Historical Events
1863 - Battle of Bayou La Fourche, LA
1958 - 13th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1984 - Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows
1999 - 70th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Fenway Park, Boston
2012 - 19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa
2015 - Greek Credit Crisis: Eurozone agrees conditional deal to lend €86bn over 3 years if Greece passes reforms.
Famous Birthdays
1877 - Karl Erb, German tenor
1883 - [Louis C] Marcel Berckmans, painter/actor (Potasch and Perlemoer)
1922 - Anker Jørgensen, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (1972-3, 75-82), born in Copenhagen (d. 2016)
1948 - Ronald K Machtley, (Rep-R-Rhode Island)
1948 - Don Sweet, CFL, NFL place kicker (Montreal, Green Bay), born in Vancouver, Canada
1954 - Ray "Candles" Bright, Australian cricket slow-left armer (1977-86)
Famous Deaths
1683 - Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
1755 - Edward Braddock, British general, dies in battle at Pittsburgh
1973 - Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon), dies at 72
1989 - Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, Cubans general, executed
2010 - Manohari Singh, Indian saxophonist and part of R.D. Burman's band (b. 1931)
2011 - Allan Jeans, Australian football player and coach (b. 1933)
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