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:  
 
07/04/1546 Murad III, sultan of Turkey (1574-95) 
07/04/1610 Cornelis Evertsen the Elder, Swiss vice-admiral 
07/04/1610 Paul Scarron, French playwright (Virgile Travesti) 
07/04/1694 Louis C Daquin (d'Acquin), French organist/composer (La rose) 
07/04/1715 Christian Gellert, Saxony, poet/novelist (Fables & Tales) 
07/04/1753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US 
07/04/1762 Marco Santucci, composer 
07/04/1769 Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer 
07/04/1793 Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer 
07/04/1799 F J Oscar I, King of Sweden/Norway (1844-59) 
07/04/1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mass, author (House of 7 Gables, Scarlet Letter

07/04/1807 Giuseppe Garibaldi, freedom fighter (Risorgimento)/unified Italy 
07/04/1819 Reuben Eaton Fenton, Governor (Union), died in 1885 
07/04/1826 Green Clay Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895

07/04/1826 Stephen Foster, Lawrencevil, Pa, composer (Oh! Susanna, Swanee River

07/04/1828 James Johnston Pettigrew, Brig General (Confederate Army) 
07/04/1828 Theodor W Ahlwardt, German orientalist 
07/04/1829 Hermann Kotzchmar, composer 
07/04/1840 James McGranahan, composer 
07/04/1841 Edward Gailliard, Flemish linguist/archaeologicalist 
07/04/1841 Marie von Wied, Princess of Orange Nassau 
07/04/1842 Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria, sociologist/judge/field marshal 
07/04/1842 Gyula Erkel, composer 
07/04/1845 Thomas John Barnardo, English social worker 
07/04/1847 James Anthony Bailey, Detroit, circus impresario (Barnum & Bailey) 
07/04/1850 Ole Olsen, composer 
07/04/1854 Heinrich Zollner, composer 
07/04/1867 Stephen Mather, organized US National Park Service 
07/04/1869 Karl Seitz, president of Austria 
07/04/1870 Pieter Van de Line, geologist (Dutch boulders) 
07/04/1872 Calvin Coolidge, [Silent Cal], Plymouth Vt, (R) 29th pres (1923-29) 
07/04/1875 Giovanni & Giacomo Tocci, Italy, siamese twins 
07/04/1876 William Farnum, US, actor (Spoilers, Man who Fights Alone) 
07/04/1878 George M Cohan, actor/singer (Phantom Pres, Give my regards to Bdwy)

07/04/1880 George Mullin, pitcher (Detroit Tigers-no-hitter on 7/4/1912) 
07/04/1880 Pat Rooney, vaudevillian/actor (Night Club) 
07/04/1882 Cornelis van der Lugt Melsert, actor/director 
07/04/1883 Alan Brooke, English general 
07/04/1883 Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer 
07/04/1883 Rube Goldberg, who made the easy outrageously difficult 
07/04/1884 Alexander Byvanck, art historian/archaeologist 
07/04/1885 Louis B Mayer, Minsk Russia, motion-picture executive (MGM) 
07/04/1886 Heinrich Kaminski, composer 
07/04/1888 Henry Armetta, Italian/US actor (Bell for Adano, Big Store) 
07/04/1894 Henry Carlson, basketball coach (originated figure 8 play) 
07/04/1895 Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator 
07/04/1896 Adolf Hallis, composer 
07/04/1898 Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (Mimi, Rembrandt) 
07/04/1898 Johnny Lee, Missouri, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy) 
07/04/1899 Benjamin P‚ret, French writer/poet (La r‚volution surr‚aliste) 
07/04/1900 Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong, New Orleans LA, jazz musician (Hello Doll

07/04/1902 George Murphy, New Haven Ct, (Sen-R-Calif)/actor/dancer (MGM Parade)

07/04/1902 Meyer Lansky, mobster (Started numbers) 
07/04/1902 Vince Barnett, Pittsburgh, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle) 
07/04/1903 Flor Peeters, Antwerp Belgium, organist/composer (Lied Symphony) 
07/04/1904 Artur Malawski, composer 
07/04/1905 Dante Fiorillo, composer 
07/04/1905 Lionel Trilling, author (1969 Poses Award, Liberal Imagination) 
07/04/1908 Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/chairman (Club of Rome) 
07/04/1909 Alec Templeton, Cardiff Wales, pianist/composer (Concertino Lirico) 
07/04/1910 Francis D Foley, US lt adm (WW II, Guadalcanal) 
07/04/1910 William T 'Champion Jack' Dupree, US boxer/slaughterhouse pianist 
07/04/1911 Mitch Miller, Rochester NY, sing along with Mitch (Yellow Rose of Tx

07/04/1912 Virginia Graham, Chicago Ill, TV personality (Girl Talk, Where Was I

07/04/1915 Jimmie Rogers, Detroit Mich, singer (Sugar Hill Time) 
07/04/1916 Tokyo Rose, [Iva Toguri D'Aquino], WW II propogandist 
07/04/1918 Abigail Van Buren, twin sister, advice columnist 
07/04/1918 Ann Landers, twin sister, advice columnist 
07/04/1918 Buster Davis, Johnstown Pa, choral director (Garry Moore Show) 
07/04/1918 Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (1965-  ) 
07/04/1920 Leona Helmsley, (wife of Harry), real estate billionaire/tax cheat 
07/04/1921 Gerard Debreu, France, economist (Nobel 1983) 
07/04/1924 Eva Marie Saint, Newark NJ, actress (On the Waterfront) 
07/04/1926 Mary Stuart, Miami Fla, actress (Jo-Search for Tomorrow) 
07/04/1927 Gina Lollobrigida, Subiaco Italy, actress (Trapeze, Falcon Crest) 
07/04/1927 Neil Simon, playwright (Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues) 
07/04/1928 Cathy Berberian, Armenia, US singer 
07/04/1928 Patrick Tilley, UK, sci-fi author (1st Family, Blood River) 
07/04/1928 Paul de Wispelaere, Flemish writer/essayist/critic 
07/04/1928 Stephen Boyd, [William Millar], actor (Fantastic Voyage, Ben-Hur) 
07/04/1928 Sylvius G M 'Boy' Rozendal, premier (Netherland's Antilles) 
07/04/1929 Al Davis, Brocton Mass, NFL team owner (LA Raiders) 
07/04/1929 Bill Tuttle, baseball player 
07/04/1929 Chuck Tanner, baseball player 
07/04/1930 George Steinbrenner, NY Yankees owner/ship builder/horse owner 
07/04/1935 Paul Scoon, governor-general of Grenada (1978-  ) 
07/04/1937 Hector Palma, horse trainer 
07/04/1938 Bill Withers, WV, rhythm & blues singer (Lean on Me) 
07/04/1939 Ed Bernard, Phila, actor (Joe-Police Woman, Jim-White Shadow) 
07/04/1940 Joost P van Iersel, Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber 
07/04/1940 Walter Greenman, horse trainer 
07/04/1942 Hal Lanier, baseball player 
07/04/1942 Michael GCF, English prince of Knows 
07/04/1943 Alan Wilson, rocker (Canned Heat-On the Road Again) 
07/04/1943 Dave Rowberry, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun) 
07/04/1943 Emerson Boozer, NFL running back (NY Jet)/sportscaster 
07/04/1946 Michael Milken, LA Calif, partner (Intl Capital Access Group) 
07/04/1946 Ron Kovic, disabled vietnam vet (Born on 4th of July) 
07/04/1947 Morganna Roberts, Louisville Ky, (Baseball's kissing bandit) 
07/04/1948 Ed Armbrister, baseball player 
07/04/1948 Jeremy Spencer, rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well) 
07/04/1948 Ren‚ Arnoux, France, formula-1 racer (6th place-1980) 
07/04/1950 David Jensen, rock British DJ 
07/04/1951 Ralph Johnson, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star) 
07/04/1954 Jim Beattie, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees) 
07/04/1955 John Waite, vocalist (Babies/Bad English-Forget Me Not, Missing You)

07/04/1958 Kirk Pengilly, Sydney Australia, rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt) 
07/04/1959 Bill McCorvey, Montgomery Ala, singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake) 
07/04/1961 Vinny Castilla, baseball player 
07/04/1962 Pam Shriver, Balt Md, tennis player (US Open's Doubles 1983,4,6,7) 
07/04/1963 Henri Leconte, France, tennis player (French finalist 1988) 
07/04/1963 Jose Oquendo, baseball player 
07/04/1964 Mark Allen Slaughter, Las Vegas, guitarist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)

07/04/1967 Rick Wilkins, baseball player 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
07/04/ 966 Benedictus V Grammaticus, Italian (anti?)Pope (5/22-6/23 964), dies 
07/04/1187 Reinoud van Chƒtillon, French prince of Antioch, dies 
07/04/1301 Willem II Berthout van Mechelen, bishop of Utrecht, dies in battle 
07/04/1307 Rudolf III, Duke of Austria/King of Bohemia dies 
07/04/1498 Filips van Burgundy, admiral-general of Netherlands, dies 
07/04/1519 Johann Tetzel, (German?) monk, dies at about 79 
07/04/1541 Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish occupier, dies at about 56 
07/04/1578 Charles de Berlaymont, baron of Hierges, gov/viceroy of Names, dies 
07/04/1603 Philippus the Monte, priest/bandmaster/composer, dies at 82 
07/04/1623 William Byrd, English composer (Ave verum corpus), dies at 80 
07/04/1627 Thomas Middleton, Elizabethan dramatist (Women Beware Women), dies 
07/04/1672 Ambrosius Reiner, composer, dies at 67 
07/04/1757 Jean-Joseph Vade, composer, dies at 38 
07/04/1768 Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide), dies at 58 
07/04/1780 Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen South Neth, dies at 67 
07/04/1787 Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71 
07/04/1789 Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian poet, dies at 59 
07/04/1826 John Adams, 2nd president (1797-1801), dies at 90 
07/04/1826 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83 
07/04/1831 James Monroe, 5th president (1817-25), dies at 73 
07/04/1845 Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies 
07/04/1848 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, di

07/04/1851 Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer, dies at 67 
07/04/1854 Karl F Eichhorn, German historic rights, dies at 72 
07/04/1856 Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor, dies 
07/04/1889 Auguste Mermet, composer, dies at 79 
07/04/1891 Frederic Louis Ritter, composer, dies at 67 
07/04/1901 John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher, dies 
07/04/1910 Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars), dies at 75 
07/04/1910 Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer, dies at 70 
07/04/1917 Johan HC Nucleus, translator (Sanskreet), dies at 84 
07/04/1923 Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 6

07/04/1929 Otto Taubmann, composer, dies at 70 
07/04/1931 Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies

07/04/1934 'Madame' Marie Curie-Sklodovska, Polish/French chemist, dies 
07/04/1934 Chaim Nachman Bialik, zionist poet, dies 
07/04/1938 Otto Bauer, Austrian social democrat, dies at 56 
07/04/1938 Suzanne Lenglen, 6 time Wimbeldon champ, dies at 39 of anemia 
07/04/1943 Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/premier of Poland in exile (1939-43), dies 
07/04/1946 Othenio Able, Austria paleontology, dies at 71 
07/04/1957 Judy Tyler, actress (Princess-Howdy Doody), dies at 24 in car crash 
07/04/1962 Rex Bell, cowboy (Cowboys & Injuns), dies at 56 
07/04/1963 Fritz Reuter, composer, dies at 66 
07/04/1963 Grant Richards, actor (Doug-Doorway to Danger), dies at 48 
07/04/1970 Harold Vanderbilt, America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85 
07/04/1971 Thomas C Heart, US admiral/commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94 
07/04/1973 Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39 
07/04/1974 Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/pres Com Palestine, die

07/04/1982 Sylvestre A Guzm n Fern ndez, pres Dominican Rep, commits suicide 
07/04/1983 Claus Adam, composer, dies at 65 
07/04/1985 John de Quay, Dutch premier (1959-63), dies at 83 
07/04/1986 Flor Peeters, Flemish baron/organist/composer, dies at 83 
07/04/1988 Adrian Adonis, [Keith Franke], WWF wrestler, killed in auto accident

07/04/1992 Astor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (tango nuevo), dies at 71 
07/04/1992 Joe Newman, US jazz trumpetist (Count Basie), dies 
07/04/1993 Anne Shirley, actress (Stella Dalla), dies of lung cancer at 74 
07/04/1993 Felix White, choreographer (Black Vibrations Theatre), dies at 65 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
07/04/1054 Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days) 
07/04/1187 Battle of Hittin (Tiberias): Saladin defeats Reinoud of Chƒtillon 
07/04/1301 Battle at Breukelen: Holland vs Lichtenberg 
07/04/1415 Angelo Correr becomes Pope Gregory XII 
07/04/1636 City of Providence, Rhode Island form 
07/04/1653 Barebones Parliment goes into session in England 
07/04/1672 States of Holland declares 'Eternal Edict' void 
07/04/1693 Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army 
07/04/1754 George Washington gives Ft Necessity to France 
07/04/1776 Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain 
07/04/1779 French fleet occupies Grenada 
07/04/1789 1st US tariff act 
07/04/1802 US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY) 
07/04/1810 French troops occupy Amsterdam 
07/04/1817 Construction on Erie Canal begins 
07/04/1819 William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet 
07/04/1827 Slavery abolished in NY 
07/04/1828 Construction begins on B & O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR 
07/04/1829 Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila) 
07/04/1832 'America' 1st sung publicly 
07/04/1836 Wisconsin Territory formed 
07/04/1845 Texas Congress votes for annexation to US 
07/04/1845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond 
07/04/1861 In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troop

07/04/1861 Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, WV 
07/04/1862 Battle at Morgan's Kentucky 
07/04/1862 Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell 
07/04/1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho) 
07/04/1863 Failed Confederate assault on Helena Arkansas (640 casualties) 
07/04/1863 General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg 
07/04/1863 Skirmish at Smithburg, TN 
07/04/1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces 
07/04/1864 -9] Battle at Chattahoochee River, Georgia 
07/04/1865 1st edition of 'Alice in Wonderland' is published 
07/04/1866 Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying « of Portland, Me 
07/04/1873 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens 
07/04/1874 Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed 
07/04/1875 White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksbur

07/04/1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF 
07/04/1879 Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony 
07/04/1881 Brooker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama) 
07/04/1882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF 
07/04/1883 Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr 
07/04/1884 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks) 
07/04/1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris 
07/04/1886 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC 
07/04/1888 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz 
07/04/1889 Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting 
07/04/1893 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #369 Aeria 
07/04/1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH 
07/04/1894 Republic of Hawaii established 
07/04/1895 Katherine Lee Bates publishes 'America the Beautiful' 
07/04/1898 French liner 'La Bourgogne' collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 di

07/04/1898 US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War) 
07/04/1903 Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message 
07/04/1905 Phila A's beat Boston Red Sox 4-2 in 20 inning game 
07/04/1906 Gr Brit, France & Italy grant Independence to Ethiopia 
07/04/1907 Heavyweight Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in Calif 
07/04/1908 NY Giant George 'Hooks' Witse no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn 
07/04/1910 Jack Johnson KOs James Jeffries in 15 rounds, ending come-back try 
07/04/1911 105øF (41øC) at Vernon, Vermont (state record) 
07/04/1911 106øF (41øC) at Nashua, New Hampshire (state record) 
07/04/1911 Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 & ends a 40 game hit streak 
07/04/1912 Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0 
07/04/1912 Heavyweight Jack Johnson KOs Jim Flynn in Las Vegas 
07/04/1914 1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks) 
07/04/1918 Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa 
07/04/1919 ADGB (Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund) party forms 
07/04/1919 Cincinnati Reds are 10« games back in NL, & win World Series 
07/04/1919 Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship 
07/04/1919 M Wolf discovers asteroid #914 Palisana 
07/04/1923 Heavyweight Jack Dempsey KOs Tom Gibbons in Shelby Mont 
07/04/1925 44 die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses 
07/04/1925 Yanks Lefty Grove beats A's Herb Pennock 1-0 in 15 innings 
07/04/1926 NSDAP-party forms in Weimar 
07/04/1927 ir Sukarno forms PNI (Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia) in Batavia 
07/04/1929 AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down 
07/04/1933 Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge 
07/04/1934 Jordanians revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment 
07/04/1936 Helen Hull Jacobs wins Wimbledon female tennis championship 
07/04/1936 League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy 
07/04/1938 1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5 
07/04/1938 France-Turkish friendship treaty 
07/04/1939 Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game 
07/04/1939 Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day 
07/04/1940 British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die 
07/04/1940 German occupiers forbids anti-nazis speeches 
07/04/1941 Howard Florey & Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later 
07/04/1941 they successfully recreate pencillin 
07/04/1942 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II) 
07/04/1942 US air offensive against nazi-Germany begins 
07/04/1944 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima 
07/04/1944 Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen 
07/04/1944 Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber 
07/04/1946 Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland (39 die) 
07/04/1946 Philippines gains independence from US 
07/04/1947 Jack Kramer wins Wimbledon 
07/04/1950 Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own consitution) 
07/04/1953 Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas R kosi as premier of Hungary 
07/04/1953 Maureen Connolly wins Wimbledon 
07/04/1954 WMSL (WYUR, now WAFF)TV channel 48 in Huntsville, AL (ABC) begins 
07/04/1954 West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern 
07/04/1956 Independence National Historical Park established in Philadelphia 
07/04/1956 US most intense rain fall (1.23' in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland

07/04/1957 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase 
07/04/1959 America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled 
07/04/1959 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony 
07/04/1960 America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled 
07/04/1960 Mickey Mantle hits career homer # 300 
07/04/1962 Island Records begins 
07/04/1962 KIKU (now KHNL) TV channel 13 in Honolulu, HI (IND) 1st broadcast 
07/04/1966 LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act 
07/04/1967 Freedom of Information Act goes into effect 
07/04/1967 Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Centre 
07/04/1967 Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader 
07/04/1968 radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched (í 450 m) 
07/04/1969 'Give Peace a Chance' by Plastic Ono Band is released in UK 
07/04/1969 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin

07/04/1969 Ann Jones defeats Billie Jean King for Wimbledon Ladies championship

07/04/1969 Italian Rumor govt resigns 
07/04/1970 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ 
07/04/1973 CARICOM - Caribbean Community & Common Market, forms 
07/04/1973 In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who

07/04/1973 'offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth' 
07/04/1975 Bundy victim (?) Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah 
07/04/1975 Fictional wedding date of Coneheads 
07/04/1976 Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt NY 
07/04/1976 Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers 
07/04/1977 Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher 
07/04/1977 Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie 
07/04/1978 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3332 
07/04/1978 Memphis firefighters halt 3-day strike under a court order 
07/04/1979 Algerian ex-president Ben Bella freed 
07/04/1982 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB 
07/04/1982 Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe for his last Wimbledon championship

07/04/1982 Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico 
07/04/1983 Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox 
07/04/1984 Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki 
07/04/1984 Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m 
07/04/1985 Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins 
07/04/1987 Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission 
07/04/1987 Martina Navratilova wins 6th straight Wimbledon defeats Steffi Graf 
07/04/1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, 'Butcher of Lyon' convicted by a French court 
07/04/1987 SS'er Klaus Barbie, 'Beast of Lyon', sentenced to life 
07/04/1988 Steffan Edberg beats Boris Becker for Wimbledon crown 
07/04/1988 US navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290 
07/04/1989 14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide 
07/04/1989 Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies

07/04/1990 Wrestler Brutus Beefcake injured during parasailing 
07/04/1992 John Phillips, rocker (Mamas & Papas), undergoes a liver transplant 
07/04/1992 Stefi Graf beats Monica Seles to win Wimbledon 
07/04/1993 Dave Winfield hits 442nd HR to move into 19th place 
07/04/1993 Pete Sampras wins Wimbledon 
07/04/1993 Pizza Hut blimp deflates & lands safely on W  56th street in NYC 
07/04/1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, lands 
07/04/1994 US loses to Brazil 1-0 in 1994 World Cup quarter finals 
  
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