Today in History for 1st July 2023

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Historical Events

1946 - US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)
1973 - 1st US-China basketball game, US collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61
1982 - 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1987 - WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN's country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
1996 - WBSI TV replaces WNYC on channel 31 in NYC
2016 - Islamic militants storm a cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 20 hostages and 2 police, country's worse terror attack

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Famous Birthdays

1844 - Verney Lovett Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), born in Radipole, Dorset, England (d. 1894)
1899 - Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr., American fictional film character (Indiana Jones films)
1903 - Beatrix Lehmann, British actress (Candles at Nine, Staircase), born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England (d. 1979)
1906 - Estée Lauder [Josephine Esther Mentzer], American entrepreneur (Estée Lauder cosmetics), born in Corona, Queens, New York City (d. 2004)
1925 - Frank Lowson, England cricket batsman (7 Tests, 2 x 50s; Yorkshire CCC), born in Bradford, England (d. 1984)
1948 - Wang Qishan, Chinese Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, born in Qingdao, Shandong

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Famous Deaths

1627 - Nathaniel Bacon, English painter, dies at 41
1681 - Oliver Plunkett, Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and last Catholic martyr (later beatified) to die in England, hanged, drawn and quartered for treason at Tyburn at 55
1877 - William Henry Davenport, American stage magician, claimed to be a spirit medium, dies at 36
1974 - Juan Perón, Argentine military officer and President of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies of a heart attack at 78
2014 - Walter Dean Myers, African-American author, dies at 76
2022 - Richard Taruskin, American musicologist (Oxford History of Western Music), and educator, dies of esophageal cancer at 77

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