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 1635 Robert Hooke Isle of Wight, physicist (Micrographia)
1720 Gilbert White "father of British naturalists"
1796 Feargus O'Connor County Cork, leader of the English Chartists
1811 William Makepeace Thackeray England, Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair)
1848 William Gilbert Grace Victorian England's greatest cricketer
1853 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz Holland, physicist (Nobel 1902)
1865 Laurence Housman England, author/playwright (Victoria Regina)
1890 Charles Wilson Pres of General Motors (1940-53)/Sec of Def (1953-57)
1891 Gene Lockhart NYC, actor (Going My Way)
1894 Bernard Wagenaar Arnhem Holland, composer (3 Songs for the Chinese)
19-- Art Holiday Hartford Conn, actor (Eddie-The White Shadow)
19-- Danny Vaughn Staten Island NY, rocker (Tyketto-Wings)
19-- Susan Marie Snyder soap actress
1903 Chill Wills Seagoville Texas, actor (Fronteir Circus, Rounders)
1906 Clifford Odets US, dramatist (1961 Award of Merit-Golden Boy)
1906 S.I. Hayakawa (Sen-R-CA) educator (Language in Action)
1909 Andrei Gromyko USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/5 OS]
1909 Harriet Nelson Des Moines, actress (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)
1910 Red Skelton comedian (Clem Kadiddlehopper, Freddie the Freeloader)
1911 Hume Cronyn London Ontario, actor (World According to Garp, Cocoon)
1913 Marvin Miller St Louis Mo, actor (Space Patrol, Millionaire)
1914 Mack Robinson US, 200m dash (Olympic-silver-1932)
1916 Harriet Hilliard Nelson singer/actress (Ozzie & Harriet)
1918 Jane Frazee Duluth Minn, actress/singer (Alice-Beulah)
1918 Nelson Mandela Qunu South Africa, political prisoner (ANC)
1918 Pamela Brown England, actress (Alice in Wonderland, Dracula)
1921 John H Glenn Jr Cambridge Ohio, Col USMC astronaut (Mer 6, Sen-D-Oh)
1924 Howard Roberts Burlington NJ, choral director (Leslie Uggams Show)
1924 Inge S”rensen Denmark, 200m breaststroke (Olympic-bronze-1936)
1925 Shirley Strickland de la Hunty Austria, 100m dash (Oly-bronze-1948)
1926 Jane Hylton London England, actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot)
1929 "Screamin Jay" Hawkins Cleveland, rocker (I Put a Spell on You)
1929 Dick Button commentator/figure skater (Olympic-gold-1948, 1952)
1933 R Murray Schafer Sarnia Ontario, Canada, composer (Patria)
1933 Yevgeny Yevtushenko Russia, poet (Bratsk Station)
1935 Tenley Albright US, doctor/figure skater (Olympic-gold-1956)
1938 Britt Leach Gadsen Ala, actor (Mickey-Spencer's Pilots)
1939 Brian Auger London, fusion keyboardist (Befour, Genesis)
1939 Dion DiMucci Bronx, rocker (Dion & the Belmonts-Teenager in Love)
1939 Hunter S Thompson writer (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas)
1940 James Brolin LA Calif, actor (Dr Kiley-Marcus Welby, Peter-Hotel)
1940 Joseph Torre outfield/manager (Braves, Mets, 1971 NL MVP)
1941 Lonnie Mack Aurora Indiana, rocker (Baby What's Wrong)
1941 Marcia Jones Smoke Okla, 500m kayak (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1941 Martha Reeves Detroit Mich, singer (& the Vandellas-Dancing in St)
1943 Bobby Sherman Santa Monica Calif, singer (Shindig, Here Comes Brides)
1943 Calvin Peete black PGA golfer
1944 Jonelle Allen NYC, actress (Bessie-Palmerstown USA, Berringers)
1947 Ayn Rumen Bkln NY, actress (Janet-McLean Stevenson Show)
1947 Kurt Mann Roslyn NY, actor
1954 Ricky Skaggs singer (Toy Hearts, 2 Different Worlds)
1955 Teresa Ann Savoy London England, actress (Caligula)
1958 Nigel Twist rocker (The Alarm-In the Summertime)
1959 Audrey Landers Phila, actress (Afton-Dallas, Chorus Line)
1961 Elizabeth McGovern Evanston Ill, actress (Once Upon a Time in Amer)
1970 Patrick Dancy TV rocker (Guys Next Door-I Was Made For You)

Deaths which occurred on July 18:

1374 Francesco Petrarch Italian poet, dies at 69
1650 Christoph Scheiner German astronomer, dies at 74
1872 Benito Ju rez Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66
1899 Horatio Alger Jr American clergyman & author, dies
1966 Bobby Fuller rocker (I Fought the Law), found dead
1969 Barbara Pepper actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 57
1973 Jack Hawkins actor (Ben-Four Just Men), dies at 62
1984 James Oliver Huberty shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds
1989 Rebecca Schaeffer actress (My Sister Sam) is shot by a fan at 21
1990 Karl Menninger psychatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at 96 from cancer

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1965    AVORE            MALCOLM A.        HALLWELL              ME     AFT SANK AFTER LAUNCH FROM CVA 34  
 1965    DENTON           JEREMIAH A.       MOBILE                AL     02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV     ALIVE AND WELL 98
 1965    TSCHUDY          WILLIAM M.        HIGHLAND              IL     02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV       ALIVE IN 98
 1967    HARTMAN          RICHARD D.        CLARK                 NY     03/06/74 REMAINS RETURNED  
 1968    SEABLOM          EARL F.           ISHPEMING             MI       
 1971    ASTON            JAY S.            ROCKY RIVER           OH

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On this day...

64 Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle)
390 -BC- Battle of Allia-Gauls inflict heavy casualties on Romans
1536 Pope's authority declared void in England
1716 Jews are expelled from Brussels Belgium
1753 Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slaveholder in Framingham Mass
1814 British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)
1853 1st train to cross the US-Canada boundary, Portland, Me.-Montr‚al, PQ
1853 Completion of Grand Trunk Line, Americas 1st intl railroad
1872 Britain introduces secret ballot voting
1904 P Gotz discovers asteroid #538 Friederike
1913 After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk
1914 US army air service 1st comes into being, in the Signal Corps
1915 Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs
1918 US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I
1927 Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit
1931 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
1932 US & Canada signed a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway
1936 Spanish Civil War begans, Gen Francisco Franco led uprising
1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
1940 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct
1942 1st legal NJ horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens
1942 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight
1947 Tigers shut out Yanks 2-0, end 19 game win streak
1947 US receives UN trusteeship over Pacific Islands
1948 Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 HRs in a game
1951 Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion
1951 Jersey Joe Walcott KOs Ezzard Charles in 5 for heavyweight belt
1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution
1954 Cards losing 8-1 to Phillies begin stalling in 5th, they forefeit game
1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1959 1st black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright)
1960 Baseball's NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises
1964 Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bkln)
1965 Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
1966 Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old
1966 Gemini 10 launched
1967 Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY
1968 C Torres discovers asteroid #2654 Ristenpart
1968 Intel incorporates
           #1974 Caupolican, #1992 Galvarino & #2028 Janequeo
           C Torres & S Cofre discovers asteroid #1973 Colocolo,
1969 Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL
1969 Mary Jo Kopechne & Sen Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge
1970 Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
1970 Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
1970 Willie Mays hits # 3,000
1972 200,000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns
1974 World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
1975 Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Fopbes of Boston Bruins
           (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play)
1976 Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut
1978 Billy Martin suspends Reggie Jackson for not bunting
1978 Egyptian & Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks
1979 Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London
1980 Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts
1980 Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit
1984 James Huberty kills 21 McDonalds patrons in San Ysidro Calif
1984 Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF
1986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
1987 Molly Yard elected new pres of Natl Org for Women
1987 Yanks Don Mattingly ties major league record of HRs in 8 cons games




Holidays

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

Spain : Labor Day/National Day
Uruguay : Constitution Day/Jura de la Constituci˘n (1951)

Religious Observances

Old Catholic : Feast of St Camillus de Lellis, confessor

Religious History

1504 Birth of Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss reformer. He continued Zwingli's work afterhis death at Kappel (1531), and composed the Second Helvetic Confession in 1566.
1753 Birth of Lemuel Haynes, colonial American Congregational clergyman. In 1785,Haynes, 32, was ordained to a church in Torrington, Connecticut, making him the firstAfrican-American to pastor a white church.
1870 The Vatican I Ecumenical Council issued the proclamation 'Pastor Aeternus,'declaring the pope's primacy and infallibility in deciding faith and moral matters. (FewProtestants agree with this doctrine.)
1876 American philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson noted: 'Great men are theywho see that spiritual is stronger than material, that thoughts rule the world.'
1944 German theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote from prison: 'Thereligious act is always something partial; "faith" is something whole, involving the wholeof one's life. Jesus calls us not to new religion but to life.'

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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