E07021921 Jack Dempsey defeats Georges Carpentier for the heavyweight title in the first boxing match to gross over a million dollars as well as the first fight to be broadcast live on radio.
E07021926 US Army Air Corps created
E07021937 Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean
E07021957 1st submarine built to fire guided missiles launched, "Grayback"
E07021961 Ernest Hemingway, author, dies at age 61.
E07021964 US - President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
E07021973 Grand Funk Railroad releases "We're An American Band".
E07021976 Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
E07021985 Proto launched on its way to Halley's Comet
E07031608 Samuel de Champlain founds the city of Quebec.
E07031775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
E07031819 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
E07031861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from New York.
E07031863 the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg ends in victory for the Union.
E07031890 Idaho becomes the 43rd state.
E07031898 US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago Cuba
E07031930 Congress creates the Veterans Administration (VA).
E07031941 Mount Rushmore National Monument is opened to the public.
E07031962 Algeria becomes independent after 132 years of French rule
E07031973 Nolan Ryan strikes out batter number 1,000, Sal Bando of Oakland.
E07031983 Calvin Smith (US) becomes fastest man alive (36.25 kph for 100 m)
E07031986 Renovated Statue of Liberty is rededicated with great ceremony.
E07031988 the USS Vincennes accidently shoots down an Iranian jetliner, killing 290 people.
E07041054 the brightest known super-nova starts shining, for three months, bright enough to read by by night.
E07041057 Crab Nebula supernova recorded by Chinese & Japanese astronomers.
E07041776 Declaration of Independence - US gains independence from Britain
E07041802 US Military Academy officially openes at West Point, NY
E07041826 John Adams, age 90, and Thomas Jefferson, age 83, - the 2nd and 3rd Presidents - both die.
E07041828 first US passenger railroad started, The Baltimore & Ohio
E07041831 James Monroe, the 5th President, dies at age 73.
E07041845 poet Henry Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond.
E07041862 English clergyman Charles L. Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) begins inventing the story of Alice in Wonderland for his friend Alice Pleasance Liddell during a boating trip.
E07041863 US - Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho).
E07041876 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco.
E07041882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens.
E07041884 Statue of Liberty is presented to the United States, in Paris.
E07041894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the first US autos.
E07041894 Republic of Hawaii established.
E07041898 French liner 'La Bourgogne' collides with bark 'Cromartyshire', drown.
E07041903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Phillipines) opens. United States President Roosevelt sends a message to the Phillipines, then a message around the world in 12 minutes.
E07041939 Lou Gehrig calls himself "the luckiest man on the face of the earth" in his farewell speech in Yankee Stadium.
E07041942 the Flying Tigers fly their last mission in China in WWII.
E07041946 Philippines gains independence from US
E07041965 Mariner 4 flies past Mars, sends first close-up photos.
E07041967 US - Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
E07041970 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons.
E07041976 Israeli commandoes raid Entebbe Airport in Uganda to rescue the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner.
E07041980 Nolan Ryan strikes out number 3,000, Cesar Geronimo of Cincinnati.
E07041991 Art Sansom, cartoonist, ("The Born Loser"), dies at age 70.
E07051643 1st recorded tornado in U.S. (Essex County, Massachusetts)
E07051687 Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA is published by Royal Society in England
E07051811 Venezuela gains independence from Spain.
E07261775 Benjamin Franklin becomes Postmaster General.
E07261788 New York becomes the 11th state.
E07261835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii.
E07261847 Liberia gains it's independence.
E07261887 first book published in Esperanto. Not a hit.
E07261908 Federal Bureau of Investigation established
E07261947 President Truman signs the National Security Act, which creates the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
E07261953 Fidel Castro begins his revolt against Batista in Cuba. (He is finally successful in 1959.)
E07261953 Korean War Armistice is signed.
E07261956 the Egyptians seize control of the Suez Canal from the French and the British.
E07261963 US launches Syncom 2, the first geosynchronous satellite
E07261965 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day).
E07261971 US launches Apollo 15 to the Moon
E07261982 Canada's Anik D1 comsat launched by US delta rocket.
E07261986 American Lawrence Jenco is released after 18 months of captivity in Lebanon.
E07261991 Pee-wee Herman is arrested is Sarasota,Fl., on charges of indecent exposure.
E07271694 Bank of England is chartered.
E07271836 Adelaide, South Australia founded.
E07271862 Steamer 'Golden Gate' burned and sank off west coast of Mexico, carrying $1.5 million in gold and silver.
E07271866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long).
E07271907 Orville Wright tests the Army's first airplane, flying himself and a passenger for one hour and twelve minutes.
E07271940 Billboard magazine starts publishing its best-seller charts.
E07271940 Warner Brothers releases the first official Bugs Bunny cartoon, "A Wild Hare".
E07271953 the Korean War armistice is signed.
E07271955 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation.
E07271962 Mariner 2 launched on a flyby mission to venus
E07271969 Pioneer 10 Launched.
E07271970 Grand Funk Railroad releases "Closer to Home/I'm Your Captain".
E07271976 John Lennon receives his green card from US immigration.
E07271983 ABC-TV broadcasts the last episode of "Taxi".
E07271984 the Prince film "Purple Rain" premieres.
E07271986 Queen becomes the first Western act since Louis Armstrong in 1964 to play Budapest, Hungary.
E07281586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe.
E07281821 Peru gains it's independence.
E07281849 "Memmon" is 1st clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of NY
E07281851 total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
E07281866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
E07281868 the 14th Amendment is ratified, establishing due process of law.
E07281900 The Hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
E07281914 World War I begins as Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
E07281931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" US 2nd National Anthem.
E07281932 President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment.
E07281933 1st Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee).
E07281964 Ranger 7 launched to the moon; sends back 4308 TV pictures.
E07281973 Skylab 3's astronauts are launched
E07281976 Eldon Joersz & Geo. Morgan set world airspeed record of 3,530 kph
E07291588 the English defeat the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines.
E07291794 Robespierre and 21 of his allies are executed at the Place de la Revolution.
E07291858 1st commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
E07291900 Italy's King Umberto is assassinated.
E07291914 the first transcontinental phone link between New York and San Francisco is established.
E07291920 the first transcontinental airmail flight from New York to San Francisco is made.
E07291957 International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN
E07291957 Jack Paar debuts as the host of "The Tonight Show".
E07291967 the Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1.
E07291967 U.S.S. Forrestal explodes killing 134. $100 million damage.
E07291968 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption.
E07291978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings.
E07291981 the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana.
E07291985 19th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 is launched
E07301619 The House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed. 1st elective governing body in a British colony.
E07301870 Staten Island ferry 'Westfield' burns, killing 100.
E07301946 1st rocket to attain 100-mile altitude, White Sands, NM
E07301956 Motto of US "In God We Trust" authorized
E07301971 US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium.
E07301975 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa mysteriously disappears in suburban Detroit. He has never been found. (Maybe the Meadowlands?).
E07301980 Vanuatu (then New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain, Fran
E07301983 STS-8 3rd flight of Challenger. 1st night launch & land.
E07301984 "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC-TV.
E07301984 STS-14 first flight of the shuttle Discovery.
E07311498 Christopher Columbus discovers the island of Trinidad.
E07311588 English fleet attacks Spanish armada
E07311790 1st US Patent granted (for a potash process).
E07311948 President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY
E07311964 the US space probe Ranger VII transmits pictures of the moon's surface to earth.
E07311970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending the "Huntley-Brinkley Report". (No more "Goodnight, David", "Goodnight, Chet")
E07311990 Nolan Ryan wins his 300th game, beating Milwaukee 11-3.
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D07051970 Air Canada DC-8 crashed into farm field 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109.
D07061944 "the day the clown cried", over 100 people are killed when a Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey circus tent catches fire.
D07011566 Nostradamus, prophet, dies at age 63.
D07011991 Michael Landon, actor, dies at age 54.
D07021900 President James Garfield is assassinated.
D07021989 Franklin J. Schaffner, film director, dies at age 69.
D07021991 Lee Remick, actress, dies at age 55.
D07031816 French frigate 'Medusa' runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas.
D07031969 Brian Jones, musician, dies at age 27.
D07031971 Jim Morrison, singer/poet, dies at age 27.
D07031989 Jim Backus, actor, dies at age 76.
D07041866 Firecracker thrown in wood shavings starts fire that destroys over half of Portland, Maine.
D07041925 44 die when the Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses.
D07051983 Harry James, musician, dies at age 67.
D07051991 Mildred Dunnock, actress, dies at age 90.
D07061962 William Faulkner, author, dies at age 65.
D07061971 Louis B. Armstrong, musician, dies at age 71. 'The great sachmo'
D07061979 Elizabeth Ryan, tennis player, dies at age 87.
D07061991 Dr. Nicholas Dallis, cartoonist, dies at age 79.
D07071936 25 people drown while swimming in Lake Michigan off of Chicago, the American record for beach drownings in one day.
D07071973 78 drowned when flash flood swept a bus into a river. (India)
D07071990 Bill Cullen, game show host, dies at age 70.
D07081822 Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet, dies at age 30.
D07081961 Portuguese steamer 'Save' breaks up off Mozambique. 227 die
D07081975 Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan, Burma. 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated.
D07081991 James Franciscus, actor, dies at age 57.
D07091850 Zachary Taylor, the 12th president, dies at age 65.
D07091917 British warship 'Vanguard' exploded at Scapa Flow killing 800.
D07091918 "Cornfield meet" between local train and an express killed 101 and injured 171 in worst U.S. railway disaster. (Nashville, Tennessee)
D07091944 World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum & Bailey 2nd performance. 168 die. (Hartford, Conn.)
D07091958 Giant splash caused by the fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain across the bay, scouring the mountain clean of all vegetation.
D07091974 Earl Warren, Chief Justice, dies at age 83.
D07100138 Roman Emperor Hadrian dies.
D07101886 Eruption of the Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces. (North Island, New Zealand)
D07121794 led by Robespierre, the Reign of Terror begins in France - 1,285 people are guillotined by July 28th.
D07121979 Minnie Riperton, singer, dies at age 30.
D07131881 Billy the Kid, age 21, is killed by Pat Garrett.
D07131882 At least 200 killed when train derailed near Tcherny, Russia.
D07131967 race-related rioting kills 27 people in Newark over the next four days.
D07141957 Soviet steamer 'Eshghbad' sank in Caspian Sea, drowning 270.
D07151991 Bert Convy, singer/TV personality, dies at age 57.
D07161918 Czar Nicholas II, his empress and their five children are executed by the Bolsheviks.
D07161991 Frank Rizzo, politician, dies at age 70.
D07171991 Robert Motherwell, artist, dies at age 76.
D07181984 James Huberty kills 21 people in a McDonald's in San Ysidro, CA., before being killed by a police sharpshooter.
D07191989 112 people are killed when a United Air Lines DC-10 crashes in Sioux City, IA. 184 people survived.
D07211796 Robert Burns, poet, dies at age 37.
D07211976 "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 conventioneers in Philadelphia, PA.
D07231885 Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President, dies at age 63.
D07231964 Egyptian munition ship 'Star of Alexandria' explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage.
D07231967 43 people are killed in riots in Detroit.
D07231973 Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator, dies at age 82.
D07231982 Vic Morrow, (age 50), actor, and two children are killed on the set of "Twilight Zone: The Movie".
D07241862 Martin Van Buren, the 8th President, dies at age 79.
D07241991 Isaac Singer, author, dies at age 87.
D07261952 Evita Peron, Argentine politician, dies at age 33.
D07261990 Brent Mydland, musician, dies at age 37.
D07271990 Bobby Day, singer, dies at age 60.
D07281750 Johann Sebastian Bach, composer, dies at age 65.
D07281945 B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building between 78th & 79th floors, killing 10.
D07291506 Martin Behaim, inventor of the globe, dies at age 47.
D07291715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sunk off Florida coast by hurricane.
D07291856 Robert Schumann, composer, dies at age 46.
D07291890 Vincent Van Gogh, artist, dies at age 37.
D07311556 Igantius Loyola, religious leader, dies.
D07311875 Andrew Johnson, the 17th president, dies at age 66.
D07311886 Franz Liszt, composer, dies at age 74.
D07311973 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later
D07311987 400 people die when Iranian pilgrims clash with riot police in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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; Birthdays
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B0701 "Wolfman Jack", a howling success in radio
B07011646 Gottfried W Leibnitz, mathematician-philosopher
B07011804 George Sand, French Romantic novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro).
B07011853 Cecil John Rhodes, South African politician, diamond merchant.
B07011899 Charles Laughton, actor.
B07011915 Willie Dixon, musician/songwriter.
B07011916 Olivia DeHaviland, actress, in Tokyo, (Robin Hood)
B07011925 Farley Granger, actor.
B07011931 Leslie Caron, actress/dancer.
B07011934 Jamie Farr, (nee Jameel Farar), actor.
B07011934 Jean Marsh, actress.
B07011934 Sydney Pollack, film director.
B07011941 Twyla Tharp, dancer/choreographer.
B07011942 Genevieve Bujold, actress.
B07011942 Karen Black, actress.
B07011945 Deborah Harry, singer.
B07011950 David Duke, politician.
B07011952 Dan Akroyd, comedian, actor (SNL)
B07011960 Evelyn (Champagne) King, singer.
B07011961 Carl Lewis, sprinter.
B07011961 Princess Diana, British royal.
B0702 419 Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55).
B07021842 James West, TV character.
B07021877 Hermann Hesse, Swiss novelist, poet (Steppenwolf) (Nobel 1946).
B07021906 Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker.