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Today in History ~ July 7
Events1124 - Tyre [Tyrus] surrenders to Crusaders
1456 - Though she had already been burnt at the stake (5/30/1431), Joan of Arc is acquitted
1550 - Chocolate introduced
1585 - King Henri III & Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots loose all freedoms
1607 - "God Save the King" is 1st sung
1668 - Isaac Newton receives his M.A from Trinity College Cambridge.
1713 - 1st performance of Georg F Handel's "To Deum" & "Jubilate"
1753 - English parliament grants Jews English citizenship
1754 - Kings College in NYC opens. School later renamed Columbia College
1797 - House of Representatives exercised its constitutional power of impeachment, and voted to charge Senator William Blount of Tennessee with "a high misdemeanor, entirely inconsistent with his public duty and trust as a Senator." [H]
1801 - Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence
1802 - The first comic book was published in Hudson, NY; "The Wasp" created by Robert Rusticoat.
1814 - Walter Scott's "Waverley" published
1838 - Central American federation is dissolved.
1846 - U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.
1863 - 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)
1863 - Orders barring Jews from serving under US Grant are revoked
1864 - S Middleton, MD - Confederate Gen Jubal Early's Washington Raid [H]
1865 - Four people were hanged in Washington, D.C., for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. [H]
1875 - Jesse James robs train in Otterville Missouri
1891 - A patent was granted for the travelers cheque
1896 - The Democratic national convention opened in Chicago.
1898 - The United States annexed Hawaii.
1908 - Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay
1913 - British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law
1920 - A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time on a U.S. Navy airplane
1928 - Chrysler Plymouth Debuts
1930 - Construction began on Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam).
1937 - Japanese & Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge) becomes WW II
1941 - Nazis execute 5,000 Jews in Kovono Lithuania
1941 - US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
1943 - 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova
1943 - Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk
1944 - Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
1944 - Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
1949 - The police drama "Dragnet," starring Jack Webb and Barton Yarborough, premiered on NBC radio, also a TV series in 1951 & 1967
1952 - SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40 hours
1954 - Elvis Presley made his radio debut as Memphis, Tenn., station WHBQ played "That's All Right (Mama)," his first recording for Sun Records.
1956 - 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 buildings
1956 - Douglas Moore/John Latouche opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres
1958 - President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Alaska statehood bill.
1961 - James R Hoffa elected president of Teamsters
1967 - Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released
1969 - Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal
1969 - Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure making the French language equal to English throughout the national government.
1971 - Apollo 15 returned 12d /7 hr/11 min/53 sec.
1976 - Female Cadets Enrolled at West Point
1977 - 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City
1978 - Solomon Is gains independence from Britain (National Day).
1981 - 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel
1981: President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1983 - 11-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Soviet leader Yuri Andropov.
1986 - Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices
1986 - Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
1987 - Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women
1987 - Lt Col Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing
1990 - Martina Navratilova captured a record-breaking ninth women's title at Wimbledon, outplaying Zina Garrison, 6-4, 6-1.
1995: The space shuttle Atlantis landed at Cape Canaveral, Fla., bringing back American astronaut Norman Thagard, who'd spent 3 months aboard the Russian space station Mir.
1999 - In the first class-action lawsuit by smokers to go to trial, a jury in Miami held cigarette makers liable for making a defective product that causes emphysema, lung cancer and other illnesses.
Birthdays Today
1690 - Johann Tobias Krebs, composer
1752 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom.
1843 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician cytologist (Nobel 1906).
1860 - Gustav Mahler (musician, composer, music used in 1971 movie: Death in Venice - of which he was the subject)
1884 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German philosopher/writer (Jud Suss)
1887 - Marc Chagall, Vitebsk Russia, artist (I & The Village)
1899 - George (Dewey) Cukor director: My Fair Lady, A Star is Born, Born Yesterday, Love Among the Ruins, The Philadelphia Story; died Jan 24, 1983
1902 - Vittorio DeSica (director: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Marriage Italian Style, Two Women, The Bicycle Thief; actor: The Shoes of the Fisherman, It Started in Naples)
1906 - [Leroy] Satchel Paige, never look back (Baseball Hall of Famer: pitcher: Cleveland Indians; greatest pitcher in the black leagues)
1907 - Robert A. Heinlein, author who helped develop Science Fiction as a sophisticated mode of literary expression.
1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti (Pulitzer prize-winning opera composer: The Consul [1950], The Saint of Bleeker Street [1955])
1915 - Ruth Ford (actress: The Woman Who Came Back, The Lady is Willing, The Eyes of the Amaryllis)
1917 - Lawrence O'Brien (former head of U.S. Postal Service; National Basketball Association Commissioner) (Watergate conspirators broke into his office).
1919 - William Kunstler prosecutor: Watergate, Bernard Goetz, defense attorney (Chicago 8)
1921 - Ezzard Charles (Charles Ezzard)(International Boxing Hall of Famer: world heavyweight champion [1949-51])
1922 - Pierre Cardin, Paris France, fashion designer (Unisex)
1923 - Jean Kerr, novelist (Please Don't Eat the Daisies).
1924 - Mary Ford (Colleen Summer) (singer w/Les Paul: How High the Moon, Vaya Con Dios, The World is Waiting for the Sunrise)
1927 - Alan Dixon, (Sen-D-Ill)
1927 - Charlie Louvin (Loudermilk) (country singer: I Don't Love You Anymore; w/brother, Ira: My Baby's Gone, Hoping that You're Hoping, I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby)
1927 - Doc (Carl) Severinsen (trumpeter, bandleader: The Tonight Show Band, The Doc Severinsen Band; played with Charlie Barnet and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras; owner: trumpet factory)
1928 - Vincent Edwards (Zoino) (actor: Ben Casey, The Devil's Brigade, The Dirty Dozen, The Three Faces of Eve, Motorama)
1940 - Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) (drummer: group: The Beatles; singer: It Don't Come Easy, Photograph, You're Sixteen; actor: Candy, The Magic Christian, Blindman, Caveman, Give My Regards to Broad Street; married to actress, Barbara Bach)
1941 - Chuck Walton (football)
1945 - Matti Salminen, Turku Finland, operatice basso (King Philip-Don Carlos)
1946 - Joe Spano (actor: Hill Street Blues, Cast the First Stone, Brotherhood of Justice, American Graffiti, Northern Lights)
1947 - Joe LeClerc,
1948 - Fred Brown, Seattle SuperSonic.
1949 - Shelley Duvall (actress: Popeye, Nashville, Roxanne, Brewster McCloud, The Shining, Annie Hall, McCabe and Mrs. Miller)
1954 - Cherry Boone (singer; Pat Boone's daughter, Debby's sister)
1960 - Ralph Sampson (basketball: Golden State Warriors; one of the Twin Towers of the Houston Rockets: Rookie of the Year [1983]; College Player of the Year [1981-83])
1970 - Cree Summer (actress: A Different World, Inspector Gadget, Tiny Toons, Wild Thing, The Return of Billy Jack)
1980 - Michele Kwan, Torrance Calif, figure skater (Oly-94, Oly-silver-98)
Famous deaths
1307 - Edward I, King (Longshanks) of England (1272-1307), dies at 68
1771 - Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy), dies at 54
1865 - Lewis Paine, was hanged for his role in a conspiracy to throw the Union government into turmoil, Booth Conspirator [H]
1865 - David Herold, was hanged for his role in a conspiracy to throw the Union government into turmoil, Booth Conspirator [H]
1865 - George Atzerodt, was hanged for his role in a conspiracy to throw the Union government into turmoil, Booth Conspirator [H]
1865 - Mary Surratt was hanged for her role in a conspiracy to throw the Union government into turmoil, Booth Conspirator [H]
1893 - Guy de Maupassant, writer, dies at 42
1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71
1967 - Vivian Leigh, actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind), dies at 53
1972 - Athenagoras, 268th patriarch of Constantinople, dies
1973 - Veronica Lake dies at 58
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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