On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on July 31:
1527 Maximilian II, German King/Emperor (1564-76)
1704 Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer)
1803 John Ericsson US, invented screw propeller, built USS Monitor
1816 George Henry Thomas, Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
1817 Philip Cook Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
1825 Thomas Hart Taylor, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1837 William Clarke Quantrill Col (Confederate Army)
1841 George Melville polar explorer, naval engineer
1900 Elmo Roper pollster (Roper Poll)
1901 Jean Dubuffet France, painter (Landscape with 2 Personages)
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
1928 Bill Frenzel, (Rep-R-MN,1971-91)
1923 Ahmet Ertegun CEO (Atlantic Records)
1932 Ted Cassidy, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Lurch-Addams Family)
1929 Don Murray Calif, actor (Bus Stop, Advise & Consent, Endless Love)
1939 France Nuyen Marselles France, actress (St Elsewhere, Diamond Head)
1943 William Bennett US Secretary of Education (1985-88)/drug czar/radoi talk show
1944 Geraldine Chaplin Santa Monica Ca, actress (Dr Zhivago, 3 Musketeers)
1946 Bob Welch rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well)
1946 Gary Lewis Jerry's son, singer, (& The Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1951 Barry Van Dyke Atlanta Ga, actor (Lt Dillon-Battlestar Galactica)
1951 Evonne Goolagong Cawley Australia, tennis player (Wimbeldon 1971)
1957 Dirk Blocker LA Calif, actor (Baa Baa Black Sheep, Ryan's Four)
1962 Sandra "Sweetness" Hodge basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)
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
1886 Franz von Liszt, [Ferencz], Hungarian pianist/composer, dies at 74
1942 Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer, dies at 79
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
1981 Gen Omar Torrijos leader of Panama, dies in plane crash
1984 Bill Raisch one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive), dies at 79
1986 Theodore "Teddy" Wilson, US jazz pianist/arranger, dies at 73
1992 G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72
1997 Bo Dai, Last emporer of Vietnam, dies at 85
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
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.
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
0432 St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0768 [Philip] begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0904 Arabs capture Thessalonica.
1291 Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine
1498 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad
1620 Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America
1658 Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor
1718 Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish
1774 Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen
1760 Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, drives the French army back to the Rhine River.
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
1861 9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam: world record
1872 C H F Peters discovers asteroids #122 Gerda & #123 Brunhild
1874 Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as pres of Georgetown U
1876 US Coast Guard officers' training school established (New Bedford MA)
1912 US government prohibits movies & photos of prize fights
1914 German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize
1917 The third Battle of Ypres commences as the British attack the German lines.
1919 Germany accepts Weimar Constitution
1922 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn)
1925 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England
1932 George Washington quarter goes into circulation
1932 German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%)
1932 Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Phila A's beat Indians 1-0
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
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
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
1969 National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, La
1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
1971 Apollo 15 astronauts take 6 hour electric car ride on Moon
1972 Chic White Sox Dick Allen hits 2 inside-the-park-homers in Minn
1972 Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate
1972 Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate because he once was treated for "mental illness" (depression)
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
1977 Son of Sam shot to death 20-year-old Stacy Moskowitz
1978 Gunman shoots his way into the Iraqi Embassy in Paris
1979 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2402 Satpaev & #2416 Sharonov
1980 John Phillips of the Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges
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
1983 B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, and W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame
1984 US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics
1987 Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle
1987 Battle between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed
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
1990 Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence
1991 President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev sign the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Moscow.
1996 After President Clinton's announcement that he would sign it, 98 Democrats joined the House's Republican majority to pass a historic welfare overhaul bill.
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 )
Make a Budget Day
National Picnic Month (Last chance!)
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.
Thought for the day :
"Conceit is God's gift to little men."
Things To Do If You Ever Became An Evil Overlord...
When you talk to the hero on the phone, DO NOT taunt him. Instead you WILL say this his dogged perseverance has given you new insight on the futility of your evil ways and that if he leaves you alone for a few months of quiet contemplation you will likely return to the path of righteousness.
(Heroes are incredibly gullible in this regard.)
Letters To God From The Dog...
Dear God,
When we get to the Pearly Gates, do we have to do that stupid shake hands trick to get in?
Dumb Laws...
University City Missouri:
One may not honk another's horn.
(Hey get your mind out of the gutter!)
How To Annoy Osama bin Laden If You're Invited To A Dinner Party At His Secret Afghan Lair...
They have to wait a few years to see current television shows in Afghanistan, so give away the secret of who's having a baby on "Friends."
Hi Kathy!
