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Today in History ~ July 11
Events1533 - Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1656 - First Quaker colonists land at Boston [H]
1690 - English king William III departs to Ireland
1798 - The U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band.
1804 - Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken, New Jersey [H]
1864 - Battle of Laurel Hill, WV
1864 - Confederate forces led by Gen. Jubal Early began an abortive invasion of Washington D.C., turning back the next day.
1895 - Charles E Duryea patents a gas-driven automobile
1914 - Babe Ruth debuted in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox ($2,900 his rookie season)
1918 - Enrico Caruso joins the war (WWI) effort; recorded "Over There", the patriotic song written by George M. Cohan.
1920 - Republicans nominate Warren G Harding for president
1921 - Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day).
1934 - President Franklin Roosevelt became the first chief executive to travel through the Panama Canal.
1936 - Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan Bronx & Queens opened
1939 - Yanks host 7th All Star Game McCarthy starts 6 Yanks AL wins 3-1
1941 - Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews
1952 - The Republican national convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president.
1955 - The United States Air Force Academy was dedicated at Lowry Air Base in Colorado.
1962 - Cosmonaut Micolaev set longevity space flight record-4 days
1962 - First Worldwide TV transmission, Telstar communications satellite picked up broadcast signals from France and bounced them down to an antenna in Maine, delivering the first live television picture from Europe to America
1964 - Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend
1966 - "On A Clear Day You..." closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 performances
1967 - Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes
1974 - House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
1974 - World Football League plays 1st games.
1975 - 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
1977 - Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
1979 - Skylab space station fell to earth, crashes in Australia and into the Indian Ocean five years after the mission ended
1980 - American hostage Richard I. Queen, freed by Iran after eight months of captivity because of poor health, left Tehran for Switzerland.
1982 - Italain soccer team wins 1st World Cup in 44 years
1985 - Astros' Nolan Ryan 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
1986 - Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M Sara.
1988 - Freedomfest - Mandela addresses Wembley Stadium London
1990 - Leaders of the Group of Seven nations concluded their summit in Houston by encouraging Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to enact reforms in return for Western aid.
1991 - A Nigerian Airlines jet carrying Muslim pilgrims crashed at the Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, international airport, killing all 261 people on board.
1991 - A solar eclipse cast a blanket of darkness stretching 9,000 miles from Hawaii to South America, lasting nearly seven minutes in some places.
1992 - Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group
1995 - US establishes diplomatic relations with Vietnam
1996 - An Air Force F-16 jet trying to make an emergency landing slammed into a house in Pensacola, Fla., setting the home on fire, killing a 4-year-old boy and badly burning his mother. (The pilot ejected safely.)
1997 - President Clinton was cheered by tens of thousands of people in Bucharest, Romania, where he raised hopes for NATO membership.
1999 - A U.S. Air Force cargo jet, braving Antarctic winter, swept down over the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Center to drop off emergency medical supplies for Dr. Jerri Nielsen, a physician at the center who had discovered a lump in her breast.
2000 - A Middle East summit hosted by President Clinton opened at Camp David between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
2000 - Robert Runcie, the former archbishop of Canterbury, died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 78.
2000 - The African Methodist Episcopal Church, the nation's oldest black church, elected the Rev. Vashti McKenzie of Baltimore its first female bishop.
Birthdays Today
1274 - Robert the Bruce was born in Turnberry, Scotland fought for independence from British rule
1754 - Thomas Bowdler, famous prude bowdlerized Shakespeare.
1767 - John Quincy Adams, (6th U.S. President, son of the 2nd U.S. President) was born in Braintree, Mass.
1823 - James Lawson Kemper, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1838 - John Wanamaker, merchant
1886 - David Steinman, NYC, bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough)
1899 - E. B. (Elwyn Brooks) White was born journalist and author (Stuart Little, Charlotte^Òs Web, Is Sex Necessary?, The Elements of Style; died Oct 1, 1985)
1899 - Yasonari Kawabata, Japanese novelist (Thousand Cranes) (Nobel 1968).
1906 - Harry Von Zell (radio/TV actor, announcer: Eddie Cantor, Burns and Allen programs; famous blooper: "Ladies and gentleman, the President of the United States, Hoobert Heever -- I mean, Herbert Hoover.")
1917 - Edward Sadowski (basketball)
1920 - Yul Brynner (Taidje Khan) (Academy & Tony Award-winning actor; The King and I [1956, 1951]; The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, Anastasia, The Brothers Karamazov, Futureworld, Westworld; died Oct 10, 1985)
1922 - Michael Cacoyannis, director (Zorba the Greek, Trojan Women)
1924 - Gene Evans (actor: My Friend Flicka, Walking Tall, Support Your Local Sheriff, Operation Petticoat, The Concrete Cowboys)
1926 - Carlisle Floyd, Latta SC, composer (Slow Dusk)
1927 - Brett Somers (actress: The Odd Couple, Perry Mason; TV panelist: Match Game P.M.)
1928 - Bobo (Carl) Olson (boxer)
1929 - Paul Harney (golfer)
1931 - Tab Hunter (Arthur Gelien) (singer: Young Love, Ninety-Nine Ways, Apple Blossom Time; actor: Battle Cry, Damn Yankees, Island of Desire, Judge Roy Bean, Ride the Wild Surf)
1934 - Bob Allison (baseball: Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins)
1939 - Larry Laoretti (golf: U.S. Senior Open Champion [1992])
1944 - Bobby Rice (singer: Sugar Shack, You Lay So Easy on My Mind)
1944 - Lou Hudson (basketball)
1947 - Jeff Hanna (musician: guitar, singer: group: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Mr. Bojangles, Modern Day Romance, Long Hard Road)
1948 - Ernie Holmes (football: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle: Super Bowl IX, X)
1951 - Bonnie Pointer (singer: group: Pointer Sisters: Fairy Tale, I'm So Excited, Jump (For My Love); solo: Fire, Steam Heat)
1952 - Bill Barker (hockey)
1953 - Leon Spinks (boxer: world heavyweight champion [1981,83])
1956 - Sela Ward (actress: Sisters, The Fugitive, Child of Darkness, Child of Light)
1958 - Mark Lester (actor: Oliver, The Prince and the Pauper)
1966 - Debbie Dunning (actress: Home Improvement)
Famous deaths
1766 - Elisabeth Farnese, princess of Parma/queen of Spain, dies at 73
1909 - Simon Newcomb celestial mechanics authority dies.
1949 - Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed
1989 - Actor Laurence Olivier died at age 82.
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