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B07011646 Gottfried W Leibnitz, mathematician-philosopher.
B07011788 Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founder of projective
B07011788Cgeometry.
B07011804 George Sand, French Romantic novelist, "Valentine", "Le Figaro".
B07011807 Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer, endowed Clemson
B07011807CUniversity.
B07011872 Louis Blériot, first man to fly an airplane across English
B07011872CChannel.
B07011877 Benjamin Davis, first black U.S. general.
B07011879 Léon Jouhaux, French socialist, co-founder of U.N.'s ILO, Nobel
B07011879C1951.
B07011892 James M. Cain, suspense novelist, "The Postman Always Rings
B07011892CTwice".
B07011902 William Wyler, film director, three Oscars, "Ben Hur."
B07011916 Olivia De Havilland, actress, Yokyo, Japan.
B07011925 Farley Granger, actor.
B07011931 Leslie Caron, actress, Boulogne, France.
B07011934 Sydney Pollack, film director.
B07011934 Jamie Farr, actor, Cpl. Klinger of TV's M*A*S*H, Toledo, Ohio.
B07011942 Karen Black, actress, Park Ridge, Ill.
B07011942 Genevieve Bujold, actress, model, Montreal, Canada.
B07011952 Dan Aykroyd, comedian, Ottawa, Canada.
B07011961 Lady Diana Spencer, Sandringham, England.
B07011961 Carl Lewis, U.S. track and field star, 4 golds at 1984 Olympics.
B0701 "Wolfman Jack", a howling success in radio.
B0702 419 Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55).
B07021489 Thomas Cranmer, English archbishop, reformer, martyr.
B07021877 Hermann Hesse, Swiss novelist, poet, "Steppenwolf", Nobel 1946.
B07021906 Hans Bethe, physicist, Nobel 1967, peace worker.
B07021908 Thurgood Marshall, first black Supreme Court justice, Baltimore,
B07021908CMD.
B07021922 Dan Rowan, comedian, "Laugh In".
B07021927 Brock Peters, actor, New York, N.Y..
B07021931 Emelda Marcos, former Philippines leader's wife.
B07021937 Richard Lee Petty, auto race driver, Randleman, N.C.
B07021947 Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, daughter of President LBJ.
B07021961 Jimmy McNichol Actor
B07031423 Louis XI, king of France (1461-83).
B07031567 Samuel de Champlain, explorer.
B07031731 Samuel Huntington, judge, governor of Conn., president of
B07031731CContinental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence,
B07031731CWindham County, Conn.
B07031883 Franz Kafka, Czech, author, "Metamorphosis", "The Trial",
B07031883C"Amerika".
B07031909 Earl Butz, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
B07031913 Dorothy Kilgallen, "What's My Line".
B07031927 Ken Russell, film director, Southampton, England.
B07031930 Pete Fountain, jazz musician.
B07031935 Harrison H. (Jack) Schmitt, U.S. astronaut (Apollo 17).
B07031947 Betty Buckley, broadway actress, Ft. Worth, Tex.
B07031962 Tom Cruise, actor, Syracuse, N.Y.
B07041753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, first balloon flights in England
B07041743Cand U.S.
B07041804 Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer, "The Scarlet Letter".
B07041807 Giuseppe Garibaldi, unifier of Italy.
B07041826 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna", "Swanee River".
B07041847 James Bailey, of Barnum and Bailey's Circus.
B07041867 Stephen Mather, organizer of the U.S. National Park Service.
B07041872 Calvin Coolidge (R), 30th President (1923-1929), Plymouth, Vt.
B07041878 George M. Cohan, playwright, songwriter, patriot.
B07041883 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult.
B07041900 Louis Armstrong, "Satchmo" from "Satchelmouth", jazz great.
B07041902 Meyer Lansky, gangster.
B07041902 George Murphy, actor.
B07041905 Lionel Trilling, American critic, educator, novelist.
B07041911 Mitch Miller, band leader, Rochester, N.Y.
B07041912 Virginia Graham, TV personality.
B07041916 Iva Togori (D'Aquino) aka Tokyo Rose, psy-war operative, Los
B07041916CAngeles, Ca.
B07041918 Abigail Van Buren and Ann Landers, twin sisters, advice
B07041918Ccolumnists, Sioux City, Ia.
B07041924 Eva Marie Saint, actress, Newark, N.J.
B07041927 Neil Simon, American playwright.
B07041927 Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress.
B07041928 Steven Boyd, actor.
B07041930 George Steinbrenner, N.Y. Yankees owner, Rocky River, Ohio.
B07041943 Gerry Rivers aka Geraldo Rivera, broadcast journalist, NYC, N.Y.
B07041962 Pamela Howard Shriver, tennis player.
B07051781 Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore.
B07051794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker
B07051801 David G Farragut, American naval hero, Knoxville, Tenn.
B07051810 Phineas T. Barnum, circus promoter, Bethel, Conn.
B07051819 Joseph Perkins, businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of the
B07051819CWestern Reserve Historical Society.
B07051890 Frederick Lewis Allen, historian, editor of Harper's magazine.
B07051891 John Northrop, U.S. biochemist, crystallized enzymes, Nobel 1946.
B07051902 Henry Cabot Lodge, diplomat and statesman.
B07051948 Julie Nixon Eisenhower, daughter of Richard Milhaus, Wash., D.C.
B07051951 Huey Lewis, singer, and the News, New York, N.Y.
B07051951 Richard 'Goose' Gossage, baseball relieve pitcher
B07061747 John Paul Jones, "I have not yet begun to fight"
B07061796 Nicholas I, tsar of Russia (1825-55).
B07061859 Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish poet, novelist, Nobel 1916.
B07061903 Axel Theorell, Swedish biochemist, studied enzymes, Nobel 1955.
B07061923 Nancy Davis Reagan, former 1st Lady (1981-89), N.Y., N.Y.
B07061925 Merv Griffin, San Mateo, Ca.
B07061927 Bill Haley, American rock and roll star with the Comets, "Rock
B07061927CAround the Clock".
B07061927 Janet Leigh, actress, "Psycho", Merced, Calif.
B07061931 Della Reese, singer, Detroit, Mich.
B07061937 Ned Beatty, actor, Louisville, Ky.
B07061946 Sylvester Stallone, actor, New York, N.Y.
B07061946 Fred Dryer, former NFL defensive end, T.V.'s "Hunter".
B07061952 Shelly Hack, actress, "Charlie's Angel",
B07071752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom.
B07071843 James Abbott McNeil Whistler, American painter.
B07071843 Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, cytologist, Nobel 1906.
B07071899 George Cukor, American film director.
B07071906 Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige, legendary pitcher, played with the
B07071906CCleveland Indians for a season.
B07071907 Robert A. Heinlein, author who helped develop Science Fiction
B07071907Cas a sophisticated mode of literary expression.
B07071917 Lawrence F. O'Brien, (Watergate conspirators broke into his
B07071917Coffice).
B07071919 William Kunstler, attorney.
B07071922 Pierre Cardin, fashion designer.
B07071927 Carl (Doc) Severinson, band leader, trumpet player, Arlingon,
B07071927COre.
B07071940 Richard Starkey, alias Ringo Starr, Beatle, Liverpool, England.
B07071949 Shelley Duvall, actress, Houston, Tex.
B07081838 Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, invented the dirigible.
B07081839 John D. Rockefeller, industrialist, philanthropist, developed
B07081839CStandard Oil Company.
B07081881 Mantis James Van Sweringen, Cleveland real-estate developer and
B07081881Cbusinessman, responsible for the development of Shaker Hts.,
B07081881CShaker Sq., the Shaker Rapid and the Terminal Tower Complex, born
B07081881Cin Wooster, Ohio.
B07081882 Percy Grainger, Australian composer.
B07081885 Ernest Bloch, German Marxist philosopher.
B07081898 Alec Waugh, novelist, "Island in the Sun", London, England.
B07081908 Nelson A. Rockefeller, 41st V.P. (1974-77).
B07081931 Roone Arledge, TV executive (ABC), Forest Hills, N.Y.
B07081931 Jerry Vale, singer.
B07081935 Max Liebermann, German painter.
B07081935 Steve Lawrence, singer, Brooklyn, N.Y.
B07081946 Cynthia Gregory, Ballerina, Los Angeles, Ca.
B07081948 Kim Darby, actress, Hollywood, Ca.
B07081951 Anjelica Huston, actress, Ireland.
B07091764 Ann Ward Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist, "The Italian".
B07091802 Thomas Davenport, invented first commercially successful electric
B07091802Cmotor
B07091819 Elias Howe, invented sewing machine, Spencer, Mass.
B07091858 Franz Boas, anthropologist, linguist.
B07091879 Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer, "Pines of Rome".
B07091894 Dorothy Thompson, American foreign correspondent and journalist.
B07091896 Archibald J. Cronin, popular Scottish novelist.
B07091927 Ed Ames, singer, Johnny Carson's hatchet man, Boston, Mass.
B07091947 Orenthal James (O.J.) Simpson, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills).
B07091956 Tom Hanks, actor, Chicago, Ill.
B07091976 Fred Savage, child actor, Highland Park, Ill.
B07101509 John Calvin, theologian.
B07101723 Sir William Blackstone, English jurist, "Blackstone's
B07101723CCommentaries".
B07101856 Nikola Tesla, physicist who developed alternating current.
B07101867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley.
B07101871 Marcel Proust, French novelist, "Remembrance of Things Past".
B07101875 Mary McLeod Bethune, black educator.
B07101888 Giorgio de Chirico, Italian Surrealist painter.
B07101895 Nahum Goldmann, Zionist leader, founder of the World Jewish
B07101895CCongress.
B07101914 Joe Schuster, co-creator of "Superman", which first appeared in
B07101914C1938 June Action Comics.
B07101915 Saul Bellow, novelist, (Herzog, Dangling Man), Nobel 1976,
B07101915CQuebec.
B07101920 David Brinkley, newscaster (NBC, ABC), Wilmington, N.C.
B07101920 Owen Chamberlain, co-discoverer of the antiproton, Nobel 1959.
B07101923 Jean Kerr, novelist, "Please Don't Eat the Daisies", Scranton,
B07101923CPa.
B07101926 Fred Gwynne, Herman Munster, New York, N.Y.
B07101933 Jerry Herman, Broadway composer.
B07101943 Arthur Ashe, first black tennis player to win major title.
B07101945 Virginia Wade, tennis star.
B07101946 Sue Lyon, actress, in Iowa.
B07101947 Arlo Guthrie, singer, "Alice's Restaurant", New York, N.Y.
B07111754 Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare.
B07111767 John Quincy Adams (F), 6th President (1825-1829), Braintree (now
B07111767CQuincy), Mass.
B07111838 John Wanamaker, merchant.
B07111867 Benjamin S. Hubbell, architect of Cleveland Museum of Art, Wade
B07111867CPark, and the West Side Market.
B07111872 Rollin Henry White, pioneer in the automobile industry and
B07111872Cfounder of White Motor Corporation, born in Cleveland.
B07111899 E.B. White, writer of children's books, "Charlotte's Web", "The
B07111899CElements of Style".
B07111899 Yasonari Kawabata, Japanese novelist, "Thousand Cranes", Nobel
B07111899C1968.
B07111920 Yul Brynner, actor, "The King and I", "The Ten Commandments".
B07111931 Tab Hunter, actor, New York, N.Y.
B07111951 Bonnie Pointer, singer, Pointer Sisters.
B07111953 Leon Spinks, world heavyweight boxing champ (1978).
B0712 100 B.C. - Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Ceasar.
B07121730 Josiah Wedgewood, English pottery designer, manufacturer.
B07121817 Henry David Thoreau, naturalist-author, always had Ralph Waldo
B07121817CEmerson around to bail him out of trouble, Concord, Mass.
B07121849 Sir William Osler, Canadian physician, teacher, author.
B07121854 George Eastman, created the Kodak camera, Waterville, N.Y.
B07121868 Stefan George, German lyric poet.
B07121895 R. Buckminster Fuller, architect, eclectic inventor (geodesic
B07121895Cdome.)
B07121895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers.
B07121904 Pablo Neruda (Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto), Chilean poet,
B07121904C"Residence on Earth", Nobel 1971, ambassador to France, Parral,
B07121904CChile.
B07121908 Milton Berle, "Uncle Miltie".
B07121917 Andrew Wyeth, American painter.
B07121934 Harvey Lavan (Van) Cliburn, pianist, Kilgore, Texas.
B07121937 Bill Cosby, comedian, actor, Philadelphia, Pa.
B07121944 Denise Nichols, actress, Detroit, Mich.
B07121951 Cheryl Ladd, actress, Huron, SD.
B07131851 Samuel Mather, industrialist and Cleveland philanthropist.
B07131935 Jack Kemp, quarterback, congressman.
B07131942 Harrison Ford, actor, Han Solo, Indiana Jones, Chicago, Ill.
B07131946 Cheech Marin, writer/comedian, Los Angeles, Ca.
B0713 Patrick Stewart, actor, Captain Picard on "Star Trek: The Next
B0713 CGeneration".
B07141486 Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter.
B07141857 Frederick Louis Maytag, inventor, electric washing machine.
B07141898 Alexander Brook, American realist painter.
B07141903 Irving Stone, author.
B07141904 Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish novelist (Enemies) (Nobel 1978).
B07141906 Tom Carvel, Ice Cream Mogul
B07141907 William Presser, Teamsters Union leader, union activist, and
B07141907Ccharity fund-raiser.
B07141911 Terry-Thomas, English actor.
B07141912 Woodrow "Woodie" Guthrie, U.S. folk singer, song writer, "This
B07141912CLand Is Your Land".
B07141913 Gerald Rudolph Ford (R), 38th President (1974-1976), Omaha, Neb.
B07141917 Douglas Edwards CBS newscaster
B07141918 Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director, "Through a Glass Darkly".
B07141918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core
B07141918Cmemory.
B07141923 Dale Robertson, actor, Harrah, Okla.
B07141927 John Chancellor, TV journalist (NBC), Chicago, Ill.
B07141930 Polly Bergen, actress, Knoxville, Tennessee.
B07141932 Rosey Grier, football player-turned-actor
B07151606 Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch painter.
B07151779 Clement Clarke Moore, American author, "Twas the Night Before
B07151779CXmas".
B07151850 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (Mother Cabrini), first U.S. saint.
B07151919 Iris Murdoch, Irish novelist.
B07151932 Nina Van Pallandt, actress, Coopenhagen, Denmark.
B07151935 Alex Karras, football player, actor, Gary, Ind.
B07151936 Joan Rivers, comedian, Brooklyn, NY.
B07151944 Jan-Michael Vincent, actor, Denver, Colo.
B07151946 Linda Ronstadt, singer, Tucson, Ariz.
B07161723 Sir Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter.
B07161746 Giuseppe Piazzi, discovered first asteroid, Ceres.
B07161870 Charles Edwin Thompson, pioneer in the automobile industry and
B07161870Cdeveloper of the Thompson Valve. Steel Products changed its name
B07161870Cto Thompson Products (later TRW) in his honor.
B07161872 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, discoverer of South Pole.
B07161883 Charles Sheeler, American painter, industrial landscapes.
B07161888 Frits Zernike, inventor of phase-contrast microscope, Nobel 1953.
B07161896 Trygve Lie, first Secretary-General of the UN (1946-52).
B07161907 Orville Redenbacher, popcorn king.
B07161907 Barbara Stanwyck, actress.
B07161911 Ginger Rogers (Virginia McMath), dancer, actress, Independence,
B07161911CMo.
B07161913 Laverne Andrews, singer, Andrews Sisters, Minneapolis, Minn.
B07161942 Margaret Jean Court (nee Smith), tennis star, Albury, New South
B07161942CWales, Australia.
B07171744 Elbridge Gerry, father of the "gerrymander", signer of the
B07171744CDeclaration of Independence, Marblehead, Mass.
B07171888 Samuel Joseph Agnon, Israeli writer, 1966 Nobel.
B07171889 Erle Stanley Gardner, created Perry Mason.
B07171900 James Cagney, hold that grapefruit.
B07171917 Lou Boudreau, baseball player.
B07171917 Phyllis Diller, comedienne, Lima, Ohio.
B07171934 Donald Sutherland, actor, St. John, New Brunswich.
B07171935 Diahann Carroll, actress, first black female in starring
B07171935Cliberated-black woman role on TV, Bronx, N.Y.
B07171941 Daryle Lamonica, Oakland Raiders quarterback.
B07171951 Lucie Arnaz, actress, daughter of Lucy and Ricky, Hollywood, Ca.
B07181811 William Makepeach Thackeray, Victorian novelist, wrote 'Vanity
B07181811CFair'.
B07181848 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer
B07181853 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel 1902.
B07181902 Jessamyn West, American novelist.
B07181906 Clifford Odets, dramatist., Philadelphia, Pa.
B07181906 S.I. Hayakawa, educator and senator.
B07181909 Andrei Gromyko, Soviet statesman.
B07181913 Red Skelton
B07181911 Hume Cronyn, actor, "Cocoon", batteries not included, London,
B07181911COnt.
B07181913 Red (Richard) Skelton, comedian, Vincennes, Ind.
B07181921 John Glenn, Jr., first American in orbit, Ohio senator.
B07181941 Martha Reeves, and the Vandellas, Detroit, Michigan.
B0718 Horatio Alger, whose lads always had enough pluck to succeed.
B07191814 Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt Revolver.
B07191834 Edgar Degas, French impressionist painter.
B07191846 Charles Edward Pickering, pioneer American spectroscopist.
B07191865 Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, co-founder of Mayo Clinic.
B07191922 George McGovern (D-Sen-SD), presidential candidate
B07191941 Vicki Carr, singer, El Paso, Texas.
B07191946 Ilie Nastase, Romanian tennis star.
B07201890 Theda Bara (Theodosia Goodman), silent film star of the 20's,
B07201890C"Cleopatra", "Vampire", Cincinnati, Ohio.
B07201890 Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter.
B07201894 Wiley Rulledge, Supreme Court justice.
B07201919 Sir Edmund Hillary, one of the first two men to scale Mt.
B07201919CEverest.
B07201933 Nelson Doubleday, publisher.
B07201938 Diana Rigg, actress, Doncaster, England.
B07201938 Natalie Wood, actress, San Francisco, Ca.
B07211694 Georg Brandt, chemist, discovered Cobalt in 1735, Riddarhyttan,
B07211694CSweden.
B07211816 Paul Julius, Baron von Reuter, founder of Reuters news service.
B07211878 Ernest R. Ball, Cleveland born composer of popular songs and
B07211878Cmusic scores such as "Mother Machree" and "Will You Love Me in
B07211878CDecember as You Do in May?"
B07211881 Johnny Evers, Hall of Fame Chicago Cub second baseman, member of
B07211881Cbaseball's most famous double-play combination, Tinker to Evers
B07211881Cto Chance.
B07211899 Ernest Hemingway, never asked for whom the bell tolled...
B07211899 Hart Crane, writer.
B07211911 (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan, teacher, philosopher, writer, "The
B07211911CMedium is the Massage", Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
B07211933 John Gardner, scholar, writer, "Grendel", "Sunlight Dialogues".
B07211943 Christie McVie (Fleetwood Mac).
B07211948 Cat Stevens aka Joseph Islam, rocker, "Peace Train", London, Eng.
B07211952 Robin Williams, comedian, Chicago, Ill.
B07221822 Gregor Mendel, geneticist who discovered laws of heredity.
B07221844 Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented 'spoonerisms'
B07221849 Emma Lazarus, whose poem is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.
B07221887 Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist, Nobel 1925.
B07221890 Rose Kennedy, mother of JFK, RFK, and EMK.
B07221898 Alexander Calder, sculptor (mobiles, stabiles).
B07221898 Steven Vincent Benét, writer, poet, "The Devil and Daniel
B07221898CWebster".
B07221940 Alex Trebek, game show host, TV show producer, Sudbury, Ont.
B07231834 James Cardinal Gibbons.
B07231888 Raymond Chandler, writer of detective novels.
B07231919 Pee Wee Reese, baseball player.
B07231925 Gloria DeHaven, actress, Los Angeles, Ca.
B07231936 Don Drysdale, Dodger pitcher
B07241783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish
B07241783Crule.
B07241802 Alexandre Dumas, told the Count of Monte Christo how to escape.
B07241886 Junichiro Tani-zaki, Japanese writer.
B07241880 Ernest Bloch, composer, conductor, teacher, lecturer and founder
B07241880Cof the Cleveland Institute of Music.
B07241895 Robert Graves, British poet, historical novelist, "I, Claudius".
B07241896 Ramon Coffman, syndicated newspaper writer, "Uncle Ray's Corner".
B07241898 Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder.
B07241920 Bella Abzug, congresswoman from New York.
B07241936 Ruth Buzzi, comedienne, Westerly, R.I.
B07241951 Lynda Carter, actress, "Wonder Woman", Pheonix, Az.
B07251870 Marfield Parrish, American postal artist.
B07251932 Paul J. Weitz, U.S. astronaut (Skylab 2, STS-6).
B07251935 Barbara Harris.
B07251978 Louise Brown, first test-tube baby (born under the sign of Pyrex)
B07261799 Isaac Babbitt, U.S. inventor of babbitt's metal for bearings.
B07261856 George Bernard Shaw, playwright, Dublin, Ireland.
B07261875 Carl Jung, founded analytic psychology.
B07261885 Andre Maurois (born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog), prolific
B07261885Cbiographer, Elbeuf, France.
B07261893 George Grosz, German-American artist.
B07261894 Aldous Huxley, British author and essayist, "Brave New World".
B07261920 Robert "Bob" Waterfield, Hall of Fame quarterback for the
B07261920CCleveland and Los Angeles Rams.
B07261922 Marjorie Lord, actress, "Make Room For Daddy".
B07261922 Blake Edwards, film director, Tulsa, Okla.
B07261922 Jason Robards, Jr., actor, Chicago, Ill.
B07261928 Stanley Kubrick, film director, Bronx, N.Y.
B07261940 Mary Jo Kopechne.
B07261943 Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones, Dartford, England.
B07261945 Linda Harrison, Berlin, Germany.
B07261956 Dorothy Hamill, Olympic Gold Medal skater, Connecticut.
B07271870 Hilaire Belloc, British Roman Catholic writer.
B07271880 Joe Tinker, Hall of Fame Chicago Cub shortstop, member of
B07271880Cbaseballs's most famous double-play combination, Tinker to Evers
B07271880Cto Chance.
B07271906 Leo Durocher, baseball coach.
B07271916 Keenan Wynn, actor.
B07271922 Norman Lear, TV writer, producer, "All in The Family".
B07271944 Bobbie Gentry, singer, born in Mississippi.
B07271947 Betty Thomas, actress, Sgt. Lucy Bates, "Hill St. Blues", St.
B07271947CLouis, Mo.
B07271948 Peggy Fleming, Olympic gold medal ice skater, San Jose, Ca.
B07271949 Maureen McGovern, singer, Youngstown, Ohio.
B07281746 Thomas Heyward, soldier, signer of the Declaration of
B07281746CIndependence, St. Luke's Parish, S.C.
B07281846 Harriet Keeler.
B07281866 Beatrix Potter, English children's author, "Tale of Peter
B07281866CRabbit".
B07281874 Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher, educator, "Essay on Man".
B07281887 Marcel Duchamp, painter, "Nude Descending a Staircase.
B07281901 Rudy Vallee, band leader, singer, "My Time Is Your Time".
B07281907 Earl S. Tupper, inventor of Tupperware.
B07281922 Jacques Piccard, Swiss undersea explorer (bathyscaph Trieste).
B07281929 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Southampton, N.Y.
B07281943 Bill Bradley, basketball player and coach.
B07281943 Mike Bloomfield, blues musician.
B07281948 Sally Struthers, actress, Gloria Stivic, Portland, Oregon.
B07281949 Vida Blue, major-league pitcher.
B07291869 Booth Tarkington, novelist
B07291871 Rasputin, the mad Russian monk.
B07291883 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce), Italian dictator.
B07291892 William Powell, actor, "The Thin Man".
B07291905 Clara Bow, silent screen actress, "The It Girl","Saturday Night
B07291905CKid", Brooklyn, N.Y.
B07291905 Dag Hammarskjold, U.N. Secretary-General.
B07291905 Thelma Todd, actress.
B07291907 Melvin Belli, San Francisco's "King of Torts".
B0729 Wil Wheaton, actor, "Stand By Me", Wesley Crusher on "Star Trek:
B0729 CThe Next Generation".
B07301863 Henry Ford, automobile pioneer, born near Dearborn, Mich.
B07301880 Robert R.M. McCormick, Chicago Tribune and N.Y. News publisher.
B07301891 Casey Stengel, baseball player, coach and manager, N.Y. Yankees,
B07301891CKansas City, Mo.
B07301947 Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor, Graz, Austria.
B07311800 Friedrich Wohler, chemist, co-discovered Vandium, Escherscheim,
B07311800CGermany.
B07311837 William Clarke Quantrill, bushwhacker, gunfighter, leader of a
B07311837Cpro-confederate guerrilla band.
B07311883 Erich Heckel, German Expressionist painter.
B07311951 Evonne Fay Goolagong, Australian tennis champ.
*mmddyyyy Events
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S07011690 the Army of England's Protestant King, William III, defeats
S07011690Cformer Roman Catholic king James II in the Battle of the Boyne in
S07011690CIreland, winning the Crown of Britain and Ireland.
S07011847 the first adhesive U.S. postage stamp goes on sale (Franklin 5
S07011847Ccents and Washington 10 cents).
S07011847 amateur astronomer M. Hencke discovers his second asteroid Hebe.
S07011850 at least 626 ships lying at anchor around San Francisco Bay.
S07011862 Congress outlaws polygamy (bad news for Utah).
S07011863 the Battle of Gettysburg (Pa.) begins. Lee's northward advance
S07011863Cis halted.
S07011867 the Dominion of Canada is proclaimed by the British North
S07011867CAmerican (BNA) Act.
S07011898 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.
S07011899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building.
S07011910 Black and Decker is founded by Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker.
S07011911 the self-starter for the automobile is developed.
S07011916 the Allies attack the German defenses at the Somme, beginning the
S07011916Cbloodiest battle in all history.
S07011919 First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents from 3 cents.
S07011925 Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport opens. The U.S. Mail
S07011925Cthreatened to take Cleveland off its air-route if it didn't.
S07011931 the Cleveland Municipal Stadium is completed.
S07011931 ice vending machines is introduced in Los Angeles (25 lbs., 15
S07011931Ccents.)
S07011930 Northland Transportation Co. extends bus service across the
S07011930Ccountry and changes its name to Greyhound Company.
S07011941 the world's first TV commercial (Bulova watch) is broadcasted by
S07011941CWNBT, New York City.
S07011943 an U.S. law is passed enacting the first paycheck withholding
S07011943Ctax.
S07011944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide
S07011944Cfinancial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank).
S07011947 the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland became Case
S07011947CInstitute of Technology.
S07011949 Linus Pauling reports discovering the cause of sickle-cell
S07011949Canemia.
S07011951 Cleveland Indian Bob Feller pitches his third no-hitter, setting
S07011951Ca major league record.
S07011960 the Somali Republic is formed when British Somaliland
S07011960CProtectorate and the Italian Trusteeship Territory of Somalia
S07011960Cmerge.
S07011961 Haleakala National Park is established in Hawaii.
S07011962 Rwanda gains independence.
S07011963 the U.S. Postmaster General inaugarates zip codes.
S07011963 the Beatles record "She Loves You" is released.
S07011966 construction crews begin tearing up Market Street to build BART.
S07011967 the European Community (EC), the merger of the Common Market, the
S07011967CEuropean Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy
S07011967CCommunity, is created.
S07011971 the 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age to 18, is ratified
S07011971C(Ohio is the last state to ratify).
S07011971 the Golden Gate Bridge is paid for (so why is there still a
S07011971Ctoll?).
S07011982 Kosmos 1383, the first search and rescue satellite, is launched.
S07011986 Tony Bernazard becomes the only Cleveland Indian to hit a home
S07011986Crun from both sides of the plate in the same game.
S07011991 the Warsaw Pact is abolished.
S07011992 new federal anti-pollution laws go into effect governing disposal
S07011992Cof appliances with Freon and other refrigerants.
S0701 Dominion Day -- Canada
S0701 Feast of the Precious Blood of Jesus.
S0701 2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of the Caribbean Common
S0701 CMarket.
S07021776 Continental Congress passes resolution saying `these United
S07021776CColonies are and of right ought to be free and independent
S07021776Cstates'.
S07021890 the Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies.
S07021881 President James A. Garfield is shot. He dies on Sept. 19, 1881.
S07021900 the first flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1) occurs.
S07021926 the U.S. Army Air Corp is created by Congress.
S07021937 Amelia Earhart disappears during flight over the Pacific Ocean.
S07021940 the Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge is opened.
S07021940 the Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attack by air.
S07021941 Joe DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak.
S07021955 `The Lawrence Welk Show' premieres on ABC television.
S07021957 the first submarine designed to fire guided missiles, USS
S07021957CGrayback, is launched.
S07021960 the first U.S. black competes in the Miss Universe contest,
S07021960Crepresenting Ohio.
S07021964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, the nations most
S07021964Csweeping civil rights legislation.
S07021976 the Supreme Court rules the death penalty is not inherently cruel
S07021976Cor unusual punishment.
S07021976 Vietnam is officially united.
S07021978 the discovery of Charon, a satellite of Pluto, is announced.
S07021985 the Proto is launched on its way to Halley's Comet.
S0702 Midpoint of the year (at noon, or following midnight in leap
S0702 Cyears).
S0702 Visitation of Mary.
S0702 2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of the Caribbean Common
S0702 CMarket.
S07031608 Quebec is founded Samuel de Champlain.
S07031754 Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to the French.
S07031775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
S07031806 Michael Keens exhibits the first cultivated strawberry.
S07031819 the first savings bank in U.S. (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens.
S07031841 John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown
S07031841Cplanet by the irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus.
S07031861 the Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from New
S07031861CYork.
S07031863 the Battle of Gettysburg (Pa.) ends in a major victory for the
S07031863CNorth.
S07031890 Idaho becomes the 43rd state.
S07031914 a telephone line is installed between New York and San Francisco.
S07031928 the first television made in the U.S. is announced (only $75!).
S07031930 Congress creates the Veterans Administration.
S07031950 American and North Korean forces clash for the first time during
S07031950Cthe Korean War.
S07031962 French President Charles de Gaulle proclaims Algeria's
S07031962Cindependence.
S07031976 Israeli raid frees hostages at Entebbe airport (Uganda).
S07031984 the Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as
S07031984Cmembers.
S07031988 the U.S.S. Vincennes, under questionable circumstances, shots
S07031988Cdown an Iranian commercial airliner.
S07031989 the Supreme Court puts restraints on a woman's right to a
S07031989Cabortion by giving the states the right to restrict abortions.
S0703 Dog Days begin.
S0703 Feast of St. Leo II, pope (681-83).
S0703 2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of the Caribbean Common
S0703 CMarket.
S07041054 the brightest known super-nova starts shining, and continues for
S07041054C23 days.
S07041776 the Declaration of Independence is approved.
S07041802 the U.S. Military Academy officially opens at West Point N.Y.
S07041805 the final treaty of purchase of land, west of the Cuyahoga River,
S07041805Cis completed with the Indians (now Cleveland and western
S07041805Csuburbs.)
S07041827 the Erie and Ohio Canal opens and the first boat arrives in
S07041827CCleveland.
S07041828 the first U.S. passenger railroad begins, the Baltimore and Ohio.
S07041831 America (My Country 'Tis of Thee) is first sung in public in
S07041831CBoston.
S07041845 Texas votes for annexation to the United States.
S07041845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond.
S07041862 Lewis Carroll begins inventing the story of Alice in Wonderland
S07041862Cfor his friend, Alice Pleasance Liddell, during a boating trip.
S07041863 Union forces under General Grant capture Vicksburg.
S07041863 Boise, Idaho is founded (now capital of Idaho).
S07041879 the British colonial force smashes the Zulu army at Ulundi.
S07041882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens.
S07041884 the Statue of Liberty is given to the United States.
S07041894 the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Cleveland's Public Square is
S07041894Cdedicated.
S07041894 the Republic of Hawaii is established.
S07041894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the first U.S. autos.
S07041903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens.
S07041903 President Roosevelt sends a message to the Philippines in 9.5
S07041903Cminutes, then a message around the world in 12 minutes.
S07041916 the new Cleveland City Hall is dedicated.
S07041917 U.S. Col. Stanton at Lafayette's tomb announces, "Lafayette, we
S07041917Care here."
S07041918 Lakewood Park is dedicated.
S07041931 the first trailside museum opens in the Cleveland Metroparks at
S07041931Cthe North Chagrin Reservation.
S07041933 work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge.
S07041939 during Lou Gehrig day at Yankee Stadium, Gehrig makes 'luckiest
S07041939Cman' speech.
S07041942 U.S. fliers join with R.A.F. for first time, and bomb Nazi bases
S07041942Cin Holland.
S07041954 Marilyn Sheppard is found murdered by her husband, Sam.
S07041959 America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood is unfurled.
S07041960 the fifty-star flag makes its official debut at Independence
S07041960CHall.
S07041965 Mariner 4 flies past Mars; sends first close-up photos.
S07041966 LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act.
S07041973 the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) is
S07041973Cestablished.
S07041976 the United States celebrates its Bicentennial.
S07041982 the first Budweiser-Cleveland 500 premiers.
S07041986 the Statue of Liberty opens after months of refurbishing in time
S07041986Cto celebrate its 100th birthday.
S0704 Independence Day
S0704 Dog Days.
S0704 2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of the Caribbean Common
S0704 CMarket.
S07051811 Venezuela is the first South American country to gain
S07051811Cindependence from Spain.
S07051841 Thomas Cook opens first travel agency. They are first involved
S07051841Cin organizing trips for groups opposed to alcoholic beverages.
S07051859 Capt. N.C. Brooks discovers Midway Islands.
S07051865 William Booth found the Salvation Army, in London, England.
S07051865 the Secret Service is founded.
S07051908 St. James, the first catholic church in Lakewood, celebrates
S07051908Cfirst mass. A new church is dedicated May 21, 1935.
S07051935 President FDR signs the National Labor Relations Act.
S07051935 the first 'Hawaii Calls' radio program is broadcasted.
S07051937 Joe DiMaggio hits his first grand slam.
S07051944 the first rocket airplane is flown.
S07051946 Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at a fashion show in
S07051946CParis.
S07051947 Larry Doby signs with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first
S07051947Cblack player in the American League.
S07051950 Pvt. Kenneth Shadrick of Skin Fork, WVA is the first U.S.
S07051950Cfatality in the Korean War.
S07051951 the junction transistor invention is announced by Murray Hill.
S07051954 Boeing conducts initial flight of the B-52A bomber.
S07051961 "The Making of the President" is published.
S07051974 the Front Row Theater opens in Cleveland.
S07051975 Cape Verde gains independence.
S07051984 the Supreme Court weakens a 70-year-old `exclusionary rule'.
S07051984CEvidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in
S07059184Ccriminal trials.
S07051986 the first Goodwill Games, created by Ted Turner, begin in Moscow.
S07051991 regulators in seven countries, including the U.S., act to shut
S07051991Cdown BCCI (Bank of Commerce and Credit International) for fraud,
S07051991Ctheft, and money laundering from corrupt activities in many
S07051991Ccountries.
S0705 Independence Day, celebrated in Venezuela.
S0705 Dog Days.
S0705 Earth at aphelion.
S0705 Feast of St. Anthony-Mary Zaccaria, confessor.
S0705 2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of Caribbean Common Market.
S07061687 Isaac Newton's "PRINCIPIA" is published by Royal Society in
S07061687CEngland.
S07061775 Congress issues "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of
S07061775CTaking up Arms," detailing grievances but denying any intention
S07061775Cto separate from Britain.
S07061885 the first inoculation (for rabies) of a human being occurs, by
S07061885CLouis Pasteur.
S07061886 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers first malted milk to the public.
S07061920 the Yankees score a team record of 14 runs in 1 inning vs the
S07061920CSenators.
S07061928 the preview of the first all-talking motion picture, "Lights of
S07061928CNew York", takes place in New York, N.Y.
S07061932 first class postage goes back up to 3 cents from 2 cents.
S07061933 the first All-Star baseball game is played. American League
S07061933Cwins 5-2.
S07061942 Anne Frank, age 13, and her family go into hiding with four
S07061942Cothers from the Nazis in the "Secret Annex" at 263 Prinsengracht
S07061942C(Prince's Canal), Amsterdam.
S07061956 Indians' Jim Busby hits two grand slams in one game, after
S07061956Chitting two the day before (a club record).
S07061957 Althea Gibson, who learned to play tennis in the asphalt jungle
S07061957Cof New York, wins Wimbledon.
S07061964 Malawi gains independence from Britain.
S07061964 the Beatles' movie "Hard Day's Night" is first released in
S07061964CBritain.
S07061975 the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros (Islands) declares
S07061975Cits independence.
S0706 Dog Days.
S0706 Old Milwaukee Day in Wisconsené.
S0706 2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of Caribbean Common Market.
S07071607 "God Save the King" is first sung.
S07071754 Kings College in NYC opens. School later is renamed Columbia
S07071754CCollege.
S07071776 the Declaration of Independence has its first public reading.
S07071846 the U.S. annexes California.
S07071862 the Land Grant Act is passed, providing for public land sale to
S07071862Cbenefit agricultural education (led to state university systems).
S07071891 a patent is granted for the travelers cheque.
S07071898 the U.S. annexes Hawaii.
S07071908 the Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay.
S07071923 the Cleveland Indians score 27 runs in one game, setting a team
S07071923Crecord (vs. Boston).
S07071930 construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam.
S07071946 Mother Frances X. Cabrini canonized as first American saint.
S07071949 `Dragnet' premieres on NBC radio, and a TV series in 1951 and
S07071949C1967.
S07071972 the U.S. and Soviets sign an accord for cooperation in science
S07071972Cand technology.
S07071978 the Solomon Islands attain independence.
S07071980 the first solar-powered airplane flies across the English
S07071980CChannel.
S07071981 Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor is the first female nominated
S07071981Cfor the Supreme Court.
S07071986 the Supreme Court strikes down the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction
S07071986Claw.
S07071987 the Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition and vote to admit women.
S07071987 the Yankees, trailing by 7, score 7 in the 7th on 7/7 and 5 in
S07071987Cthe 8th to beat the Twins 12-7.
S0707 Annual Running of the Bulls at Pamplona, Spain.
S0707 Dog Days.
S0707 Feast of Cyril and Methodius, converted Slavs, devised Cyrillic
S0707 Calpha.
S0707 2Caribbean Day celebrated by members of Caribbean Common Market.
S07081663 King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island.
S07081776 Col. John Nixon reads the Declaration of Independence to
S07081776CWashington's troops in N.Y.
S07081777 Vermont becomes the first state abolishing slavery, and adopts
S07081777Cmale suffrage.
S07081796 the first American Passport is issued by the U.S. State
S07081796CDepartment.
S07081835 the Liberty Bell cracks (again).
S07081889 Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" is published.
S07081889 Jake Kilrain and John L. Sullivan fight the last bareknuckle
S07081889Cboxing championship fight.
S07081896 William Jennings Bryan makes his 'cross of gold' speech at the
S07081896CDemocratic Convention in Chicago.
S07081905 part of Angel Island in S.F. is allocated for an Immigration
S07081905CDetention Center.
S07081907 Florenz Ziegfeld stages first `Follies' on the N.Y. Theater roof.
S07081935 Cleveland hosts its first All-Star Game, setting a All-Star
S07081935Cattendance record (until 1981 in Cleveland), A.L. 4, N.L. 1.
S07081935C(Cleveland has the top four crowds in All-Star history.)
S07081969 85 of 543,400 leave Saigon in first of U.S. troop withdrawals.
S07081986 President Reagan signs legislation moving up and fixing the start
S07081986Cof daylight savings time to the first Sunday in April.
S0708 Dog Days.
S0708 Feast of St. Elizabeth of Portugal, widow.
S07091540 England's King Henry VIII 6-month marriage to Anne of Cleves is
S07091540Cannulled
S07091595 Johannes Kepler discovers inscribed perfect geometric solid
S07091595C"construction of universe."
S07091800 Mt. Vernon Gardens becomes site of first summer theatre in U.S.
S07091816 Argentina gains independence.
S07091846 Capt. Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S.
S07091902 a patent is obtained for barbituric acid - hope for insomniacs.
S07091910 archeologists find a tablet drawn-up in 94 AD chronicling the
S07091910Cfall of Jerusalem.
S07091932 the Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) are formed.
S07091933 the Frankford Yellowjackets are sold, and rechristened the
S07091933CPhiladelphia Eagles.
S07091957 the discovery of element 102, nobelium, is announced.
S07091959 Maj. Dale and Master Sgt. Ovnand become the first American
S07091959Cfatalities in the Vietnam War.
S07091963 Cleveland hosts its third All-Star Game (Cleveland has the top
S07091963Cfour crowds in All-Star history), N.L. 5, A.L. 3.
S07091969 U.S. Department of Agriculture suspends use of DDT pending
S07091969Cresults of study.
S07091976 Uganda asks the U.N. to condemn the Israeli hostage-rescue raid
S07091976Con Entebbe.
S07091979 Voyager II flies past Jupiter.
S07091980 Walt Disney's "The Fox and The Hound" is released.
S0709 National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
S0709 Independence Day, celebrated in Argentina.
S0709 Dog Days.
S0709 Feast of St. Maria Goretti, virgin, martyr.
S07101797 the first U.S. frigate, the "United States", is launched at
S07101797CPhiladelphia.
S07101850 V.P. Millard Fillmore becomes president following Zachary
S07101850CTaylor's death.
S07101890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state.
S07101892 the first concrete-paved street is built, in Bellefountaine,
S07101892COhio.
S07101913 the nation's highest temperature is recorded in Death Valley,
S07101913CCalifornia, 134 degrees.
S07101925 the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial begins. It is the first trial that
S07101925Chad live radio coverage (WGN).
S07101925 U.S.S.R.'s official news agency TASS is established.
S07101932 Indians' Johnny Burnett collects 9 hits in 11 times at-bat in a
S07101932C18-inning game, setting a team and M.L. record.
S07101933 the first police radio system is operated in Eastchester Twp.,
S07101933CN.Y.
S07101938 the Yankee Clipper lands in London, completing the first
S07101938Cpassenger flight over the Atlantic.
S07101943 the Allies invade Sicily.
S07101947 Indians' Don Black pitches the first no-hitter at the Stadium,
S07101947CCleveland 3, Philadelphia 0.
S07101949 the first practical rectangular TV tube is announced in Toledo,
S07101949COh.
S07101962 Telstar, the first geosynchronous communications satellite, is
S07101962Claunched.
S07101966 Orbiter 1 is launched (the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the
S07101966CMoon.)
S07101973 the Bahamas become independent after three centuries of British
S07101973Crule.
S07101982 the first public quadruple somersault on a trapeze is performed
S07101982Cby Miguel Vasquez.
S07101985 Greenpeace's 160-foot protest vessel, Rainbow Warrior, is bombed
S07101985Cand sunk in New Zealand by French agents.
S07101985 Coca-Cola announces it will resume selling old formula Coke.
S07101991 the U.S. lifts economic sanctions imposed on South Africa in
S07101991C1986.
S0710 Dog Days.
S0710 Feast of the 7 Brothers and SS. Rufina and Secunda, virgins.
S07111533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII.
S07111798 the U.S. Marine Corps is created by an act of Congress.
S07111798 the U.S. Marine Corp is established by law.
S07111804 V.P. Aaron Burr kills Alex Hamilton in a pistol duel near
S07111804CWeehawken, New Jersey.
S07111863 the first U.S. draft lottery is held.
S07111889 the newly formed hamlet of Lakewood, formerly East Rockport,
S07111889Cselects its first 3 trustees.
S07111921 Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day), and a
S07111921CCommunist regime is established.
S07111934 FDR becomes the first president to travel through Panama Canal.
S07111955 the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs takes first cadets.
S07111962 the first transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
S07111962Coccurs.
S07111962 the Great Lakes Theater Festival premiers.
S07111962 the Telstar communications satellite transmits the first
S07111962Cworldwide TV show from Britain and France.
S07111974 the World Football League plays first games.
S07111975 Chinese archeologists announce the uncovering of a 3-acre burial
S07111975Cmound concealing 6000 clay statues of warriors and their regalia
S07111975Cdating from 221 to 206 BC.
S07111977 the Medal of Freedom is awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin
S07111977CLuther King Jr.
S07111979 Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia and disintegrates.
S07111984 U.S. announces air bags or automatic seat belts are required in
S07111984Ccars by 1989.
S07111986 President Reagan places contras under CIA jurisdiction.
S07111986 Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara.
S07111987 Col. Oliver North implicates officials inside the White House in
S07111987Cthe secret arms sales to Iran.
S07111991 the Eclipse of the Century - the first eclipse over a major
S07111991Cobservatory, Mauna Kea, Hawaii, occurs.
S0711 National Holiday of the People's Republic of Outer Mongolia.
S0711 C(Celebrated mainly in Ulan Bator, yurt capital of Asia.)
S0711 Dog Days.
S0711 Feast of St. Pius I, pope (141-55), martyr.
S0711 Feast of St. Olga, first Russian saint of Orthodox Church.
S07121191 Crusaders under Richard Coeur de Lion defeat the Saracens in
S07121191CPalestine.
S07121543 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th and last wife).
S07121689 Orangeman's Day-Battle of Boyne, Protestant victory in Ireland.
S07121812 U.S. forces led by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812).
S07121817 the first flower show is held at Dannybrook, County Cork, Ire.
S07121862 the Medal of Honor is established by Congress.
S07121928 the first televised tennis match is broadcasted.
S07121933 Congress passes the first minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour).
S07121934 the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island is abandoned.
S07121954 President Eisenhower proposes an interstate highway system for
S07121954Cgeneral use and atomic defense.
S07121957 Dwight Eisenhower is the first president to fly in helicopter.
S07121960 Echo I, the first passive satellite, is launched.
S07121960 U.S.S.R.'s Sputnik 5 is launched with 2 dogs.
S07121966 Ohio's record rainfall in a 24-hour period falls in Sandusky,
S07121966C10.5 inches.
S07121967 Richard Speck murders eight student nurses in Chicago.
S07121975 San Tome and Principe gain independence.
S07121977 the first free flight test of Space Shuttle Enterprise.
S07121979 Kiribati gains independence.
S07121982 Miguel Vazquey performs the first quadruple flip in a trapeze
S07121982cact.
S07121984 Walter F. Mondale choses Rep. Geraldine Ferraro as his running
S07121984Cmate, the first woman major-party VP candidate.
S07121984 New York institutes the nation's first mandatory seat belt law.
S0712 Dog Days.
S0712 Feast of St. John Gualbert, abbot.
S07131568 the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer.
S07131787 Congress establishes the Northwest Territory.
S07131787 the Northwest Ordinance is enacted, permitting a territory to
S07131787Cbecome three to five states with 60,000 population.
S07131863 the 1863 Draft Riots in New York begin following the first draft
S07131863Clottery.
S07131865 Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west".
S07131919 the first lighter-than-air transatlantic flight is completed.
S07131930 the first World Cup of Soccer is held in Montevideo, Uruguay.
S07131943 the biggest tank battle in history ends on the Eastern Front, the
S07131943CRussian army the victor.
S07131954 Cleveland hosts its second All-Star Game (Cleveland has the top
S07131954Cfour crowds in All-Star history), A.L. 11, N.L. 9.
S07131978 Walter Peonisch completes a 128.8-mile swim from Havan, Cuba to
S07131978CDuck Key, Florida (in a shark cage).
S07131985 the world rock festival, Live Aid Concert, for African famine
S07131985Crelief occurs.
S0713 Feast of St. Anacletus I, pope (c. 76-c. 88), martyr.
S0713 The start of the Bon Festival in Japan.
S0713 6Friday the 13th! Beware!
S0713 Dog Days.
S07141771 the Mission San Antonio de Padua is founded in California.
S07141789 the citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison.
S07141798 the Sedition Act is passed, prohibiting "false, scandalous and
S07141798Cmalicious" writing against the U.S. government.
S07141850 the first public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
S0714180Coccurs.
S07141853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese.
S07141865 the Matterhorn is first ascended.
S07141868 a patent is granted for a tape measure enclosed in a circular
S07141868Ccase.
S07141881 Billy the Kid is killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Ft. Sumner, NM.
S07141905 New York police raid a women's poolroom led by a female
S07141905Cdetective.
S07141914 the liquid-fueled rocket is patented by Dr. Robert H. Goddard.
S07141927 the first commercial airplane flight in Hawaii occurs.
S07141955 "Mr. Roberts" premieres.
S07141959 the first atomic powered cruiser, the USS Long Beach is launched
S07141959Cfrom Quincy, Mass.
S07141965 the U.S. Mariner IV, the first Mars probe, passes behind the
S07141965Cplanet at 6,100 miles altitude.
S07141978 Lee Iacocca resigns as president of Ford. Immediately hired by
S07141978Cthe Chrysler Corp., he becomes its CEO on Nov. 1, 1979.
S07141992 Cleveland hosts its fifth All-Star Game, setting an All-Star
S07141992Cattendance record. (Cleveland has the top four crowds in All-
S07141992CStar history.)
S0714 Bastille Day -- France
S0714 Alpha Cygnid meteor shower, radiant in Cygnus.
S0714 Dog Days.
S0714 Feast of St. Bonaventure, bishop, confessor, doctor.
S07151662 Charles II grants a charter to establish the Royal Society in
S07151662CLondon.
S07151783 the first successful steamboat, the Pyroscaphe, makes a trial run
S07151783Con the River Saone in France.
S07151815 Napoleon Bonaparte is captured.
S07151867 the San Francisco Merchant's Exchange opens.
S07151869 margarine is patented in Paris, for use in the French Navy.
S07151902 the 3M Company is founded.
S07151916 William Edward Boeing founds Pacifico Aero Products Co. (later
S07151916Cbecomes Boeing Airplane Co.)
S07151918 St. Vladimir's Day
S07151929 the first airport hotel opens - Oakland, Ca.
S07151940 the first betatron is placed in operation, Urbana, Ill.
S07151946 the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis debuts.
S07151953 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" starring Marilyn Monroe premieres.
S07151959 launching what he calls his "New Frontier," Senator John F.
S07151959CKennedy accepts the democratic nomination for president.
S07151965 Mariner 4 sends back first close-up photos of the planet Mars.
S07151975 Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 are launched. They rendezvous 2 days
S07151975Clater.
S07151992 Ohio, "The state that gave us light, the state that gave us
S07151992Cflight, and the state that gave America the great John Glenn,"
S07151992Ccasts the needed votes that nominated William Clinton as the
S07151992CDemocratic Presidential candidate.
S0715 Marietta, Ohio, capital of the Northwest Territories, gets its
S0715 Cfirst governor.
S0715 Feast of St. Henry II, Holy Roman emperor (1014-24), confessor.
S0715 National Ice Cream Day.
S0715 Saint Swithin's Day (England).
S0715 Old Midsummer Day (celebrated on the Isle of Man).
S07161769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, the first mission in
S07161769CCalifornia.
S07161790 Congress establishes the District of Columbia.
S07161935 Oklahoma City becomes first in U.S. to use parking meters.
S07161945 the first atomic bomb is exploded at Trinity Site, Alamogordo,
S07161945CN.M.
S07161969 Apollo 11, the first manned ship to land on the moon, is
S07161969Claunched.
S07161973 the existence of tape-recorded conversations between Nixon and
S07161973Cvarious aides is disclosed to the Senate hearings by Alexander
S07161973CButterfield, a former Nixon aide.
S07161988 sisters Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Florence Griffith Joyner set
S07161988Cworld records at the Olympic Trials.
S07161992 Governor William Clinton of Arkansas, launching what he calls the
S07161992C"New Covenant", accepts the democratic nomination for president.
S07161992CFollowing the 54-minute speech, the convention cheers and rocks
S07161992Cto Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow)".
S0716 Dog Days.
S0716 The National Blueberry Festival, Montrose, Mich.
S0716 2Start of SPACEWEEK.
S07171821 Spain cedes Florida to the U.S.
S07171841 the British humor magazine `Punch' is first published.
S07171850 the Harvard Observatory takes the first photograph of a star
S07171850C(Vega).
S07171879 the first railroad opens in Hawaii.
S07171917 the British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to
S07171917CWindsor.
S07171933 the National Recovery Act (NRA) goes into effect.
S07171935 Variety's famous headline `Sticks Nix Hick Pix' is published.
S07171936 civil war breaks out in Spain, ending five years of democracy.
S07171951 Baudouin I of Belgium takes the throne.
S07171954 construction begins on Disneyland.
S07171955 Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County.
S07171975 the U.S. Apollo 18 and the Russian Soyuz 19 dock in space.
S07171979 the Cleveland Indians hit seven home runs in a game, setting a
S07171979Cclub record (vs. Detroit).
S07171980 Marjorie Matthews, a Methodist minister, becomes first woman
S07171980Cbishop of U.S. church.
S0717 Constitution Day, celebrated in South Korea
S0717 Dog Days.
S0717 Feast of St. Alexius, confessor.
S0717 Iraqi National Day.
S0718 64 the Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle).
S07181536 Pope's authority is declared void in England.
S07181872 Britain introduces voting by secret ballot.
S07181925 AAA declares women drivers are as competent as men.
S07181931 the first air-conditioned ship, the Mariposa, is launched.
S07181938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, who had been forbidden to make a
S07181938Csolo transatlantic flight, lands in Dublin, Ireland (not
S07181938CCalifornia??)
S07181940 the first successful helicopter flight occurs at Stratford, Ct.
S07181954 the first Newport Jazz Festival is held.
S07181966 the Hough Riots break out in Cleveland.
S07181966 Carl Sagan turns one billion seconds old.
S07181966 the Gemini 10 is launched.
S07181968 the Intel Corporation is incorporated.
S07181976 14-year-old Nadia Comaneci scores 10 on the uneven bar, a first
S07181976Cin Olympic gymnastics.
S07181980 a federal court voids the Selective Service Act for excluding
S07181980Cwomen.
S07181986 videotapes are released showing Titanic's sunken remains.
S0718 National Day, celebrated in Spain.
S0718 Dog Days.
S0718 Feast of St. Camillus de Lellis, confessor.
S07191848 the first Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, NY
S07191877 the first Wimbledon tennis championships are held.
S07191880 S.F. Public Library allows patrons to start borrowing books.
S07191896 Cleveland celebrates its 100th Anniversary.
S07191909 Cleveland Indian Neal Ball makes the first unassisted triple play
S07191909Cin major league history.
S07191935 the first parking meters are installed in the Oklahoma City
S07191935Cbusiness district.
S07191939 the first use of fiberglass sutures is by Dr. R.P. Scholz in St.
S07191939CLouis, Mo.
S07191949 President Truman says the Soviet Union will either destroy itself
S07191949Cor abandon aggression.
S07191949 Laos gains independence from France as a conditional monarchy.
S07191954 Elvis Presley records first hit, "That's All Right, Mama."
S07191954 the maiden flight of the Boeing-80, to be called the 707, occurs.
S07191957 the first rocket with nuclear warhead is fired at Yucca Flat,
S07191957CNev.
S07191958 the first Atlas three-stage rocket launched explodes after 2
S07191958Cminutes in flight.
S07191961 regular in-flight movies first occur on TWA's N.Y. to L.A.
S07191961Cflights.
S07191962 an U.S. anti-missile missile makes first successful
S07191962Cinterception of an I.C.B.M.
S07191969 Mary Jo Kopechne is drowned in a car accident with Edward Kennedy
S07191969Con Chappaquiddick Island, Mass.
S0719 Dog Days.
S0719 Feast of St. Vincent de Paul, confessor.
S07201810 Columbia gains it's independence.
S07201872 Mahlon Loomis receives patent for the wireless. The radio is
S07201872Cborn.
S07201859 the first admission fee is charged to see a baseball game (50
S07201859Ccents).
S07201861 the Congress of the Confederate States of America moves from
S07201861CMontgomery, Alabama to Richmond, Virginia.
S07201878 the telephone is introduced in Hawaii.
S07201900 a zeppelin airship makes first flight.
S07201925 Thistledown Racetrack in Cleveland opens.
S07201940 Billboard publishes its first singles record chart (#1. "I'll
S07201940CNever Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey.)
S07201956 prehistoric art is found in Rouffignac grotto, France.
S07201964 NASA tests first successful electric rocket engine.
S07201969 Man lands on the Moon, 4:18 PM EDT. (Armstrong and Aldrin walk
S07201969Cwhile Collins orbits above.)
S07201970 the first baby is born on Alcatraz Island.
S07201976 the Viking I lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, and begins
S07201976Ctransmitting pictures. (The Viking spacecrafts' tests strengthen
S07201976Cthe hint of life on Mars.)
S07201976 Hank Aaron hits his last home run.
S07201976 the U.S. completes withdrawal of U.S. troops from Thailand.
S0720 Independence Day, celebrated in Columbia.
S0720 Commemoration of St. Margaret, virgin, martyr.
S0720 Dog Days.
S0720 Feast of St. Jerome Emiliani, confessor.
S07211831 Belgium gains it's independence, crowning Leopald I its first
S07211831Cking.
S07211861 the first major battle of the Civil War occurs at Bull Run, Va.
S07211861C(the South wins.)
S07211873 the world's first train robbery occurs (by Jesse James.)
S07211921 General William Mitchell demonstrates airplanes can sink ships.
S07211925 John Thomas Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in
S07211925CTennessee, and is fined $100.
S07211928 boxer Gene Tunney retires undefeated at the age thirty.
S07211934 Ohio's highest temperature is recorded near Gallipolic, 113
S07211934Cdegrees.
S07211954 the French sign armistice with the Viet Minh, ending French
S07211954Centanglement in Vietnam.
S07211959 the U.S. launches the world's first atomic merchant ship,
S07211959CSavannah.
S07211960 an U.S. sub completes first Polaris missile underwater launch.
S07211961 Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom is launched.
S07211969 Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT).
S07211984 the first documented case of a robot killing a human in U.S. is
S07211984Crecorded.
S07211985 Drexel Burnham Lambert pleads guilty to insider trading, and
S07211985Cagrees to pay $650 million, the largest settlement by a company.
S0721 Independence Day, celebrated in Belgium.
S0721 Dog Days.
S0721 Feast of St. Laurence of Brindisi, confessor, doctor.
S07221796 Moses Cleaveland lands at the future site of Cleveland, Ohio.
S07221864 Gen. Sherman defeats Confederate defenders at the Battle of
S07221864CAtlanta.
S07221933 Wiley Post completes first round-the-world solo flight.
S07221933 the DC-1, first to meet the dead-engine criteria, is test-flown.
S07221934 desperado John Dillinger is gunned down by federal agents in
S07221934CChicago.
S07221955 the first time a vice-president (Nixon) presides over a cabinet
S07221955Cmeeting.
S07221975 Congress restores citizenship of Confederate General Robert E.
S07221975CLee.
S07221975 police in Milwaukee arrest Jeffrey Dalmer.
S0722 Dog Days.
S0722 Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, penitent.
S07231829 the typewriter is patented.
S07231852 the first interment in the U.S. National Cemetery at Presidio
S07231852Coccurs.
S07231877 the first telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed.
S07231888 the statue of Moses Cleaveland is unveiled on Public Square.
S07231903 the first Ford Model A is sold.
S07231904 the first ice cream cone is introduced, in St. Louis.
S07231917 the Cleveland Metropolitan Park District is established.
S07231937 the isolation of the pituitary hormone is announced.
S07231970 FBI report concludes the National Guard had no cause to fire on
S07231970Cstudents at Kent State.
S07231972 Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS 1), later called
S07231972CLANDSAT, is launched to start its multi-spectral scans of Earth.
S07231973 Nixon refuses to release tapes of White House conversations
S07231973Crelevant to Watergate.
S07231982 actor Vic Morrow and two Vietnamese children are killed during
S07231982Cthe filming of a segment of "The Twilight Zone: The Movie".
S07231984 Vanessa Williams, the first black Miss America, relinquishes her
S07231984Ctitle because of nude photographs of her published in Penthouse
S07231984Cwould embarrass the pageant.
S07231986 the FDA approves production of the first genetically altered
S07231986Cvaccine.
S07231986 Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson (Andy and Fergie) wed.
S0723 National Day, in Egypt.
S0723 Dog Days.
S0723 Feast of St. Apollinaris, first bishop of Ravenna, martyr.
S07241824 The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results
S07241824Cof first public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson.
S07241847 the Mormans found Salt Lake City.
S07241866 Tennessee becomes the first Confederate state readmitted to the
S07241866CUnion.
S07241915 more than 800 people are lost when the pleasure steamer,
S07241915CEastland, top-heavy with passengers, rolls over a few feet from a
S07241915CChicago dock (the worst disaster on the Great Lakes).
S07241952 "High Noon" starring Gary Cooper debuts.
S07241974 the Supreme Court rules that President Nixon must turn over the
S07241974Cadditional tapes sought by Watergate prosecutor.
S07241983 Yankees beat K.C. as Royals George Brett's homer is nullified for
S07241983Cpine tar on the bat.
S07241991 9 of the 15 Soviet republics agree on a draft treaty that will
S07241991Cdecentralize the system of power-sharing in the Soviet Union.
S0724 Dog Days.
S0724 Feast of St. Christina, virgin, martyr.
S0724 Pioneer Day in Utah.
S0724 Simon Bolivar's Day (celebrated in Venezuela).
S07251814 the first steam locomotive is demonstrated.
S07251868 Wyoming Territory is established.
S07251903 Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes.
S07251909 the first airplane flight across the English Channel occurs.
S07251946 the first subsurface atomic explosion, "Bikini Helen," is
S07251946Cdetonated near the Bikini Islands.
S07251952 Congress establishes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
S07251958 V.P. Nixon argues with Khruschev, "Kitchen Debate", while on a
S07251958Cdiplomatic visit to Russia.
S07251962 the House passes a bill for equal pay regardless of sex.
S07251967 construction begins on S.F. MUNI METRO (Market Street subway).
S07251978 Baby Louise, the first test-tube baby, is born in London.
S07251984 Soviet Svetlena Savilskaya becomes the first woman to walk in
S07251984Cspace.
S0725 Dog Days.
S0725 Feast of St. James, apostle, and Commemoration of St.
S0725 CChristopher.
S07261775 Benjamin Franklin becomes Postmaster General.
S07261788 New York is the 11th state of the original 13 to ratify the
S07261788CConstitution.
S07261788 Sydney, Australia is settled by British colonists.
S07261835 the first sugar cane plantation is started in Hawaii.
S07261847 Liberia becomes a republic.
S07261887 the first Esperanto book is published.
S07261908 the Federal Bureau of Investigation is established.
S07261947 the National Security Council is created. (The CIA falls under
S07261947Cits domain.)
S07261952 Mickey Mantle hits his first grand slam.
S07261953 Fidel Castro begins revolution against Batista.
S07261956 the Andrea Doria sinks.
S07261957 U.S.S.R. launches first intercontinental multi-stage ballistic
S07261957Cmissile.
S07261958 the U.S. launches Explorer IV to collect cosmic ray data.
S07261963 U.S. launches Sycom 2, the first geosynchronous satellite.
S07261965 Maldives gains independence.
S07261969 scientists get first look at the rocks brought back from the
S07261969Cmoon - look but not touch.
S07261971 U.S. launches Apollo 15 to the Moon.
S07261990 President Reagan signs a bill barring discrimination against
S07261990Cpeople with physical or mental disabilities.
S07261992 the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) begins to bar
S07261992Cemployment discrimination based on disability.
S0726 The start of the Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree in Athens, Texas.
S0726 Independence Day, celebrated in Liberia.
S0726 Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S0726 Feast of St. Anne, mother of Mary.
S0726 Dog Days.
S07271586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia.
S07271789 the Department of State is created.
S07271866 Atlantic telegraph cable is successfully laid (1,686 miles long).
S07271921 insulin is discovered by Canadian biochemists R. Banting and C.
S07271921CBest.
S07271940 Billboard magazine starts publishing best-seller's charts.
S07271949 the world's first jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, debuts in
S07271949CEngland.
S07271953 the Korean Conflict ends and the armistice is signed at
S07271953CPanmunjom.
S07271971 the first Eisenhower silver dollar is presented to the widow
S07271971CMamie Eisenhower.
S07271974 the House Judiciary Committee votes on the first of three charges
S07271974Cto impeach President Nixon for obstructing justice in the
S07271974CWatergate investigations.
S07271986 Greg Lemond becomes first American to win Tour de France.
S0727 Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S0727 Dog Days.
S0727 Feast of St. Pantaleon, martyr.
S07281586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe.
S07281821 Peru gains it's independence.
S07281849 "Memmon" is first clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of
S07281849CNew York.
S07281851 a total solar eclipse is captured on a daguerreotype photograph.
S07281868 the 14th Amendment is ratified, giving citizenship to ex-slaves.
S07281900 the hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut.
S07281914 the Foxtrot is first danced at the New Amsterdam Roof Garden
S07281914Cin New York City. Music by Harry Fox (who else?)
S07281927 48 nations sign Geneva Convention governing the treatment of war
S07281927Cprisoners.
S07281931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd National
S07281931CAnthem.
S07281933 the first Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee).
S07281964 the U.S. launches Ranger 7 to the Moon.
S07281976 Capt. Elden W. Joersz, USAF, travels 2193.16 MPH in a Lockheed
S07281976CSR-71 (the fastest a human has gone on Earth.)
S07281982 San Francisco becomes the first U.S. city to ban handguns.
S07281992 U.S. Olympic gymnastic coaches Bela and Marta Karolyi announce
S07281992Ctheir retirement at the end of the 1992 Games.
S0728 Independence Day, celebrated in Peru.
S0728 Capricornid meteor shower, radiant in Capricorn.
S0728 Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S0728 Dog Days.
S0728 Feast of SS. Nazarius, Celsus, Victor I, Innocent I.
S07291835 the first sugar plantation in Hawaii is established.
S07291858 the first commercial treaty between U.S. and Japan is signed.
S07291899 the first motorcycle race is ran at Manhattan Beach, N.Y.
S07291907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms the Boy Scouts, in England.
S07291914 the first transcontinental phone link is made. (Between NYC and
S07291914CSan Francisco)
S07291920 the first transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San
S07291920CFrancisco occurs.
S07291928 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released.
S07291952 the first transpacific non-stop flight by jet occurs.
S07291957 the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is established by
S07291957Cthe U.N. to advance peaceful development of atomic energy.
S07291957 Jack Paar's "Tonight" show premieres.
S07291958 NASA is created, replacing the National Advisory Committee for
S07291958CAeronautics (NACA).
S07291958 Southern Pacific Bay Ferries stop running.
S07291961 Wallis and Futuna Islands become French overseas territories.
S07291965 the Beatles movie "Help" opens in Britain.
S07291974 the House Judiciary Committee votes on the second of three
S07291974Ccharges to impeach President Nixon for repeatedly failing to
S07291974Ccarry out his oath in a series of abuses of power.
S07291979 the bodies of the first 2 of 28 black children killed in the
S07291979CAtlanta area are found. (Wayne Williams is arrested on June 21,
S07291979C1981 for the murders.)
S07291981 Congress passes President Reagan's tax-cut legislation, the
S07291981Clargest in the nation's history.
S07291981 Prince Charles and Lady Diana wed.
S07291981 the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated.
S0729 Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S0729 Dog Days.
S0729 Feast of St. Martha, virgin.
S0729 6Start of Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
S07301619 the House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed. It is the first
S07301619Celective governing body in a British colony.
S07301917 the Board of the Commissioners of the Cleveland Metroparks has
S07301917Cits first meeting.
S07301733 the Society of Freemasons opens its first American lodge in
S07301733CBoston.
S07301836 first English newspaper is published in Hawaii.
S07301939 the Cleveland Cultural Gardens in Rockefeller Park is dedicated.
S07301956 the Motto of U.S. "In God We Trust" is authorized.
S07301965 the Medicare Social Security bill is signed into law.
S07301974 the House Judiciary Committee votes on the last of three charges
S07301974Cto impeach President Nixon for his unconstitutional defiance
S07301974Cof subcommittee subpoenas.
S07301975 teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa disappears.
S07301976 Bruce Jenner wins gold in the decathlon.
S07301980 the independent Republic of Vanuatu is declared.
S07301992 Yael Arad wins Israel's first Olympic medal, a silver medal in
S07301992Cjudo.
S0730 Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S0730 Dog Days.
S0730 Feast of SS. Abdon and Sennen, martyrs.
S0730 6Start of Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
S07311498 Christopher Columbus discovers the island of Trinidad.
S07311588 the English fleet attacks and defeats the Spanish armada.
S07311790 the first U.S. is patent granted to Samuel Hopkins for a potash
S07311790Cprocess.
S07311777 Frenchman Marquis de Lafayette, 19, is made a major-general of
S07311777Cthe Continental Army.
S07311846 the Donner party leave Ft. Bridger on the ill-fated Hastings
S07311846CCutoff (claimed to save 350 to 400 miles on the trek to
S07311846CCalifornia).
S07311922 an 18 year old, Ralph Samuelson, rides the world's first water
S07311922Cskis at Lake City, Minnesota.
S07311928 Leo the Lion's first roar is heard in MGM's silent movie "White
S07311928CShadow of the South Seas."
S07311932 the first major league baseball game is played at the Cleveland
S07311932CStadium (Philadelphia Athletics 1, Indians 0).
S07311954 a six yea research program finds that Los Angeles smog is
S07311954Ccaused by the chemical reaction of sunlight on auto and
S07311954Cindustrial emissions.
S07311959 the first exhibit of bongos at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
S07311959Copens.
S07311963 the Cleveland Indians hit four consecutive home runs in one
S07311963Cinning, setting a club record (vs. California Angels).
S07311964 Ranger 7 takes the first close-up photos of the moon, 4,316
S07311964Cpictures, before crashing into it.
S07311969 Mariner 6 comes within 2,000 miles of Mars.
S07311970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report'
S07311970C(No more "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet")
S07311971 Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin take mankind's
S07311971Cfirst ride on the moon (moon rover).
S07311991 the U.S. and the Soviets sign the Strategic Arms Reduction
S07311991CTreaty (START), the first treaty to mandate reductions by the
S07311991Csuperpowers.
S07311992 the 49th Shuttle Mission, Atlantis 12 is launched.
S07311992 the month ends as the wettest month on record in Cleveland.
S0731 Delta Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius.
S0731 Dog Days.
S0731 Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Jesuits.
S0731 6Start of Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California.
R0700 Baked Beans Month - Hot Dog Month - Ice Cream Month
R0700 The stone for July is the ruby.
R0700 The water-lily is the flower of July.
R0700 July's name commemorates the founder of the Julian calendar,
R0700 Julius Ceasar.
R07010722 Cancer is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R07010722 Symbol: The Crab.
R07010722 Ruling Planet: Moon.
R07010722 Element: Water.
R07010722 Traits: Maternal, compassionate, thrifty.
R07010722 Body part associated with this sign: The breast.
R07010722 Occupations: Raising children, animals, or plants, history,
R07010722 antiques, caring for the elderly.
R07230731 Leo is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R07230731 Symbol: The Lion.
R07230731 Ruling Planet: Sun.
R07230731 Element: Fire.
R07230731 Traits: Forceful, generous, creative, well-organized.
R07230731 Body part associated with this sign: The heart.
R07230731 Occupations: Supervisor, actor, king, activities requiring
R07230731 physical strength, bartender.