Today In History
July 24

Events

• 1758 - George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess


• 1799 - William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York


• 1824 - Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson


• 1847 - Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT


• 1847 - Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, New York City


• 1866 - Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union


• 1877 - 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers


• 1900 - Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed


• 1910 - Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull


• 1919 - Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded)


• 1929 - President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war


• 1934 - 1st ptarmigan hatched & reared in captivity, Ithaca, New York


• 1946 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island


• 1952 - President Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike


• 1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site


• 1959 - VP Nixon argues with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"


• 1964 - Race riot in Rochester, New York, 4 killed


• 1967 - Race riots in Cambridge, Maryland


• 1967 - Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game


• 1974 - Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes


• 1979 - President Carter names Paul Volcker, president of Federal Reserves


• 1983 - Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America


• 1987 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released


• 1989 - Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America


• 1990 - Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus


• 1990 - US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait

Baseball

• 1909 - Brooklyn Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pitts Pirates


• 1911 - Cleveland's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3


• 1941 - Red Sox Lefty Grove, 41, wins his 300th game


• 1946 - 9 Spokane baseball players (Western League), die in a bus crash


• 1948 - 4 Duluth Minnesota Dukes (St Louis Cards Class C farm team) die in crash


• 1949 - Inidian pitcher Bob Lemon hits 2 HRs to beat Senators, 7-5


• 1956 - Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City


• 1958 - Ted Williams is fined $250 for spitting at Boston fans again


• 1961 - Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader


• 1965 - Casey Stengel resigns as manager of New York Mets


• 1968 - Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances


• 1969 - Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game


• 1973 - 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, Kansas City


• 1973 - All star MVP: Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants)


• 1977 - Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881


• 1977 - Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen


• 1978 - Pete Rose ties NL hitting streak of 37 games


• 1978 - Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner & Jackson


• 1979 - Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR


• 1983 - Pine Tar Game: Brett's HR disallowed against Yankees (overturned)


• 1992 - Faye Vincent reinstates Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (eff 3/1/93)


• 1993 - Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans


• 1993 - New York Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight

Golf

• 1955 - Betty Jameson/Mary Faulk wins Virg Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament


• 1960 - 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron


• 1966 - 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron


• 1966 - Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open


• 1967 - 49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colo


• 1977 - 32nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy


• 1983 - Lauren Howe wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic


• 1988 - 43rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann


• 1994 - 49th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan

Boxing

• 1969 - Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal

Entertainment

• 1953 - KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, California (ABC) begins broadcasting


• 1957 - KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting


• 1961 - Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show


• 1965 - Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"


• 1967 - Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana


• 1971 - WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting


• 1978 - "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premieres in New York City


• 1982 - KHJ (Los Angeles) & KFRC (San Francisco) become 2nd & 3rd stereo AM stations


• 1993 - Actor Richard Moll (Night Court) weds Susan Brown

Trains Planes and Automobiles

• 1870 - 1st trans-US rail service begins


• 1961 - Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba

Weather

• 1936 - 118 deg F (48 deg C), Minden, Nebraska (state record)


• 1936 - 121 deg F (49 deg C), near Alton, Kansas (state record)


• 1952 - 112 deg F (44 deg C), Louisville, Georgia (state record)

Disasters

• 1915 - Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die


• 1992 - Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die

Space

• 1950 - V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral


• 1969 - Apollo 11 returns to Earth


• 1975 - Apollo 18 returns to Earth


• 1991 - U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system

Weddings

• 1963 - 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea


• 1993 - Night Court actor Richard Moll (50) weds Susan Brown (32)

World War II

• 1941 - FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China


• 1941 - Nazi execute entire Jewish population of Grodz Lithuania


• 1943 - RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead)


• 1944 - 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions


• 1944 - Soviet forces liberate concentration camp Majdanek


• 1944 - US troops land on Tinian


• 1945 - US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam

Cival War

• 1861 - Skirmish at Taylor Mountain, (W)Virginia - CS General Wise retreats


• 1863 - Battle at Battle Mountain, Virginia


• 1864 - Battle of Winchester, Virginia

Crime and Criminals

• 1925 - Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs


• 1937 - Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro


• 1986 - San Francisco Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage

Food and Beverages

• 1938 - Instant coffee invented

Birthdays

• 1380 - Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint


• 1686 - Benedetto Marcello, composer [or Aug 9]


• 1720 - Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik


• 1738 - Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author/poet (Sara Burgerhart)


• 1759 - Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21)


• 1796 - Herman van Sonsbeeck, Dutch lawyer/statesman


• 1796 - John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, (Sen-Del)/US Sec of State (1849-50)


• 1798 - John Adams Dix, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879


• 1802 - Ira Aldridge, famous African


• 1803 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic (Si j'etait roi)


• 1803 - Alexander Jackson Davis, US, architect (gothic revivalist)


• 1815 - Antoine T D'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia) [or Jan 3, 1810]


• 1817 - Adolf WAKF, grand duke of Luxembourg (1890-1905)


• 1818 - Felix Godefroid, composer


• 1827 - Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1912


• 1832 - Johann Christoph Lauterbach, violinist


• 1841 - Raimundo Madrazo y Garretta, painter


• 1842 - Ambrose Bierce, Ohio, writer (Nuggets & Dust)


• 1857 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Denmark, writer (Promised Country, Nobel 1917)


• 1858 - Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920)


• 1862 - Johan A de Sleeve, [Adwaita], philosopher/classical/poet (Brahman)


• 1864 - B[enjamin] Frank[lin] Wedekind, German writer (Lulu)


• 1864 - Michel Gaston Carraud, composer


• 1865 - Frank Wedekind, writer


• 1867 - Frederic Benson, novelist


• 1867 - Fred Tate, cricketer (father of Maurice, 1 Test, Eng v Aus 1902)


• 1870 - Fred Law Olmsted Jr, architect/landscaper


• 1878 - Lord Dunsany, [Edward JMD Plunkett], Irish sci-fi writer (Time & Gods)


• 1880 - Ernest Bloch, Geneva Switzerland, composer (MacBeth)


• 1884 - Abraham Rutgers, Dutch governor (Suriname, 1928-33)


• 1885 - Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer


• 1886 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japan, writer (Snow Dusting)


• 1888 - Arthur Richardson, Australian cricket batsman (20's)


• 1894 - Walter Schulthess, composer


• 1896 - Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom)


• 1897 - Elmar Berkovich, Hungarian/Dutch designer (Eindhoven Theatre)


• 1897 - Karl von Mechow, German writer (Auf Dem Wege, Vorsommer)


• 1898 - Amelia Earhart, US aviator (1st woman to solo Atlantic)


• 1898 - Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter


• 1899 - Chief Dan George, actor (Little Big Man)


• 1900 - Zelda Fitzgerald, 1st wife of F Scott


• 1902 - Hans Chemin-Petit, composer


• 1902 - Nora Swinburne, England, actress (Quo Vardis, Dinner at Ritz, River)


• 1903 - Robert Mills Delaney, composer


• 1904 - James R Killian Jr, MIT pres (1948-59)


• 1907 - Hugh Charles, songwriter/impressario


• 1910 - Edward Ford, registrat Order of Merit


• 1910 - Harry Horner, stage/Film Designer


• 1913 - George H Brown, film producer


• 1913 - Johnny McAfee, Dallas Texas, singer (Sammy Kaye Show)


• 1914 - David Miles Bensuan-Butt, economist


• 1914 - Edwin Mirvish, owner (Old Vic)


• 1914 - Frank Silvera, Kingston Jamaica, actor (High Chaparral)


• 1914 - Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto)


• 1914 - Riccardo Malipiero, composer


• 1914 - Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac-Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers)


• 1915 - Frank Thistlethwaite, vice chancellor (University of East Anglia)


• 1916 - Bob Eberly, Mechanicsville New York, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band)


• 1916 - John D MacDonald, novelist (Deep Blue Goodbye)


• 1917 - John Hillaby, writer/traveller


• 1917 - Robert Farnon, composer/conductor/arranger


• 1917 - Simon Slattvik, Norway, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)


• 1918 - Ruggiero Ricci, SF California, composer/violinist (Paganini)


• 1920 - Alexander H Cohen, New York City, Broadway producer (Beyond the Fringe)


• 1920 - Bella Abzug, (Rep-D-New York, 1970-74)


• 1922 - Charles Mathias Jr, (Sen-R-Maryland, 1969-86)


• 1922 - Leo Kraft, composer


• 1924 - David Loram, British vice-admiral (Supreme Allied Commander)


• 1924 - Glenn Loren Glasow, composer


• 1924 - Janine Charrat, French ballerina/choreographer


• 1924 - Lord Digby, lord-lt for Dorset


• 1925 - Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (Gran Sol, Caballo the Pica)


• 1926 - James Hele, high master (St Paul's School)


• 1927 - James J Howard, (Rep-D-New Jersey, 1965- )


• 1927 - Wilfred Josephs, composer


• 1929 - Alfred Binns, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper (1953-56)


• 1929 - Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist


• 1929 - Peter Yates, director (Breaking Away, Bullitt)


• 1930 - Boris Nikolayevich Belousov, cosmonaut


• 1930 - Charles Hambro, English banker/multi-millionaire/CEO (Hambros)


• 1930 - Jacqueline Brookes, Montclair New Jersey, actress (Jack & Mike, Another World)


• 1932 - William D Ruckelshaus, headed Environmental Protection Agency


• 1933 - John Aniston, Crete, actor (Search for Tomorrow, Day of our Lives)


• 1934 - Jimmy Holiday, US singer (How Can I Forget)


• 1934 - Thomas Ambler, CEO (Texaco)


• 1934 - Willie Davis, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay)


• 1935 - George Varnals, South African cricket batsman (England 1964-65)


• 1935 - Les Reed, songwriter (Heroin)


• 1935 - Pat Oliphant, Australia, cartoonist (7 Pres: The Art of Oliphant)


• 1935 - Trevor Chinn, CEO (Lex)


• 1936 - Mark Goddard, Lowell Mass, actor (Don West-Lost in Space)


• 1936 - Ruth Buzzi, Westerly Rhode Island, comedienne (Laugh-In, Margie-That Girl)


• 1937 - Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education


• 1937 - Barry Lloyd Vercoe, composer


• 1937 - Quinlan Terry, architect


• 1938 - Colin Southgate, CEO (Thorn EMI)


• 1938 - John Sparling, NZ cricket all-rounder (11 Tests 1958-64)


• 1938 - Mike Mainieri, rocker


• 1939 - Barry [Norman] Malzberg, sci-fi author (Revelations, Beyond Apollo)


• 1939 - Bob Lilly, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)


• 1939 - Walter Bellamy, New Bern North Carolina, NBA center (Knicks/Olympic-gold-1960)


• 1940 - Carroll A Campbell Jr, (Rep-R-South Carolina, 1979-86)


• 1941 - Barbara Love, rocker


• 1942 - Chris Sarandon, West Virginia, actor (Child's Play, Dog Day Afternoon, Lipstick)


• 1942 - Heinz Burt, Hargin Germany, rock bassist (Tornados)


• 1943 - Henk Vos, chemical analyst/Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber


• 1943 - Jim McCarty, rocker (Yardbirds)


• 1943 - Lyudmila Bragina, USSR, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)


• 1944 - Barbara Thompson, jazz musician/composer/bandleader


• 1944 - Jim Armstrong, rock guitarist (Them)


• 1946 - William "Junior" Campbell, singer/guitarist (Marmalade)


• 1947 - Geoffrey McQueen, TV Writer


• 1947 - Michael Coveney, drama critic


• 1947 - M Jacques Fouroux, rugby player


• 1947 - Neil McIntosh, CEO (VSO, Center for British Teaching)


• 1947 - Peter Serkin, New York City, pianist (Tashi)


• 1947 - Robert Hays, Bethesda Md, actor (Airplane!, Starman, Scandalous)


• 1947 - Zaheer Abbas, cricketer (probably Pakistan's finest batsman ever)


• 1949 - Marjanne Sint, Dutch MP (PvdA)


• 1949 - Michael Richards, Los Angeles California, comedian (Fridays, Kramer-Seinfeld)


• 1950 - Dan Hedaya, actor (Cheers, Marvin's Room, Clueless)


• 1950 - Goutam Ghose, director (Patang, Voyage Beyond, Paar)


• 1950 - Sam Behrens, actor (Jake Meyer-General Hospital, Sunset Beach, LA Law)


• 1951 - Chris Smith, MP (Labour)


• 1951 - Lynda Carter, Phoenix Arizona, Miss USA (1973)/actress (Wonder Woman)


• 1952 - Vin Weber, (Rep-R-Minnesota, 1981- )


• 1953 - Jon Faddis, jazz trumpeter


• 1953 - Julian Brazier, MP


• 1953 - Steve Grogan, NFL QB (New England Patriots)


• 1954 - Philippe Alliot, race driver (grand prix)


• 1955 - Lubov Odinokova, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)


• 1957 - Dorothy Mays, Baltimore Maryland, playmate (Jul, 1979)


• 1957 - Pam Tillis, Plant City Florida, country singer (Melancholy Child)


• 1957 - Robbie Grey, rocker


• 1958 - Mick Karn, rocker


• 1958 - Pam Tills, Country music artist


• 1959 - Brian Fogt, Dayton Ohio, Nike golfer (1992 Ft Wayne Open-7th)


• 1959 - Edward Liddie, Union Georgia, Judo fighter (Olympic-bronze-1984)


• 1962 - Kevin Butler, NFL kicker (Chicago Bears)


• 1963 - Julie Krone, Benton Harbor Mich, jockey (1st female to win Belmont-93)


• 1963 - Kadeem Hardison, New York City, actor (Dwayne-Different World)


• 1963 - Karl Malone, Summeerfield LA, NBA forward (Utah, Oly-2 gold-92, 96)


• 1963 - Paul Geary, Boston Mass, heavy metal drummer (Extreme-More Than Words)


• 1964 - Barry Bonds, Riverside California, left fielder (Pirates, SF Giants, 3X MVP)


• 1964 - Erminia Russo, Kelowna BC, volleyball player (Olympics-96)


• 1964 - Teri Schroeder, Newport Beach California, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13-1993)


• 1965 - Andrew Gaze, Australian basketball player (Olympics-1984, 88, 92, 96)


• 1965 - Brian Blades, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)


• 1965 - Joe Oliver, Memphis Tennessee, catcher (Cin Reds)


• 1965 - Kadeem Hardison, actor (A Different World, The Sixth Man)


• 1967 - Jasper Teule, Dutch rock singer/bassist (Pilgrims-Once to Everything)


• 1968 - John P Navin Jr, Phila, actor (Joey Elliot-Jennifer Slept Here)


• 1968 - Mark Gunn, NFL defensive end (Phila Eagles)


• 1969 - Chris King, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)


• 1969 - Rick Fox, NBA guard/forward (LA Lakers, Boston Celtics)


• 1969 - Steve Jennings, Washington DC, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)


• 1970 - Blaine Bishop, NFL safety (Houston Oilers)


• 1970 - Gerald Ressman, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)


• 1970 - Philip Sykes, Tacoma Wash, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)


• 1970 - Stephanie Adams, New Jersey, playmate (Nov, 1992)


• 1973 - Tasha Ebanks, Miss Universe-Cayman Islands (1996)


• 1974 - Steve Bornhoeft, LaGrange Illinois, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)


• 1975 - Gloria Pizzichini, Italy, tennis star


• 1976 - Anita Nall, US, breaststroke swimmer (Olympics-gold-1992)


• 1976 - Chris[tian] Patrick Raymond Ahrens, Whitefish Bay Wis, rower (Oly-96)


• 1976 - Scott Logan, Brisbane QLD Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)


• 1977 - Arnold Bruggink, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)


• 1977 - Lee EunHee, Miss Korea Universe (1997)


• 1982 - Anna Paquin, oscar winning actress (Piano)


• 1987 - Mara Wilson, actress (Mrs Doubtfire)


• 1990 - Evan James Springsteen, Los Angeles California, rocker Bruce Springsteen's son


• 1993 - Arissa Seagal, daughter of Kelly LeBrock & Steven Seagal

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