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1696 - De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance 1893 - Vizcaya Bridge - largest transporter bridge in the world opens over the River Ibaizabal, designed by Basque architect Alberto de Palacio 1898 - Spanish American War: U.S. Army occupies Ponce and declares victory in Puerto Rico over Spanish forces 1900 - Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut 1917 - Silent Parade organised by James Weldon Johnson of 10,000 African-Americans who march on 5th Ave in NYC to protest against lynching 1929 - 23rd Tour de France won by Maurice De Waele of Belgium 1945 - Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva arrive on the Pacific island of Tinian with the plutonium core used to assemble the Fat Man bomb used in the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9 1959 - United Kingdom starts using postal codes 1977 - Roy Wilkins turns over NAACP leadership to Benjamin Hooks 2005 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1911 - 96°F (35.6°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands 1920 - Sigmund Romberg and Alex Gerber's musical "Poor Little Ritz Girl", with additional songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (marking their Broadway debut), opens at the Central Theatre, NYC; runs for 93 performances 1928 - IX Summer Olympic Games open in Amsterdam, Netherlands 1972 - 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162) 1997 - NY Ranger center Mark Messier signs with Vancouver for $20M for 3 yrs 2021 - Japanese swimmer Yui Ohashi wins women's individual medley double with victory in 200m at the Tokyo Olympics; 3 days earlier she won the 400m IM gold medal More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1824 - Jacopo Foroni, Italian opera composer (I gladiatori; Advokathen Panthelin), and conductor, born in Verona, Italy (d. 1858) 1863 - Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919) 1933 - Charlie Hodge, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender (Montreal Canadiens), born in Lachine, Quebec (d. 2016) 1934 - Ron Flowers, English soccer midfielder (49 caps; Wolverhampton Wanderers 467 games), born in Doncaster, England (d. 2021) 1938 - Luis Aragonés, Spanish soccer forward (11 caps; Atlético Madrid) and manager (Spain 2004-08; Atlético Madrid, Barcelona), born in Madrid, Spain (d. 2014) 1979 - Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer, born in Húsavík, Iceland More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1741 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Baroque composer (The Four Seasons), dies at 63 1971 - Myril Hoag, American baseball player, dies at 63 1972 - Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader, dies in custody at 53 1973 - Royal Butler [Edwin Richey], American actor (Zenobia), dies at 80 2004 - George Williams, American soul singer (The Tymes), dies at 68 2007 - Karl Gotch, Belgian professional wrestler (b. 1924) More Famous Deaths »

1214 - Battle of Bouvines: King Philip II of France vs Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV and King John of England; as a result John lost Normandy and his other possessions in France (hence his nickname John "Lackland") 1586 - Walter Raleigh brings the 1st tobacco to England from Virginia 1655 - Netherlands and Brandenburg sign military treaty 1954 - Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries 1976 - Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested (Lockheed Affair) 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 - Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome, Milan and Vatican City, 5 killed 1997 - "Candide" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 103 performances 2019 - At least 65 mourners killed in a gun attack at a funeral near Maiduguri, by suspected Boko Haram militants in north-east Nigeria 2021 - American gymnast and four-time Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles withdraws from the women's team final at the Tokyo Games citing need to focus on her mental health; also misses individual finals More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1927 - Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park) 1987 - John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible", testifies in Israel 1997 - 84th Tour de France won by Jan Ullrich of Germany 1997 - Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed. 1997 - British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Portrush GC: Gary Player of South Africa wins with birdie on 2nd playoff hole against countryman John Bland 2015 - Fiat Chrysler fined record $105 million by Us regulators over their number of car recalls More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1849 - John Hopkinson, British physicist and electrical engineer (Hopkinson's Law), born in Manchester (d. 1898) 1922 - Bob Thiele, American record producer (Impulse! Records), born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York (d. 1996) 1957 - Hansi Muller, German footballer, born in Stuttgart 1960 - Jo Durie, English tennis player, born in Bristol 1963 - Karrin Allyson, American jazz singer (Wild for You), born in Great Bend, Kansas 1986 - Courtney Kupets, American gymnast (World Championships champion 2002, 2003), born in Bedford, Texas More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 916 - Kliment/Clemens van Ohrid, Bulgaria bishop of Ohrid/saint, dies 1675 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France, dies at 63 1934 - Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79 1968 - Babe Adams, baseball player (b. 1882) 1990 - Elizabeth Allan, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head), dies 2011 - Richard Rutt, English bishop of Leicester, dies at 85 More Famous Deaths »

1822 - Secret meeting of Simón Bolívar and Jose de San Martin 1897 - 37.5 cm rainfall at Jewell, Maryland (state record) 1944 - Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam 1944 - Soviet troops arrive in Weichsel 1950 - Dodgers' Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits HRs twice in a game 1957 - USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile 1962 - Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher 1963 - Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+ 1977 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test 2018 - Sir Paul McCartney performs a "secret" gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles began More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1755 - Giacomo Casanova is arrested in Venice for affront to religion and common decency and imprisoned in the Doge's Palace 1931 - 25th Tour de France won by Antonin Magne of France 1945 - After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes British Prime Minister 2009 - British Senior Open Men's Golf, Sunningdale: American Loren Roberts wins his second Open Senior title in a playoff with Mark McNulty and Fred Funk 2018 - Sir Paul McCartney performs a "secret" gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles began 2021 - Dominant British breaststroke swimmer Adam Peaty successfully defends his 100m title at the Tokyo Olympics beating Arno Kamminga of the Netherlands and Italian Nicolò Martinenghi More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1801 - John Drake Sloat, 1st Military Governor of California (Union Navy), born in Sloatsburg, New York (d. 1867) 1863 - Jāzeps Vītols, Latvian composer, born in Valmiera, Russian Empire (d. 1948) 1928 - Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician (10th Premier of Alberta), born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (d. 2012) 1931 - Patti Bown, American jazz pianist and composer (Gene Ammons, Quincy Jones), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 2008) 1957 - Nana Visitor, American actress (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), born in NYC, New York 1974 - Dean Sturridge, English football striker, born in Birmingham, England More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1471 - Pope Paul II [Pietro Barbo], Italian Pope (1464-71), dies at 54 1926 - Robert Todd Lincoln, American politician, lawyer, Captain (Union Army), diplomat, businessman, and son of President Abraham Lincoln, dies in his sleep at 82 1941 - Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist (the relation of language to thinking and cognition), dies at 44 1992 - Mary Wells, American pop and soul singer ("My Guy"), dies of laryngeal cancer at 49 2005 - Betty Astell, British actress (b. 1912) 2012 - Franz West, Austrian artist, dies at 65 More Famous Deaths »

1901 - Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps during the South African War 1907 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan 1942 - German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja 1943 - 1st warship named after an African American launched - USS Leonard Roy Harmon, a Buckley class destroyer 1964 - Race riot in Rochester, NY 1966 - Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame 1970 - Burt Bacharach and Hal David's song "(They Long to Be) Close to You" as sung by the Carpenters reaches #1 1993 - US Open Women's Golf, Crooked Stick GC: Lauri Merten fires a final round 68 (−4) to win her lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Donna Andrews and Helen Alfredsson 1997 - Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian 2018 - Liquid lake found on Mars under its South Pole by European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter reported in "Science" More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1940 - American John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours, 46 minutes from St. Louis to Caruthersville, Missouri in the Mississippi River; 292 miles, longest solo swim of all time 1943 - 1st warship named after an African American launched - USS Leonard Roy Harmon, a Buckley class destroyer 1961 - Roger Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 and 40 off of 4 Chicago White Sox pitchers in a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium, NYC 1990 - Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23) 1997 - Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas 2014 - Both Israel and Hamas review US Secretary of State John Kerry's proposal for an immediate ceasefire and meetings in Cairo More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1865 - Jac[obus] P. Thijsse, Dutch biologist and educator (Contact with Plants), born in Maastricht, Netherlands (d. 1945) 1930 - Maureen Forrester, Canadian operatic contralto (Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2010) 1944 - Molly Bennett Aiken, American foundation administrator (riding for the handicapped), born in Hollywood, California 1954 - Walter Payton, American Pro Football HOF running back (NFL MVP 1977; 9 x Pro Bowl; 5 x First Team All Pro; Chicago Bears), born in Columbia, Mississippi (d. 1999) 1957 - Daniel W. Bursch, NASA astronaut (STS 51, 68, 77), born in Bristol, Pennsylvania 1971 - Billy Wagner, American MLB pitcher (Houston Astros), born in Tannersville, Virginia More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1580 - Baltazar Alvarez, Spanish Jesuit and writer, dies at 47 1759 - Johann Christoph Altnikol, German organist, bass singer, composer, and J.S. Bach's son-in-law and copyist, dies at 39 1870 - Pierre Dupont, French songwriter ("Les Bœufs"; "Le Chant du pain"), dies at 49 2013 - Mike Shipley, Australian audio engineer, and record producer of rock and country music (Paper Airplane), dies of an apparent suicide at 56 2014 - Carlo Bergonzi, Italian operatic tenor, dies at 90 2016 - Benito Wogatzki, German radio and TV writer (My Best Friends), dies at 83 More Famous Deaths »

1701 - French trade rand soldier Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, later becomes the city of Detroit 1905 - International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: Laurence Doherty and Reggie Doherty beat Holcombe Ward and Beals Wright 8-10, 6-2, 6-2, 4-6, 8-6 to give British Isles an unassailable 3-0 lead over US (ends 5-0) 1927 - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres 1929 - NY to San Francisco foot race ends (2½ months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde 1946 - 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League) die in a bus crash 1949 - 36th Tour de France won by Fausto Coppi of Italy 1974 - American newscaster Christine Chubbuck is the first person to commit suicide during a live TV broadcast at WXLT-TV 1979 - US President Jimmy Carter names Paul Volcker as Chairman of the Federal Reserve 1994 - Bodo kills 37 Muslims in Bashbari NE India 2013 - 80 people are killed and 140 are injured after a high-speed train derails in Santiago de Compostela, Spain More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1911 - Cleve's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3 1923 - Allied Powers and Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne 1960 - PGA Championship Men's Golf, Firestone CC: Jay Hebert wins his only major title by 1 stroke from Australian Jim Ferrier 1982 - "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" closes at E O'Neill NYC after 63 performances 1989 - Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America 2005 - British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Aberdeen: Tom Watson wins his second Open Senior title in a playoff with Ireland's Des Smyth More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1924 - Edward Digby, 12th Baron Digby, British Army (Coldstream Guards) officer (d. 2018) 1934 - Jimmy Holiday, American soul singer ("How Can I Forget"; Baby I Love You"), and songwriter ("Put A Little Love In Your Heart"), born in Sallis, Mississippi (d. 1987) 1935 - Pat Oliphant, Australian cartoonist (7 Pres: The Art of Oliphant) 1947 - Michael Coveney, English drama critic (The Observer, The Daily Mail), born in London, England 1954 - Philippe Alliot, French Formula One race driver, born in Voves, France 1961 - Paul Geary, American heavy metal drummer (Extreme), born in Medofrd, Massachusetts More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1712 - Cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies 1756 - George Vertue, engraver, dies 1826 - Jacob Kimball, American pioneering composer and musician, dies at 65 1842 - John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies 1996 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (Love and Death, Delicatessen), dies at 82 1997 - Andrew Cunanan, American serial killer (Gianni Versace), commits suicide at 27 More Famous Deaths »

636 - Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire 1558 - Battle of Grevelingen: Lamoraal, Count of Egmont beat France 1902 - Dutch Excelsior soccer club is established in Rotterdam (Eerste Divisie winners 1973-4, 78-79, 2005-06) 1960 - US Open Women's Golf, Worcester CC: Betsy Rawls wins her 4th Open title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Joyce Ziske 1962 - The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed 1967 - -27] 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires) 1974 - Greek military dictatorship collapses 1994 - American dancer, actor, and director Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke 2018 - Japan records its highest ever temperature at 41.1 degrees (105.98F) in Kumagaya 2019 - At least 36 people killed by a mud landslide in Shuicheng county, Guizhou province, China More Historical Events »

1484 - Battle of Lochmaben Fair - a 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured 1515 - First Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire - rise of the Habsburgs influence 1835 - Smolny Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia is consecrated, originally commissioned by Elizabeth of Russia 1933 - Wiley Post completes the 1st solo flight round the world, takes 7 days and 19 hours 1942 - 4th Soviet army forms with 80 tanks 1954 - WTHI TV channel 10 in Terre Haute, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting 1984 - 71st Tour de France won by Laurent Fignon of France 2018 - Lone gunman shooting kills 3 including gunman and injures 13 in Toronto, Canada 2019 - US President Donald Trump says US could win war in Afghanistan in a week "I just don't want to kill 10 million people. If I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth" 2022 - Droupadi Murmu is the first tribal politician to be elected President of India (head of state, without executive powers) More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1923 - 17th Tour de France won by Henri Pelissier of France 1933 - Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida" at the New York Hippodrome, becoming the 1st black female opera singer to perform in the US 1965 - Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Home as leader of the British Conservative party 1983 - MLB California Angels outfielder Brian Downing's error ends his record streak at 244 games 2013 - 89 people are killed and 500 are injured by earthquakes in Gansu province, China 2019 - Air strikes have killed at least 31 people in Maarat al-Numan, north-western Syria, with Russian planes supporting Syrian government being blamed More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1848 - Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914) 1878 - Janusz Korczak [Henryk Goldszmit], Polish-Jewish educator and pedagogue (ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto) [or born in 1879], born in Warsaw, Congress Poland (d. 1942) 1890 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American matriarch, mother of JFK, RFK and Ted, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1995) 1928 - Orson Bean, American actor and comedian (To Tell the Truth), born in Burlington, Vermont (d. 2020) 1952 - Herbert Chang, West Indian cricket batsman (1979) 1953 - Jimmy Bruno, American jazz guitarist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1863 - Karl Schuberth, German cellist, and composer, dies at 52 1996 - Peter Ludwig, German businessman and art collector, dies at 71 1996 - Tamara Danz, German singer (Silly), dies of cancer at 43 2007 - Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953) 2013 - Dennis Farina, American actor, dies from a pulmonary embolism at 69 2021 - Jean-Pierre Jaussaud, French auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 1978, 80), dies from a heart attack at 84 More Famous Deaths »

1545 - The first landing of French troops onto the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion 1853 - Central Park in New York created when New York State Legislature puts aside more than 750 acres of land on Manhattan Island 1865 - In market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true western showdown 1944 - British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery 1952 - 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed 1954 - Geneva Accords for Indochina signed, dividing French colonial territories into the countries of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the State of Vietnam (South Vietnam), Cambodia, and Laos 1969 - Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT) 1973 - France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific 1975 - Soyuz 19 returns to Earth 1997 - NY Yank Mike Whiton held in Milwaukee on charges of sexual assault More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1919 - Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 in Chicago, Illinois 1964 - Last Dutch whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan 1975 - NY Met Félix Millán hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays 1975 - Soyuz 19 returns to Earth 1991 - British Open Men's Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: Australian 1-2 with Ian Baker-Finch winning his only major championship, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Mike Harwood 1996 - British Open Men's Golf, Royal Lytham and St. Annes: American Tom Lehman wins his only major championship by 2 strokes from Mark McCumber and Ernie Els; first American to win at Lytham since Bobby Jones 70 years earlier More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1856 - Louise Blanchard Bethune, 1st American woman architect, born in Waterloo, New York (d. 1915) 1928 - Sky Low Low [Marcel Gauthier], Canadian professional wrestler, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1998) 1931 - Plas Johnson, American be-bop jazz and session saxophonist (sax solo on "The Pink Panther Theme"), born in Donaldsonville, Louisiana 1956 - Michael Connelly, American crime writer (Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch novels), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1961 - Amar Singh Chamkila [Dhanni Ram], Punjabi folk singer "The Elvis of Punjab", born in Dugri, Punjab, India (d. 1988) 1963 - Paulo Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist and professional wrestler More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1544 - René of Chalon [Renatus of Nassau], prince of Orange, slain in battle 1993 - Robert Glass, American film sound engineer (ET), is murdered at 53 1998 - Robert Young, American actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby, M.D.), dies at 91 2003 - Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921) 2004 - Jerry Goldsmith, American pianist and composer (The Twilight Zone; Planet Of The Apes), dies of colon cancer at 75 2004 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1918) More Famous Deaths »

1858 - Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18) 1878 - 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii 1944 - US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen 1975 - India expels three reporters from "The Times", "The Daily Telegraph", and "Newsweek" because they refuse to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship 1982 - Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: 11 British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in London 2002 - Bartenders doing tricks with fire start a major fire in a night club in Lima, Peru that kills 25 and injures 100 2005 - Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent 2008 - 16th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Candace Parker win 2014 - The Israeli Defence Force enter Shuja'iyya, a populous neighbourhood of Gaza City, as part of their ground offensive focused on destroying tunnels crossing the Israel border 2020 - Announcement that a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) is able to trigger immune response and antibodies More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1712 - The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain. 1940 - Billboard publishes its 1st singles record chart - "I'll Never Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey, with vocal by Frank Sinatra is #1 1942 - Time magazine puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich on its cover 1944 - Flying Fortresses of US 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau 1948 - Lou Thesz beats Bill Longson, to become NWA wrestling champion 1977 - Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80 and causes $350 million damage More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1744 - Henri Hamal, Belgian organist and composer, born in Liège (d. 1820) 1895 - László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946) 1908 - [Vincent] Mad Dog Coll, Irish-American mob hitman, born in Gweedore, Ireland (d. 1932) 1918 - Cindy Walker, American songwriter ("Dream Baby"; "You Don't Know Me") and country singer, born in Mart, Texas (d. 2006) 1924 - Hans Lodeizen [Johannes A. Frederik], Dutch poet (Inner Self), born in Naarden, Netherlands (d. 1950) 1945 - Paul Valéry [Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry], French author, philosopher and poet (La Jeune Parque), born in Sète, Hérault (d. 1945) More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1160 - Peter Lombard, French theologian 1636 - John Oldham, English-born Puritan settler in Massachusetts, murdered by Indians at 44 1908 - Federico Chueca, Spanish composer, dies at 62 1940 - Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide 1944 - Claus von Stauffenberg, German antifascist colonel (attempted to assassinate Hitler), dies by firing squad at 36 1968 - Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festival), dies at 60 More Famous Deaths »

1864 - Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia (Stephenson's Depot) [->JUL 20] 1941 - British PM Winston Churchill launches his "V for Victory" campaign 1952 - Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford 1955 - 1st performance of Gerald Finzi's Cello Concerto, his last major work; John Barbirolli leading the Hallé Orchestra, with soloist Christopher Bunting at Cheltenham Music Festival in Gloucestershire, England 1967 - 1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line) 1978 - New York Yankees start historic 14 game comeback with 2-0 win over the Minnesota Twins at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, MN 1990 - Dave Righetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a NY Yankee 1992 - 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1) 2009 - The Wesley Impact: black spot the size of Earth discovered on Jupiter after unknown object crashed onto the planet 2021 - UK lifts most COVID-19 restrictions on so-called "Freedom Day" despite 50,000 new daily infections More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1875 - Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick children, makes trial trip, NYC 1937 - Joris Ivens' "Spanish Earth" premieres in Hollywood 1952 - India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day 1967 - US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km) 1992 - 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1) 2017 - Investigators using DNA identify 16 year-old James Byron Haakenson as a victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, 41 years after his disappearance More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1895 - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter, born in Yixing, China (d. 1953) 1922 - George McGovern, American politician and Presidential candidate (D-1972), born in Avon, South Dakota (d. 2012) 1924 - Arthur Rankin, Jr, American director, producer, and screenwriter (Rankin/Bass Productions -The Year Without A Santa Claus; Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer; Frosty The Snowman), born in New York City (d. 2014) 1963 - Sandor Wladar, Hungarian 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic gold 1980), born in Budapest, Hungary 1964 - Gina Procaccio, American long and middle distance runner, born in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 1982 - Jared Padalecki, American actor (Supernatural), born in San Antonio, Texas More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1545 - George Carew, English admiral, drowns 1986 - Alfredo Binda, Italian road cyclist (first to win Giro d'Italia x 5; World Road Race C'ship 1927, 30, 32), dies at 83 2001 - Judy Clay [Guions], American soul and gospel singer, dies from complications from a car accident at 62 2002 - Spec Shea, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star, World Series 1947; NY Yankees, Washington Sens), dies after heart surgery at 81 2014 - Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress, dies at 21 2016 - Garry Marshall, American TV writer (The Dick Van Dyke Show), TV producer (The Odd Couple; Happy Days; Laverne and Shirley), and film director (Pretty Woman; Runaway Bride; The Princess Diaries), dies at 81 More Famous Deaths »

1334 - Bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by artist Giotto di Bondone 1801 - HMS Investigator sets off on a voyage to determine if New Holland (Australia) is one island or two, under command of Matthew Flinders, with botanist Robert Brown and artists Ferdinand Bauer and William Westall aboard 1896 - George Giffen is 1st to complete 1000/100 double, in 30th Test Cricket 1951 - Uruguay accepts its constitution 1959 - 46th Tour de France won by Federico Bahamontes of Spain 1970 - Willie Mays becomes 10th baseball player to get 3,000 hits 1977 - Hugh Leonard's "Da" premieres in London 1982 - British Open Men's Golf, Royal Troon: American Tom Watson wins his 4th Open Championship, 1 stroke clear of Peter Oosterhuis and Nick Price 2012 - Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria's Minister of Defence 2015 - "The Sun" newspaper in Britain controversially publishes old picture and video of Queen Elizabeth giving Nazi salute in 1933 More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1896 - Indian born K S Ranjitsinhji completes an unbeaten 154 on Test cricket debut for England in 2nd Test against Australia at Old Trafford 1915 - WWI: Second Battle of Isonzo begins with Kingdom of Italy offensive against Austria-Hungary, ends 2-1/2 weeks later with over 91,000 combined casualties 1936 - Spanish Civil War: General Francisco Franco issues manifesto and leads an uprising in the Spanish army stationed in Morocco 1943 - British assault on Catania, Sicily 1944 - 7:45 Operation Goodwood: British assault east of Caen 1970 - Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1898 - John Stuart, Scottish actor (Kittie, Superman, Number Seventeen), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1979) 1921 - John Glenn, American astronaut (1st American to orbit the earth) and politician (Senator D-Ohio), born in Cambridge, Ohio (d. 2016) 1946 - Tim Lynch, rocker (Flaming Groovies) 1949 - Wally Bryson, American rock guitarist and vocalist (Fotomaker; Raspberries), born in Gastonia, North Carolina 1957 - Nick Faldo, English golfer (US Masters 1989, 90, 96; British Open 1987, 90, 92), born in Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire 1975 - Torii Hunter, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 2002, 07, 09, 10, 13; Gold Glove Award 2001–09; Minnesota Twins, LA Angels of Anaheim, Detroit Tigers), born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1931 - Oskar Minkowski, German Biologist (pancreas and diabetes), dies at 73 1961 - Kit Guard, Danish actor (El Diablo Rides, Kid Courageous), dies of cancer at 67 1987 - Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist (Regionalist Manifesto), dies at 87 1996 - Hans Fellner, bookseller, dies at 71 2009 - Henry Allingham, British supercentenarian and World War I veteran, dies at 113 2016 - Billy Name [William Linich Jr], photographer (Andy Warhol's factory), dies at 76 More Famous Deaths »

1912 - IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden 1951 - Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, is chartered 1959 - "North by Northwest" directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint premieres in Los Angeles 1962 - Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft) 1966 - Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3) 1976 - Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor 1981 - Humber Estuary Bridge in UK opens, world's longest span (1.4 km) 2005 - 13th ESPY Awards: Lance Armstrong, Annika Sörenstam win 2015 - Suicide bomber in Khan Bani Saad, Iraq, kills 120, ISIS claims responsibility 2021 - 73rd Cannes Film Festival: Titane wins Palme d'Or, its director Frenchwoman Julie Ducournau only 2nd woman to win More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1894 - Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Blanche Bingley-Hillyard beats Edith Austin 6-1 6-1 for her 3rd of 6 Wimbledon singles titles 1959 - "North by Northwest" directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint premieres in Los Angeles 1970 - 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC 1981 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1987 - Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for 1st time 1989 - Paul McCartney releases single "This One", from his album "Flowers In The Dirt" More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1913 - Roger Garaudy, French philosopher and communist (convicted for Holocaust denial), born in Marseille, France (d. 2012) 1940 - Phyllis Davis, Port Arthur Tx, actress (Love American Style, Vega$) 1963 - John Ventimiglia, American actor (The Sopranos), born in Queens, New York 1967 - Kevin Pritchard, American NBA guard and basketball executive (Washington Bullets), born in Bloomington, Indiana 1972 - Eric Williams, American NBA forward (Denver Nuggets, Boston Celtics), born in Newark, New Jersey 1973 - Horacio Llamas, Mexican NBA center (Phoenix Suns), born in Rosario, Mexico More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1943 - Sir Patrick Duncan, Governor-general of the Union of South Africa (1937 to 1943), dies at 72 1961 - Ty Cobb, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (AL MVP 1911; Triple Crown 1909; 12 × AL batting champion; Detroit Tigers) and manager (Detroit Tigers 1921-26), dies of cancer at 74 1966 - August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi Suite), dies at 71 2004 - Julian Hodge, British financier and multi-millionaire (Hodge Group), dies at 99 2009 - Walter Cronkite, American broadcast journalist and news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81), dies of cerebrovascular disease at 92 2009 - Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher and writer (Conversations with the Devil), dies at 81 More Famous Deaths »

1683 - Manchu/Chinese Qing Dynasty naval forces under commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands. 1867 - Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady" opens in Amsterdam 1895 - Lancashire batsman Archie MacLaren scores the first-ever quadruple-hundred (424) in first-class cricket against Somerset at Taunton 1909 - MLB Detroit Tigers and Washington Senators play longest scoreless game in AL history - 18 innings at Bennett Field in Detroit, Michigan 1966 - Number of banned persons in South Africa totals 936; the individuals are banned under various laws, most prominently the Suppression of Communism and Riotous Assembly Acts 1973 - During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes 1990 - NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-no fatalities 1994 - Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights 2008 - Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim is arrested on sodomy charges in Malaysia 2015 - Shootings in Chattanooga at a US military recruitment centre and a naval reserve training center kill 5 and injure others More Historical Events »

Historical Events 1956 - Detroit Tigers and Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million 1980 - Ronald Reagan nominated for US President by Republicans in Detroit 1989 - US Open Women's Golf, Indianwood G and CC: Betsy King wins the first of her 2 consecutive titles, 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Nancy Lopez 1990 - The ANC send a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demanded an end to "the shocking inhumanity" of police action in rural areas of South Africa 2015 - Shootings in Chattanooga at a US military recruitment centre and a naval reserve training center kill 5 and injure others 2017 - Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, Caves Valley GC: Scott McCarron wins his lone career major title by 1 stroke from Brandt Jobe and Germany's Bernhard Langer More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1746 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (found 1st asteroid-Ceres), born in Ponte in Valtellina, Italy (d. 1826) 1888 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, invented phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953), born in Amsterdam (d. 1966) 1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (Dynasty II, Big Valley, Thorn Birds), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1990) 1960 - Eus van Someren, Dutch pop guitarist (Scene, Blaauw), born in Beverwijk, Netherlands 1979 - Chris Mihm, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1989 - Gareth Bale, Welsh soccer winger (Tottenham, Real Madrid, Wales), born in Cardiff, Wales More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1594 - Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (The Spanish Tragedy), dies at 35 1796 - George Howard, British field marshal, dies at 78 1980 - Robert Brackman, American artist, dies at 81 1996 - John Panozzo, American rock drummer (Styx), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 47 2020 - Tony Taylor, Cuban baseball second baseman (MLB All Star 1960²; Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers), dies from stroke complications at 84 2020 - Brigid Berlin, American actress (Andy Warhol films), dies at 80 More Famous Deaths »