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:  
 
07/31/1396 Philips, the Good, Duke of Burgundy//Brabant/Limburg/count 
07/31/1443 Albrecht III van Saxon-Meisen, duke of Saxon 
07/31/1527 Maximilian II, German King/Emperor (1564-76) 
07/31/1578 Catharina Belgian van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange 
07/31/1629 Johann Jakob Lowe von Eisenach, composer 
07/31/1654 Jacob Hop, politician/diplomat 
07/31/1743 August R van Hekeren van Suideras, orangist 
07/31/1748 Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist 
07/31/1763 James Kent, Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia) 
07/31/1767 Amelie Julia Candielle, composer 
07/31/1803 John Ericsson, US, invented screw propeller/built USS Monitor 
07/31/1808 Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer 
07/31/1816 George Henry Thomas, Major General (Union Army), died in 1870 
07/31/1817 Philip Cook Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 
07/31/1818 Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer 
07/31/1825 Thomas Hart Taylor, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 
07/31/1828 Fran‡ois Auguste Gevaert, Belgian composer (Le diable au moulin) 
07/31/1830 Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer 
07/31/1834 Peter H Hugenholtz, reforms vicar/founder (Free Borough) 
07/31/1837 William Clarke Quantrill, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1865 
07/31/1841 George Melville, polar explorer, naval engineer 
07/31/1844 Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist 
07/31/1847 Ignacio Cervantes, composer 
07/31/1848 Jean Robert Planquette, Fren composer (Lesson cloches the Corneville

07/31/1884 Karl F Goerdeler, mayor (Leipzig), 'July 20th Plot' 
07/31/1886 Constantly Permeke, Flemish painter/statues artist (Zeug) 
07/31/1893 Charles Wilfred Orr, composer 
07/31/1894 Roy Bargy, Mich, orch leader (Jimmy Durante Show) 
07/31/1900 Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll) 
07/31/1900 Erich Katz, composer 
07/31/1901 Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor (Landscape with 2 Personages)

07/31/1904 Arthur Daley, sportswriter (NY Times-Pulitzer 1956) 
07/31/1911 George Liberace, Menasha Wisc, violinist (Liberace Show) 
07/31/1912 Irv Kupcinet, Chicago Ill, TV host (Tonight! America After Dark) 
07/31/1912 Milton Friedman, economist (Nobel 1976) 
07/31/1913 Bryan Hextall, NHL hall of famer 
07/31/1919 Curt Gowdy, Green River Wyo, sportscaster (ABC) 
07/31/1919 Norman Del Mar, composer 
07/31/1919 Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Aushchwitz) 
07/31/1920 Rudolf Halaczinsky, composer 
07/31/1921 Whitney M Young Jr, civil rights leader, head of Urban League 
07/31/1923 Ahmet Ertegun, CEO (Atlantic Records) 
07/31/1928 Bill Frenzel, (Rep-R-MN, 1971-  ) 
07/31/1929 Don Murray, Calif, actor (Bus Stop, Advise & Consent, Endless Love) 
07/31/1929 Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist 
07/31/1932 Robert W Davis, (Rep-R-MI, 1979-  ) 
07/31/1935 Geoffrey Lewis, Plainsfield NJ, actor (Earl-Flo, Gun Shy) 
07/31/1937 Isabelle F Daniels, Jakin Georgia, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-bronze-56

07/31/1939 France Nuyen, Marselles France, actress (St Elsewhere, Diamond Head)

07/31/1939 John R West, (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring), rocker 
07/31/1940 Stanley Jaffe, producer (Fatal Attraction) 
07/31/1943 Lobo, rocker 
07/31/1943 Susan Flannery, NYC, actress (Leslie Stewart-Dallas) 
07/31/1943 William Bennett, US Secretary of Education (1985-88)/drug czar 
07/31/1944 Geraldine Chaplin, Santa Monica Ca, actress (Dr Zhivago, 3 Musketeer

07/31/1944 Sherry Lansing, Chicago Ill, actress (China Syndrome, Black Rain) 
07/31/1945 Tomas Vackar, composer 
07/31/1945 William Floyd Weld, (Gov-R-Mass) 
07/31/1946 Bob Welch, rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well) 
07/31/1946 Gary Lewis, Jerry's son, singer, (& The Playboys-This Diamond Ring) 
07/31/1947 Karl Greene, rocker, (Herman's Hermits) 
07/31/1950 Lane Davies, actor (Mason-Santa Barbara, Impure Thoughts) 
07/31/1951 Barry Van Dyke, Atlanta Ga, actor (Lt Dillon-Battlestar Galactica) 
07/31/1951 Evonne Goolagong Cawley, NSW Aust, tennis player (Wimbeldon 1971) 
07/31/1953 Hugh McDowell, chelloist (ELO-Telephone Line) 
07/31/1954 Flo Hyman, LA Calif, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984) 
07/31/1957 Dirk Blocker, LA Calif, actor (Baa Baa Black Sheep, Ryan's Four) 
07/31/1957 Irina Nazariva, USSR, 4 X 400m relay (Olympic-gold-1980) 
07/31/1957 Victoria E Cooke, Hollywood Ca, playmate (Aug, 1980) 
07/31/1958 Bill Berry, US pop drummer (REM-Sentimental Hygiene) 
07/31/1958 Wally Kurth, actor (Days of Our Lives) 
07/31/1962 Kym Malin, Dallas Tx, playmate (May, 1982) 
07/31/1962 Sandra 'Sweetness' Hodge, basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters) 
07/31/1963 Norman Cook, rocker (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There) 
07/31/1966 Marina V A Mowatt [Ogilvy], daughter of English princess Alexandra 
07/31/1966 Tylin John, Encino CA, playmate (Mar, 1992) 
07/31/1967 Sean O'Neill, Toledo OH, US Olympic table tennis player (Olympic-92)

07/31/1970 David Sacco, Malden Mass, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994) 
07/31/1973 Jerry Rivera, Puerto Rico, spanish singer 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
07/31/1358 Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies 
07/31/1556 St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus, dies in Rome 
07/31/1566 Bartholom‚ de Casas, Spanish historian/bishop of Chiapa, dies at 92 
07/31/1648 Benedictus J van Haeften, poet (Regia through Crucis), dies at 60? 
07/31/1693 Willem Calf, Rotterdams still life painter, dies at 73 
07/31/1750 Johan V, King of Portugal, dies 
07/31/1784 Denis Diderot, French writer/philosopher (Jacques le fataliste), die

07/31/1790 Johann Christian Frischmuth, composer, dies at 48 
07/31/1795 Jos‚ B da Gama, Portuguese poet (East Uraguay), dies at 54 
07/31/1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican hero priest, executed by Spanish 
07/31/1875 Andrew Johnson, 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at 66 
07/31/1886 Franz von Liszt, [Ferencz], Hungarian pianist/composer, dies at 74 
07/31/1914 A J Jean JaurŠs, French socialist (L'Humanit‚/Les Preuves), murdered

07/31/1932 Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer, dies at 58 
07/31/1940 Whitney Krakower, US gangster, murderrd by 'Bugsy' Siegel 
07/31/1942 Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer, dies 
07/31/1944 Antoine de Saint-Exup‚ry, French pilot/writer (Small Prince), dies 
07/31/1951 J of Oudshoorn, [John K Feylbrief], writer (Maze of Sentences), dies

07/31/1953 Robert Taft, (Sen-R-Oh) 'Mr Republican', dies in NY at 63 
07/31/1960 Karl Hasse, composer, dies at 77 
07/31/1966 Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general, dies 
07/31/1967 Mario Varvoglis, composer, dies at 81 
07/31/1967 Richard Kuhn, German chemist, dies 
07/31/1972 Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian premier/sect-gen (NATO, 1957-61), dies at 

07/31/1977 Stacy Moskowitz, shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20 
07/31/1978 Enoch Light, orch leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith), dies at 70

07/31/1981 Gen Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash 
07/31/1984 Bill Raisch, one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive), dies at 79 
07/31/1984 Paul Le Flem, composer, dies at 103 
07/31/1985 Eugene Carson Blake, sec-gen World Council of Churches, dies at 78 
07/31/1986 Theodore 'Teddy' Wilson, US jazz pianist/arranger, dies at 73 
07/31/1992 G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72 
07/31/1992 Sjoerd de Free, reporter (Radio Herr˜zend Netherland), dies 
07/31/1993 Baudouin, king of Belgium (1951-93), dies at 62 from heart problems 
07/31/1993 Paul Henry, US Republicans Congressional leader, dies at 51 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
07/31/ 432 St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 
07/31/ 768 [Philip] begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
07/31/1291 Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine

07/31/1498 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad 
07/31/1620 Pilgrim Fathers depart (through England) to America 
07/31/1667 Peace of Breda: 2nd English war-Suriname vs New-Netherlands ends 
07/31/1751 Fire in Stockholm destroys 1,000 houses 
07/31/1771 Paul Potters 'Great ossendrift' sold for Ÿ9050 in Amsterdam 
07/31/1777 Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army 
07/31/1790 1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process 
07/31/1794 All Jacob˜nse clubs together in Haarlem 
07/31/1809 1st practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Phil

07/31/1813 British invade Plattsburgh, NY 
07/31/1830 Charles X of France resigns by force 
07/31/1861 9300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam: world record 
07/31/1864 Ulysses S Grant is named General of Volunteers 
07/31/1872 C H F Peters discovers asteroids #122 Gerda & #123 Brunhild 
07/31/1874 Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as pres of Georgetown U 
07/31/1900 Boer General Prinsloo & Roux surrenders in Brandwater Basin 
07/31/1901 Abraham Kuyper becomes premier of Netherlands 
07/31/1910 Chic Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game 
07/31/1910 Clement van Maasd˜k gives flying demonstratiion 
07/31/1911 Hungarian education is only taught in German 
07/31/1912 US government prohibits movies & photos of prize fights (censorship)

07/31/1914 German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize

07/31/1914 Oil discovered in Lake of Maracaibo 
07/31/1917 3rd battle of Ypres begins 
07/31/1922 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn) 
07/31/1922 Italy's general strike against fascist violence 
07/31/1923 Belgian Chamber discusses bilinguality at Ghent University 
07/31/1925 Last allied occupying troops leave Ruhrgebied 
07/31/1925 Unemployment Insurance Act passed in England 
07/31/1929 Aristide Briand becomes premier of France 
07/31/1930 Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yanks beat Red Sox 14-13 
07/31/1932 Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Phila A's beat Indians 1-0 
07/31/1932 German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%) 
07/31/1935 3rd Dutch govt of Col˜n sworn in 
07/31/1935 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1362 Griqua & #2865 
07/31/1936 Tokyo Japan is awarded the 1940 Olympics (later cancelled) 
07/31/1940 Riech's commissar Seyss-Inquart bans homosexuals 
07/31/1942 German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia 
07/31/1948 Pres Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY 
07/31/1949 Lightning strikes a baseball field in Fla, kills SS & 3rd baseman 
07/31/1953 Dept of Health, Education & Welfare created 
07/31/1954 Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hrs, 1 doubl

07/31/1955 KRNT (now KCCI) TV channel 8 in Des Moines, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast 
07/31/1955 WHIS (now WVVA) TV channel 6 in Bluefield, WV (NBC) 1st broadcast 
07/31/1958 Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet 
07/31/1960 El˜ah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state 
07/31/1960 KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast

07/31/1961 2nd All Star Game of 1961 ends 1-1 due to rain at Fenway Park 
07/31/1961 Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant 
07/31/1962 Federation of Malaysia formed 
07/31/1963 Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina 
07/31/1963 Cleve ties record of 4 consecutive HRS (Held, Ramos, Francona, Brown

07/31/1964 Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor 
07/31/1964 George Lascelles marries Patricia Tuckwell 
07/31/1964 US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon 
07/31/1966 Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remar

07/31/1966 Charles Whitman wounds 46 & kills 5 at University of Texas 
07/31/1968 Beatles close Apple Boutique, giving clothes away for free 
07/31/1969 KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting 
07/31/1969 Mariner 6 flies past Mars 
07/31/1969 National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, La 
07/31/1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends 'Huntley-Brinkley Report' 
07/31/1972 Chic White Sox Dick Allen hits 2 inside-the-park-homers in Minn 
07/31/1972 Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate 
07/31/1973 ABA Virginia Squires trade Julius Erving to NY Nets 
07/31/1976 Seychelle Independence (Independence day) 
07/31/1976 Waldemar Cierpinski runs Olympic marathon (2:09:55.0) 
07/31/1978 Gunman shoots his way into Iraqi Embassy in Paris 
07/31/1978 NY Yanks now 7« out of 1st, picked up 7 games in previous 2 weeks 
07/31/1979 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2402 Satpaev & #2416 Sharonov 
07/31/1980 John Phillips of Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges 
07/31/1980 Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36 
07/31/1981 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends 
07/31/1981 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of Natl Bar Assn 
07/31/1982 46 kids & 7 adults die as 2 buses & several cars collide in France 
07/31/1982 Autobus in Beaune France catches fire; 53 die 
07/31/1984 Leeza Gibbon's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight 
07/31/1984 US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics 
07/31/1984 Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed 
07/31/1987 'Living Daylights' premieres in US 
07/31/1987 Battle between Iranian pilgrims & Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed 
07/31/1987 Eddie Murray hits his 300th HR 
07/31/1987 Guns & Roses song 'Appetite for Destruction' is released 
07/31/1987 Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle 
07/31/1988 Last Playboy club closes (Lansing Michigan) 
07/31/1988 Miami Dolphins beat SF 49ers 27-21 in London 
07/31/1988 Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame

07/31/1990 Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence 
07/31/1990 Nolan Ryan becomes 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games 
07/31/1992 Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die 
07/31/1993 Allman Bros guitarist Dickey Betts arrested for shoving 2 cops 
07/31/1993 Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg 
07/31/1993 Prince Ronald 'Ronnie' Mutebi crowned king of Uganda 
07/31/1994 Phil Rizzuto (NY Yankee) enters the Hall of Fame 
  
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