Category: On This Day

Historical Events

1221 – Emperor Go-Horikawa aged only 10 years old ascends to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan
1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
1899 – The First Hague Convention is signed.
1899 – Southern California Golf Association forms
1970 – 6 days of race rioting in Hartford Ct
1986 – Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire v Lancashire

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Famous Birthdays

1883 – Manuel Infante, Spanish composer/conductor
1899 – Walter Beall, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1963 – Steve Frey, Meadowbrook PA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1965 – Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author
1972 – Steven Branscombe, WLAF WR (Scotland Claymores)
1977 – Greg Burgess, American 200m individual medley (Olympic silver 1992, 96)

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Famous Deaths

1786 – Franz Asplmayr, composer, dies at 58
1792 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
1897 – Joost G Kist, lawyer/president of High Council (1885-97), dies at 74
1983 – David Niven, British actor (Around the World in 80 Days, Rugues), dies in Switzerland at 73
1987 – Arthur Chipperfield, cricketer (14 Tests for Australia), dies
2003 – Johnny Walker [Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi], Indian actor (Madhumati, Chachi 420), dies at 82

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Historical Events

1717 – Prussian king Frederik Willhelm I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs
1952 – Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell as Cincinnati Reds manager
1957 – Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1972 – 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162)
1993 – Mariner Ken Griffey Jr is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games
1994 – Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers throws the only perfect game in franchise history, against the California Angels

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Famous Birthdays

1778 – Charles Stewart, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), (d. 1869)
1925 – Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1948 – Gerald Casale, American musician and director (founding member of Devo), born in Ravenna, Ohio
1962 – Rachel Sweet, American singer, born in Akron, Ohio
1986 – Alexandra Chando, American actress (As the World Turns), born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1990 – Soulja Boy [DeAndre Cortez Way], American rapper, born in Chicago, Illinois

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Famous Deaths

1285 – Queen Keran of Armenia, consort of Leo III of Armenia
1711 – Gerard Lairesse, painter, buried
1837 – John Ross, British composer and organist, dies at 73
1965 – Minor Watson, American actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid), dies at 75
2011 – Abdul Fatah Younis, Former Libyan Interior Minister, assassinated for pro-Gadaffi ties (b. 1944)
2013 – Frank Castillo, American MLB player, drowns at 44

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Historical Events

1909 – Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s
1930 – 25th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (4-1)
1948 – Australia set 404 to win v England at Headingley
1968 – Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open
1992 – Nelson Mandela says a general strike will go ahead to protest for the removal of South African President F. W. de Klerk from power and for free elections
1993 – NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million

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Famous Birthdays

1833 – Thomas George Bonney, English geologist, born in Rugeley, United Kingdom (d. 1923)
1848 – Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian-German pianist, born in Odessa, Ukraine (d. 1933)
1952 – Hannu-Pekka Hänninen, Finnish sports commentator
1959 – David East, English cricketer, born in London
1963 – Karrin Allyson, American jazz singer (Wild for You), born in Great Bend, Kansas
1977 – Foo Swee Chin, Singaporean comic book artist

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Famous Deaths

1828 – Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter, dies
1883 – Montgomery Blair, American lawyer (Dred Scott V Sandford), dies at 70
1952 – Roland Pope, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885), dies
1978 – Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer, dies at 72
1995 – Rick Ferrell, American baseball Hall of Fame catcher, dies at 89
2012 – Geoffrey Hughes, British actor, dies from prostate cancer at 68

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Historical Events

1944 – The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain (nicknamed “gasometer”).
1944 – US offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St Gilles
1948 – President Harry Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 to desegregate the US armed forces, directing “equality of treatment and opportunity” in the military
1987 – Catfish Hunter Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 – General Hospital records its 7,000th episode
2017 – US President Donald Trump announces policy to ban transgendered people from the military, overturning Obama era changes

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Famous Birthdays

1881 – Alexander J. Kropholler, Dutch architect and writer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1973)
1919 – Kenneth Snowman, antiquarian
1922 – Hoyt Wilhelm [James], American Major League Baseball player and knuckleball pitcher (New York Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers), born in Huntersville, North Carolina (d. 2002)
1931 – A M F (Sandy) Ross, managing-director (Mary Quant)
1940 – Dobie Gray [Lawrence Brown], American musician and singer (Drift Away), born in Simonton, Texas (d. 2011)
1967 – Anthony Durante, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)

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Famous Deaths

1719 – Johann Georg Christian Storl, composer, dies at 43
1836 – Jose Melchor Gomiz y Colomer, composer, dies at 45
1941 – Marx Dormoy, French socialist, killed by a time bomb
1956 – Miguel Bernal Jiminez, composer, dies at 46
1995 – George Romney, politician, dead Heart attack, dies at 88
2013 – Rolf Haufs, German writer , dies at 77

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Historical Events

1814 – English engineer George Stephenson introduces his first steam locomotive, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway named Blücher
1952 – Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth (Constitution Day)
1978 – John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image
1982 – 37th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson
1996 – Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs United States
2014 – Both Israel and Hamas review US Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal for an immediate ceasefire and meetings in Cairo

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Famous Birthdays

1780 – Christian Theodor Weinlig, German composer, teacher and choir master, born in Dresden, Saxony (d. 1842)
1840 – Flora Adams Darling, American writer and historian, founded Daughters of American Revolution, born in Lancaster, New Hampshire (d. 1910)
1861 – Andrew Cowper Lawson, Scottish-Canadian Geologist who was the first person to identify and name the San Andreas Fault, born in Anstruther ,Scotland (d. 1952)
1882 – George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain, Navy Cross (d. 1942)
1964 – Tony Granato, Downers Grove, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1969 – Angela Melini, Saigon, Vietnam, playmate (Jun, 1992)

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Famous Deaths

1791 – Isaac Low, American Continental Congressman (b. 1735)
1989 – Steve Rubell, American night club owner (b. 1943)
1993 – Nan Grey [Eschal Miller], American actress (Three Smart Girls, Dracula’s Daughters), dies of heart failure on her 75th birthday
1995 – Osvaldo Pugliese, musician/composer, dies at 89
2008 – Jeff Fehring, Australian rules footballer (b. 1955)
2009 – Harry Patch, the last surviving soldier to have served in the trenches in World War I, dies at 111 (b. 1898)

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Historical Events

1847 – Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah
1909 – Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates
1931 – Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6)
1988 – 43rd US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann
1991 – Universityof Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
1993 – Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans

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Famous Birthdays

1894 – Walter Schulthess, composer
1904 – Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (d. 1991)
1913 – Johnny McAfee, singer (Sammy Kaye Show), born in Dallas, Texas
1914 – David Miles Bensusan-Butt, English economist, born in Colchester, England (d. 1994)
1914 – Robert Emhardt, American actor (Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1994)
1942 – Heinz Burt, Hargin Germany, rock bassist (Tornados)

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Famous Deaths

1868 – George Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies
1966 – Tony Lema, US golfer, dies at 32
1980 – Uttam Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1926)
1997 – William J. Brennan, Jr. American Supreme Court judge (1956-90), dies at 91
2011 – Jane White, African-American actress and singer (Strange Fruit, Once Upon a Mattress), dies at 88
2012 – Chad Everett [Raymon Lee Cramton], American actor (Medical Center, Airplane II), dies from lung cancer at 75

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Historical Events

1890 – Jack Barrett carries his cricket bat for Australia at Lord’s (67)
1931 – France announces it can’t afford to send a team to 1932 LA Olympics
1947 – 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, Rhode Island
1960 – 15th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1967 – Pirate Radio Swinging Scotland closes down for financial reasons
1977 – Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Muslims on hostage charges

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Famous Birthdays

1735 – Johannes Herbst, composer
1895 – Florence Vidor, American actress (Jack Knife Man), born in Houston, Texas (d. 1977)
1929 – Andrew Rutherford, warden (Goldsmith’s College)
1933 – Bert Convy, actor and game show host (Tattletales), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1991)
1949 – Clive Rice, South African cricket all-rounder (WSC 1978-79, ODI 1991), born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (d. 2015)
1969 – Dimitri Khristich, Kiev Ukr, NHL left wing (LA Kings)

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Famous Deaths

1568 – Don Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip II, dies at about 23
1829 – Wojciech Boguslawski, Polish composer, dies at 72
1951 – Robert Flaherty, American documentary filmmaker (Nanook of North), dies at 67
1955 – Cordell Hull, statesman, dies
1973 – Marius-Francois Gaillard, composer, dies at 72
2011 – John Shalikashvili, Polish-American general (NATO), dies at 75

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Historical Events

1739 – Ottoman Empire defeats Austria at Crocyka (Krotzka) in Serbia and then successfully laids siege to Belgrade
1919 – De Falla and Massine’s “Three-cornered Hat” premieres in London
1923 – Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508)
1942 – Gasoline rationing using coupons begins
1990 – 77th Tour de France won by Greg LeMond of USA
2001 – 130th British Golf Open: David Duval shoots a 274 at Royal Lytham and St Annes Golf Club

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Famous Birthdays

1894 – Oskar Maria Graf, German writer, born in Berg, Bavaria (d. 1967)
1927 – George Hunter, South Africa, light heavyweight boxer (Olympic gold 1948)
1964 – Rafael Addison, NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets)
1965 – Shawn Michaels, [Mike Hickenbottom], wrestler (WWF/AWA), born in San Antonio, Texas
1971 – William Bell, NFL running back (Washington Redskins)
1972 – Seth Fisher, American comic book artist and penciller (d.2006)

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Famous Deaths

1852 – Auguste Marmont, French marshal, dies at 77
1909 – D v Liliencron, writer, dies at 65
1992 – Wayne McLaren, American stuntman, model, actor, and rodeo performer (Marlboro Man), dies of lung cancer at 51
2003 – Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (b. 1954)
2006 – José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965)
2011 – Tom Aldredge, American actor (The Sopranos, What About Bob, Nurse, Mind Snatchers), dies at 83

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Historical Events

1542 – Pope Paul III begins inquisition against Protestants (Sactum Officium)
1846 – Mormons found 1st English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley)
1884 – 1st Test Cricket match played at Lord’s
1954 – At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North and South Vietnam
2011 – 44th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
2013 – 142nd British Golf Open: Phil Mickelson shoots a 281 at Muirfield Golf Links

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Famous Birthdays

1828 – John Rutter Brooke, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania (d. 1926)
1858 – Alfred Henry O’Keeffe, New Zealand artist, born in Sandhurst, Victoria (d. 1941)
1941 – Jim Bates, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
1943 – Edward Herrmann, actor (Day of the Dolphin, Reds), born in Washington, D.C.
1961 – Don Wilson, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1989 – Rory Culkin, American actor

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Famous Deaths

1544 – René of Chalon [Renatus of Nassau], prince of Orange, slain in battle
1899 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
1975 – Billy West [Roy B Weissburg], Russian actor, Charlie Chaplin impersonator and silent film director (Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy), dies at 82
1985 – Vicki Vola, actress (Miss Miller-Mr District Attorney)
1990 – Sacha Piteoff, dies of heart failure at 70
1996 – John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot, dies at 50

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Historical Events

1911 – Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
1940 – Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands
1944 – Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German army officer Claus Von Stauffenberg
1960 – Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon
1973 – Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ
1991 – Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant

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Famous Birthdays

1766 – Thomas Bruce, earl of Elgin and Kincardine, British diplomat
1893 – Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (From Where I Came)
1901 – Vehbi Koc, indistrialist/philanthropist
1928 – Charles David Ganao, Djambala, French Equatorial Africa, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (1996-1997), (d. 2012)
1937 – Ken Ogata, Japanese actor
1968 – Michael Park, American actor

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Famous Deaths

1732 – Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer, dies at 51
1766 – Isabelle Farnese, queen of Spain, dies
1908 – Federico Chueca, Spanish composer, dies at 62
1962 – George MacAulay Trevelyan, English royal historian, dies at 86
1976 – Tom Lowry, cricketer (early New Zealand Test captain), dies
1989 – Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, commander (French resistance), dies

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