranton, American Republican Party politician and diplomat, dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 96
Historical Events for 28th July 2022
1586 – Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to England
1864 – US Civil War: Battle at Ezra Chapel – Union forces under Major Gen. William Sherman defeat Confederate Lt. General John Hood near Atlanta in Fulton County, Georgia
1866 – Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
1898 – Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender
1932 – “White Zombie” – 1st feature length zombie film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Bela Lugosi is released in the US
1959 – Hawaii’s 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
1971 – Dutch ends censorship of “Blue Movie”
2005 – A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
2014 – Israel criticizes John Kerry’s proposed ceasefire, stating that no ceasefire deal will be accepted without the destruction of tunnels leading from Gaza to Israel and the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip
2020 – Iter, the world’s largest nuclear fusion project, begins assembly in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
Today in History for 28th July 2022
Historical Events
1790 – Henry James Pye appointed as British Poet Laureate by King George III
1919 – Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam
1979 – France performs nuclear Test
1985 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf (du Maurier Classic), Beaconsfield GC: Pat Bradley wins by 1 from Jane Geddes
1986 – Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed
1992 – RandB singer Mary J. Blige releases her debut album “What’s the 411?”, with production by Puff Daddy
Famous Birthdays
1863 – Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
1901 – Sándor Vándor, Hungarian Jewish composer, born in Miskolc, Hungary (d. 1945)
1928 – Adrian Ratiu, Romanian composer, born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 2005)
1934 – Jacques d’Amboise, American ballet dancer, and choreographer (NYC Ballet Company, 1949-84), actor (Seven Brides For Seven Brothers), and educator (founded National Dance Institute, 1976), born in Dedham Massachusetts (d. 2021)
1951 – Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect (Milwaukee Art Museum), born in Valencia, Spain
1972 – Ed Templeton, American skateboarder (Toy Machine), born in Garden Grove, California
Famous Deaths
1641 – John Amner, English composer, dies at 61
1864 – Samuel Benton, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at about 44
1895 – Edward Beecher, American theologian, dies at 91
1904 – Vyacheslav von Plehve, Russian Minister of the Interior, killed by Jewish revolutionaries after a bomb is thrown at his carriage, dies at 58
1991 – Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer exiled to Netherlands, dies at 45
1996 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and writer (How to Know Birds), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 27th July 2022
1638 – Johan VIII de Jongere, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 54
1863 – William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
1864 – John Putnam Chapin, American politician (10th Mayor of Chicago (1846-47), dies at 54
1933 – James E. Talmage, English religious leader (LDS Church apostle), dies at 70
1948 – Francesco Spetrino, Italian conductor and composer, dies at 91
1962 – Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies
1991 – Pierre Brunet, French figure skater pair (Olympic gold 1928, 32), dies at 89
1996 – Jane Beverly Drew, English modernist architect, dies at 85
2003 – Vance Hartke, American politician (b. 1919)
2012 – Norman Alden, American character actor (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden), dies from natural causes at 87
Historical Events for 27th July 2022
1377 – First example of quarantine in Rugusa (now Dubroknik); city council passes law saying newcomers from plague areas must isolation for 30 days (later 40 days, quaranta in Italian)
1880 – Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr Watson is wounded, breaks out
1891 – Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as governor of Suriname
1931 – Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota destroyed thousands of acres of crops
1944 – US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy
1956 – England cricket spin bowler Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia’s 1st innings in 4th Test at Manchester; best return ever in Test cricket; bettered in 2nd innings 10-53
1962 – USSR performs nuclear Test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1990 – Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
1997 – Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser’s #16
2019 – American swimmer Caeleb Dressel wins 3 gold medals in one day at the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea; 50m freestyle, 100m butterfly and mixed 4×100m freestyle relay (WR 3:19.40)