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Birthdays, Deaths, and historical events that occurred in the month of July

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Judy655

Posted: Jul 29, 08 11:32am

How it was 50 years ago today ....

Tuesday, July 29, 1958

Posted: Jul 30, 08 4:57am

This Day in History:

JULY 30

Happy, Happies to:

*1815 Thomas Jackson Rodman, U.S. military inventor of perforated-cake gunpowder. Its hexagonal grains, perforated with several longitudinal holes, increased the burning surface of each grain. By burning evenly, it provided controlled rather than sudden pressure that was maintained as the projectile traveled forward, thus giving increased muzzle velocity. He also invented a system of casting cannon around a hollow core cooled from inside, resulting in a stronger barrel as concentric layers of metal cooled and shrank

*1818 Emily Bronte author (Wuthering Heights)

*1857 Thorstein Veblen economist, author

*1863 Henry Ford auto manufacturer

*1890 Casey [Charles] Stengel baseball Hall of Famer

*1909 C. Northcote Parkinson English historian, author, and formulator of "Parkinson's Law"

*1936 Buddy [George] Guy musician, blues guitarist, singer

*1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger actor, The Gubernator

*1961 Laurence [Larry] Fishburne Tony Award-winning actor

Farewells to:

*1718 William Penn, English Quaker/colonizer, died

*1784 Denis Diderot, French writer, died after eating an apricot his wife had warned him not to eat. His final words were "How in the devil can it hurt me?" Diderot was one of the foremost writers of the 18th-century "Age of Enlightenment".

*1898 Otto von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, died at 83

*1914 Jean Jaures, leading French socialist, was assassinated in Paris

*1918 Joyce Kilmer poet. was killed by a sniper during WW I

*1996 Claudette Colbert died at age 92 at her home in Barbados. She had suffered a major stroke 3 years earlier, and never fully recovered. Colbert's brilliant screen career spanned six decades, and her films included It Happened One Night,"The Sign of the Cross,Cleopatra,Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, Drums Along the Mohawk, The Egg and I, and So Proudly We Hail. Colbert was on the Top Ten Box Office film list three times: in 1935, 1936, and 1947.

*1998 ''Buffalo Bob'' Smith The cowboy-suited host of ''The Howdy Doody Show,'' died at age 80

*2003 - Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records, passed away from respiratory failure at 80. Phillips, credited with discovering Elvis Presley, was the first to record a number of artists including: James Cotton, Rufus Thomas, B.B. King, Howlin Wolf as well as “discovering” such stars as Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins

On This Day In:

*1419 - Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, storm town hall in Prague & throw Catholic counselors out the windows (The First Defenestration of Prague)

*1729 - City of Baltimore was founded

*1792 - The French national anthem La Marseillaise by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris.

*1864 - Battle of the Crater: Burnside's attempt to break the Confederate line failed spectacularly

*1898 - The first magazine automobile ad was printed in "Scientific American". The Winton Motor Car Company from Cleveland, Ohio, asked people to "dispense with a horse".

*1898 - Corn Flakes were invented by William Kellogg. In 1894 they unintentionally invented a flaked cereal process based on wheat. By 1898, W.K. Kellogg had developed the first flaked corn cereal. Patients enjoyed the cereals and wanted more to take home.

*1916 - German saboteurs blew up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ

*1942 - Legislation signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt created the WAVES. The participants of the Women's Auxiliary Voluntary Emergency Service were a part of of the United States Navy.

*1945 – While sailing from Guam to Leyte, the USS Indianapolis was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-58. The ship capsized and sank in 12 minutes. Due to an administrative foulup, nobody realized the ship was sunk and survivors were not picked up until August 2. Only 316 out of 1,1pp were saved.

*1948 - Professional wrestling premiered on prime-time network TV (DuMont)

*1949 - British warship HMS Amethyst escaped down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after a 3-month standoff

*1956 - The motto "In God We Trust" was adopted as the United States national motto by President Dwight Eisenhower. The phrase, originally printed on US coins during the Civil War, was adopted as the national motto in part as a response to the growing influence of the Soviet Union around the world.

*1975 - Former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa (real name was James R. Hoffa) disappeared outside a restaurant near Detroit, Michigan. Seven years later Hoffa was declared officially dead. He was imprisoned in the 1960s for mail fraud and embezzlement of funds, but his prison sentence was commuted by then President Richard Nixon. Hoffa began labor organizing in 1930.

*2003 - In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolled off an assembly line.

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Posted: Jul 30, 08 4:57am

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This Day in History:
JULY 30

Happy, Happies to: 
*1815 Thomas Jackson Rodman, U.S. military inventor of perforated-cake gunpowder. Its hexagonal grains, perforated with several longitudinal holes, increased the burning surface of each grain. By burning evenly, it provided controlled rather than sudden pressure that was maintained as the projectile traveled forward, thus giving increased muzzle velocity. He also invented a system of casting cannon around a hollow core cooled from inside, resulting in a stronger barrel as concentric layers of metal cooled and shrank
*1818 Emily Bronte author (Wuthering Heights)
*1857 Thorstein Veblen economist, author 
*1863 Henry Ford auto manufacturer 
*1890 Casey [Charles] Stengel baseball Hall of Famer
*1909 C. Northcote Parkinson English historian, author, and formulator of "Parkinson's Law"
*1936 Buddy [George] Guy musician, blues guitarist, singer
*1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger actor, The Gubernator
*1961 Laurence [Larry] Fishburne Tony Award-winning actor

Farewells to:
*1718 William Penn, English Quaker/colonizer, died
*1784 Denis Diderot, French writer, died after eating an apricot his wife had warned him not to eat. His final words were "How in the devil can it hurt me?" Diderot was one of the foremost writers of the 18th-century "Age of Enlightenment". 
*1898 Otto von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, died at 83
*1914 Jean Jaures, leading French socialist, was assassinated in Paris
*1918 Joyce Kilmer poet. was killed by a sniper during WW I
*1996 Claudette Colbert died at age 92 at her home in Barbados. She had suffered a major stroke 3 years earlier, and never fully recovered. Colbert's brilliant screen career spanned six decades, and her films included It Happened One Night,"The Sign of the Cross,Cleopatra,Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, Drums Along the Mohawk, The Egg and I, and So Proudly We Hail. Colbert was on the Top Ten Box Office film list three times: in 1935, 1936, and 1947.
*1998 ''Buffalo Bob'' Smith The cowboy-suited host of ''The Howdy Doody Show,'' died at age 80 
*2003 - Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records, passed away from respiratory failure at 80. Phillips, credited with discovering Elvis Presley, was the first to record a number of artists including: James Cotton, Rufus Thomas, B.B. King, Howlin Wolf as well as “discovering” such stars as Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins

On This Day In:
*1419 - Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, storm town hall in Prague & throw Catholic counselors out the windows (The First Defenestration of Prague)
*1729 - City of Baltimore was founded
*1792 - The French national anthem La Marseillaise by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris.
*1864 - Battle of the Crater: Burnside's attempt to break the Confederate line failed spectacularly 
*1898 - The first magazine automobile ad was printed in "Scientific American". The Winton Motor Car Company from Cleveland, Ohio, asked people to "dispense with a horse". 
*1898 - Corn Flakes were invented by William Kellogg. In 1894 they unintentionally invented a flaked cereal process based on wheat. By 1898, W.K. Kellogg had developed the first flaked corn cereal. Patients enjoyed the cereals and wanted more to take home.
*1916 - German saboteurs blew up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ 
*1942 - Legislation signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt created the WAVES. The participants of the Women's Auxiliary Voluntary Emergency Service were a part of of the United States Navy.
*1945 – While sailing from Guam to Leyte, the USS Indianapolis was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-58. The ship capsized and sank in 12 minutes. Due to an administrative foulup, nobody realized the ship was sunk and survivors were not picked up until August 2. Only 316 out of 1,1pp were saved.
*1948 - Professional wrestling premiered on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
*1949 - British warship HMS Amethyst escaped down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after a 3-month standoff 
*1956 - The motto "In God We Trust" was adopted as the United States national motto by President Dwight Eisenhower. The phrase, originally printed on US coins during the Civil War, was adopted as the national motto in part as a response to the growing influence of the Soviet Union around the world. 
*1975 - Former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa (real name was James R. Hoffa) disappeared outside a restaurant near Detroit, Michigan. Seven years later Hoffa was declared officially dead. He was imprisoned in the 1960s for mail fraud and embezzlement of funds, but his prison sentence was commuted by then President Richard Nixon. Hoffa began labor organizing in 1930. 
*2003 - In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolled off an assembly line.

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Nick_Danger

Posted: Jul 31, 08 5:04am

This Day in History:

JULY 31

Happy, Happies to:

*1803 John Ericsson, US, inventor (screw propeller)/shipbuilder - USS Monitor

*1816 George Henry Thomas, Major General – Union Army

*1837 William Clarke Quantrill, Colonel (Confederate Army), raider, robber

*1912 Milton Friedman economist, journalist

*1919 Curt Gowdy sports commentator

*1923 Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist and inventor of Kevlar®. Today, this fiber is used to make bullet-proof vests, aircraft parts, inflatable boats, gloves, rope, and building materials.

*1962 Wesley Snipes actor, tax evader

Farewells to:

*1556 St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus, died in Rome

*1944 Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot/writer (Small Prince), died at 44

On This Day In:

*1498 - During the third voyage of Christopher Columbus, the Italian navigator landed on an island that he named "La Trinidad" (The Trinity), today a part of Trinidad and Tobago. The island was inhabited by two tribes, the Arawaks, who were peaceful fishermen and farmers, and the more belligerent Caribs. Both tribes were soon decimated, and Africans were brought in as slaves to replace them.

*1703 - English author Daniel Defoe spent the day in the pillory for having published some Dissenter tracts (friends threw flowers at him instead of garbage)

*1790 - The first patent in the United States was registered on July 31, 1790 to Samuel Hopkins for an improvement "in the making Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process."

*1792 - With the laying of a cornerstone, construction was begun on the first building to be used only as a United States Government building. It would be the United States Mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

*1845 - The French Army introduced the saxophone to its military band (invented by Adolphe Sax of Belgium)

*1897 - 1897 St. Louis hurler John Grimes established a major league record which still stands today by hitting six batters in a nine-inning game.

*1910 - Marconi telegraph signals were used in a murder case for the first time. American-born Dr Hawley Crippen and his mistress, Ethel Le Neve, disguised as a boy, were arrested for the murder of his wife in England. Her remains were discovered 13 Jul 1910. She had been poisoned with hyoscine, an extract of the deadly plant henbane. An arrest warrant was issued 16 Jul 1910. Crippen was spotted mid-Atlantic as they sailed from Antwerp to Canada on the SS Montrose, the first ship to be equipped with radio-telegraph, and police in London were alerted by its skipper, Captain Kendall.

*1912 - The first motion picture censorship regulation went into effect to "prohibit the importation and the interstate transportation of films or other pictorial representations of prize fights." The penalty for violation was to be not more than $1,000, or one year of hard labor, or both.

*1928 - MGM’s Leo the lion roared for the first time. He introduced MGM’s first talking picture, "White Shadows on the South Seas."

*1938 – Adolph Hitler decorates fellow anti-Semite Henry Ford with the "Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle"

*1948 - United States President Harry S. Truman dedicated an airport in New York as International Airport at Idlewild Field. Later on it would be re-named John F. Kennedy International Airport.

*1952 - The film version of Ivanhoe, starring Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor, premiered in New York.

*1969 - A Moscow police chief reported that thousands of Moscow telephone booths had been made inoperable by thieves who had stolen phone parts in order to convert their acoustic guitars to electric.

*1971 - The first men to ever ride a vehicle on the moon did it in the LRV (lunar rover vehicle). This lunar dune buggy took Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin for five miles across the moon's surface. Their first stop was at the rim of Elbow Crater, which was televised back to Earth for millions of viewers to see. The ride on the moon was two hours long.

*1972 - Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the ticket with George McGovern following disclosures Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment.

*1981 - The baseball players' strike, in its seventh week, came to an end when both the players and owners agreed on free agent compensation issue.

*1991 - President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow.

This Day in History: JULY 31 Happy, Happies to: *1803 John Ericsson, US, inventor (screw propeller)/shipbuilder - USS Monitor *1816 George Henry Thomas, Major General – Union Army *1837 William Clarke Quantrill, Colonel (Confederate Army), raider, robber *1912 Milton Friedman economist, journalist *1919 Curt Gowdy sports commentator *1923 Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist and inventor of Kevlar®. Today, this fiber is used to make bullet-proof vests, aircraft parts, inflatable boats, gloves, rope, and building materials. *1962 Wesley Snipes actor, tax evader Farewells to: *1556 St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus, died in Rome *1944 Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot/writer (Small Prince), died at 44 On This Day In: *1498 - During the third voyage of Christopher Columbus, the Italian navigator landed on an island that he named "La Trinidad" (The Trinity), today a part of Trinidad and Tobago. The island was inhabited by two tribes, the Arawaks, who were peaceful fishermen and farmers, and the more belligerent Caribs. Both tribes were soon decimated, and Africans were brought in as slaves to replace them. *1703 - English author Daniel Defoe spent the day in the pillory for having published some Dissenter tracts (friends threw flowers at him instead of garbage) *1790 - The first patent in the United States was registered on July 31, 1790 to Samuel Hopkins for an improvement "in the making Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process." *1792 - With the laying of a cornerstone, construction was begun on the first building to be used only as a United States Government building. It would be the United States Mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. *1845 - The French Army introduced the saxophone to its military band (invented by Adolphe Sax of Belgium) *1897 - 1897 St. Louis hurler John Grimes established a major league record which still stands today by hitting six batters in a nine-inning game. *1910 - Marconi telegraph signals were used in a murder case for the first time. American-born Dr Hawley Crippen and his mistress, Ethel Le Neve, disguised as a boy, were arrested for the murder of his wife in England. Her remains were discovered 13 Jul 1910. She had been poisoned with hyoscine, an extract of the deadly plant henbane. An arrest warrant was issued 16 Jul 1910. Crippen was spotted mid-Atlantic as they sailed from Antwerp to Canada on the SS Montrose, the first ship to be equipped with radio-telegraph, and police in London were alerted by its skipper, Captain Kendall. *1912 - The first motion picture censorship regulation went into effect to "prohibit the importation and the interstate transportation of films or other pictorial representations of prize fights." The penalty for violation was to be not more than $1,000, or one year of hard labor, or both. *1928 - MGM’s Leo the lion roared for the first time. He introduced MGM’s first talking picture, "White Shadows on the South Seas." *1938 – Adolph Hitler decorates fellow anti-Semite Henry Ford with the "Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle" *1948 - United States President Harry S. Truman dedicated an airport in New York as International Airport at Idlewild Field. Later on it would be re-named John F. Kennedy International Airport. *1952 - The film version of Ivanhoe, starring Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor, premiered in New York. *1969 - A Moscow police chief reported that thousands of Moscow telephone booths had been made inoperable by thieves who had stolen phone parts in order to convert their acoustic guitars to electric. *1971 - The first men to ever ride a vehicle on the moon did it in the LRV (lunar rover vehicle). This lunar dune buggy took Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin for five miles across the moon's surface. Their first stop was at the rim of Elbow Crater, which was televised back to Earth for millions of viewers to see. The ride on the moon was two hours long. *1972 - Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the ticket with George McGovern following disclosures Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment. *1981 - The baseball players' strike, in its seventh week, came to an end when both the players and owners agreed on free agent compensation issue. *1991 - President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow.

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This Day in History:
JULY 31

Happy, Happies to:
*1803 John Ericsson, US, inventor (screw propeller)/shipbuilder - USS Monitor
*1816 George Henry Thomas, Major General – Union Army
*1837 William Clarke Quantrill, Colonel (Confederate Army), raider, robber 
*1912 Milton Friedman economist, journalist 
*1919 Curt Gowdy sports commentator
*1923 Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist and inventor of Kevlar®. Today, this fiber is used to make bullet-proof vests, aircraft parts, inflatable boats, gloves, rope, and building materials.
*1962 Wesley Snipes actor, tax evader

Farewells to:
*1556 St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus, died in Rome
*1944 Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot/writer (Small Prince), died at 44

On This Day In:
*1498 - During the third voyage of Christopher Columbus, the Italian navigator landed on an island that he named "La Trinidad" (The Trinity), today a part of Trinidad and Tobago. The island was inhabited by two tribes, the Arawaks, who were peaceful fishermen and farmers, and the more belligerent Caribs. Both tribes were soon decimated, and Africans were brought in as slaves to replace them. 
*1703 - English author Daniel Defoe spent the day in the pillory for having published some Dissenter tracts (friends threw flowers at him instead of garbage)
*1790 - The first patent in the United States was registered on July 31, 1790 to Samuel Hopkins for an improvement "in the making Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process."
*1792 - With the laying of a cornerstone, construction was begun on the first building to be used only as a United States Government building. It would be the United States Mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
*1845 - The French Army introduced the saxophone to its military band (invented by Adolphe Sax of Belgium)
*1897 - 1897 St. Louis hurler John Grimes established a major league record which still stands today by hitting six batters in a nine-inning game.
*1910 - Marconi telegraph signals were used in a murder case for the first time. American-born Dr Hawley Crippen and his mistress, Ethel Le Neve, disguised as a boy, were arrested for the murder of his wife in England. Her remains were discovered 13 Jul 1910. She had been poisoned with hyoscine, an extract of the deadly plant henbane. An arrest warrant was issued 16 Jul 1910. Crippen was spotted mid-Atlantic as they sailed from Antwerp to Canada on the SS Montrose, the first ship to be equipped with radio-telegraph, and police in London were alerted by its skipper, Captain Kendall.
*1912 - The first motion picture censorship regulation went into effect to "prohibit the importation and the interstate transportation of films or other pictorial representations of prize fights." The penalty for violation was to be not more than $1,000, or one year of hard labor, or both.
*1928 - MGM’s Leo the lion roared for the first time. He introduced MGM’s first talking picture, "White Shadows on the South Seas."
*1938 – Adolph Hitler decorates fellow anti-Semite Henry Ford with the "Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle"
*1948 - United States President Harry S. Truman dedicated an airport in New York as International Airport at Idlewild Field. Later on it would be re-named John F. Kennedy International Airport.
*1952 - The film version of Ivanhoe, starring Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor, premiered in New York.
*1969 - A Moscow police chief reported that thousands of Moscow telephone booths had been made inoperable by thieves who had stolen phone parts in order to convert their acoustic guitars to electric.
*1971 - The first men to ever ride a vehicle on the moon did it in the LRV (lunar rover vehicle). This lunar dune buggy took Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin for five miles across the moon's surface. Their first stop was at the rim of Elbow Crater, which was televised back to Earth for millions of viewers to see. The ride on the moon was two hours long. 
*1972 - Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the ticket with George McGovern following disclosures Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment.
*1981 - The baseball players' strike, in its seventh week, came to an end when both the players and owners agreed on free agent compensation issue. 
*1991 - President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow.

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