Today in History for July 1907

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 11 of 11

1st - World's 1st air force established (US Army)
3rd - Pope decree forbids modernization of theology
4th - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
8th - Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
18th - Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1907," premieres in NYC
18th - French troops occupy Casablanca
20th - A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more.
23rd - 7th Davis Cup: Australasia beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
25th - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
29th - 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France
29th - Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 32 of 32

1st - Bill Stern, Rochester NY, sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights)
2nd - Eppo Doeve, Dutch cartoonist/painter
2nd - Leo O'Brien, cricketer (Australian batsman in 5 Tests 1932-36)
3rd - Arthur Steel, Dutch architect (Group '32)
3rd - Gene Gutche, composer
4th - Elliott Sullivan, San Antonio TX, actor (Sergeant)
4th - Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
4th - Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (d. 1996)
6th - M C Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter/wife of Diego Rivera
7th - Helene Johnson, poet
7th - Robert A[nson] Heinlein, US, sci-fi author (4 Hugos, Red Planet)
8th - George W Romney, (Gov-R-Mich)/US Secretary of HUD (1969-73)
8th - Kishio Hirao, composer
15th - Paterson Fraser, British air marshal
16th - Barbara Stanwyck, Bkln, actress (Dynasty II, Big Valley, Thorn Birds)
16th - Orville Redenbacher, popcorn King (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet)
16th - Frances Horwich, American educator and television personality (d. 2001)
18th - Yvonne Desportes, composer
19th - Gunter Bialas, composer
19th - Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)
21st - Ross Alexander, Brooklyn NY, actor (Boulder Dam, Capt Blood)
22nd - Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987)
23rd - Elspeth Josceline Huxley, English author
24th - Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario
25th - Jack Gilford, NYC, actor (Save the Tiger, Cocoon, Arthur 2)
25th - Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
26th - Gioconda de Vito, violinist
26th - Istvan Pelle, Hungary, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1932)
27th - Denis Rickett, private secretary to Clement Attlee
27th - Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater/judge (Olympics 1932,36)
28th - Earl S Tupper, inventor (Tupperware)
29th - Melvin Mouron Belli, Sonora California, lawyer (SF's "King of Torts")

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 5 of 5

5th - Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahler's eldest daughter, dies at 5
6th - August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German Linguist, Theologian (b. 1826)
7th - James McGranahan, composer, dies at 67
14th - William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)
19th - Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77