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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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
07/03/1423 Louis XI, King of France (1461-83) 
07/03/1567 Samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain) 
07/03/1683 Edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint) 
07/03/1687 Arnold Hoogvliet, poet (Abraham the patriarch) 
07/03/1728 Robert Adam, architect/designer (Adelphi Terrace, London) 
07/03/1731 Samuel Huntington, (Gov-Ct), Continental Congress pres 
07/03/1738 John Singleton Copley, Mass, finest colonial American artist 
07/03/1794 Eberhard F Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt) 
07/03/1796 Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [NS] 
07/03/1802 Joseph Labitzky, composer 
07/03/1814 Janis Cimze, composer 
07/03/1819 Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer 
07/03/1828 John Austin Wharton, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1865 
07/03/1846 Achilles Alferaki, composer 
07/03/1850 Alfredo Kiel, composer 
07/03/1854 Leos Jan cek, Hukvaldy Moravia Czech, composer (Foster Suite) 
07/03/1855 Piotr Maszynski, composer 
07/03/1860 William Wallace, composer 
07/03/1861 Peter Jackson, heavyweight, boxing hall of famer 
07/03/1862 Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer 
07/03/1870 Richard B Bennett, (C) 11th Canadian PM (1930-35) 
07/03/1871 Vicente Arregui Garay, composer 
07/03/1872 Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistam (1901-19) 
07/03/1874 Apirana Turupa Ngata, Kawaka NZ, Maori political/cultural leader 
07/03/1875 Earnest F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon 
07/03/1878 George M Cohan, composer 
07/03/1880 Carl Schuricht, composer 
07/03/1881 Leon Errol, Australian actor (Ziegfeld Follies, What a Blonde!) 
07/03/1883 Alfred Korzybski, Poland, scientist (Science & Sanity) 
07/03/1883 Franz Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika) 
07/03/1886 Raymond A Spruance, US admiral/fleet commander/ambassador 
07/03/1892 Wilhelm Rettich, composer 
07/03/1895 Oles' Semyonovich Chishko, composer 
07/03/1896 Doris Lloyd, actress (Bachelor Father, Charley's Aunt, Sarah & Son) 
07/03/1899 Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer 
07/03/1899 Otto Reinhold, composer 
07/03/1900 John Mason Brown, Louisville Ky, critic (Tonight on Broadway) 
07/03/1906 Francis Steegmuller, US, biographer (Cocteau) 
07/03/1906 George Sanders, Russia, actor (All About Eve-Academy Award 1950) 
07/03/1906 Gwendolen Rees, zoologist 
07/03/1907 Arthur Steel, architect (Group '32) 
07/03/1907 Gene Gutche, composer 
07/03/1909 Earl L Butz, US Secretary of Agriculture (1971-76); a real Butz 
07/03/1909 Stavros Niachos, Greece, shippig magnate (Those Fabulous Greeks) 
07/03/1910 Bernard Burrows, British diplomat 
07/03/1910 Eric Franklin, Indian civil servant 
07/03/1912 Edward Jones, North Ireland lord justice of appeals 
07/03/1913 Dorothy Kilgallen, Chic Ill, columnist (What's My Line?) 
07/03/1913 Hugh MacKenzie, British vice admiral 
07/03/1913 William Deakin, warden (St Anthony's College Oxford) 
07/03/1918 Lord Mulley, Labour MP 
07/03/1920 John Ayers Lessard, composer 
07/03/1920 Louise Allbritton, Okla City, actr (Celia-Stage Door, Got a Secret) 
07/03/1921 Susan Peters, actress (Random Harvest, Young Ideas) 
07/03/1922 Art Fowler, baseball player 
07/03/1922 Corneille [Cornelis G of Beverloo], painter (Africa, Antilles) 
07/03/1922 Fran‡ois Reichenbach, French director (La douceur du Village) 
07/03/1923 Baroness Ryder, of Warsaw & Cavendish, worked for sick & disabled 
07/03/1924 Geoffrey Sammons, senior partner (Allen & Overy) 
07/03/1925 Michael Oliver, cardiologist 
07/03/1925 Tony Curtis, [Bernard Schwartz] Bronx NY, actor (Some Like it Hot) 
07/03/1926 Joseph M Gaydos, (Rep-D-PA, 1969-  ) 
07/03/1926 Meyer Kupferman, composer 
07/03/1927 Ken Russell, England, director (Tommy, Altered States, Gothic) 
07/03/1927 William McMillan, moderator (Gen Assembly of Church of Scotland) 
07/03/1928 Evelyn Anthony, English historical novelist (Poellenberg Inheritance

07/03/1928 John Wills, lord-lt of Avon England 
07/03/1929 Eustace Gibbs, vice marshal (Diplomatic Corps) 
07/03/1930 Carlos Kleiber, Berlin Germany, conductor (Bavarian State Orch 1968)

07/03/1930 Pete Fountain, New Orleans, jazz clarinetist (Lawrence Welk 1957-59)

07/03/1931 Andres Burnier, [Catharina Dessaur], criminologist/author (Jongensuu

07/03/1932 John Waite, British high court judge 
07/03/1935 Harrison H 'Jack' Schmitt, Santa Rita NM, astronaut (Apollo 17) 
07/03/1935 John Swan, PM (Bermuda) 
07/03/1936 Anthony Lester, CEO (Runnymede Trust) 
07/03/1937 Tom Stoppard, playwright (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern-1968 Tony) 
07/03/1938 David Gandolfo, horse trainer 
07/03/1938 Shin Geum Dan, North Korea, 400m/800m runner (1962 world record) 
07/03/1939 Jay Tarses, Balt Md, actor/writer (Open All Night, Duck Factory) 
07/03/1940 Cesar Tovar, baseball player 
07/03/1940 Fontella Bass, St Louis Mo, vocalist (Rescue Me) 
07/03/1940 Heather Steel, British judge 
07/03/1940 Lance Larson, US, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-silver-1960) 
07/03/1941 Gloria Allred, feminist attorney 
07/03/1942 Kurtwood Smith, New Lisbon Wisc, actor (Rambo III, Robocop) 
07/03/1943 Gary Waldhorn, actor (To the Camp & Back) 
07/03/1943 Geraldo Rivera, [Gerry Rivers], NYC, news personality (20/20, Gerald

07/03/1943 Judith Durham, singer 
07/03/1943 Norman E Thagard, Marianna Fl, MD/astro (STS 7, 51-B, 30, 42, sk:71)

07/03/1944 Paul Young, actor (Another Time Another Place) 
07/03/1945 Iain MacDonald-Smith, England, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968) 
07/03/1945 Michael Cole, Madison Wisc, actor (Pete-Mod Squad) 
07/03/1945 Michael Martin, MP 
07/03/1945 Mike Corby, guitarist (Babys-Back on My Feet Again) 
07/03/1947 Betty Buckley, Big Springs Tx, actress (Abby-8 is Enough, 1776, Cats

07/03/1948 Paul BarrŠre, US rock vocalist/guitarist (Little Feat-Sailin' Shoes)

07/03/1948 Peter Ruzicka, composer 
07/03/1949 Jan Smithers, N Hollywood Calif, actress (Bailey-WKRP) 
07/03/1949 Susan Penhaligon, Manilla Philippines, actress (Dracula, Nasty Habit

07/03/1950 Damon Harris, rocker (Temptations-My Girl) 
07/03/1951 Jean-Claude Duvalier, [Papa Doc], deposed Haitian president-for-life

07/03/1951 Richard Hadlee, Christchurch, NZ, leading cricket bowler 
07/03/1952 Alan Autry, NFLer (Green Bay Packers)/actor (Heat of the Night) 
07/03/1952 Bill Badgett Jr, horse trainer 
07/03/1953 Alynne Beth Amkraut, entertainer 
07/03/1953 Frank Tanana, baseball pitcher (Calif Angels) 
07/03/1955 Julia Lyndon, Buffalo NY, playmate (August, 1977) 
07/03/1955 Matt Keough, baseball player (Oakland A's, NY Yankees) 
07/03/1957 Danny Heep, baseball player 
07/03/1957 Laura Branigan, singer (Gloria) 
07/03/1958 Aaron Tippin, Pensacola Fl, singer (You've Got to Stand for Somethin

07/03/1958 Robert Forth, Clarence NY, US shooter (Olympic-92) 
07/03/1959 Andreas Wisniewski, Berlin German FR, actor (Living Daylights) 
07/03/1959 Stephen Pearcy, rock vocalist (Ratt-Round & Round) 
07/03/1959 Stoyan Deltchev, Bulgaria, horizontal bar gymnist (Olympic-gold-1980

07/03/1960 Jack Daugherty, baseball player 
07/03/1961 Liz Stewart, SF Calif, playmate (July, 1984) 
07/03/1961 Vince Clarke, England, rocker (Yaz-Situation, Only You) 
07/03/1962 Hunter Tylo, model 
07/03/1962 Taylor Dayne, [Lesley Wundermnan], Baldwin NY, vocalist 
07/03/1962 Tom Cruise, Syracuse, actor (Risky Business, Color of Money, Rainman

07/03/1963 Don August, baseball player 
07/03/1964 Gary Ryan, rocker (Blackhearts) 
07/03/1964 Pia Reyes, Manila Philipines, playmate (Nov, 1988) 
07/03/1964 Warren Newson, baseball player 
07/03/1965 Greg Vaughn, baseball player 
07/03/1965 Shinya Hashimoto, wrestler (NJPW) 
07/03/1966 Moises Alou, baseball player 
07/03/1968 Jeff Phillips, Westwood NJ, actor (Hart Jessup-Guiding Light) 
07/03/1969 Elan Carter, Nutley NJ, playmate (June, 1994) 
07/03/1975 Keri Houlihan, Penn, actress (Molly-Our House) 
07/03/1986 ..., 1st Dutch test tube baby born 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
07/03/ 683 Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies 
07/03/1090 Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle 
07/03/1570 Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67 
07/03/1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies 
07/03/1801 Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56 
07/03/1809 Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62 
07/03/1862 William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40 
07/03/1863 Alonzo Hersford Cushing, US Union lt, dies in battle at about 22 
07/03/1863 Lewis Addison Armistead, Conf brig-gen Gettysburg/dies in battle at 

07/03/1863 Little Crow, [Ta-oya-te-duta], Santee Sioux indian chief, dies 
07/03/1863 Richard Brooke Garnett, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 4

07/03/1863 Samuel Kosciuzko Zook, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 40 
07/03/1873 Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer, dies at 57 
07/03/1891 Stefano Golinelli, composer, dies at 72 
07/03/1904 Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist/Zionist, dies 
07/03/1908 Joel Chandler Harris, created Uncle Remus, dies at 59 
07/03/1910 Julius Slabbe, Belgian writer, dies 
07/03/1934 Henry WAE, Prince of Netherlands/father of Queen Juliana, dies 
07/03/1948 Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch SDAP-politician, dies at 90 
07/03/1952 Daniel Zamudio, composer, dies at 64 
07/03/1952 Henriette Bosmans, composer, dies 
07/03/1957 Richard Mohaupt, composer, dies at 52 
07/03/1960 Alfred Henry Ackley, composer, dies at 73 
07/03/1965 Clarence Loomis, composer, dies at 75 
07/03/1966 Andre Gailhard, composer, dies at 81 
07/03/1966 Cornelis 'Kees' Boeke, theorist, dies at 81 
07/03/1966 Joseph Deems Taylor, composer, dies at 80 
07/03/1967 John Clark, actor (Last Day of the War), dies at 50 
07/03/1969 Brian Jones, guitarist (Rolling Stones), drowns to death at 25 
07/03/1969 Hermann Grabner, composer, dies at 83 
07/03/1971 Jim Morrison, rock singer (Doors), dies of heart failure in Paris 
07/03/1971 Ricci Riano, entertainer, dies at 71 
07/03/1973 Charles Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto), dies 
07/03/1974 John C Ransom, US poet (World's Body), dies 
07/03/1976 Hans Bentz van de Berg, actor, dies at 58 
07/03/1977 Hugh Le Caine, composer, dies at 63 
07/03/1977 Mohammed al-Zahaby, Egyptian minister, murdered 
07/03/1978 James Daly, actor (Medical Center), dies at 59 
07/03/1979 Louis Durey, composer, dies at 91 
07/03/1981 Ross Martin, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West), dies at 61 
07/03/1982 Henry King, US director (Song of Bernadette, Gunfighter), dies 
07/03/1984 Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85 
07/03/1986 Rudy Vallee, singer (Vagabond Dreams), dies at 84 
07/03/1987 Viola Dana, actress (Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover), dies at 9

07/03/1988 Gabriel Dell, actor (Framed, Cutter), dies at 68 of leukemia 
07/03/1989 Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthda

07/03/1989 Jim Backus, actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island), dies at 76 of pneumoni

07/03/1990 Ludi Claire Hugo, entertainer, dies 
07/03/1990 Maurice Girodias, French publisher, dies 
07/03/1991 Irina N˜inska, Russian/US dancer, dies 
07/03/1992 Arline Bletcher, entertainer, dies 
07/03/1992 Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II), dies at 66 
07/03/1993 'Curly' Joe DeRita, last of Three Stooges, dies of pneumonia at 83 
07/03/1994 Harry Ebbeling, PC-corrector, dies at 54 
07/03/1994 Pieter Hennipman, economist, dies at 85 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
07/03/ 683 St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
07/03/ 987 Hugo Capet crowned king of France 
07/03/1090 Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II 
07/03/1187 Crusaders enter Tiberias 
07/03/1428 Treaty of Delft-between Jacoba of Bayern & Philip the Good 
07/03/1468 Duke Charles the Stout marries Princess Margaretha of York 
07/03/1608 City of Qu‚bec founded by Samuel de Champlain 
07/03/1754 George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War) 
07/03/1775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass 
07/03/1778 British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa 
07/03/1806 Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry 
07/03/1814 Americans capture Fort Erie, Canada 
07/03/1816 French frigate 'Medusa' runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross 
07/03/1816 incompetence kills 150 in calm seas 
07/03/1819 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors 
07/03/1839 1st state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 student

07/03/1848 Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands) 
07/03/1852 Congress authorizes US's 2nd mint (San Francisco, Calif) 
07/03/1861 Colonal Jackson receives his commission as brigadier general. 
07/03/1861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY 
07/03/1863 Battle of Donaldsonville, LA 
07/03/1863 Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory for North 
07/03/1864 Battle of Chattahoochie River, GA [until Jul 9] 
07/03/1864 Harpers Ferry, WV  - Federals evacuate in face of Early's advance 
07/03/1871 Jesse James robs bank in Corydon, Iowa ($45,000) 
07/03/1883 SS Daphne sinks on Clyde River Scotland; 195 die 
07/03/1886 1st NY Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine 
07/03/1888 NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak 
07/03/1890 Idaho admitted as 43rd US state 
07/03/1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'Adventure of Black Peter' (BG) 
07/03/1898 Dutch Automobile Club established (KNAC) 
07/03/1898 Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe 
07/03/1898 US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba 
07/03/1905 Heavyweight Marvin Heart KOs Jack Root in Reno 
07/03/1905 Kuyper govt forms in Holland 
07/03/1907 Pope decree forbids modernization of theology 
07/03/1911 Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day 
07/03/1912 NY Giant pitcher Rube Marquard ties record of 19 game win-streak 
07/03/1915 US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934 
07/03/1916 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die) 
07/03/1918 SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament 
07/03/1920 Java Technical School Bandung opens 
07/03/1920 Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England 
07/03/1920 William T Tilden wins Wimbledon 
07/03/1923 Harbor strike in Hull/Grimsby/Cardiff/Bristol over to London 
07/03/1928 1st color TV broadcast in London (John Logic Baird) 
07/03/1930 Veterans Administration created 
07/03/1931 Heavyweight Max Schmeling KOs Stribling in Cleveland 
07/03/1932 1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2 
07/03/1932 John McGraw retires from baseball 
07/03/1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1367 Nongoma 
07/03/1934 FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria I

07/03/1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler 
07/03/1939 Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes 'luckiest man' speech 
07/03/1940 ARP-leader/ex-premier Col˜n argues cooperation with Germany 
07/03/1940 British Royal Navy sinks French fleet in North Africa 
07/03/1940 German occupiers forbids using Dutch royal names 
07/03/1942 Germany troop march into Sebastopol 
07/03/1944 Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore 
07/03/1947 252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC 
07/03/1947 Cleveland Indians purchase Larry Dolby, the 1st black in AL 
07/03/1947 Soviet Union doesn't partake in Marshall Plan 
07/03/1950 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in Korean War 
07/03/1951 Sam Snead wins PGA golf tournament 
07/03/1952 Puerto Rico's constitution approved by US Congress 
07/03/1953 Victor Seixas wins Wimbledon 
07/03/1954 Food rationing ends in Britain 
07/03/1954 Maureen Connolly wins Wimbledon 
07/03/1958 'Andy Williams Show' premieres on ABC (later on CBS & NBC) 
07/03/1962 Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5) 
07/03/1965 Phillies Dick Allen & Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice 
07/03/1965 USSR & Persia sign dam building & economic aid pact 
07/03/1966 Brave pitcher Tony Cloninger, is 1st NL to hit 2 grand slams in a ga

07/03/1966 Race riots in Omaha Nebraska 
07/03/1967 'News at 10' premieres on English TV 
07/03/1968 Cleve Indian Luis Tiant strikes out 19 Minn Twins 
07/03/1969 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI 
07/03/1970 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival 
07/03/1970 British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed 
07/03/1970 Calif Angels Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0 
07/03/1970 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3702 
07/03/1974 Soyuz 14 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3 
07/03/1976 Adolfo Suarez becomes premier of Spain 
07/03/1977 Turkey: premier Ecevit goes off 
07/03/1978 Establishment Amazon Pact 
07/03/1980 73,096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0 
07/03/1981 NYC transit fare rises from 60› to 75›, new brass Y-cut-out token 
07/03/1982 Martina Navratilova defeats Chris Evert Lloyd at Wimbledon 
07/03/1982 Riot at building Stopera Amsterdam (damages Ÿ 1 million) 
07/03/1983 Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (9.93 s for 100 m) 
07/03/1983 John McEnroe regains men's singles title at Wimbledon 
07/03/1984 Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island 
07/03/1984 Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members 
07/03/1985 CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover 
07/03/1986 Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves 
07/03/1986 Pres Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty 
07/03/1987 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic 
07/03/1988 US Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290

07/03/1989 Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3k steeplechase rec (8:05.39) in Stockholm

07/03/1989 Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortion

07/03/1989 The movie 'Batman,' set record of quickest $100 million (10 days) 
07/03/1991 Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7.45 karat diamond ring 
07/03/1992 Gary Dell'Abate (Howard Stern Show) marries Mary 
07/03/1992 Mass Senator Ted Kennedy marries Victoria Reggie (38) 
07/03/1993 Steffi Graf wins Wimbledon 
07/03/1994 30 die in 3 fatal auto accidents in Texas 
07/03/1994 Pete Samras beats Goran Ivanisevic to win Wimbeldon (straight sets) 
07/03/1994 Romania eliminates Argentina 3-2 in soccer world cup 
  
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