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Today in History ~ August 4
Events1181 - Supernova seen in Cassiopeia
1265 - Battle at Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort
1347 - English troops conquer Ft Calais
1558 - 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)
1693 - Dom Perignon invents champagne
1704 - War of Spanish Succession English & Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar
1735 - Jury acquits John Zenger (NY Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of NY (victory for Freedom of press)
1753 - George Washington becomes a master mason [H]
1789 - French National Assembly Meeting dissolves feudal system
1790 - US Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service
1821 - 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969)
1830 - Plans for city of Chicago laid out
1855 - John Bartlett publishes "Familiar Quotations"
1892 - Lizzie Borden took an axe . . .Andrew and Abby Borden elderly residents of Fall River Massachusetts are found bludgeoned to death in their home. [H]
1903 - Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X
1909 - Baseball umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins who had questioned a call this leads to Hurst's banishment
1914 - WW I; Britain declared war on Germany, one day after Germany had declared war on France, Germany declares war on Belgium. The United States initially declared itself neutral. [H]
1916 - Denmark cedes Danish West Indies including the Virgin Islands to the US for $25 million
1917 - Pravda calls for killing all capitalists priests & officers
1929 - 60 000 SA/SS storm troopers march in Munich
1942 - 1st train with Jews departs Mechelen Belgium to Auschwitz
1944 - Acting on a tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captured 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse. [H]
1944 - British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy
1948 - 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax
1949 - More than 6,000 people were killed when an earth- quake leveled 50 towns in Ecuador.
1953 - Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago
1954 - The uranium rush began in Saskatchewan Canada.
1955 - Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters
1956 - Elvis Presley releases "Hound Dog"
1958 - Billboard magazine introduced its "Hot 100" chart, covering the 100 most popular pop singles in the country. The first No. 1 was Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool."
1962 - Nelson Mandela captured by South African police
1964 - The remains of Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner Andrew Goodman & James E Chaney are discovered in an earthen dam near Philadelphia Mississippi.
1972 - Arthur Bremer was found guilty and sentenced to 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace
1977 - Pres Carter establishes Dept of Energy
1981 - Oliver North is assigned to White House duty
1984 - The African Republic of Upper Volta changed its named to Burkina Faso, which means "the land of upright men."
1985 - "Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1522 performances
1987 - FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters
1988 - Congress votes $20 000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II
1988 - Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case
1990 - European community proposes a boycott of Iraq
1991 - The Greek liner Oceanos sank off the South Africa coast in heavy seas. All 571 on board were rescued, but the captain and crew were reported to have abandoned ship.
1992 - A parole panel in Corcoran, Calif., denied Sirhan Sirhan, assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, parole for the eighth time.
1992 - Wang Hongwen, a member of the radical "Gang of Four" that terrorized China during the Cultural Revolution, died of a liver ailment.
1993 - Rwandian Hutu's & Tutsi's sign peace treaty in Arusha
1993 - A federal judge in Los Angeles sentenced former police officers Stacy Koon and Laurence Powell to 2½ years in prison for their role in the Rodney King beating.
1993 - Washington lawyer Robert Altman was acquitted on charges related to the BCCI scandal.
1994 - Howard Stern drops out of NY gubernatorial race
1994 - Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on NY parkway
Birthdays Today
1664 - Louis Lully composer
1705 - Vaclav Matyas Gurecky, composer
1755 - Nicolas-Jacque Conte invented the modern pencil.
1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (lyric poet: Prometheus Unbound Epipsychidion The Witch of Atlas Hellas Adonais A Defence of Poetry Ode to the West Wind)
1900 - Elizabeth, Queen Mother Of England, King George VI's wife
1901 - Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong (jazz musician: trumpet; Grammy Award-winning singer: Hello Dolly! [1964] Lifetime Achievement Award [1971]; appeared in films: The Five Pennies The Glenn Miller Story Hello Dolly! High Society; American ambassador of good will; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1990]
1904 - Harry Cooper (World Golf Hall of Famer: Vardon Trophy winner [1937]; Canadian Open champion [1932,1937]; Bing Crosby Pro Am [1942])
1909 - Glenn Cunningham (Kansas Ironman) (National Track & Field Hall of Famer: Sullivan Award [1933]: world record [1934]: mile [4:06.8]; Olympic silver medalist [1936]; director of physical education: Cornell College, Iowa; Glenn Cunningham Youth Ranch)
1910 - William Schuman (Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Secular Cantata No. 2, A Free Song [1943]; President: Julliard School of Music, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts)
1912 - Raoul Wallenberg (humanitarian: saved 100,000 Jews from Nazis [WWII]; 2nd person to receive honorary U.S. citizenship [1981])
1913 - Wesley Addy (actor: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Kiss Me Deadly)
1919 - Ted Kroll (golfer)
1921 - Herb (Mitchell) Ellis (musician:guitarist, singer: group: Soft Winds: I Told You I Love You, Now Get Out; Oscar Peterson Trio)
1921 - Luke (Luscious) Easter (baseball)
1921 - Rocket (Joseph Henri Maurice) Richard (Hockey Hall of Famer: Montreal Canadiens: Hart Trophy [1947]; eight Stanley Cup championships; 1st player to score 500 career goals [1957])
1929 - Yasser Arafat leader (Palestine Liberation Organization)
1934 - Dallas Green (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies pitcher/mgr., manager of NY Yankees, Mets, Chicago Cubs)
1934 - Joe Leonard (race driver)
1938 - Hayes W. Jones (National Track & Field Hall of Famer: Olympic gold medalist [1964]: 110-meter hurdles [:13.6]; New York City's Director of Recreation)
1939 - Frankie Ford (Guzzo) (singer: Sea Cruise; in film: American Hot Wax)
1940 - Timi (Rosemarie) Yuro (singer: Hurt, What's A Matter Baby [Is It Hurting You], Gotta Travel On, Down in the Valley)
1942 - Cleon Jones (baseball: Chicago Cubs)
1944 - Richard Belzer (comedian, actor: Mad Dog and Glory, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Big Picture, The Groove Tube)
1947 - Rick Derringer (Zehringer) (musician: group: The McCoys: Hang On Sloopy, Fever, Come On, Let's Go)
1949 - John Riggins (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Washington Redskins running back: NFL Individual Record: touchdowns [24] scored in a season [1983]: Super Bowl XVII, XVIII; NY Jets)
1952 - Kristoffer Tabori (Siegel) (actor: Chicago Story, Seventh Avenue)
1958 - Mary Decker (track: AP & Sullivan Award: U.S. outstanding amateur athlete [1982]; U.S. record holder: 800-meters [1:56.9] 1500-meters [3:57.12] 1 000-meters [2:34.8] 1-mile [4:16.71] 3 000-meters [8:29.69])
1962 - Roger Clemens (baseball: Boston Red Sox pitcher: 3 time Cy Young Award winner [1986, 1987, 1991]; Baseball Writer's Award [1986])
Famous deaths
1060 - Henry I, King of France (1027..60), dies at 52
1204 - Boniface of Montferrat, margrave of Montferrat, murdered
1265 - Simon de Montfort, English earl of Leicester, dies in battle
1476 - Jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded
1666 - Johan Evertsen, ltalian admiral of Zeeland, lynched in Brielle
1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70
1892 - Andrew & Abby Borden, axed to death in Mass (by Lizzie Borden?) [H]
1930 - Siegfried Wagner, son of Richard Wagner and German opera composer, dies at 61
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