1795 – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
1801 – Johann Nepomuk Went, Bohemian composer, dies at 56
1863 – Richard Brooke Garnett, US Confederate Brigadier General, dies in battle at 45
1868 – Lafayette Curry Baker, American investigator spy and Brigadier General (Union Army), dies at 41
1918 – Mehmed V, 35th Ottoman Sultan (1909-18), dies at 73
1978 – James Daly, American actor (Medical Center, Planet of the Apes), dies of heart failure at 59
1990 – Maurice Girodias, French publisher and founder (Olympia Press), dies at 71
1991 – Jimmy [James Henry] Van Alen, American tennis official who created Simplified Scoring System for tennis, dies at 88
1994 – Harry Ebbeling, PC-corrector, dies at 54
1995 – Gil Wolman, French artist, dies at 65
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Historical Events for 3rd July 2020
1767 – Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret
1852 – Congress authorizes US’s 2nd mint (San Francisco, California)
1925 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen of France takes her 6th Wimbledon singles title with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Briton Joan Fry
1929 – Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
1937 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Dorothy Round of England beats Poland’s Jadwiga Jędrzejowska 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 for her second Wimbledon title
1942 – German troops march into Sebastopol, Crimea
1963 – In New Zealand, a National Airways Corporation Dakota DC-3 crashes in the Kaimai Ranges; all 23 passengers and crew are killed in New Zealand’s worst internal civil aviation accident
1982 – Riot at building Stopera Amsterdam (damages Ÿ1 million)
1991 – Gateway Board of Trustees approve a 20-year lease for the Cleveland Indians to play MLB at Jacobs Field
2006 – Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth.
Today in History for 3rd July 2020
Historical Events
1938 – President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
1940 – German occupiers forbid using Dutch royal names
1981 – NYC transit fare rises from 60 cents to 75 cents, new brass Y-cut-out token
1983 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: American John McEnroe wins 5th career Grand Slam title; outclasses Chris Lewis of New Zealand 6-2, 6-2, 6-2
1994 – The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people killed in crashes.
2007 – America’s Cup: Swiss defender Alinghi beats Team New Zealand by 1 second to take the series 5-2 off Valencia, Spain
Famous Birthdays
1819 – Louis Théodore Gouvy, French-German composer, born in Sarre (d. 1898)
1866 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter, born in Stege, Møn, Denmark (d. 1906)
1902 – Jack Newman, New Zealand cricket lefty pace bowler (1932-33, later knighted), born in Brightwater, Nelson (d. 1996)
1909 – Earl Butz, 18th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1971-76), born in Albion, Indiana (d. 2008)
1936 – Eric Russell, English cricketer (England opening batsman early 60s), born in Dumbarton, Scotland
1970 – Victor Bailey, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs)
Famous Deaths
1795 – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
1904 – Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
1976 – Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train), dies at 58
1984 – Raoul Salan, French Army general and leader of OAS; Secret Army Organization (Algeria), dies at 85
1987 – Viola Dana, actress (Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover), dies at 90
1993 – “Curly” Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges) dies of pneumonia at 83
Famous Deaths for 2nd July 2020
1794 – Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65
1912 – Tom Richardson, England cricket fast bowler (88 Test wickets), dies of a heart attack at 41
1917 – Herbert Beerbohm Tree, British actor and theatre manager (King John, Trilby), dies at 64
1936 – Harry Northrup [Henri N.], French-born American poet and actor (The Heart of Maryland, The Unchastened Woman), dies at 60
1991 – Lee Remick, American actress (Days of Wine and Roses), dies of cancer at 55
1995 – George Seldes, American investigative journalist, dies at 104
1997 – Jimmy Stewart, American actor (The Philadelphia Story and It’s a Wonderful Life), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 89
2005 – Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (North by Northwest), dies at 89
2013 – Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American scientist and NASA astronaut, dies at 80
2019 – Michael Colgrass, American-Canadian composer who won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Music for the piece “Déjà vu”, dies at 81
Historical Events for 2nd July 2020
1505 – After an encounter with a violent thunderstorm, Martin Luther declares that he will become a monk
1582 – Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide
1787 – Marquis de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered
1861 – Battle of Hoke’s Run, WV – small Union victory
1930 – Chicago outfielder Carl Reynolds becomes only the 2nd player in MLB history to hit home runs in 3 consecutive innings in 15-4 White Sox victory at Yankee Stadium
1937 – Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Don Budge beats Germany’s Gottfried von Cramm 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 for first of back-to-back titles
1970 – NY Yankees infielder Horace Clarke breaks up a potential no-hitter in the 9th inning for 3rd time in 28 days
1971 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1993 – Royals Stadium is renamed Kauffman Stadium shortly before the death of Kansas City Royals owner Ewing Kauffman
2000 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Saucon Valley CC: Hale Irwin wins by 3 strokes ahead of Bruce Fleischer for his second US Senior title
Today in History for 2nd July 2020
Historical Events
1917 – Riots in East St Louis, Missouri
1921 – In boxing’s first million dollar gate ($1.7m), world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey KOs Frenchman Georges Carpentier in round 4 of his 3rd title defence; crowd 91,000 at Boyle’s Thirty Acres in Jersey City, New Jersey
1932 – FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech
2001 – Bush Administration announce that it will seek to let oil companies drill on about 1,500,000 acres of the Gulf of Mexico
2005 – Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Venus Williams beats fellow American Lindsay Davenport 4-6, 7-6, 9-7 for the 3rd of her 5 Wimbledon singles titles
2018 – 270,000 people now displaced by fighting in south-western Syria says UN since assault on rebel-held area two weeks ago
Famous Birthdays
1918 – Sheikh Imam, Egyptian singer and composer, born in Giza (d. 1995)
1925 – Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist and NAACP official who was assassinated, born in Decatur, Mississippi (d. 1963)
1926 – Billy Usselton, American big band jazz saxophonist (Les Brown and His Band of Renown), born in New Castle, Pennsylvania (d. 1994)
1939 – John H. Sununu, US Secretary of State (R, 1989-91), Governor of New Hampshire (1983-89), born in Havana, Cuba
1947 – Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, daughter of President LBJ
1972 – Darren Shan, Irish children’s author
Famous Deaths
936 – Henry I the Vogelaar, German king (919-36), Duke of Saxon 912-36, dies
1708 – Willem of Nassau, mister of Zuylenstein/lt-gen/baron Enfield, dies
1746 – Thomas Baker, English antiquarian, dies at 89
1946 – Anthony Overton, publisher/cosmetics manufacturer/banker, dies at 81
1961 – Ernest Hemingway, American author and Nobel laureate (The Old Man and the Sea), dies from suicide at 61
1989 – Franklin Schaffner, American film director (b. 1920)
Famous Deaths for 1st July 2020
1378 – Jan I V van Arkel, bishop of Utrecht/Luik, dies
1627 – Nathaniel Bacon, English painter, dies at 41
1863 – John Fulton Reynolds, Union general-major, dies in battle at 42
1916 – William Booth, English Test cricket batsman (WWI 2 Tests), dies at the Somme at 39
1943 – Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1950 – Eliel Saarinen, Finish-American architect (Chicago Tribune building), dies at 76
1981 – Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921)
1990 – Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead), dies of cancer at 48
1996 – Michael Fraser, British Conservative Party political administrator, dies at 80
2001 – Nicolay G. Basov, Soviet physicist who specialized in quantum electronics (laser, maser) and 1964 Nobel laureate, dies at 78
Historical Events for 1st July 2020
1916 – 1st of 4 fatal Jersey Shore shark attacks occur at Beach Haven when Charles Vansant (25) bled to death, challenging previous scientific belief that sharks never hurt humans, and sparking popular fear over sharks which persists today
1944 – Graf (Count) Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel
1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono are admitted to hospital after a car crash
1987 – New York City radio station WFAN-AM commences first 24 hour all sports radio format
1987 – WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN’s country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
1990 – In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal
1995 – All NBA business apart from the Draft is suspended until a new collective bargaining agreement made with the players – no games lost
1997 – United Kingdom returns Hong Kong and the New Territories to the People’s Republic of China
1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth on the day powers are transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh
2000 – The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic
Today in History for 1st July 2020
Historical Events
1902 – US Congress passes the Philippines Government Act, providing that the Philippines be governed by a commission appointed by the President, with consent from the senate; Filipinos are to be treated as citizens of their land, no the USA
1902 – Ranji (230) and Newham (153) add 344 for 7th wkt, Sussex v Essex
1945 – First MLB superstar to return from WW II, Hank Greenberg homers in his 1st game (Detroit beats Philadelphia A’s 9-5)
1948 – Brooklyn’s future Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Roy Campanella debuts with 3 hits in a 6-4 loss to the rival NY Giants
2007 – Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces: with the ban already in force in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, this means it is illegal to smoke in indoor public places anywhere in the UK. Australia implements a similar ban.
2014 – Martin Schulz is re-elected President of the European Parliament
Famous Birthdays
1883 – Arthur Borton, English soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross, born in Cheveney, Kent (d. 1933)
1904 – Mary Calderone, American physician and founder (planned parenthood), born in NYC, New York (d. 1998)
1934 – Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter, born in Paris (d. 2009)
1939 – Frank Parker, American actor (Days of our Lives, Never Too Young), born in Darby, Pennsylvania (2018)
1941 – Twyla Tharp, American dancer and choreographer (Twyla Tharp Dance Troupe), born in Portland, Indiana
1952 – Daniel “Dan” Aykroyd, Canadian-American comedian and actor (SNL, Dragnet), born in Ottawa, Canada
Famous Deaths
1662 – Simon Ives, English court composer, dies at 61
1953 – Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies
1974 – Juan Perón, Argentine military officer and President of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies of a heart attack at 78
1982 – John Everett Watts, American composer, dies at 51
1995 – Wolfman Jack [Robert Weston Smith], American disk jockey (Midnight Special), dies from a heart attack at 57
2006 – Fred Trueman, England cricket fast bowler (England 67 Tests, 307 wickets), dies of small cell carcinoma at 75
Famous Deaths for 30th June 2020
1364 – Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
1923 – Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer, dies at 56
1966 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian auto racer (World F1 champion 1950), dies in a domestic car accident at 59
1973 – Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr (b. 1903)
1992 – Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies
1994 – Nicholas Warner, test Pilot, dies at 51
1996 – Michael Parkin, journalist, dies at 74
2007 – Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
2011 – Barry Bremen, American sports imposter and business man (b. 1947)
2015 – eonard Starr, American comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 89