This is some of what happened today in history
1902 – Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)
1905 – Dutch Covenant of Worker’s union, NVV, forms
1908 – Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
1909 – John A Heyder becomes president of baseball’s National League
1909 – Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
1913 – Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War
1914 – Austrian-Hungary & Russia proclaim general mobilization
1914 – French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
1914 – John French appointed British supreme commander
1916 – German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ
1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, NJ.
1917 – Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting
1923 – New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
1926 – Albanian boundaries deduced
1928 – George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US)
1930 – 1st broadcast of “Death Valley Days” on NBC-radio
1930 – Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer’s 1st World Cup in Montevideo
1932 – 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1933 – 28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2)
1935 – 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
1937 – Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base & registers no put outs
1938 – Gen Metaxas names himself premier of Greece
1939 – Belgium Sylvere Maes wins 33rd Tour de France
1941 – German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU & SGP in Netherlands
1942 – FDR signs bill creating women’s Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1942 – German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1942 – German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands
1943 – Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
1943 – US 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano
1944 – Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire & Villebaudon Normandy
1944 – US 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy
1945 – Philippines Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die
1946 – 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
1947 – Cin Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to NY Giants 5-4
1948 – Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K – 29:59.6)
1948 – Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
1949 – British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
1951 – Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
1952 – Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid
1953 – Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
1954 – Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles
1954 – Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
1955 – Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France
1956 – US motto “In God We Trust” authorized
1959 – In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
1960 – 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
1961 – 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL
1961 – Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women’s Golf Open
1962 – 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1962 – All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels)
1963 – British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
1964 – US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam
1965 – Charles Ives’ “From the Steeples & the Mountains,” premieres
1965 – Duke Ellington’s “Golden Brown & the Green Apple,” premieres
1965 – LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
1965 – Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants
1966 – Beatles’ “Yesterday… & Today,” album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1966 – England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer’s 8th World Cup in London
1966 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open
1966 – US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam
1967 – Clifford Ann Creed/Margie Masters wins Yankee Ladies’ Team Golf Champ
1967 – Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)
1968 – Beatles’ Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away
1968 – Wash Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years
1969 – Astros Denis Menke & Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets
1969 – Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
1969 – KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 – Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos)
1970 – -Aug 5] Hurricane Celia, kills 31 in Cuba, Florida & Texas
1970 – 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield Ct
1971 – 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289)
1971 – George Harrison releases “Bangladesh”
1971 – Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162
1971 – US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
1972 – “Ain’t Supposed to Die Death” closes at Barrymore NYC after 325 perfs
1972 – Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
1973 – Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0
1974 – House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of “high crimes & misdemeanors” to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up
1975 – Simon Gray’s “Otherwise Engaged,” premieres in London
1975 – Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit
1976 – Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
1976 – Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman’s volleyball
1978 – Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits & NL-record-tying 8 HRs
1978 – Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1980 – Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke
1980 – Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain & France
1981 – Belgian Senate accept laws against racism
1981 – Simon Gray’s “Quartermaine’s Terms,” premieres in London
1982 – Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats
1982 – USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1983 – Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, Calif
1983 – Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg
1984 – Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
1984 – Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant
1984 – Soap Opera “Santa Barbara” premieres on NBC TV
1985 – Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission
1985 – Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America’s Junior Miss
1988 – Cin Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month
1988 – Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m
1988 – James Ogilvy (under Engl princess Alexandra) marries Julia Rawlinson
1988 – John Franco saves record 13th game of July
1988 – Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO
1988 – King Hussein dissolves Jordan’s House of Representatives
1988 – Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)
1989 – Chile amends its constitution
1989 – Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
1990 – 5 Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money
1990 – Graham Gooch scores 123 v India to follow up 1st innings 333
1990 – Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die
1990 – George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of NY Yankees
1990 – The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
1991 – MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
1991 – Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
1992 – Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65)
1994 – Record 103.8°F (39.9°C) in Preschen Lausitz Germany
1995 – Becky Iverson wins LPGA Friendly’s Golf Classic
1995 – Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win v WI
1995 – Lara completes 5th Test Cricket century, 145 at Old Trafford
1995 – Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter basaeball’s Hall of Fame
1996 – Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager
1997 – Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
1997 – Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
2002 – The accounting law referred to as “The Sarbanes Oxley Act” is signed into law by President George W. Bush.
2003 – In Mexico, the last ‘old style’ Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2006 – World’s longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
2009 – A bomb explodes in Palma Nova, Mallorca, killing 2 police officers. Basque separatist group ETA is believed to be responsible.

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