Today in History for 12th July 2015 From JJDR

526 - St Felix IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1109 - Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli
1191 - English King Richard I / the Lionheart & Crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine
1290 - Jews are expelled from England by order of King Edward I
1442 - King Alfonso V of Aragon becomes king of Naples
1537 - Battle of Albancay: Diego de Almagro defeated by army led by Alonso de Alvarado on behalf of Francisco Pizarro
1542 - French troops under Maarten van Rossem occupies Flanders
1549 - Kett's uprising occupies Norwich, England
1580 - Ostrog Bible, the first printed Bible in a Slavic language, is published.
1627 - English fleet under George Villiers lands on the Rhe [NS=June 22]
1630 - New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, it is later known as Ellis Island
1679 - Britain's King Charles II ratifies Habeas Corpus Act allowing prisoners right to be imprisoned to be examined

1690 - Battle of Boyne in Ireland, Protestant King William III defeats English Catholic King James II
King Charles II 1691 - Antonio Pignatelli elected as Pope Innocentius XII
1691 - Battle of Aughrim (Aghrim) Ireland, William III beats James II
1700 - Gelderland accepts Gregorian calendar; yesterday is June 30, 1700
1704 - Stanislaw Leszcynski becomes king of part of Poland
1730 - Lorenzo Corsini chosen as Pope Clemens XII
1745 - Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlie's frigate Doutelle [NS]
1771 - James Cook sails Endeavour back to Downs England
Engrossed copy of the United States Declaration of Independence 1774 - Citizens of Carlisle Penn, pass a declaration of independence
1774 - Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan
1776 - Captain Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean
1785 - 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands
1801 - Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French & Spanish
1st US Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton 1804 - Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a duel.
1812 - US forces led by Gen Hull invade Canada (War of 1812)
1817 - 1st flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland)
1817 - Karl Drais von Sauerbronn demonstrates bicycle course
1843 - Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy
1850 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States
1859 - Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale, Mass
1862 - Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
1862 - Federal troops occupy Helena Arkansas
1863 - In New Zealand, British forces invade Waikato, home of the Maori King Movement, beginning a new phase of the wars between Maori and Colonial British
1874 - Ontario Agricultural College founded
1874 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Gloria Scott" (BG)
Religious Leader Joseph Smith Jr 1878 - Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500
1882 - 1st ocean pier in US completed, Washington, DC
1898 - Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda Sudan
1900 - 114°F (46°C), Basin, Wyoming (state record)
1901 - Cy Young wins his 300th game
1901 - Striking Canadian salmon fishermen on the Pacific coast, resentful of the nonunion Japanese who continue to fish, maroon and imprison 47
1901 - In Germany a group of 104 aristocrats present a deceleration against dueling, though the tradition will go on
1902 - Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
1902 - Arthur Balfour succeeds Lord Salisbury, who retired as Prime Minister on 11 July
1905 - The British and Japanese renew their alliance (of January 1902)for 10 years and agree to provide mutual support if attacked by other power
MLB Pitcher Cy Young 1906 - Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France
1909 - 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes)
1912 - 1st foreign feature film exhibited in US-"Queen Elizabeth"-NYC
1913 - 150,000 Ulstermen gather and resolve to resist Irish Home Rule by force of arms; since the British Liberals have promised the Irish nationalists Home Rule, civil war appears imminent
1917 - The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1918 - Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed
1920 - Lithuania & USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent republic
1921 - Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs
1921 - Indians (9) & Yankees (7) combine for an AL record 16 doubles
Baseball Legend Babe Ruth 1926 - Guomindangleger draws against warlord Wu Peifu
1926 - Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:26.2)
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs
1928 - 1st televised tennis match
1930 - 34th US Golf Open: Robert T "Bobby" Jones wins
1930 - Bradman out for 334 in Test Cricket at Headingley, 383 mins, 46 fours
1931 - 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St Louis, help cause many ground ruled doubles, 11 in 1st game & 21 in 2nd game for 32
1932 - Hedley Verity establishes a first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm
1933 - Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
1934 - US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
Cricket Legend Donald Bradman 1934 - Willy de Supervise swims world record 400m (5:16.0)
1935 - Belgium recognizes Soviet Union
1937 - -13) Tupolev ANT-25 non-stop flight Moscow to San Jacinto Calif
1943 - Battle of Kolombangara (2nd battle of Gulf of Kula)
1943 - National Committee Freies Deutschland forms
1943 - Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker
1943 - Russian offensive at Orel
1943 - WWII: Battle of Prokhorovka - Russians defeat German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles
1944 - Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased
1944 - US government recognizes authority of General De Gaulle
1945 - Cubs stop Braves Tommy Holmes modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games
1946 - Benjamin Britten's "Rape of Lucretia" premieres in Glyndebourne
1946 - Vance Dinges hits only Phillie pinch hit inside-the-park HR
1948 - 1st jets to fly across Atlantic (6 RAF de Havilland Vampires)
1949 - 16th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-7 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
1949 - Baseball owners agree to erect warning paths before each fence
1949 - Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die
1949 - LA Rams sign Norm Van Brocklin
1950 - ILTF re-admit Germany & Japan in Davis Cup, Poland & Hungary withdraws
1950 - Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten & F Fischer to death
1951 - Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero Ill
1951 - NY Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleve Indians, 8-0
1952 - East German SED decides to form German DR army
1953 - KTVB TV channel 7 in Boise, ID (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Major League Baseball Players Association founded
34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower 1954 - President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system
1954 - ANC President Albert Luthuli banned by South African Minister of Justice from attending public gatherings and confined to the magisterial district of Lower Tugela, Natal
1955 - 22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at County Stad, Milw
1955 - Christian Democratic Party forms in Argentina
1957 - 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower
1957 - US Surgeon Gen Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
1958 - "Li'l Abner" closes at St James Theater NYC after 693 performances
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1959 - NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during ankee-Red Sox game

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 202
1394 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441)
1644 - Arnold Moonen, Dutch vicar/literature (David's holy saint graduals)
1675 - Evaristo E Felice dall' Abaco, Italian cellist/composer
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, England, pottery designer/manufacturer (Wedgwood)
1757 - Christian Danner, composer
1794 - Heinrich Christian Pander, Russian zoologist
1801 - John Hill Hewitt, composer
1802 - Charles-Louis Hanssens, composer
1803 - Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841)
1807 - Silas Casey, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1882)
Naturalist/Pacifist Henry David Thoreau (1817) 1817 - Henry David Thoreau, Concord Mass, naturalist/pacifist (Walden Pond), (d. 1862)
1821 - Cesare Dominiceti, composer
1821 - Daniel Harvey Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), (d. 1889)
1824 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
1828 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (d. 1889)
1840 - Abraham Goldfaden, Eastern European Yiddish dramatist
1849 - William Osler, Canada, physician/author (circulatory system)
1850 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (d. 1912)
1852 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, Buenos Aires, President of Argentina (1916-22, 1928-30) (d. 1933)
1854 - George Eastman, Waterville New York, inventor (Kodak camera)
1861 - Anton Stepanovich Arensky, composer
1863 - Albert Calmette, French physician (d. 1933)
Founder of the Eastman Kodak Company George Eastman (1854) 1863 - Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist (d. 1906)
1864 - George Washington Carver, botanist (studied the peanut) [or Jan 10]
1868 - Stefan George, Germany, lyric poet (Algabal)
1870 - Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949)
1876 - Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944)
1880 - Tod Browning, American film director (d. 1962)
1881 - Ludwig Rubiner, writer [or June 12]
1884 - Louis B. Mayer, Dymer, Ukraine, American film producer and creator of the star system (MGM)
1884 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italy, painter/sculptor (Reclining Nude)
1884 - Joseph Crehan, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight), born in Baltimore, Maryland
1885 - George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer
1886 - Jean Hersholt, Copenhagen Denmark, actor (Men in White, Aryan)
1888 - Tojohiko Kagawa, Japan, Christian-social reformer (Grain of Wheat)
1892 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1942)
1895 - Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (Wagner)
1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers, born in NYC, New York
1895 - R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor (geodesic dome)
1900 - Fjodor Godunov-Tcherdynchev, Russian poet (Life of Tchernyshevsky)
1901 - Robert Allenby, Australian golfer, born in Melbourne, Victoria
1902 - Gunther Anders, writer
Poet Pablo Neruda (1904) 1904 - Pablo Neruda, Chile, poet (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971)
1905 - John C F, son of English King George V
1908 - Alain Cuny, actor (Detective, Weite Land, Emmanuelle)
1908 - Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician
1908 - Johan Franco, composer
1908 - Milton Berle, Harlem comedian (Uncle Miltie, Mr Television), born in NYC, New York
1909 - 2nd viscount Camrose, British Conserv Lower house leader (1941-45)
1909 - Joey Faye, comedian (Joey Faye's Follies), born in NYC, New York
1909 - Souphanouvong, [Red Prince], president of Laos (1975-87)
1909 - Curly Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (d. 1993)
1909 - Fritz Leonhardt, German civil engineer (d. 1999)
1911 - Johanna Moosdorf, writer
1912 - Broderick Vernon Chinnery-Haldane, photographer
1913 - Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
1915 - Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer
1917 - Andrew Wyeth, Chadds Ford Pa, painter (Christina's World)
1919 - Vera Hruba Ralston, Prague Czech, actress (Dajkota) [or 6/12/1921]
1920 - Honoré Desmond Sharrer, West Point New York, American artist
1920 - Keith Andes, Ocean City NJ, actor (Farmer's Daughter, Away All Boats)
1920 - Paul Foster, singer
1920 - Beah Richards, American actress (d. 2000)
Author Pierre Berton (1920) 1920 - Pierre Berton, Whitehorse Yukon, Canadian author (War of 1812)
1921 - Trevor Illtyd Williams, scientific writer
1921 - Bob Fillion, French Canadian ice hockey player
1922 - Clark MacGregor, politician (involved in Watergate)
1922 - James E[dwin] Gunn, US, sci-fi author (Station in Space, Immortal)
1922 - Mark O Hatfield, (Sen-R Oregon, 1967- )
1924 - Jaap Geraedts, composer
1925 - Roger Smith, CEO (General Motors)
1926 - Beah Richards, Vicksburg MS, actress/playwright (Big Shot, Generation)
1927 - Gualberto T Hernandez, perfect minister Neth Antilles
1928 - Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1929 - Pavle Merku, composer
1930 - Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director, and writer
1931 - Andre Laporte, Flemish composer
1931 - Bob Traxler, (Rep-D-MI, 1974- )
1931 - Lord Clinton, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1932 - Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist
1932 - Otis Crandell Davis, Ala, 400m/4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1960)
1933 - Donald E. Westlake, American author
1934 - Van Cliburn Jr, [Harvey Lavan], La, pianist (Tchaikovsky 1958)
1935 - Barrie Wilson, academic
1935 - Chris Burger, cricketer (South African batsman v Australia 1957-58)
1936 - Jan Nemec, Prague Czech, director (Diamonds of the Night)
Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby (1937) 1937 - Bill Cosby, Phila, actor/comedian (I Spy, Cosby, Leonard Part 6)
1937 - Mickey Edwards, (Rep-R-OK, 1977- )
1937 - Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France 1997-2002
1937 - Michel Louvain, French Canadian singer
1938 - Mickey Stratton, Meriden Ct, softball catcher (Hall of Fame 1969)
1938 - Ron Fairly, American baseball player
1938 - Wieger Mensonides, Dutch swimmer
1938 - Eiko Ishioka, Tokyo, Japan, Costume Designer (Academy Award, Bram Stoker’s Dracula), (d. 2012)
1939 - Phillip Adams, Australian broadcaster and journalist
1941 - Joseph Whipp, American actor
1942 - Richard Stoltzman, clarinetist (Tashi), born in Omaha, Nebraska
1942 - Billy Smith, Australian rugby league footballer
1943 - Bruce Taylor, cricketer (big-hitting NZ all-rounder 1965-73)
Rock vocalist Christine McVie (1943) 1943 - Christine McVie, Lancashire, rock vocalist (Fleetwood Mac-Got A Hold on Me)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 9 of 9
1472 - Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester and later King of England, marries Anne Neville, daughter of the Earl of Warwick, in Westminster Abbey.
King of England Henry VIII (1543) 1543 - England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th & last wife)
1918 - Artist Pablo Picasso (36) marries ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova (27)
1933 - Fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time Fred Astaire (34) weds socialite Phyllis Livingston Potter (25)
1937 - Explorer Jacques Cousteau (27) weds scuba diver Simone Melchior (18) at Saint-Louis-des-Invalides in Paris
1963 - NFL coach Jimmy Johnson (19) weds Linda Kay Cooper
1998 - "Dynasty" actress Catherine Oxenberg (36) weds "Chinatown" film producer Robert Evans (68) in Beverly Hills, California
2007 - World's tallest man who measures 7'9" Bao Xishun (56) weds Xia Shujian (28) in a traditional Mongolian ceremony at the tomb of Kublai Khan in Beijing, China
2008 - Black Eyed Peas rapper Taboo (32) weds fashion publicist Jaymie Dizon (29) at St. Andrews Catholic Church in Pasadena, California

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 102
783 - Bertha "with the great feet", wife of French King Pippin III, dies
1073 - Johannes Gualbertus, Italian monk/saint, dies
1429 - John [Jean C] Gerson, Fren theologist (Theologica mystic), dies at 65
1441 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (b. 1394)
1450 - Jack Cade, slain in a revolt against British King Henry VI
1536 - Desiderius Erasmus, humanist/priest (Novum instrumentum omne), dies aged 69
1545 - Maria Manuela van Portugal, niece of Spanish king Philip II, dies
Humanist and Theologian Erasmus (1536) 1575 - Renée/Renata de France, duchess of Ferara/daughter of Louis XII, dies
1584 - Steven Borough, English explorer (b. 1525)
1633 - Simon Besler, composer, dies at 49
1640 - Henry Casimir I, count of Nassau-Dietz, dies
1664 - Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (b. 1610)
1682 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620)
1693 - John Ashby, English admiral
1712 - Richard Cromwell, English Lord Protector (1658-59), dies at 85
1742 - Evaristo EF dall' Abaco, Ital cellist/composer, dies on 67th birthday
1749 - Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, Governor of New France
1773 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer, dies at 76
1804 - Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in pistol duel near Weehawken
1839 - Christian Traugott Tag, composer, dies at 62
1st US Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton (1804) 1844 - Charles-Louis Panckoucke, French publisher, dies at 63
1845 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (b. 1808)
1849 - Dolley Madison, 4th First Lady Of The United States (b. 1768)
1874 - Fritz Reuter, writer, dies at 63
1882 - Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer, dies at 44
1883 - Hermann Zopff, composer, dies at 57
1897 - Felix Godefroid, composer, dies at 78
1898 - Paul Voulet, French captain/mass murderer in Senegal, dies
1899 - Esquire Mauritius A de Savornin Lohman, gov of Suriname, dies at 67
1902 - Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway), dies at 74
1906 - Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer, dies at 70
1910 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator (b. 1887)
1916 - Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture, dies at 52
1917 - Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp merchant/forger, dies
1918 - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b. 1864)
1926 - Charles Wood, composer, dies at 40
1929 - Robert Henri, US painter (The Eight), dies at 63
1933 - Willem H Drucker, lawyer, dies at 45
1934 - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and industrialist (b. 1877)
1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, French officier (Dreyfus Affair), dies
1945 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (b. 1871)
1947 - Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
1949 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
1950 - Elsie de Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (b. 1865)
1953 - Joseph Jongen, Belgian composer, dies at 79
1953 - Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen, composer, dies at 79
1956 - Maurice Lippens, Belgian governor of Congo (1921-23), dies at 80
1961 - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (b. 1879)
1962 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907)
1964 - William Solomon, South African cricketer (Test 1898-99), dies
1966 - D T Suzuki, Zen Buddhism scholar, dies in Tokyo Japan at 96
1971 - Yvon Robert, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1914)
1973 - Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Wolfman), dies after long illness at 66
1976 - Ted Mack, TV host (Original Amateur Hour), dies at 72
1977 - Ed Holmes, actor (Growing Paynes, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 66
1977 - Frantisek Suchy, composer, dies at 75
1979 - Kalervo Tuukkanen, composer, dies at 69
1979 - Minnie Ripperton, [Andrea Davis], singer (Lovin' You), dies at 30
1980 - John W Davis, Pres (WV State college), dies at 92
1981 - Ben Seijes, historian (WW II), dies at 73
1982 - Kenneth More, Brit actor (Genevieve), dies of Parkinson disease at 67
1983 - Chris Wood, rocker (Traffic), dies at 39
1988 - Joshua Logan, Broadway producer, dies at 79 of palsy
1988 - Raymond W Goldsmith, US economist, dies at 83
1990 - Richard R Briggs, dies after short illness at 71
1990 - João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (b. 1917)
1992 - Albert Pierrepont, last British executioner (433 men/17 women), dies
1992 - Reginald Beck, English film editor (Robbery, Accident, Boom), dies
1993 - Gusti Huber, Mother of Bibi Besch, dies of heart failure at 78
1993 - Lily van Lugt Melsert, actress (Tomorrow will be better), dies at 91
1993 - Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (b. 1970)
1994 - David Malcolm Lewis, expert in Greek Epigraphy, dies at 56
1994 - Henk Terlingen, radio/TV-host (Sport in Image), dies at 52
1994 - James Bysse Joll, historian, dies at 76
1995 - Alan David Marks, pianist/composer, dies at 49
1995 - Earl Coleman, singer, dies at 69
1995 - Ernie Furtado, bassist, dies at 72
1995 - Michael Clegg, naturalist/broadcaster, dies at 62
1996 - Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar Naturalist, dies at 84
1996 - Gottfried von Einem, composer, dies at 78
1996 - John Boon, publisher, dies at 79
1996 - John Chancellor, news anchor (VOA, NBC), dies at 68
1996 - John William Chancellor, journalist, dies at 68
1996 - Jonathan Melvoin, keyboardist (Smashing Pumpkins), dies of heorin OD
1996 - Nazar Mohammad, cricketer (Pakistan's 1st five Tests 1952-53), dies
1996 - William Darling, journalist, dies at 73
1998 - Serge Lemoyne, French Canadian artist (b. 1941)
1998 - Jimmy Driftwood, American folk songwriter and musician (b. 1907)
1999 - Bill Owen, British actor (b. 1914)
2000 - Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II (b. 1908)
2002 - Edward Lee Howard, CIA Case Officer and alleged Soviet spy, dies at 50 after breaking his neck during a fall
2003 - Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907)
2004 - Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1918)
2005 - John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, Chief executive of British Airways since its privitisation (b. 1917)
2007 - Stan Zemanek, Australian radio personality (b.1947)
2007 - Mr. Butch, Iconic Boston street figure (b. 1951)
2007 - Robert Burås, Norwegian guitar player (b. 1975)
2008 - Tony Snow, former speechwriter for Presidents George H.W. Bush and press secretary for George W. Bush (b. 1955)
2008 - Bobby Murcer, American baseball outfielder (NY Yankees, SF Giants and Chicago Cubs), dies from complications related to brain cancer at 62
2010 - Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer (b. 1939)