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Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of July 17:

1487 Esma'il I shah who converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah
1674 Isaac Watts England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican)
1744 Elbridge Gerry (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering
1763 John Jacob Astor Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader
1859 Luis Mu¤oz Rivera Puerto Rico, journalist (founded Federalist Party)
1875 Sir Donald Francis Tovey Eton England, musicologist
1876 Rosa Jackson Lumpkin Georgia, lived to be 115 (died in 1991)
1888 Shmuel Agnon Israel, novelist (Day Before Yesterday-Nobel 1966)
1889 Erle Stanley Gardner author (created Perry Mason)
1898 Berenice Abbott Springfield Oh, photographer (World of Atget)
19-- Alexandra Wilson actress (Josie Watts-Another World)
19-- Rob Steele rocker (Law & Order-Whiskey Song)
19-- Thomas Carter Naples Italy, actor (Szysznyk, White Shadow)
19-- Tonya Lee Williams actress (Dr Olivia Barber-Young & Restless)
1900 James Cagney actor, A yankee doodle dandy, hold that grapefruit
1902 Christina Stead Australia, novelist (Man Who Loved Children)
1905 William Gargan Bkln NY, actor (Dynamite, Ellery Queen)
1909 Hardy Amies London England, royal dressmaker (Queen Elizabeth II)
1912 Art Linkletter Saskatchwan Canada, TV host (People are Funny)
1912 Pal Kov cs Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1952)
1914 Lucille Benson Scottsboro Ala, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies)
1915 Dorothy Poynton-Hill US, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1932)
1916 Eleanor Steber Wheeling WV, soprano (Metropolitan Opera-1940)
1917 Lou Bourdeau baseball player/manager (1948 AP Athlete of Year)
1917 Phyllis Diller Lima Ohio, comedienne (Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number)
1920 Bill Monroe New Orleans La, newscaster (NBC-TV, Congressional Report)
1920 Rudolf Karpati Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1921 George Barnes Chicago Hgts, guitarist (Skip Farrell Show)
1934 Donald Sutherland Canada, actor (M*A*S*H, Body Snatchers)
1934 Pat McCormick comedian (Don Rickles Show, New Bill Cosby Show)
1935 Diahann Carroll Bronx, actress (Julia, Claudine, Dominique-Dynasty)
1935 P.D.Q. Bach [Peter Schickele], Iowa, composer (5th of Beethoven)
1939 Spencer Davis Wales, vocalist (Gimme Some Lovin)
1940 Phyllis Davis Port Arthur Tx, actress (Love American Style, Vega$)
1941 Daryle Lamonica Oakland Raider QB (AFL leading passer 1967)
1942 Connie Hawkins Harlem Globetrotter/NBA (Phoenix Suns, ABA MVP 1968)
1948 Brian Glascock drummer (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1948 Cathy Ferguson 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1964)
1949 Terry "Geezer" Butler bassist (Black Sabbath)
1951 Lucie Arnaz LA Calif, actress (Kim-Here's Lucy, Jazz Singer)
1952 David Hasselhoff Balt Md, (Revenge of the Cheerleaders, Night Rider)
1952 Phoebe Snow singer (Theme from "It's a Different World")
1956 Bryan Trottier Val Marie Sask, NHL Center (NY Islanders)
1960 Karen Price Pasadena Calif, playmate (January, 1981)
1960 Scott Norwood NFL kicker (Buffalo Bills-Superbowl XXV goat)
1963 Denise Miller Bkln NY, actress (Billie-Archie Bunker's Place)
1964 Heather Langenkamp actress (Marie-Just the 10 of Us)
1970 Mandy Smith England, rocker (I Just Can't Wait) wife of Bill Wyman


Deaths which occurred on July 17:

1928 General Alvaro Obreg˘n pres of Mexico, assassinated
1946 Mikhailovich resistance leader, executed by Tito regime
1959 Billie Holiday blues singer, dies of liver failure at 44 in NYC
1961 Ty Cobb Detroit Tiger hall of fame baseball player, dies at 75
1971 Cliff Edwards "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76
1975 Modoc the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal)
1980 Donald Barry actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak), dies at 68
1984 J Delos Jewkes singer/actor, dies of a heart attack at 89
1985 Margo actress, dies at 68 of a brain tumor

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1965    COPELAND         H C               PLAINVIEW             TX     03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV    ALIVE IN 98
1968 CROSS ARIEL L. DES MOINES IA
1968 CASSELL HARLEY M. DANVILLE VA 12/20/68 RELEASED REFNO 1228
1968 CHEVALIER JOHN R. JERSEY CITY NJ 12/19/68 RELEASED
1968 CROWE WINFRED D. BUFORD GA 12/20/68 RELEASED ALIVE IN 98
1968 GRIGSBY DONALD E. SPRINGFIELD OH 12/20/68 RELEASED
1968 HENRY LEE D. SICILY ISLAND LA 12/19/68 RELEASED
1968 KRAMER TERRY L. STUEBEN WI 12/19/68 RELEASED
1968 MC CULLOUGH RALPH COLUMBUS GA 12/19/68 RELEASED DECEASED
1968 PARRA LIONEL JR. SACRAMENTO CA
1968 PRICE DONALD E. COLUMBUS OH 12/19/68 RELEASED
1968 SIMMS HAROLD D. 12/19/68 RELEASED
1968 WILMOTH FLOYD A. BOONEVILLE NC 12/20/68 RELEASED ALIVE 98
1968 ZUPP KLAUS H. WHITE PLAINS NY 12/19/68 RELEASED
1972 BROWN WAYNE G. II TACOMA WA
1972 HAAS LEON F. NEWTON NJ

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On this day...

561 John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
855 St Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1549 Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium
1775 1st military hospital approved
1794 African Church of St Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated
1794 Richard Allen organizes Phila's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
1841 British humor magazine "Punch" 1st published
1850 Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
1856 Sunday school excursion train collides killing 46 children (Phila)
1861 Congress authorizes paper money
1862 US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers
1863 Battle of Honey Springs, largest battle of war in Indian Territory
1864 CSA President Davis replaces Gen Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
1867 1st permanent university dental school in US, Harvard
1879 1st railroad opens in Hawaii
1897 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from the Yukon
1898 Spanish American War-Spaniads surrender to US at Santiago Cuba
1902 Baltimore (AL) didn't have enough men to field their team
1914 NY Giants beat Pitts Pirates, 3-1, in 21 innings
1917 British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor
1918 Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings
1919 Yanks 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play
1923 Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
1924 St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1935 Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix"
1938 Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland
1941 Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak ends
1942 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15
1942 Estimated 87.5 cm (34.5") of rainfall, Smethport, Pa. (state record)
1944 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322
1945 Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting
1946 Resistance leader Mikhailovich executed by Tito regime
1948 C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1685 Toro
1948 Proclamation of the constitution of the Republic of (South) Korea
1954 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
1954 Construction begins on Disneyland. . .
1955 . . . Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County
1955 Arco, Idaho becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
1959 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis
1959 Dr Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old)
1959 Tibet abolishes serfdom
           River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)
1961 John Chancellor becomes news anchor of the Today Show
1961 Roger Maris loses a HR (of his 61) due to a rain-out in 5th
           Ford Frick rules that if anyone breaks Babe Ruth 60 HR record, it
           must be done in 1st 154 games
1962 Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)
1962 Senate rejects medicare for the aged
1964 Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph)
1966 Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
1966 Pioneer 7 launched
1967 Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act
1967 Race riots in Cairo Illinois
1968 Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premiers in London
1968 Revolt in Iraq
1970 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC
1972 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico
1974 1st quadrophinic studio in UK is open by the Moody Blues
1974 Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000
1974 John Lennon is ordered to leave the US in 60 days
1975 Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make 1st US/USSR linkup in space
1975 Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce
1976 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montr‚al
1976 ABA merges into the NBA
1978 Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend him
1979 NL beats AL 7-6 in 50th All Star Game (Kingdome Seattle)
1979 Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo
1980 Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president
           #3341 Hartmann, #3452 Hawke & #3696 Herald
           E Bowell discovers asteroids #2554 Skiff, #2555 Thomas, #2587 Gardner,
1981 Humbar Estuary Bridge, UK, world's longest span (1.4 km), opens
1981 Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse 114 die, 200 injured
           Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23 year
           old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
1983 1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Phila Stars 24-22)
1984 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
1987 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx)
1988 Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets the 100m woman's record (10.49)
1988 Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103ř F (39ř C)
1989 Paul McCartney releases "This One"
1990 Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
1990 NY Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside the park homer
           but lose to the Boston Red Sox 1-0
           Minn Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game





Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Iraq : Revolution Day/National Day (1968)
Korea : Constitution Day
Puerto Rico : Mu¤oz Rivera Day (1859)
South Korea : Constitution Day (1948)
Mexico : Day of National Mourning (Alvaro Obreg˘n, Benito Ju rez)

Religious Observances

RC : Commemoration of St Alexius, confessor (late 4th cen)
Luth : Commemoration of Bartolom‚ de Las Casas, missionary
Ang : Commemoration of William White, bishop of Pennsylvania
Jewish : Tisha B'Av (Av 9, 5754 AM)

Religious History

0431 The Council of Ephesus adjourned. This third of the 21 ecumenical councils of theChurch condemned Nestorianism and Pelagianism, and defined Mary's title as 'theotokos'('Bearer of God').
1505 Twenty-one-year-old future church reformer, Martin Luther entered the Augustinianmonastic order, at Erfurt, Germany.
1674 Birth of Isaac Watts, innovative pioneer of modern English hymnody. Among his manybeloved sacred compositions are: 'At the Cross,' 'Joy to the World,' 'Marching to Zion' and'When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.'
1836 Death of William White, 88, American patriarch of the Episcopalians. First bishopof American Anglicanism, it was White who coined the name 'Protestant Episcopal' for thenew denomination.
1942 New Tribes Mission was organized by founder Paul W. Fleming. Thisinterdenominational missions agency supports over 1,000 staff members in countries aroundthe world.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

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