Today in History for July 1932

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 33 of 33

1st - 45th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (63 61)
1st - NY Gov FDR nominated for president at Dem Convention in Chicago
1st - NY newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt
2nd - 52nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ellsworth Vines beats H Austin (64 62 60)
2nd - FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech
3rd - 1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2
3rd - John McGraw retires from baseball
4th - Bradman scores 260, a North American record, v Western Ontario
5th - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes premier/dictator of Portugal
6th - 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents
6th - Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli
7th - Bradman scores a cricket double century in Montreal
8th - Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22
8th - Herbert Sutcliffe scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Gloucs
9th - Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) forms
9th - Yanks' Ben Chapman hits 2 inside-the-park HRs, tying record
9th - The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution
10th - Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job
12th - Hedley Verity establishes a first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm
14th - Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
15th - President Hoover cuts own salary 15%
18th - Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign Unity treaty
18th - US & Canada sign a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway
20th - In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House.
27th - Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death
28th - Battle between unemployed war veterans & federal troops, 4 die
28th - Pres Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment
29th - Great Depression: in Washington, DC, U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
30th - 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
31st - 27th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (3-2)
31st - Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Phila A's beat Indians 1-0
31st - George Washington quarter goes into circulation
31st - German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 55 of 55

1st - Bobby Day, [Robert Byrd], Fort Worth Tx, rock vocalist (Rockin' Robin)
1st - Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (d. 2007)
2nd - Dave Thomas, founder (Wendy's Restaurants)
2nd - Ken McMillan, Bkln NY, actor (Malone, Concrete Beat)
2nd - Sammy Turner, Paterson NJ, vocalist (Lavender Blue)
4th - Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian athlete
5th - Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter
5th - Billy Laughlin, American actor (d. 1948)
5th - Gyula Horn, former Hungarian prime minister
6th - Della Reese, Detroit, singer/actress (Della Reese Show, Royal Family)
7th - Josef Zawinul, Austrian-American jazz keyboardist, composer and musician (d. 2007)
9th - Donald Rumsfeld, politician (involved in Watergate)
9th - John Paul Getty II, US/British oil magnate/billionaire (Getty Oil)
10th - Jorgen Becker, writer
10th - Carlo Mario Abate, Italian racing driver
11th - Alex Hassilev, rocker (Limeliters)
11th - Ron McAnally, horse trainer
11th - Bob McGrath, American actor
12th - Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist
12th - Otis Crandell Davis, Ala, 400m/4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1960)
13th - Per Norgard, composer
13th - Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist
13th - Antonio Roma, Buenos Aires, Argentina, football goalkeeper (42 caps), (d. 2013)
14th - Roosevelt Grier, Cuthbert Ga, NFLer (NY Giants)/actor (Movin' On)
15th - Nina Van Pallandt, Copenhagen Denmark, actress (American Gigolo)
16th - John Chilton, jazz trumpeter
16th - Milly Vitale, Rome, actress (7 Little Foys, War & Peace, Juggler)
16th - Oleg Protopopov, Russia, olympic pairs skater (Gold 1964, 68)
16th - [Dick] Richard L Thornburgh, Penn, US Attorney General (1988-93)
16th - Max McGee, American football player (d. 2007)
17th - Niccolo Castiglioni, composer
17th - Vince Guaraldi, jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV specials)
17th - Wojciech Kilar, composer
17th - Hal Riney, American advertising executive (d. 2008)
18th - Robert Ellis Miller, American film director
19th - Buster Benton, singer/guitarist
20th - Nam June Paik, Seoul Korea, video artist (Medium is the Medium)
20th - Otto Schily, German politician
21st - Ernie Warlick, American football player
22nd - Oscar de la Renta, Dom Rep, designer (Coty Hall of Fame-1973)
22nd - William Wilkinson, businessman/conservationist
23rd - Alistair Graham, headmaster (Mill Hill School)
24th - William D Ruckelshaus, headed Environmental Protection Agency
25th - Gibson N Kente, composer
25th - Paul Joseph Weitz, Erie Pennsylvania, astronaut (Skylab 2, STS 6)
27th - Beverly B Byron, (Rep-D-MD, 1979- )
27th - Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader
27th - Robert Cowan, CEO (Highlands & Islands Enterprises)
29th - Marguerite Empey, [Diane Webber], Los Angelas California, playmate (May 1955, Feb 1956)
29th - Nancy Landon Kassebaum, (Sen-R-Kansas, 1979- )
31st - Morey Carr, rocker (Playmates)
31st - Robert W Davis, (Rep-R-MI, 1979- )
31st - Ted Cassidy, Pittsburgh PA, American actor (Lurch-Addams Family)
31st - John Searle, American philosopher
31st - Sam Coppola, Jersey City, New Jersey, actor (Saturday Night Fever), (d. 2012)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

2nd - Platinum blonde screen goddess Jean Harlow (21) weds MGM producer Paul Bern (42)
19th - "Rebecca" author Daphne DuMaurier (25) weds commander of the I Airborne Corps Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning (35)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 18 of 18

2nd - Manoel II, last king of Portugal (1908-10), dies at 43
2nd - Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
5th - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (b. 1880)
6th - Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
7th - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
7th - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
8th - Florenz Ziegfeld, US theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies
9th - Henry Howell, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests 1920-24), dies
9th - King C. Gillette, American inventor (b. 1885)
20th - René Bazin, French novelist (b. 1853)
21st - Bill Gleason, late 19th century baseball player
22nd - Roosje Vos, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 71
22nd - Roses Fox, Trade union leader, dies at 71
22nd - Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
22nd - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
23rd - Tenby Davies, Welsh half-mile world champion runner (b. 1884)
25th - Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (It Bolleken), dies [or 1936]
31st - Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer, dies at 58