This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
07/02/ 419 Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55) 
07/02/1489 Thomas Cranmer, England, archbishop/reformer/martyr 
07/02/1581 Johann Staden, composer 
07/02/1589 Guillaume van Messaus, composer 
07/02/1636 Daniel Speer, composer 
07/02/1644 Abraham a Santa Clara, [Johann Megerle), German prime minister 
07/02/1652 Guillielmus 'Willem' Kerricx, Flemish sculptor (Rozenkrans) 
07/02/1714 Christoph W Ritter von Gluck, Austria composer (Il there pastore) 
07/02/1737 Francois Leonard Rouwyzer, composer 
07/02/1746 Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer 
07/02/1756 Christian G K”rner, German lawyer/father of Karl 
07/02/1763 Peter Ritter, composer 
07/02/1793 Antoine Prumier, composer 
07/02/1810 Robert Augustus Toombs, Secy State (Confederacy), died in 1885 
07/02/1814 Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer 
07/02/1821 Charles Tupper, (C) 6th Canadian PM (1896) 
07/02/1822 Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails/trains) 
07/02/1830 John Bordenave Villepigue, Brig General (Confederate Army) 
07/02/1834 Hendry P G Quack, lawyer/economist/secr Dutch Bank 
07/02/1836 Henry Eugene Davies, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894 
07/02/1847 Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer (tectonic geology) 
07/02/1857 Francesco Spetrino, composer 
07/02/1865 Lili Braun, Prussia, feminist/socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen)

07/02/1867 Herbert Prior, actor (Caught Short, Slave of Desire) 
07/02/1876 Wilhelm Cuno, German ship owner/republic chancellor (1922-23) 
07/02/1877 Hermann Hesse, Switzerland, novelist/poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946) 
07/02/1880 Albert Szirmai, composer 
07/02/1884 Otto B”hm, Prussia, scientist (helped create England Radar) 
07/02/1887 Marcel Tabuteau, CompiŠgne France, oboist (Phila Orch 1915-54) 
07/02/1888 Selman Waksman, Russ/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951) 
07/02/1889 Cor Hermus, actor 
07/02/1893 August Maes, Flemish actor/director (Shylock-Hamlet) 
07/02/1894 Walter Brennan, Swampscott Mass, actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point) 
07/02/1903 Alexander F Douglas-Home, (C) British PM (1963-64) 
07/02/1903 Olav AFEC of Sleesw˜k-Holstein-S-G, King Olav V of Norway (1957-  ) 
07/02/1904 Carl Weinrich, composer 
07/02/1904 Gerarda 'Meik' Rueter, sculptor 
07/02/1905 Jean-Rene Lacoste, France, tennis champ/alligator shirt designer 
07/02/1906 Alan Webb, actor (King Lear, Taming of Shrew, Challenge of Lassie) 
07/02/1906 Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker 
07/02/1906 Robert Levine Sanders, composer 
07/02/1907 Eppo Doeve, cartoonist/painter 
07/02/1908 Thurgood Marshall, Md, 1st black Supreme Court justice (1967-91) 
07/02/1909 Hermann Bengtson, German historian (Greeks Ancient Times) 
07/02/1910 Earl Hawley Robinson, composer 
07/02/1910 Hans Gnther Adler, German writer 
07/02/1910 William Douglas Denny, composer 
07/02/1911 Diego Fabbri, Italian, playwright/leader Vatican movie studio 
07/02/1914 Frederick Fennell, Cleveland Ohio, conductor (Time & Winds) 
07/02/1915 Bert Decorte, Flemish poet 
07/02/1916 Barry Gray, radio personality (started call-in radio) 
07/02/1916 Ken Curtis, Lamar Colo, actor (Ripcord, Festus-Gunsmoke) 
07/02/1917 Pierre Dubois, literary 
07/02/1919 Johnny Bradford, Long Branch NJ, actor (Ransom Sherman Show) 
07/02/1922 Dan Rowan, Beggs Okla, comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in) 
07/02/1922 Genrikh Matusovich Vagner, composer 
07/02/1924 Rick Besoyan, composer 
07/02/1925 Marvin Rainwater, Wichita Ks, country singer (Ozark Jubilee) 
07/02/1925 Patrice E Lumumba, Zaire, revolutionary/1st premier of Congo 
07/02/1925 Yasushi Akutagawa, composer 
07/02/1926 Lee Allen, Pittsburg, Ks, tenor sax (Walkin' With Mr Lee) 
07/02/1927 Brock Peters, actor/singer (Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird) 
07/02/1927 Cornelius 'Kees' Broekman, Holland, speed skater (Olympic-silver-195

07/02/1927 Jerome Meyer, horse trainer 
07/02/1928 Estelita Rodriguez, actress (Cuban Fireball, Havana Rose) 
07/02/1928 Pavel Kohout, Czech, author (Poor Murderer) 
07/02/1930 Carlos Sa£l Menem, president of Argentinia (1989-  ) 
07/02/1931 Robert Ito, Vancouver BC, actor (Sam-Quincy ME) 
07/02/1932 Sammy Turner, Paterson NJ, vocalist (Lavender Blue) 
07/02/1933 David Benjamin Lewin, composer 
07/02/1935 Dick Dolman, economist/Dutch politician 2nd Chamber 
07/02/1935 Gilbert Kalish, Brooklyn NY, pianist/professor (SUNY Stony Brook) 
07/02/1937 Dick Berardino, baseball player 
07/02/1937 Polly Holliday, Jasper Ala, actress (Flo-Alice, Flo-Flo) 
07/02/1937 Richard Petty, auto race driver (Daytona 500-1979,81) 
07/02/1939 John H Sununu, US Secretary of State (R, 1989-91) 
07/02/1939 M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster, US, sci-fi author (Gameplayers of Zan) 
07/02/1939 Michael N Castle, (Rep-R-Delaware) 
07/02/1939 Paul Williams, rocker (Temptations-My Girl) 
07/02/1940 Georgi Ivan Ivanov, 1st Bulgarian space traveler (Soyuz 33) 
07/02/1945 James Orville Fulkerson, composer 
07/02/1947 Ervin Hall, Phila, 100m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1968) 
07/02/1947 Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, daughter of Pres LBJ 
07/02/1950 Johnny Colla, rocker (Huey Lewis & News-Need a New Drug) 
07/02/1952 Linda M Godwin, Cape Girardeau Mo, PhD/astronaut (STS 37, 59) 
07/02/1953 Tony Armas, baseball player 
07/02/1954 Wendy Schaal, Chicago Ill, actress (It's a Living, Julie-Fantasy Is)

07/02/1956 Jeffrey Cooper, rock guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking) 
07/02/1956 Jerry Hall, Mesquite Tx, model/Mrs Mick Jagger 
07/02/1956 Julie Montgomery, KC Mo, actress (Samantha-1 Life to Live, Kindred) 
07/02/1957 Mike Anger, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways) 
07/02/1959 Hoogie Drexler, jockey 
07/02/1959 Wendy B Lawrence, Jacksonville Fla, USN Lt Cmdr/astronaut (sk: STS 6

07/02/1961 Alba Parietti, Torino Italy, actress (Galagoal, Abbronzatissima) 
07/02/1961 James McNichol, LA Calif, actor (Fitzpatricks, California Fever) 
07/02/1964 Dave Parsons, rocker (Transvision Vamp, Sham 69-That's Life) 
07/02/1964 Joe Magrane, baseball player 
07/02/1964 Jos‚ Canseco, Havana Cuba, Oakland As (1986 Rookie Year, 1988 AL MVP

07/02/1964 Shannon Ritter, jockey 
07/02/1966 Tim Spehr, baseball player 
07/02/1967 Debee Ashby, Coventry England, topless model 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
07/02/ 783 Bert(h)a/Berthrada, mother of Charles the Great, dies 
07/02/ 936 Henry I the Vogelaar, German king (919-36)/duke of Saxon 912-36, die

07/02/1298 Adolf van Nassau, RC-German king (1292-98), dies in battle at about 

07/02/1504 Stefanus III Bogdanowitsj, ruler of Moldavia (1457-1504), dies 
07/02/1566 Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist, dies at 62 
07/02/1619 Olivier de Serres, French farming pioneer (silkworms), dies 
07/02/1644 William Gascoigne, introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24 
07/02/1663 Thomas Selle, composer, dies at 64 
07/02/1708 Willem of Nassau, mister of Zuylenstein/lt-gen/baron Enfield, dies 
07/02/1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composer, dies at 66 
07/02/1794 Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 64 
07/02/1798 John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies 
07/02/1822 Denmark Vesey, & 5 aides hanged at Blake's Landing, Charleston, SC 
07/02/1861 Peter A de Genestet, vicar/poet, dies at 31 
07/02/1863 Stephen Hinsdale Weed, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28 
07/02/1878 Francois-Emmanuel-Joseph Bazin, composer, dies at 61 
07/02/1882 James Garfield, assassinated by 'job-seeker' 
07/02/1895 William Rockstro, composer, dies at 72 
07/02/1911 Felix Mottl, composer, dies at 54 
07/02/1914 Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, dies at 78 
07/02/1915 Gen Porfirio [Jos‚ de la Cruz] Diaz, president Mexico, dies 
07/02/1917 Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor/director (Hamlet), dies 
07/02/1918 Mohammed V Resjad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18), dies 
07/02/1926 Emile Cou‚, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion, dies 
07/02/1929 Gladys Brockwell, actress (Oliver Twist), dies at 34 
07/02/1930 Anders Randolf, actor (Love of Sunya, Dangerous Curves), dies at 59 
07/02/1936 Harry Northrup, actor (Who's Knocking at My Door), dies at 60 
07/02/1937 Amelia Earhart Putnam, pilot/1st female to fly Atl, presumed dead 
07/02/1937 Fred L Noonan, US navigator, disappeared over Pacific Ocean 
07/02/1940 Ben[jamin] Turpin, US comic (Saps at Sea, His New Job), dies 
07/02/1940 Bertram Shapleigh, composer, dies at 69 
07/02/1946 Anthony Overton, publisher/cosmetics manufacturer/banker, dies at 81

07/02/1949 Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria premier (1946-49), dies at 67 
07/02/1951 Earnest F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon, dies at 75 
07/02/1952 Henriette Bosmans, composer, dies at 56 
07/02/1961 Ernest Hemingway, author, shot himself to death in Ketchum Id at 61 
07/02/1961 Louis-Ferdinand C‚line, writer (Voyage Au Bout de la Nu), dies at 67

07/02/1964 Glenn 'Fireball' Roberts, biggest NASCAR money winner, dies in crash

07/02/1965 Betsy [Theodora E] Ranucci-Beckmann, actress (Klatergoud), dies 
07/02/1968 Francis Brennan, US cardinal of Philadelphia, dies at 74 
07/02/1970 Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies 
07/02/1971 Edward Ballantine, composer, dies at 84 
07/02/1972 Joseph F Smith Jr, leader US mormon chuch, dies at 95 
07/02/1973 Betty Grable, US actress (How to Marry a Millionaire), dies at 56 
07/02/1973 George Macready, US, actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place), dies at 73 
07/02/1973 Swede Savage, dies of injuries at Indianapolis 500 
07/02/1975 James Robertson Justice, actor (DR at Large, Dr om Love), dies at 70

07/02/1976 Frances Howard, actress (Swan, Shock Punch), dies 
07/02/1977 Vladimir V Nabokov, Russian/US writer (Lolita), dies at 78 
07/02/1981 Robert Emmett Keane, actor (Rookie Cop, Red Dragon), dies 
07/02/1982 Poul Rovsing Olsen, composer, dies at 59 
07/02/1984 Ramiro Cortes, composer, dies at 50 
07/02/1987 Karl Linnas, accused Nazi, dies of heart failure in Russia 
07/02/1987 Michael Bennet, choreographer (Chorus Line), dies of AIDS at 44 
07/02/1990 Muntu Myeza, S Afr anti-apartheid activist, dies in auto at 39 
07/02/1990 Snooky Lanson, musician, dies 
07/02/1991 Lee Remick, actress (Days of Wine & Roses), dies at 55 of cancer 
07/02/1992 Borisav Pekic, Servisch writer/politician, dies 
07/02/1992 Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer/Claudia Cardinale's husband, dies

07/02/1992 Jose Monje (Camaron de la Isla), Spanish flamenco singer, dies 
07/02/1993 Don Drysdale, pitcher (Dodgers), dies at 56 of a heart attack 
07/02/1993 Fred Gwynne, actor (Herman-Munsters), dies at 66 of pancreatic cance

07/02/1994 Andres Escobar, Colombia world cup soccer star, shot for losing to U

07/02/1994 Maung Maung, premier of Burma (1988), dies at 69 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
07/02/ 311 St Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope 
07/02/1140 Hartbert becomes bishop of Utrecht 
07/02/1214 Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines (Angers) 
07/02/1298 Battle on Hasenbhl (G”llheim) between German kings Adolf & Albrecht

07/02/1576 Muitende Spanish soldiers conquer Zierik Sea 
07/02/1600 Battle of New Port (Spain vs Prince Maurice) 
07/02/1644 Battle of Marston Moor; Parliamentary forces defeat royalists 
07/02/1777 Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery 
07/02/1787 de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered 
07/02/1794 2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria 
07/02/1808 Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam

07/02/1843 An alligator falls from sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm 
07/02/1847 Envelope bearing 1st US 10› stamps, still exists today 
07/02/1849 Garibaldi in Rome begins hunger strike 
07/02/1858 Partial emancipation of Russian serfs 
07/02/1861 Battle of Hoke's Run, WV - small Union voctory 
07/02/1862 Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges 
07/02/1863 Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day) 
07/02/1863 R Morgan's:Burksville, KY to Salineville, OH [->JUL 26] 
07/02/1864 GEN Early reaches Winchester en route for Washington DC. 
07/02/1864 Gen Early & Confederate forces reach Winchester 
07/02/1864 Statuary Hall in US Capitol established 
07/02/1867 1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC 
07/02/1881 Pres Garfield shot by Charles J Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker

07/02/1885 Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear 
07/02/1890 Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies 
07/02/1894 Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers 
07/02/1900 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1st airship LZ-1, flies 
07/02/1901 Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner Montana 
07/02/1902 John J McGraw becomes manager of NY Giants (stays for 30 years) 
07/02/1903 AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later 
07/02/1906 Yanks win by forfeit, for their 1st time 
07/02/1916 Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism 
07/02/1916 Russian offensive in Armenia 
07/02/1921 1st million dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier

07/02/1921 Jack Dempsey KOs George Carpentier in NYC 
07/02/1926 US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized 
07/02/1927 1st American to win Wimbledon in 20 years (Helen Wills Moody) 
07/02/1932 FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech

07/02/1933 Carl Hubbell shuts-out Cards 1-0 in 18 innings without a walk 
07/02/1934 General Laz ro C rdenas lelected president of Mexico 
07/02/1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1357 Khama 
07/02/1935 Great Britain boxers beat US team in 1st intl Golden Gloves 
07/02/1937 Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean 
07/02/1937 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1429 Pemba & #1456 Saldanha 
07/02/1937 J Donald Budge wins Wimbledon 
07/02/1938 Helen Wills Moody (US) wins her 8th & final Wimbledon singles 
07/02/1940 Dutch PM Col˜n publishes 'Borders of 2 Worlds' (German victory) 
07/02/1940 Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated 
07/02/1941 DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56) 
07/02/1941 Earthquake hits Palestine 
07/02/1941 Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead) 
07/02/1943 Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning & beat Yankees 12-0 
07/02/1943 Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane 
07/02/1944 Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt 
07/02/1946 Dutch Beel govt forms 
07/02/1946 Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam & Amsterdam 
07/02/1947 Military coup discovered in France 
07/02/1948 Robert Falkenburg wins Wimbledon 
07/02/1949 'Red Barber's Clubhouse' sports show premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV

07/02/1949 Louise Brough wins Wimbledon 
07/02/1951 Bob & Ray show premieres on NBC radio 
07/02/1951 Island advisor of Cura‡ao installed 
07/02/1951 Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system 
07/02/1952 Princess Beatrice opens miniature city of Madurodam 
07/02/1952 Zulu-leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi marries Irene Mzila 
07/02/1955 'Lawrence Welk Show' premieres on ABC 
07/02/1955 Desmond Tutu marries Leah Nomalizo Shinxani 
07/02/1955 Louise Brough wins Wimbledon 
07/02/1956 Elvis Presley records 'Hound Dog' & 'Don't Be Cruel' 
07/02/1957 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor completed-Seawolf 
07/02/1957 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback 
07/02/1959 'Plan 9 From Outer Space,' one of the worse films ever, premieres 
07/02/1959 Prince Albert marries Princess Paola in Brussels 
07/02/1961 Maris hits 29th & 30th en route to 61 homers 
07/02/1962 Cubans minister of Foreign affairs Ra£l Castro arrives in Moscow 
07/02/1962 Fidel Castro visits Moscow 
07/02/1964 Cilla Black records Beatle's 'Its For You,' McCartney plays piano 
07/02/1964 Civil Rights Bill passes 
07/02/1964 Pres Johnson signs Civil Rights Act 
07/02/1966 1st France nuclear explosion on Mururoa atoll 
07/02/1966 Billie Jean King wins her 1st of 6 Wimbledon single titles 
07/02/1969 Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain 
07/02/1970 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam & Brussels 
07/02/1972 Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m 
07/02/1972 India & Pakistan sign peace accord 
07/02/1973 Nation Black Network begins operation on radio 
07/02/1974 Fernando Mameda of Portugal sets record for 10,000 m (27:13.81) 
07/02/1976 Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam 
07/02/1976 Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual 
07/02/1977 Sweden's Bj”orn B”rg won Wimbledon men's singles over Jimmy Connors 
07/02/1978 Pitcher Ron Guidry sets Yankee record of 13-0 start 
07/02/1980 Grateful Dead's Bob Weir & Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement 
07/02/1981 L E Gonzalez discovers asteroid #3495 Colchagua 
07/02/1982 Larry Walters using lawn chair & 42 helium balloons, rose to 16,000'

07/02/1982 Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth 
07/02/1983 John McEnroe wins Wimbledon 
07/02/1985 Andrei Gromyko appointed president of USSR 
07/02/1985 European Space Agency launches Giotto to Halley's Comet 
07/02/1986 General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile 
07/02/1986 Supreme Court upheld affirmative action in 2 rulings 
07/02/1988 Steffi Graff beats Martina Navratilova for Wimbledon crown 
07/02/1990 Imelda Marcos & Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering 
07/02/1990 Panic in tunnel of Mecca: 1,426 pilgrims trapped 
07/02/1991 Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St Louis 
07/02/1992 Braniff Airlines goes out of business 
07/02/1993 Boat sinks at Bocaue Philippines, 325 die 
07/02/1993 F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die 
07/02/1993 Kansas Royals rename stadium Ewing Kaufman Stadium after founder 
07/02/1993 Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36 
07/02/1993 NY Met Anthony Young loses a record 25th straight game (goes to 27) 
07/02/1994 37 dies in US Air DC-9 crash in NC 
07/02/1994 Conchita Martinez beats Martina Navratilova to win Wimbeldon 
07/02/1994 US Air DC-9 crash in NC, 37 killed 
  
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