Today in History for July 1909

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 12 of 12

8th - 1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights
12th - 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes)
14th - Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns
15th - Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park HRs
16th - Det & Wash play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings
19th - Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play
24th - Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates
25th - France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across Engl Channel
27th - Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s
30th - John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
30th - Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
31st - Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 43 of 43

1st - Juan Carlos Onetti, novelist
1st - Madge Evans, Manhattan NYC, TV panelist (Masquerade Party)
1st - Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971)
2nd - Hermann Bengtson, German historian (Greeks Ancient Times)
3rd - Earl L Butz, US Secretary of Agriculture (1971-76); a real Butz
3rd - Lucy Kroll, entertainment agent
3rd - Stavros Niachos, Greece, shipping magnate (Those Fabulous Greeks)
4th - Alec Templeton, Cardiff Wales, pianist/composer (Concertino Lirico)
4th - Lynette Roberts, poet
4th - Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine
5th - Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/18 NS]
8th - Petar Segedin, Croatian novelist (Holy Devil)
12th - 2nd viscount Camrose, British Conserv Lower house leader (1941-45)
12th - Joey Faye, NYC, comedian (Joey Faye's Follies)
12th - Souphanouvong, [Red Prince], president of Laos (1975-87)
12th - Curly Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (d. 1993)
12th - Fritz Leonhardt, German civil engineer (d. 1999)
13th - David Branson, composer
13th - Paul Constantinescu, composer
13th - Washington Castro, composer
14th - Annabella, [Suzanne G Charpentier], Paris, actress (Dinner at Ritz)
15th - Enid Kathleen Hutchinson, adult educationalist
15th - Isabel Jewell, Shoshone WY, actress (Ceiling Zero, Arousers)
15th - John Cochrane, South African cricket pace bowler (one Test 1931)
16th - Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, moral theologian
16th - John Edward "Teddy" Buckner, trumpeter
17th - Hardy Amies, London England, royal dressmaker (Queen Elizabeth II)
18th - Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/5 OS]
18th - Harriet Hilliard Nelson, actress (Ozzie & Harriet)
18th - Lupe Velez, [Guadelupe Velez de Villabos], actress (Joe Palooka)
18th - Mohammed Daoud Khan, President of Afghanistan (d. 1978)
19th - Jeno Vecsey, composer
20th - Eric Rowan, South African cricketer (prolific batsman pre- & post-WWII)
20th - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (d. 1969)
21st - Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, Egyptologist
22nd - Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (d. 2000)
26th - Gerardina I "Diny" van Amstel, Dutch actress (Dijntje & Trijntje)
26th - Peter Thorneycroft, British politician (d. 1994)
26th - Vivian Vance, Cherryvale Kansas, American actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy) (d. 1979)
27th - Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor
28th - Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (Under the Volcano)
29th - Georgy Mushel, composer
30th - Cyril Northcote Parkinson, England, historian (Pursuit of Progress)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 8 of 8

5th - Emil Bohn, composer, dies at 70
8th - Gaston AA marquis de Gallifet, Fren min of War (1899-1900), dies at 79
9th - Kasimir Felix Badeni, Premier of Polish/Austria (1895-97), dies at 62
10th - Flooi Du Toit, cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892), dies
11th - Simon Newcomb, celestial mechanics authority (Stars), dies at 74
22nd - D v Liliencron, writer, dies at 65
23rd - Ernest F Cambier, Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65
23rd - Zygmunt Noskowski, composer, dies at 63