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Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of July 23:

1816 Charlotte Sanders Cushman US, actress (Lady MacBeth)
1834 James Cardinal Gibbons archbishop of Baltimore
1853 William H Gillette actor, portrayed Sherlock Holmes on stage
1888 Dr Milan Stoyadinovich Serbia, fascist Yugoslavia PM (1935-9)
1888 Gluyas Williams SF, cartoonist (Fellows Citizen)
1892 Haile Selassie emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74)
1893 Karl Menninger psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic)
1894 Arthur Treacher Brighton England, announcer (Merv Griffin Show)
1898 Mervyn "Red" Dutton Manitoba, 2nd NHL pres (1943-46)
19-- Calvert DeForest Brooklyn NY, comedian (Larry "Bud" Melman)
19-- Helen Martin St Louis Mo, actress (Pearl-227)
19-- Larry Manetti Pendleton Ore, actor (Baa Baa Black Sheep, Magnum PI)
19-- Lucy Lee Flippin Phila, actress (Flo, Little House on the Prairie)
19-- Roger Lahr rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad)
19-- Slash rock guitarist (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child of Mine)
19-- Winifred Freedman Granite City Ill, actress (Joanie Loves Chachi)
1908 Karl Swenson Bkln NY, actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie)
1912 Michael Wilding actor (Derby Day)
1913 Coral Browne Melbourne Aust, actress (Margaret-Time Express)
1916 Ben Weber St Louis Missouri, composer (Thorne Music Award-1965)
1917 Kurt Kreuger St Moritz Switz, actor (Fear, Unfaithfully Yours)
1919 Pee Wee Reese Hall of Fame shortstop (Dodgers)
1925 Gloria De Haven LA, actress (Bog, Yellow Cab Man, Irene-Nakia)
1925 Pierre Baugniet Belgium, pairs ice skater (Olympic-gold-1948)
1927 Elliot M See Jr Dallas Texas, astronaut
1928 Leon Fleisher SF Calif, pianist/conductor (Annapolis Symph 1973-77)
1931 Jan Torell Limhamm Sweden, director (New Land, Emigrants)
1933 Bert Convy St Louis Mo, actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw)
1936 Anthony M Kennedy Calif, supreme court justice (1988- )
1936 Don Drysdale Van Nuys Calif, pitcher (LA Dodgers-Cy Young 1962)
1938 Ronny Cox Cloudcroft Mass, actor (St Elsewhere)
1940 Gary Stites singer (Lonely For You)
1945 Dino Danelli drummer (Young Rascals)
1946 Andy McKay sax/oboe player (Roxy Music)
1947 Don Imus radio personality (IMUS in the Morning)
1947 Spencer Christian weatherman (Good Morning America)
1950 Belinda J Montgomery actress (Man From Atlantis, Stone Cold Dead)
1950 Blair Thornton guitarist (Bachman-Turner-Overdrive)
1950 Kaity Tong news anchor (WABC-TV NYC) [50]
1951 Edie McClurg actress (Cinderella-1985, Hogan Family)
1952 Janis Siegel NYC, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction)
1958 Lydia Cornell El Paso Tx, actress (Sara Rush-Too Close for Comfort)
1961 Martin Gore rocker (Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough)
1961 Woody Harrelson Midland Tx, actor (Woody Boyd-Cheers)
1968 Beth Ehlers Queens NY, actress (Harley Cooper-Guiding Light)
1968 Stephane Seymour model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover-1988)
1970 Sam Waters vocalist (Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up)
1982 Schottzie Schott dog mascot of the Cincinatti Reds


Deaths which occurred on July 23:

1844 Christian Gobrecht 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office
1885 Ulysses S Grant 18th US pres, dies in Mount McGregor, NY, at 63
1951 Henri Philippe P‚tain dies
1955 Harry Haden actor (Harry-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 73
1968 Don Lillis NY Jet president
1971 Van Heflin actor (Great Adventure), dies at 60
1979 Keith Godchaux rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident at 32
1982 Vic Morrow killed during filming of "Twilight Zone" at 53
1984 Lloyd Gouch actor, dies of aortic aneurism at 77
1985 Kay Kyser (James King Kern Kyser) US bandleader, dies
1985 Mickey Shaughnessy actor, dies at 64 of heart failure
1990 Joe Turner jazz pianist, dies at 82 of cardiac arrest

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1962    MATAGULAY        ROQUE S.          RICHMOND              CA     12/24/62 RELEASED     RIP 12/29/99
1966 NEWSOM BENJAMIN BYRD MADISON VI 03/06/74 REMAINS RETURNED
1966 PEMBERTON GENE THOMAS CAMERON MO 03/06/74 REMAINS RETURNED
1966 SMITH WILLIAM W. SEARCY AR
1968 GOSEN LAWRENCE D. BINGHAM LAKE MN
1972 SHANK GARY LESLIE PRAIRIE VILLAGE KS DEAD REM RET 07/01/84

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On this day...

636 Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire
685 John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1253 Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III
1298 Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany
1599 Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings
1798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
1803 Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin
1827 1st US swim school opens (Boston Mass)
1829 William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter)
1852 1st interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio
1866 Cincinnati Baseball club (The Reds) established
1871 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #114 Kassandra
1877 1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii completed
1877 1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations
1880 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich
1886 Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge
1895 A Charlois discovers asteroid #405 Thia
1900 Pan-African Congress meets in London
1904 Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo
1908 A Kopff discovers asteroids #666 Desdemona & #667 Denise
1909 M Wolf discovers asteroid #683 Lanzia
1914 Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I
1920 Kenya becomes a British crown colony
1921 Edward Gourdin of the US, sets then long jump record at 25' 2 3/4"
1925 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers
1931 Ashmore & Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia
1931 France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics
1932 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1246 Chaka
1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
1938 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1468 Zomba
1940 "Blitz" begins, all-night raid on London
1944 US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II
1947 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI
1948 Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President
1952 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (Natl Day)
1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
1958 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords
1964 Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside
           in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage
1965 Beatles "Help" is released in the UK
1966 Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens
1966 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"
1967 43 killed in racial rebellion in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
1967 Pirate Radio Swinging Scotland closes down for financial reasons
1967 Race riots claiming 43 erupts in Detroit
1968 Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt
1968 PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane
1968 Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed
1969 NL beats AL 9-3 in 40th All Star Game (RFK Stadium, Washington)
1969 NL beats AL for 7th consecutive time
1972 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France
1973 Ozark AL plane knocked out of the air by lightning, St Louis-36 die
1974 Greek military dictatorship collapses
1974 NL beats AL 7-2 in 45th All Star Game (3 Rivers, Pittsburgh)
1976 Balt Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game
1976 Wings release "Let 'em In"
1977 Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges
1978 Israeli cabinet rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas
1978 Phillies Steve Carlon becomes 78th pitcher to win 200
1979 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2736 Ops
1980 Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya
1980 River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
1980 Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6
1984 Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude
1986 Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson
1987 Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record)
1987 RNI (BKlyn NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
1987 Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39)
1988 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton
1989 FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America's Most Wanted)
1989 Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas
1991 James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession





Holidays

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

Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Oman : National Day (1952)
Virgin Islands : Hurricane Supplication Day - - - - - ( Monday )

Religious Observances

Ancient Rome : Neptunalia, honoring Neptune (a d x Kal Aug)
Buddhist-Laos : Beginning of Buddhist fast
RC : Comm of St Apollinaris, 1st bp of Ravenna, martyr
RC, Luth : Memorial of Bridget, mystic, patron of Sweden (opt)

Religious History

1779 Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'I findit of more consequence to a preacher to know his Bible well, than all the languages or booksin the world -- for he is not to preach these, but the Word of God.'
1846 Birth of William R. Featherstone, Canadian Methodist hymnwriter. He penned thewords to 'My Jesus, I Love Thee' before age 16.
1860 Birth of William W. McConnell, missions pioneer. In 1891, he became the firstmissionary sent out by the Central American Mission, after its founding in 1890.
1918 Death of Joseph H. Gilmore, 84, American Baptist clergyman. He is remembered todayprimarily for the hymn, 'He Leadeth Me,' which he wrote at the age of 28.
1976 The First National Southern Baptist Charismatic Conference closed. Baptist pastorand charismatic leader Howard Conatser (1926-78) was a speaker at this convention.

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 :

" Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. "

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