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Today in History ~ July 15
National Ice Cream Day
Saint Swithin's Day
Events1205 - Pope Innocent III decrees Jews are doomed to perpetual servitude and subjugation due to crucifixion of Jesus
1662 - Charles II grants a charter to establish Royal Society in London.
1806 - Zebulon Pike began his journey to explore the Southwest; Pike was the US Army officer who in 1805 led an exploring party in search of the source of the Mississippi River [H]
1808 - French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte captured and is exiled on St Helena; [H]
1830 - 3 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk & Fox, signs a treaty giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa & Missouri
1862 - CSS Arkansas vs USS Carondelet & Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R
1867 - San Francisco Merchant's Exchange opens
1869 - Margarine is patented by Hippolye Mega-Mouriss for use by French Navy
1870 - Georgia readmitted to US after Civil War.
1870 - Georgia became the last Confederate state readmitted to the Union.
1888 - Bandai volcano in Japan erupted.
1893 - Commodore Perry arrives in Japan
1912 - Led by all-round athlete Jim Thorpe, the United States team took more medals than any other nation at the
Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden.
1912 - British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
1914 - Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe
1916 - Boeing Co., originally known as Pacific Aero Products, was founded in Seattle.
1918 - 2nd Battle of Marne began during WW I
1918 - St. Vladimir's Day
1920 - Ruth ties his record of 29 homers in a season
1922 - 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at NY zoo
1929 - 1st airport hotel opens - Oakland Ca
1933 - Wiley Post begins 1st solo flight around world
1937 - Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens for business
1937 - Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China
1940 - 1st betatron placed in operation Urbana Il
1941 - Florey & Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Penicillin)
1943 - Diligenti quintuplets born in Buenos Aires Argentina
1944 - Greenwich Observatory damaged by German V1 rocket (flying bomb)
1945 - Italy declared war on its former Axis partner, Japan.
1948 - President Harry Truman was nominated for another term by the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
1952 - 1st helicopter transatlantic flight began
1954 - 1st commercial jet transport airplane built in US tested (Boeing 707)
1958 - Pres Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months
1960 - Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle
1961 - Spain accept equal rights for men & women
1964 - Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona was nominated for president by the Republican national convention in San Francisco.
1965 - The Mariner IV spacecraft sends back the first close-up pictures of the planet Mars, passed over Mars at an altitude of 6,000 feet
1968 - A Soviet Aeroflot jetliner landed at New York's JFK Airport, marking the beginning of direct commercial flights between the United States and Soviet Union.
1971 - President Richard Nixon announced he would visit the People's Republic of China.
1974 - Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees
1975 - Three American astronauts blasted off aboard an Apollo spaceship hours after two Soviet cosmonauts were launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft for a mission that included a linkup of the two ships in orbit.
1978 - Bob Dylan performed before the largest open-air concert audience at the time (for a single artist) 200,000 fans turned out to hear Dylan at Blackbushe Airport in England
1983 - Linda Ronstadt debuts as Mabel in "Pirates of Penzance"
1985 - A gaunt-looking Rock Hudson appeared at a news conference with actress Doris Day. (It was later revealed Hudson was suffering from AIDS).
1986 - Britain and the Soviet Union settled accounts on $75 million in bonds that were issued under Russia's czars and defaulted on after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The settlement ended a 60-year financial dispute.
1987 - Former National Security Adviser testifies at Iran-Contra hearings, told congressional panels he personally authorized the transfer of Iran arms sale profits to the Nicaraguan rebels
1990 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl held talks on the issue of a united Germany's membership in NATO.
1991 - A former POW released a photograph showing three U.S. servicemen, missing in Southeast Asia since the Vietnam War, holding a sign dated May 25, 1990.
1992 - Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton claimed the Democratic presidential nomination in New York.
1994 - Israel & Jordan agree to talks in Wash DC on July 25th
1995 - A 19-year-old sales clerk was rescued after being buried in the rubble of a collapsed shopping mall in Seoul, South Korea, for 16 days.
1996 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin missed an appointment with Vice President Gore. They met the next day, but Yeltsin was ill and rumors began circulating that he was dying.
1996 - Prince Charles & Princess Di sign divorce papers
1999 - The government acknowledged for the first time that thousands of workers were made sick while making nuclear weapons and announced a plan to compensate many of them.
Birthdays Today
1573 - Inigo Jones, London, architect (restored St Paul's Cathedral)
1606 - Rembrandt (Van Rijn) (artist: 300 etchings, 1,400 drawings, 600 paintings: The Night Watch, Man with a Magnifying Glass, The Anatomy Lesson of Professor Tulp, Descent from the Cross, Rape of Ganymede) in Leiden, Netherlands. [H]
1700 - Johann Christoph Richter composer
1779 - Clement Moore (poet, author: 'Twas the Night before Christmas [A Visit from St. Nicholas])
1796 - Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist (Bulfinch's Mythology)
1850 - St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, (Mother Cabrini) 1st US saint.
1902 - Jean Rey, of Belgium - president of European Commission (1967-70).
1905 - Dorothy Fields (lyricist: w/Cy Coleman: Sweet Charity, Seesaw; w/Jimmy McHugh: I Can't Give You Anything but Love, I'm in the Mood for Love, On the Sunny Side of the Street; daughter of comedian, Lew Fields)
1913 - Cowboy (Lloyd) Copas (country singer: Alabam, Goodbye Kisses, Signed, Sealed and Delivered; killed in plane crash with singer, Patsy Cline)
1917 - Robert Conquest, English author (Back to Life)
1919 - Iris Murdoch, Irish novelist.
1922 - Philip Carey (actor: The Great Sioux Massacre, Philip Marlowe, Laredo, One Life to Live, The Time Travelers, Mister Roberts)
1927 - Nan Clow Martin (actress: Matters of the Heart, Goodbye Columbus, For Love of Ivy)
1931 - Clive Cussler (author: Raise the Titanic, Deep Six, Sahara, Cyclops)
1932 - Nina Van Pallandt, in Coopenhagen Denmark
1933 - Julian Bream, guitarist
1935 - Alex (Alexander G.) Karras (football: U of Iowa LB: Outland Trophy [1957], Detroit Lions DT: All-Pro [1960-62]; sportscaster: Monday Night Football [1974-76]; actor: Blazing Saddles, Against All Odds, Victor/Victoria, Webster)
1935 - Donn Clendenon (baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates)
1935 - Ken Kercheval (actor: Dallas, Search for Tomorrow, Corporate Affairs, Calamity Jane)
1938 - Billie Lee Williams (baseball: Rookie of the Year: Chicago Cubs outfielder [1961])
1939 - Mike Shannon (baseball: St. Louis Cardinals; sportscaster)
1939 - Patrick Wayne (actor: Chill Factor, Young Guns, McClintock, Big Jake; John Wayne's son)
1940 - Roy Winston (football: Minnesota Vikings line backer: Super Bowl IV, VIII, IX, XI)
1940 - Tommy Dee (Thomas Donaldson) (DJ: KFXM, San Bernardino, CA; singer: The Three Stars; record company executive)
1943 - Bill Truax (football: Dallas Cowboys tight end, Super Bowl VI)
1944 - Jan-Michael Vincent (actor: Airwolf, The Winds of War, Indecent Behavior, The World's Greatest Athlete, Hooper, Born in East L.A.)
1946 - Linda Ronstadt (singer: group: The Stone Poneys: Different Drum; solo: Blue Bayou, You're No Good, When Will I Be Loved, It's So Easy, Ooh Baby Baby, Hurt So Bad; actress: Pirates of Penzance)
1951 - Rick Kehoe, hockey
1952 - Jesse Ventura [James Janos] wrestler/actor/politician (MN Governor)
1952 - John Stallworth (football: Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV)
1953 - David Pack (singer: group: Ambrosia: The Biggest Part of Me)
1953 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, president of Haiti (1991, 1994- )
1960 - Kim Alexis, in Lockport NY - Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover
1960 - Willie Aames (actor: Eight is Enough, Charles in Charge, Frankenstein, Zapped!)
1973 - Brian Austin Green (actor: Knots Landing, Beverly Hills 90210, An American Summer)
Famous deaths
0668 - Constantine II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at 37
1685 - James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II, executed
1782 - Farinelli, Italian castrato, dies at 77
1857 - Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist/composer, dies at 66
1868 - William Thomas Morton, dentist (1st to use ether), dies
1883 - Tom Thumb, famous small person (40"), dies of a stroke at 44
1904 - Anton Pavlovich Chechov, Russian writer (Uncle Vanya), dies at 44
1929 - Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright/poet, dies
1948 - John J Pershing, [Black Jack], US general (Mexico, WW I), dies at 87
1960 - Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, baritone, dies after surgery at 63
1997 - Gianni Versace, designer, shot to death by Andrew Cunanan at 50
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