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Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of July 31:

 1763 James Kent Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia)
1803 John Ericsson US, invented screw propeller, built USS Monitor
1841 George Melville polar explorer, naval engineer
1894 Roy Bargy Mich, orch leader (Jimmy Durante Show)
19-- Gerald Anthony actor (One Life to Live)
19-- John Nevin Manchester Ct, rocker (Rythm Syndicate)
19-- Lise Cutter LA Calif, actress (Susan-Perfect Strangers)
1900 Elmo Roper pollster (Roper Poll)
1901 Jean Dubuffet France, painter (Landscape with 2 Personages)
1904 Arthur Daley sportswriter (NY Times-Pulitzer 1956)
1911 George Liberace Menasha Wisc, violinist (Liberace Show)
1912 Irv Kupcinet Chicago Ill, TV host (Tonight! America After Dark)
1912 Milton Friedman economist (Nobel 1976)
1919 Curt Gowdy Green River Wyo, sportscaster (ABC)
1919 Primo Levi Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Aushchwitz)
1921 Whitney M Young Jr civil rights leader, head of Urban League
1923 Ahmet Ertegun CEO (Atlantic Records)
1929 Don Murray Calif, actor (Bus Stop, Advise & Consent, Endless Love)
1935 Geoffrey Lewis Plainsfield NJ, actor (Earl-Flo, Gun Shy)
1939 France Nuyen Marselles France, actress (St Elsewhere, Diamond Head)
1940 Stanley Jaffe producer (Fatal Attraction)
1943 Susan Flannery NYC, actress (Leslie Stewart-Dallas)
1943 William Bennett US Secretary of Education (1985-88)/drug czar
1944 Geraldine Chaplin Santa Monica Ca, actress (Dr Zhivago, 3 Musketeers)
1944 Sherry Lansing Chicago Ill, actress (China Syndrome, Black Rain)
1946 Bob Welch rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well)
1946 Gary Lewis Jerry's son, singer, (& The Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1950 Lane Davies actor (Mason-Santa Barbara, Impure Thoughts)
1951 Barry Van Dyke Atlanta Ga, actor (Lt Dillon-Battlestar Galactica)
1951 Evonne Goolagong Cawley Australia, tennis player (Wimbeldon 1971)
1953 Hugh McDowell chelloist (ELO-Telephone Line)
1957 Dirk Blocker LA Calif, actor (Baa Baa Black Sheep, Ryan's Four)
1957 Irina Nazariva USSR, 4 X 400m relay (Olympic-gold-1980)
1957 Victoria E Cooke Hollywood Ca, playmate (Aug, 1980)
1958 Wally Kurth actor (Days of Our Lives)
1962 Kym Malin Dallas Tx, playmate (May, 1982)
1962 Sandra "Sweetness" Hodge basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)
1963 Norman Cook rocker (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
1973 Jerry Rivera Puerto Rico, spanish singer

Deaths which occurred on July 31:

1556 St Ignatius of Loyola founder of Society of Jesus, dies in Rome
1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Mexican hero priest, executed by Spanish
1875 Andrew Johnson 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at 66
1953 Robert Taft (Sen-R-Oh) (Mr Republican), dies in NY at 63
1964 Jim Reeves Country singer.(He'll Have to Go, Four Walls) Plane crash
1977 Stacy Moskowitz shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20
1978 Enoch Light orch leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith), dies at 70
1981 Gen Omar Torrijos leader of Panama, dies in plane crash
1984 Bill Raisch one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive), dies at 79

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1966    BURROUGHS        WILLIAM D.        INDIANHEAD            MD     03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV     DECEASED 03/21/99
 1967    ALLEN            THOMAS R.         WOODWARD              OK        REMAINS RETURNED 11/03/97
 1967    PACKARD          RONALD L.         CANON CITY            CO        REMAINS RETURNED 11/03/97
 1967    ZUHOSKI          CHARLES P.        JAMESPORT             NY     03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV        ALIVE IN 98
 1969    BURNS            MICHAEL P.        EL PASO               TX       
 1969    NEAL             DENNIS P.         TARPON SPRINGS        FL

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On this day...

432 St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
768 [Philip] begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1498 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad
1777 Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army
1790 1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process
1809 1st practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Phila
1813 British invade Plattsburgh, NY
1872 C H F Peters discovers asteroids #122 Gerda & #123 Brunhild
1874 Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as pres of Georgetown U
1910 Chic Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game
1912 US government prohibits movies & photos of prize fights (censorship)
1913 Bryan Hextall, NHL hall of famer
1922 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn)
1925 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England
1930 Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yanks beat Red Sox 14-13
1932 Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Phila A's beat Indians 1-0
1934 St Louis Cards defeat Cin Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy
           Dean & Tony Freitos go the distant
1935 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1362 Griqua & #2865
1938 NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd
           "hit every colored person in Chicago over the head with a club"
1942 German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1948 Pres Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY
1949 Lightning strikes a baseball field in Fla, kills the SS & 3rd baseman
1953 Dept of Health, Education & Welfare created
1954 Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hrs, 1 double)
1960 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
1961 2nd All Star Game of 1961 ends 1-1 due to rain at Fenway Park
1962 Federation of Malaysia formed
1963 Cleve ties record of 4 consecutive HRS (Held, Ramos, Francona, Brown)
1964 Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor
1964 US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon
1966 Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark
1966 Charles Whitman wounds 46 & kills 5 at University of Texas
1968 Beatles close Apple Boutique, giving clothes away for free
1969 Mariner 6 flies past Mars
1969 National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, La
1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
1972 Chic White Sox Dick Allen hits 2 inside-the-park-homers in Minn
1972 Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate
1973 ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to the NY Nets
1973 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston,
           killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later
1978 Gunman shoots his way into the Iraqi Embassy in Paris
1978 NY Yanks now 7« out of 1st, picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks
1979 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2402 Satpaev & #2416 Sharonov
1980 John Phillips of the Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges
1980 Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
1981 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends
1981 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of the Natl Bar Assn
1982 46 kids & 7 adults die as 2 buses & several cars collide in France
1984 US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics
1987 Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle
1988 Miami Dolphins beat SF 49ers 27-21 in London
1988 Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame
1990 Nolan Ryan becomes the 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games




Holidays

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

Mexico : Day of National Mourning (1811-Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla)
Gilroy, California : Garlic Festival - - - - - ( Friday )

Religious Observances

Ang, RC : Feast of Joseph of Arimathaea
Buddhist-Thailand : Buddhist Lent
Witch : Lughnasadh, sabbat
Ang, RC : Memorial of St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits

Religious History

1773 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'Duty is ourpart; the care is His.'
1776 Francis Salvador, a plantation owner from South Carolina, became the first Jewto die for American independence, when he was killed in a skirmish with the British.
1874 Patrick Francis Healy was inaugurated president of Georgetown University, theoldest Catholic university in America. Healy at the same time became the first African-American to head a predominantly white university.
1889 Death of Horatius Bonar, 81, Scottish preacher and author of the hymn, 'I Heardthe Voice of Jesus Say.'
1970 The complete New American Standard Version of the Bible (NASB) was firstpublished. (The completed NASB New Testament had been released earlier, in 1963.)

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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