Today in History for July 1941

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 51 of 51

1st - 1st coml TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC
1st - Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial
1st - Joe Dimaggio on way to 56, ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hit streak
1st - WCBW (now WCBS) TV channel 2 in NY, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1st - WNBT TV (W2XBS, Now WNBC) channel 4 in NYC (NBC) begins broadcasting
2nd - DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56)
2nd - Earthquake hits Palestine
2nd - Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)
2nd - Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," premieres in London
4th - Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead
4th - Politburo of Yugoslav communist party reorganizes
4th - Howard Florey & Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin
5th - German occupiers disband political parties
6th - NY Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield
7th - Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono Lithuania
7th - US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
7th - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
8th - 9th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
8th - All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star
Pathologist and Nobel Laureate Howard Florey 10th - Jedwabne Pogrom is a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
11th - German troops attack Dnjepr
13th - 24th PGA Championship: Vic Ghezzi at Cherry Hills CC Denver
13th - Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder
13th - World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).
14th - 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
14th - Cease fire of Joan of Arc (ends combat in Lebanon & Syria)
14th - Jam rationed in Holland
15th - Florey & Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Penicillin)
16th - 100°F (38°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle Wash
16th - Joe Dimaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game
17th - NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland
18th - SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia
19th - 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee Ala)
19th - BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (...-) 5th of Beethoven
British war time Prime Minister Winston Churchill 19th - British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
19th - President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee
20th - Yanks beat Tigers 12-6 in 17
21st - 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine
21st - Himmler orders building of Majdanek concentration camp
24th - FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China
24th - Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz Lithuania
24th - Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game
25th - FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
25th - Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory)
26th - 1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague
26th - US embargo on oil-export to Japan
27th - 103°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
27th - German army enters Ukraine
27th - Japanese forces land in Indo-China
30th - German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU & SGP in Netherlands
31st - U boats sink 21 allied ships this month: 94,000 ton

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 71 of 71

1st - John Gould, British composer/musical comic
1st - Rod Gilbert, Canada, NHL wing (NY Rangers)
1st - Sally Quinn, Georgia, CBS newscaster (Morning Show)
1st - Twyla Tharp, Portland Ind, choreographer (Twyla Tharp Dance Troupe)
1st - Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1st - Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel laureate
2nd - Stéphane Venne, French Canadian songwriter
3rd - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, cinematographer (Kathapurushan, Mathulikal)
3rd - Gloria Allred, feminist attorney
3rd - Wylie Walker Vale, Houston, Texas, Endocrinologist who discovered the stress hormone
4th - Brian Willson, American peace activist
4th - Sergio Oliva, Cuba, American body builder (The Myth, IFBB Mr. Olympia, 1967-9), (d. 2012)
5th - Barbara Frischmuth, writer
7th - Michael Howard, British politician
7th - Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
8th - Dario Gradi, Italian-born football manager
9th - Don McPherson, rocker
9th - James Scott, director (Strike it Rich)
9th - Karin von Aroldingen, Germany, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet Co)
9th - Scotty Baesler, (Rep-D-Kentucky)
9th - Takehide Nakatani, Japan, lightweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
10th - Ian Whitcomb, England, rocker (You Turn Me On)
10th - Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk, Poland, cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18B, 30)
10th - Robert Pine, Scarsdale NY, actor (Joe Getraer-CHiPs)
10th - David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist
10th - Jake Eberts, Montreal, Quebec, film producer (Chariots of Fire, Dances with Wolves), (d. 2012)
11th - Clive Puzey, Zimbabwean racing driver
12th - Joseph Whipp, American actor
13th - Graeme Corling, Australian cricket fast bowler (1964 England tour)
13th - Jacques Perrin, Paris France, actress (Cinema Paradiso, 317th Platoon)
13th - Lut[guard] Tomsin, actress/director (Knock on the Door)
13th - Robert Forster, Rochester NY, actor (Lady in Red, Alligator)
14th - Tatyana Dmitryevna Kuznetsova, cosmonaut
14th - Maulana Karenga, American author and activist
14th - Andreas Khol, Austrian politician
15th - Geoffrey Burgon, composer
16th - George Young, MP/British minister of housing & planning
16th - Hans Wiegel, Dutch commissioner of the queen (Frisia)
16th - Jan G H Krajenbrink, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
16th - Mišo Kovač, Croatian musician
17th - Bob Taylor, cricketer wicket-keeper (too often in Knotty's shadow)
17th - Daryle Lamonica, Oakland Raider QB (AFL leading passer 1967)
18th - Jack Jersey, [de Nijs], Indonesian/Dutch singer/producer
18th - Lonnie Mack, Aurora Indiana, rocker (Baby What's Wrong)
18th - Marcia Jones Smoke, Oklahoma, 500m kayak (Olympic-bronze-1964)
18th - Martha Reeves, Detroit Mich, singer (& Vandellas-Dancing in St)
19th - Jennifer Dunn, (Rep-R-Washington)
19th - Jerry Huckaby, (Rep-D-LA, 1977- )
19th - Natalya Bessmertnova, Moscow, dancer (Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970)
19th - Neelie Smit-Kroes, Dutch politician (VVD)/minister of Traffic
20th - Vladimir Afanasiyevich Lyakhov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 32/34, T-9, TM-6)
20th - Kurt Raab, German actor (d. 1988)
21st - Jim Bates, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
22nd - George Clinton, Kannapolis NC, rocker (Parliament-Funkadelic)
22nd - Susie M Berning, Pasadena CA, LPGA golfer (US Women's Open-1972, 73)
22nd - Thomas Wayne, rocker (Tragedy)
22nd - Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey
23rd - Richie Evans, 9 time NASCAR Modified Champion (died at Martinsville in 1985)
24th - Barbara Love, rocker
25th - Nate Thurmond, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
25th - Raul Ruiz, Puerto Mott Chile, actor (Lexot, Capitolo 66)
25th - Peter Suschitzky, Polish-British cinematographer
25th - Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955)
26th - Brenton Wood, Shreveport La, rocker (Gimme Little Sign)
26th - Darlene Love, singer/actress (Lethal Weapon)
27th - Johannes Fritsch, composer
28th - Riccardo Muti, Napoli Italy, conductor (Philadelphia Orch)
29th - David Warner, Manchester NH, actor (Star Trek VI, Time Bandits)
30th - Count Desmond, [Edward Benjamin], Binghamton NY, sword swallower
30th - Paul Anka, Ottawa Ontario, singer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
31st - Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 13 of 13

2nd - Mohammad Baqa Jilani, cricketer (Test for India), dies at 29
4th - Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
5th - Oskar Fried, composer, dies at 69
8th - Philippe Gaubert, composer, dies at 62
8th - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (b. 1874)
10th - Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, pioneer jazz pianist, dies in LA at 56
18th - Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer, dies at 80
20th - Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
21st - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
26th - Benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies
26th - Marx Dormoy, French socialist, killed by a time bomb
27th - Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (b. 1858)
29th - James Stephenson, actor (Sea Hawk, River's End), dies at 52