Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[Krandall]

That's tough

[Peelz]

That's tough

nope. hint:

Grammar ninja's favorite riddle

Railroad crossing watch out for the cars, can you spell THAT without any R's?

T-H-A-T 

[Krandall]

sumbish! 

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awesome Mr Krandall! Cock Blocker FTW

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[socalrappy700]

Ok, I'm back from vacation. 

July 26 is the 207th day of the year (208th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 158 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

657 – Battle of Siffin.
811 – Battle of Pliska; Byzantine emperor Nicephorus I is slain, his heir Stauracius is seriously wounded.
920 – Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.
1309 – Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.
1469 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Edgecote Moor – Pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of King Edward IV.
1533 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Inca emperor Atahualpa is executed in Cajamarca by the garrote by Spanish invaders known as Conquistadors.[citation needed]
1581 – Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration). The declaration of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.
1745 – The first recorded women's cricket match took place near Guildford, England
1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
1775 – The birth of what would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.
1788 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
1803 – The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London.
1822 – José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.
1847 – Liberia declares independence.
1861 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends – At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
1878 – In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.
1882 – Premiere of Richard Wagner's Parsifal at Bayreuth.
1882 – The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
1891 – France annexes Tahiti.
1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
1914 – Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
1936 – The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
1937 – End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
1941 – World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
1944 – World War II: Soviet army enters Lviv, major city of western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jewish survivors left, out of 160,000 Jews in Lviv prior to Nazi occupation.
1944 – The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain.
1945 – The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
1945 – The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
1945 – The US Navy cruiser Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
1946 – Aloha Airlines began service from Honolulu International Airport
1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.
1948 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
1952 – King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.
1953 – Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.
1953 – Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.
1956 – Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.
1957 – Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated
1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
1963 – Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
1963 – Earthquake in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (republic of southern Yugoslavia) – 1100 dead
1963 – The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.
1965 – Full independence is granted to the Maldives.
1966 – Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent.
1968 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
1971 – Apollo Program: Apollo 15 Mission – Launch of Apollo 15.
1974 – Greek Prime Minister Constantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.
1975 – Formation of a military triumvirate in Portugal.
1977 – The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
1990 – The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.
1994 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders the removal of Russian troops from Estonia.

Space Shuttle Discovery STS-114 launch on July 26, 2005.

1999 – Cessation of combat activities after the Kargil War; Celebrated as Kargil Vijay Diwas in India.
2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
2005 – Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.
2005 – Samir Geagea, the Lebanese Forces (LF) leader, is released after spending 11 years in a solitary confinement. His release came after the end of the Syrian occupation to Lebanon.

Births

1030 – Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw (d. 1079)
1678 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711)
1739 – George Clinton, 4th vice president of the USA (d. 1812)
1782 – John Field, Irish composer (d. 1837)
1791 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, composer (d. 1844)
1802 – Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (d. 1855)
1829 – Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Belgian statesman, Nobel Laureate (d. 1912)
1846 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. 1880)
1854 – Philippe Gaucher, French dermatologist (d. 1918)
1855 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
1856 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1950)
1858 – Tom Garrett, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1943)
1865 – Philipp Scheidemann, First Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (d. 1939)
1874 – Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (d. 1951)
1875 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961)
1875 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
1880 – Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1951)
1885 – André Maurois, French author (d. 1967)
1886 – Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (d. 1965)
1888 – Reginald Hands, Former South African cricketer (d. 1918)
1892 – Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1966)
1894 – Aldous Huxley, English-born author (d. 1963)
1895 – Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person (d. 1922)
1895 – Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (d. 1964)
1896 – Henry Birkin, British racing driver (d. 1933)
1897 – Paul Gallico, American author (d. 1976)
1903 – Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (d. 1963)
1906 – Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish agent of Intelligence (d. 1943)
1908 – Lucien Wercollier, Luxembourgish sculptor (d. 2002)
1909 – Peter Thorneycroft, British politician (d. 1994)
1909 – Vivian Vance, American actress (d. 1979)
1914 – Erskine Hawkins, American musician and bandleader (d. 1993)
1914 – Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (d. 1968)
1918 – Marjorie Lord, American actress
1919 – Virginia Gilmore, American actress (d. 1986)
1920 – Bob Waterfield, American football player (d. 1983)
1921 – Jean Shepherd, American writer (d. 1999)
1922 – Blake Edwards, American film director
1922 – Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000)
1923 – Jan Berenstain, American author
1923 – Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1925 – Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (d. 2000)
1926 – James Best, American actor
1926 – Ana María Matute, Spanish author
1927 – Gulabrai Ramchand, Former Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
1928 – Don Beauman, British racing driver (d. 1955)
1928 – Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of the Italian Republic
1928 – Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (d. 1980)
1928 – Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)
1928 – Peter Lougheed, Canadian politician
1929 – Marc Lalonde, French Canadian politician
1929 – Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-born French pianist
1929 – Joseph Jackson, American manager, former boxer and former musician
1931 – Takashi Ono, Japanese gymnast
1931 – Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager and former player (d. 2006)
1936 – Mary Millar, English actress (d. 1998)
1938 – Darlene Love, American singer
1939 – John Howard, 25th Prime Minister of Australia
1939 – Bob Lilly, American football player
1940 – Dobie Gray, American singer
1940 – Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1969)
1940 – Bobby Rousseau, Quebec ice hockey player
1940 – Tolis Voskopoulos, Greek singer
1941 – Bobby Hebb, American musician
1941 – Brenton Wood, American singer-songwriter
1942 – Vladimír Mečiar, Slovak prime minister
1942 – Teddy Pilette, Belgian racing driver
1943 – Peter Hyams, American film director
1943 – Mick Jagger, English singer (The Rolling Stones)
1944 – Kiel Martin, American actor (d. 1990)
1945 – Helen Mirren, English actress
1949 – Roger Taylor, English musician (Queen)
1949 – Thaksin Shinawatra, ex-Prime Minister of Thailand
1950 – Susan George, English actress
1950 – Nelinho, Brazilian footballer
1950 – Rich Vogler, American race car driver (d. 1990)
1951 – Rick Martin, Canadian ice hockey player
1953 – Robert Phillips, classical guitarist
1954 – Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (d. 1994)
1956 – Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater
1956 – Tommy Rich, American professional wrestler
1957 – Nana Visitor, American actress
1957 – Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor
1957 – Hart Hanson, American television writer and producer
1958 – Angela Hewitt, Canadian classical pianist
1959 – Rick Bragg, American writer
1959 – Kevin Spacey, American actor
1959 – Michael Ross, American serial killer (d. 2005)
1961 – Gary Cherone, American musician (Extreme)
1961 – Andy Connell, English musician (Swing Out Sister, A Certain Ratio)
1961 – Keiko Matsui, Japanese musician and composer
1961 – Dimitris Saravakos, Greek footballer
1962 – Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Irish musician
1964 – Sandra Bullock, American actress
1964 – Ralf Metzenmacher, German painter and designer
1964 – Danny Woodburn, American actor
1965 – Jeremy Piven, American actor
1967 – Anthony Durante, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1967 – Tim Schafer, American computer game designer
1968 – Olivia Williams, English actress
1968 – Frédéric Diefenthal, French actor and director
1969 – Greg Colbrunn, American baseball player
1970 – Joan Wasser, American singer and musician
1971 – Khaled Mahmud, Former Bangladeshi cricketer
1972 – Nathan Buckley, Former Australian Rules Footballer
1973 – Kate Beckinsale, British actress
1973 – Lenka Šarounová, Czech astronomer
1974 – Dean Sturridge, English Footballer
1974 – Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player
1974 – Dan Konopka, American musician (OK Go)
1975 – Joe Smith, American basketball player
1976 – Brad Wilkins, American architect
1977 – Martin Laursen, Danish footballer
1977 – Rebecca St. James, Australian-born singer
1973 – Chris Pirillo, American TV host, blogger
1979 – Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Mageina Tovah, American actress
1979 – Erik Westrum, American ice hockey player
1980 – Dave Baksh, Canadian guitarist (Sum 41)
1980 – Lee Dong-gun, South Korean actor
1981 – Abe Forsythe, Australian actor/director
1982 – Chez Starbuck, American actor
1982 – Mugdha Godse, Indian Actress and Model
1983 – Delonte West, American basketball player
1983 – Roderick Strong, American professional wrestler
1984 – Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
1985 – Gaël Clichy, French footballer
1985 – Audrey De Montigny, Quebec singer
1985 – Adam DiMichele, American football quarterback
1987 – Miriam McDonald, Canadian actress
1993 – Taylor Momsen, American actress

Deaths

796 – Offa, King of Mercia
811 – Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor
1380 – Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)
1471 – Pope Paul II (b. 1417)
1592 – Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
1611 – Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
1680 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English writer (b. 1647)
1684 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (b. 1646)
1712 – Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English statesman (b. 1631)
1723 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1660)
1801 – Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria (b. 1756)
1863 – Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (b. 1793)
1867 – King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)
1919 – Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1836)
1925 – Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (b. 1848)
1925 – William Jennings Bryan, American politician (b. 1860)
1925 – Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (b. 1888)
1932 – Frederick S. Duesenberg automotive pioneer (b. 1876)
1934 – Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)
1941 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b. 1875)
1942 – Roberto Arlt, Argentinian writer (b. 1900)
1952 – Eva Perón, Argentine First Lady (b. 1919)
1953 – Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (b. 1883)
1960 – Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (b. 1879)
1960 – Cedric Gibbons, American art director (b. 1893)
1964 – Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician and race driver (b. 1884)
1969 – Frank Loesser, American composer (b. 1910)
1970 – Robert Taschereau, French-Canadian jurist (b. 1896)
1971 – Diane Arbus, American photographer (b. 1923)
1980 – Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet (b. 1928)
1984 – George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (b. 1901)
1984 – Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)
1986 – Averell Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1891)
1988 – Fazlur Rahman Malik, Pakistani scholar (b. 1919)
1990 – Brent Mydland, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1952)
1992 – Mary Wells, American singer (b. 1943)
1993 – Matthew Ridgeway, American army general (b. 1895)
1994 – Christy Henrich, American gymnast (b. 1972)
1995 – Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1917)
1995 – Raymond Mailloux, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
1995 – George W. Romney, American businessman and politician (b. 1907)
2000 – John Tukey, American statistician (b. 1915)
2001 – Rex Barber, American WWII aviator (b. 1917)
2001 – Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
2005 – Betty Astell, British actress (b. 1912)
2005 – Alexander Golitzen, American art director (b. 1908)
2005 – Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925)
2005 – Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
2007 – Lars Forssell, Swedish writer (b. 1928)
2007 – John Normington, English actor (b. 1937)
2007 – Skip Prosser, American basketball coach (b. 1950)

Holidays and observances

Cuba – Anniversary of the Moncada Barracks Attack (1953); Day of the National Rebellion
India – Vijay Divas (end of Kargil War])
Liberia and Maldives – Independence Day

[Peelz]

happy liberian independence day

[Colorado700R]

morning all

[Krandall]

1997  "Candide," closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 103 performances  
1997  "Victor/Victoria" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 738 performances  
1997  Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser's #16  
1997  Franklin Quest Senior Golf Championship  
1997  Stewart Cink wins golfs Greater Hartford Open (267)  
1997  Tammie Green wins Giant Eagle LPGA Classic  
1996  Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured  
1996  David Sales makes 210 on 1st class cricket debut for Northants vs. Worcs  
1993  Detroit Tiger Fryman hits for cycle but loses 12-7 to Yankees  
1993  Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high  
1993  Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed  
1993  NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million  
1993  New York Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games  
1992  Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Rep National Convention  
1992  Dimitri Lepikov, Vladimir Pychenko, Veniamin Taianovitch and Evgueni  
1992  Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95)  
1991  Rocker Jani Lane, Warrant-Cherry Pie, marries model Bobbie Brown  
1991  TV Guide publishes it's 2000th edition  
1990  Graham Gooch scores 333 vs. India at Lord's  
1990  Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 minutes in county cricket, world record  
1990  Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop  
1989  Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)  
1988  Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years  
1988  General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma  
1988  Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer  
1988  Tommy John commits rec 3 errors on 1 play as Yankees rout Brewers 16-3  
1987  John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies in Israel  
1987  Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive  
1986  14th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley  
1986  24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague, Czechoslovakia (3-0)  
1986  Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France  
1984  Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single vs. Philadelphia  
1983  104 degrees F (40.3 degrees C) in Garmersdorf (German record)  
1983  Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal  
1982  California catches A's Rickey Henderson stealing 3 times  
1982  Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 1st visit to U.S. in almost 11 years  
1982  Menken and Ashman's musical "Little Shop of Horrors," premieres in New York City  
1980  Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead  
1980  Sally Little wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic  
1979  "Broadway Opry '79" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 6 performances  
1979  France performs nuclear Test  
1978  Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd to hit 2 bases-loaded triples (vs Yankees)  
1978  Portuguese President Eanes fires premier Soares  
1977  John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in U.S.  
1976  8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese  
1976  Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested, Lockheed Affair  
1975  Carol Mann wins LPGA George Washington Ladies Golf Classic  
1974  House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment  
1974  Kanhai and Jameson add 465 for 2nd wicket, Warwickshire vs. Gloucs  
1973  40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103)  
1973  Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners  
1972  NHL star Maurice "Rocket" Richard signs with WHL Quebec Nordiques  
1970  Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game  
1970  France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island  
1970  L Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, and Jesse Haines enter Hall of Fame  
1969  15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls  
1969  Pioneer 10 launched  
1968  Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open  
1968  Race Riot in Gary, Indiana  
1967  Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns  
1967  Helmond Sport soccer team forms  
1967  Lyndon Baines Johnson sets up commission to study cause of urban violence  
1967  U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site  
1965  Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government  
1965  President Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking  
1963  Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ  
1963  General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria  
1962  Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission  
1962  Martin Luther King, Jr. jailed in Albany, Georgia  
1962  U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.  
1960  Vice President Nixon nominated for President at Republican convention in Chicago  
1959  Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India vs. England on debut  
1959  William Shea announces he plans to have a baseball team in New York City in 1961  
1958  Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open  
1957  St. James' Theater in London closes  
1956  Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's 1st innings at Manchester  
1955  Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation  
1955  Bulgaria shoots down a plane heading for Israel (58 die)  
1955  Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die  
1954  36th PGA Championship: Chick Herbert at Keller Golf Club St. Paul Minnesota  
1954  Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries  
1953  1st insulin isolated by F Banting and C Best in Toronto  
1953  North Korea and United Nations sign armistice  
1953  Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory  
1953  Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, and Bill Klem and Tom Connolly are inducted into Hall of Fame  
1952  Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (2:23:03.2)  
1950  President Truman promises aid to Taiwan  
1949  1st jet-propelled airline, De Havilland Comet, flies  
1948  Australia set 404 to win vs. England at Headingley  
1948  Bradman's 29th and last Test Cricket century, part of winning 3-404  
1948  Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt  
1947  Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak  
1946  Boston Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game, gets 10 RBIs  
1945  Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from New York Yankees  
1945  U.S. Communist Party forms  
1944  1st British jet fighter used in combat, Gloster Meteor  
1944  Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp  
1944  U.S. regains possession of Guam from Japanese  
1944  U.S. troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy  
1943  772 British bombers attack Hamburg  
1941  103 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July  
1941  German army enters Ukraine  
1941  Japanese forces land in Indo-China  
1940  Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts  
1940  Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare"  
1937  32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1)  
1935  Floods at Yangtzee Jiang and Hoangh, kills 200,000  
1934  French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms  
1932  Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death  
1931  Chilean president Carlos Ibanez forced out  
1931  Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr and SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops  
1930  Andre Leducq wins Tour de France  
1929  Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished  
1928  AVRO, General Vereniging Radio Omroep, forms  
1927  Major Bernard Montgomery (29) marries widow Betty Carver  
1927  Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park)  
1924  8th Olympic games closes in Paris  
1922  International Geographical Union forms in Brussels  
1921  2nd government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms  
1921  Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolates insulin at University of Toronto  
1920  Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation  
1920  Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup  
1919  Chicago race riot, 15 whites and 23 blacks killed, 500 injured  
1918  Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in U.S., launched to carry oil, New York  
1914  Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade  
1913  Belgian Philippe Thys wins Tour de France  
1909  Orville Wright tests 1st U.S. Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s  
1898  Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dancing Men"  
1897  14.75" (37.5 cm) of rainfall, Jewell, Maryland (state 24-hr record)  
1897  Dutch government of Pierson/Goeman Borgesius resigns  
1891  Titus van Wyck succeeds M de Savornin Lohman as Governor of Suriname  
1888  Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile  
1880  A P Abourne patents a process for refining coconut oil  
1880  Battle of Maiwand, at which Dr. Watson is wounded, breaks out  
1866  Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)  
1864  Battle of Darbytown, Virginia (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains)  
1862  Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die  
1862  Steamer "Golden Gate" burns and sinks off west coast of Mexico  
1861  Battle of Mathias Point, Virginia - Rebel forces repel a Federal landing  
1861  Battle of St. Augustine Springs, New Mexico Terr  
1861  Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico  
1861  Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army  
1844  Fire destroys U.S. mint at Charlotte, North Carolina  

[Krandall]

Famous Birthdays:

1977  Jason Michael Zimbler, born in Queens, New York, actor, Clarissa Explains it All 
1976  Mwadi Mabika, WNBA guard and forward for the Los Angeles Sparks 
1975  Alex Rodriguez, New York City, shortstop for the Seattle Mariners 
1973  Amy Linn Duncan, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Miss America-Oklahoma 1997 
1973  Niki Jenkins, born in Selkirk, Manitoba, 72 kg judoka, 1996 Olympics gold 
1973  Sami Alalampi, WLAF receiver, Barcelona Dragons 
1972  Alph Browning, NLF/WLAF receiver, Redskins, Barcelona Dragons 
1972  Bryce Bevill, CFL defensive back for the Saskatchewan Roughriders 
1972  Clint Robinson, Brisbane QLD Australia, K-1 1k canoeist, Bronze Medal 1996 Olympics 
1972  Maya Rudolph, American Actress 
1971  Brennon James Dowric, Australian gymnast, 1992, 1996 Olympics 
1970  Tom Europe, CFL defensive back, Montreal Alouettes 
1969  Jason Woolley, born in Toronto, NHL defenseman for the Florida Panthers 
1969  Linda Burgess, WNBA forward for the Los Angeles Sparks 
1968  Christina Singer, born in Goeppingen, Germany, tennis star, 1991 Futures GBR 
1968  Maria Grazia Cucinotta, born in Messina, Sicily, actress, Postman 
1968  Tom Goodwin, born in Fresno California, outfielder for the Kansas City Royals 
1967  Craig Wolanin, Grosse Pointe, NHL defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche 
1967  Emiel van Eijkeren, soccer player, FC The Hague/NEC 
1967  Jeff Novak, NFL tackle for the Jacksonville Jaguars 
1967  Julian McMahon, actor, Ian Rain-Another World, John Grant-Profiler 
1967  Neil Smith, cricketer, Warwickshire and England A all-rounder 
1967  Sasha Mitchell, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Spike of Bensonhurst 
1963  Jason Buck, WLAF defensive end for the Scottish Claymores 
1963  Donnie Yen, Chinese Actor 
1961  Daniel C Burbank, born in Manchester, Connecticut, Lieutenant Commander USCG/astronaut 
1960  Christina Singer, born in Geoppingen, Germany, tennis star 
1960  Jo Durie, England, tennis player 
1960  Reinaldo de Carvalho, carnival King 
1958  Christopher Dean, Olympics skater, Torvill and Dean, Gold Medal 1984 Olympics, Bronze Medal 1994 Olympics 
1957  Gezina E "Liesbeth" van Apeldoorn, Dutch actress, Composer 
1957  Hansi Muller, born in Stuttgart, Germany, athlete, footballer, played for German national football team 
1956  Carol Leifer, American Comedian 
1955  Allan Border, cricket captain, Australia 
1953  Wim G J M van de Camp, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, CDA 
1953  Yahoo Serious, Australian Director 
1951  Janet Eilber, born in Detroit, Michigan, actress, Hard to Hold, Romantic Comedy 
1950  Michael Vaughn, rocker, Paper Lace 
1949  David Muse, rocker, Firefall 
1949  Jeremy Thomas, actor, Family Life 
1949  Maureen McGovern, born in Youngstown, Ohio, singer, Got To Be a Morning After 
1948  Henny Vrienten, Dutch bassist/singer, Doe Maar 
1948  Peggy Fleming Jenkins, born in San Jose, California, figure skater, Olym-gold-1968 
1947  Betty Thomas, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actress, Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues 
1947  Wayne Dowdy, born in Fitzgerald, Georgia, Representative-D-Mississippi 1981 - 1989 
1946  Gwynne Gilford, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Linda Harris-Waverly Wonders 
1946  Ricardo Anasagasti, [Ricardo M Meul], Curaeao, dancer/actor 
1946  Toktar Ongarbajewitch Aubakirov, Kazakhstan, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-13 
1944  Aleksandr Ivanovich Dedkov, cosmonaut 
1944  Bobbie Gentry, Mississippi, singer and songwriter, Ode to Billy Joe 
1943  Al Ramsey, born in New Jersey, rocker, Gary Lewis and the Playboys-This Diamond Ring 
1943  Stu Gilliam, Detroit, actor/comedian, Roll Out, Harris and Company 
1942  Barbara Ferris, born in London, England, actress, Nice Girl Like Me 
1942  John Pleshette, New York City, actor, Richard-Knots Landing, 7th Avenue 
1942  Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician 
1941  Johannes Fritsch, composer 
1941  Charlie Norwood, born in Georgia, Army Captain, politician, member, U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia 
1939  Irv Cross, NFL sportscaster, CBS-TV 
1939  James McGee, pathologist/professor, Morbid Anatomy at Oxford 
1939  James Victor, born in Puerto Rico, actor, Boulevard Night, Streets of LA 
1938  Gary Gygax, born in Chicago, writer, game designer, co-created 'Dungeons & Dragons' role-playing game 
1937  Anna Dawson, British comedienne, Violet-Keeping Up Appearances 
1937  Chuck Jackson, born in Latta, South Carolina, singer, Any Day Now, I Don't Want to Cry 
1937  Don Galloway, born in Brooksville, Kentucky, actor, Arrest and Trial, Ironside 
1937  Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator 
1934  John Pardoe, CEO, Sight and Sound Education, Liberal MP 
1933  Nick Reynolds, rocker, Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons 
1933  Roger Harris, cricketer, New Zealand opening batsman vs England 1959 
1932  Beverly Byron, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Representative-D-Maryland 1979 - 1993 
1932  Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader 
1932  Robert Cowan, CEO, Highlands and Islands Enterprises 
1931  Jerry Van Dyke, born in Danville, Illinois, actor, My Mother the Car, Coach 
1930  Ronald Dearing, chairman, British Post Office 
1930  Shirley Williams, co-founder, Social Democratic Party, labour minister 
1929  Harvey Fuqua, rock vocalist, Moonglows-Sincerely 
1929  Jack Higgins, [Harry Patterson], novelist 
1929  Marc Wilkinson, composer 
1928  Sakari Mononen, composer 
1926  Peter Coker, captain 
1925  Doc Pomus, born in Brooklyn, New York, given name Jerome Solon Felder, blues singer, songwriter, inducted in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Songwriters Hall of Fame, Blues Hall of Fame 
1924  Otar Vasil'yevich Taktakishvili, composer 
1924  Vincent Canby, critic, New York Times 
1922  Adolfo Celi, born in Sicily, Italy, director, Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue 
1922  Bob Thiele, record producer 
1922  Lillian Hayman, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actress, Leslie Uggams Show 
1922  Norman Lear, TV writer/producer, All in The Family 
1920  Beatrice Pearson, born in Dennison, Texas, actress, Moving Finger 
1920  James Munn, commissioner, British University 
1918  Eero Aukusti Sipila, composer 
1918  Leonard Rose, born in Washington D.C., concert cellist, New York Phil 1943-51 
1917  John Cunningham, executive director, British Aerospace 
1917  Moses Rascoe, blues Singer 
1917  Robert Cowans, executive director, British Aerospace 
1916  Asfa Wossen, Crown prince of Ethiopia/son of emperor Haile Selassi 
1916  Elbert "Skippy" Williams, tenor Sax player 
1916  Kennan Wynn, born in New York City, actor, Dr. Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor 
1916  Siegfried Reda, composer 
1916  Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, author, co-founded The New York Review of Books 
1915  Jack Iverson, Australian cricket mystery spinner, late 40's 
1913  Eva Jones, poet and novelist 
1913  Mary Green, headmistress, Kidbrooke School 
1913  Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet, Diario d'Algeria 
1912  Igor Markevitch, born in Kiev, Ukraine, conductor, Le Paradis Perdu 
1912  Vernon Elliott, musician/composer 
1911  Wilfrid Ewart Oulton, airman 
1910  Bea Marcia Anastasia verbrook Christoforides, writer 
1910  Julien Gracq, [Louis Poirier], French writer, Andre Breton 
1909  Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor 
1909  Hilde Domin, born in Cologne, Germany, lyric poet, writer, German-language poet, wrote Das zweite Paradies (The Second Paradise), volume of prose 
1908  Lord Jenkins of Putney, British MP of Arts, Labour 
1907  Denis Rickett, private secretary to Clement Attlee 
1907  Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater/judge, Olympics 1932,36 
1906  Leo Durocher, born in Massachusetts, baseball manager, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants 
1904  Agnes Yarnall, sculptor, artist, author laa, 1987 
1904  Anton Dolin, [Patrick Healey-Kay], dancer, Girl From Petrovka 
1904  Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist 
1903  Clive Martin Douglas, composer 
1903  Nikolai Cherkasov, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, actor, Ivan the Terrible 
1900  Charles Vidor, born in Budapest, Hungary, direct, Rhapsody, Gilda, Cover Girl 
1900  Hans Haug, born in Switzerland, composer, primitivist style, wrote solo guitar piece, Preludio, Tiento et Toccata 
1899  Harl McDonald, near Boulder Colorado, composer, Santa Fe Trail 
1899  Perc Hornibrook, Australian cricket left-arm bowler, 20's 
1899  C. S. Forester, English Novelist 
1898  Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother] 
1894  Gerald F Bogan, U.S. Vice-Admiral, WW II-Pacific Ocean 
1890  Judith Lowry, born in Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, actress, Effect of Gamma Rays ... 
1881  Hans Fischer, German physicist, Nobel 1930 
1880  Donald Crisp, born in Scotland, actor, How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana 
1880  Joseph Tinker, baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of fame double play combo 
1879  Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet, Il Libro Della Giovinezza 
1878  Jean F van Royen, Dutch German secretary, PTT 
1878  Th to de Weeme, painter 
1877  Erno [Ernst von] Dohnanyi, Hungary, composer, Msg to Posterity 

Famous Deaths:

2003  Bob Hope, comedian, road movies, dies at 100 
2002  Frank Inn, Hollywood animal trainer, discovered Benji, dies at 86 
1997  K'Tut Tantri, broadcaster/hotelier, dies at 99 
1996  Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85 
1996  Ivan V Lalic, poet, dies at 65 
1996  Jane Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85 
1996  Peter James Frederick Green, CEO (LLoyd's of London), dies at 71 
1995  Charles Hugh Shirley, publisher, dies at 66 
1995  Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter, dies at 72 
1995  Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora), dies at 88 
1995  Rick Ferrell, Hall of Fame catcher, dies at 89 
1994  H Minderop, founder/chairman (TROS-radio/TV), dies 
1994  Rosa Chacel, Spanish author, dies at 96 
1994  Tatiana Tauer, harpist, dies at 48 
1993  Reggie Lewis, NBA star (Boston Celtics), dies of heart failure at 27 
1992  Jenny Karezi, Greek actress (Red Lanterns), dies of cancer at 56 
1991  Carol Gillies, actress (Back Home, Baby Boom), dies at 50 
1990  Bobby Day, rocker (Rockin' Robin), dies of cancer at 58 
1990  Elizabeth Allan, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head), dies 
1990  Kim Thomas-Friedland, news anchor (FNN), dies at 32 
1990  Nick Pippins, actor (Simon), dies of AIDS at 35 
1988  Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11 
1987  Travis Jackson, baseball player (New York Giants), dies at 83 
1986  Leroy Holmes, orchestra leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57), dies at 72 
1985  Joseph "Smoky Joe" Wood, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies at 95 
1985  Smokey Joe Wood, American Athlete 
1984  James Mason, British actor (Lolita), dies of a heart attack at 75 
1984  Oswald Jacoby, U.S. contract bridge champion, dies at 81 
1982  Dan Seymour, actor (We the People, Sing it Again), dies at 67 
1982  Vladimir Smirnov, Russian foil fencer, Gold Medal 1980 Olympics, dies at 28 
1981  Billy [William] Wyler, U.S. director (Ben Hur, Funny Girl), dies 
1981  Ray Harrison, dancer (American Song), dies at 64 
1981  William Wyler, U.S. director (Ben Hur), dies 
1981  Paul Brunton, British Philosopher 
1980  Pahlawi Mohammed Reza, shah of Persia (1941-79), dies in Cairo at 60 
1980  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Iranian Royalty 
1979  Ettore Manni, actor (Street People, Divine Nymph), dies at 52 
1979  Shirley Mason, actress (Let it Rain, Dark Skies), dies at 79 
1978  Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer, dies at 72 
1978  [John] Willem van Otterloo, conductor and composer (Symphonic), dies at 70 
1976  Ray Brennan, becomes 1st to, die of "Legionnaire's Disease" 
1974  Lightning Slim, blues singer (Nothing But the Devil), dies at 61 
1972  Allen J. Ellender, American Politician 
1971  Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor/composer, dies at 83 
1970  Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (1932-68), dies 
1968  Anton van Duinkerken, [Willem J M A Asselbergs], literary, dies 
1968  Lillian Harvey, actress (Invitation to the Waltz), dies at 61 
1962  Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies 
1962  Richard Adlington, writer, dies at 70 
1961  Theodore Chanler, composer, dies at 59 
1960  Vasa Prihoda, Czechoslovakian violinist, dies at 59 
1952  W de Basil, [US Voskresenski], Russia, ballet dancer, dies 
1948  Francesco Spetrino, composer, dies at 91 
1946  Gertrude Stein, U.S./French author and poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72 
1944  Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls, composer, dies at 68 
1942  William Matthew Finders Petrie, Egyptologist, dies 
1934  Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79 
1924  Ferruccio Benvenuto busoni, pianist/composer, dies 
1924  Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni, composer, dies at 58 
1921  Engelbert Humperdinck, composer, dies at 66 
1916  Charles Fryatt, British Captain of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies 
1901  Brooke Foss Westcott, English Theologian 
1883  Albert Franz Doppler, composer, dies at 61 
1883  Montgomery Blair, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford), dies at 70 
1881  Johann Christian Lobe, composer, dies at 84 
1864  Margaret E Breckinridge, U.S. nurse/daughter of Vice President John, dies 
1844  John Dalton, English physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77 
1841  Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet and novelist, dies 
1841  Mikhail Lermontov, Russian Poet 
1834  Charles Lamb, English Critic 
1833  Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26 
1828  Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter, dies 
1822  Joseph Supries, composer, dies at 60 
1811  Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed 
1783  Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62 
1777  William Hayes, composer, dies at 69 
1759  Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, biologist/astronomer, dies at 60 
1720  Johann Samuel Welter, composer, dies at 69 
1689  John Graham, of Claverhouse, 1st viscount Dundee/soldier, killed, dies 


Holidays/Observances
Take Your Houseplants for a Walk Day
Walk on Stilts Day

[Peelz]

Take Your Houseplants for a Walk Day...


Depends on the houseplant I am sure. For legal reasons, I will pass on this one. 

[Krandall]