Today in History for July 2004

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 7 of 7

1st - Saturn Orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
2nd - ASEAN Regional Forum accepts Pakistan as its 24th member.¨
3rd - Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
4th - The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. (This was largely a symbolic event; actual construction would not start for several weeks)
5th - First Indonesian presidential election by the nation.
16th - Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
21st - The United Kingdom government publishes Delivering Security in a Changing World, a paper detailing wide-ranging reform of the country's armed forces.

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 10 of 10

2nd - Actress Mira Sorvino (36) weds actor Christopher Backus (23) in a private civil ceremony at the Santa Barbara Courthouse
3rd - Actress Tori Spelling (31) weds actor-writer Charlie Shanian (35) at her parents 56,000-square foot mansion in Bel Air, California
3rd - The Bachelor actor Bob Guiney (33) weds "All My Children" soap opera actress Rebecca Budig (31) in Long Lake, Michigan
4th - Hollywood star Julia Roberts (36) weds Danny Moder in Taos, New Mexico
4th - Actor Dennis Quaid (50) weds real estate agent Kimberly Buffington (32) at his 500-acre Montana ranch in Paradise Valley, Montana
10th - "The West Wing" actor Dule Hill (29) weds actress Nicole Lyn (26) in Montego Bay, Jamaica
24th - "The Calling" singer Alex Band (23) weds "Cleopatra 2525" actress Jennifer Sky (27) in West Palm Beach, Florida
24th - Former MSNBC news anchor Ashleigh Banfield (36) weds real estate financier Howard Gould (31) in Kenora, Ontario
30th - Actor Nicolas Cage (40) weds Alice Kim (20) at a private ranch in Northern California
31st - "Ed" actor Tom Cavanagh (35) weds "Sports Illustrated" photo editor Maureen Grise (33) at a 19th-century, cedar-shingled Roman Catholic church in Nantucket, Massachusetts

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 45 of 45

1st - Marlon Brando, actor ("The Godfather", "A Street Cart Named Desire" and "On the Water Front") dies at 80
1st - Peter Barnes, English writer (b. 1931)
1st - Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (b. 1909)
2nd - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese writer (b. 1919)
2nd - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (b. 1919)
3rd - Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1929)
4th - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (b. 1920)
4th - Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), an eccentric street entertainer in Nottingham, England (b. 1932)
5th - Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
5th - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (b. 1921)
6th - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (b. 1932)
6th - Syreeta Wright, American singer (b. 1946)
8th - Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944)
8th - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (b. 1922)
9th - Chuck Cadman, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
9th - Paul Klebnikov, American journalist (b. 1963)
9th - Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917)
11th - Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910)
12th - Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1918)
Actor Marlon Brando (1st) 13th - Arthur Kane, American musician (b. 1949)
13th - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)
16th - George Busbee, Governor of Georgia (b. 1927)
17th - Pat Roach, British professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
18th - Paul Foot, British journalist (b. 1937)
18th - Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (b. 1912)
19th - Reverend Francis Marzen, American Catholic prelate (b. 1924)
19th - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
20th - Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fiji chieftainess, wife of Kamisese Mara (b. 1931)
21st - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
21st - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1918)
22nd - Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
22nd - George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)
22nd - Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1922)
23rd - Mehmood, Indian actor (b. 1932)
23rd - Carlos Paredes, Portuguese musician and composer (b. 1925)
23rd - Piero Piccioni, Italian musician, conductor and composer (b. 1921)
23rd - Serge Reggiani, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
28th - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
28th - Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
28th - Eugene Roche, American actor (b. 1928)
28th - Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
29th - Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (b. 1923)
30th - Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)
31st - Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917)
31st - Laura Betti, Italian actress (b. 1927)