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Today in History ~ July 8
Events0951 - Paris is founded
1497 - Vasco da Gama departed Portugal in search of a sea route to India.
1663 - King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island
1709 - Battle of Poltava; Russians defeat Swedes.
1709 - Charles XII of Sweden defeated by Peter the Great at Poltava Ukraine, effectively marking the end of the Swedish Empire
1758 - English & Colonial assault on France at Ticonderoga, NY
1776 - The bell in Independence Hall was tolled. The "Province Bell," as it was called, was rung summoning citizens to the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence by Colonel John Nixon, was later named the "Liberty Bell". [H]
1777 - Vermont became the first US state to abolish slavery adopts male suffrage
1778 - George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army
1796 - 1st American Passport issued by the US State Department.
1800 - Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox
1835 - The Liberty Bell cracks (again) while being rung during the funeral of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall in Philadelphia.
1853 - An expedition led by Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Yedo Bay, Japan, on a mission to seek diplomatic and trade relations with the Japanese. [H]
1862 - Odore R Timby patents revolving gun turret
1865 - C.E. Barnes of Lowell, MA patented the machine gun
1876 - White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg SC, killing 5
1881 - Edward Berner of Two Rivers, Wisconsin created the Sundae
1889 - John L. Sullivan wins by KO in 75 rounds in last bare knuckle bout.
1889 - Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published.
1891 - Future president Harding marries Florence K. DeWolfe in Marion Ohio
1892 - The American Psychological Association was founded.
1897 - Harbor Hospital formally opens
1898 - US battle fleet under adm Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila
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.
1912 - Pitcher Rube Marquard loses after winning 19 straight games
1919 - President Woodrow Wilson received a tumultuous welcome in New York City after his return from the Versailles Peace Conference in France.
1941 - All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear Star of David
1943 - 4th day of battle at Kursk: Gen Model uses last tank reserve
1943 - US invasion fleet passes Bizerta Tunisia
1944 - Japanese kamakize attacks on US lines at Saipan
1947 - Demolition work began in New York City to make way for the new permanent headquarters of the United Nations.
1948 - 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow
1950 - Leroy Deans awarded 1st Order of Purple Heart in Korea
1950 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur was named commander in chief of United Nations forces in Korea.
1957 - Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders
1959 - Maj. Dale & Master Sgt Ovnand 1st American fatalities in Vietnam War
1963 - Reports of Charlie Finley's intention to move KC A's to Oakland
1963 - US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba
1966 - US airline strike (until Aug 19th)
1968 - Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal
1969 - Thor Heyerdahl & reed raft Ra II land in Barbados 57 days from Morocco
1969 - US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam
1972 - US sells grain to USSR for $750 million
1974 - Yank Shortstop Jim Mason ties record with 4 doubles in 9 innings
1975 - Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany
1975 - President Gerald Ford announced he would seek the Republican nomination for the presidency in 1976.
1977 - Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs).
1978 - Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus.
1982 - Porn star John Homes convicted of receiving stolen property
1987 - Lt. Col. Oliver North became a daytime TV star as the Iran-Contra hearings were televised throughout the U.S.
1990 - Sweden's Stefan Edberg beat Boris Becker of West Germany to capture his second men's tennis championship at Wimbledon.
1991 - Yugoslav leaders signed an accord calling for an internationally observed cease-fire in Slovenia and Croatia.
1991 - Iraq admitted to the United Nations that it had produced enriched uranium, but not enough to make nuclear
weapons.
1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with Group of Seven leaders holding their economic summit in Munich, Germany, where he offered a startling proposal to swap factories, energy resources and other properties for Russian debt.
1994 - Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try OJ Simpson, he was ordered to stand trial on two
counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend.
1995 - A deadly heat wave began that would claim more than 800 lives, the majority in Illinois
1996, Turkey chose, for the first time, a prime minister
who belonged to an Islamic party. Later in the year, Necmettin Erbakan confirmed his desire to make Turkey less of a Western affiliated nation when he refused the United States permission to use a Turkish military base to bomb Iraq.
1997 - The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee opened politically charged hearings into fund-raising abuses, with chairman Fred Thompson accusing China of trying to influence the 1996 U.S. elections.
1997 - NATO extended membership invitations to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
1998 - Four leaders of the Montana Freemen were convicted in federal court in Billings, Mt., of conspiring to defraud banks. The anti-government, anti-tax group gained fame in 1996 during an 81-day standoff at its ranch.
1998 - A tentative settlement was reported between Dow Corning Corp. and lawyers for 170,00 women who claimed they had become ill from the company's silicone breast implants.
2001 - Cable operator Comcast mounted a $41 billion hostile bid to merge with AT&T Broadband. (Although AT&T spurned that offer, the company's board ultimately agreed to merge the cable unit with Comcast, subject to approval by federal regulators.)
2001 - Venus Williams won her second consecutive Wimbledon title by beating Belgian Justine Henin.
Birthdays Today
1545 - Don Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip II (protagonist in Schiller's drama; hero in Verdi opera)
1838 - Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor (rigid dirigibles)
1839 - John D Rockefeller, US capitalist/founder (Standard Oil)
1851 - Sir. Arthur John Evans, the English archaeologist who excavated Knossos, the ancient city of Crete
1882 - Percy Grainger, Melbourne, composer/pianist/conductor (Hill Songs)
1898 - Alec Waugh, London, novelist (Island in the Sun); brother of Evelyn
1907 - George W. Romney, Mich gov housing secretary.
1908 - Louis Jordan (musician: alto sax, singer: Is You or is You ain't My Baby, Open the Door Richard, G.I. Jive, Baby It's Cold Outside, Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens)
1908 - Nelson Rockefeller (U.S. Vice President under Gerald Ford [1974-77], Governor of New York [1958-73])
1913 - Walter Kerr, NY drama critic.
1914 - Billy Eckstine (Eckstein) (band leader, bass-baritone singer: Fools Rush In, Everything I Have is Yours, I Apologize, My Foolish Heart, Blue Moon, Body and Soul)
1915 - Charles Hard Townes, Greenville SC, physicist (developed lasers)
1917 - Faye Emerson (actress: Destination: Tokyo, Uncertain Glory; TV panelist: I've Got a Secret, What's in a Word, Masquerade Party; host: The Faye Emerson Show, Author Meets the Critic)
1918 - Craig Stevens (Gail Shikles) (actor: Peter Gunn, Drums in the Deep South, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
1918 - Pamela Brown (actress: Wuthering Heights, Cleopatra, Victoria Regina, Alice in Wonderland)
1923 - Harrison Dillard (Olympic Gold Medalist: 100 meter [1948], 110 meter hurdles [1952], 4x100 relay [1948, 1952]; Sullivan Trophy winner [1953]; National Track & Field Hall of Famer)
1926 - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, author/physician/educator
1929 - Shirley Ann Grau (author)
1931 - Jerry Vale, singer.
1931 - Roone Arledge (TV executive: president: ABC News)
1932 - Hector Lopez (baseball)
1932 - Jerry Vale (Genaro Vitaliano) (singer: Innamorata (Sweetheart), You Don't Know Me, Have You Looked Into Your Heart)
1933 - Marty Feldman (comedian, actor: Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, Yellowbeard, Slapstick of Another Kind)
1935 - John David Crow (College Football Hall of Famer: Heisman Trophy winner: Texas A&M [1957]; Chicago/St. Louis Cardinals, S.F. 49ers; coach/athletic director: Northeast Louisiana U)
1935 - Steve Lawrence (Leibowitz) (singer: Go Away Little Girl, Party Doll, Pretty Blue Eyes, Footsteps, Portrait of My Love; songwriter: Two on the Aisle; married to singer: Eydie Gorme)
1935 - Vitali I. Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 9 18).
1937 - Barbara Loden (actress: Splendor in the Grass, Iron Cowboy)
1939 - Tommy Mason (football)
1940 - Marcia Rodd,
1946 - Cynthia Gregory, LA Ballerina
1948 - Kim Darby (Deborah Zerby) (actress: Rich Man, Poor Man, True Grit, The Grissom Gang, The Streets of San Francisco)
1949 - Wolfgang Puck (chef: formerly of Spagos in Los Angeles)
1951 - Anjelica Huston (Academy Award-winning actress: Prizzi's Honor [1985]; Addams Family, The Grifters, The Witches)
1952 - Jack Lambert Pro Football Hall of Famer
1958 - Kevin Bacon (actor: Apollo 13, JFK, A Few Good Men, The River Wild, Footloose, Murder in the First, The Air Up There, The Guiding Light)
1961 - Andy Fletcher (musician: group: Depeche Mode: Enjoy the Silence, New Life, Shake the Disease)
Famous deaths
0810 - Pepin, son of Charlemagne, King of Italy, dies (birth date unknown)
1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish conquistador (Chile/Peru), dies at 63
1695 - Christiaen Huygens, inventor/astronomer, dies at 66
1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns off the Italian coast at 29
1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld, US theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies),
1939 - [Henry] Havelock Ellis, English sexologist (Man & Woman), dies at 80
1943 - Jean Moulin, president of the National Resistance Council in France, died at the hands of Nazis. [H]
1946 - Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor, dies at 63
1957 - William Cadbury, chocolate maker, dies at 89
1994 - Kim Il Sung, North Korea's communist leader since 1948, died at age 82.
1999 - Astronaut Pete Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon, died after a motorcycle accident near Ojai, Calif. at 69.
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