Welcome to Today In History for Saturday, July 4, 2009.

On this day in history ..

• 1054 - Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)
• 1187 - Battle of Hittin (Tiberias): Saladin defeats Reinoud of ChÉtillon
• 1301 - Battle at Breukelen: Holland vs Lichtenberg
• 1415 - Angelo Correr becomes Pope Gregory XII
• 1453 - 41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau
• 1610 - Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russian & Sweden
• 1636 - City of Providence, Rhode Island form
• 1652 - Prince of CondÇ starts blood bath in Paris
• 1653 - British Barebones Parliament goes into session
• 1672 - States of Holland declares "Eternal Edict" void
• 1693 - Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army
• 1708 - Swedish King Karel XII beats Russians
• 1754 - George Washington gives Ft Necessity to France
• 1776 - Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain
• 1779 - French fleet occupies Grenada
• 1789 - 1st US tariff act
• 1796 - 1st Independence Day celebration is held
• 1802 - US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
• 1810 - French troops occupy Amsterdam
• 1817 - Construction on Erie Canal begins
• 1819 - William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
• 1827 - Slavery abolished in NY
• 1828 - Construction begins on B & O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR
• 1829 - Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)
• 1831 - "America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" is 1st sung in Boston
• 1832 - "America" 1st sung publicly
• 1836 - Wisconsin Territory forms
• 1845 - Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
• 1845 - Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
• 1861 - In a special session of 27th Congress Lincoln requests 400,000 troops
• 1861 - Skirmish at Harper's Ferry, WV
• 1862 - Battle at Green River Ky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)
• 1862 - Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell
• 1862 - Battle of Port Royal, SC (Port Royal Ferry)
• 1862 - R Morgan's: Tomkinsville, KY to Somerset, KY [->JUL 28]
• 1863 - Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
• 1863 - Failed Confederate assault on Helena Arkansas (640 casualties)
• 1863 - General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg
• 1863 - Skirmish at Smithburg, TN
• 1863 - Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
• 1864 - -9] Battle at Chattahoochee River, Georgia
• 1865 - 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published
• 1866 - Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying ´ of Portland, Me
• 1868 - Battle at Ueno: last Tokugawa armies defeated
• 1873 - Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens
• 1874 - Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
• 1875 - White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
• 1876 - 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
• 1876 - Batholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty
• 1879 - Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony
• 1879 - Battle at Rorkes Drift: Britain ends attack on Zulus
• 1881 - Booker T Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
• 1882 - Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF
• 1883 - Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr
• 1884 - 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
• 1884 - Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
• 1886 - 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
• 1888 - 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz
• 1889 - Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting
• 1892 - James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
• 1894 - Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH
• 1894 - Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as president
• 1895 - Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
• 1898 - French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die
• 1898 - US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
• 1903 - Pacific Cable (SF, Hawaii, Guam, Phil) opens, Pres TR sends message
• 1905 - Phila A's beat Boston Red Sox 4-2 in 20 inning game
• 1906 - Gr Brit, France & Italy grant Independence to Ethiopia
• 1907 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1908 - NY Giant George "Hooks" Witse no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0 in 10 inn
• 1910 - Jack Johnson KOs James J Jeffries in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1911 - 105¯F (41¯C) at Vernon, Vermont (state record)
• 1911 - 106¯F (41¯C) at Nashua, New Hampshire (state record)
• 1911 - Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 & ends a 40 game hit streak
• 1911 - White Sox Ed Walsh stops Ty Cobb's 40-game hitting streak
• 1912 - Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0
• 1912 - Jack Johnson TKOs Jim Flynn in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1913 - 37th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A F Wilding beats McLoughlin (86 63 10-8)
• 1914 - 1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
• 1918 - Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa
• 1919 - ADGB (Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund) party forms
• 1919 - Cincinnati Reds are 10´ games back in NL, & win World Series
• 1919 - Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship
• 1923 - Jack Dempsey beats Tommy Gibbon in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1925 - 44 die when Dreyfus Hotel in Boston collapses
• 1925 - 45th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats J Borotra (63 63 46 86)
• 1925 - Yanks Lefty Grove beats A's Herb Pennock 1-0 in 15 innings
• 1926 - Baronie soccer team forms in Breda Neth
• 1926 - NSDAP-party forms in Weimar
• 1927 - Ir Sukarno forms PNI (Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia) in Batavia
• 1929 - AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down
• 1930 - 43rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Elizabeth Ryan (62 62)
• 1931 - 1st fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium
• 1931 - 1st trailside museum opens in Cleveland Metroparks
• 1932 - Bradman scores 260, a North American record, v Western Ontario
• 1933 - Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
• 1934 - Jordanians revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment
• 1936 - 49th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Hull Jacobs beats H Sperling (62 46 75)
• 1936 - League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy
• 1938 - 1st game at Shribe Park, Phila; Braves beat Phillies 10-5
• 1938 - France-Turkish friendship treaty
• 1939 - Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game
• 1939 - Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day
• 1940 - British destroys French battle fleet at Oran, Algeria, 1267 die
• 1940 - German occupiers forbids anti-nazis speeches
• 1941 - Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead
• 1941 - Politburo of Yugoslav communist party reorganizes
• 1941 - Howard Florey & Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin
• 1942 - 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
• 1942 - US air offensive against nazi-Germany begins
• 1944 - 1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy
• 1944 - 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima
• 1944 - Allied assault on Carpiquet airport at Caen
• 1944 - Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber
• 1946 - Anti Jewish riots in Kielce Poland, 42 die
• 1946 - Philippines gains independence from US
• 1947 - 61st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom P Brown (61 63 62)
• 1950 - Braves Sid Gordon ties season grand slam record with 4
• 1950 - Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
• 1952 - 66th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats J Drobny (46 62 63 62)
• 1952 - Canadain Currency, Mint & Exchange Fund Act allows gold coins of $5, $10, and $20 to be minted
• 1953 - 60th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats D Hart (86 75)
• 1953 - Imre Nagy succeeds Matyas RÝkosi as premier of Hungary
• 1954 - WMSL (WYUR, now WAFF) TV channel 48 in Huntsville, AL (ABC) begins
• 1954 - West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern
• 1956 - Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia
• 1956 - US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland
• 1957 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase
• 1958 - 72nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: A Cooper beats N Fraser (36 63 64 13-11)
• 1959 - 66th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Darlene Hard (64 63)
• 1959 - America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
• 1959 - Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
• 1960 - 6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
• 1960 - America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
• 1960 - Mickey Mantle is 18th to hit 300 HRs
• 1962 - Island Records begins
• 1962 - KIKU (now KHNL) TV channel 13 in Honolulu, HI (IND) 1st broadcast
• 1964 - 71st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats M Court (64 79 63)
• 1964 - Beachboy's "I Get Around" reaches #1
• 1965 - 20th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Carol Mann
• 1966 - Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos
• 1966 - LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
• 1967 - Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
• 1967 - Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader
• 1968 - Arthur Kopit's "Indians," premieres in London
• 1968 - Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched (Ì 450 m)
• 1969 - "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in UK
• 1969 - 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin
• 1969 - 76th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Ann Jones beats Billie J King (36 63 62)
• 1969 - Italian Rumor govt resigns
• 1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1970 - 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ
• 1970 - 84th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Newcombe beats K Rosewall (57 63 62 36 61)
• 1970 - Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio
• 1970 - Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
• 1971 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
• 1973 - Alan Ayckbourne's "Absurd Person Singular," premieres in London
• 1973 - CARICOM - Caribbean Community & Common Market, forms
• 1973 - In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth"
• 1974 - Mike Marshall goes 9-0 with 3 saves in 20 appearances in 30 days
• 1975 - 82nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (60 61)
• 1975 - Bundy victim (?) Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah
• 1975 - Fictional wedding date of Coneheads
• 1976 - Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt NY
• 1976 - Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
• 1976 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Bloomington Golf Classic Bicentennial
• 1977 - Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher
• 1977 - Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
• 1977 - Red Sox wallop a major league-record 8 HRs beating Toronto 9-6
• 1978 - Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order
• 1979 - Algerian ex-president Ben Bella freed
• 1980 - Nolan Ryan is 4th to strikeout 3,000
• 1981 - 95th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats B Bîrg (46 76 76 64)
• 1981 - Clive Rice 105* out of 143 all out, Notts v Hants at Bournemouth
• 1982 - 10th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Sandra Haynie
• 1982 - 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB
• 1982 - 96th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: J Connors beats J McEnroe (36 63 67 76 64)
• 1982 - Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico
• 1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1982 - Yankees bat out of order against Indians in 1st inning
• 1983 - NY Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox
• 1984 - Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki
• 1984 - Kallicharran gets 206 & 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game
• 1984 - NY Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000
• 1984 - Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m
• 1985 - Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
• 1987 - 94th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (75 63)
• 1987 - Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission
• 1987 - Imran Khan takes 300th Test Cricket wicket, only Pakistani to do so
• 1987 - Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France
• 1988 - 102nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Becker (46 76 64 62)
• 1988 - KC releases pitcher Dan Quisenberry, whose 238 saves are the 4th most
• 1988 - US navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
• 1989 - 14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide
• 1989 - Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)
• 1989 - Red's Tom Browning is 3 outs away from his 2nd career perfect game when Phillie Dickie Thon doubles
• 1990 - 400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in Minn
• 1990 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
• 1990 - Wrestler Brutus Beefcake injured during para-sailing
• 1990 - 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner & Gettysburg Address
• 1992 - 99th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (62 61)
• 1992 - John Phillips, rocker (Mamas & Papas), undergoes a liver transplant
• 1992 - US actress Bobbie Eakes marries author David Stone
• 1993 - 107th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Courier (76 76 36 63)
• 1993 - Brandie Burton wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
• 1993 - Dave Winfield hits 442nd HR to move into 19th place
• 1993 - Pilar Fort, crowned 25th Miss Black America
• 1993 - Pizza Hut blimp deflates & lands safely on W 56th street in NYC
• 1994 - Russian manned space craft TM-18, lands
• 1994 - Rwandese Patriot Front occupies Kigali
• 1994 - US loses to Brazil 1-0 in 1994 World Cup quarter finals
• 1995 - Birmingham Barracudas play 1st CFL game (vs Winnipeg)
• 1996 - Hot Mail, a free internet E-mail service begins
• 1997 - US space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars

Famous birthdays for this day ..

• 1546 - Murad III, sultan of Turkey (1574-95)
• 1610 - Cornelis Evertsen, the Elder, Dutch/Swiss vice-admiral
• 1610 - Paul Scarron, French playwright (Virgile Travesti)
• 1669 - Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor
• 1694 - Louis-Claude Daquin, [d'Acquin], French organist/composer (La Rose)
• 1715 - Christian F Gellert, Saxony, poet/novelist (Fables & Tales)
• 1731 - Ant¢nio Dinis da Cruz e Silva, Portuguese poet (O Falso Hero°smo)
• 1753 - Jean-Pierre-Franáois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US
• 1762 - Marco Santucci, composer
• 1769 - Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer
• 1793 - Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer
• 1799 - F J Oscar I, King of Sweden/Norway (1844-59)
• 1804 - DÇsirÇ de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader
• 1804 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mass, author (House of 7 Gables, Scarlet Letter)
• 1807 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, freedom fighter (Risorgimento)/unified Italy
• 1810 - Phineas T Barnum, circus magnate
• 1819 - Reuben Eaton Fenton, Governor (Union), died in 1885
• 1826 - Green Clay Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
• 1826 - Stephen Foster, Lawrencevil, Pa, composer (Oh! Susanna, Swanee River)
• 1828 - James Johnston Pettigrew, Brig General (Confederate Army)
• 1828 - Theodor W Ahlwardt, German orientalist
• 1829 - Hermann Kotzchmar, composer
• 1840 - James McGranahan, composer
• 1841 - Edward Gailliard, Flemish linguist/archaeologicalist
• 1841 - Marie von Wied, Princess of Orange Nassau
• 1842 - Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria, sociologist/judge/fieldmarshal
• 1842 - Gyula Erkel, composer
• 1845 - Thomas John Barnardo, English social worker
• 1847 - James Anthony Bailey, Detroit, circus impresario (Barnum & Bailey)
• 1850 - Ole Olsen, composer
• 1854 - Heinrich Zollner, composer
• 1867 - Stephen Mather, organized US National Park Service
• 1869 - Karl Seitz, president of Austria
• 1870 - Pieter van der Lijn, Dutch geologist (Dutch boulders)
• 1872 - Calvin Coolidge, [Silent Cal], Plymouth Vt, (R) 30th pres (1923-29)
• 1875 - Giovanni & Giacomo Tocci, Italy, siamese twins
• 1876 - William Farnum, Boston MA, actor (Spoilers, Man who Fights Alone)
• 1880 - George Mullin, pitcher (Detroit Tigers-no-hitter on 7/4/1912)
• 1880 - Pat Rooney, vaudevillian/actor (Night Club)
• 1882 - Cornelis van der Lugt Melsert, Dutch actor/dir (Willem van Oranje)
• 1883 - Alan Brooke, English general [or Jul 23]
• 1883 - Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer
• 1883 - Rube Goldberg, cartoonist (who made the easy outrageously difficult)
• 1884 - Alexander Byvanck, Dutch art historian/archaeologist
• 1885 - Louis B Mayer, Minsk Russia, motion-picture executive (MGM)
• 1886 - Heinrich Kaminski, composer
• 1888 - Henry Armetta, Italian/US actor (Bell for Adano, Big Store)
• 1894 - Henry Carlson, basketball coach (originated figure 8 play)
• 1895 - Irving Caesar, songwriter
• 1895 - Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator
• 1895 - Walderman Marx, cricketer (S Af, 240 on FC debut (then world record))
• 1896 - Adolf Hallis, composer
• 1898 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (Mimi, Rembrandt)
• 1898 - Johnny Lee, Missouri, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy)
• 1899 - Benjamin PÇret, French writer/poet (La rÇvolution surrÇaliste)
• 1900 - Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, New Orleans LA, jazz musician (Hello Dolly)
• 1902 - George Murphy, New Haven Ct, (Sen-R-Calif)/actor/dancer (MGM Parade)
• 1902 - Meyer Lansky, mobster (Started numbers)
• 1902 - Vince Barnett, Pittsburgh, actor (Star is Born, Human Jungle)
• 1903 - Flor Peeters, Antwerp Belgium, organist/composer (Lied Symphony)
• 1904 - Angela Baddeley, London England, actress (Ghost Train, Tom Jones)
• 1904 - Artur Malawski, composer
• 1904 - Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist
• 1905 - Dante Fiorillo, composer
• 1905 - Lionel Trilling, author (1969 Poses Award, Liberal Imagination)
• 1907 - Elliott Sullivan, San Antonio TX, actor (Sergeant)
• 1908 - Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/chairman (Club of Rome)
• 1909 - Alec Templeton, Cardiff Wales, pianist/composer (Concertino Lirico)
• 1909 - Lynette Roberts, poet
• 1909 - Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine
• 1910 - Francis D Foley, US lt adm (WW II, Guadalcanal)
• 1910 - Gloria Stuart, actress (Rose-Titanic)/founder (Screen Actors Guild)
• 1910 - William T "Champion Jack" Dupree, US boxer/slaughterhouse pianist
• 1911 - Mitch Miller, Rochester NY, sing along with Mitch (Yellow Rose of Tx)
• 1912 - Virginia Graham, Chicago Ill, TV personality (Girl Talk, Where Was I)
• 1914 - Giuseppe 'Nuccio' Bertone, car designer
• 1915 - Christine Lavant, writer
• 1915 - Jimmie Rogers, Detroit Mich, singer (Sugar Hill Time)
• 1916 - Tokyo Rose, [Iva Toguri D'Aquino], propagandist (WW II)
• 1918 - Abigail Van Buren, [Mrs Morton Phillips], Sioux City Iowa, columnist
• 1918 - Alec Bedser, cricketer (mighty post-war England medium-pacer)
• 1918 - Ann Landers, Sioux City Iowa, twin sister/advice columnist
• 1918 - Buster Davis, Johnstown Pa, choral director (Garry Moore Show)
• 1918 - Eric Bedser, cricketer (bro of Alec, Surrey bowler but not England)
• 1918 - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (1965- )
• 1920 - Leona Helmsley, (wife of Harry), real estate billionaire/tax cheat
• 1921 - Gerard Debreu, France, economist (Nobel 1983)
• 1921 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist/orchestra leader (Ripley's Game)
• 1922 - Ghulam Ahmed, cricketer (off-spinner in 22 Tests for India in 1950's)
• 1924 - Eva Marie Saint, Newark NJ, actress (On the Waterfront)
• 1926 - Mary Stuart, Miami Fla, actress (Jo-Search for Tomorrow)
• 1927 - Gina Lollobrigida, Subiaco Italy, actress (Trapeze, Falcon Crest)
• 1927 - Neil Simon, Bronx, playwright (Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues)
• 1928 - Cathy Berberian, Armenia, US singer
• 1928 - Lloyd Lambert, bassist
• 1928 - Patrick Tilley, UK, sci-fi author (1st Family, Blood River)
• 1928 - Paul de Wispelaere, Flemish writer/essayist/critic
• 1928 - Stephen Boyd, [William Millar], Ire, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Ben-Hur)
• 1928 - Sylvius G M "Boy" Rozendal, premier (Netherland's Antilles)
• 1929 - Al Davis, Brocton Mass, NFL team owner (LA Raiders)
• 1929 - Bill Tuttle, baseball player
• 1929 - Chuck Tanner, baseball player
• 1930 - George Steinbrenner, owner (NY Yankees)/ship builder/horse owner
• 1931 - Peter Richardson, cricketer (England batsman mid-50's)
• 1934 - Colin Welland, Liverpool England, actor (Straw Dogs, Sweeney)
• 1935 - Paul Scoon, governor-general of Grenada (1978-92)
• 1937 - Hector Palma, horse trainer
• 1938 - Bill Withers, Slab Fork WV, rhythm & blues singer (Lean on Me)
• 1938 - Cyril Mitchley, cricket wicket-keeper (Transvaal, later Test umpire)
• 1939 - Ed Bernard, Phila, actor (Joe-Police Woman, Jim-White Shadow)
• 1940 - Joost P van Iersel, Dutch MP (CDA)
• 1940 - Walter Greenman, horse trainer
• 1942 - Hal Lanier, baseball player
• 1942 - Michael G C F, English prince of Kent
• 1943 - Al "Blind Owl" Wilson, rock guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat)
• 1943 - Dave Rowberry, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
• 1943 - Emerson Boozer, NFL running back (NY Jet)/sportscaster
• 1946 - Michael Milken, LA Calif, partner (Intl Capital Access Group)
• 1946 - Ron Kovic, disabled vietnam vet (Born on 4th of July)
• 1946 - Tish Howard, playmate (July, 1966)
• 1947 - Morganna Roberts, Louisville Ky, (Baseball's kissing bandit)
• 1948 - Ed Armbrister, baseball player
• 1948 - Jeremy Spencer, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac-Oh Well)
• 1948 - RenÇ Arnoux, France, formula-1 racer (6th place-1980)
• 1949 - Joyce Brothers, psychologist/author/columnist
• 1950 - David Jensen, rock British DJ
• 1951 - Ralph Johnson, rock drummer (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star)
• 1954 - Jim Beattie, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
• 1955 - John Waite, vocalist (Babies/Bad English-Forget Me Not, Missing You)
• 1958 - Kirk Pengilly, Sydney Australia, rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
• 1959 - Bill McCorvey, Montgomery Ala, singer (Pirates of Miss-Fred Jake)
• 1959 - Victoria Abril, [Victoria Rojas], Madrid Spain, actress (Libertarias)
• 1961 - Connie Paraskevin-Young, Detroit, sprint cyclist (Olymp-br-88, 92, 96)
• 1961 - Richard Allen Garriott, Austin TX, computer game designer (Origin)
• 1962 - Pam Shriver, Balt MD, tennis star (1991 US Open doubles/Oly-gold-88)
• 1962 - Roland Ratzenberger, driver
• 1963 - Henri Leconte, France, tennis player (French finalist 1988)
• 1963 - Jose Oquendo, baseball player
• 1964 - Kevin Sutherland, Sacramento CA, Nike golfer (1992 Hawkeye Open-2nd)
• 1964 - Mark Allen Slaughter, Las Vegas, guitarist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
• 1965 - Eva Dahllof, Ornskoldsvik Sweden, golfer (1995 McCall's Classic-18th)
• 1965 - Harvey Grant, NBA forward (Trail Blazers, Orlando Magic, Wizards)
• 1965 - John Frawley, Australia, tennis star
• 1965 - Shelley Oates, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
• 1965 - Suzanne Peta Strudwick, Knutsford England, golfer (1995 Brit Open-7th)
• 1966 - Adrian Caldwell, NBA forward/center (Indiana Pacers)
• 1967 - Rick Wilkins, baseball player
• 1967 - Vinny Castilla, Oaxaca Mexico, infielder (Colorado Rockies)
• 1968 - Derek Loville, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
• 1968 - Loville Derek, NFL running back (Denver Broncos, Superbowl 32)
• 1968 - Mark Lenzi, Huntsville Ala, diver (Olympics-bronze-96)
• 1969 - David Wittman Buffalo, NY, 1.5k runner
• 1969 - Tim Jackson, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-96)
• 1970 - Andrei Cherkasov, USSR, tennis star
• 1970 - Louise Van Voorhis, Rochester NY, 470 yachter (Olympics-4th-1992, 96)
• 1971 - Steve Rucchin, Thunder Bay, NHL center (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
• 1972 - Steve Giles, St Stephens New Brunswick, canoeist (Olympics-6-92, 96)
• 1973 - Justin Ring, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
• 1974 - Kellee Nicole Kattleman, Miss Wyoming USA (1996)
• 1975 - Reinhard Davis, hockey goaltender (Team Austria 1998)
• 1978 - Tatyana Jecmenica, Novi Sad Yugo, tennis star (1995 Futures-Novi Sad)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0966 - Benedictus V Grammaticus, Italian (anti?)Pope (5/22-6/23 964), dies
• 1187 - Reinoud van ChÉtillon, French prince of Antioch, dies
• 1301 - Willem II Berthout van Mechelen, bishop of Utrecht, dies in battle
• 1307 - Rudolf III, Duke of Austria/King of Bohemia dies
• 1336 - Elisabeth van Portugal, queen of Portugal/saint, dies at about 65
• 1498 - Filips van Burgundy, admiral-general of Netherlands, dies
• 1519 - Johann Tetzel, (German?) monk, dies at about 79
• 1541 - Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish occupier, dies at about 56
• 1578 - Charles de Berlaymont, baron of Hierges, gov/viceroy of Names, dies
• 1603 - Philippus the Monte, priest/bandmaster/composer, dies at 82
• 1623 - William Byrd, English composer (Ave verum corpus), dies at 80
• 1627 - Thomas Middleton, Elizabethan dramatist (Women Beware Women), dies
• 1672 - Ambrosius Reiner, composer, dies at 67
• 1672 - Govert D Camphuysen, (court)painter, dies at about 48
• 1757 - Jean-Joseph Vade, composer, dies at 38
• 1768 - Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide), dies at 58
• 1780 - Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen South Neth, dies at 67
• 1787 - Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71
• 1789 - Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian conductor, dies at 59
• 1826 - John Adams, 2nd president (1797-1801), dies at 90
• 1826 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83
• 1831 - James Monroe, 5th president (1817-25), dies at 73
• 1845 - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies
• 1848 - Franáois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies
• 1851 - Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer, dies at 67
• 1854 - Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian, dies at 72
• 1856 - Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor, dies at 64
• 1863 - Paul Joseph Revere, US grandson of Paul Revere/Union brig-gen, dies
• 1888 - Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Schimmelreiter), dies at 70
• 1889 - Auguste Mermet, composer, dies at 79
• 1891 - Frederic Louis Ritter, composer, dies at 67
• 1901 - John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher, dies
• 1910 - Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars), dies at 75
• 1910 - Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer, dies at 70
• 1917 - Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskreet), dies at 84
• 1923 - Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 67
• 1929 - Otto Taubmann, composer, dies at 70
• 1931 - Emanuele F duke of Aosta, Italian WW I-general/fascist, dies at 62
• 1931 - Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies
• 1934 - "Madame" Marie Curie-Sklodovska, Polish/French chemist, dies
• 1934 - Chaim Nachman Bialik, zionist poet, dies
• 1938 - Otto Bauer, Austrian social democrat, dies at 56
• 1938 - Suzanne Lenglen, 6 time Wimbledon champ, dies at 39 of anemia
• 1943 - Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/PM of Poland in exile (1939-43), dies at 62
• 1946 - Othenio Able, Austria paleontology, dies at 71
• 1952 - Walter Long, dies at 73
• 1957 - Judy Tyler, actress (Princess-Howdy Doody), dies at 24 in car crash
• 1958 - Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79
• 1961 - Franklyn Farnum, dies of cancer at 83
• 1962 - Rex Bell, actor/lt-gov (Nevada), dies of heart attack at 56
• 1963 - Fritz Reuter, composer, dies at 66
• 1963 - Grant Richards, actor (Doug-Doorway to Danger), dies at 48
• 1970 - Harold Vanderbilt, America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85
• 1971 - Don McPherson, rocker, dies at 29
• 1971 - Joe Cox, cricketer (4 wickets in 3 Tests for South Africa), dies
• 1971 - Thomas C Hart, US admiral/commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94
• 1973 - Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39
• 1974 - Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/pres Com Palestine, dies
• 1982 - Sylvestre A GuzmÝn FernÝndez, pres Dominican Rep, commits suicide
• 1983 - Claus Adam, composer, dies at 65
• 1985 - John de Quay, Dutch premier (1959-63), dies at 83
• 1986 - Flor Peeters, Flemish baron/organist/composer, dies at 83
• 1988 - Adrian Adonis, [Keith Franke], WWF wrestler, killed in auto accident
• 1992 - Astor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (Tango Nuevo), dies at 71
• 1992 - Joe Newman, US jazz trumpetist (Count Basie), dies
• 1993 - Anne Shirley, actress (Stella Dallas), dies of lung cancer at 75
• 1993 - Charles Crain, actor, dies in Hollywood at 83
• 1993 - Felix White, choreographer (Black Vibrations Theatre), dies at 65
• 1994 - Arthur Berry, artist, dies at 69
• 1994 - Juan Gil Poet-Albert, dies at 90
• 1994 - Liesbeth Struppert, actress (Pipo the Clown, Anne Frank), dies at 55
• 1994 - Rupert Davies, methodist scholar, dies at 84
• 1994 - Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies
• 1995 - Bob Ross, artist, dies at 52
• 1995 - Eva Gabor, actress (Green Acres), dies at 74
• 1995 - Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar, dies at 85
• 1995 - Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez, tennis great, dies of stomach cancer at 67
• 1996 - Clay Jones, gardener, dies at 72
• 1996 - Leo Avery, abbot of Quarr, dies at 58
• 1997 - Charles Kuralt, news anchor (CBS Sunday Morning), dies at 62