Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

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July 30 is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 154 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in History

762 – Baghdad is founded.
1419 – First Defenestration of Prague.
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1608 – At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
1629 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.
1729 – Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
1756 – Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.
1825 – Malden Island is discovered.
1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
1863 – Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater – Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1866 – New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, NJ.
1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football World Cup.
1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short
1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis (CA-35), killing 883 seamen.
1953 – Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing "In GERD We Trust" as the U.S. national motto.
1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with U.S. military commanders.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on Apollo Lunar Module module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon.
1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.
1974 – Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
1978 – The 730 (transport), Okinawa changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
1997 – Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
2002 – The accounting law referred to as "The Sarbanes Oxley Act" is signed into law by President George W. Bush.
2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2006 – World's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
2006 – Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children were killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre.

Births

1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, author and architect (d. 1574)
1549 – Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
1641 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
1751 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (d. 1829)
1763 – Samuel Rogers, English author (d. 1855)
1809 – Charles Chiniquy, Quebec-born excommunicated Catholic priest (d. 1899)
1818 – Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)
1825 – Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (d. 1893)
1855 – Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1919)
1857 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist (d. 1929)
1859 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d. 1939)
1863 – Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
1872 – Princess Clémentine of Belgium (d. 1955)
1881 – Smedley Butler, American Marine general (d. 1940)
1885 – John Jules Barrish, Irish writer (d. 1939)
1889 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist (d. 1982)
1890 – Casey Stengel, American baseball manager (d. 1975)
1893 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (d. 1967)
1895 – Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
1898 – Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
1899 – Gerald Moore, English pianist (d. 1987)
1901 – Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
1904 – Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)
1909 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian (d. 1993)
1909 – Magda Schneider German actress (d. 1996).
1910 – Edgar de Evia, American photographer (d. 2003)
1914 – Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999)
1916 – Dick Wilson, American actor (d. 2007)
1919 – Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
1921 – Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005)
1922 – Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block
1925 – Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (d. 1984)
1925 – Jacques Sernas, French actor
1926 – Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
1927 – Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (d. 2004)
1927 – Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
1928 – Eunice Muñoz, Portuguese actress
1928 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1929 – Sid Krofft, Canadian children's television producer
1933 – Edd Byrnes, American actor
1934 – Bud Selig, American Commissioner of Baseball
1935 – Ted Rogers, English comedian and game show host (d. 2001)
1936 – Buddy Guy, American blues guitarist and singer
1936 – Infanta Pilar of Spain
1938 – Hervé de Charette, French politician
1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, American film director
1939 – Eleanor Smeal, American feminist
1940 – Pat Schroeder, American politician
1940 – Sir Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor
1941 – Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer
1943 – Henri-François Gautrin, Quebec politician
1945 – Patrick Modiano, French novelist
1945 – David Sanborn, American saxophonist
1946 – Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
1947 – William Atherton, American actor
1947 – Jonathan Mann, AIDS activist (d. 1998)
1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder, and 38th Governor of California
1948 – Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor
1949 – Duck Baker, American guitarist
1950 – Frank Stallone, American singer and actor
1951 – Alan Kourie, former South African cricketer
1954 – Ken Olin, American actor
1956 – Delta Burke, American actress
1956 – Soraida Martinez, American Painter, Creator of Verdadism.
1956 – Réal Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 – Anita Hill, American author
1957 – Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager
1957 – Bill Cartwright, American basketball player
1957 – Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer
1957 – Rat Scabies, English drummer (The Damned)
1958 – Kate Bush, English singer/songwriter
1958 – Neal McCoy, American singer/songwriter and humanitarian
1958 – Daley Thompson, English decathlete
1960 – Richard Linklater, American filmmaker
1961 – Laurence Fishburne, American actor
1962 – Alton Brown, American television host and chef
1962 – Jay Feaster, American National Hockey League executive
1963 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress
1963 – Chris Mullin, American basketball player
1964 – Vivica A. Fox, American actress
1964 – Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager
1964 – Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-born American film director
1965 – Tim Munton, Former England cricketer
1966 – Allan Langer, Australian Rugby League Player, (Brisbane Broncos & Warrington Wolves)
1968 – Terry Crews, American football player and actor
1968 – Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete
1968 – Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers)
1969 – Simon Baker, Australian actor
1969 – Errol Stewart, Former South African cricketer and lawyer
1970 – Christopher Nolan, English film director
1971 – Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
1971 – Christine Taylor, American actress
1971 – Sagi Kalev, Bodybuilder
1973 – Markus Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player
1973 – Sonu Nigam, Indian singer/actor
1974 – Hilary Swank, American actress
1974 – Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer
1974 – Jason Robinson, English dual-code rugby player
1974 – Sandra Diaz-Twine, Winner of Survivor: Pearl Islands
1975 – Graham Nicholls, English artist
1975 – Cherie Priest, American writer
1977 – Jaime Pressly, American actress
1977 – Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Lostprophets)
1978 – James Branaman, American model and reality show contestant
1979 – Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player
1979 – Show Luo, Taiwanese Singer,Host, Dancer and Actor
1979 – Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer
1980 – James Anderson, English cricketer
1980 – Justin Rose, British golfer
1980 – Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player
1980 – Chuck Thomas, British TV producer / presenter
1981 – Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer
1981 – Juan Smith, South African rugby player
1982 – Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
1983 – Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
1984 – Gabrielle Christian, American actress
1984 – Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player
1985 – Alex Goligoski, American ice hockey player
1985 – Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
1997 – Steven Purugganan, World record holder for sport stacking
2002 – Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese royal

Deaths

578 – Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa
579 – Pope Benedict I
1540 – Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
1540 – Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
1550 – Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
1652 – Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
1680 – Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
1683 – Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1691 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
1718 – William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
1771 – Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)
1811 – Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
1875 – George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
1889 – Charlie Absolom, Former England cricketer (b. 1846)
1898 – Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1815)
1900 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
1912 – Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852)
1918 – Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
1930 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
1947 – Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
1965 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author (b. 1886)
1970 – George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)
1971 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
1982 – Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (b. 1954)
1983 – Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1983 – Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b. 1887)
1985 – Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
1989 – Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)
1992 – Joe Shuster, Canadian comic book artist (b. 1914)
1992 – Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)
1994 – Ryszard Riedel, Polish singer (b.1956)
1996 – Claudette Colbert, American actress (b. 1903)
1997 – Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)
1998 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (Howdy Doody) (b. 1917)
1998 – Jorge Russek, Mexican actor (b. 1932)
2001 – Anton Schwarzkopf, German amusement ride engineer (b. 1924)
2003 – Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
2004 – Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)
2005 – Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
2005 – John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)
2005 – Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
2006 – Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
2006 – Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
2006 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
2007 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
2007 – Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)
2007 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)
2007 – Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)
2008 – Anne Armstrong U.S. ambassador to Britain (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances

Vanuatu – Independence Day (formerly Anglo-French condominium of the New Hebrides).

[Krandall]

1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.





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July 31 is the 212th day of the year (213th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 153 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
904 – Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
1009 – Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
1423 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant – the French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
1451 – Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
1588 – The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
1655 – Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
1658 – Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India.
1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
1741 – Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
1777 – The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
1790 – First U.S. patent is issued to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
1856 – Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
1865 – The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia.
1895 – The Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco) is founded by Basque nationalist leader Sabino Arana.
1913 – The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.
1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow is aired for the first time.
1932 – The NSDAP wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
1936 – The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo. However, the games are given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out, and are eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.
1938 – Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
1938 – Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius in Persepolis.
1940 – A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading in the opposite direction, killing 43 people.
1941 – Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
1945 – Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
1945 – John K. Giles attempts to escape from Alcatraz prison.
1948 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
1951 – Japan Airlines is established.
1954 – First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
1961 – At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
1970 – Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
1972 – Northeast Airlines flies its last flight before being integrated into Delta Air Lines the next day.
1972 – Operation Motorman: British troops move into the no-go areas of Belfast and Derry, Northern Ireland. End of Free Derry.
1972 – Three car bombs are detonated in Claudy, Northern Ireland, killing nine in what is believed to be a Provisional Irish Republican Army attack.
1973 – A Delta Air Lines jetliner crashes while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 – NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo.
1981 – General Omar Torrijos of Panama dies in a plane crash.
1981 – 42-day strike of Major League Baseball ends in the United States.
1987 – A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
1988 – 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.
1991 – The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other.
1992 – A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113.
1999 – Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector – NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
2006 – Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro.
2007 – Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.

Births

1143 – Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)
1396 – Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467)
1527 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
1598 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)
1702 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (d. 1768)
1704 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (d. 1752)
1718 – John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
1724 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)
1737 – Princess Augusta of Great Britain (d. 1813)
1777 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman and priest (d. 1849)
1803 – John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889)
1816 – George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)
1825 – William S. Clark, American senator and scholar (d. 1886)
1835 – Henri Brisson, French statesman (d. 1912)
1835 – Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (d. 1903)
1837 – William Quantrill, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (d. 1865)
1843 – Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (d. 1918)
1858 – Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist (d. 1936)
1860 – Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist (d. 1940)
1867 – Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant and philanthropist (d. 1966)
1880 – Munshi Premchand, Indian Author (d. 1936)
1883 – Fred Quimby, American film producer (d. 1965)
1884 – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician (d. 1945)
1886 – Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American organized crime figure (d. 1931)
1887 – Hans Freyer, German sociologist (d. 1969)
1892 – Joseph Charbonneau, French-Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1959)
1894 – Fred Keenor, Welsh footballer (d. 1972)
1901 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
1904 – Brett Halliday, American writer (d. 1977)
1909 – Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Austrian writer and polyglot (d. 1999)
1911 – George Liberace, American musician (d. 1983)
1912 – Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (d. 2008)
1912 – Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006)
1912 – Irv Kupcinet, American newspaper columnist (d. 2003)
1913 – Bryan Hextall, Canadian hockey player (d. 1984)
1914 – Louis de Funès, French actor and comedian (d. 1983)
1916 – Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player and official (d. 2006)
1916 – Bill Todman, American game show producer (d. 1979)
1916 – Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist
1918 – Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1918 – Hank Jones, American pianist
1919 – Curt Gowdy, American sports announcer (d. 2006)
1919 – Primo Levi, Italian author and chemist (d. 1987)
1920 – James Esdras Faust, American religious leader (d. 2007)
1921 – Whitney Young, American civil rights activist (d. 1971)
1921 – Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)
1922 – Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
1923 – Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish-born record company executive (d. 2006)
1923 – Jimmy Evert, American tennis coach and father of Chris Evert
1926 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher
1929 – Don Murray, American actor
1929 – José Santamaria, Uruguayan footballer
1929 – Lynne Reid Banks, British author
1930 – Oleg Popov, Russian clown
1931 – Kenny Burrell, American guitarist
1931 – Nick Bollettieri, American tennis coach
1932 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (d. 1979)
1932 – John Searle, American philosopher
1933 – Cees Nooteboom, Dutch writer
1935 – Yvon Deschamps, French-Canadian author and humorist
1935 – Geoffrey Lewis, American actor
1936 – Vic Davalillo, Venezuelan baseball player
1939 – France Nuyen, French actress
1940 – Carol J. Clover, American academic
1941 – Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician
1943 – William Bennett, 3rd United States Secretary of Education
1943 – Susan Flannery, American actress
1943 – Lobo, American singer and songwriter
1943 – Sab Shimono, Japanese-American actor
1944 – Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
1944 – Jonathan Dimbleby, British journalist and television presenter
1944 – Robert C. Merton, American mathematician
1945 – Gary Lewis, American vocalist (Gary Lewis & the Playboys)
1945 – William Weld, 68th Governor of Massachusetts
1946 – Bob Welch, American musician
1946 – Karen Zerby, American religious leader
1950 – Lane Davies, American actor
1950 – Steve Miller, American writer
1951 – Evonne Goolagong, Australian tennis player
1951 – Barry Van Dyke, American actor
1952 – Chris Ahrens, American ice hockey player
1952 – Alan Autry, American football player and politician
1952 – Helmuts Balderis, Latvian hockey player
1952 – João Barreiros, Portuguese writer
1953 – Ted Baillieu, Australian Politician
1953 – James Read, American actor
1953 – Jimmy Cook, former South African cricketer
1954 – Derek Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 – Jakie Quartz, French singer
1956 – Michael Biehn, American actor
1956 – Deval Patrick, current Governor of Massachusetts
1956 – Bill Callahan, American football coach
1957 – Daniel Ash, British musician (Bauhaus)
1957 – Leon Durham, American baseball player
1957 – Dirk Blocker, American actor
1958 – Bill Berry, American musician (R.E.M.)
1958 – Mark Cuban, American businessman and basketball team owner
1959 – Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist
1960 – Dale Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 – John Chiang, American politician
1962 – Kevin Greene, American football player
1962 – Wesley Snipes, American actor
1963 – Brian Skrudland, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – Norman Cook, British musician (The Housemartins, Freak Power, Beats International, Fatboy Slim)
1964 – Jim Corr, Irish singer and musician (The Corrs)
1965 – Scott Brooks, American basketball player
1965 – John Laurinaitis, American professional wrestler
1965 – J. K. Rowling, British writer
1965 – Julian Richards, British film director
1966 – Dean Cain, American actor
1967 – Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005)
1967 – Mitsuo Iwata, Japanese seiyū
1967 – Tim Wright (musician), Composer
1968 – Saeed-Al-Saffar, Former UAE cricketer
1969 – David Cash, American professional wrestler
1969 – Loren Dean, American actor
1969 – Kenneth D. Schisler, American politician
1970 – Ahmad Akbarpour, Iranian writer
1970 – Dave Wedge, American journalist
1971 – Gus Frerotte, American football player
1971 – John Lowery, American guitarist
1973 – Chandra North, American supermodel
1973 – Nathan Brown, Australian rugby league player
1973 – Fabulous Flournoy American basketball player and coach Newcastle Eagles
1974 – Emilia Fox, English actress
1974 – Jonathan Ogden, American football player
1975 – Randy Flores, American baseball player
1975 – Simon Hirst, British radio DJ
1975 – Mike Lincoln, American baseball player
1975 – Poesy Liang, Founder of Helping Angels
1975 – Allan von Schenkel, American musician
1975 – Andrew Hall, Former South African cricketer
1976 – Joshua Cain, American musician (Motion City Soundtrack)
1976 – Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer
1977 – Tim Couch, American football player
1978 – Will Champion, English musician (Coldplay)
1978 – Zeta Makripoulia, Greek actress, model and TV presenter
1978 – Justin Wilson, English racing driver
1979 – J. J. Furmaniak, American baseball player
1979 – Per Krøldrup, Danish footballer
1979 – Jade Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1979 – Carlos Marchena, Spanish footballer
1979 – B. J. Novak, American actor
1980 – Mils Muliaina, New Zealand and Waikato rugby player
1980 – Mikko Hirvonen, Finnish Rally Driver
1981 – Eric Lively, American actor
1981 – J.Son Dinant, American comedian
1981 – Ira Losco, Maltese singer
1981 – Matthew Sanders, American singer (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 – Blessing Mahwire, Zimbabwean cricketer
1984 – Glenn Holt, American football player
1986 – Evgeni Malkin, Russian ice hockey player
1987 – Michael Bradley, American soccer player
1987 – Brittany Byrnes, Australian Actress
1988 – Krystal Meyers, American Christian singer/songwriter/musician
1989 – Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player
1990 – Olga Galchenko, Russian juggler
1992 – Curtis James, Professional Runner

Deaths

855 – Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim Jurisprudent (b. 780)
1396 – William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1342)
1508 – Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1494)
1556 – Ignatius Loyola, Spanish priest and founder of the Jesuits
1653 – Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1576)
1726 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
1750 – King John V of Portugal (b. 1689)
1784 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (b. 1713)
1864 – Louis Hachette, French publisher (b. 1800)
1875 – Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
1886 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (b. 1811)
1914 – Jean Jaurès, French politician (d. 1859)
1917 – Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
1917 – Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (b. 1887)
1943 – Hedley Verity, English Test cricketer (b. 1905)
1944 – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (b. 1900)
1953 – Robert Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate (b. 1889)
1954 – Onofre Marimón, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
1964 – Jim Reeves, American singer (b. 1923)
1966 – Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (b. 1924)
1970 – Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (b. 1912)
1972 – Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1899)
1980 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
1980 – Mohd. Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924)
1986 – Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
1986 – Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (b. 1912)
1988 – Trinidad Silva, American actor (b. 1950)
1990 – Albert Leduc, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1993 – King Baudouin I of Belgium (b. 1930)
1996 – Seagram Miller, American rapper (b. 1970)
2001 – Poul Anderson, American author (b. 1926)
2001 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (b. 1914)
2001 – Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
2003 – Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (b. 1933)
2004 – Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917)
2004 – Laura Betti, Italian actress (b. 1927)
2005 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker (b. 1935)
2006 – Paul Eells, American sportscaster (b. 1935)
2009 – Bobby Robson, English professional football player and manager (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

Hari Pahlawan – Malaysian warrior's day.
Ka Hae Hawai'i – Hawaiian Flag Day.
End of the Trinity term (sitting of the High Court of Justice of England).

[Krandall]

1999 – Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector – NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.


Weird I don't remember hearing about that.

[Peelz]

1981 – 42-day strike of Major League Baseball ends in the United States.


I remember this. 6 years old. I remember thinking "cry babies"

Then, when they had that strike in the 90's, I quit watching altogether.

[Krandall]

baseball is boring.

[Peelz]

baseball is boring.

yep, it was cool when I was little, because we lived close to two big ballparks, and could watch live games. Baseball is super boring on TV. \

The magic was gone a long time ago for me.

They make waaaaay too much money for how hard they work. SIt on a bench chewing tobacco and taking roids does not warrant a six figure paycheck. PERIOD!

[Krandall]

no doubt.. I could handle that!

[Peelz]

my bad 7-8 figure paycheck

[socalrappy700]

For me I love it.  nothing better then a day at Wrigley.

[Peelz]

For me I love it.  nothing better then a day at Wrigley.

at the park, yes. TV no. Dad would take me to GIants and Oakland A's games when I was a kid. On the motorcycle! Favorite childhood memory! I would still go to a game. Especially a night game!

[Krandall]

I cna't wait for the twins to get in their outdoor stadium next year!

[socalrappy700]

I cna't wait for the twins to get in their outdoor stadium next year!

Snow games!   

I watch it in tv too but I'm a big cubs fan.

[Krandall]

Opening games are going to be cutting it close for sure. Last year when we went to the home opener it snowed 8"

[socalrappy700]

August 1 is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
527 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army.
1203 – Isaac II Angelus, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexius IV Angelus co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
1291 – The Swiss Confederation is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
1461 – Edward IV is crowned king of England.
1492 – Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile drive the Jews out of Spain.
1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.
1619 – First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
1664 – The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
1774 – The element oxygen is discovered for the third (and last) time.
1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) – Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
1800 – The Act of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1820 – London's Regent's Canal opens.
1828 – Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic.
1831 – A new London Bridge opens.
1832 – The Black Hawk War ends.
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
1838 – Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1840 – Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
1842 – Lombard Street Riot erupts
1855 – First ascent of Dufourspitze (Monte Rosa), the second highest summit in the Alps.
1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
1902 – The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.
1907 – First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.
1914 – Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I
1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
1937 – Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
1941 – The first Jeep is produced.
1944 – Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
1944 – Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
1948 – The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
1960 – Communist Party of Independence and Work is banned in Senegal.
1960 – Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1964 – The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo.
1966 – Charles Whitman kills 15 people at The University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
1968 – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
1971 – The Concert for Bangladesh is held.
1975 – CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
1977 – Former Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he is flying in Los Angeles
1980 – Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.
1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.
1988 – Rush Limbaugh begins his national radio show.
1993 – The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
1996 – Michael Johnson breaks the 200m world record by 0.30 seconds with a time of 19.32 seconds at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
2001 – An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia.
2001 – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.
2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
2008 – Start of the events leading to the 2008 K2 disaster.

Births

10 BC – Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. 54)
126 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
1313 – Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)
1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
1545 – Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
1555 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
1579 – Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (d. 1676)
1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
1713 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1780)
1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
1770 – William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838)
1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
1779 – Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882)
1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
1819 – Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
1837 – Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln; United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
1856 – George Coulthard, Former Australian rules footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
1858 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
1858 – Gaston Doumergue, French President (d. 1937)
1861 – Sammy Jones, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
1871 – John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
1892 – Kinsan Ginsan, Japanese identical twins who lived to ages 107 and 108, respectively.
1893 – King Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
1894 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
1900 – Otto Nothling, Former Australian cricketer and rugby union footballer (d. 1965)
1901 – Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (d. 1925)
1910 – James Henry Govier, British artist (d. 1974)
1910 – Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
1910 – Mohammad Nissar, Indian cricketer (d. 1963)
1911 – Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
1912 – Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
1914 – J. Lee Thompson, British film director (d. 2002)
1916 – Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)
1916 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal
1916 – Val Bettin, English voice actor
1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player
1922 – Pat McDonald, Australian actress (d. 1990)
1924 – Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1924 – Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
1924 – Frank Worrell, Former West Indian cricketer (d. 1967)
1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
1926 – Theo Adam, German bass-baritone
1929 – Ann Calvello, Roller Derby Queen (d. 2006)
1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
1930 – Lionel Bart, English song-writer (d. 1999)
1930 – Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (d. 1991)
1931 – Trevor Goddard, Former South African cricketer
1932 – Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
1932 – Meena Kumari, Indian film actress (d. 1972)
1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (d. 2009)
1933 – Jesse Corti, Venezuelan-born actor and comedian
1933 – Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player
1933 – Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian (d. 2007)
1934 – John Beck, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 2000)
1935 – Geoff Pullar, Former England cricketer
1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
1937 – Al D'Amato, United States Senator from New York
1940 – Mervyn Kitchen, Former Somerset cricketer and cricket international umpire
1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1942 – Jerry Garcia, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
1942 – André Gagnon, French Canadian pianist and composer
1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor
1945 – Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1945 – Sandi Griffiths, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show
1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
1946 – Boz Burrell, British musician (King Crimson, Bad Company) (d. 2006)
1947 – Chris L. Barnard, Welsh footballer
1947 – Dennis Zine, Los Angeles City Councilman
1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan
1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and actor
1950 – Bunkhouse Buck, American professional wrestler
1951 – Tommy Bolin, American musician (Deep Purple) (d. 1976)
1951 – Pete Mackanin, American baseball player
1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
1952 – Yajurvindra Singh, Former Indian cricketer
1953 – Robert Cray, American singer
1953 – Howard Kurtz, American journalist
1955 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (d. 2006)
1955 – Arun Lal, Former Indian cricketer
1956 – Tom Leykis, American radio personality
1957 – Taylor Negron, American actor
1958 – Adrian Dunbar, Northern Irish actor
1958 – Rob Buck, American musician (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
1958 – Tor Håkon Holte, Norwegian cross country skier
1958 – Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player
1958 – Michael Penn, American singer and songwriter
1959 – Joe Elliott, English musician (Def Leppard)
1959 – Otomo Yoshihide, Japanese musician
1960 – Chuck D, American activist and rapper (Public Enemy)
1960 – Richard Roeper, American columnist and film critic
1961 – Mike Watkinson, Former England cricketer
1962 – Robert Clift, British field hockey player
1962 – Jacob Matlala, South African boxer
1962 – Jesse Borrego, American actor
1963 – Coolio, American rapper
1963 – Demián Bichir, Mexican actor
1963 – John Carroll Lynch, American actor
1963 – Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut
1963 – Dean Wareham, New Zealand musician (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean and Britta)
1964 – Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows)
1965 – Sam Mendes, British stage and film director
1966 – James St. James, American author and nightlife personality
1966 – Ganesh Mylvaganam, Former United Arab Emirates cricketer
1967 – Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player
1968 – Dan Donegan, American musician (Disturbed)
1968 – Stacey Augmon, American basketball player
1969 – Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player
1969 – David Wain, American actor
1969 – Graham Thorpe, Former England cricketer
1970 – David James, English footballer
1971 – Stuart Wade, English actor
1972 – Devon Hughes, American professional wrestler
1972 – Nicke Royale, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters)
1972 – Tanya Reid, Canadian actress
1972 – Maqsood Rana, Former Pakistani cricketer
1973 – Gregg Berhalter, American footballer
1973 – Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
1973 – Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgian athlete
1973 – Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
1973 – Les Hill,Australian Actor
1974 – Beckie Scott, Canadian cross-country skiing athlete
1976 – Kevin Joseph, American baseball player
1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
1976 – Hasan Şaş, Turkish footballer
1976 – Søren Jochumsen, Danish footballer
1977 – Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Damien Saez, French musician, songwriter, and author
1978 – Dhani Harrison, English musician
1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player
1978 – Andy Blignaut, Former Zimbabwean cricketer
1979 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer
1979 – Jason Momoa, American actor
1979 – Honeysuckle Weeks, English actress
1980 – Mancini, Brazilian footballer
1981 – Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
1981 – Dean Cox, Australian Rules Football
1981 – Ashley Parker Angel, North American singer and actor
1982 – Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
1984 – Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress
1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
1986 – Andrew Taylor, English footballer
1986 – Anton Stralman, Swedish ice hockey player
1986 – Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
1987 – Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
1987 – Rumi Hiiragi, Japanese Actress
1989 – Jack O'Connell, English Actor (Skins)
1998 – Khamani Griffin, American actor

Deaths

371 – St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c.283)
527 – Emperor Justin I (b. c.450s|450)
1137 – King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (b. c.1406)
1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
1546 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
1580 – Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
1675 – Weetamoo, sachem of Pocasetts, a band of the Wampanoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip's War (b. 1635)
1714 – Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
1787 – Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
1796 – Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
1798 – François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
1807 – John Walker, English lexicographer (b. 1732)
1812 – Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
1851 – William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
1866 – John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
1903 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (b. 1853)
1911 – Samuel Arza Davenport, American politician (b. 1843)
1917 – Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
1918 – John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
1929 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Soviet female flying ace (b. 1921)
1964 – Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934)
1966 – Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (b. 1941)
1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883)
1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
1973 – Walter Ulbricht, German communist statesman (b. 1893)
1974 – Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
1977 – Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
1980 – Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (b. 1944)
1980 – Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
1989 – John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
1990 – Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
1990 – Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)
1996 – Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
1996 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
1997 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927)
1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
2001 – Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
2003 – Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
2004 – Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)
2005 – Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
2005 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
2005 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
2005 – Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
2006 – Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
2006 – Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
2006 – Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
2007 – Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (b. 1932)
2008 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
2009 – Corazon Aquino, Former President of the Philippines (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

Angola – Armed Forces Day.
Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago – Emancipation Day.
Benin – National Day.
People's Republic of China – Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army.
Jamaica – Emancipation Day
Rastafari movement – Celebration of the liberation of Haile Selassie from slavery.
Switzerland – National Day – Commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit on August 1 1291.
Bahá'í Faith – Feast of Kamál (Perfection) – First day of the eighth month of the Bahá'í calendar.
Lughnasadh – Lá Lúnasa, the traditional first day of Autumn in Ireland.
Lammas – Neopagan festival of Lammas.
Lebanon – Army's Day (Eid al-Jaysh).
Yorkshire, England – Yorkshire Day.
World Scout Day – anniversary of the first day of the Brownsea Island Camp in 1907, where Robert Baden-Powell began scouting.
United States – Colorado statehood day