On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on July 03:
1423 Louis XI king of France (1461-83)
1567 Samuel de Champlain explorer (Lake Champlain)
1731 Samuel Huntington (Gov-Ct), Continental Congress pres
1738 John Singleton Copley Mass, finest colonial American artist
1828 John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1854 Leos Jan cek Hukvaldy Moravia Czech, composer (Foster Suite)
1861 Peter Jackson heavyweight, boxing hall of famer
1874 Sir Apirana Turupa Ngata Kawaka NZ, Maori political/cultural leader
1883 Alfred Korzybski Poland, scientist (Science & Sanity)
1883 Franz Kafka Czech, author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika)
1886 Raymond A Spruance, US admiral/fleet commander/ambassador
1893 Mississippi John Hurt, Played the straight natural Blues
1906 George Sanders Russia, actor (All About Eve-Academy Award 1950)
1909 Earl L Butz US Secretary of Agriculture (1971-76); a real Butz
1913 Dorothy Kilgallen Chic Ill, columnist (What's My Line?)
1925 Tony Curtis [Bernard Schwartz] Bronx NY, actor (Some Like it Hot)
1930 Pete Fountain New Orleans, jazz clarinetist (Lawrence Welk 1957-59)
1935 Harrison H "Jack" Schmitt Santa Rita NM, astronaut (Apollo 17)
1937 Tom Stoppard playwright (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern-1968 Tony)
1940 Fontella Bass St Louis Mo, vocalist (Rescue Me)
1941 Gloria Allred feminist attorney
1943 Geraldo Rivera aka Gerry Rivers, nosey newsman (Geraldo)
1943 Norman E Thagard Marianna Fl, MD/astronaut (STS 7, 51-B, 30, 42)
1945 Michael Cole Madison Wisc, actor (Pete-Mod Squad)
1948 Paul Berrere rocker (Little Feat-Truck Stop Girl)
1949 Jan Smithers N Hollywood Calif, actress (Bailey-WKRP)
1951 Jean-Claude 'baby Doc' Duvalier deposed Haitian president-for-life
1962 Tom Cruise Syracuse, actor (Risky Business, Color of Money, Rainman)
1979 Lauren Alviti, Miss Rhode Island Teen USA (1997)
Deaths which occurred on July 03:
0683 Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies
1570 Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67
1642 Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69
1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies
1862 William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40
1863 Alonzo Hersford Cushing, US Union lt, dies in battle at about 22
1863 Lewis Addison Armistead, Conf brig-gen Gettysburg/dies in battle at 46
1863 Richard Brooke Garnett, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 45
1863 Samuel Kosciuzko Zook, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 40
1863 Little Crow, [Ta-oya-te-duta], Santee Sioux indian chief, dies
1971 Jim Morrison rocker (Doors), dies of heart failure in Paris
1972 Mississippi Fred McDowell, Blues singer, dies at 68
1981 Ross Martin actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West), dies at 61
1986 Rudy Vallee singer (Vagabond Dreams), dies at 84
1989 Andrei Gromyko Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday
1989 Jim Backus actor (voice of Mr. Magoo, Gilligan's Island), dies at 76 of pneumonia
1992 Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II), dies at 66
1993 "Curly" Joe DeRita, last of Three Stooges, dies of pneumonia at 83
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1966 GAGE ROBERT H.---COLUMBUS OH.
1966 PHILLIPS DAVID J. JR.---MIAMI BEACH FL.
[REFNO 0382 LIVE POW REPORT 1984]
1966 RENO RALPH J.---FAYETTEVILLE NC.
1967 SEYMOUR LEO E.---TOWANDA PA.
1972 CUTHBERT STEPHEN H.---OAKLAND CA.
[REMAINS RETURNED...I.D. 12/20/90]
1972 MARSHALL MARION A.---UPPER MARLBORO MD.
[03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
0323 Battle at Adrianopolis: Flavius Julius Crispus' beats emperor Licinius
0683 St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0987 Hugo Capet crowned king of France
1608 City of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain
1187 Crusaders enter Tiberias
1661 Portugal gives Tanger and Bombay to English King Charles II
1754 George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War)
1775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass
1778 British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa
1806 Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
1814 Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada
1816 French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas
1819 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
1839 1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students
1841 John Couch Adams decides to determine the position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus
1848 Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)
1852 Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif)
1853 Commodore Matthew Perry reach Japan
1861 Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general
1861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY
1861 Martinsburg, VA - Confederate forces pull out before US advance
1863 Battle of Donaldsonville, LA
1863 Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North
1864 Battle of Chattahoochie River, GA [until Jul 9]
1864 Harpers Ferry, WV - Federals evacuate in face of Early's advance
1871 Jesse James robs bank in Corydon, Iowa ($45,000)
1884 Dow Jones published it's 1st stock avg
1886 1st NY Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine
1886 In Germany, Karl Benz drives 1st automobile
1890 Idaho admitted as 43rd US state
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Black Peter" (BG)
1898 American troops land on a deserted Wake Island
1898 Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe
1898 US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba
1913 Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic)
1915 US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934
1916 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die)
1929 Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
1930 Veterans Administration created
1932 1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2
1932 John McGraw retires from baseball
1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1367 Nongoma
1934 FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL
1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler
1939 Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech
1940 British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa
1942 Germany troop march into Sebastopol
1947 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC
1947 Cleveland Indians purchase Larry Dolby, the 1st black in the AL
1948 Kidnapper Caryl Chessman sentenced to death
1950 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in the Korean War
1962 Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5)
1966 Brave pitcher Tony Cloninger, is 1st NL to hit 2 grand slams in a game
1966 Race riots in Omaha Nebraska
1968 41øF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
1968 Cleve Indian Luis Tiant strikes out 19 Minn Twins
1969 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI
1970 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival
1970 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3702
1973 Brothers Jim & Gaylord Perry face each other for only time, Tigers beat Indians 5-4, as Gaylord loses
1976 Israel launches rescue of 103 Air France crew & passengers being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers
1978 Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words"
1983 Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (9.93 s for 100 m)
1984 Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
1985 CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover
1986 Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty
1987 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic
1988 US Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290
1989 Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions
1989 The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million (10 days)
1999 President Bill Clinton, acting to head off potential problems with the safety of imported food, said he was ordering inspectors at American ports to brand all unsafe and rejected food products as refused by the U.S.
(Thank god! Someone finally had the nerve to force the inspectors to not let bad/unsafe foods into America)
2000 A 1970's steel observation tower that preservationists said had desecrated the battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania was demolished.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Algeria : Independence Day (1962)
Idaho : Admission Day (1890)
Iowa : Independence Sunday (Sunday)
Caribbean Common Market : Caribbean Day (1973)(Monday)
Lesotho : Family Day (Monday)
Zambia : Heroes Day (Monday)
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week (Day 6)
US : Compliment-Your-Mirror Day
US : Disobedience Day.
US : Honor America Days (thru 7-4)
Let Freedom Ring Day!
National Purposeful Parenting Month
Religious Observances
RC : Feast of St Thomas, apostle
RC : Commemoration of St Leo II, 80th pope (681-83)
Religious History
1756 English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'One who lives anddies in error, or in dissent from our Church, may yet be saved; but one who lives and diesin sin must perish.'
1894 Birth of Don R. Falkenberg, founder in 1923 of the Mid-West Businessmen's Councilof the Pocket Testament League. In 1967 the name of this evangelical agency was changed toBible Literature International.
1907 Pope St. Pius X, in his encyclical 'Lamentabili,' formally condemned the'modernist' intellectual movement, as it exhibited itself in the Catholic Church.
1959 Pope John XXIII, in his encyclical 'Ad Petri Cathedram,' expressed the hope thatnon-Catholic Christians would see in the upcoming Vatical II Ecumenical Council 'a warminvitation to seek and find unity.'
1979 Thirty-four years after the end of World War II, the West German government votedto continue prosecution of Nazi war criminals by removing the statute of limitations onmurder.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"The best government teaches us to govern ourselves."
Things To Do If You Ever Became An Evil Overlord...
Dress in bright and cheery colors, and so throw your enemies into confusion.
The World's Shortest Books...
Dr. Kevorkian's Collection Of Motivational Speeches.
Dumb Laws...
Norfolk Virginia:
Women must wear a corsette after sundown and be in the company of male chaperone.
Top Ten Things That sound Dirty In Golf..But Aren't...
10. Nuts...my shaft is bent.
"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose."
-- Winston Churchill
