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Today in History ~ July 31
Events1291 - Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine
1498 - During his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus arrived at the island of Trinidad.
1620 - Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America
1774 - Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen
1777 - The Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, was made a major-general in the American Continental Army.
1790 - The first US patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins for his method of making potash and pearlash.
1792 - Director David Rittenhouse laid the cornerstone in Philadelphia for the United States Mint, the first building of the federal government
1813 - British invade Plattsburgh NY
1830 - Charles X of France is forcibly ejected from the French throne
1849 - Benjamin Chambers patents breech loading cannon
1861 - Ulysses S. Grant promoted to brigadier general
1864 - Ulysses S Grant is named General of Volunteers
1876 - US Coast Guard officers' training school established (New Bedford MA)
1893 - Henry Perky patents shredded wheat
1914 - German Kaiseer Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize
1919 - Germany accepts Weimar Constitution
1922 - 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn)
1925 - Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England
1932 - George Washington quarter goes into circulation
1932 - German Election (Nazi Party gets 37.3%)
1937 - Politburo enables Operative Order 00447: execute 193,000 Russians
1938 - Yanks suspend Jake Powell after he said on Chicago radio 'he'd hit every colored person in Chicago over the head with a club'
1940 - Reich's Kommissar Seyss-Inquart bans homosexuals
1942 - German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1944 - Last deportation train out Mechelen departs to Auschwitz
1945 - Pierre Laval the puppet leader of Nazi-occupied Vichy France surrendered to American authorities in Austria who extradited him to France to stand trial.
1948 - "Brigadoon" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 581 performances
1948 - President Truman helped dedicate New York International Airport (later John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild Field.
1958 - Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet
1960 - Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
1961 - Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant
1962 - Federation of Malaysia forms
1964 - Ranger 7 transmits the 1st lunar close-up photos before impact takes 4 316 pictures before crashing on moon.
1966 - Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's remark that the Beatles are more popular than Jesus
1969 - National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge La
1970 - Chet Huntley retires from NBC ending 'Huntley-Brinkley Report' (No more "Goodnight, David" "Goodnight, Chet")
1971 - Apollo 15 astronauts, Irwin and Scott drove a car on the moon
1972 - Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate because he once was treated for "mental illness" (depression)
1975 - Jimmy Hoffa disappears [H]
1977 - Son of Sam shot to death 20-year-old Stacy Moskowitz [H]
1980 - Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
1981 - 42 day old 2nd major league baseball strike ends
1984 - US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics
1987 - Battle between Iranian pilgrims & Saudi-Arabian troops 402 killed
1989 - A pro-Iranian group in Lebanon released a grisly videotape purportedly showing the body of American hostage William Higgins dangling from a rope.
1990 - Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence
1990 - Pitcher Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers became the 20th major leaguer to win 300 games as he led his team to victory over the Milwaukee Brewers 11-3.
1991 - President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow.
1991 - Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft
1991 - Seven people were killed when a bus carrying Girl Scouts crashed in Palm Springs, Calif.
1991 - Seven people were killed when an Amtrak passenger train derailed near Camden, S.C.
1992 - Summer Sanders became the first American athlete to win four medals at the Barcelona Olympics as she won the gold in the women's 200-meter butterfly.
1994 - UN votes 12-0 (2 abstentions) to authorize use of force against Haiti
1995 - The Walt Disney Company agreed to acquire Capital Cities-ABC Inc. in a $19 billion deal.
1996 - After President Clinton's announcement that he would sign it, 98 Democrats joined the House's Republican majority to pass a historic welfare overhaul bill.
1996 - The White House won agreement with key Republican lawmakers on a package of anti-terrorism measures.
1997 - In Brooklyn, N.Y., police seized five bombs believed bound for terrorist attacks on New York City subways.
1999 - Chicago authorities said as many as 46 residents had died as a result of a relentless heat wave that enveloped much of the nation and produced the hottest July on record in New York City.
2000 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak survived a no-confidence vote.
2000 - North and South Korea agreed to reopen border liaison offices and reconnect a railway linking their capitals.
2000 - The Republican national convention opened in Philadelphia, with George W. Bush's name put into nomination for president.
2001 - A landslide buried part of a village on a remote Indonesian island amid heavy rains, killing at least 35 people and leaving some 200 missing.
Birthdays Today
1396 - Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy//Brabant/Limburg/count
1629 - Johann Jakob Lowe von Eisenach, composer
1763 - James Kent, legal scholar
1803 - John Ericsson US inventor (screw propeller)/shipbuilder-USS Monitor
1816 - George Henry Thomas, Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
1837 - William Clarke Quantrill Col (Confederate Army) died in 1865
1867 - S.S. (Sebastian Spering) Kresge (merchant: S.S. Kresge's five & dime stores)
1901 - Jean Debuffet French painter/sculptor (Landscape with 2 Personages)
1911 - George Liberace Menasha Wisc (musician: violinist conductor; administrator of Liberace Museum; brother of Liberace)
1912 - Milton Friedman, economist.
1913 - Bryan Hextall (Hockey Hall of Famer: New York Rangers: Stanley Cup [1940]; Art Ross Trophy winner [1941-42])
1913 - William Todman (game show producer: Goodson-Todman Productions: The Price is Right, To Tell the Truth, Beat the Clock, I've Got a Secret, What's My Line)
1916 - NASCAR's Good Ol' Gal Louise Smith NASCAR's first female act
1918 - Hank Jones (pianist: accompanied Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald; led Hank Jones Trio)
1919 - Curt Gowdy (sports commentator)
1919 - Primo Levi Italy chemist/writer (Survival in Aushchwitz)
1921 - Whitney Young Jr., civil rights leader head of Urban League.
1922 - Hank (Henry) Bauer (baseball: NY Yankees manager, outfielder: World Series [1958]: 4 home runs)
1929 - Don Murray (actor: Bus Stop, Knots Landing, The Outcasts, Baby the Rain Must Fall, Peggy Sue Got Married, Advice and Consent)
1931 - Kenny Burrell (guitarist: played with Dizzy Gillespie Benny Goodman; own combos)
1937 - John Sellers (race jockey)
1939 - France Nuyen (Vannga) (actress: The Joy Luck Club, South Pacific, Diamond Head, St. Elsewhere)
1943 - Susan Flannery (actress: Dallas, Anatomy of a Seduction)
1944 - Gary Lewis (Levitch) (singer: group: Gary Lewis and the Playboys: This Diamond Ring; entertainer, Jerry Lewis' son)
1944 - Geraldine Chaplin (actress: Nashville, Rosalind, Chaplin, Dr. Zhivago, The Wedding; daughter of comedian, Charlie Chaplin)
1946 - Bob Welch (guitarist, singer: group: Fleetwood Mac; solo: Sentimental Lady)
1951 - Emanuel Zanders (football)
1951 - Evonne Goolagong (tennis champion: Australian Open [1974 75 76 77]; Wimbledon [1971 1980]; French Open [1971])
1952 - Christ Ahrens (hockey)
1957 - Leon 'The Bull' Durham (baseball: Chicago Cubs)
1962 - Wesley Snipes (actor: Demolition Man, Rising Sun, Major League, Sugar Hill, White Men Can't Jump)
1966 - Dean Cain (actor: Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)
Famous deaths
1556 - St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus_ the Jesuit order of Catholic priests and brothers _ dies in Rome at 65 [H]
1811 - Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican hero priest, executed by Spanish
1864 - Louis Hachette, French publisher, dies at 64
1875 - Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United States, died at age 66 in Carter Station, Tenn.
1886 - Franz Liszt, [Ferencz], Hungarian pianist/composer, dies at 74
1944 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Fr pilot/writer (Small Prince), dies at 44
1953 - Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, known as "Mr. Republican," died in New York at age 63.
1981 - Gen Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash
1997 - Bo Dai, Last emporer of Vietnam, dies at 85
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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