Today in History

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July 11

2012 Japan mourns the loss of a 6-day old rare giant panda, born naturally in captivity at a Tokyo zoo
2012 The discovery of the fifth moon of Pluto, S/2012 P 1, is announced by astronomers
2011 Illinois experiences heavy thunderstorms with 75 mph winds, cutting power to 868,000 homes and businesses
2011 The Republic of Korea announces plans to conduct midair refueling drills with the U.S. Air Force in 2011
2010 Colton Harris-Moore, a 19-year-old fugitive known as the 'Barefoot Bandit' is captured by police in northern Eleuthera, The Bahamas
1999 20th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: at Des Moines GC, W Des Moines, Iowa
1995 66th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 at Ballpark at Arlington, Texas
1995 All star MVP: Jeff Conine (Florida Marlins)
1993 14th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus
1993 Nancy Lopez wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1991 Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy
1991 Nigerian DC-8 crashes near Saudi-Arabia, 261 die
1991 Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii
1990 New York City police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
1989 60th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim All star MVP: Bo Jackson (Kansas City Royals)
1989 President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game
1988 Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor
1987 Heart's "Alone," single goes #1 for 3 weeks
1987 Orioles Cal Ripken becomes 1st to manage 2 sons, as Billy joins Cal
1986 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000 m in world record 30:13.74
1986 Maricica Puica of Romania runs 2,000 m in 5:28.69 (record for women)
1986 Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara
1985 Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
1985 Refurbished Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden
1985 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1984 55th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco
1984 All star MVP: Gary Carter, Mont Expos
1984 England's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe
1984 Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989
1984 Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana
1983 Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, of New Zealand, crowned 32nd Miss Universe
1982 "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 5 performances
1982 3rd U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Miller Barber
1982 Hollis Stacy wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
1982 Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid
1981 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1981 Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony
1981 Sebastian Coe of U.K. sets record for 1K (2:12.18)
1980 American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran
1979 U.S. Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia and disintegrates
1978 49th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at San Diego Stadium
1978 All star MVP: Steve Garvey, Los Angeles Dodgers
1978 Auto with liquid gas crashes and explodes in Spain, 160 killed
1977 Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Martin Luther King, Jr.
1976 1st U.S. football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American)
1976 31st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner
1976 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1976 In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by Championship Wrestling "Headlocks and Wedlocks"
1975 Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC
1974 House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
1974 World Football League plays 1st games
1973 Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed
1971 Chilean parliament nationalizes U.S. copper mines
1971 Jane Blalock wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1971 Phillies Deron Johnson 3 home runs caps his 4 in a row
1969 David Bowie releases 'Space Oddity'
1969 Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"
1968 Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles
1968 Start of Colin Cowdrey's 100th Test, 1st person to do so
1967 38th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 15 at Anaheim Stadium, CA
1967 All star MVP: Tony Perez (Cincinnati Reds)
1967 Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition
1965 Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Midwest Golf Open
1963 South African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested
1962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
1962 Brothers Hank and Tommie Aaron homer in same inning
1962 Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days
1962 Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)
1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961 30th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Pk, SF
1961 Gene Kiniski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1960 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC
1960 Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
1960 Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger declare independence
1960 Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independence
1955 Congress authorizes all U.S. currency to say "In God We Trust"
1955 New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado with 300 cadets
1954 1st White Citizens Council organizes in Indianola, Miss
1952 General Eisenhower nominated as Republican presidential candidate
1950 17th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 in 14 at Comiskey Park, Chicago Ted Williams breaks his elbow; 1st extra inning All Star Game
1948 1st air bombing of Jerusalem
1946 Kingman Douglass, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1944 12th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt says he would run for a 4th term
1943 7th day of battle at Kursk
1943 Counter attack by Hermann Goering Armour division in Sicily
1943 U.S. 45th Division occupies airport Comiso, Sicily
1943 U.S. 82nd Airborne division shot at, by "friendly fire" in Sicily
1941 German troops attack Dnjepr
1940 British and German dogfight above Lyme Bay
1939 7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York New York Yankee/AL maanager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees
1936 Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx and Queens opens
1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt became 1st President to travel through Panama Canal
1931 New York Giants beat Phillies 23-8
1930 Bradman scores 309 in a day vs England at Leeds, goes on to 334
1925 Queen Wilhelmina names H Colijn head of government
1924 Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi
1923 Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M
1921 Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
1919 Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day/No Sunday work
1916 1st federal grant-in-aid for state roads enacted
1916 Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act
1915 Germany cruiser Konigsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam
1914 Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleveland 4-3
1905 Black intellectuals and activists organize Niagara movement
1905 Niagara Movement founded by W. E. B. Dubois
1902 British premier Lord Salisbury resigns
1900 Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys and Lincolns
1897 Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole
1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere show film for scientists
1892 U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp
1889 Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city
1888 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Bennett, Colorado (state record)
1888 Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall
1882 British fleet bombs Alexandria
1864 Battle of Fort Stevens, DC (Early's Raid, Tennallytown, MD)
1864 Confederate forces led by General J Early begin invasion of Washington D.C.
1863 Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4
1862 Lincoln appoints General Halleck general-in-chief
1861 Battle of Laurel Mountain Virginia - General Morris forces retreat of rebels
1861 Battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender
1859 Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published
1848 Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent vs. England)
1848 London's Waterloo Station opens
1818 Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born," "Lines Written in the Highlands," and "Gadfly"
1812 U.S. invades Canada (Detroit frontier)
1801 French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet
1792 Prussia army moves into French territory
1789 U.S. Marine Corps created by an act of Congress
1781 Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of US
1740 Czarina Anne of Little Russia, expels Jews
1740 Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne
1708 Battle at Oudenaarde: Great Alliance beats France
1690 Battle of Drogheda Boyne (Willem III (Netherlands-England) beat Jacobus II (Ire)
1673 Netherlands and Denmark signs defense treaty
1635 Armies of Savoye/Mantua/Parma occupy Milan
1588 French king Henri III accept demands of Catholic League
1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1525 Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague
1423 Arnold van Egmont becomes duke of Gelre
1376 English "Good Parliament" meets
1347 Bohemia heir to the throne elected German anti-king Charles IV
1302 Battle of Kortrijk Belgium (France vs Flanders)
1302 Guldensporen battle of Belgium
1244 Chwarizneense Turken defeats Jerusalem

 

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July 12

2012 The Rolling Stones, English rock band, celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its first performance at the Marquee Club in Oxford Street, London
2012 An estimated 90 - 115 people die when an oil tanker in Okobge, Rivers State Nigeria crashes and explodes
2011 According to Moody's, Ireland's debt rating has been reduced to 'junk' status
2011 In Britain, a ticket holder wins 161,653,000 pounds, the largest EuroMillions jackpot in history
2010 A new long-range unmanned plane named Taranis is unveiled by the U.K. Ministry of Defense
2006 Israel invades Lebanon in response to Hezbollah's kidnapping of Israeli soldiers
1998 16th Seniors Players Golf Championship:
1998 Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic
1997 Pirates Francisco Cordova and Ricardo Rincon no-hit Astros 3-0 in 10 inn
1996 Kirby Puckett, retires from Minnesota Twins
1996 Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million
1996 Start of 1st "Super 8's" tournament in Kuala Lumpur
1994 65th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-8 at 3 Rivers Stad, Pitts
1994 All star MVP: Fred McGriff (Atlanta Braves)
1994 Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for supreme court justice begins
1993 7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed
1993 Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Sunset Promenade" opens in London
1993 Don Imus begins broadcasting to Boston on WEEI (590 AM)
1992 13th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Larry Laoretti
1992 Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St. Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert
1992 Betsy King wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
1990 "Les Miserables," opens at National Theatre, Washington
1990 Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party
1990 Chicago White Sox Melido Perez no-hits Yankees 8-0 in a rain shortened 6 inning game at Yankee Stadium (7th no-hitter of 1990)
1989 New York Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA)
1988 59th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
1988 All star MVP: Terry Steinbach for the Oakland A's
1988 Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Bogg's had an affair with her
1988 U.S.S.R. launches Phobos II for Martian orbit
1987 15th du Maurier Golf Classic: Jody Rosenthal
1987 1st time in 20 years a delegation from U.S.S.R. lands in Israel
1987 50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar
1987 8th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player
1987 Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief
1985 "Singin' in the Rain" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 367 performances
1985 Doctors discover a cancerous growth in President Reagan's colon
1985 STS-51-F launch scrubbed at T -3s because of main engine shutdown
1984 Geraldine Ferraro, New York becomes 1st woman major-party Vice Presidential candidate
1983 Chad government troops reconquer Abeche
1982 Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs
1981 Debbie Austin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1979 Ian Palce joins Whitesnake
1979 Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from U.K.
1979 "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild and causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers
1978 Sun Bank Building opens
1978 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 1st free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise
1977 John Edrich scores his 100th 100, Surrey vs. Derbyshire at The Oval
1976 Ian Dury and Kilburns disband
1975 104th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 279 at Carnoustie
1975 Bob Taylor catches 7 in an innings, Derbyshire vs. Yorkshire
1975 Sao Tome e Principe gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
1974 John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights
1971 Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders
1970 99th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at St. Andrews
1970 Blues-Rock singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky
1970 Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway
1969 98th British Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 280 at Royal Lytham
1968 Couve de Murville forms government in France
1968 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1967 23 die in Newark race riot
1967 5th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 4-0
1967 Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested
1967 Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship
1966 10.51" (26.70 cm) of rainfall, Sandusky Ohio (state record)
1966 37th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 10 at Busch Stad, St. Louis
1966 All star MVP: Brooks Robinson for the Baltimore Orioles
1966 Race riot in Chicago
1966 U.S. Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia and Denver mints
1964 19th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1962 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (U.S.S.R.)
1962 Rolling Stones 1st performance, Marquee Club, London
1960 Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence
1960 Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched
1960 Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
1960 U.S.S.R.'s Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
1960 XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, California (IND) begins broadcasting
1959 NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during ankee-Red Sox game
1958 "Li'l Abner" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 693 performances
1958 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1957 1st President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower
1957 U.S. Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
1955 22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at County Stad, Milw
1955 Christian Democratic Party forms in Argentina
1954 Major League Baseball Players Association founded
1954 President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system
1953 KTVB TV channel 7 in Boise, Idaho (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 East German SED decides to form East Germany army
1951 New York Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleveland Indians, 8-0
1950 ILTF re-admit Germany and Japan in Davis Cup, Poland and Hungary withdraws
1950 Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten and F Fischer to death
1949 16th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-7 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
1949 Baseball owners agree to erect warning paths before each fence
1949 Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die
1949 Los Angeles Rams sign Norm Van Brocklin
1948 1st jets to fly across Atlantic, 6 RAF de Havilland Vampires
1946 Vance Dinges hits only Phillie pinch hit inside-the-park home run
1945 Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games
1944 Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
1944 U.S. government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle
1943 Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula)
1943 National Committee Freies Deutschland forms
1943 Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker
1943 Russian offensive at Orel
1943 Tank battle at Prochorowka - Russians beat Nazis, about 12,000 die
1935 Belgium recognizes Soviet Union
1934 U.S. Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
1934 Willy de Supervise swims world record 400m (5:16.0)
1933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
1931 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St. Louis, help cause many ground ruled doubles, 11 in 1st game and 21 in 2nd game for 32
1930 34th U.S. Golf Open: Robert T "Bobby" Jones wins
1930 Bradman out for 334 in Test Cricket at Headingley, 383 minutes, 46 fours
1930 Hedley Verity takes 10 for 10 vs. Notts (19 4-16-10-10) at Leeds
1928 1st televised tennis match
1927 Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 home runs
1926 Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu
1926 Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:26.2)
1921 Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs
1921 Indians (9) and Yankees (7) combine for an AL record 16 doubles
1920 Lithuania and U.S.S.R. sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent rep
1918 Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed
1914 Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for Red Sox
1912 1st foreign feature film exhibited in U.S. - "Queen Elizabeth" - New York City
1909 16th Amendment approved, power to tax incomes
1906 Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France
1902 Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
1901 Cy Young wins his 300th game
1900 114 degrees F (46 degrees C), Basin, Wyoming (state record)
1898 Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda, Sudan
1882 1st ocean pier in U.S. completed, Washington, D.C.
1878 Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500
1874 Ontario Agricultural College founded
1874 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "Gloria Scott"
1862 Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
1862 Federal troops occupy Helena, Arkansas
1859 Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale, Massachusetts
1850 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States
1843 Mormon leader Joseph Smith say God OKs polygamy
1817 1st flower show held, Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland
1812 U.S. forces led by General Hull invade Canada, War of 1812
1801 Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French and Spanish
1785 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands
1776 Captain Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean
1774 Citizens of Carlisle Penn, pass a declaration of independence
1774 Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan
1771 James Cook sails Endeavour back to Downs England
1745 Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle
1730 Lorenzo Corsini chosen as Pope Clemens XII
1704 Stanislaw Leszcynski becomes king of part of Poland
1700 Gelderland accepts Gregorian calendar; yesterday is June 30, 1700
1691 Antonio Pignatelli elected as Pope Innocentius XII
1691 Battle of Aughrim (Aghrim) England, William III beats James II
1690 Battle of Boyne-King William III defeats catholic king James II
1689 Orangeman's Day-Battle of Boyne, Protestant victory in Ireland
1679 Britain's King Charles II ratified Habeas Corpus Act
1630 New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, it is later known as Ellis Island
1575 Willem van Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon
1549 English boer army occupies Norwich
1543 England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th and last wife)
1542 French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupies Flanders
1442 King Alfonso V of Aragon becomes king of Naples
1290 Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I
1191 Richard Coeur de Lion and Crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine
1109 Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli
526 St. Felix IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope

 

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July 13

2012 The People's Republic of China economic growth rate experiences to its lowest level in three years, 7.6 per cent
2012 A drought spreading through the United States leads to over 1,000 counties declared natural disaster areas
2011 Senior politician Norman Moore calls upon Western Australia to consider secession over carbon tax and Minerals Resource Rent Tax
2011 Researchers reveal two studies showing the antiretroviral drugs prescribed to treat AIDS can also prevent HIV infections
2010 The European Union announces that on January 1, 2011, it will make Estonia the seventeenth member of the euro
1997 15th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Larry Gilbert
1997 52nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Alison Nicholas
1997 David Toms wins Quad City Golf Classic at 265
1997 Ford Senior Players Golf Championship
1997 Indonesian ferry sinks, killing at least 77
1996 Cigar wins record 16th straight win, (ties Citation in 1940)
1995 Space shuttle STS-70, Discovery 20, launches
1994 Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1994 O. J. Simpson, charged with murder, gives hair samples for testing
1993 64th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-3 at Camden Yards, Baltimore
1993 All star MVP: Kirby Puckett for the Minnesota Twins
1991 Bob Milacki and 3 other Baltimore Oriole pitchers no-hit A's 2-0
1988 9th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1988 Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan
1988 Sting performs his 1st Rain Forest benefit concert
1987 Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials
1985 "Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief
1985 New York Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) and Elston Howard (32) uniforms
1984 Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert
1984 Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows
1984 Sergei Bubka of U.S.S.R. pole vaults a record 5.89 m
1982 53rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Montreal
1982 All star MVP: Dave Conception (Cincinnati Reds)
1982 Train crash at Aalter Belgium, 5 killed
1980 35th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1980 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1979 California's Nolan Ryan and Boston's Steve Renko each lose no-hitters in 9th
1979 George Harrison releases "Faster"
1978 Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR
1978 Alexander Ginzburg sentenced by Soviet court to 8 years
1978 BBC bans Sex Pistols "No One is Innocent"
1978 Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor President by chairman Henry Ford II
1978 Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp
1978 Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida
1977 New York City experiences 25 hour black-out
1976 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia
1976 All star MVP: George Foster (Cincinnati Reds)
1976 Last day of Test Cricket for Brian Close, aged 45
1975 8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record)
1975 Carol Mann wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1974 103rd British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots a 282 at Royal Lytham
1974 India's 1st one-day international (v England, Headingley)
1973 Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating Kansas City 5-0
1973 Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina
1972 Los Angeles Rams (Irsay) and Baltimore Colts (Rosenbloom) swap owners
1971 42nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-4 at Tiger Stadium, Detroit
1971 All star MVP: Frank Robinson for the Baltimore Orioles
1970 Building begins of Amsterdam metro
1969 Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
1969 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Ladies' Supertest Golf Open
1968 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland
1968 French government-Couve de Murville forms
1967 Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die
1966 Richard Speck, murders 8 nurses in Chicago
1965 36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minn
1965 All star MVP: Juan Marichal (SF Giant)
1963 Early Wynn, wins his 300th and last game at 43
1962 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea
1962 91st British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1960 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
1960 KDBQ-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KYA
1960 U.S. Democratic convention nominates John F. Kennedy as presidential candidate
1958 13th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1958 87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham
1958 Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1956 WCBI TV channel 4 in Columbus, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 21st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland
1954 Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a batter, he threw out Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9
1950 Doctors remove 7 bone fragments from Ted Williams elbow
1950 Rene Pleven forms French government
1949 Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics
1948 15th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-2 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis
1946 "Tidbits of 1946" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 8 performances
1945 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico
1944 Vilnius, Lithuania, liberated
1943 11th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Shibe Park, Philadelphia
1943 Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany
1942 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis
1942 German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages
1942 SS shoots 1,500 Jews in Josefov Poland
1941 24th PGA Championship: Vic Ghezzi at Cherry Hills CC Denver
1941 Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder
1939 Frank Sinatra made his recording debut
1938 Kroller-Muller museum opens in Holland
1936 112 degrees F (44 degrees C), Mio, Michigan (state record)
1936 114 degrees F (46 degrees C), Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin (state record)
1935 Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichskulturkammer
1935 U.S. - Russian commerce treaty takes effect
1934 Babe Ruth hits home run number 700, against Detroit
1930 1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay
1930 Sarnoff reports in New York Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
1926 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000m (8:20.4)
1925 French occupation force begins evacuating country
1924 Albin Stenroos wins Olympic marathon (2:41:22.6)
1923 Draft law passes
1919 Race riots in Longview and Gregg counties Texas
1917 Vision of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal
1908 4th modern Olympic games opens in London
1900 Phillies beat Pittsburgh 23-8
1898 Guglielmo Marconi patents radio
1898 San Francisco Ferry Building at foot of Market St. opens
1896 Ed Delahanty, becomes 2nd major leaguer to hit 4 home runs in a game
1882 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
1878 Congress of Berlin discusses division of African colonization ends
1878 Treaty of Berlin amended terms of Treaty of San Stefano
1876 29th Postmaster General: James N. Tyner of Indiana takes office
1870 King Wilhelm of Prussia sends "Emser Depache" on Bismarck
1868 Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana
1865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man"
1865 P. T. Barnum's museum burns down
1864 Early retreats from Washington City back to Shenandoah Valley
1863 Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in New York City; about 1,000 die
1863 Battle of Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana
1862 Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee (Forrest's Raid) US895 CS150
1861 Battle of Corrick's Ford, Virginia (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia CS20 US53
1854 U.S. forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
1851 John F. Loudon discovers tin on East Indian Island of Billiton
1837 Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace
1836 U.S. patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels
1832 Source of Mississippi River discovered, Henry R. Schoolcraft
1787 Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)
1787 Ord of 1787-a territory can become 3 to 5 states at 60,000 pop
1772 Captain James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas
1700 Russian-Turkish peace
1668 Van Marco Cesti's opera "Il Pomo d'Oro," premieres in Vienna
1657 Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
1645 Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar of Russia
1643 Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies
1573 Haarlem surrenders after 7 months to Spanish army
1568 Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer
1522 Hunger appeal by women of Utrecht
1174 Scottish King William captured
574 John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope

 

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July 14

2012 London's West End closes it's longest-run musical, 'Chicago' which ran for 15 years
2012 Following an avalanche that swept away nine climbers, Italian and French rescue crews recover the bodies of two climbers on Mont Blanc in the Alps
2011 Neptune completes its first orbit of the sun since the planet was discovered in 1846
2011 In Borneo a previously extinct rainbow toad is rediscovered by scientists; the sighting is the first since its extinction was declared in 1924
2010 Senior Rwandan opposition politician Andre Kagwa Rwisereka is found, after reported missing, with his head nearly severed off
1997 Bomb in Algiers kills 21 and wounds 40
1996 "How To Succeed in Business..." closes at R Rodgers New York City after 548 perf
1996 "Thousand Clowns" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 32 performances
1996 14th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Raymond Floyd
1996 Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1996 New York Yankee John Weteland sets record of 24 consecutive saves
1996 New York Yankees sweep complete season series in Baltimore for 1st time
1995 Los Angeles Dodger Ramon Martinez no-hits the Florida Marlins 7-0
1995 Ramon Martinez pitches a 7-0 no-hitter against the Marlins
1994 Gas explosion at old age home in Milan, 27 killed
1993 Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and NY
1992 63rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium, SD
1992 Actress Nell Carter undergoes brain surgery
1992 All star MVP: Ken Griffey, Jr., Seattle Mariners
1991 46th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Meg Mallon
1991 Failed military coup in Mali
1990 "Howard Stern's Summer Show" premieres on WWOR-TV in New York City
1990 Sara Martin, of Illinois, crowned America's Junior Miss
1989 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premieres
1988 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak
1988 Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th home run into 7th place
1988 WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive
1987 58th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland-Alameda Stad
1987 All star MVP: Tim Raines (Montreal Expos)
1987 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
1987 Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony
1987 Rookie of the Year Award is renamed to honor Jackie Robinson
1987 Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
1986 10 killed and 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid
1986 2nd government of Lubbers sworn in
1986 41st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jane Geddes
1986 Motley Crue's Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide
1986 NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission
1986 Paul McCartney releases "Press"
1986 Richard W. Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
1986 Shalamar's Howard Hewett acquitted in Miami of drug charges
1985 40th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker
1985 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
1985 Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
1984 STS-41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads
1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1981 Kevin Wade's "Key Exchange," premieres in London
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test
1978 Anatoly Scharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation
1978 Ump Doug Harvey ejects Don Sutton after discovering 3 scuffed balls
1978 Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado
1977 North Korea shoots down U.S. helicopter, killing 3
1977 U.S. House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1976 Jimmy Carter wins Democratic President nomination in New York City
1976 U.S.S.R. banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands
1975 Disney EPCOT Center, Florida, plans announced
1974 Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day
1974 Sharon Miller wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1973 102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
1973 Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers
1972 Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee
1972 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test
1972 Plate ump and catcher in a game are brothers. Bill Haller is ump and Tom Haller is Tigers catcher, Kansas City Royals win 1-0
1970 41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
1970 All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox)
1969 "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins
1969 Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead)
1969 WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
1968 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th home run off San Francisco Giant Mike McCormick
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic
1968 Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1
1968 WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th home run off San Francisco Giant Juan Marichal
1967 Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing
1967 The Who, opening for Herman's Hermits begin a U.S. tour
1965 Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4)
1965 Israeli/Jordanian border fights
1965 U.S. Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)
1964 Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France
1964 Oriole Bob Johnson's 6th straight hit as a pinch hitter
1963 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sight Golf Open
1962 Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel finished
1962 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1961 Astro's Eddie Matthews hits home run #500
1961 Finland's Miettunen government forms
1961 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate
1960 Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1960 Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
1959 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach, Quincy Massachusetts
1958 General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq
1958 Pope Pius XII publishes his 39th and last encyclical Meminisse juvat
1958 Saddam Hussein and Iraqi army overthrows the monarchy
1957 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
1956 Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1955 2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England
1954 117 degrees F (47 degrees C), East St. Louis, Illinois (state record)
1954 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Warsaw and Union, Missouri (state record)
1953 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1953 Communist offensive in Korea
1952 SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
1951 "Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater New York City after 37 performances
1951 "Make a Wish" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 102 performances
1951 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
1951 Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
1951 George Washington Carver monument unveiled
1950 RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
1949 U.S.S.R. explodes their 1st atom bomb
1948 Israel bombs Cairo
1946 Dr. Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" published
1946 Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland
1946 Cleveland Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles and a home run but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 home runs with 8 RBIs
1945 Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st U.S. ship to bombard Japan
1944 Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
1944 U.S. assault on Coutances, Cotentin
1942 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork
1942 Riots against Jews in Amsterdam
1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
1941 Cease fire of Joan of Arc, ends combat in Lebanon and Syria
1941 Jam rationed in Holland
1940 Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps
1940 Lithuania becomes Lithuanian SSR
1938 Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifest
1936 1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government
1936 116 degrees F (47 degrees C), Collegeville, Indiana (state record)
1934 116 degrees F (47 degrees C), Orogrande New Mexico (state record, broken on June 27, 1994)
1934 New York Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 home run record to stand for all time
1934 Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beats Cincinnati 18-0
1934 Ruth hits 700th career home run
1933 Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness
1933 NSDAP becomes only party in Germany
1933 Verity bowls out Essex twice in a day, 8-47 and 9-44, at Leyton
1932 Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
1927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
1921 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Massachusetts, of killing their shoe company's paymaster
1918 Dutch government reclaims South seas
1916 33.6 cm rainfall at Effingham South Carolina (state record)
1916 St. Louis Brown Ernie Koob pitches all 17 inns in a 0-0 tie vs Boston
1914 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted, Dr. Robert Goddard
1914 NL's Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep
1912 Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8)
1911 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines
1909 Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns
1891 John T. Smith patents corkboard
1877 General strike brings U.S. railroad to a stand still
1868 Alvin J. Fellows patents tape measure
1865 1st ascent of Matterhorn
1865 Whymper, Hudson, Croz, Douglas and Hadow 1st to climb Matterhorn
1864 Gold is discovered in Helena, Montana
1863 Battle of Falling Waters, MD (Beaver Creek)
1863 Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality
1861 General McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia with 40,000 troops
1861 Naval Engagement at Wilmington North Carolina - USS Daylight establishes blockade
1853 1st U.S. World's fair opens, Crystal Palace New York
1853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan
1850 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
1845 1st postmasters' provisional stamps issued, New York City
1845 Fire in New York City destroys 1,000 homes and kills many
1832 Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
1823 Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives
1798 1st direct federal tax on states-on dwellings, land and slaves
1798 Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous and malicious" writing against U.S. government
1789 Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille
1771 Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
1714 Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet
1682 Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London
1581 English jesuit Edmund Campion arrested
1544 English troops attack The Canal
1535 Emperor Charles V conquerors Tunis
1520 Battle of Otumba Mexico: Hernan Cortes and Tlascala's vs Aztecs
1420 Battle at Vitkov Zizka's hill (Prague): Taboriets beat Bohemia

 

[wino]

July 15

2012 Saudi Arabia donates $100 million to the Palestinian Authority
2012 In Egypt, protesters throw tomatoes and shoes at U.S. Secretary of State's motorcade during her first visit to the country since President Mohamed Mursi was elected
2011 Chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks, resigns as a result of the News International phone hacking scandal
2011 The World Health Organization claims over 5 million Ethiopian are susceptible to developing cholera due to the breakout of acute watery diarrhea
2010 Entire villages are burned to the ground and 40,000 people flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo
2009 Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Qazvin, Iran, all 168 on board are killed
1996 After 2,216 consecutive games at shortstop, Cal Ripken goes to 3rd
1996 MSNBC begins Microsoft internet-NBC TV
1996 Prince Charles and Princess Di sign divorce papers
1996 Southern Mexico hit with 6.5 earthquake
1995 Birmingham Barracudas 1st CFL home game (vs Hamilton)
1995 Northern Virginia begins using new area code 540
1994 Gyula Horn sworn in as premier of Hungary
1994 Israel and Jordan agree to talks in Washington D.C. on July 25th
1994 Sonia O'Sullivan runs 3K (8:21.64)
1992 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 3 weeks to have tumor removed
1991 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1991 U.S. troops leave northern Iraq
1991 Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle is 1st woman to officiate a men's pro basketball (USBL) game, game between New Haven Skyhawks and Philadelphia Spirit
1990 45th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1987 Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence
1987 John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings
1987 State of siege ends in Taiwan
1986 57th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston
1986 All star MVP: Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox
1985 Deborah Carthy-Deu, of Puerto Rico, crowned 34th Miss Universe
1984 39th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1984 Yoko Ono releases "I'm Stepping Out", the last single from the John Lennon and Yoko Ono album 'Milk and Honey'
1983 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France
1983 Linda Ronstadt debuts as Mabel in "Pirates of Penzance"
1982 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas
1982 Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th sec of state by vote of 97-0
1980 Johnny Bench hits his 314th home run as a catcher breaks Yogi Berra's record
1979 34th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jerilyn Britz
1979 Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India
1978 107th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St. Andrews
1976 36-hour kidnap of 26 school children and their bus driver in California
1975 46th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-3 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
1975 All star MVP: Bill Madlock (Pittsburgh Pirates) and John Matlock (New York Mets)
1975 Apollo 18 launched (will rendezvous with Soyuz)
1975 Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later
1974 Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees
1973 California Angel Nolan Ryan 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0
1973 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1973 Paul Getty III kidnapped
1973 Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide
1973 Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 home runs
1972 101st British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane
1972 Sandra Palmer/Jane Blalock wins Angelo's Four-Ball Golf Championship
1971 President Nixon announces he would visit China
1970 Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship
1969 Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 home runs in a doubleheader
1969 Rod Carew ties record with his 7th steal of home in a season
1968 "One Life to Live" premieres on TV
1968 Commercial air travel begins between U.S. and U.S.S.R.
1968 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1968 New Jersey Americans moved to Comack and become New York Nets (ABA)
1968 Soap opera "One Life To Live" premieres
1967 "Sweet Charity" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 608 performances
1967 L.A. Wolves beat Washington Whips 6-5 in OT to be United Soccer Association champs
1967 Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open
1967 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1965 "Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars
1965 Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece
1964 Barry M. Goldwater nominated for president by Republicans
1963 KAIT TV channel 8 in Jonesboro, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 Algeria becomes member of Arab League
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open
1962 Netherlands and Indonesia accord over New-Guinea
1961 "Donnybrook!" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 68 performances
1961 90th British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale
1961 Spain accept equal rights for men and women
1960 Baltimore Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle
1958 President Eisenhower sends U.S. troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months
1957 Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die
1957 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1956 Beverly Hanson/Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Hot Springs Golf Invitational
1956 Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
1955 WNDU TV channel 16 in South Bend, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 110 degrees F (43 degrees C) at Balcony Falls, Virginia (state record)
1954 1st coml jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707)
1954 KOCO TV channel 5 in Oklahoma City, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 WBOC TV channel 16 in Salisbury, MD (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins
1952 Gerald D. Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Angela Dowding
1949 "Miss Liberty" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 308 performances
1949 Czechoslovakian tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny and Vladimir Cernik, defect to US
1949 WBTV TV channel 3 in Charlotte, North Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting
1948 Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain
1948 President Truman nominated for another term
1946 British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown
1945 27th PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Morraine CC Dayton, Ohio
1944 Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb
1942 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz
1942 Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps"
1941 Florey and Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures, Penicillin
1940 1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Ilinois
1940 Nazi occupiers seize library of IISG Amsterdam
1939 Clara Adams, New York City, is 1st woman to complete round world flight
1938 Arthur Fagg completes 244 and 202 in the same cricket game for Kent
1937 Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens
1937 Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China
1936 Dutch 2nd Chamber agree to temporarily increase defense budget
1933 Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world
1932 President Hoover cuts own salary 15%
1929 1st airport hotel opens - Oakland, California
1927 62nd British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 285 at St. Andrews
1926 VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms
1923 27th U.S. Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 296 at Inwood CC in New York
1923 Italian parliament accepts new constitution
1922 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in U.S., at New York zoo
1922 26th U.S. Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 288 at Skokie CC in Ill
1920 Ruth ties his record of 29 home runs in a season
1918 2nd Battle of Marne began during WW I
1916 22.22" (56.4 cm) of rain falls in Altapass North Carolina (state record)
1916 Boeing Co (Pacific Aero) formed by William Boeing in Seattle Wash
1914 Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe
1912 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
1911 46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Philippines
1909 Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park home runs
1906 Republic museum opens Rembrandt hall in Amsterdam
1904 1st Buddhist temple in U.S. forms, Los Angeles
1902 Ranjitsinhji scores 180 before lunch, for Sussex vs. Surrey
1901 New York Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St. Louis, 5-0
1900 President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin
1893 Commodore Perry arrives in Japan
1888 Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years
1876 Baseball's 1st no-hitter, St. Louis' George W Bradley no-hits Hartford
1870 Georgia becomes last confederate to be readmitted to U.S.
1870 Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province and NW Territories created
1870 Hudson's Bay and Northwest Territories transferred to Canada
1869 Margarine is patents by Hippolye Mega-Mouries for use by French Navy
1867 San Francisco Merchant's Exchange opens
1864 Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 and injuring 109 of 955 aboard
1863 President Davis orders service duty for confederate army
1862 CSS Arkansas vs USS Cardondelet and Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R
1856 Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony
1850 John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North vs. South at Lord's
1840 England, Russia, Austria and Prussia signs Quadruple Alliance
1830 3 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk and Fox, signs a treaty giving the U.S. most of Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri
1815 Napoleon surrendered and is later exiled on St. Helena
1808 French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples
1806 Zebulon Pike began his journey to explore the Southwest
1795 "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem
1787 Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes
1783 1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France
1779 U.S. troops under General A Wayne conquer Ft. Stony Point, New York
1755 French ambassador recalled from London
1662 England's King Charles II charters Royal Society in London
1538 Peace talks between Karel and King Francois I
1524 Emperor Karel I bans German national synode
1501 Explorer Pedro Cabral back in Lisbon
1500 Duke Albrecht of Saxon beats Friese rebellion
1500 "Blood Wedding" of Astorre Baglione and Lavinia Colonna in Perugia family Baglione massacre
1410 Battle of Tannenburg-Teutonic Knights vs King Ladislas II of Poland
1307 Duke Henrik van Karinthie chosen king of Bohemia
1205 Pope Innocent III states Jews are doomed to perpetual servitude and subjugation due to crucifixion of Jesus
1099 1st Crusaders capture and plunder Jerusalem

 

[Wayne Kerr]

its not as elaborate but here it is...
august 4
1892 lizzie borden had an idea that involved her parents and an axe
1944 jewess fiction writer anne frank is arrested