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Today in History ~ July 9
National POW/MIA Recognition Day
Independence Day, celebrated in Argentina
Events0711 - Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupies Northern Spain
1401 - Mongol monarch Timur Lenk destroys Baghdad
1533 - Lady Jane Grey (at 15 years old) was proclaimed queen of England in succession to Edward VI; her reign ended 13 days later when she became a prisoner in the Tower of London
1536 - French navigator Jacques Cartier returns to Saint-Malo from Canada
1540 - England's King Henry VIII had his six-month marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled.
1572 - 19 Catholic priests hanged in Gorcum
1595 - Johannes Kepler discovers inscribed perfect geometric solid "construction of universe."
1609 - Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemian protestants freedom of religion
1755 - Brit Gen E Braddock mortally wounded during French & Indian War
1776 - The Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.
1795 - James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt
1808 - The leather-splitting machine was patented by Samuel Parker of Billerica, MA.
1815 - 1st natural gas well in US is discovered
1815 - King Louis XVIII leaves exile in Ghent for Paris
1816 - Argentina declares independence from Spain.
1846 - Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S. [H]
1862 - Gen John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Ky
1864 - Battle of Monocacy, MD US1959 CS400
1872 - John F. Blondel received a patent for a doughnut cutter.
1877 - The first Wimbledon tournament was staged at the All-England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club to raise funds for the club. The tournament was won by Spencer Gore. [H]
1878 - An improved corncob pipe patents by Henry Tibbe, Washington, Mo
1893 - Dr Daniel Hale Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anesthesia
1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivered his famous "cross of gold" speech at the Democratic national convention in Chicago.
1915 - Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa
1916 - 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in US from Germany
1917 - British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804
1918 - 101 killed in worst US train wreck in Nashville Tenn
1922 - Weissmuller became the first person to swim the 100 meters freestyle in less than one minute.
1926 - Chiang Kai-shek appointed to national-revolutionary supreme commander
1932 - Yanks Ben Chapman hits 2 inside the park HRs tying record
1933 - Frankford Yellowjackets sold rechristened Philadelphia Eagles.
1934 - SS-Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler assumes command of German Concentration Camps
1940 - German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia programs
1944 - During World War II, American forces secured Saipan as the last Japanese defenses fell.
1947 - Florence A. Blanchfield lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army (appointed Dwight D. Eisenhower), making her the first woman in U.S. history to hold permanent military rank
1947 - Spain votes for Franco
1947 - The engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten was announced.
1948 - Satchel Paige, 42, debuts in majors pitching 2 scoreless inning for Cleveland
1951 - President Harry Truman asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany.
1953 - 1st helicopter passenger service (NYC)
1955 - Bill Haley & Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops Billboard magazine's best-seller records chart, marking what some consider the beginning of the rock 'n' roll era.
1957 - Announcement of discovery of element 102 - nobelium
1958 - Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock & ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain
1960 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened the United States with rockets if American forces attempted to oust the communist government of Cuba.
1963 - Federation of Malaysia forms
1971 - Henry Kissinger visits China PR
1972 - Kwame Nkrumah, re-buried in Nkroful Ghana
1974 - Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election
1976 - Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe
1978 - American Nazi Party, holds a rally at Marquette Park, Chicago
1978 - Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Wash DC for ERA
1979 - Voyager II flies past Jupiter.
1980 - 7 die in a stampede to see Pope in Brazil
1980 - Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years
1980 - Walt Disney's "The Fox & The Hound" is released
1982 - Margaret Thatcher begins her 2nd term as British prime minster
1982 - A Pan Am Boeing 727 crashed in Kenner, La., killing all 146 people aboard and eight people on the ground.
1984 - 12th Century York Minster destroyed in lightning storm
1986 - Attorney General's Commission on Pornography links hard-core porn to sex crimes
1987 - Col Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence
1988 - Jessye Norman records Bizet's "Carmen"
1990 - Two veteran space shuttle commanders were grounded for violating flight safety rules. It marked the first time that astronauts assigned to flight crews had been grounded for other than medical reasons.
1990 - Three hackers, part of a group called the "Legion of Doom," pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud BellSouth Corporation
1990 - Leaders of the world's seven richest nations opened a three-day economic summit in Houston, the first such gathering in the post-Cold War era.
1991 - The International Olympic Committee readmitted South Africa.
1991 - Former CIA officer Alan D. Fiers pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges in the Iran-Contra affair.
1992 - At least 15 people were injured when a 5.4 magnitude aftershock to the previous month's major earthquake
hit the Big Bear, Calif., area.
1992 - Five members of a computer hacking ring known as "Masters of Deception" were indicted on charges of computer tampering, fraud, wire fraud, illegal wiretapping, conspiracy, and violation of federal privacy laws.
1992 - The Mortgage Bankers Association of America and HSH Associates said fixed rates on conventional home loans dropped to their lowest levels in almost 19 years.
1993 - Peter Gill of the British Forensic Science Service announced that his team had positively identified the remains of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II, his wife, Czarina Alexandra, three of their five children, and four of their servants. [H]
1995 - Pete Sampras won the men's singles title at Wimbledon by defeating Boris Becker.
1997 - Mike Tyson was banned from boxing and fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield's ear.
1997 - NBC was the lone holdout when the major networks agreed to implement a revised and expanded television ratings system.
1999 - A jury in Los Angeles ordered General Motors to pay $4.9 billion to six people severely burned when their Chevrolet Malibu exploded in flames in a rear-end collision. (A judge later reduced the punitive damages to $1.9 billion, while letting stand $107 million dollars in compensatory damages.)
2000 - The 13th International AIDS Conference opened in Durban, South Africa.
2000 - Twelve people died in a soccer stampede set off when police fired tear gas at bottle-throwing fans during a World Cup qualifier between Zimbabwe and South Africa in Harare, Zimbabwe.
2000 - Top-seeded Pete Sampras won his seventh Wimbledon title as he defeated Patrick Rafter, 6-7 (10), 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-2.
2001 - A divided court in Chile ruled that Gen. Augusto Pinochet could not be tried on human rights charges because of his deteriorating health and mental condition, a ruling that effectively brought the 85-year-old former dictator's legal troubles to an end.
2002 - The all-star baseball game ended in an 11- inning, 7-7 tie when Commissioner Bud Selig halted proceedings saying the teams had run out of pitchers.
Birthdays Today
1764 - Ann Ward Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (The Italian).
1766 - J Schopenhauer, writer
1802 - Thomas Davenport, iinvented 1st commercially successful electric motor
1819 - Elias Howe, Spencer Mass, invented sewing machine
1856 - Nikola Tesla, Croatia, electrical engineer/physicist who developed alternating current./inventor (Tesla Coil)
1858 - Franz Boas, anthropologist linguist.
1878 - H V Kaltenborn, Milwaukee Wisc, newscaster (Who Said That?)
1879 - Ottorino Respighi, Bologna Italy, composer (Pines of Rome)
1887 - Samuel Eliot Morison, historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea)
1916 - Edward Heath (Prime Minister of Great Britain [1970-74])
1922 - Jim Pollard (Basketball Hall of Famer: Minneapolis Lakers; coach: La Salle College)
1927 - Ed Ames (singer: group: The Ames Brothers: You You You, The Man with the Banjo, The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane, Tammy, Melody d'Amour; solo: My Cup Runneth Over, Who Will Answer; actor: Daniel Boone)
1927 - Red (Leonard) Kelly (Hockey Hall of Famer: Detroit Red Wings: Norris Trophy [1954], Lady Byng Trophy [1951,1953,1954,1961], 4 Stanley Cup wins; Toronto Maple Leafs: 4 Stanley Cup wins; coach: LA Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins: Adams Trophy [1969-70])
1929 - Hassan II, king of Morocco (1961- ).
1929 - Jesse McReynolds (musician: mandolin; bandleader: Virginia Boys and folk singer w/brother Jim: Cotton Mill Man, Ballad of Thunder Road, Freight Train, Diesel on My Tail)
1929 - Lee Hazlewood (songwriter: The Fool, These Boots are Made for Walkin', Sugar Town; singer: Jackson w/Nancy Sinatra)
1929 - Wally Post (baseball)
1932 - John Paul Getty II, US/British oil magnate/billionaire (Getty Oil)
1936 - David Joel Zinman, NYC, composer/conductor (Balt Symphony-1983)
1936 - James Hampton (actor: F Troop, Love American Style, Evening Shade, Doris Day Show, The China Syndrome, Force Five)
1937 - Clemon Daniels, football
1937 - David Hockney, Bradford England, artist (Pop Art)
1938 - Brian Dennehy (actor: Cocoon, 10, Presumed Innocent, First Blood, Semi-Tough, Silverado, Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye)
1941 - Karin von Aroldingen, German ballet dancer.
1945 - Dean R[ay] Koontz, US, author (Star Quest, Beastchild)
1947 - O.J. (Orenthal James) Simpson (Pro Football Hall of Famer: running back: Heisman Trophy: USC [1968], Buffalo Bills; actor: Naked Gun series, The Towering Inferno, Roots, Capricorn One; acquitted of murder of ex-wife, Nicole, Ron Goldman [1995])
1952 - John Tesh (TV host: Entertainment Tonight)
1956 - Tom Hanks (academy Award-winning actor: Forrest Gump [1994], Philadelphia [1993], Apollo 13, Sleepless in Seattle, Big, Joe Versus the Volcano, Splash, The Money Pit)
1957 - Kelly McGillis (actress: Witness, The Accused, Top Gun)
1958 - Jimmy Smits (Emmy Award-winning actor: L.A. Law [1989-90]; N.Y.P.D. Blue, Birdland, Glitz, Mi Familia, Gross Misconduct)
1976 - Fred Savage (actor: The Wonder Years, The Princess Bride, Little Monsters, The Boy Who Could Fly)
Famous deaths
1441 - Jan/Johannes van Eyck, Flemish painter (Lamb Gods),
1737 - Last Medici-grand duke of Toscane,
1747 - Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian opera-composer, dies at 76
1755 - James Braddock, English general, dies in battle at Fort Duquesne
1797 - Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68
1850 - The Bab, the prophet-herald of the Bahai Faith whose birth name was Siyyid Ali-Muhammad, was executed by a firing squad in Tabriz,
1850 - Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the United States, (1849-50), dies in White House at 65 from cholera after serving only 16 months of his term. [H]
1883 - Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer, dies at 67
1974 - Former U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren died in Washington D.C.
1992 - Eric Sevareid, News correspondent (CBS), dies of stomach cancer at age 79.
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