Today in History for July 1912

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 19 of 19

3rd - NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak
4th - Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0
4th - Jack Johnson TKOs Jim Flynn in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
6th - Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)
8th - G E V Crutchley (Oxford) 99 retired measles v Cambridge
8th - Giants Rube Marquard loses after winning 21 straight
10th - Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6)
12th - 1st foreign feature film exhibited in US-"Queen Elizabeth"-NYC
14th - Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8)
15th - British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
16th - Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske
17th - IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
18th - Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings
19th - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
20th - Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game
22nd - 5th Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden closes
25th - Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
31st - RBC soccer team forms in Roosendaal
31st - US government prohibits movies & photos of prize fights (censorship)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 34 of 34

1st - Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier
1st - David Brower, environmentalist/president (Sierra Club)
1st - Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer
1st - Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989)
3rd - Edward Jones, North Ireland lord justice of appeals
4th - Virginia Graham, Chicago Ill, TV personality (Girl Talk, Where Was I)
4th - Viviane Romance, French actress (d. 1991)
6th - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2006)
7th - Tiny Alma, [Catharina E J Stam], operetta singer (Vienna Blood)
8th - Jacques Stehman, composer
10th - Francis Showering, brewer
12th - Broderick Vernon Chinnery-Haldane, photographer
14th - Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, folk singer (This Land Is Your Land)
14th - Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
16th - Ray Barr, NYC, pianist (Vincent Lopez Show)
16th - Milt Bocek, American baseball player (d. 2007)
17th - Art Linkletter, Saskatchewan Canada, TV host (People are Funny)
18th - Harry Levin, literary Scholar
18th - Henry L "Hank" Miller, US pilot/lt adm (WW II-Pacific)
18th - Max Rousié, French rugby footballer (d. 1950)
19th - Norman Carr, British conservationist (b. 1997)
20th - Andrew Long, Scottish author (Blue Book of Fairy Tales)
20th - Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member
20th - John Dacie, hematologist
20th - Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found newspaper (The Typhoon)
20th - George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (d. 1970)
23rd - Michael Wilding, England, actor (Courtney Affair, World of Suzie Wong)
26th - Derek Riches, diplomat
27th - Hilde Domin, writer
27th - Igor Markevitch, Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Le Paradis Perdu)
27th - Vernon Elliott, musician/composer
31st - Bill Brown, cricketer (Australian opener of the 30's & 40's)
31st - Irv Kupcinet, Chicago Ill, TV host (Tonight! America After Dark)
Economist Milton Friedman (31st) 31st - Milton Friedman, Brooklyn New York, economist (Nobel 1976), (d. 2006)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 5 of 5

2nd - Tom Richardson, English cricketer (88 wickets in 14 Tests for England), dies (b. 1870)
15th - Francisco Lazaro, Portuguese marathon runner (Olympics), dies at 21
17th - J-Henri Poincaré, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58
25th - Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter, dies at 76
30th - Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912), dies at 60