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Historical Events

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Jun 30th - Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium
Jul 1st - Benjamin Britten's cantate "Carmen Baseliense," premieres in Basel
Jul 1st - British Somaliland becomes Somalia
Jul 1st - Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba
Jul 1st - Ghana becomes a republic
Jul 1st - Italian Somaliland gains independence, unites with Somali Republic
Jul 1st - No passports needed inside Benelux
Jul 1st - USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane
Jul 2nd - "Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 perfs
Jul 3rd - Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) weds Dee Alliot
Jul 4th - 6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
Jul 4th - America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
Jul 4th - Mickey Mantle is 18th to hit 300 HRs
Jul 5th - Mongolia adopts constitution
Jul 6th - Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC
Jul 7th - Neth-US cemetery Margraten official opens
Jul 7th - USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea
Jul 8th - Fidel Castro ends Havana's Intl League team, Sugar Kings move to NJ
Jul 10th - Belgium sends troops to Congo
Jul 10th - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Youngstown Kitchens (Trumball Golf Open)
Jul 11th - 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC
Jul 11th - Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
Jul 11th - Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence
Jul 11th - Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independence
Jul 12th - Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence
Jul 12th - Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched
Jul 12th - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
Jul 12th - USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
Jul 12th - XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
Jul 12th - Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
Jul 13th - 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
Jul 13th - KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA
Jul 13th - US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate
Jul 14th - Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
Jul 14th - Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
Jul 15th - Balt Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle
Jul 16th - 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
Jul 16th - George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on
Jul 18th - 1st UN troops reach Congo
Jul 18th - Baseball's NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises
Jul 18th - Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns
Jul 19th - Italian Govt Tambroni, resigns
Jul 19th - SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies
Jul 20th - 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
Jul 20th - Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon
Jul 20th - USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
Jul 20th - The head of the Physics Department at the Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is arrested for espionage.
Jul 21st - Country of Katanga forms in Africa
Jul 21st - In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM
Jul 21st - Francis Chichester arrive in NY aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing
Jul 22nd - Cuba nationalizes all US owned sugar factories
Jul 23rd - 15th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
Jul 24th - 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron
Jul 25th - Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
Jul 25th - US Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate
Jul 26th - Italian govt of Fanfani forms
Jul 27th - VP Nixon nominated for pres at Republican convention in Chicago
Jul 28th - Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
Jul 30th - 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
Jul 31st - Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
Jul 31st - KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast
Jul 31st - Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
Aug 1st - Aretha Franklins 1st recording session
Aug 1st - Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
Aug 1st - Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"
Aug 1st - Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
Aug 3rd - Niger gains independence from France
Aug 4th - Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH
Aug 5th - Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France
Aug 5th - Detroit trades mgr Jimmy Dykes for Cleve's mgr Joe Gordon
Aug 6th - Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto
Aug 7th - Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) gains independence from France
Aug 7th - Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
Aug 7th - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
Aug 8th - "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" hits #1
Aug 8th - Ivory Coast declares independence
Aug 8th - South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
Aug 9th - Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
Aug 10th - Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
Aug 10th - Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea
Aug 11th - Chad declares Independence from France
Aug 11th - French colony of Chad became independent
Aug 12th - 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)
Aug 12th - Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched
Aug 12th - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 8.21m
Aug 12th - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m
Aug 13th - Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France
Aug 13th - USSR draws adviseors out of China
Aug 15th - CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium
Aug 15th - Chic Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo)
Aug 15th - Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France
Aug 15th - Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0
Aug 15th - UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
Aug 16th - Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus
Aug 16th - Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')
Aug 16th - Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms
Aug 17th - Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
Aug 17th - Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
Aug 17th - Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands
Aug 18th - 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie Ill

Famous Birthdays

Results 301 - 400 of 788

May 30th - Stephen "Tea Tower" Duffy, rocker (Lilac Time-Paradise Song)
May 31st - Chris Elliott, actor/comedian (Get a Life, David Letterman Show)
May 31st - Norm Johnson, NFL place kicker (Seattle Seahawk, Pitts Steelers)
May 31st - Peter Winterbottom, British rugby player
Jun 1st - Simon Gallup, English bassist (The Cure)
Jun 2nd - Tony Hadley, rock vocalist (Spandau Ballet-True)
Jun 2nd - Kyle Petty, American race car dr
Jun 3rd - Barry Lyons, baseball player
Jun 3rd - Carl Rackemann, cricketer (Queensland & Australian quickie)
Jun 3rd - Jack Daugherty, baseball player
Jun 3rd - Steve Lyons, baseball player
Jun 4th - Bradley Walsh, British actor
Jun 5th - Leslie Hendrix, American actress
Jun 5th - Margo Lanagan, Australian author
Jun 6th - Gary Graham, actor (Money on the Side)
Jun 6th - Lola Forner, Alicante SW Spain, Miss Spain (1979)
Jun 6th - Steve Vai, guitarist (Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth Band, Whitesnake)
Jun 6th - Steve Vai, American musician
Jun 7th - Bill Prady, American television producer
Jun 8th - Linda Hanley, Laguna Beach Calif, beach volleyballer (Olympics-4th-96)
Jun 8th - Mike Hucknail, rocker (Simply Red-Every Time We Say Goodbye)
Jun 9th - Nancy Taylor, SF CA, LPGA golfer (1994 Rochester Intl-54th)
Jun 9th - Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist
Jun 10th - Balakrishna Nandamuri, Indian actor
Jun 12th - Mark John Calcavecchia, Laurel NE, PGA golfer (1987 Honda Classic)
Jun 14th - Tonie Campbell, LA Calif, 100m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1988)
Jun 15th - Denise Haigh, LPGA golfer
Jun 17th - Mitzi Edge, Albany GA, LPGA golfer (1995 SAFECO Classic)
Jun 17th - Thomas Haden Church, American actor
Jun 18th - Ralph Brown, British actor
Jun 19th - Heike Walpot, German, cosmonaut
Jun 19th - Johnny Lee Gray, Jr, LA Calif, 800m runner (Olympics-7th-1996)
Jun 19th - Patti Rizzo, Hollywood Fla, golfer (Mexican Amateur champion 1980)
Jun 19th - Simon Wright, heavy metal drummer (AC/DC)
Jun 19th - Luke Morley, British guitarist
Jun 20th - Donna Mayhew, Taylor Penn, javelin thrower
Jun 20th - John Taylor, rocker
Jun 20th - Michael Corbett, Collingwood NJ, actor (David-Young & Restless)
Jun 20th - [Nigel] John Taylor, England, rock bassist (Duran Duran-Girls on Film)
Jun 22nd - Colleen Devine, San Gabriel Cal, actress (Irreconcilable Differences)
Jun 22nd - Tracy Pollan, NYC, actress (Family Ties)/aka Mrs Michael J Fox
Jun 22nd - Erin Brockovich-Ellis
Jun 23rd - Donald Harrison, American musician
Jun 23rd - Tatsuya Uemura, Japanese musician and programmer
Jun 24th - Juli Inkster, Santa Cruz CA, LPGA golfer (Dinah Shore-1984, 89)
Jun 24th - Nate Carr, Erie Pa, freestyle wrestler (Olympic-bronze-1988)
Jun 24th - Trisha Meili, the "Central Park Jogger"
Jun 24th - Karin Pilsäter, Swedish politician
Jun 24th - Erik Poppe, Norwegian film director
Jun 25th - Craig Johnston, Australian soccer player
Jun 26th - Barbara Edwards, Albuqueque NM, playmate of year (Sept, 1983)/actress
Jun 26th - Jumpy Geathers, NFL defensive end (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
Jun 26th - Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist
Jun 27th - 7th marquess of Cholmondeley, English large landowner/millionaire
Jun 27th - Brian Dillinger, Brooklyn NY, actor (Brighton Beach Memoirs)
Jun 27th - Jim Nussle, (Rep-R-Iowa)
Jun 28th - John Elway, NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
Jun 29th - Sergey Kopylov, USSR, cyclist (Olympic-gold-1980)
Jun 30th - Randy Ladouceur, Brockville, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
Jun 30th - Murray Cook, Australian children's singer (The Wiggles)
Jul 1st - Alan Ruck, Cleve Oh, actor (Stuart-Spin City)
Jul 1st - Evelyn "Champagne" King, Bronx NY, disco singer (Shame, I'm in Love)
Jul 1st - Lynn Jennings, Princeton NJ, 5k runner
Jul 1st - Mike Fitzgerald, baseball player
Jul 2nd - Terry Rossio, American screenwriter
Jul 3rd - Jack Daugherty, baseball player
Jul 4th - Sid Eudy, American professional wrestler
Jul 5th - James M. Kelly, American politician
Jul 5th - Brad Loree, Canadian actor and stunt performer
Jul 6th - Caroll-Ann Alie, Ottawa Ontario, yachter (Olympics-14-92, 96)
Jul 6th - Jozef/Josef Pribilinec, Czech, speed walker (world record 10K)
Jul 6th - Lauri Merten, Waukesha WI, LPGA golfer (1993 US Women's Open)
Jul 6th - Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Greenwood Ms, 200m/400m runner (Olympic-gold-84)
Jul 7th - Barbara Bierman, Miami Fla, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1994)
Jul 7th - Ralph Sampson, NBA center (Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets)
Jul 7th - Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut
Jul 8th - Jeff Stork, Longview Wash, volleyball setter (Olympics-G-88,B-92, 96)
Jul 8th - Valarie Pettiford, actress (Courtney Walker-Another World)
Jul 8th - Valerie Pettiford, NYC, actress (Sheila Price-One Life to Live)
Jul 9th - Christopher J "Gus" Loria, Newton Mass, Major USMC/astronaut
Jul 9th - Marc Mero, American professional wrestler
Jul 10th - Roger Craig, NFL reciever (SF 49ers)
Jul 11th - David Baerwald American songwriter/composer
Jul 12th - Corynne Charby, French model, actress and singer
Jul 13th - Ian Hislop, English writer, editor of Private Eye
Jul 14th - Ray Herndon, Scottsdale Ar, singer (McBride & Ride-Can I Count on You)
Jul 14th - Anna Bligh, Australian politician
Jul 15th - Alexander W Dunlap, Honolulu Hawaii, astronaut
Jul 15th - Kim Alexis, Lockport NY, model (Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover)
Jul 15th - Willie Aames, Newport Beach Ca, actor (8 is Enough, Paradise, Zapped)
Jul 15th - Kim Alexis, American supermodel and actress
Jul 16th - Eus van Someren, pop guitarist (Scene, Blaauw)
Jul 16th - Gisela Beyer, German DR, discus thrower (Olympics-4th place-1980)
Jul 16th - Terry Pendleton, LA Calif, infielder (Florida Marlins)
Jul 17th - Jan Wouters, Dutch soccer star (Ajax, Bayern Munich, PSV)
Jul 17th - Karen Elaine Price, Pasadena Calif, playmate (January, 1981)
Jul 17th - Kim Barnett, cricketer (England batsman & occasional leggie 1988-89)
Jul 17th - Nancy Giles, NYC, actress (Connie-Delta, Off Beat, Big, Angie)
Jul 17th - Robin Shou, martial arts actor (Mortal Kombat, Beverly Hills Ninja)
Jul 17th - Scott Norwood, NFL kicker (Buffalo Bills-Superbowl XXV goat)

Famous Deaths

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