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On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on July 23:
1339 Louis I, Duke of Anjou/King of Naples (Battle at Poitiers)
1816 Charlotte Sanders Cushman US, actress (Lady MacBeth)
1822 Darius Nash Couch, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1824 Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1906
1834 James Cardinal Gibbons archbishop of Baltimore
1884 Albert Warner, US producer (Warner Bros)
1888 Dr Milan Stoyadinovich Serbia, fascist Yugoslavia PM (1935-9)
1892 Haile Selassie(Ras Tafari Makonnen) emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74)
1893 Karl Menninger psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic)
1894 Arthur Treacher Brighton England, announcer (Merv Griffin Show)
1919 Pee Wee Reese Hall of Fame shortstop (Dodgers)
1921 Calvert DeForest, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Larry "Bud" Melman)
1925 Gloria De Haven LA, actress (Bog, Yellow Cab Man, Irene-Nakia)
1933 Bert Convy St Louis Mo, actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw)
1936 Anthony M Kennedy Calif, supreme court justice (1988- )
1936 Don Drysdale Van Nuys Calif, pitcher (LA Dodgers-Cy Young 1962)
1938 Ronny Cox Cloudcroft Mass, actor (St Elsewhere)
1943 Tony Joe White, rocker (Polk Salad Annie)
1947 Don Imus radio personality (IMUS in the Morning)
1950 Blair Thornton guitarist (Bachman-Turner-Overdrive)
1961 Woody Harrelson Midland Tx, actor (Woody Boyd-Cheers)
1971 Aimee Rinehart, Miss Missouri USA (1996)
1971 Alison Krauss, Decatur Ill, country singer (2 Highways)
1972 Marlon Wayans, comedian (Wayans Bros, In Living Color)
1982 Schottzie Schott dog mascot of the Cincinatti Reds

Deaths which occurred on July 23:
1373 Birgitta van Sweden, Swedish saint, dies
1403 Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], killed in battle at 39
1793 Thomas Mckean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 72
1816 Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration), dies at 68
1844 Christian Gobrecht 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office
1875 Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63

1885 Ulysses S Grant 18th US pres, dies in Mount McGregor, NY, at 63 (I wonder where He's buried?)

1930 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer/airplane builder, dies at 52
1943 Emanuel Querido, publisher (Sobibor), dies
1943 Meijer de Hond, [Emanuel Querido], rabbi (Sobibor), dies
1944 Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp
1944 Helmuth J von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed
1955 Cordell Hull, statesman, dies
1961 Esther Dale, actress (Birdie-Ma and Pa Kettle), dies after surgery at 75
1971 Van Heflin actor (Great Adventure), dies at 60
1973 Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot ACE, dies at 82
1982 Vic Morrow killed during filming of "Twilight Zone" at 53
1985 Kay Kyser (James King Kern Kyser) US bandleader, dies
1990 Joe Turner jazz pianist, dies at 82 of cardiac arrest
1997 Andrew Cunanan, serial killer (Gianni Versage), commits suicide
1999 King Hassan II of Morocco dies at age 70.
2002 Leo McKern (82), Australian actor, died ("Rumpole of the Bailey.")
2002 Chaim Potok (73), rabbi and author "The Chosen"

GWOT Casualties

Iraq
23-Jul-2003 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Captain Joshua T. Byers Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Specialist Brett T. Christian Mosul - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack

Afghanistan
A Good Day

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On this day...
0306 Constantine proclaimed Caesar in the west by the army
0636 Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire
0685 John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1148 Crusaders attack Damascus
1215 Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
1253 Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III
1298 Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany
1403 Battle of Shrewsbury the Percys battle King Henry IV
1664 Wealthy non-church members in Massachusetts were given the right to vote
1764 James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation
1798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
1803 Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin
1827 1st US swim school opens (Boston Mass)
1829 William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter)
1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada
1848 Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts
1851 Sioux/Dakota Indians and US sign the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux at what is now St Peter Mn. (Treaty of Traverse des Sioux ceded to the U.S. lands in southwestern portions of the Minnesota Territoryfor $1.665 million in cash and annuities.)
1852 1st interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio
1858 Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament, grants full civil equality to Jews
1863 "Bloody" Bill Anderson and his Confederate Bushwackers attack the railway station at Renick, Missouri
1864 Battle of Woodstock, VA
1865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army
1866 Cincinnati Baseball club (The Reds) established

1868 The 14th Amendment ratified, granting full citizenship to African Americans.

1880 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich
1886 Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge
1888 John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire
1894 Japanese troops take over the Korean imperial palace in Seoul
1903 Ford Motor Company sells its first automobile, the Model A. (You can have it in any color you want, as long as it's black)

1904 Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo

1906 Pogrom against Jews in Oddessa
1914 Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I
1920 Kenya becomes a British crown colony
1921 Edward Gourdin of the US, sets then long jump record at 25' 2 3/4"
1925 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers
1931 France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics
1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
1940 German bombers begin the "Blitz," the all-night air raids on London.
1942 German troops conquer Rostow
1942 Nazis open 2nd camp at Treblinka. (nearly 750,000 people died in the gas chambers of Treblinka)
1943 Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
1944 US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian
1947 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI
1948 Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President
1952 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (Natl Day)
1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
1958 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords
1965 Beatles "Help" is released in the UK
1966 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"
1967 43 killed in Detroit race riots (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
1968 "Classy" Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt
1968 PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane
1968 Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed
1972 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France
1973 Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan and Prime Minister of Oman
1974 Greek military dictatorship collapses
1977 Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges
1978 Israeli cabinet rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas
1980 Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya
1980 River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
1980 Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6
1984 Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude
1986 Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson
1987 Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39)

1988 Iraq uses chemical weapons (WMDs) in Iran Iraq war

1989 FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America's Most Wanted)
1989 Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas (Was Bill Clinton speaking there?)
1993 WH deputy counsel Vincent W. Foster Jr. buried near Hope, Ark., three days after "taking his own life" in a Virginia park
1995 Comet Hale-Bopp discovered. (Reconstruction of the orbit indicated that the comet repeatedly enters the inner solar system every 3,000 years or so)
1998 Chechnya Pres. Aslan Maskhadov receives minor injuries from an assassination attempt in Grozny that killed 2 bodyguards. He had been cracking down on organized crime and Muslim terrorists
1999 3-day Woodstock '99 music festival begins (The $35-38 million production ended in chaos with hundreds of concertgoers burning fires, looting and vandalizing)
2002 An Israeli F-16 warplane fires a missile and flattens a Gaza City apartment building, killing Salah Shehadeh, the leader of Hamas' military wing

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Oman : National Day (1952)
Virgin Islands : Hurricane Supplication Day (Monday)
US : Upside Down Day.
National Hot Dog Day
Baked Beans Month
(Beans, Beans, the musical fruit,
the more you eat, the more you toot.
The more you toot, the better you feel.
So lets have beans for every meal!)
[the preceeding was brought you by the National Flatulence League]

Religious Observances
Ancient Rome : Neptunalia, honoring Neptune
Buddhist-Laos : Beginning of Buddhist fast
RC : Comm of St Apollinaris, 1st bp of Ravenna, martyr
RC, Luth : Memorial of Bridget, mystic, patron of Sweden (opt)

Religious History
1779 Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'I findit of more consequence to a preacher to know his Bible well, than all the languages or booksin the world -- for he is not to preach these, but the Word of God.'
1846 Birth of William R. Featherstone, Canadian Methodist hymnwriter. He penned thewords to 'My Jesus, I Love Thee' before age 16.
1860 Birth of William W. McConnell, missions pioneer. In 1891, he became the firstmissionary sent out by the Central American Mission, after its founding in 1890.
1918 Death of Joseph H. Gilmore, 84, American Baptist clergyman. He is remembered todayprimarily for the hymn, 'He Leadeth Me,' which he wrote at the age of 28.
1976 The First National Southern Baptist Charismatic Conference closed. Baptist pastorand charismatic leader Howard Conatser (1926-78) was a speaker at this convention.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Soldiers Capture Moose Loose On Base

FORT CARSON, Colo. -- Soldiers captured an intruder in a secure area of a Colorado military base, but the intruder was no criminal -- just a loose moose.

Soldiers and state wildlife officers managed to corral the 500-pound female moose, which had wandered into the part of Fort Carson reserved for equipment returning from Iraq.

Steve Cooley, a wildlife manager for the state, said the location was less than ideal for a moose. The animal was tranquilized and loaded into a trailer packed with 600 pounds of ice to keep it cool during the record heat wave.

Officials said their military moose will be released into the wild in Western Colorado.

Thought for the day :
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
Edward V. Rickenbacker