Today in History for July 1984

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 64 of 64

1st - "Baby" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 241 performances
1st - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1st - Royals pitcher Paul Splittorff, retires
1st - The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
3rd - Derek Underwood's maiden FC century after 22 yrs of trying
3rd - Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island
3rd - Greenidge scores brilliant 214 off 241 balls to win Lord's Test
3rd - Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
4th - Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki
4th - Kallicharran gets 206 & 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game
4th - NY Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000
4th - Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m
5th - Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
7th - 5 die in a train crash in Williston Vt
7th - 91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62)
8th - 98th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats J Connors (61 61 62)
8th - Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
9th - 12th minster of York destroyed in lightening storm
9th - Yvonne Ryding, of Sweden, crowned 33rd Miss Universe
Tennis Great John McEnroe 11th - 55th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at Candlestick Park, SF
11th - All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos)
11th - England's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe
11th - Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989
11th - Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana
12th - Geraldine Ferraro, NY becomes 1st woman major-party VP candidate
13th - Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert
13th - Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows
13th - Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m
14th - STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads
14th - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
15th - 39th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
15th - John Lennon releases "I'm Stepping Out"
17th - Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France
17th - Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
Hall of Fame rocker Eddie Van Halen 18th - James Huberty kills 21 McDonald's patrons in San Ysidro Calif
18th - Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF
19th - 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
19th - Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), wins Democratic VP nomination
20th - Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m
20th - Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America
21st - 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US
21st - Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
21st - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
22nd - 113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St Andrews
22nd - 22nd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Australia in Sao Paulo Brazil (2-1)
22nd - Kathy Whitworth wins Rochester Golf International (her 85th win)
22nd - Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France
23rd - KC Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save
23rd - Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984
23rd - Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude
25th - Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
26th - Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single
26th - Kuhn announces Vida Blue is suspended due to cocaine conviction
26th - Pitcher Vida Blue suspended for rest of 1984 due to drug use
27th - Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single (vs Phila)
28th - 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
29th - 12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster
29th - 23rd Summer Olympics opens in LA
30th - Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
30th - Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant
30th - Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV
31st - Leeza Gibbon's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
31st - US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics
31st - Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 50 of 50

2nd - Vanessa Lee Chester, American actress
2nd - Thomas Kortegaard, Danish footballer
2nd - Maarten Martens, Belgian footballer
2nd - Johnny Weir, American figure skater
3rd - Syed Rasel, Bangladeshi cricketer
3rd - Corey Sevier, Canadian actor
3rd - Manny Lawson, American Football player
4th - Gina Glocksen, American singer
4th - Akanishi Jin, Japanese singer
5th - Yu Yamada, Ryukyuan model, actress and singer
6th - Lauren Harris, British rock singer
6th - James Henderson, American model
7th - Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler
7th - Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer
7th - Marie-Mai, Canadian singer
8th - Alexis Dziena, American actress
9th - Jacob Hoggard, singer of Canadian band Hedley (band)
10th - Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, Miss World 2004
11th - Yorman Bazardo, Venezuelan baseball player
11th - Tanith Belbin, Canadian ice dancer
11th - Hitomi Hyuga, Japanese actress
11th - Rachael Taylor, Australian actress
12th - Michael McGovern, Northern Irish footballer
12th - Gareth Gates, British singer
14th - Chris Steele, Canadian musician, (Alexisonfire)
15th - Vice Cooler, American musician
16th - Hayanari Shimoda, Japanese racing driver
16th - Katrina Kaif, Indian Actress
17th - Sotiris Leontiou, Greek footballer
17th - Asami Kimura, Japanese singer (Country Musume)
19th - Holly Roffey, Englnd, youngest heart transplant
19th - Lasse Gjertsen, Norwegian animator
19th - Lewis Price, Welsh footballer
19th - Alessandra De Rossi, Filipino actress
20th - Alexi Casilla, Dominican baseball player
20th - Troy Smith, American football player
21st - Liam Ridgewell, English footballer
21st - Paul Davis, American basketball player
22nd - Stewart Downing, English footballer
22nd - Kinzie Kenner, American pornographic actress
23rd - Brandon Roy, American professional basketball player
24th - John Dhani Lennevald, Swedish singer (A-Teens)
25th - Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
26th - Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
28th - DeMeco Ryans, American football player
28th - Zach Parise, American ice hockey player
29th - Chad Billingsley, American baseball player
30th - Gabrielle Christian, American actress
30th - Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player
31st - Glenn Holt, American football player

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

7th - Frankie Valli marries Randy Clohessy

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 36 of 36

1st - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born educator (b. 1904)
2nd - Ramiro Cortes, composer, dies at 50
2nd - Paul Dozois, Quebec politician (b. 1908)
3rd - Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85
4th - Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
7th - Flora Robson, actress (Great Day, Frieda), dies in her sleep at 82
7th - Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (b. 1941)
8th - Christine McIntyre, actress (3 Stooges), dies at 73
9th - Randall Thompson, US composer (Trip to Nahant), dies at 85
11th - Karel Mengelberg, composer, dies at 81
14th - Al Schacht, [Clown prince of baseball], baseball player, dies at 91
14th - Kenny Delmar, comedian (School House), dies at 74
14th - Philippe Wynne, US soul singer (I'll Be Around), dies at 43
14th - Ernest Tidyman, American writer (b. 1928)
16th - Billy Williams, singer (Your Show of Shows), dies at 73
17th - J Delos Jewkes, singer/actor (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 89
18th - James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds
19th - Carol Eberts Veazie, actress (Maude Endles-Norby), dies at 89
19th - Geert Lubberhuizen, Dutch publisher (Busy Bee), dies at 68
19th - Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
20th - Gail Kubik, US composer (Gerald McBoing Boing), dies at 69
20th - Jim [James] Fixx, jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running), dies at 52
21st - Michael Osborne, rock guitarist/vocalist (Axe), dies at 34
23rd - Lloyd Gough, actor (Black Bart, Tolsa), dies of aortic aneurism at 77
25th - Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
25th - Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
26th - Ed "Psycho" Gein, mass murderer (Psycho based on him), dies at 78
26th - George Gallup, pioneer of public opinion polls, dies
27th - James Mason, British actor (Lolita), dies of a heart attack at 75
27th - Oswald Jacoby, US contract bridge champion, dies at 81
28th - Bess Flowers, actress (View from Pompey's Head), dies at 85
29th - Fred Waring, orchestra leader (Fred Waring Show), dies at 84
29th - Woodrow Parfey, actor (Time Express), dies at 61 of a heart attack
30th - Maurice Tremlett, cricketer (England pace bowler 1948-49), dies
31st - Bill Raisch, one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive), dies at 79
31st - Paul Le Flem, composer, dies at 103