Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of July 01:
1646 G.W. Leibniz German mathematician/philosopher; postulated monads
1788 Jean-Victor Poncelet mathematician, founded projective geometry
1804 George Sand France, novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro)
1807 Thomas Green Clemson mining engineer, endowed Clemson University
1810 Walter White secretary (NAACP)
1857 Roger Connor 1st baseman (NY Giants)
1861 Samuel D Riddle horse owner (Man 'o War)
1872 Louis Blriot 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel
1879 Lon Jouhaux France, socialist, cofounded UN's ILO (Nobel 1951)
1892 James M Cain Minneapolis Mn, novelist (Postman Always Rings Twice)
1893 Walter Francis White Atlanta Georgia
1899 Charles Laughton England, actor (Mutiny on the Bounty)
19-- Barbara Whinnery Berkeley Calif, actress (Cathy Martin-St Elsewhere)
19-- Constance Ford actress (Ada Hobson-Another World)
19-- Florence Stanley Chicago Ill, actress (Bernice-Barney Miller/Fish)
19-- Frank Parker actor (Day of Our Life)
19-- Roddy Bottum rocker (Faith No More-The Real Thing)
19-- Shirley Hemphill Asheville NC, actress (What's Happening)
19-- Tom Hodges
19-- Vito Bratta NY, rocker (White Lion-Mane Attraction)
1901 Irna Phillips Chicago, created 6 soap operas (Guiding Light)
1902 Billy Wyler director (Mrs Miniver)
1907 Bill Stern Rochester NY, sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights)
1908 Estee Lauder CEO (Estee Lauder's cosmetics)
1909 Madge Evans Manhattan NYC, TV panelist (Masquerade Party)
1911 Alvino Rey Cleve Ohio, orch leader (King Family)
1912 David Brower environmentalist/president Sierra Club
1914 Cristyl Cranz Germany, slalom (Olympic-gold-1936)
1915 Willie Dixon Vicksburg Miss, bassist (Walkin' the Blues)
1916 Olivia de Havilland Tokyo Japan, actress (Adventures of Robin Hood)
1925 Farley Granger actor (Arnold, Rope)
1926 Hans Werner Henze Gttersloh Germany, composer (Das Floss Medusa)
1930 Imelda Marcos former 1st lady (Philipines)/shoe collector
1931 Leslie Caron Boulogne-Biliancourt France, actr (Lili, Father Goose)
1932 Bobby Day [Robert Byrd), Fort Worth Tx, rock vocalist (Rockin' Robin)
1934 Claude Berri Paris France, director (Le Sex Shop, L'Homme Blesse)
1934 Jamie Farr Toledo Oh, actor (Klinger-M*A*S*H, AfterMASH)
1934 Jean Marsh London England, actress (Dark Places, Eagle has Landed)
1934 Sydney Pollack director (Tootsie, Presumed Innocent)
1941 Rod Gilbert Canada, NHL wing (NY Rangers)
1941 Sally Quinn Georgia, CBS newscaster (Morning Show)
1941 Twyla Tharp Indiana, choreographer (Twyla Tharp Dance Troupe)
1942 Genevieve Bujold Montral, actress (King of Hearts, Choose Me)
1942 Karen Black Park Ridge Ill, (5 Easy Pieces, Trilogy of Horror, Pyx)
1945 Deborah Harry rocker (Blondie-Heart of Glass)
1946 Ron Silver NYC, actor (Entity, Silkwood, Best Friends)
1951 Daryl Anderson Seattle, actor (Animal-Lou Grant)
1951 Fred Schneider vocals/guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster)
1951 Trevor Eve Wales, actor (Shadow Chasers)
1952 Dan Aykroyd Ottawa Canada, comedian/actor (SNL, Dragnet)
1956 Lorna Patterson Whittier Calif, actress (Airplane, Pvt Benjamin)
1960 Evelyn "Champagne" King Bronx NY, singer (Shame, I'm In Love)
1961 Carl Lewis US, olympic track & field star (Gold-1984, 1988)
1961 Lady Diane Spencer (Princess Di) consort of England
1964 Poi Burton rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
1967 Pamela Anderson Ladysmith BC, playmate (Feb, 1990) (Home Improvement)
Deaths which occurred on July 01:
1958 Dr Harry Nicholls Holmes crystallized vitamin A, dies at 78
1979 Richard Ward actor (Beacon Hill), dies at 64
1981 George Voskovec actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag), dies at 76
1983 R Buckminster Fuller inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87
1986 Roy Poole actor (Winds of War), dies at 62
1991 Michael Landon actor (Bonanza), dies at 54 from cancer
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98 1966 PETERS CHARLES HENRY WEST POINT NE REMAINS RETURNED 10/88 1966 WILLIAMS ROBERT C. MC LEANSBORO IL 05/95 REMAINS RETURNED 1972 CHENEY KEVIN J. MIAMI FL 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98 1972 ROBINSON PAUL K. GALION OH 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1535 Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason
1690 Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (Now celebrated on July 12 as "The Battle of the Orange" )
1776 1st vote on the Declaration of Independence
1795 John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court
1816 Fr frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of Gricault's "Raft of the Medusa"
1823 United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico
1847 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5 Franklin & 10 Washington, NYC
1847 Amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 2nd asteroid Hebe
1847 K L Hencke discovers asteroid #6 Hebe
1850 At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay
1859 1st intercollegiate baseball game, Amherst beats Williams 66-32
1859 Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St Louis
1861 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington & Mason St, SF
1862 Congress outlaws polygamy (1st time); bad news for Utah
1862 Day 7 of the 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill
1862 Lincoln appoints Isaac Newton sec of agriculture-no kidding!
Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance,
tobacco & on incomes over $600 (progressive rate)
1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Pa; Lee's northward advance halted
1863 Free city delivery of mail begins in 49 US cities; postage 3/« oz
1867 Dominion of Canada formed (New Bruns, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Qubec)
1869 US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens
1870 James W Smith of SC is 1st black to enter West Point
1873 Henry Flipper of Ga is 2nd black to enter West Point
1873 Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province
1874 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000
1875 Universal Postal Union established
1881 1st international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St Stephen, NB
1881 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens
1884 V Knorre discovers asteroid #238 Hypatia
1889 Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti
1889 US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens
1893 SF Bay City Club opens 1st US bicycle race track, made of wood
1897 The Bronx acquires Hutton Square
1898 Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
1899 Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels
1899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (BG)
1904 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St Louis
1910 Chicago's Comiskey Park opens
1910 Union of South Africa becomes a dominion
1915 Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service
1915 Australian Survey Corps becomes part of the Military Forces
1916 Eisenhower marries Mary `Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo
1917 Race riots in East St Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)
1917 Reds Fred Toney pitches completes doubleheader victories over Pirates
1919 1st class postage drops from 3 to 2
1920 Wash Senator Walter Johnson no-hits Boston Red Sox, 1-0
1924 Through regular transcontinental airmail service established, NYC-SF
1925 Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK
1931 Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15
1931 Phillies Chuck Klein hits for the cycle vs Chicago Cubs
1932 NY Gov FDR nominated for president at the Dem Convention in Chicago
1933 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1590 Tsiolkovskaja.
1934 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY
1941 1st coml TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC
1941 Bulova Watch Co. pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial
1941 Joe Dimaggio on way to 56, ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hit streak
1943 1st withholding tax from paychecks
1944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank
1946 Rajah cedes Sarawak to the British crown
1946 US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)
1947 Brit Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office
1948 NYC subway fare goes to 10, bus fare to 7 & combo fare at 12
1949 Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France
1950 NYC bus fare rises to 10 equal to subway fare, combo fare at 15
1951 Cleve Indian Bob Feller, 3rd no-hitter beats Det Tigers, 2-1
1956 Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on The Steve Allen Show
1959 World Refugee Year begins
1960 Ghana becomes a republic
1960 Italian Somalia gains independence, unites with Somali Republic
1961 Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii
1962 Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days)
1963 Beatles record "She Loves You" & "I'll Get You"
1963 US postal service institutes the (Zone Improvement Plan) zip code
1966 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART
1966 Medicare goes into effect
1967 BBC starts their World Radio Club
1967 Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," goes #1 for 15 weeks
1968 John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You are Here)
1968 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
1969 Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales
1969 John & Yoko are hospitilized after a car crash
1971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?)
1972 Ms. magazine begins publishing
1973 1st US-China basketball game, US collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61
1974 Monmouthshire renamed Gwent & becomes part of Wales
1975 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2680
1975 WEDway People Mover inaugurated
1976 Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of US Conference of Mayors
1977 Virginia Wade beats Betty Stove for Wimbeldon's woman's singles
1978 Former Pres Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974
1978 Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing
1979 Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6" of snow
1980 Steve Overt runs world record 3:48.8 mile in Oslo
1981 Laurel Canyon Calif murders (4 die, 1 wounded)
1981 Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3
1982 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC
1982 Challenger moves overland to Dryden
1982 Kosmos 1383, 1st search & rescue satellite, launched
1982 Over 2000 Unification Church couples marry at NY MSG
1987 Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in Oct by senate
1987 NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes 1st 24 hour all sports radio
1987 WHN-AM in New York City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD)
replacing WHN's country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
1989 Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad
1989 NFL owners vote unanimously to form the WLAF
1989 Yanks beat Milwaukee Brewers 4-1, score is changed to 5-1 after the
game is over. Umpire rules Roberto Kelly scored before a doubleplay
1990 Despite Andy Hawkins no-hitting the White Sox, Yankees lose 4-0
1990 German Democratic Republic accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency
1990 In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal
1997 China regains sovereignty of Hong Kong
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Bangladesh, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Iraq, Taiwan : Bank Holiday
British Virgin Islands : Territory Day
Burundi, Rwanda : Independence Day (1962)
Canada : Dominion Day/Canada Day (except Sunday) (1867)
Ghana : Republic Day (1960)
Hong Kong : « Year Day
Ireland : Pilgrimage to Shrine of Blessed Oliver Plunkett
Somalia : Union Day/Foundation Day (1960)
Surinam : Freedom Day/Labour Day
Turkey : Navy & Merchant Marine Day
Iowa : Independence Sunday
- - - - - ( Sunday ) Caribbean Common Market : Caribbean Day (1973)
- - - - - ( Monday ) Lesotho : Family Day
- - - - - ( Monday ) Zambia : Heroes Day
- - - - - ( Monday ) Zambia : Unity Day
- - - - - ( Tuesday ) US : Honor America Days
Czechoslovakia : Stznice Folk Festival
Religious Observances
Luth : Commem of Catherine Winkworth, John Neale, hymnwriters
Old Catholic : Feast of the Precious Blood of Jesus
RC : Comm of St Oliver Plunkett, Irish martyr/theologian/primate
Islam : leap day (Dhl-Hijjah 30, 1412 AH)
Religious History
1643 The Westminster Assembly first convened in England, from which would emerge theWestminster longer and shorter catechisms.
1800 The earliest recorded Methodist camp meeting in America was held in Logan CountyKentucky, near the Gaspar River Church.
1899 In Wisconsin, the Gideons were founded by three traveling businessmen. They placedtheir first Bibles in 1908 at the Superior Hotel in Iron Mountain, Montana.
1942 Birth of Andrae Crouch, African-American sacred music artist. His most enduringgospel songs have been 'Soon and Very Soon,' 'My Tribute' and 'Through It All.'
1985 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public school teachers may not enter parochialschool classrooms, to provide remedial or enrichment instruction.
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)
Thought for the day :
" A guy has to get fresh once in a while so a girl doesn't lose her confidence. "
