CoM Moderators Posted July 5, 2024 Posted July 5, 2024 Historical Events 1643 - 1st recorded tornado in US (Essex County, Massachusetts) 1814 - Americans defeat British and Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario 1859 - American sealing ship Captain N. C. Brooks discovers the uninhabited Midway Islands in the North Pacific Ocean and claims for the US 1907 - Wimbledon Women's Tennis: American May Sutton avenges previous year's defeat, beating Dorothea Chambers 6-1, 6-4 1987 - Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Pat Cash of Australia scores his only Grand Slam singles success 7-6, 6-2, 7-5 over Ivan Lendl 2023 - Meta launches Threads - Instagram's new public conversations app - a day later it becomes the most rapidly downloaded app ever with 30 million downloads More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1852 - Stefano Gobatti, Italian composer, born in Bergantino, Italy (d. 1913) 1879 - Dwight F. Davis, American politician (49th United States Secretary of War) and founder of Davis Cup, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1945) 1946 - Gerard 't Hooft, Dutch physicist (1999 Nobel Prize for Physics -for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions), born in Den Helder, Netherlands 1947 - Atanas Golomeev, Bulgarian basketball center (FIBA EuroBasket Top Scorer 1973 Academic Sofia, 1975 Levski Sofia; FIBA European Selection 1971, 73, 75, 77), born in Sofia, Bulgaria (d. 2023) 1957 - David Hanson, British Labour politician, born in Liverpool 1995 - P.V. Sindhu, Indian badminton player (World C'ship gold women's singles 2019; Olympic silver 2016, bronze 2020), born in Hyderabad, India More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1626 - Stephan Fadinger, Austrian boer leader, dies in battle 1981 - Jorge Urrutia Blondel, Chilean composer, dies at 75 1985 - Marion Byron, actress (Steamboat Bill Jr), dies at 73 1989 - Ernesto Halffter, Spanish classical and film score composer (Rapsodia portuguesa; is Don Quixote de la Mancha), and conductor, dies at 84 2007 - Régine Crespin, French operatic mezzo-soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1962-87; Sheherazade, Les Nuits D'ete), dies of liver cancer at 80 2020 - Volodymyr Troshkin, Ukrainian soccer defender (31 caps, USSR; Dynamo Kiev 205 games), dies at 72 More Famous Deaths »
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