Today in History for July 1904

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 10 of 10

1st - 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St Louis
5th - Giants 18-game winning streak ends as Phillies win 6-5 in 10 inn
9th - 10th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 303 at Glen View Club IL
15th - 1st Buddhist temple in US forms, Los Angeles
16th - Islands of Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs
19th - Cleveland Nap's Neal Ball makes 1st unassisted triple play
19th - Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber
21st - After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed
21st - Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH
23rd - Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 35 of 35

1st - Mary Calderone, physician/founder (planned parenthood)
2nd - Carl Weinrich, composer
2nd - Gerarda "Meik" Rueter, Dutch (sculptress, if that word exists)
4th - Angela Baddeley, London England, actress (Ghost Train, Tom Jones)
4th - Artur Malawski, composer
4th - Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist
5th - Don Goddard, Binghamton NY, news anchor (ABC Evening News 1958-59)
5th - Franz Adolf Syberg, composer
5th - Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector
5th - Milburn Stone, Bruton Ks, actor (Doc-Gunsmoke)
5th - Ernst Mayr, American biologist (d. 2005)
6th - Robert Whitney, Newcastle-on-Tyne England, conductor (Sospiro do Roma)
6th - Erik Wickberg, Salvation Army general (d. 1996)
7th - Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991)
8th - Bill Challis, arranger/pianist
8th - Henri Cartan, French mathematician
10th - Isa Krejci, composer
12th - Pablo Neruda, Chile, poet (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971)
14th - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Poland, Yiddish novelist (Enemies-Nobel 1978)
15th - Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author (d. 2007)
16th - Goffredo Petrassi, Zagarolo Italy, composer (Beatitudines)
16th - Leo Joseph Suenens, Cardinal (Belgium)
17th - Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor
23rd - Adone Zecchi, composer
24th - James R Killian Jr, MIT pres (1948-59)
24th - Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (d. 1991)
26th - Jack Allan Westrup, composer
27th - Agnes Yarnall, sculptor, artist, author laa, 1987
27th - Anton Dolin, [Patrick Healey-Kay], dancer (Girl From Petrovka)
27th - Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist
28th - [John] Selwyn [Brooke] Lloyd, British statsman
29th - J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1993)
30th - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)
31st - Arthur Daley, sportswriter (NY Times-Pulitzer 1956)
31st - Brett Halliday, American writer (d. 1977)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 8 of 8

3rd - Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist/Zionist, dies
3rd - Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
5th - Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
14th - S J Paul Kruger, general/pres South-Africa (1883-1904), dies at 78
15th - Anton Pavlovich Chechov, Russian writer (Uncle Vanya), dies at 44
22nd - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
23rd - John Simon, public health pioneer, dies
28th - Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage), dies