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Today in History ~ July 16
National Blueberry Festival
Events0390 - Brennus & Gauls defeat Romans at Allia
0622 - Islamic Era begins-Mahomet begins flight from Mecca to Medina(Hejira)
1099 - Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire
1212 - Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain.
1251 - The "Virgin Mary" gives Simon Stork a haircut (legend)
1429 - Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans
1439 - Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)
1519 - Public debate between Martin Luther & theologian John Eck
1548 - La Paz Bolivia is founded.
1769 - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego 1st mission in Calif
1775 - John Adams graduates Harvard
1782 - Mozart's opera "Das Entfuhrung aus dem Serail," premieres in Vienna
1790 - The District of Columbia or Washington D.C. was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government.
1798 - US Public Health Service forms & US Marine Hospital authorized
1801 - Pope Pius VII & 1st consul Napoleon sign concord
1861 - Battle of Bull Run the 1st major battle of the Civil War is fought
1862 - Confederate representative meets with Louis Napoleon III of France to discuss foreign aid
1862 - David G Farragut is 1st rear admiral in US Navy
1867 - D R Averill patents ready-mixed paint
1867 - Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete
1894 - Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners
1912 - Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske
1914 - Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky Trotski & Rosa Luxemburg)
1918 - In Yekaterinburg Russia Czar Nicholas II and his family under house arrest by the Bolsheviks were executed formally ending three centuries of the Romanov dynasty. [H]
1920 - Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief
1920 - Ruth sets season home run record with 30 enroute to 54
1921 - Chicago Black Sox Trial for throwing the 1919 World Series; dark day for baseball
1926 - National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
1927 - Augusto Sandino begins 5-year war against US occupation of Nicaragua
1936 - 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation Rochester NY
1942 - French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris
1942 - Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp
1945 - 1st the experimental plutonium bomb detonated Trinity Site Alamogordo New Mexico at 5:30 a.m. [H]
1946 - Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)
1946 - US court martial in Dachau condemns 46 SS to hang (Malmedy massacre of disarmed GIs)
1947 - Bobo Newsom won his 200th game 1st as a Yankee & Yanks 18th straight In the night cap Vic Rashi extended streak to 19
1950 - In a stunning victory Uruguay defeated Brazil at the Soccer World Cup final 2-1.
1951 - "Catcher in Rye" by JD Salinger published
1957 - Marine Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)
1964 - In accepting the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Barry M. Goldwater said "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" and that "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
1965 - Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France & Italy opens
1967 - Prison brawl ignites barracks killing 37 (Jay Florida)
1969 - Apollo 11 carrying 1st men to land on Moon launched [H]
1971 - Dictator Francisco Franco appoints prince Juan Carlos as deputy in Spain
1973 - During Watergate hearings Alexander Butterfield reveals existence of tapes
1978 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1979 - Premier/pres al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein
1980 - Ronald Reagan nominated for Pres by Republicans in Detroit
1982 - Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud
1990 - 1600 die in a (7.7) earthquake in Philippines
1990 - NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-No fatalities
1990 - Ukraine declares independence
1991 - Leaders of the Group of Seven nations holding their economic summit in London issued a communique calling for a "new spirit of cooperation" in the international community.
1992 - To the dismay and anger of supporters, Ross Perot announced he would not run for president. He later changed his mind.
1992 - A train carrying 2,200 tons of New York garbage that spent three weeks wending its way through the Midwest headed home for burial in a Staten Island landfill.
1994 - Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights
1995 - Rep. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., met in Baghdad with Saddam Hussein to discuss two American businessmen jailed in Iraq after accidentally crossing the border from Kuwait. Following the meeting, Hussein announced he had pardoned the men and ordered their release.
1996 - The first fragment of the comet Shoemaker-Levy crashed into the planet Jupiter beginning a series of spectacular collisions each unleashing more energy than the combined effect of an explosion of all the Earth's nuclear arsenal.
1996 -President Clinton told the National Governors Association he was granting states new powers to deny benefits to recipients who refuse to move from welfare to work.
1996 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin met a day late with Vice President Al Gore, easing some of the concerns about his fragile health.
1997 - Jerold Mackenzie awarded $266M for being fired from Miller Brewing for sexual harrassment for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co worker
1997 - Hundreds of FBI agents, some handing out photos in gay bars and hotels, blanketed south Florida in the continuing hunt for alleged prostitute-turned-serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan, who was suspected of gunning down designer Gianni Versace.
1998 - Newspapers reported that a Seattle man collected $200 under Washington's anti-spam law which banned unsolicited e-mail that disguised its source.
1999 - John F. Kennedy, Jr.; his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy; and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the single-engine plane that Kennedy was piloting crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
2000 - Families and friends of the victims of the TWA Flight 800 explosion broke ground for a new memorial on the Long Island shore not far from where the plane went down, killing all 230 people on board.
2001 - South Asian nuclear rivals India and Pakistan failed to reach an accord on their half-century dispute over Kashmir, ending a landmark three-day summit on a solemn note.
2001 - Russia and China signed their first friendship treaty in more than half a century.
Birthdays Today
1704 - John Kay, English machinist inventor of the flying shuttle.
1723 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter. (Simplicity)
1728 - Henri Moreau, composer
1746 - Giuseppe Piazzi, discovered 1st asteroid Ceres.
1796 - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, painter
1821 - Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science (Science and Health).
1858 - Eugene Ysaye, Belgium, violinist/conductor/composer (Pierill Houou)
1872 - Roald Amundsen, Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole
1887 - "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, black sox player (Say it aint so, Joe)
1888 - Frits Zernike, inventor of phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953).
1896 - Trygve Halvdan Lie, Norway, 1st UN secretary general (1946-52)
1907 - Barbara Stanwyck (Ruby Stevens) actress died Jan 20,1990
1907 - Orville Redenbacher, popcorn King (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet)
1911 - Ginger Rogers (Virginia Katherine McMath) Academy Award-winning actress: Kitty Foyle [1940]; dancer with Fred Astaire died Apr 25, 1995
1915 - Barnard Hughes (Emmy Award-winning actor: Lou Grant [1977]; Prelude to a Kiss, The Guiding Light, Sisters, Doc)
1915 - Laverne Andrews, in Minneapolis - Andrew Sister (or 0706)
1920 - Lawrence Jansen (baseball)
1924 - Bess Myerson Miss America [1945], actress, corporate spokesperson, civic leader)
1925 - Cal (Callen) Tjader (Grammy Award-winning musician: vibes, piano, percussion; composer: Cast Your Fate to the Winds [1962], La Onda Va Bien [1980]; soundtracks for Peanuts TV cartoons)
1925 - Nat Pierce (musician: jazz rhythm pianist; co-bandleader: Capp-Pierce Juggernaut)
1927 - Mindy Carson (singer)
1930 - Joey Giardello (Carmine Tilelli) (International Boxing Hall of Famer: World Middleweight Champion [1963-65])
1932 - Max (William) McGee (football: Green Bay Packers wide receiver: Super Bowl I, II)
1932 - Milly Vitale,
1942 - Desmond Dekker (Dacris) (reggae musician: Israelites, 007 (Shanty Town), You Can Get It if You Really Want)
1942 - Margaret Court (Smith) (International Tennis Hall of Famer: champion: Australian Open: [1960-1966], French Open [1962, 64, 69, 70, 73], Wimbledon [1963, 65, 70], U.S. Open [1962, 65, 68, 69-70, 73])
1943 - Jimmy Johnson (football: champion college coach: Miami; pro coach: Dallas Cowboys: Super Bowl XXVII, XXVIII)
1948 - Bob Murray (hockey)
1948 - Pinchas Zukerman, violinist.
1948 - Ruben Blades, Singer
1949 - Bob Whitlock (hockey)
1951 - Jerry Sisemore (football: Philadelphia Eagles tackle: Super Bowl XV)
1952 - Stewart Copeland drums
1958 - Michael Flatley, Chicago Ill, Irish choreographer (Lord of Dance)
1963 - Phoebe Cates (actress: Gremlins, Drop Dead Fred, Princess Caraboo, Bright Lights, Big City)
1971 - Corey Scott Feldman (actor: License to Drive, The 'Burbs, National Lampoon's Last Resort, The Goonies, Gremlins, voice: Donatello in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Famous deaths
0276 - Marcus Annius Florianus, emperor of Rome (276), murdered
1557 - Anne of Cleeves, queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII, dies at 41
1764 - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia (1740-41), murdered at 23
1827 - Josiah Spode, potter, dies
1896 - William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies (Gibson Girls)
1917 - Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, Ger composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70
1918 - Czar Nicholas II and his family, under house arrest by the Bolsheviks, were executed, formally ending three centuries of the Romanov dynasty [H]
1953 - Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, author (Path to Rome), dies at 82
1960 - Albrecht von Kesselring, German fieldmarshal (Italy), dies at 74
1981 - Harry Chapin, folk vocalist (Taxi), dies at 38 when his car was struck by a tractor-trailer on New York's Long Island Expressway.
1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor, dies at 81
1991 - Frank Rizzo, (Mayor-D-Phila, 1972-80), dies of a heart attack at 70
1991 - Robert Motherwell, US painter (Elegies to Spanish Rep), dies at 76
1995 - Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor, dies
1999 - John F. Kennedy, Jr.; his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy; and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the single-engine plane that Kennedy was piloting crashes into the Atlantic Ocean.
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