This Day in History for 14th July (Part 2)
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Historical Events
Results 101 - 183 of 183
1964 - Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France
1964 - Oriole Bob Johnson's 6th straight hit as a pinch hitter
1965 - Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4)
1965 - Israeli/Jordanian border fights
1965 - US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)
1966 - Richard Speck rapes & kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
1967 - Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Juan Marichal
1967 - Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing
1967 - The Who, opening for Herman's Hermits begin a US tour
1968 - Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic
1968 - Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1
1968 - WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 - "Futbol War" between El Salvador & Honduras begins
1969 - Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead)
1969 - WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
1969 - The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
1970 - 41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
1970 - All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox)
1972 - Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic Natl Committee
1972 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1972 - Plate ump & catcher in a game are brothers. Bill Haller is ump & Tom Haller is Tigers catcher, KC Royals win 1-0
1973 - 102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
1973 - Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers
1974 - Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day
1974 - Bundy victims Janice Ott & Denise Naslund disappear, Lk Sammamish, WA
1974 - Sharon Miller wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1975 - EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced
1976 - Jimmy Carter wins Democratic pres nomination in NYC
1976 - USSR banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands
1977 - North Korea shoots down US helicopter, killing 3
1977 - US House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1978 - Anatoly Scharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation
1978 - Ump Doug Harvey ejects Don Sutton after discovering 3 scuffed balls
1978 - Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado
1979 - USSR performs nuclear Test
1981 - Kevin Wade's "Key Exchange," premieres in London
1983 - Crane (Rep-R-Il) & Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages
1984 - STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads
1984 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - 40th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker
1985 - Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
1985 - Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
1986 - 10 killed & 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid
1986 - 2nd govt of Lubbers sworn in
1986 - 41st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jane Geddes
1986 - Motley Crue's Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide
1986 - NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission
1986 - Paul McCartney releases "Press"
1986 - Richard W Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
1986 - Shalamar's Howard Hewett acquitted in Miami of drug charges
1987 - 58th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland-Alameda Stad
1987 - All star MVP: Tim Raines (Montreal Expos)
1987 - Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
1987 - Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony
1987 - Rookie of the Year Award is renamed to honor Jackie Robinson
1987 - Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1987 - Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
1988 - 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak
1988 - Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th HR into 7th place
1988 - WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive
1989 - 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premieres
1990 - "Howard Stern's Summer Show" premieres on WWOR-TV (NYC)
1990 - Sara Martin, of Illinois, crowned America's Junior Miss
1991 - 46th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Meg Mallon
1991 - Failed military coup in Mali
1992 - 63rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium, SD
1992 - Actress Nell Carter undergoes brain surgery
1992 - All star MVP: Ken Griffey Jr (Seattle Mariners)
1992 - 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds release his Linux soon afterwards.
1993 - Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow & NY
1994 - Gas explosion at old age home in Milan, 27 killed
1995 - LA Dodger Ramon Martinez no-hits the Florida Marlins 7-0
1995 - Ramon Martinez pitches a 7-0 no-hitter against the Marlins
1996 - "How To Succeed in Business..." closes at R Rodgers NYC after 548 perf
1996 - "Thousand Clowns" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 32 performances
1996 - 14th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Raymond Floyd
1996 - Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1996 - NY Yankee John Weteland sets record of 24 consecutive saves
1996 - NY Yanks sweep complete season series in Baltimore for 1st time
1997 - Bomb in Algiers kills 21 & wounds 40
2002 - French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations.
2007 - Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
Famous Birthdays
Results 101 - 200 of 219
1929 - George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher
1930 - Eric Norman Stokes, composer
1930 - Polly Bergen, Knoxville Tn, actress (Rhoda-Winds of War, Baby Talk)
1931 - Donald Eugene Webb, Okla City, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1931 - Robert Stephens, Bristol England, actor (Uncle Kurt-Holocaust)
1932 - Roosevelt Grier, Cuthbert Ga, NFLer (NY Giants)/actor (Movin' On)
1933 - Del Reeves, singer/guitarist
1933 - Robert Bourassa, Montreal, premier of Quebec (1970-76, 1985- )
1934 - Leo Joseph Koury, Pitts, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1934 - [Robert] Lee Elder, Dallas TX, PGA golfer (1974 Monsanto Open)
1936 - Gloria Lambert, Worcester Mass, singer (Sing Along With Mitch)
1936 - Robert F Overmyer, Lorain Ohio, Col USMC/astronaut (STS 5, STS 51B)
1937 - Khalid Hassan, Pak cricket leg-spinner (took 2-116 at 16 in only Test)
1937 - Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician
1938 - Bob Scholl, rocker (Mellow Kings)
1938 - Jerry Rubin, activist (Chicago 7)/stockbroker
1939 - Karel Gott, Czech singer
1939 - Sid Haig, American actor
1939 - George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer
1940 - Susan Howatch, English author
1941 - Tatyana Dmitryevna Kuznetsova, cosmonaut
1941 - Maulana Karenga, American author and activist
1941 - Andreas Khol, Austrian politician
1942 - Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief
1943 - Lynn Loring, NYC, actress (Patty-Fair Exchange, Barbara-FBI)
1944 - Billy McCool, American baseball player
1945 - Peter James Leonard Klatzow, composer
1946 - Maureen O'Connor, Mayor (San Diego)
1946 - John Wood, Australian actor
1947 - Nick Benedict, Los Angeles CA, actor (Pistol-Birth of a Legend)
1947 - Steve Stone, Cleveland Ohio, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball)
1947 - Claudia Kennedy, U.S. Army officer
1948 - Tommy Matola, rock manager/CEO (CBS records)
1949 - Joyce Benson, LPGA golfer
1949 - Lukas D Barnard, head of South Africa secret service (NIS)
1950 - Bruce Oldfield, British mode-designer
1950 - Gwen Guthrie, American singer (d. 1999)
1951 - Esther Dyson, Zurich Switz, computer publisher (Release 1.0)
1951 - Judi Brown, E Lansing Mich, 400m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1984)
1951 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)
1952 - Chris Cross, [St John], rock singer (Arthur)
1952 - Eric Laneuville, New Orleans La, actor (Larry-Room 222, St Elsewhere)
1952 - George Louis Francis Lewis, composer
1952 - Jerry Houser, LA Calif, actor (Slapshot, Summer of '42, Class of '44)
1952 - Joel Silver, South Orange NJ, producer (Warriors, Xanadu, Die Hard)
1952 - Stan Shaw, Chic Ill, actor (Mississippi, Roots Next Generation)
1952 - Franklin Graham, American evangelist
1952 - Bob Casale, AKA Bob 2, American Musician (Devo)
1954 - Bebe Buell, Norfolk Va, wife of Todd Rundgren/playmate (Nov, 1974)
1954 - Jos Zoomer, Amsterdam Neth, rock drummer (Vandenberg)
1954 - Ralph D'Amico, jockey
1955 - L. Brent Bozell, American author and activist
1956 - Vladimir Kulich, Czech actor
1957 - Peter Webb, NZ cricketer (batsman against West Indies 1980)
1958 - Eric Heiden, US speed skater (Olympic-gold-1980)
1958 - Joe Keenan, American screenwriter, television producer and novelist.
1959 - Rodney Rash, horse trainer
1960 - Ray Herndon, Scottsdale Ar, singer (McBride & Ride-Can I Count on You)
1960 - Anna Bligh, Australian politician
1961 - Jackie Earle Haley, Northridge Calif, actor (Breaking Away)
1962 - Diane Ratnik, Toronto Ontario, volleyball setter (Olympics-8-92, 96)
1962 - Jeff Olson, American musician
1963 - Bel Le Harper, NFL tight end (Atlanta Falcons)
1963 - Phil Rosenthal, American newspaper columnist
1964 - Barbara Chiu, Canton China, Canada table tennis player (Oly-33-92, 96)
1964 - Brett J Ogle, Paddington Austral, PGA golfer (1993 AT&T Pebble Beach)
1964 - Jack Kay Jr, Montreal Que, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Singapore Open)
1965 - Reina Olea, female jockey
1966 - D J Johnson, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 - Matthew Fox, Crowheart Wyo, actor (Party of 5, Fredhman Dorm)
1966 - Tayna Donelly, rocker (Belly)
1966 - Ellen Reid, Canadian musician (Crash Test Dummies)
1966 - Brian Selznick, American author and illustrator
1967 - Glen Scrivener, CFL defensive tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 - Hashan Tillekeratne, cricketer (Sri Lanka wicket-keeper/batsman)
1967 - Leonardo Lavalle, Mexico, tennis star
1967 - Robin Ventura, Santa Maria CA, infielder (Chic White Sox)
1967 - Patrick J. Kennedy, politician
1968 - John Maginnes, Atlanta GA, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Texarkana Open-5th)
1968 - Mark Lenz, US, 3m spring diver (Olympic-gold-1992)
1968 - Kazushi Sakuraba, Japanese mixed martial artist/professional wrestler
1969 - Jose Hernandez, Hato Rey Puerto Rico, infielder (Chic Cubs)
1970 - Mark Brandenburg, Houston TX, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1970 - Mark Strickland, NBA forward (Miami Heat)
1970 - Michelle Sawatzky, Steinbach Manitoba, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1970 - Missy Gold, Great Falls Mont, actress (Katie-Benson)
1970 - Todd Rucci, NFL guard (NE Patriots)
1971 - Mark LoMonaco, American professional wrestler
1971 - Joey Styles, American wrestling commentator
1971 - Marie-Chantal Toupin, French Canadian singer
1972 - Ben Talley, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1972 - Joe Aska, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1972 - Lou Roe, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons)
1972 - Matthew Campbell, NFL tight end (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Deborah Mailman, Australian actress
1973 - Kieren Perkins, Brisbane QLD Aust, 1500m swimmer (Olymp-2 gold-92, 96)
1973 - Halil Mutlu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
1973 - Adam Quinn, American bagpipe player
1973 - Candela Peña, Spanish actress
1974 - Erick Dampier, NBA center (SF Warriors)
Famous Deaths
Results 101 - 106 of 106
2003 - François-Albert Angers, French Canadian economist (b. 1909)
2005 - Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger (b. 1924)
2005 - Cicely Saunders, English Nurse, physician and writer (b. 1918)
2007 - John Ferguson Sr, former professional hockey player (b. 1938)
2008 - Henki Kolstad, Norwegian actor (b. 1915)
2009 - Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Polish actor (b. 1934)
