This Day in History for 8th July

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 182

939 - The Major Occultation, or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi
951 - Paris is founded
1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
1283 - War of the Sicilian Vespers: Battle of Malta
1497 - Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India
1579 - Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
1663 - King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island
1672 - Willem II becomes captain-/admiral-general
1680 - The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1693 - NYC authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies
1709 - Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes
1716 - Great Northern War: Battle of Dynekilen
1758 - English & Colonial assault on France at Ticonderoga, NY
1776 - Col John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Dec of Independence (Phila)
1777 - Vt becomes 1st state abolishing slavery, adopts male suffrage
1778 - George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army
1792 - France declares war on Prussia
1796 - US State Dept issues 1st American passport
1797 - 1st US senator (William Blount of Tennessee) expelled by impeachment
1800 - Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox
1805 - American Bill Richmond knocks out Jack Holmes, Kilburn Wells, England
1816 - Frost in Waltham, MA
1822 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
1833 - Russia & Turkey sign defense treaty
1835 - Liberty Bell cracks (again)
Naturalist Charles Darwin 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Saint-Helena
1838 - Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed
1849 - St Paul's Place in the Bronx named
1853 - Commodore Matthew Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay
1859 - King Charles XV/Carl IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1861 - CS Gen Sibley is given command of rebel troops in NM territory
1861 - Skirmish at Florida, MI - A rebel encampment is attacked & dispersed
1862 - Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret
1864 - The Shinsengumi sabotage the Choshu-han shishi's planned attack on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya. This event is known as Ikedaya Jiken.
1870 - Congress authorizes registration of trademarks
1870 - Gov Holden of NC declares Casswell County in a state of insurrection
1874 - The Mounties begin their March West.
1876 - White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg SC, killing 5
1889 - John L Sullivan KOs Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds (last bare-knuckle bout)
1889 - Wall Street Journal begins publishing
1891 - 61°F, highest temp for July 1891, in Baltimore & Phila
1892 - American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Mass
1892 - St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
1895 - Delagoa Bay Railway opens in South-Africa
1896 - William Jennings Bryan "cross of gold" speech at Dem convention
1897 - Harbor Hospital formally opens
1898 - Phillies Red Donahue no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1898 - US battle fleet under adm Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila
1898 - The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
1900 - 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids)
1902 - John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck Baltimore & Washington clubs, negotiates his release from the Orioles
1905 - Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
1909 - 1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights
1911 - Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse
1912 - G E V Crutchley (Oxford) 99 retired measles v Cambridge
1912 - Giants Rube Marquard loses after winning 21 straight
Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1918 - Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway scores Amos Strunk, the Red Sox win 1-0 over Cleve, prevailing rules reduce Babe's HR to a triple
1919 - Pres Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference
1922 - 35th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats M Mallory (62 60)
1923 - Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)
1923 - Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland
1928 - Phillies set record of errorless 25 inning doubleheader
1932 - Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22
1932 - Herbert Sutcliffe scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Gloucs
1933 - 46th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats D Round (64 68 63)
1933 - Public Works Administration becomes effective
1935 - 3rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
1938 - Would be start of Eng/Aust Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout
1939 - 59th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bobby Riggs beats E Cooke (26 86 36 63 62)
1941 - 9th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-5 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
1941 - All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star
1943 - 4th day of battle at Kursk: Gen Model uses last tank reserve
1943 - British air raid sinks U-232
1943 - NSB-leader A Mussert meets with Heinrich Himmler
1943 - US invasion fleet passes Bizerta Tunisia
1944 - British troops march into Caen
1944 - Japanese kamakize attacks on US lines at Saipan
1946 - "Tidbits of 1946" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 8 performances
1946 - Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary
1947 - 14th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1947 - Demolition begins for UN HQ in NYC
1947 - Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crashed landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
1948 - 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow
1949 - Monte Irvin & Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for NY Giants
1950 - 33.4 cm rain fall at York, Nebraska (state record)
1950 - 57th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Louise Brough beats M duPont (61 36 61)
WW2 General Douglas MacArthur 1950 - Gen Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, UN forces in Korea
1950 - Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea
1951 - Yankee Joe DiMaggio & mgr Casey Stengel feud
1952 - 19th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-2 in 5 at Shibe Park, Phila
1953 - US stops aid to Persia
1954 - KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) 1st broadcast
1954 - Military junta selects colonel Armas president of Guatemala
1956 - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Syracuse Golf Open
1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1957 - Baeball Owners re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick
1957 - CDC incorporates
1957 - Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders
1958 - 25th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-3 at Memorial Stadium, Balt

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 201

1528 - Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherland
1545 - Don Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip II
1574 - Giovanni Battista Stefanini, composer
1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
1604 - Heinrich Albert, Germany, composer (Arien oder Melodien)
1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables)
1637 - Johann Georg Ebeling, composer
1638 - Matteo Coferati, composer
1757 - Richard Wainwright, composer
1760 - Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826)
1766 - Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842)
1792 - Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
1809 - Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja)
1819 - Alexander Hays, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1819 - Vatroslav Lisinski, composer
1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907)
1821 - William Harvey Lamb Wallace, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1824 - Waldimir "Kriz" Krzyzanowski, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Benjamin Henry Grierson, Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 - Robert Kingston Scott, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 - Pierre A Vicomte de Ponson du Terrail, French serial writer
1830 - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915)
1830 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Altenburg (d. 1911)
1836 - Joseph Chamberlain, British minister of Commerce/Colonies
Inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838) 1838 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Baden Germany, inventor (rigid dirigibles), (d. 1917)
1839 - John D Rockefeller, Richford New York, US capitalist/founder (Standard Oil), (d. 1937)
1844 - Mary Johnson Lincoln, educator (Boston Cooking School)
1851 - Arthur J Evans, English archaeologist (Crete)
1857 - Rudolf Dellinger, composer
1867 - Kathe Kollwitz, Germany, print maker/sculptor (Bauernkrieg)
1869 - William V Moody, US poet (Death of Eve, Faith Healer)
1870 - Marie C of Zeggelen, Dutch novelist (Koloniaaltje)
1871 - Clement Harris, composer
1871 - Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam)
1878 - Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (d. 1945)
1882 - Percy Grainger, Melbourne, composer/pianist/conductor (Hill Songs)
1882 - Waverley John Anderson, Scottish viscount/governor of Bengal
1885 - Ann Jemima Flower, oldest resident of Netherlands
1885 - Emil Bloch, German philosopher
Oil Industrialist John D Rockefeller (1839) 1889 - Eugene Pallette, Winfield KS, actor (Adv of Robin Hood, Mark of Zorro)
1890 - W Hasenvlever, writer
1891 - Elisabeth Zernike, Dutch writer (Poor Part, Bruidstijd)
1891 - Josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Working Day)
1892 - Richard Aldington, writer
1892 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967)
1893 - Fritz Perls, father of Gestalt therapy
1894 - Clemens VI Trefois, Flemish architect/sociologist
1895 - Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer/director (God & the Worms)
1898 - Alec Waugh, London, novelist (Island in the Sun); brother of Evelyn
1898 - Melville Ruick, Boise Idaho, actor (Barton-City Hospital)
1899 - David Eli Lilienthal, US government organizer (Wisconsin)
1900 - George Antheil, Trenton NJ, composer (Airplane Sonata)
1901 - Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist
1904 - Bill Challis, arranger/pianist
1904 - Henri Cartan, French mathematician
1905 - Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (d. 1997)
1906 - Philip Johnson, Cleveland Ohio, Cortalyou architect
1907 - George W Romney, (Gov-R-Mich)/US Secretary of HUD (1969-73)
1907 - Kishio Hirao, composer
Musician Louis Jordan (1908) 1908 - Louis Jordan, Ark, alto saxman (Caldonia)
1908 - Nelson A Rockefeller, (Gov-R-NY) 41st VP (1974-77)
1909 - Petar Segedin, Croatian novelist (Holy Devil)
1910 - Govan AM Mbeki, South African leader (ANC/SACP)
1911 - Gertrude Niesen, NY, actress (Start Cheering)
1911 - Ken Farnes, cricket bowler (fast England in pre-WW II years)
1912 - Jacques Stehman, composer
1913 - Walter Kerr, NY drama critic (Sad Clowns)
1914 - Billy Eckstine, Pittsburgh PA, jazz singer (Tenderly, A Fool in Love)
1914 - Jyoti Basu, Indian politician
1915 - Charles Hard Townes, Greenville SC, physicist (developed lasers)
1917 - Faye Emerson, Elizabeth La, actress (I've Got a Secret)
1917 - Glenn Langan, Denver Colo, actor (Amazing Colossal Man, Margie)
1917 - Pamela Brown, London England, actress (Cleopatra, Beckett)
1918 - Craig Stevens, Liberty Mo, actor (Craig-Dallas, Peter Gunn)
1919 - Walter Scheel, German Foreign minister/president
1920 - Dolph Sweet, NYC, actor (Gimme a Break, Which Way is Up)
1920 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish industrialist (Lego Group) (d. 1995)
1923 - Harrison Dillard, Cleve, 100m runner (Oly-4 gold-1948, 52)
1924 - Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (d. 2005)
1926 - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, author/physician/educator
1926 - John D Dingell, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1955- )
1927 - Carlo Franci, composer
1927 - Maurice Hayes, Irish politician
1928 - Carol Henry, Newark NJ, choreographer (Garry Moore Show)
1928 - Norma Donaldson, singer/actress (Poetic Justice, 5 Heartbeats)
1929 - Shirley Ann Grau, author (Keepers of the House)
1930 - Valeri Aleksandrovich Yazdovsky, Russian cosmonaut
1931 - Jerry Vale, [Genaro Louis Vitaliano], NYC, singer (Arriverderci Roma)
1931 - Louis Ballard, composer
1931 - Roone Arledge, Forest Hills NY, head of sports broadcasting (ABC)
1933 - Antonio Lamer, French Canadian lawyer and chief justice
1934 - Marty Feldman, London England, comedian (Young Frankenstein)
1934 - Ed Lumley, Canadian corporate executive and former politician
1935 - John David Crow, football player (Heisman Trophy 1957)
1935 - Steve Lawrence, Bkln, singer/actor (Go Away Little Girl, Lonely Guy)
1935 - Vitali Ivanovich Sevastiyanov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 9, 18B)
1936 - Rudolf W de Korte, Dutch Unilever-director/minister EA (L)
1937 - Barbara Ann Loden, actress (Ernie Kovac's Show)
1938 - Marian Ackerman, women's rights advocacy administrator
1940 - Marcia Rodd, actress (Little Murders, T R Baskins)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 11 of 11

1290 - Princess Margaret (15), daughter of Edward I of England marries John II of Brabant at Westminster Abbey
1551 - Willem of Orange weds countess Anna van Egmond & Buren
1891 - Future president Harding marries Florence K DeWolfe in Marion Ohio
1942 - British born actor "His Girl Friday" Cary Grant (38) weds American heiress and socialite Barbara Hutton (29)
1972 - English prince Richard marries Birgitte of Deurs (Henriksen)
1979 - Singer Marianne Faithfull (32) weds Ben Briefly
1991 - "Sanford and Son" actor-comedian Redd Foxx (68) weds Ka Ho Cho at The Little Church of the West in Las Vegas
2000 - Olympic figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi (28) weds Carolina Hurricanes ice hockey player Bret Hedican (29) at the Mauna Lani Resort in Kona, Hawaii
2006 - "Good Day L.A." co-host Jillian Barberie (39) weds actor Grant Reynolds in San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles
2006 - "The Surreal Life" actress Brigitte Nielsen (43) weds model Mattia Dessi at the Radisson SAS Golden Sands Resort and Spa in Malta
2006 - "The Surreal Life" actress Brigitte Nielsen (43) weds Italian model Mattia Dessi (27) in Malta

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 100

810 - Pepin, son of Charlemagne, King of Italy, dies (birth date unknown)
975 - Edgar, King of England (959-75), dies
1115 - Petrus van Amiens, French Crusades predictor, dies
1153 - Eugene III, [Bernardo], Italian Pope (1145-53), dies
1249 - Alexander II, King of Scots (1215-49), dies at 51
1253 - Thibaud IV, poet/count of Champagne/King of Navarra, dies
1496 - Benedetto Bonfiglio, Italian painter, dies
1531 - Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor, dies at 71
1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish conquistador (Chile/Peru), dies at about 63
1623 - Gregory XV, [Alessandro Ludovisi], bishop of Bologna/Pope, dies at 69
1656 - Alexander van der Capellen, mister of Aartsbergen, dies at about 64
1679 - Samuel J Columbus, Swedish poet (Odae Sveticae), dies
1681 - Georg Neumark, composer, dies at 60
1689 - Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622)
1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (b. 1629)
1716 - Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
1721 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649)
1726 - John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
1784 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735)
1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns at 29
1826 - Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
1850 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
1855 - Sir William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer (b. 1790)
1859 - F J Oscar I, King of Sweden/Norway (1844-59), dies at 60
1863 - Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 65
1870 - John D Zocher Jr, architect (Soestdijk Palace), dies at 79
1876 - Josef Dessauer, composer, dies at 78
1885 - Henry Waelput, Flemish composer/conductor (Blessing of Arms), dies
1894 - Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, composer, dies
1895 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
1898 - Soapy Smith, American con artist (b. 1860)
1905 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (b. 1834)
1909 - Gaston AA marquis de Gallifet, Fren min of War (1899-1900), dies at 79
1913 - Louis Hémon, French-born writer (b. 1880)
1917 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld, US theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies
1933 - Anthony Hope, British author (b. 1863)
1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)
1939 - [Henry] Havelock Ellis, English sexologist (Man & Woman), dies at 80
1941 - Philippe Gaubert, composer, dies at 62
1941 - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (b. 1874)
1942 - Catherinus Elling, composer, dies at 83
1943 - Harry Oakes, Canadian ruler of Bahamas, murdered
1943 - Jean "Max" Moulin, French resistance fighter, executed
1946 - Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor, dies at 63
1948 - Dave Nourse, cricketer (45 Tests for South Africa 1902-24), dies
1949 - Antun Sa'ada, Syrian rightwing politician, executed in Lebanon
1949 - Riccadro Pick-Mangiagalli, composer, dies at 66
1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian economist/sociologist (Wahre State), dies at 71
1956 - Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, dutch min of Justice (Nobel 54), dies
1956 - Giovanni Papini, Italian author/poet (Un Uomo Finito), dies at 75
1957 - Grace Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29), dies at 78
1957 - Henry Fevrier, composer, dies at 81
1957 - William Cadbury, chocolate maker, dies at 89
1959 - Dale Buisand & Chester Ovnand, 1st Americans killed in Vietnam War
1961 - Julian Bautista, composer, dies at 60
1962 - Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher (b. 1897)
1967 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani political figure (b. 1893)
1971 - Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1920)
1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, cricketer (4187 1st-class wickets, most ever), dies
1979 - Michael Wilding, actor (Waterloo, Zarakm Naked Edge), dies
1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
1979 - Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1981 - Loring Smith, actor (Hartmans), dies at 86
1982 - Isa Miranda, model/actress (Summertime), dies of infected bone at 77
1984 - Christine McIntyre, actress (3 Stooges), dies at 73
1985 - Gardner Cowles Jr, US publisher (Look Magazine), dies at 82
1985 - Phil Foster, comedian (Frank De Fazio-Laverne & Shirley), dies at 72
1985 - Simon Kuznets, US economist (Nobel 1971), dies at 84
1986 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (b. 1909)
1987 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
1987 - Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
1988 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
1990 - Howard Duff, actor (Heist, Knots Landing), dies of heart attack at 72
1990 - Malcolm Hilton, English cricket slow left-arm (4 Tests), dies
1991 - James Franciscus, actor (Mr Novak), dies at of emphysema 57
1991 - Lotte Palfi Andor, actress (Lovesick, All the Jazz), dies
1994 - Christian-Jaque, French director (Babette s'and va-t-and guerre), dies
1994 - Dick Sargent, actor (Darren-Bewitched), dies of cancer at 64
1994 - Dominic Lucero, dancer/singer, dies of lymphatic cancer
1994 - Kim Il Sung, president of North-Korea (1948-94), dies at 82
1994 - Robert E Lee, dies of cancer at 75
1994 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (b. 1927)
1995 - Elizabeth Adams, madam, dies at 65
1996 - Amschel Rothschild, banker, dies at 41
1996 - Ernest Armstrong, miner/politician, dies at 81
1996 - James Woodie Alexander, songwriter/vocalist, dies at 80
1996 - Thomas Mitchell, architect/engineer, dies at 90
1997 - Charles Drake, geologist, dies of heart attack at 92
1999 - Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
2001 - John O'Shea, New Zealand film director (b. 1920)
2002 - Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914)
2004 - Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944)
2004 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (b. 1922)
2006 - June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
2006 - Peter Hawkins, British actor/voice actor (b. 1924)
2011 - Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (b. 1924)
2011 - Mary Fenech Adami, First Lady of Malta (b. 1933)
US First Lady Betty Ford (2011) 2011 - Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (b. 1918)
2012 - Ernest Borgnine, American actor, dies from renal failure at 95