This Day in History for 7th July (Part 2)
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Historical Events
Results 101 - 200 of 203
1958 - William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows NY
1959 - 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
1960 - Neth-US cemetery Margraten official opens
1960 - USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea
1961 - 75th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64)
1961 - James R Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters
1962 - 69th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (64 64)
1962 - Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open
1964 - 35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York
1964 - All star MVP: John Callison (Phila Phillies)
1965 - Otis Redding records "Respect"
1967 - 81st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61)
1967 - Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released
1967 - Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1
1967 - Beginning of the civil war in Biafra.
1968 - 23rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
1968 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1968 - Rock group "Yardbirds" disband
1969 - Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English lang
1969 - Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal
1972 - 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley & Joanne E Pierce)
1972 - 79th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (63 63)
1972 - Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage
1973 - 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)
1973 - 80th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats C Evert (60 75)
1973 - 87th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jan Kodes beats Alex Metreveli (61 98 63)
1973 - All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels
1973 - Balt Orioles pull their 4th triple play (5-4-3 vs Oakland)
1973 - Glenda Reiser (Canada) sets record women's mile (4:34.9)
1973 - Shoelace Park in the Bronx named
1973 - 1st all-US women's Wimbledon, Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert
1974 - Brewer Don Money sets record of consec errorless games at 3rd (78)
1974 - Sue Roberts wins LPGA Niagara Frontier Golf Classic
1974 - West Germany beats Neth 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich
1975 - TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres
1976 - E Henry Knoche, becomes deputy director of CIA
1976 - Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1976 - Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars
1977 - 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City
1978 - 85th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (26 64 75)
1978 - Solomon Islands declares independence from UK
1979 - 93rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats R Tanner (67 61 36 63 64)
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - 1st solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel
1980 - Az Judge Sandra Day O'Connor 1st female nominated to Supreme Court
1980 - Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
1980 - Larry Holmes TKOs Scott LeDoux in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 - Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe
1980 - Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Univ) as 29th Miss USA
1980 - Institution of sharia in Iran.
1980 - The Safra massacre in Lebanon.
1981 - 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel
1981 - Ben Plucknett of US throws discus 72.34 m, but throw is disqualified
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court
1982 - David Moorcroft of UK sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41
1982 - Steve Scott of US runs mile in a record 3:47.69
1983 - 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR
1984 - 5 die in a train crash in Williston Vt
1984 - 91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62)
1984 - Frankie Valli marries Randy Clohessy
1985 - 92nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (46 63 62)
1985 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
1986 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released
1986 - It is reported Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction
1986 - Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices
1986 - Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
1986 - US actress Deborah Hunter marries actor Michael Tylo
1987 - Alan & Colin Wells make 303* partnership for Sussex v Kent
1987 - Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women
1987 - Lt Col Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing
1987 - Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 & 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7
1988 - Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)
1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 - 97th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Z Garrison (64 61)
1990 - NJ Devils sign Russians Viacheslav Fetisov & Sergei Starikov
1991 - 105th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Michael Stich beats B Becker (64 76 64)
1991 - Alice Miller wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1991 - Nolan Ryan possible 8th no-hitter ends in the 8th inning
1993 - Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
1993 - NY Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game (goes to 27)
1993 - Phila Phillies beat SF Giants 7-6 in 20 innings
1993 - Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers
1993 - Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500
1994 - "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo
1994 - Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert
1994 - North Yemenite troops occupy Aden
1995 - Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game (vs BC Lions)
1995 - Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), lands
1996 - 110th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: R Krajicek beats M Washington (63 64 63)
1996 - 17th US Seniors Golf Open: Dave Stockton
1996 - Joan Pitcock wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), lands
1997 - Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open
1997 - Tower Minn temps dip to 24°F
1998 - 69th All Star Baseball Game: at Coors Field, Denver
2002 - A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.
2003 - The United Communist Party of Armenia is formed.
2005 - Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike London's public transport system during the morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 700
Famous Birthdays
Results 101 - 200 of 217
1936 - Stuart Ross Dempster, composer
1936 - Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (d. 1980)
1937 - Carroll Hubbard Jr, (Rep-D-KY, 1975- )
1939 - Laurie Silvers, horse trainer
1940 - James Toner, horse trainer
1940 - Richard K Armey, (Rep-R-Texas, 1985- )
1940 - Ringo Starr, [Richard Starkey], Beatle drummer/actor (Magic Christian)
1941 - Michael Howard, British politician
1941 - Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
1942 - Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
1943 - Toto Cutugno, Italian singer
1943 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)
1944 - Tony Jacklin, Scunthorpe England, PGA golfer (1970 US Open)
1944 - Warren Entner, Boston Mass, rock vocalist/guitarist (Grass Roots)
1945 - James Rodford, English rock vocalist/bassist (Kinks-Mr Pleasant)
1945 - Matti Salminen, Turku Finland, bass player (King Philipp-Don Carlos)
1945 - Michael Ancram, British politician
1946 - Jean LeClerc, actor (Jeremy Hunter-All My Children)
1946 - Jim Day, Canada, equestrian show jumper (Olympic-gold-1968)
1946 - Joe Spano, SF Calif, actor (Henry Goldblume-Hill St Blues)
1947 - Rob Townsend, rock drummer (Family Leicester)
1947 - Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat
1947 - Howard Rheingold, American author
1947 - Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal
1948 - Fred Brown, NBAer (Seattle SuperSonic)
1948 - Larry Reinhardt, rocker (Iron Butterfly)
1948 - Jean Leclerc, French-Canadian actor
1949 - Larry "Rhino" Rheinhardt, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly)
1949 - Shelley Duvall, Houston Tx, actress (Popeye, Faery Tale Theater)
1951 - Roz Ryan, Detroit Mich, actress (Amelia-Amen, Occupied)
1952 - Mando Guerrero, Mexican professional wrestler
1953 - Lynval Golding, rocker (Fun Boy Three)
1954 - Corbin Bernsen, North Hollywood Ca, actor (LA Law)
1955 - Len Barker, American baseball player
1956 - Bill Lagattuta, NYC, news correspondent (CBS, 48 Hours, Eye to Eye)
1956 - Jesus Bazan, jockey
1957 - Jonathan Dayton, American film director
1957 - Berry Sakharof, Turkish-born Israeli guitarist (Minimal Compact)
1958 - Michael Marx, Portland Or, US fencer-epee (Olympic-84, 88, 92, 96)
1959 - Bill Campbell, Chicago IL, actor (Rocketeer)
1959 - Jessica Hahn, evangelist rape victim/model (playboy)/actress
1959 - Billy Campbell, American actor
1959 - Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)
1960 - Barbara Bierman, Miami Fla, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1994)
1960 - Ralph Sampson, NBA center (Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets)
1960 - Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut
1962 - Clive "Doctor" Jackson, rocker (Dr & Medics-Laughing at Pieces)
1962 - Shawn Paddock, rocker (Red Rockers)
1963 - Lance Johnson, Cincinnati OH, outfielder (NY Mets)
1963 - Naved Anjum, cricketer (Pakistani all-rounder, two Tests 1989-90)
1963 - Perry Richardson, SC, bassist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
1963 - Vonda Shepard, American singer
1965 - Paula Devicq, Canadian actress
1965 - Mo Collins, American actress
1966 - Hector Burba, Dayton OH, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1966 - Jeff Shaw, Washington Ohio, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1966 - Jim Gaffigan, American comedian
1966 - Gundula Krause, German folk violinist
1966 - Neil Tobin, American magician
1967 - Alfred Jackson, CFL receiver (BC Lions)
1967 - Erik van der More, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1967 - Jason R Rich, Irvington NY, writer (Celebrity Teen Talk)
1967 - Tom Kristensen, Danish race car driver
1967 - Jackie Neal, American singer (d. 2005)
1968 - Chuck Knoblauch, Houston TX, shortstop (NY Yankees, Minn Twins)
1968 - Reggie Cobb, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1968 - Jorja Fox, American actress
1968 - Jeff VanderMeer, American writer
1969 - Amy Carlson, Elmhurst Il, actress (Josie-Another World) [1969-Approx]
1969 - Cree Summer, actress (Freddie-Different World)
1969 - Joe Sakic, Burnaby BC, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche, Canada 1998)
1969 - Sylke Otto, German luger
1969 - Nathalie Simard, French Canadian singer
1969 - Robin Weigert, American actress
1970 - Michael McCrary, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 - Min Patel, cricketer (in Mumbai England left-arm spinner v India 1996)
1970 - Wayne McCullough, Irish boxer
1970 - Erik Zabel, German cyclist
1970 - Robia LaMorte, American actress and dancer
1971 - Darren Krein, WLAF defensive end (Barcelona Dragons)
1971 - Alistair Potts, British rower
1972 - Aldi Henry, CFL defensive back (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Darnay Scott, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1972 - Lisa Leslie, Calif, WNBA center (LA Sparks)/foward (Oly-gold-1996)
1972 - Michael Westbrook, NFL wide receiver (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Stoney Case, NFL quarterback (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 - Manfred Stohl, Austrian rally driver
1973 - Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga-ka
1973 - Troy Garity, American actor
1973 - Matt Mantei, American baseball player
1973 - Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player
1974 - Patrick Lalime, St Bonaventure, NHL goalie (Pitts Penguins)
1975 - Tony Benshoof, American luger
1975 - Michael Voss, Australian rules footballer
1976 - Dominic Foley, Irish footballer
1977 - Felix Vasquez, New York City Housing Authority employee
1979 - America Martin, model (Not macaroni & cheese, cheese & macaroni)
1979 - Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter
1979 - Carl Breeze, British racing driver
1980 - Michele Kwan, Torrance Calif, figure skater (Oly-94, Oly-silver-98)
Famous Deaths
Results 101 - 118 of 118
1994 - Anita Garvin, US actress (Sailors Beware), dies at 80
1994 - Rosa Chacel, spanish Novelist, dies at 96
1994 - Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (b. 1924)
1995 - Gabor Ormai, viola Player, dies at 40
1995 - Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer, dies at 73
1996 - Albrecht Luitpold Michael Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 91
1997 - Jerry Doggett, sportscaster (Bkln/LA Dodgers), dies at 80
1999 - Captain Vikram Batra, Indian Army officer, awarded Param Vir Chakra (September 9,1974)
2000 - Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
2001 - Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
2002 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian business tycoon (b. 1933)
2002 - Bison Dele, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)
2006 - Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
2006 - Syd Barrett, original guitarist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd (b. 1946)
2006 - John Money, Sexologist (b. 1921)
2008 - Bruce Conner, American artist (b. 1933)
2008 - Dorian Leigh, American supermodel (b. 1917)
