Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[Krandall]

1976 – Anneliese Michel, German woman said to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)

and then I moved on to a better prospect

Eh.. A bit over rated she was.

[dragonz]

"Australia, New Zealand: Tartan Day"

Yup, it's the day to go out tartin' 

[socalrappy700]

July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 182 days remaining until the end of the year.

It is the midpoint of a common year. This is because there are 182 days before and 182 days after (median of the year) in common years, and 183 before and 182 after in leap years. The exact time in the middle of the year is at noon, or 12:00 pm. It falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Day in common years.

Today in history

626 – In fear of assassination, Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Incident at Xuanwu Gate. On September 4, Shimin's father abdicates in his favour and Shimin becomes Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China.
706 – In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang has the remains of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, his wife and recently-deceased ruling empress Wu Zetian, her son Li Xian, her grandson Li Chongrun, and granddaughter Li Xianhui all interred in a new tomb complex outside Chang'an known as the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang.
963 – The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas to be Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
1298 – The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas is signed by Portugal and Spain.
1555 – Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.
1561 – Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
1578 – Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island.[citation needed]
1582 – Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
1613 – The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall.
1644 – English Civil War: the Battle of Marston Moor.
1679 – Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
1777 – Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
1808 – Simon Fraser reaches the Pacific Ocean near New Westminster.
1823 – Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
1839 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinque take over the slave ship Amistad.
1850 – The self-contained gas mask is patented by Benjamin J. Lane.
1853 – The Russian Army invades Turkey, beginning the Crimean War.
1863 – American Civil War: second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
1870 – Jules Joseph d'Anethan is elected the tenth Prime Minister of Belgium.
1871 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after its conquest from the Papal States.
1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from infection on September 19.
1890 – The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
1897 – Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains patent for radio in London.
1900 – First zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1917 – The East St. Louis Riots end.
1934 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
1940 – Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
1950 – The Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan burns down.
1950 – Henri Queuille is elected the seventh Prime Minister of the Fourth French Republic.
1962 – The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
1966 – The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
1976 – North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1979 – The first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, is introduced.
1985 – Andrei Gromyko is appointed the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
1987 – Nilde Iotti is named as the first female President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
1990 – A stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel leads to the deaths of 1,426 pilgrims in Mecca during hajj.
2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
2001 – AbioCor self contained artificial heart created.
2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
2003 – Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, insults German MP Martin Schulz by calling him a "kapo" during a session of the European Parliament.
2004 – ASEAN Regional Forum accepts Pakistan as its 24th member.¨
2008 – Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other FARC hostages are rescued by the Colombian armed forces.

Births

419 – Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
1029 – Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (d. 1094)
1262 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)
1363 – Mary, Queen of Sicily (d. 1401)
1489 – Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)
1492 – Elizabeth Tudor, English princess (d. 1495)
1647 – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councilor (d. 1730)
1665 – Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (d. 1726)
1667 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (d. 1740)
1698 – Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena (d. 1780)
1714 – Christoph Willibald von Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)
1724 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)
1819 – Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (d. 1900)
1820 – George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (d. 1878)
1821 – Charles Tupper, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)
1849 – Maria Theresia of Austria-Este, queen of Bavaria (d. 1919)
1862 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
1865 – Lily Braun, German writer (d. 1916)
1876 – Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933)
1877 – Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
1881 – Royal H. Weller, American politician (d. 1929)
1884 – Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
1893 – Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center) (d. 1950)
1896 – Lydia Mei, Estonian artist (d. 1965)
1900 – Tyrone Guthrie, English actor (d. 1971)
1903 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
1903 – King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
1904 – René Lacoste, French tennis player (d. 1996)
1906 – Hans Bethe, German-born nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
1908 – Thurgood Marshall, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1993)
1914 – Frederick Fennell, American conductor (d. 2004)
1914 – Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
1916 – Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
1916 – Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Combat pilot and highest-decorated German soldier of WWII (d. 1982)
1917 – Murry Wilson, American musician and producer (The Beach Boys) (d. 1973)
1918 – Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (d. 2005)
1919 – Jean Craighead George, American writer
1923 – Wisława Szymborska, Polish writer, Nobel laureate
1925 – Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
1925 – Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1961)
1926 – Octavian Paler, Romanian writer, journalist, (d. 2007)
1927 – Brock Peters, American actor (d. 2005)
1927 – Gene Ray, Founder of the Time Cube website and proponent of Time Cube philosophy
1929 – Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines
1929 – John A. Cade, American politician
1930 – Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
1932 – Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 2002)
1933 – Kenny Wharram, Canadian hockey player
1934 – Tom Springfield, British singer and songwriter (The Springfields)
1937 – Polly Holliday, American actress
1937 – Richard Petty, American race car driver
1939 – John H. Sununu, White House Chief of Staff under George HW Bush
1939 – Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet
1939 – Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1973)
1940 – Kenneth Harry Clarke, British politician
1941 – Stéphane Venne, French Canadian songwriter
1942 – Vicente Fox, Former Mexican president
1943 – Walter Godefroot, Belgian cyclist
1946 – Richard Axel, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1946 – Ron Silver, American actor (d. 2009)
1947 – Larry David, American television producer
1948 – Saul Rubinek, Canadian film actor
1948 – Gene McFadden, American songwriter (d. 2006)
1949 – Roy Bittan, American musician (E Street Band)
1949 – Hanno Pöschl, Austrian actor
1949 – Robert Paquette, French Canadian singer and songwriter
1951 – Michele Santoro, Italian TV journalist
1952 – Johnny Colla, American musician (Huey Lewis and the News)
1953 – Mark Hart, British musician (Crowded House and Supertramp)
1953 – Tony Armas, Venezuelan baseball player
1954 – Pete Briquette, Irish musician (Boomtown Rats)
1955 – Andrew Divoff, Venezuelan actor
1955 – Kevin Michael Grace, Canadian journalist
1956 – Jerry Hall, American actress
1957 – Bret "Hitman" Hart, Canadian wrestler
1958 – Thomas Bickerton, American Methodist bishop
1959 – Mike Hallett, English snooker player
1960 – Terry Rossio, American screenwriter
1961 – Michael Lindsay, Voice actor
1963 – Mark Kermode, British film critic
1964 – José Canseco, Cuban-born American baseball player
1964 – Ozzie Canseco, Cuban-born American baseball player
1964 – Joe Magrane, American baseball player
1964 – Charles Robinson, American wrestling referee
1964 – Alan Tait, Scotland rugby player
1969 – Matthew Cox, American convicted felon
1969 – Tim Rodber, England rugby player
1970 – Yancy Butler, American actress
1970 – Colin Edwin, Australian musician (Porcupine Tree)
1970 – Scotty 2 Hotty, American professional wrestler
1970 – Monie Love, English rapper
1970 – Steve Morrow, Irish footballer
1971 – Evelyn Lau, Canadian author
1971 – Troy Brown, American football player
1971 – Bryan Redpath, Scotland rugby player
1972 – Darren Shan, Irish children's author
1973 – Peter Kay, British comedian
1974 – Sean Casey, American baseball player
1974 – Moon So-ri, South Korean actress
1974 – Matthew Reilly, Australian author
1974 – Rocky Gray, American musician
1974 – Tim Christensen, Danish singer
1975 – Erik Ohlsson, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
1975 – Éric Dazé, French Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Stefan Terblanche, South African rugby player
1976 – Krisztián Lisztes, Hungarian footballer
1976 – Tomáš Vokoun, Czech hockey player
1978 – Jüri Ratas, Estonian politician
1979 – Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer
1979 – Sam Hornish, Jr., American race car driver
1979 – Joe Thornton, Canadian hockey player
1980 – Nicole Manske, American beauty queen and motorsports television commentator
1981 – Nathan Ellington, English footballer
1981 – Alex Koroknay-Palicz, American youth rights activist
1981 – Angel Pagán, Puerto Rican baseball player
1981 – Aaron Voros, Canadian hockey player
1982 – Olivia Munn, American television hostess
1983 – Michelle Branch, American singer (The Wreckers)
1983 – Sammy J, Australian comedian
1984 – Vanessa Lee Chester, American actress
1984 – Thomas Kortegaard, Danish footballer
1984 – Maarten Martens, Belgian footballer
1984 – Johnny Weir, American figure skater
1985 – Rhett Bomar, American football player
1985 – Chad Henne, American football player
1985 – Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
1986 – Brett Cecil, American baseball player
1986 – Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer
1987 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (d. 2008)
1991 – Cory Spedding, Participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 for the UK Finishing 2nd
1992 – Madison Chock, American ice dancer

Deaths

862 – St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester(b. 789)
1298 – Adolf of Nassau, King of Germany (b. 1220)
1504 – Ştefan cel Mare, Prince of Moldova (b. 1434)
1566 – Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)
1582 – Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (b. 1528)
1591 – Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
1621 – Thomas Harriot, English astronomer
1656 – François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b. 1611)
1674 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)
1684 – John Rogers, president of Harvard University (b. 1630)
1743 – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, second Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1746 – Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656)
1778 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (b. 1712)
1778 – Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer
1822 – Denmark Vesey, American who planned slave revolt, hanged (b. ca. 1767)
1833 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1757)
1843 – Samuel Hahnemann, German physician (b. 1755)
1850 – Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788)
1857 – Carlo Pisacane, Italian patriot (b. 1818)
1903 – Ed Delahanty, American Hall of Fame baseball player (b. 1867)
1912 – Tom Richardson, English cricketer (b. 1870)
1914 – Joseph Chamberlain, Mayor of Birmingham and Father of Neville (b. 1836)
1915 – Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (b. 1830)
1920 – William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
1926 – Émile Coué, French psychologist (b. 1857)
1929 – Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1893)
1932 – Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
1934 – Ernst Röhm, Nazi official (b. 1887)
1955 – Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
1961 – Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1964 – Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1929)
1966 – Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
1969 – Michael DiBiase, wrestler (b. 1923)
1972 – Joseph Fielding Smith, tenth president of The Church of of Latter-day Saints (b. 1876)
1973 – Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
1973 – Chick Hafey, baseball player (b. 1903)
1973 – George McBride, baseball player (b. 1880)
1973 – Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1975 – James Robertson Justice, British actor (b. 1907)
1977 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (b. 1899)
1978 – Aris Alexandrou, Greek novelist, poet and translator (b. 1922)
1984 – Paul Dozois, Quebec politician (b. 1908)
1985 – David Purley, British Formula 1 driver (b. 1945)
1986 – Peanuts Lowrey, baseball player (b. 1917)
1989 – Franklin Schaffner, American film director (b. 1920)
1989 – Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (b. 1909)
1991 – Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
1992 – Camarón de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1950)
1993 – Fred Gwynne, American actor (b. 1926)
1993 – Sir Edward Dunlop, Australian war hero (b. 1907)
1994 – Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (b. 1967)
1995 – Krissy Taylor, American model (b. 1978)
1997 – James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
1999 – Mario Puzo, American author (b. 1920)
2000 – Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
2002 – Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2004 – Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese writer (b. 1919)
2004 – John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (b. 1919)
2005 – Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
2005 – Norm Prescott, American animation producer (b. 1927)
2006 – Jan Murray, American comedian (b. 1916)
2007 – Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (b. 1929)
2008 – Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician (b. 1956)
2008 – Elizabeth Spriggs, English-Born Actress (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances

Bahia: Independence Day
Canada: Canada Day (if July 1 falls on a Sunday)
Curaçao: Flag Day

Palio di Provenzano in Siena, Italy
Annual pilgrimage at Mariánska hora

[Krandall]

1976 – North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.


That lasted a while....

[Colorado700R]

1976 – North and South Vietnam, divided since 1954, reunite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.


That lasted a while....

  it's be going strong for 33 years now

[Krandall]

my bad.. I was thinking korea for some reason. go vietnam!

[Colorado700R]

my bad.. I was thinking korea for some reason. go vietnam!

Minnesnowda public school system's history curriculum fail

[dick-84]

Whats up everyone? Its been awhile since i have been on.

[Nick]

Whats up everyone? Its been awhile since i have been on.

so your here getting it on now huh?

[dragonz]

Whats up everyone? Its been awhile since i have been on.

so your here getting it on now huh?

If you 2 want to get it on, go find a room already........

[Nick]

Whats up everyone? Its been awhile since i have been on.

so your here getting it on now huh?

If you 2 want to get it on, go find a room already........

so would that be nick and dick gettin it on? lol

[socalrappy700]

July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 181 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

324 – Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty which ruled France till the French Revolution in 1792.
1608 – Québec City founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
1767 – Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
1767 – Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date).
1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces massacre 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre.
1819 – The first savings bank in the United States (The Bank of Savings in New York City) opens.
1839 – The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State College, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.
1844 – The last pair of Great Auks is killed.
1848 – Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans.
1849 – The French entered Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to Italian unification.
1852 – Congress establishes the United States's 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.
1863 – U.S. Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.
1866 – Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.
1884 – Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.
1886 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.
1886 – The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
1890 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
1898 – Spanish-American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba.
1913 – Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
1938 – World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 mph.(203 km/h)
1938 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
1940 – World War II: the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers el Kébir, is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: Dunkerque, Provence and Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perish.
1944 – World War II: Minsk is liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.
1952 – Puerto Rico's Constitution is approved by the Congress of the United States.
1952 – The SS United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During this voyage, the SS United States takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary
1962 – The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.
1969 – The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
1970 – A British Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered jetliner crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 113 people.
1977 – The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded.
1979 – US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
1986 – US President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
1988 – United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
1988 – The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.
1994 – The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people are killed in crashes.
1996 – Stone of Scone returned to Scotland.
2001 – A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
2004 – Official opening of Bangkok's subway system.
2005 – The national law legalizing same-sex marriage takes effect in Spain.
2006 – Asteroid labeled as 2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by Earth.

Births

1423 – King Louis XI of France (d. 1483)
1442 – Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1500)
1530 – Claude Fauchet, French historian (d. 1601)
1676 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1747)
1683 – Edward Young, English poet (d. 1765)
1685 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)
1728 – Robert Adam, Scottish architect (d. 1792)
1738 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
1743 – Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1813)
1851 – Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1930)
1854 – Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (d. 1928)
1866 – Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (d. 1907)
1870 – Richard Bedford Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947)
1875 – Ferdinand Sauerbruch, German surgeon (d. 1951)
1878 – George M. Cohan, American actor, director, singer and dancer (d. 1942)
1879 – Alfred Korzybski, Polish linguist (d. 1950)
1880 – Carl Schuricht, Polish-born German conductor (d. 1967)
1883 – Franz Kafka, Czech-German writer (d. 1924)
1888 – Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish writer (d. 1963)
1900 – Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director (d. 1987)
1903 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
1906 – George Sanders, British actor (d. 1972)
1906 – Jack Earle, American actor and sideshow performer (d. 1952)
1908 – M. F. K. Fisher, American writer (d. 1992)
1908 – Robert B. Meyner, American politician (d. 1990)
1913 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American columnist (d. 1965)
1917 – João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (d. 1990)
1918 – S. V. Ranga Rao, South Indian actor (d. 1974)
1920 – Paul O'Dea, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1921 – Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952)
1922 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian painter, called Corneille
1924 – S. R. Nathan, 6th president of Singapore
1927 – Ken Russell, British director
1930 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
1930 – Tommy Tedesco, American musician (d. 1997)
1930 – Pete Fountain, American clarinetist
1931 – Frits Helmuth, Danish actor (d. 2004)
1933 – Edward Brandt, American doctor and public health official (d. 2007)
1935 – Harrison Schmitt, American astronaut and politician
1936 – Baard Owe, Norwegian-born Danish actor
1937 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-born, British playwright
1938 – Bolo Yeung, Hong Kong actor
1939 – László Kovács, Hungarian politician and diplomat
1939 – Brigitte Fassbaender, German mezzo-soprano
1940 – César Tovar, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 1994)
1940 – Lamar Alexander, American politician
1940 – Jerzy Buzek, Prime Minister of Poland
1940 – Fontella Bass, American soul singer
1942 – Eddy Mitchell, French singer and actor
1942 – Paco Stanley, Mexican TV personality (d. 1999)
1943 – Kurtwood Smith, American actor
1944 – Michel Polnareff, French singer and songwriter
1945 – Michael Cole, American TV actor
1946 – Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland
1947 – Dave Barry, American humorist and author
1947 – Betty Buckley, American actress
1948 – Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist
1949 – Jan Smithers, American actress
1949 – Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (Heatwave) (d. 2006)
1950 – James Hahn, American politician
1950 – Ewen Chatfield, New Zealand cricketer
1951 – Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
1951 – Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician
1952 – Amit Kumar, Indian singer
1955 – Sanma Akashiya, Japanese television performer
1956 – Montel Williams, American talk show host
1956 – Don Vito, American Viva La Bam castmember
1957 – Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
1958 – Matthew Fraser, Canadian-British journalist
1958 – Siân Lloyd, Welsh weather presenter
1958 – Aaron Tippin, American singer
1958 – Charlie Higson, English author and actor
1959 – Julie Burchill, British journalist and author
1959 – David Shore, Canadian-born writer
1959 – Stephen Pearcy, American singer (Ratt)
1960 – Vince Clarke, British songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure)
1961 – Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese dancer
1961 – Tim Smith, English musician (Cardiacs)
1962 – Tom Cruise, American actor
1962 – Hunter Tylo, American actress
1962 – Thomas Gibson, American actor
1962 – Hugh Page, former South African cricketer
1964 – Joanne Harris, British author
1964 – Yeardley Smith, French-born American actress
1965 – Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese wrestler (d. 2005)
1965 – Connie Nielsen, Danish actress
1966 – Moisés Alou, Dominican baseball player
1967 – Brian Cashman, American major league baseball executive
1968 – Aku Louhimies, Finnish film director and screenwriter
1969 – Kevin Hearn, Canadian musician (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 – Teemu Selänne, Finnish ice hockey player
1970 – Shawnee Smith, American actress
1970 – Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist
1972 – Warren Furman, British television personality
1973 – Johnny Terris, Canadian actor and director
1973 – Patrick Wilson, American actor
1973 – Emma Cunniffe, British actress
1976 – Andrea Barber, American actress
1976 – Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 – Henry Olonga, Zimbabwean cricketer
1976 – Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1976 – Bobby Skinstad, Springbok Rugby player
1978 – Mizuki Noguchi, Japanese long-distance runner
1979 – Ludivine Sagnier, French actress
1979 – Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Greek footballer
1979 – David Bacani, American baseball player
1980 – Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer
1980 – Kevin Boyle, American basketballer
1980 – Harbhajan Singh, Indian cricketer
1982 – Kanika, Indian actress
1983 – Steph Jones, American singer and model
1984 – Syed Rasel, Bangladeshi cricketer
1984 – Corey Sevier, Canadian actor
1984 – Manny Lawson, American Football player
1985 – Minami Keisuke, Japanese singer and actor.
1987 – Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver

Deaths

1570 – Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist
1642 – Maria de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
1672 – Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635)
1704 – Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia (b. 1657)
1749 – William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
1778 – Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
1790 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (b. 1736)
1795 – Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (b. 1714)
1795 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and governor of Louisiana (b. 1716)
1809 – Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright (b. 1746)
1858 – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
1863 – George Hull Ward, American general (b. 1826)
1904 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian Zionist (b. 1860)
1904 – Edouard Beaupré, Canadian giant and strongman (b. 1881)
1914 – Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)
1916 – Hetty Green, American businesswoman (b. 1834)
1918 – Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844)
1933 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (b. 1852)
1935 – André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
1942 – Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (b. 1856)
1954 – Siegfried Handloser, German physician (b. 1895)
1957 – Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
1965 – Trigger, Roy Rogers's horse (b. 1932)
1969 – Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (b. 1942)
1971 – Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
1977 – Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (b. 1891)
1978 – James Daly, American actor (b. 1918)
1979 – Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
1981 – Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (b. 1920)
1985 – Frank Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (b. 1893)
1986 – Rudy Vallee, American singer (b. 1901)
1989 – Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
1993 – Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
1993 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
1994 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
1995 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)
1995 – Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1998 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
1999 – Mark Sandman, American musician (b. 1952)
2000 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor (b. 1944)
2001 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931)
2001 – Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
2003 – Gaetano Alibrandi, Papal diplomat (b. 1914)
2004 – Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1929)
2005 – Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (b. 1914)
2005 – Gaylord Nelson, American politician (b. 1916)
2006 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
2006 – Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (b. 1950)
2007 – Alice Timander, Swedish dentist (b. 1915)
2007 – Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
2008 – Ernie Cooksey, English Footballer (b. 1980)
2008 – Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (b. 1925)
2008 – Clive Hornby, English soap actor – Emmerdale (b. 1944)
2008 – Oliver Schroer, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1956)

Holidays and observances

Belarus: Independence Day
United States Virgin Islands: Emancipation Day

Start of the Dog Days according to The Old Farmer's Almanac but not according to established meaning in most European cultures.

[Krandall]

Mornin ho's

[BRAD]

Morning guys. Whats up?

[Krandall]

Sup b-Rad!!!!

hows your summer goin man?