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| 311: |
St. Militiades becomes Pope |
| 936: |
Death of Henry I, "the Fowler," King of Germany |
| 1187: |
Tiberias falls to Saladin |
| 1323: |
Dame Alice Kyteler found guilty of witchcraft, but escapes, with Sarah de Meath |
| 1439: |
Portuguese Royal permission given for settlement of the Azores |
| 1450: |
Cade's Rebellion occupies London |
| 1468: |
Marriage of Charles the Bold of Burgundy with Margaret of York |
| 1489: |
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury and a crucial figure in the English reformation, in Nottinghamshire. born |
| 1504: |
Death of Stephen "the Great," Prince of Moldavia |
| 1560: |
Michel de l'Hopital appointed Chancellor of France |
| 1566: |
French astrologer, physician and prophet Nostradamus died in Salon |
| 1591: |
Vincenzo Galilei, son of astronomer Galileo Galilei, was buried in Florence. The stargazer's son was a composer and lutenist |
| 1627: |
Lord Carlisle given all the Carribean Islands by the King of England |
| 1714: |
German composer Christof Gluck who wrote more than 40 dramatic works. born |
| 1776: |
The Continental Congress passed a resolution saying that "these United Colonies are, and of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States." |
| 1777: |
Vermont became the first American colony to abolish slavery |
| 1865: |
William Booth founded the Salvation Army in London, England (Army of the Salvation) |
| 1877: |
German novelist Herman Hesse 1877 (Stepenwolf). born |
| 1881: |
President James Garfield was shot by Charles Giteau. He died September 19th |
| 1883: |
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Poet Franz Kafka born |
| 1890: |
Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| 1903: |
King Olav V of Norway born |
| 1908: |
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall born |
| 1911: |
The conductor and pioneering Wagnerite Felix Mottl collapsed and died while conducting "Tristan and Isolde" in Munich |
| 1916: |
TV/Movie Actor (Gunsmoke's deputy Festus Haggen) Ken Curtis born |
| 1917: |
Greek declared war to Turkey |
| 1918: |
Robert Sarnoff, president of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) who converted the network to the first all-color television station. born |
| 1922: |
Comedian Dan Rowan born |
| 1925: |
Congolese statesman and prime minister from 1960- 1961, Patrice Lumumba. born |
| 1926: |
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers born |
| 1926: |
The United States Army Air Corps was created |
| 1927: |
Actor Brock Peters ("To Kill a Mockingbird") born |
| 1929: |
Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos born |
| 1930: |
Jazz musician Ahmad Jamal born |
| 1931: |
TV/Stage Actor, (Quincy ME's Sam Fujiyama) Robert Ito born |
| 1932: |
Businessperson, Wendy's Restaraunts founder Dave Thomas born |
| 1937: |
Actress Polly Holliday born |
| 1937: |
American aviator Amelia Earhart and co-pilot Frederick Noonan were reported lost over the Pacific Ocean. They were never found |
| 1939: |
Former White House chief of staff John Sununu born |
| 1946: |
Actor Ron Silver born |
| 1947: |
Luci Baines Johnson Turpin, daughter of President Johnson born |
| 1947: |
An object crashed near Roswell, New Mexico; the Air Force later insisted it was a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts gave rise to speculation it might have been an alien spacecraft |
| 1947: |
Wagner's daughter-in-law Winifred was convicted of actively supporting the Nazis. Among other punishments, Winifred Wagner was banned for life from the Bayreuth Festival, which she had run since the death of her husband Siegfried |
| 1948: |
Actor Saul Rubinek born |
| 1949: |
Rock musician Roy Bittan (Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band) born |
| 1951: |
Actress Cheryl Ladd born |
| 1956: |
Actress-model Jerry Hall born |
| 1961: |
Actor Jimmy McNichol born |
| 1961: |
Author Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho |
| 1964: |
President Johnson signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill passed by Congress |
| 1970: |
Actress Yancy Butler born |
| 1974: |
President Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev agreed in Yalta on limitation of undergound nuclear testing and on a lower ceiling for defense missiles |
| 1976: |
The Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual |
| 1979: |
Susan B. Anthony dollar, the first U.S. coin to honor a woman, is issued |
| 1980: |
President Jimmy Carter reinstates draft registration for males 18 years of age |
| 1982: |
Larry Walters using a lawn chair hoisted by 42 helium-filled weather balloons, rose to 16,000 after taking off from San Pedro, CA |
| 1984: |
Actress Vanessa Lee Chester ("The Lost World Park") born |
| 1986: |
Actress Lindsay Lohan born |
| 1987: |
18 illegal immigrants were found dead inside a locked boxcar near Sierra Blanca, Texas, in what authorities called a botched smuggling attempt; a 19th man survived |
| 1988: |
Nineteen-year-old Steffi Graf defeated eight-time Wimbledon winner Martina Navratilova, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1, to capture her first Wimbledon crown |
| 1989: |
Former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko died in Moscow at age 79 |
| 1990: |
More than 1,400 Muslim pilgrims were killed in a stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel leading to Mecca in Saudi Arabia |
| 1990: |
The Soviet Union's 28th Communist Party congress opened with an address by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who conceded mistakes while defending perestroika |
| 1991: |
A European Community-brokered truce between Yugoslavia and the breakaway republic of Slovenia was shattered as the federal army battles Slovene militias |
| 1991: |
Actress Lee Remick died in Los Angeles at age 55 |
| 1992: |
The Labor Department reported that the nation's unemployment rate the previous month had risen to an eight-year high of 7.8 percent, compared to 7.5 percent in May |
| 1992: |
Braniff Airlines goes out of business |
| 1992: |
President George Bush vetoed the so-called "motor-voter" registration bill (but President Clinton later signed a revised version into law) |
| 1993: |
The White House acknowledged that it had erred in firing seven travel office employees and urging the FBI to investigate them |
| 1993: |
Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, some of whose followers were accused in the World Trade Center bombing, surrendered to immigration officials in New York |
| 1994: |
Columbian soccer player Andres Escobar was shot to death in Medellin, 10 days after accidentally scoring a goal against his own team in World Cup competition |
| 1994: |
Conchita Martinez won the women's title at Wimbledon, defeating Martina Navratilova 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 |
| 1994: |
A USAir DC-9 crashed in poor weather at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, killing 37 of the 57 people aboard |
| 1995: |
In Denver, representatives of 34 countries ended an economic summit by endorsing an open-market zone throughout the Western Hemisphere - excluding Cuba |
| 1996: |
Electricity and phone service was knocked out for millions of customers from Canada to the Southwest after power lines throughout the West failed on a record-hot day |
| 1996: |
Seven years after they shot their parents to death in the family's Beverly Hills mansion, Lyle and Erik Menendez were sentenced to life in prison without parole |
| 1996: |
The movie "Independence Day" was released in the movie theaters in USA; it grossed a record $96.4 million in its first weekend (six days) and $83.5 million since July 3, and hit $100 million in only seven days, a record; it also hit $50.2 million Fri-Sun, shy of Batman Forever's $52.8 million |
| 1997: |
Actor James Stewart died in Beverly Hills, California, at age 89 |
| 1998: |
Apologizing to viewers and Vietnam veterans for "serious faults" in its reporting, Cable News Network retracted a story alleging US commandos had used nerve gas to kill American defectors during the war |
| 1999: |
Former Northwestern University basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong was shot to death in Skokie, Ill.; authorities believe he was the victim of a three-day shooting rampage by white supremacist Benjamin Nathaniel Smith that targeted minorities in Illinois and Indiana. (One other person was killed and several wounded before Smith committed suicide.) |
| 1999: |
"Godfather" author Mario Puzo died on Long Island, N.Y., at age 78 |
| 2000: |
Mexicans surged to the polls, turning out by the tens of millions to elect opposition candidate Vicente Fox as their next president, shocking and delighting themselves by ending their country's 71 years of one-party rule |
| 2000: |
Workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation were allowed to return, following a 191,000-acre fire that disrupted thousands of lives and raised fears about possible radiation releases. The fire, started June 27 by a fatal traffic accident, destroyed 20 homes and scores of other buildings |
| 2000: |
France beat Italy 2-to-1 in the European Championship soccer final in Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| 2007: |
Police arrested two more suspects in a widening hunt for members of a suspected al Qaeda cell which rammed a fuel-packed jeep into a Scottish airport and left two car bombs in London, police said on Monday |
| 2007: |
In some of its most direct accusations against Iran yet, the U.S. military said on Monday senior leaders in Tehran know about operations in which Iran's Qods Force foments violence in Iraq |
| 2007: |
U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin held oceanside talks on Monday to try to ease tensions that have taken their countries' relations to a post-Cold War low |
| 2007: |
A British bomb squad today performed at two controlled blasts at a hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, where a suspect in Saturday's airport attack is being treated. At least 19 locations were searched and seven suspects detained in "a fast-moving investigation," Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said |
| 2008: |
President Robert Mugabe returns to Zimbabwe on Wednesday under pressure from fellow African leaders to form a national unity government in the wake of his re-election in a violent poll ruled unfair by monitors |
| 2008: |
Portuguese police have sent their final report on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann to public prosecutors, who will decide whether to take any further steps, prosecutors said on Tuesday |
| 2008: |
Britons are cutting back on trips to out-of-town retail parks due to rising petrol prices and doing more of their shopping on the Internet, according to the latest retail trends survey from Experian |
| 2008: |
Seven-year-old Nway pretends that it never happened. The storm didn't come. The wind didn't tear her home to pieces. The cyclone didn't sweep her mother and father away. International relief groups know how to rebuild devastated countries like Myanmar. But how do they rebuild the lives of children like Nway? |
| 2008: |
An ex-con with a history of violence who agents believe killed eight people in Missouri and Illinois has been captured, authorities said. Nicholas Troy Sheley, 28, was caught in Granite City, Illinois, after a police and FBI manhunt. A bulletin issued by the St. Louis County Police Department had warned Sheley told his ex-wife that he had "more killing to do." |
Today in History
Blues singer and guitarist, Mississippi John Hurt born in Carroll County, Mississippi
Western Performers Hall of Fame singer and actor, Ken Curtis born in Las Animas, Colorado
Founder of the Wendy's restaurant chain, Dave Thomas born in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Golden Globe Award winning actress Polly Dean Holliday born in Jasper, Alabama
Singer and actress, Cheryl Ladd born in Huron, South Dakota
Actress and supermodel, Jerry Hall born in Gonzales, Texas
Fashion model, singer and Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award winning actress Lindsay Lohan born in New York City