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Today in History ~ July 28
Independence Day, celebrated in Peru.
Lumberjack World Championships
Events1148 - Crusaders attack Damascus
1540 - English King Henry VIII marries Catharine Howard, his 5th wife
1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe.
1588 - Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I
1609 - Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda
1717 - Prussian king Frederik Willem I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs
1741 - Capt Bering discovers Mount St Elias, Alaska
1821 - Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1830 - Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe, a Bourbon
1849 - "Memmon" is 1st clipper to reach San Francisco 120 days out of NY
1851 - Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
1851 - total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
1858 - 1st use of fingerprints as a means of identification
1862 - Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo
1864 - 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia
1864 - Battle of Atlanta GA (Ezra Church)-second sortie US700 CS4642
1866 - Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
1868 - 14th Amendment ratified citizenship to ex-slaves. [H]
1883 - Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000
1896 - The municipality of Miami was officially incorporated as a city.
1898 - Spanish troops in Ponce Puerto Rico surrender
1900 - Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
1906 - Yankees turn a triple play beating Cleveland 6-4
1914 - Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC by Harry Fox)
1914 - Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow
1914 - World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
1915 - 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (NYC) protesting lynchings
1915 - US forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924
1917 - Silent Parade in NYC to protest murders of blacks in race riots
1931 - Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd National Anthem.
1932 - Pres Hoover burns bonus marchers from their encampment in DC. [H]
1933 - 1st Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee) NYC
1940 - Yankee Charle Keller hits 3 HRs
1942 - Nazis liquidate 10 000 Jews in Minsk Byelorussia Ghetto
1943 - Overthrown Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
1943 - Pres FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US
1945 - Japanese premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender
1945 - US Army B-25 bomber lost in the fog crashed into Empire State Bldg, plane came to a stop lodged between the 78th and 79th floors, 14 die.
1945 - US Senate ratifies UN charter 89-2
1948 - I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die
1951 - "Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 1077 performances
1951 - Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
1960 - Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
1964 - Ranger 7 launched toward the moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures.
1965 - LBJ sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam (total of 125,000)
1973 - Skylab 3's astronauts are launched
1973 - Bonnie and Clyde’s bullet-riddled death car, a 1934 Ford V-8 sedan was sold at auction for $175,000 [H]
1976 - Eldon Joersz & Geo. Morgan set world air speed record of 3 530 kph.
1976 - Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake considered the worst earthquake of all time struck early in the morning with most people were home sleeping (240,000-750,000 die)
1977 - 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska
1978 - 600 000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in NY
1978 - At Old Timer's Game it is announced Martin will again manage Yankees
1983 - NASA launches Telstar-3A
1984 - President Reagan opened the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. A Soviet-led bloc of 15 nations, as well as Iran, Libya, Albania and Bolivia, boycotted the games.
1986 - Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed
1986 - NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated
1988 - Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank
1990 - Blackout hits Chicago
1990 - The collision of a freighter and two barges spilled 500,000 gallons of oil in the Houston Ship Channel near Galveston, Texas.
1992 - Warner Bros. removed the controversial song "Cop Killer" from Ice-T's "Body Count" album by request of the rapper.
1994 - Baseball players decide to strike on Aug 12, 1994
1995 - The Senate, caught up in the reform fervor in Washington, voted unanimously to bar senators and their staffers from accepting vacation trips and other expensive gifts from anyone other than close friends and family.
1998 - In return for immunity, former White House intern Monica Lewinsky agreed to testify before a federal grand jury investigating a possible relationship between her and President Clinton.
2000 - Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sworn in for a third term amid violent protests by his opponents, who said the election was fraudulent.
2002 - Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France, an international 2,036-mile cycling race, for the fourth consecutive year.
Birthdays Today
1165 - Ibn al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic philosopher.
1746 - Thomas Heyward, soldier signer of the Declaration of Independence.
1750 - Philippe Fabre d'Eglantine, France, poet/satirist/politician
1844 - Gerard Manley Hopkins England poet (Windhover)
1866 - Beatrix Potter, English children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit).
1874 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher educator (Essay on Man).
1887 - Marcel Duchamp, painter (Nude Descending a Staircase).
1891 - Joe E. (Evan) Brown (comedian, actor: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Around the World in 80 Days, Show Boat, Some like It Hot)
1901 - Rudy (Hubert) Vallee (singer: My Time is Your Time; actor: Live a Little, Love a Little, The Admiral was a Lady, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Second Fiddle)
1902 - Composer Richard Rodgers ("Oklahoma!" "South Pacific")
1906 - Gottlob Frick, German opera bass
1907 - Earl S Tupper, inventor (Tupperware)
1909 - Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (Under the Volcano)
1914 - Carmen Dragon (classical music conductor, bandleader; father of singer, 'Captain' Daryl Dragon)
1915 - Frankie Yankovic (Grammy Award-winning musician: accordion: Just Because, Blue Skirt Waltz; bandleader: polka band)
1922 - Jacques Piccard Switzerland undersea explorer (bathyscaph Trieste)
1929 - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (First Lady: wife of 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy, wife of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis; editor: Doubleday Publishing)
1930 - Ted Lepcio (baseball)
1931 - Charles Hodge (hockey)
1931 - Darryl Hickman (actor: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Americans; executive producer: Love of Life; brother of actor, Dwayne Hickman)
1934 - Jacques d'Amboise, Dedham Mass, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet Company)
1937 - Peter Duchin (pianist, bandleader; son of musician, Eddy Duchin; Board of Directors: Harlem Dance Theatre. NY State Council on Arts)
1941 - Riccardo Muti, Napoli Italy, conductor (LaScala Orch)
1943 - Bill Bradley (basketball: NY Knicks, politician: US Senator)
1943 - Mike Bloomfield, blues musician
1945 - Jim Davis, cartoonist (Garfield)
1945 - Rick Wright (musician: keyboard: group: Pink Floyd: Another Brick on the Wall)
1946 - Linda Kelsey (actress: Lou Grant, Day by Day)
1947 - Barbara Ferrell (National Track & Field Hall of Famer: Olympic medalist: silver: 100 meter dash, gold: 4x100 meter relay [1968]; gold medalist: Pan American Games: 100 meters [1967]; tied world record twice: 100 meters [11.1 seconds [1967])
1948 - Georgia Bright Engel (actress: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Betty White Show, Goodtime Girls, Jennifer Slept Here, Coach)
1948 - Sally (Ann) Struthers (Emmy Award-winning actress: All in the Family [1971-72, 1978]; Five Easy Pieces, The Odd Couple; promoter of the Christian Children's Fund)
1949 - Peter Doyle (singer: group: The New Seekers: I'd like to Teach the World to Sing, Look What They've Done to My Song Ma)
1949 - Vida Blue (baseball: Oakland A's pitcher: Baseball Writer's Award [1971] Cy Young Award [1971])
1952 - Clint Longley (football: Dallas Cowboys quarterback)
1958 - Terry Fox, ran "Marathon of Hope" across Canada.
1967 - Lori Loughlin, in NY
Famous deaths
0540 - Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, beheaded
1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris
1655 - Suzuki Shosan, Samurai/monk/propagator of Zen Buddhism, dies at 76
1741 - Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian composer, dies at 63
1746 - John Peter Zenger, journalist, involved in 1st amendment fight,
1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue), dies at 65
1794 - Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39
1794 - Maximilien Robespierre, Fr revolutionary/avocat (1781), & 22 other terrorists executed by guillotine to thunderous cheers
1923 - Indian agent James McLaughlin dies [H]
1939 - William J Mayo, US surgeon/co-founder Mayo Clinic, dies at 78
1968 - Charles W Mayo, US surgeon, dies at 70
1968 - Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89
1969 - Frank H Loesser, US songwriter/composer (Guys & Dolls), dies at 59
1971 - Diane Arbus, [Nemerov], photographer (Vogue), commits suicide at 48
1972 - Helen Traubel, US singer
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