Today in History for July 1996

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 52 of 52

1st - Kevan James scores 103 & takes 4 wkts in 4 balls, Hants v Ind
1st - NHL Winnipeg Jets officially become the Phoenix Coyotes
1st - Placido Domingo becomes art director of Washington Opera
1st - WBSI TV replaces WNYC on channel 31 in NYC
3rd - Stone of Scone returned to Scotland.
4th - Hot Mail, a free internet E-mail service begins
5th - A's scores 13 in 1st vs Angels
5th - NY Yank John Weteland ties Lee Smith's record of 19 consecutive saves
6th - 103rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Graf beats Aranxta S Vicaro (63, 75)
6th - Yankee John Weteland sets record of 20th cons saves en route to 24
7th - 110th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: R Krajicek beats M Washington (63 64 63)
7th - 17th US Seniors Golf Open: Dave Stockton
7th - Joan Pitcock wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic
7th - Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), lands
9th - 67th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Veterans Stadium, Phila
9th - All star MVP: Mike Piazza (LA Dodgers)
9th - US Senate approves 90 cent raise to $4.25 minimum wage
12th - Kirby Puckett, retires from Minnesota Twins
12th - Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million
Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan 12th - Start of 1st "Super 8's" tournament in Kuala Lumpur
13th - Cigar wins record 16th straight win, (ties Citation in 1940)
14th - "How To Succeed in Business..." closes at R Rodgers NYC after 548 perf
14th - "Thousand Clowns" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 32 performances
14th - 14th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Raymond Floyd
14th - Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
14th - NY Yankee John Weteland sets record of 24 consecutive saves
14th - NY Yanks sweep complete season series in Baltimore for 1st time
15th - After 2,216 consecutive games at shortstop, Cal Ripkin goes to 3rd
15th - MSNBC begins Microsoft internet-NBC TV
15th - Prince Charles & Princess Di sign divorce papers
15th - Southern Mexico hit with 6.5 earthquake
15th - A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
17th - 230 people die when TWA 800 crashes outside of NYC
17th - Yank John Weteland blows save after record 24 consecutive saves
17th - TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
18th - Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Québec's costliest natural disasters ever.
19th - Ireland beats Netherlands in 1st European Championship Final
19th - Jason Gallian scores 312 in 683 mins for Lancashire v Derbyshire
19th - XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta Georgia
20th - 26th Olympic games open at Atlanta, Georgia (sched)
20th - In Spain, an ETA bomb at an airport kills 35
21st - 125th British Golf Open: Tom Lehman shoots a 271 at Royal Lytham
21st - Dottie Pepper wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic
21st - Wayne Gretzky signs a 2 year deal with NY Rangers
25th - Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs United States
27th - Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured
27th - David Sales makes 210 on 1st class cricket debut for Northants v Worcs
Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry 28th - NY Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th HR
28th - Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Micelob Light Heartland Golf Classic
28th - Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, is discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
29th - The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court.
30th - Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 2 of 2

5th - Dolly the sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell born in Scotland
23rd - Rachel G. Fox, American actress

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

14th - "Green Bay Packer" quarterback Brett Favre (20) weds Deanna Tynes (28) at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Green Bay, Wisconsin
20th - Tony Award-winning actress Bernadette Peters (48) weds investment adviser Michael Wittenberg (34) in Millbrook, New York

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

15th - Prince Charles & Princess Di sign divorce papers

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 101

1st - Alfred Marks, actor (Fanny Hill, Desert Mice), dies at 75
1st - Margaux Hemmingway, actress (Lipstick), dies at 41
1st - Richard Michael Fraser, political administrator, dies at 80
1st - Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright, dies at 53
2nd - Hugh Davson, physiologist/writer, dies at 86
3rd - Raaj Kumar, actor (Tiranga, Saudagar), dies at 68
4th - Clay Jones, gardener, dies at 72
4th - Leo Avery, abbot of Quarr, dies at 58
5th - Anne Schumacher Hummert, radio pioneer, dies at 91
5th - Clyde Wiegand, physicist, dies at 81
5th - Lorna Young, salesperson, dies at 44
5th - Erik Wickberg, The Salvation Army general (b. 1904)
6th - John Sturdy, scholar, dies at 62
6th - Kathy Ahern, American golfer (b. 1949)
7th - Albrecht Luitpold Michael Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 91
8th - Amschel Rothschild, banker, dies at 41
8th - Ernest Armstrong, miner/politician, dies at 81
8th - James Woodie Alexander, songwriter/vocalist, dies at 80
8th - Thomas Mitchell, architect/engineer, dies at 90
9th - Christopher Casson, actor (Educating Rita, Zardoz), dies at 84
9th - Douglas G Chapman, biomathematical statistician, dies at 76
9th - Melvin Mouron Belli, attorney/actor (Star Trek), dies at 88
9th - Peter Martini, British journalist, dies at 31
9th - Susan Cowdy, British ornithologist, dies at 81
10th - Eladio Rusconi, writer/publisher/businessman, dies at 79
11th - Louis Gottlieb, musician, dies at 72
11th - Martin Corbett, gay activist, dies at 51
12th - Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar Naturalist, dies at 84
12th - Gottfried von Einem, composer, dies at 78
12th - John Boon, publisher, dies at 79
12th - John Chancellor, news anchor (VOA, NBC), dies at 68
12th - John William Chancellor, journalist, dies at 68
12th - Jonathan Melvoin, keyboardist (Smashing Pumpkins), dies of heorin OD
12th - Nazar Mohammad, cricketer (Pakistan's 1st five Tests 1952-53), dies
12th - William Darling, journalist, dies at 73
13th - Joyce Buck, actress/interior designer, dies at 71
13th - Pandro S Berman, film producer, dies at 91
13th - Walter Hassan, engineer, dies at 91
14th - Frederick Angus Armstrong, journalist, dies at 82
14th - Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist, dies at 91
14th - Kim Besly, activist, dies at 69
14th - Jeff Krosnoff, CART driver (b. 1964)
15th - Dana Hill, actress (Vacation), dies at 32
16th - John Panozzo, drummer, dies at 48
16th - Adolf von Thadden, German politician, (b. 1921)
17th - Alan McGilvray, Australian cricketer (NSW 1933-37) and radio commentator (1935-85), dies at 85
17th - Amancio D'Silva, musician, dies at 60
17th - Bryan Chas Chandler, musician/manager, dies at 57
17th - Chris Komar, dancer, dies at 48
17th - Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect, dies at 95
17th - John William Fozard, aircraft designer, dies at 68
17th - Paul Touvier, French WW II criminal, dies at 81
17th - Sid Sussman, beauty pageant organizer, dies of heart attack
18th - Hans Fellner, bookseller, dies at 71
19th - David Lancaster Nicolson, businessman/politician, dies at 73
19th - Emmanual Tettey Mensah, musician, dies at 77
19th - Lawrence Martin Jenco, priest, dies at 61
19th - Mervyn Hugh Cowie, willife conservationist, dies at 87
19th - Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer, dies at 79
19th - Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher, dies at 81
20th - Colin Campbell Mitchell, soldier, dies at 70
20th - Peter Malcolm Gordon Raleigh, journalist, dies at 77
21st - Francis James Claude Piggott, soldier, dies at 85
21st - Gerald McArthur, detective, dies at 70
21st - Herb Edelman, actor (Odd Couple, St Elsewhere), dies of emphysema 62
21st - James Tye, safety expert, dies at 74
21st - John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot, dies at 50
21st - Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79
21st - Wolf Morris, actor (Padmasambhava-Dr Who), dies at 71
22nd - Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader, dies at 65
22nd - Leon Shenandoah, native American leader, dies at 81
22nd - Peter Ludwig, businessman/art collector, dies at 71
22nd - Richard Day, engineer/development expert, dies at 48
22nd - Robert Collins, keyboard player, dies at 33
22nd - Tamara Danz, singer, dies at 43
23rd - Aliki Vougiouklaki, actress (Madalena), dies at 63
23rd - Jessica Lucy Mitford, author, dies at 78
23rd - John Corner, scientist, dies at 80
24th - "Jock" John Wallace, soccer player/manager, dies at 60
24th - Howard Vernon, actor (Faceless, Delicatessen), dies at 82
24th - Jock Wallace, football player/manager, dies at 60
24th - Virginia Christine, actress (Mrs Olson), dies at 76
25th - Raymond O'Malley, teacher, dies at 87
26th - Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot, dies at 93
26th - Evelyn Levine, composer, dies at 94
27th - Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85
27th - Ivan V Lalic, poet, dies at 65
27th - Jane Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85
27th - Peter James Frederick Green, CEO (LLoyd's of London), dies at 71
28th - Harold C Fox, Fashion designer/musician, dies at 86
28th - Mickey Fenn, docker/socialist, dies at 58
28th - Roger Tory Peterson, ornithologist/artist, dies at 87
29th - Aruna Asaf Ali, politician, dies at 88
29th - Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
29th - Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967)
30th - Alan Cheales, dominican priest, dies at 83
30th - Claudette Colbert, actress (Happened One Night), dies of stroke at 93
30th - Magda Schneider, actress (Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight), dies at 87
31st - Joan "Maudie" Warburton, painter, dies at 76
31st - Michael Jinks, child care pioneer, dies at 59