Today in History for July 1902

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 19 of 19

1st - Ranji (230) & Newham (153) add 344 for 7th wkt, Sussex v Essex
1st - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (BG)
2nd - John J McGraw becomes manager of NY Giants (stays for 30 years)
3rd - Excelsior soccer team forms in Rotterdam
5th - Australia won the one & only Test Cricket played at Sheffield
8th - John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck Baltimore & Washington clubs, negotiates his release from the Orioles
11th - British premier Lord Salisbury resigns
12th - Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
14th - The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
15th - Ranjitsinhji scores 180 before lunch, for Sussex v Surrey
16th - John McGraw named manager of NY Giants
16th - Test Cricket debut of K S Ranjitsinhji v Australia, at Old Trafford
17th - Orioles forfeit to St Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL
19th - NY Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw
24th - Trumper a century before lunch 4th Test Cricket v England
25th - James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
26th - Australia beat England by 3 runs at Old Trafford
29th - Union of Orthodox Rabbis of US & Canada forms
30th - Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 38 of 38

1st - Billy Wyler, director (Ben Hur, Mrs Miniver)
1st - Jose Luis Sert, Spanish/US architect
3rd - Jack Newman, NZ cricket lefty pace bowler (1932-33, later knighted)
4th - George Murphy, New Haven Ct, (Sen-R-California)/actor/dancer (MGM Parade)
4th - Meyer Lansky, mobster (Started numbers)
4th - Vince Barnett, Pittsburgh, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle)
5th - Frank Waters, writer
5th - Henry Cabot Lodge, (Sen-R)/ambassador (VP candidate 1960)
7th - James McCartney, father of Beatle (Paul)
7th - Vittorio De Sica, Sora Italy, director/actor (2 Women)
7th - Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)
9th - Gerhard Pohl, German writer (Crazy Ferdinand)
10th - G Weisenborn, writer
10th - Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950)
11th - Leo Collard, Belgian minister of Education (1946/54-58)
11th - Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Dutch/US phycist
12th - Gunther Anders, writer
14th - Paul Guilfoyle, Jersey City NJ, actor/director (Curiosity Kills)
14th - Richard Clarkson, aerodynamicist
Actor and Senator George Murphy (4th) 14th - Truman J Hedding, US vice-admiral (WW II)
15th - Jean Rey, Belgium, pres of European Commission (1967-70)
15th - Raymond Hackett, NYC, husband of Blanche Sweet/actor (Faithless Lover)
16th - Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist (d. 1977)
17th - Christina Stead, Australia, novelist (Man Who Loved Children)
18th - Charles W J Mengelberg, Dutch composer/conductor
19th - Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Miraculous Life of Willem Parel)
20th - Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (Bicycle Thiefs)
20th - Dilys Powell, English writer (Descent from Parnassus)
20th - Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d. 1984)
22nd - Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer
23rd - Walter Burle Marx, composer
24th - Hans Chemin-Petit, composer
24th - Nora Swinburne, England, actress (Quo Vardis, Dinner at Ritz, River)
25th - Eric Hoffer, longshoreman/author (True Believer)
26th - Gracie Allen, SF California, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen)
28th - Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian/British philosopher (Logic of Forschung)
28th - Kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Dead Reckoning)
31st - G O "Gubby" Allen, cricketer (in Sydney England non-bodyline quickie)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 7 of 7

4th - Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1863)
6th - Leopoldo Miguez, composer, dies at 51
10th - Albert FA, king of Saxon (1873-1902), dies at 74
12th - Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway), dies at 74
14th - Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor, dies at 58
18th - John White, composer, dies at 47
22nd - Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (b. 1822)