civverguy
Emperor
I think there should be a thread of what happened in history everyday of the year so I made a thread. I don't have any info yet.
On this day...
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civverguy
Emperor
In 1984, Geraldine Ferraro was named the Vice presidential candidate for America.
Kan' Sharuminar
Fluffy
You might also be interested in The Assassins Cloak by Irene and Alan Taylor. It's a compilation of diary entries from many people over the entire year. Very fun to read.
John Jacob Astor was born today (victim of the Titanic) in 1864. And Live Aid happened in 1985. What joy.
John Jacob Astor was born today (victim of the Titanic) in 1864. And Live Aid happened in 1985. What joy.
rilnator
Emperor
Harrison Ford's birthday today.
Star Wars forever!
Star Wars forever!
Nylan
Characters Welcome
Today is Bastille Day
Nylan
Characters Welcome
1099- Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem during the first crusade
1815- Napoleon surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon
Thirdly (just because):
1929- First weekly radio broadcast of Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word
There are many more, but these were the ones that jumped out at me.
1815- Napoleon surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon
Thirdly (just because):
1929- First weekly radio broadcast of Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word
There are many more, but these were the ones that jumped out at me.
Major Events:
622 - Muhammad begins his Hijra from Mecca to Medina. This marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar.
1661 - The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Bank of Stockholm.
1930 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
1945 - The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 launches from Cape Kennedy, Florida and will become the first manned space mission to land on the moon.
1994 - The planet Jupiter is hit by fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.
622 - Muhammad begins his Hijra from Mecca to Medina. This marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar.
1661 - The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Bank of Stockholm.
1930 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
1945 - The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 launches from Cape Kennedy, Florida and will become the first manned space mission to land on the moon.
1994 - The planet Jupiter is hit by fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.
Junglecutter
Honorable Delegate
July 17:
Disney Land OPENS!!
Disney Land OPENS!!
carmen510
Deity
July 22
1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon elected first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1298 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk - King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeats William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town.
1456 - Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade - John Hunyadi, Regent of Kingdom of Hungary defeats Mehmet II of Ottoman Empire
1484 - Battle of Lochmaben Fair - A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas captured.
1499 - Battle of Dornach - The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
1587 - Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
1686 - Albany, New York formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan
1793 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing north of Mexico.
1796 - Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1805 - Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition - Battle of Cape Finisterre - Inconclusive naval action fought between a combined French and Spanish fleets under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War - Battle of Salamanca - British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta - Outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
1916 - In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
1933 - Wiley Post becomes first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1934 - Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1937 - New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
1942 - The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
1942 - Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
1943 - Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.
1944 - The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
1946 - King David Hotel bombing: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration, killing 90.
1962 - Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
1977 - Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1983 - Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
1991 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee apartment.
1992 - Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
1997 - The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
1997 - Voters approved a name change for Dade County, Florida to Miami-Dade County.
1999 - The first version of MSN Messenger was released by Microsoft.
2002 - Israel assassinates Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, along with 14 civilians.
2002 - A Court in Sao Paulo sentenced Suzane von Richthofen to 39½ years in prison for parricide.
2003 - Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.
2005 - Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers. See 7 July 2005 London bombings and 21 July 2005 London bombings
Births
1210 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1238)
1478 - King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
1510 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
1535 - Katarina Stenbock, wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
1559 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619)
1621 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician (d. 1683)
1711 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)
1713 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
1733 - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790)
1755 - Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (d. 1839)
1784 - Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
1844 - William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (d. 1930)
1849 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (d. 1887)
1882 - Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
1887 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
1888 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950)
1888 - Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1889 - James Whale, English film director (d. 1957)
1890 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American Kennedy family matriarch (d. 1995)
1893 - Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (d. 1990)
1893 - Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1898 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (d. 1943)
1898 - Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976)
1905 - Doc Cramer, American baseball player (d. 1990)
1908 - Amy Vanderbilt, American author (d. 1974)
1913 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader (d. 1995)
1913 - Licia Albanese, American opera singer
1915 - Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author. (d. 2000)
1916 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
1916 - Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984)
1921 - William Roth, U.S. Senator (d. 2003)
1923 - Bob Dole, American politician
1923 - Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
1923 - The Fabulous Moolah, American professional wrestler
1924 - Margaret Whiting, singer
1928 - Orson Bean, American film actor
1929 - John Barber, British racing driver
1932 - Oscar De la Renta, Dominican-born fashion designer
1934 - Louise Fletcher, American actress
1936 - Tom Robbins, American author
1937 - Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (d. 1999)
1938 - Terence Stamp, English actor
1939 - Gila Almagor, Israeli actress
1940 - Alex Trebek, Canadian-born game show host
1940 - George Clinton, American musician
1941 - Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey
1943 - Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Senator from Texas
1943 - Bobby Sherman, American singer and actor
1944 - Estelle Bennett, American singer (Ronettes)
1944 - Rick Davies, British musician (Supertramp)
1944 - Sparky Lyle, American baseball player
1944 - Dennis Firestone, Australian racing driver
1946 - Danny Glover, American actor
1946 - Mireille Mathieu, French singer
1946 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician (d. 2000)
1946 - Paul Schrader, American film director and screenwriter
1947 - Albert Brooks, American comedian
1947 - Don Henley, American drummer, singer, and songwriter (Eagles)
1947 - Gilles Duceppe, Quebec politician
1948 - S.E. Hinton, American author
1948 - Otto Waalkes, German comedian
1949 - Alan Menken, American composer
1949 - Lasse Virén, Finnish athlete
1951 - J.V. Cain, Football player
1953 - Jimmy Bruno, American jazz guitarist
1953 - Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress
1954 - Lonette McKee, American actress
1954 - Al Di Meola, American guitarist
1955 - Willem Dafoe, American actor
1957 - Dave Stieb, American baseball player
1958 - David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1984)
1960 - Jon Oliva, American musician (Savatage)
1961 - Keith Sweat, American singer
1961 - Calvin Fish, British racing driver
1962 - Steve Albini, writer and recording engineer
1962 - Martine St. Clair, Quebec singer
1963 - Emily Saliers, American singer (Indigo Girls)
1963 - Emilio Butragueno, Spanish footballer
1964 - John Leguizamo, Colombian actor
1964 - Don Van Natta, Jr., American journalist
1964 - David Spade, American comedian
1965 - Patrick Labyorteaux, American actor
1965 - Shawn Michaels, American professional wrestler
1966 - Tim Brown, American football player
1967 - Lauren Booth, British journalist
1968 - Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor
1969 - Despina Vandi, Greek singer
1970 - Jason Becker, American musician
1970 - Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player
1971 - Kristine Lilly, American soccer player
1972 - Keyshawn Johnson, American football player
1972 - Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor
1973 - Daniel Jones, Australian musician and record producer
1973 - Mike Sweeney, American baseball player
1973 - Rufus Wainwright, Canadian singer
1973 - Ronald Ray Howard, American murderer (d. 2005)
1974 - Franka Potente, German actress
1974 - Sonija Kwok, Hong Kong actress
1977 - Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer
1978 - Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
1978 - A. J. Cook, Canadian actress
1979 - Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player
1980 - Scott Dixon, New Zealand race car driver
1980 - Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
1980 - Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
1983 - Arsenium, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1983 - Sharni Vinson, Australian actress and model
1983 - Steven Jackson, American football player
1984 - Stewart Downing, English footballer
1984 - Kinzie Kenner, American pornographic actress
1988 - Taylor Toth, American figure skater
1992- Selena Gomez, American actress
1998 - Madison Pettis, American actress
2002 - Prince Felix of Denmark
Deaths
* 1362 - Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (b. 1324)
* 1387 - Franz Ackerman, Flemish statesman (b. 1330)
* 1461 - Charles VII of France (b. 1403)
* 1525 - Richard Wingfield, English diplomat
* 1540 - John Zápolya, King of Hungary
* 1619 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559)
* 1645 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (b. 1587)
* 1676 - Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
* 1734 - Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England
* 1789 - Joseph-François Foulon, French administrator (b. 1715)
* 1802 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist (b. 1771)
* 1826 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (b. 1746)
* 1832 - Napoleon II of France (b. 1811)
* 1852 - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774)
* 1902 - Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (b. 1822)
* 1903 - Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)
* 1904 - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
* 1908 - William Randal Cremer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1828)
* 1915 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
* 1916 - James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849)
* 1918 - Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (b. 1898)
* 1920 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)
* 1922 - Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
* 1932 - Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
* 1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer (b. 1867)
* 1932 - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
* 1934 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (b. 1903)
* 1950 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
* 1958 - Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (b. 1895)
* 1967 - Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)
* 1968 - Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (b. 1908)
* 1974 - Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (b. 1900)
* 1979 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
* 1989 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
* 1990 - Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (b. 1932)
* 1992 - Wayne McLaren, portrayed the Marlboro Man (b. 1940)
* 1998 - Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
2000 - Eric Christmas, British actor (b. 1916)
2000 - Claude Sautet, French film director (b. 1924)
2001 - Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
2003 - Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)
2003 - Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
2003 - Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (b. 1954)
2004 - Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
2004 - George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)
2004 - Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1922)
2005 - Eugene Record American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
2005 - Jean Charles de Menezes Brazilian electrician murdered by Scotland Yard (b. 1978)
2006 - José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965)
2006 - James E. West, mayor of Spokane, Washington (b. 1950)
1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon elected first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1298 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk - King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeats William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town.
1456 - Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade - John Hunyadi, Regent of Kingdom of Hungary defeats Mehmet II of Ottoman Empire
1484 - Battle of Lochmaben Fair - A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas captured.
1499 - Battle of Dornach - The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
1587 - Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
1686 - Albany, New York formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan
1793 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing north of Mexico.
1796 - Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1805 - Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition - Battle of Cape Finisterre - Inconclusive naval action fought between a combined French and Spanish fleets under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War - Battle of Salamanca - British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta - Outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
1916 - In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
1933 - Wiley Post becomes first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1934 - Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1937 - New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
1942 - The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
1942 - Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
1943 - Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo.
1944 - The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
1946 - King David Hotel bombing: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration, killing 90.
1962 - Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
1977 - Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1983 - Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
1991 - Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee apartment.
1992 - Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
1997 - The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
1997 - Voters approved a name change for Dade County, Florida to Miami-Dade County.
1999 - The first version of MSN Messenger was released by Microsoft.
2002 - Israel assassinates Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, along with 14 civilians.
2002 - A Court in Sao Paulo sentenced Suzane von Richthofen to 39½ years in prison for parricide.
2003 - Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.
2005 - Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers. See 7 July 2005 London bombings and 21 July 2005 London bombings
Births
1210 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1238)
1478 - King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
1510 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537)
1535 - Katarina Stenbock, wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
1559 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619)
1621 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician (d. 1683)
1711 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)
1713 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)
1733 - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790)
1755 - Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (d. 1839)
1784 - Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
1844 - William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (d. 1930)
1849 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (d. 1887)
1882 - Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967)
1887 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)
1888 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950)
1888 - Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1889 - James Whale, English film director (d. 1957)
1890 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American Kennedy family matriarch (d. 1995)
1893 - Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (d. 1990)
1893 - Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1898 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (d. 1943)
1898 - Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976)
1905 - Doc Cramer, American baseball player (d. 1990)
1908 - Amy Vanderbilt, American author (d. 1974)
1913 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader (d. 1995)
1913 - Licia Albanese, American opera singer
1915 - Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author. (d. 2000)
1916 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
1916 - Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984)
1921 - William Roth, U.S. Senator (d. 2003)
1923 - Bob Dole, American politician
1923 - Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
1923 - The Fabulous Moolah, American professional wrestler
1924 - Margaret Whiting, singer
1928 - Orson Bean, American film actor
1929 - John Barber, British racing driver
1932 - Oscar De la Renta, Dominican-born fashion designer
1934 - Louise Fletcher, American actress
1936 - Tom Robbins, American author
1937 - Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (d. 1999)
1938 - Terence Stamp, English actor
1939 - Gila Almagor, Israeli actress
1940 - Alex Trebek, Canadian-born game show host
1940 - George Clinton, American musician
1941 - Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey
1943 - Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Senator from Texas
1943 - Bobby Sherman, American singer and actor
1944 - Estelle Bennett, American singer (Ronettes)
1944 - Rick Davies, British musician (Supertramp)
1944 - Sparky Lyle, American baseball player
1944 - Dennis Firestone, Australian racing driver
1946 - Danny Glover, American actor
1946 - Mireille Mathieu, French singer
1946 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician (d. 2000)
1946 - Paul Schrader, American film director and screenwriter
1947 - Albert Brooks, American comedian
1947 - Don Henley, American drummer, singer, and songwriter (Eagles)
1947 - Gilles Duceppe, Quebec politician
1948 - S.E. Hinton, American author
1948 - Otto Waalkes, German comedian
1949 - Alan Menken, American composer
1949 - Lasse Virén, Finnish athlete
1951 - J.V. Cain, Football player
1953 - Jimmy Bruno, American jazz guitarist
1953 - Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress
1954 - Lonette McKee, American actress
1954 - Al Di Meola, American guitarist
1955 - Willem Dafoe, American actor
1957 - Dave Stieb, American baseball player
1958 - David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1984)
1960 - Jon Oliva, American musician (Savatage)
1961 - Keith Sweat, American singer
1961 - Calvin Fish, British racing driver
1962 - Steve Albini, writer and recording engineer
1962 - Martine St. Clair, Quebec singer
1963 - Emily Saliers, American singer (Indigo Girls)
1963 - Emilio Butragueno, Spanish footballer
1964 - John Leguizamo, Colombian actor
1964 - Don Van Natta, Jr., American journalist
1964 - David Spade, American comedian
1965 - Patrick Labyorteaux, American actor
1965 - Shawn Michaels, American professional wrestler
1966 - Tim Brown, American football player
1967 - Lauren Booth, British journalist
1968 - Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor
1969 - Despina Vandi, Greek singer
1970 - Jason Becker, American musician
1970 - Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player
1971 - Kristine Lilly, American soccer player
1972 - Keyshawn Johnson, American football player
1972 - Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor
1973 - Daniel Jones, Australian musician and record producer
1973 - Mike Sweeney, American baseball player
1973 - Rufus Wainwright, Canadian singer
1973 - Ronald Ray Howard, American murderer (d. 2005)
1974 - Franka Potente, German actress
1974 - Sonija Kwok, Hong Kong actress
1977 - Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer
1978 - Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
1978 - A. J. Cook, Canadian actress
1979 - Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player
1980 - Scott Dixon, New Zealand race car driver
1980 - Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
1980 - Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
1983 - Arsenium, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1983 - Sharni Vinson, Australian actress and model
1983 - Steven Jackson, American football player
1984 - Stewart Downing, English footballer
1984 - Kinzie Kenner, American pornographic actress
1988 - Taylor Toth, American figure skater
1992- Selena Gomez, American actress
1998 - Madison Pettis, American actress
2002 - Prince Felix of Denmark
Deaths
* 1362 - Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (b. 1324)
* 1387 - Franz Ackerman, Flemish statesman (b. 1330)
* 1461 - Charles VII of France (b. 1403)
* 1525 - Richard Wingfield, English diplomat
* 1540 - John Zápolya, King of Hungary
* 1619 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559)
* 1645 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (b. 1587)
* 1676 - Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
* 1734 - Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England
* 1789 - Joseph-François Foulon, French administrator (b. 1715)
* 1802 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist (b. 1771)
* 1826 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (b. 1746)
* 1832 - Napoleon II of France (b. 1811)
* 1852 - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774)
* 1902 - Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (b. 1822)
* 1903 - Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)
* 1904 - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)
* 1908 - William Randal Cremer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1828)
* 1915 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)
* 1916 - James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849)
* 1918 - Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (b. 1898)
* 1920 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)
* 1922 - Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
* 1932 - Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
* 1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer (b. 1867)
* 1932 - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
* 1934 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (b. 1903)
* 1950 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
* 1958 - Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (b. 1895)
* 1967 - Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)
* 1968 - Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (b. 1908)
* 1974 - Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (b. 1900)
* 1979 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
* 1989 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
* 1990 - Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (b. 1932)
* 1992 - Wayne McLaren, portrayed the Marlboro Man (b. 1940)
* 1998 - Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
2000 - Eric Christmas, British actor (b. 1916)
2000 - Claude Sautet, French film director (b. 1924)
2001 - Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
2003 - Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)
2003 - Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
2003 - Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (b. 1954)
2004 - Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
2004 - George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)
2004 - Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1922)
2005 - Eugene Record American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
2005 - Jean Charles de Menezes Brazilian electrician murdered by Scotland Yard (b. 1978)
2006 - José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (b. 1965)
2006 - James E. West, mayor of Spokane, Washington (b. 1950)
Nylan
Characters Welcome
Oh come on Carmen, don't just cut and paste the Wiki page 
1903 - Ford sold it's first car
1914 - Austria issues it's ultimatum to Serbia, which will lead to WWI
1989 - Daniel Radcliffe's birthday
1903 - Ford sold it's first car
1914 - Austria issues it's ultimatum to Serbia, which will lead to WWI
1989 - Daniel Radcliffe's birthday
Pannonius
Reconquistador
July 28. 1914. WWI begins (Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia).
aronnax
Let your spirit be free
July 28.
Independence Day in Peru
Infamous Thomas Crowell exceuted by even more infamous Henry VIII
Henry VIII marries wife 5, Catherine Howard on the same day.
My school is officialy opened by our Education Minister
Independence Day in Peru
Infamous Thomas Crowell exceuted by even more infamous Henry VIII
Henry VIII marries wife 5, Catherine Howard on the same day.
My school is officialy opened by our Education Minister
Emperor2
Capitalist Missionary
July 29 1588
Attacking Spanish armada scattered by English defenders.
Attacking Spanish armada scattered by English defenders.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
July 30, 1930 - First world cup won by Uruguay
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
July 30, 2007, around 5 PM: Patriarch Teoctist of The Romanian Orthodox Church died.
LightSpectra
me autem minui
July 31
1943 - Lobo is born
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