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Today in History – Interesting Highlights
In the News
1913 – The Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest.
1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
1931 – New York, New York experimental television station W2XAB (now known as WCBS) begins broadcasts.
1932 – The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
1938 – Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
1938 – Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
1941 – The Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to “submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question.”
1945 – Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
1948 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
1948 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships.
1954 – First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
1956 – Jim Laker becomes the first man to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings as he returns figures of 10/53 in the Australian 2nd innings. This combined with his 9/37 in the first innings gave him match figures of 19/90 in the 4th Test at Old Trafford.
1961 – At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in Major League Baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
1970 – Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
1972 – The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
1988 – 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
1991 – The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries’ stockpiles.
1992 – Georgia joins the United Nations.
1999 – Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector – NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon’s surface.
2006 – Fidel Castro hands over power to brother Raúl Castro.
2007 – Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
2009 – Three members of the popular South Korean group TVXQ, (Kim Jaejoong, Kim Junsu, and Park Yoochun), filed lawsuit against their Korean management S.M. Entertainment.
2012 – Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the greatest number of medals won at the Olympics.
Holidays and Observances
Christian Feast Day:
Germanus of Auxerre
Ignatius of Loyola
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July 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
End of the Trinity term (sitting of the High Court of Justice of England)
Ka Hae Hawaiʻi Day, a Flag Day. (Hawaii)
Music
1845 – The French Army introduced the saxophone to its military band. The musical instrument was the invention of Adolphe Sax of Belgium.
1847 – Composer Ignatio Cervantes was born.
1942 – Harry James and his band recorded “I’ve Heard that Song Before.” Helen Forrest sang the song.
1964 – Jim Reeves died when his single-engine Beechcraft crashed near Nashville, TN.
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 – A security guard was stabbed to death at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium on the second night of the Who’s U.S. tour.
1976 – Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear The Reaper” was released
1976 – Orleans’ “Still The One” was released.
1979 – James Taylor played a free concert in New York’s Central Park to help the city’s campaign to restore the park’s Sheep Meadow.
1980 – John Phillips (Mamas and Papas) was arrested by the FBI for possession of cocaine. He was sentenced to five years in prison. He lectured against drugs for 250 hours as an alternate sentence.
1981 – Debra Harry released the solo album “Koo Koo.” Harry was the singer for the group Blondie.
1995 – Selena’s “Dreaming of You” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was her first English album. Selena became the first Latin artist to debut at No. 1.
2007 – The iTunes Music Store reached 3 billion songs sold.
Movies
1914 – Mario Bava (director of many horror films) born (d. 1980)
1942 – Invisible Agent released theatrically
1951 – Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man released theatrically
1987 – The Lost Boys released theatrically
1992 – the film version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer released theatrically
1992 - Death Becomes Her
1999 - The Iron Giant
2004 – Out For Blood
2009 – Indestructible
2009 - The Collector
Television
1955 – KRNT (now KCCI) TV channel 8 in Des Moines, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 – WHIS (now WVVA) TV channel 6 in Bluefield, WV (NBC) 1st broadcast
1960 – KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast
1969 – KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting
Sports
1910 – Chic Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game
1934 – 29th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats USA in Wimbledon (4-1)
1970 – 37th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Kansas City 24, All Stars 3 (69,940)
1983 – 38th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Jan Stephenson
1987 – Oriole Eddie Murray hits his 299th & 300th career home runs
1988 – Jose Canseco is 1st to hit 30 HRs in 1st 3 years
1988 – Miami Dolphins beat SF 49ers 27-21 in London
Famous Birthdays
1901 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
1904 – Brett Halliday, American author (d. 1977)
1907 – Roy Milton, American singer, drummer, and bandleader (d. 1983)
1909 – Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Austrian theorist and author (d. 1999)
1911 – George Liberace, American violinist (d. 1983)
1912 – Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (d. 2008)
1912 – Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1912 – Irv Kupcinet, American journalist (d. 2003)
1913 – Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
1914 – Paul J. Christiansen, American conductor and composer (d. 1997)
1914 – Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter (d. 1983)
1916 – Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (d. 1986)
1916 – Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2006)
1916 – Bill Todman, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1979)
1917 – Jini Dellaccio, American photographer (d. 2014)
1918 – Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1918 – Hank Jones, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2010)
1918 – Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman and financier (d. 1998)
1919 – Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (d. 2006)
1919 – Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (d. 1987)
1920 – James E. Faust, American religious leader, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007)
1920 – Percy Herbert, English actor (d. 1992)
1921 – Peter Benenson, English lawyer and activist, founded Amnesty International (d. 2005)
1921 – Donald Malarkey, American sergeant
1921 – Whitney Young, American activist (d. 1971)
1922 – Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
1923 – Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-American record producer, founded Atlantic Records (d. 2006)
1923 – Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach
1923 – Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist and engineer (d. 2014)
1926 – Bernard Nathanson, American physician and activist (d. 2011)
1926 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist
1929 – Lynne Reid Banks, English author
1929 – Gilles Carle, Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1929 – Don Murray, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1929 – José Santamaría, Uruguayan footballer, coach, and manager
1930 – Oleg Popov, Russian clown
1931 – Nick Bollettieri, American tennis player and coach
1931 – Kenny Burrell, American guitarist
1931 – Ivan Rebroff, German singer (d. 2008)
1932 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (d. 1979)
1932 – John Searle, American philosopher
1933 – Cees Nooteboom, Dutch journalist, author, and poet
1935 – Yvon Deschamps, Canadian comedian, actor, and producer
1935 – Geoffrey Lewis, American actor and screenwriter
1936 – Vic Davalillo, Venezuelan baseball player
1939 – France Nuyen, French actress
1940 – Carol J. Clover, American academic and author
1940 – Roy Walker, Irish comedian, actor, and game show host
1941 – Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician, 8th Chief Minister of Gujarat (d. 2004)
1943 – Lobo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – William Bennett, American politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Education
1943 – Susan Flannery, American actress and director
1943 – Sab Shimono, American actor
1944 – Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
1944 – Jonathan Dimbleby, English journalist
1944 – Robert C. Merton, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1945 – Gary Lewis, American singer and drummer (Gary Lewis & the Playboys)
1945 – William Weld, American politician, 68th Governor of Massachusetts
1946 – Karen Zerby, American cult leader
1947 – Richard Griffiths, English actor (d. 2013)
1947 – Hubert Védrine, French politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for France
1950 – Richard Berry, French actor, director, and screenwriter
1950 – Lane Davies, American actor
1951 – Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Australian tennis player
1951 – Werner Novak, German footballer
1951 – Barry Van Dyke, American actor
1952 – Chris Ahrens, American ice hockey player
1952 – Alan Autry, American football player, actor, and politician, 23rd Mayor of Fresno, California
1952 – Helmuts Balderis, Latvian ice hockey player and coach
1952 – João Barreiros, Portuguese author and critic
1952 – Faye Kellerman, American author
1953 – Ted Baillieu, Australian architect and politician, 46th Premier of Victoria
1953 – Jimmy Cook, South African cricketer and coach
1953 – James Read, American actor
1953 – Tōru Furuya, Japanese voice actor
1954 – Manivannan, Indian actor and director (d. 2013)
1954 – Derek Smith, Canadian-American ice hockey player
1955 – Jakie Quartz, French singer
1956 – Michael Biehn, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1956 – Bill Callahan, American football player and coach
1956 – Ron Kuby, American lawyer and radio host
1956 – Deval Patrick, American politician, 71st Governor of Massachusetts
1956 – Lynne Rae Perkins, American author and illustrator
1956 – Mark Arden, English comedian and actor
1957 – Daniel Ash, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, and Tones on Tail)
1957 – Dirk Blocker, American actor
1957 – Leon Durham, American baseball player
1958 – Bill Berry, American singer-songwriter and drummer (R.E.M. and Hindu Love Gods)
1958 – Mark Cuban, American businessman
1958 – Wally Kurth, American actor and singer
1959 – Stanley Jordan, American guitarist and songwriter
1959 – Andrew Marr, Scottish journalist
1960 – Dale Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960 – Duncan Lewis Jowitt, English musician, songwriter and singer (UFX)
1960 – Malcolm Ross, Scottish guitarist
1962 – John Chiang, American politician, 31st California State Controller
1962 – Kevin Greene, American football player and coach
1962 – Wesley Snipes, American martial artist, actor, and producer
1963 – Brian Skrudland, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 – Jim Corr, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Corrs)
1964 – Urmas Hepner, Estonian footballer
1965 – Scott Brooks, American basketball player and coach
1965 – Pat Finn, American actor
1965 – John Laurinaitis, American wrestler and producer
1965 – Najwa Najjar, Palestinian filmmaker
1965 – Julian Richards, Welsh director and producer
1965 – J. K. Rowling, English author
1966 – Dean Cain, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1966 – Tatsuya Ishihara, Japanese animator and director
1966 – Kevin Martin, Canadian curler
1967 – Minako Honda, Japanese singer and actress (d. 2005)
1967 – Mitsuo Iwata, Japanese voice actor
1967 – Tony Massenburg, American basketball player
1967 – Peter Rono, Kenyan runner
1967 – Tim Wright, Welsh composer
1968 – Saeed-Al-Saffar, Emirati cricketer
1969 – Loren Dean, American actor
1969 – Kid Kash, American wrestler
1969 – Kenneth D. Schisler, American politician
1970 – Ahmad Akbarpour, Iranian author
1970 – Ben Chaplin, English actor
1970 – Andrzej Kobylański, Polish footballer and manager
1970 – Giorgos Sigalas, Greek basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1970 – Amanda Stepto, Canadian actress
1970 – Dave Wedge, American journalist
1971 – John 5, American guitarist and songwriter (2wo, Loser, and Red Square Black)
1971 – Gus Frerotte, American football player and coach
1972 – Giorgos Kapoutzidis, Greek actor and screenwriter
1973 – Wail al-Shehri, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 (d. 2001)
1973 – Nathan Brown, Australian rugby player and coach
1973 – Fabulous Flournoy, American basketball player and coach
1974 – Emilia Fox, English actress
1974 – Jonathan Ogden, American football player
1975 – Randy Flores, American baseball player
1975 – Andrew Hall, South African cricketer
1975 – Simon Hirst, English radio host
1975 – Gabe Kapler, American baseball player and manager
1975 – Ruben Patterson, American basketball player
1975 – Allan von Schenkel, American bassist and composer
1976 – Joshua Cain, American guitarist and producer (Motion City Soundtrack)
1976 – Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer
1977 – Tim Couch, American football player
1978 – Will Champion, English drummer and singer (Coldplay)
1978 – Zeta Makripoulia, Greek model and actress
1978 – Nick Sorensen, American football player and sportscaster
1978 – Justin Wilson, English race car driver
1979 – Jaco Erasmus, South African-Italian rugby player
1979 – J. J. Furmaniak, American baseball player
1979 – Per Krøldrup, Danish footballer
1979 – Jade Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1979 – Carlos Marchena, Spanish footballer
1979 – B. J. Novak, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1980 – Rina Aiuchi, Japanese singer
1980 – Mikko Hirvonen, Finnish race car driver
1980 – Mils Muliaina, New Zealand rugby player
1981 – Titus Bramble, English footballer
1981 – Vernon Carey, American football player
1981 – J.Son Dinant, American comedian and actor
1981 – Eric Lively, American actor
1981 – Ira Losco, Maltese singer
1981 – M. Shadows, American singer-songwriter (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 – Jeff DaRosa, American singer and banjo player (Dropkick Murphys and The Exit)
1982 – Jack Korpela, American sportscaster
1982 – Blessing Mahwire, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 – Anabel Medina Garrigues, Spanish tennis player
1982 – Raymond Pickard, English actor
1982 – DeMarcus Ware, American football player
1983 – Rebecca Atkinson, English actress
1984 – Joseph Benavidez, American mixed martial artist
1984 – Felipe dal Belo, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Daniel Ciofani, Italian footballer
1985 – Shannon Curfman, American singer and guitarist
1985 – Rémy Di Gregorio, French cyclist
1986 – Evgeni Malkin, Russian ice hockey player
1986 – Brian Orakpo, American football player
1987 – Michael Bradley, American soccer player
1987 – Brittany Byrnes, Australian actress
1988 – Charlie Carver, American actor
1988 – A. J. Green, American football player
1988 – Krystal Meyers, American singer-songwriter
1989 – Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player
1989 – Alexis Knapp, American actress and singer
1989 – Joey Richter, American actor and singer
1989 – Jessica Williams, American actress
1989 – Zelda Williams, American actress
1990 – Mirela, Spanish singer
1990 – Besart Abdurahimi, Croatian footballer
1991 – Réka-Luca Jani, Hungarian tennis player
1992 – Lizzy, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (After School and Orange Caramel)
1992 – José Fernández, Cuban baseball player
1992 – Kyle Larson, American race car driver
1993 – Christian Byers, Australian actor
1996 – Blake Michael, American actor
1997 – Barbie Forteza, Filipino actress
1998 – Rico Rodriguez, American actor
Deaths
1914 – Jean Jaurès, French journalist and politician (d. 1859)
1917 – Francis Ledwidge, Irish soldier and poet (b. 1881)
1917 – Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (b. 1887)
1920 – Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat and philosopher (b. 1878)
1940 – Udham Singh, Indian activist (b. 1899)
1943 – Hedley Verity, English cricketer (b. 1905)
1944 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and poet (b. 1900)
1953 – Robert Taft, American politician (b. 1889)
1953 – Georg Zacharias, German swimmer (b. 1884)
1954 – Onofre Marimón, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1923)
1963 – Sir Robert Chapman, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician (b. 1880)
1964 – Jim Reeves, American singer-songwriter (b. 1923)
1966 – Bud Powell, American pianist (b. 1924)
1970 – Walter Briggs, Jr., American businessman (b. 1912)
1971 – Walter P. Carter, American activist (b. 1923)
1972 – Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician, 40th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1899)
1973 – Azumafuji Kin’ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna (b. 1921)
1979 – Beatrix Lehmann, English actress, theatre director and author (b. 1903)
1980 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
1980 – Mohammed Rafi, Indian singer (b. 1924)
1981 – Omar Torrijos, Panamanian general and politician, Military Leader of Panama (b. 1929)
1985 – Eugene Carson Blake, American religious leader (b. 1906)
1986 – Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
1986 – Teddy Wilson, American pianist (b. 1912)
1987 – Joseph E. Levine, American film producer (b, 1905)
1988 – Trinidad Silva, American actor (b. 1950)
1990 – Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1992 – Leonard Cheshire, English pilot and captain (b. 1917)
1993 – Baudouin of Belgium (b. 1930)
2000 – William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American author (b. 1908)
2001 – Poul Anderson, American author (b. 1926)
2001 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese general and politician, 15th President of Portugal (b. 1914)
2001 – Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
2003 – Guido Crepax, Italian author and illustrator (b. 1933)
2004 – Laura Betti, Italian actress and singer (b. 1927)
2004 – Virginia Grey, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
2005 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician, 1st President of the European Central Bank (b. 1935)
2006 – Paul Eells, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
2009 – Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (b. 1933)
2009 – Harry Alan Towers, English-Canadian screenwriter and producer (b. 1920)
2012 – César Amaro, Uruguayan guitarist (b. 1948)
2012 – Roy Bryce-Laporte, Panamanian-American sociologist (b. 1933)
2012 – Mollie Hunter, Scottish author (b. 1922)
2012 – Curt Levine, American lawyer and politician (b. 1947)
2012 – Abdi Jeylani Malaq Marshale, Somalian journalist (b. 1969)
2012 – Lucio Quarantotto, Italian songwriter (b. 1957)
2012 – Alfredo Ramos, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1924)
2012 – Tony Sly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (No Use for a Name and Scorpios) (b. 1970)
2012 – Gore Vidal, American journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2013 – Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor (b. 1922)
2013 – Michel Donnet, English-Belgian general and pilot (b. 1917)
2013 – John Graves, American author (b. 1920)
2013 – Jean Madiran, French author (b. 1920)
2013 – Trevor Storer, English businessman, founded Pukka Pies (b. 1930)
2013 – Gerald W. Thomas, American academic (b. 1919)
2013 – Alvis Wayne, American singer (b. 1937)
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