On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on July 20:
1304 Francesco Petrarch Italy, poet (Italia Mia) (A founder of Renaissance Humanism)
1519 Innocent IX 230th Roman Catholic pope (1591)
1785 Mahmud II Ottoman sultan, Westernizer, reformer
1824 Alexander Schimmelfennig, Prussia, Brig General (Union volunteers)
1890 Theda Bara actress/vamp (Under Two Flags, Cleopatra)
1890 Verna Felton Salinas Calif, actress (Hilda-December Bride)
1919 Sir Edmund Hillary one of 1st 2 men to scale Mt Everest (namesake of the EX firstlady)
1920 Elliot L Richardson Attorney General (1973)/Sec of Defense (1973)
1924 Thomas Berger US, novelist (Vital Parts, Little Big Man)
1933 Nelson Doubleday publisher (Doubleday)/owner (NY Mets)
1938 Diana Rigg Doncaster England, actress (Emma Peel-Avengers)
1938 Jo Ann Campbell Jacksonville Fla, Lawrence Welk's champagne lady
1938 Natalie Wood [Natasha Gurdin], SF, (Gypsy, Rebel Without a Cause)
1939 Judy Chicago [Cohen], Chicago, artist (The Dinner Party)
1940 Tony Oliva ball player, batting champ (AL Rookie of Year 1964)
1941 Vladimir A Lyakhov cosmonaut (Soyuz 32, T-9)
1943 John Lodge bassist (Moody Blues)
1947 Carlos Santana Mexico, musician (Santana-Black Magic Woman)
1957 Donna Dixon Va, actress, Mrs Dan Ackwoyd (Couch Trip, Bossom Buddies)
Deaths which occurred on July 20:
1031 Robert II de Vrome, King of France (996-1031), dies
1454 Johan II, King of Castille, dies at 49
1636 John Oldham, trader in Mass, murdered by indians
1752 John C Pepusch, English composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at about 85
1819 John Playfair, Scottish geologist/mathematician, dies
1923 Pancho Villa, [Doroteo Arango], Mexican rebel, murdered at 55
1944 Brandt, col/German staff chief, dies in bombing
1944 Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, count/German antifascist colonel, dies
1944 Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed
1944 Heinz Burns, German (Olympic-gold-1936), dies in bombing
1944 Korten, chef gen of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion
1944 Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies
1944 Mertz, German colonel (July 20th plotter), executed
1944 Rudolf Schmundt, gen/Hitler's Army adjunct, dies from wounds
1944 Werner von Haeffen, German lieutenant (July 20th plotter), executed
1951 Abdullah Ibn Hussein Jordan's King assassinated in Jerusalem
1951 Mustafa Shuqri Ashu, tailor/murderer of king Abdullah, shot to death
1954 Blair Moody (Sen-Mich), dies at 52
1973 Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], actor (Enter the Dragon), dies at 32
1983 Frank Reynolds news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies at 59
1984 Jim [James] Fixx (52), jogger, writer (Jim Fixx on Running), died of coronary while running
1995 Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photographer/collector, dies at 82
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
20-Jul-2003 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Master Sergeant David A. Scott Doha Non-hostile - unspecified cause
US Sergeant 1st Class Christopher R. Willoughby Baghdad airport Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US Sergeant Justin W. Garvey Tall Afar - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
US Sergeant Jason D. Jordan Tall Afar - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
20-Jul-2004 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Danny B. Daniels II Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Staff Sergeant Michael J. Clark Ramadi - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
US Corporal Todd J. Godwin Ramadi - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
Afghanistan
A Good Day
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0514 St Hormisdas begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1031 Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France
1402 Battle of Angora Mongols, led by Tamerlane defeat Ottoman Turks and captured Sultan Beyazid I
1773 Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)
1801 Elisha Brown Jr pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm (I wonder who cut it?)
1808 Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names
1810 Colombia declared independence from Spain
1858 Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)
1861 Confederate state's congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Va
1861 The New York Tribune compares Peace Democrats to the venomous Copperhead snake.
1862 Guerrilla campaign in GA (Porter's and Poindexter's) (casualties US 580 and CS 2,866)
1864 Battle at Stephenson's Depot Virginia: 200 killed or injured
1864 Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign
1868 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes
1871 British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province
1872 Mahlon Loomis receives patent for wireless ... the radio is born
1876 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins
1881 Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, surrenders to federal troops
1890 Snow & hail in Calais, ME (More proof of global warming)
1894 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
1903 Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X
1912 Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game
1914 Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster
1917 Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes form Yugoslavia
1917 WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn
1922 Togo made a mandate of the League of Nations
1925 Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France
1927 Lindbergh begins NY flight (Spirit of St Louis)
1930 106ø F, Washington, DC (district record)
1933 Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler
1934 118ø F, Keokuk, Iowa (state record)
1938 Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws
1942 Legion of Merit Medal authorized by congress
1942 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines
1944 Pres FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention
1944 US invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II
1944 Browns Nelson Potter is 1st pitcher suspended for throwing spitballs
1944 Von Stauffenberg fails on an attempt on Hitler's life
1948 Syngman Rhee "elected president" of South-Korea
1948 US Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested
1949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
1950 U.S. Army’s Task Force Smith pushed back into the Naktong perimeter by superior North Korean forces.
1950 "Arthur Murray Party" premiers on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)
1954 Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North and South
1956 France recognizes Tunisia's independence
1960 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
1960 USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
1963 Verne Gagne beats Crusher Lisowski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1964 1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's "Surf City"
1965 18.18" of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record)
1967 Race riots in Memphis Tenn
1968 Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes the 1st heavy metal song to hit the charts, it comes in at #117
1969 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
1970 1st baby born on Alcatraz Island
1974 Turkey invades Cyprus
1976 EARTH INVADES MARS! US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing (10's of thousands of non-partisan reformers and peace activists meet at Ft. Dodge Iowa to listen to Jesse Jackson, Barbra Streisand, & some guy named Moonbream (who wandered up on stage looking for some brown acid) decry this blatant unwarrented unilateral invasion of a sovereign planet, whille there are still children in this nation (not to mention the world) who don't have yo yo's. when asked to comment on this Ted Kennedy is reported to say "Who took my Scotch!")
1979 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash
1985 Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
1988 Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee
1988 Iran Iraq war ends
1989 93ø F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona
1990 Justice William Brennan resigns from the Supreme Court after 36 years
1991 Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant
1992 Seven people were killed when a test model of the Marine Corps' controversial V-22 Osprey transport aircraft crashed into the Potomac River
1993 Deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster was found shot to death in a park in northern Virginia. His death was ruled a suicide.
1994 OJ Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife's killer (And his search goes on)
1996 At the Atlanta Olympics, Renata Mauer of Poland won the Games' first gold, in the 10-meter air rifle
1999 After 38 years at the bottom of the Atlantic, astronaut Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule surfaced.
2000 It's reported that an experiment at Princeton showed light traveling beyond its previous known limit
2003 American generals said a new Iraqi civil defense force would be created over the next 45 days with some 7,000 militia members. Gen. John Abizaid, the top commander of coalition forces in Iraq, predicted that resistance to U.S. forces in Iraq would grow in coming months as progress was made in creating a new government to replace the dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein
2004 The U.N. General Assembly called for the structure to be torn down in compliance with a world court ruling. (Israel says what part of no don't you understand?)
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Columbia-1819, Tunisia-1956 : Independence Day
Ugly Truck Day
US : Moon Day (1969)
US : National Nap Day
National Lamb and Wool Month
Religious Observances
RC : Comm of St Margaret of Antioch, virgin/martyr (3rd cen)
Old Catholic : Feast of St Jerome Emiliani, confessor
St. Wilgefortis Feast Day
Commemoration of Elijah (Elias), greatest of the prophets (Roman and Greek Churches).
Religious History
1648 The Westminster Larger Catechism was adopted by the General Assembly of the Churchof Scotland at Edinburgh. This and the Shorter Catechism have both been in regular use amongPresbyterians, Baptists and Congregationalists ever since.
1726 Colonial clergyman Jonathan Edwards, 23, married Sarah Pierpont, 16. Theirmarriage prospered for over 30 years, before his premature death in 1758. Sarah herself diedonly six months later, at 48.
1877 Birth of Jesse Overholtzer, who in 1937 incorporated Child Evangelism Fellowshipin Chicago. Today the CEF mission agency works in over 60 countries worldwide.
1910 The Christian Endeavor Society of Missouri began a campaign to ban all motionpictures that depicted kissing between non-relatives.
1962 Pope John XXIII sent invitations to all 'separated Christian churches andcommunities,' asking each to send delegate-observers to the upcoming Vatican II EcumenicalCouncil in Rome.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Dog Enjoys Diet Of Cheeseburgers, Shakes
POSTED: 10:39 am PDT July 19, 2005
FARMLAND, Ind. -- One of the best customers at The Chocolate Moose restaurant has never even been inside the door. Missy Jo, a 60-pound bulldog mix, comes with owner Tony Mills, 51, to the restaurant for a daily treat of plain cheeseburgers and vanilla milkshakes on the patio.
The tradition started seven years ago, when Mills was mowing his father's lawn and noticed a barking dog next door in the town 15 miles east of Muncie. Mills took a break and walked down to the restaurant, ordered the dog a cheeseburger and fed her over the fence. The barking stopped.
Eventually Mills became acquainted with the dog's owners, and for three years every time he mowed his father's lawn or went over to visit, he took a cheeseburger along for Missy Jo. In 2001 the dog's owners moved and couldn't take the dog to their new home, so Mills asked if he could have her and the owners agreed.
Although the dog may like the special treats, the Mills' veterinarian doesn't approve.
"He doesn't think it's the best idea in the world," he said. "But she (Missy Jo) acts just like she's fine."
Thought for the day :
"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." Benjamin Franklin
