Post by Evon on Jul 14, 2013 9:40:43 GMT -5
July 14 is the 195th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 170 days remaining until the end of the year.
Days until elections:
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U.S. Debt Clock: www.usdebtclock.org/
1519 The third session of the Leipzig Debate between Johann Eck (1486–1543) and Martin Luther began.
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1769 An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolà establishes a base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
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1771 Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
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1773 The first annual conference of the Methodist Church in America convened at St. George's Church in Philadelphia, PA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Methodist_Church#Church_origins
www.historicstgeorges.org/museum
1775 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'The knowledgeof God cannot be attained by studious discussion on our parts; it must be by revelation on His part.'
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/n/e/w/newton_j.htm
East view of the Bastille
1789 French Revolution: citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and release the seven prisoners inside.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille
1789 Alexander Mackenzie finally completes his journey to the mouth of the great river he hoped would take him to the Pacific, but which turns out to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Mackenzie_(explorer)
The oath of La Fayette at the Fête de la Fédération, 14 July 1790. Talleyrand, then Bishop of Autun can be seen on the right. The standing child is the son of La Fayette, the young Georges Washington de La Fayette. French School, 18th century. Musée Carnavalet.
1790 French Revolution: citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
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La Marseillaise personified on the Arc de Triomphe.
French National Anthem - "La Marseillaise" (FR/EN)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIQSEq6tEVs
1795 "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marseillaise
Text of the Aliens Act
1798 The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government. The first three acts took aim at the rights of immigrants. The period of residency required before immigrants could apply for citizenship was extended from five to 14 years, and the president gained the power to detain and deport those he deemed enemies. However, the fourth act, the Sedition Act, was put into practice and became a black mark on the nation's reputation. In direct violation of the Constitution's guarantee of freedom of speech, the Sedition Act permitted the prosecution of individuals who voiced or printed what the government deemed to be malicious remarks about the president or government of the United States. Fourteen Republicans, mainly journalists, were prosecuted, and some imprisoned, under the act.
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1798 First direct federal tax on the states-on dwellings, land & slaves. The United States Congress, under the Act of July 14, 1798 (1 Stat. 597) created the first property tax of its citizens. The provides ownership, rental and descriptive information for every house then existing. The purpose of the tax was to raise a war chest for the threatened conflict with France. The amount to be raised was 2 million dollars.
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1833 Anglican clergyman John Keble preached his famous sermon on national religious apostasy. It marked the beginning of the Oxford Movement, which sought to purify and revitalize the Church of England.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keble
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Movement
1835 The Catholic Apostolic Church, a millenarian religious community, was organized.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Apostolic_Church
1845 First postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC. Placed on sale on July 14, 1845, this was the nation's first provisional stamp to be issued by a local post office in response to the congressional postal reform act that had taken effect two weeks earlier. That law, passed on March 3, 1845, standardized nationwide mail rates, with the result that the use of stamps became a practical and reliable method of postal prepayment.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_stamp
1849 Theodor Fliedner (1800–1864) established a deaconess home in Pittsburgh, signaling the beginning of Lutheran deaconess work in the U.S.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Fliedner
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaconess#North_America
1850 First public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration. In 1850, the first public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration in the U.S. took place during a dinner at the Mansion House, Apalachicola, Dr. John Gorrie produced blocks of ice the size of bricks. He installed his system in the U.S. Marine Hospital in Apalachicola. He obtained the first mechanical freezer patent on May 6, 1851, for an "improvement in the process for the artificial production of ice."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gorrie
New York Crystal Palace
1853 President Franklin Pierce opens the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City. In 1853, the first US World's Fair opened in New York. Born of a desire to recreate and, if possible, surpass the British Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851, it was promoted by New York businessmen, including Horace Greeley. Modeled after London's impressive structure, the iron and glass New York Crystal Palace was an octagonal form, with Greek-cross superstructure abutting a round dome at the center and tall minarets at the outer angles. The building housed 4,854 exhibitors, of whom about half came from 23 foreign nations. The roof of the ill-fated Crystal Palace leaked and heavy rains ruined exhibits and soaked visitors.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibition_of_the_Industry_of_All_Nations
1857 First Methodist Baptism in China. "What are you doing, Ting? What are you doing to our gods?"
If anyone had asked Ting Ang that question, he would have replied, "These images are not real gods. I have just learned of the true God. He is invisible and not made by human hands."
Ting Ang was a tradesman in Fuchau, China.
He had been listening to the "foreign devils" and realized he must walk in a new way. Ting Ang began to hold secret prayer with his family.
Ten years earlier, the first Methodist missionaries to China had arrived in Fuchau. They included J. D. Collins, from the state of Michigan in the United States, who had been so eager to carry the gospel to the great Asian nation that he even offered to work his way there as a common sailor! With him were M.C. White and Mrs. White.
Fuchau means "Happy Region." But to these first Methodist missionaries, it was not a particularly happy place. The people were friendly, but the missionaries suffered serious illness and saw no converts for ten years.
And yet Ting Ang and his family worshipped secretly.
The Methodists constructed their first church sanctuary in 1855. Built outside the city walls, it was on a main road. They capped the building with a cupola (one of those tiny buildings you see atop a roof) and put a bell in it. The Chinese called the church "Ching Sing Tong," which, according to one historian, means "Church of the True God."
The missionaries heard of Ting Ang and visited him. They prayed with him in his home--the first prayer they were able to offer in a Chinese house. What a joyful day that must have been!
Jesus commanded his disciples to go out and make more and to baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
When 47-year-old Ting Ang was baptized on this day, July 14, 1857, he was the first Methodist convert in China. He partook of the Lord's Supper, the rite by which the Methodist's remember Jesus. It was a significant breakthrough for the mission, and converts came more frequently after that. However, ten years later only 450 of Fuchau's 600,000 people had become Christians.
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1867 Alfred Nobel demonstrates dynamite. In 1867, Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey. In 1866 Nobel produced what he believed was a safe and manageable form of nitroglycerin called dynamite. He established his own factory to produce it but in 1864 an explosion at the plant killed Nobel's younger brother and four other workers. Deeply shocked by this event, he now worked on a safer explosive and in 1875 came up with gelignite. Other inventions followed including ballistite, a form of smokeless power, artificial gutta-percha and a mild steel for armour-plating.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel
1868 Alvin J. Fellows of New Haven, Connecticut recieved the first U.S. patent for a spring tape measure. The tape measure was enclosed in a circular case with a spring click lock to hold the tape at any desired point. (No. 79,965). Earlier, a machine to print ribbon for the supple sewing tape measures had already been patented on 3 Sep 1847, after four years of research by the French fashion designer, Lavigne. Further, however, Sheffield, England claims to be not just the home of stainless steel, but also where the spring tape measure was invented.
todayinsci.com/F/Fellows_Alvin/FellowsTapeMeasurePatent.htm
Blockade of engines at Martinsburg, West Virginia, 16 July 1877
1877 The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 begins in Martinsburg, West Virginia, US, when Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers have their wages cut for the second time in a year.
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Billy the Kid
1881 Billy the Kid (William Henry McCarty, Jr.) was killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. On the night of July 14, the Sheriff and his two deputies approached the dusty old Fort now converted to living quarters. The residents were sympathetic to the Kid and the lawmen could extract little information. Garrett decided to seek out an old friend, Peter Maxwell, who might tell him the Kid's whereabouts. As chance would have it, the Kid stumbled right into the Sheriff's hands.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_the_Kid
1885 Sarah Goode became the first black woman to receive a U.S. patent. Sarah E. Goode was the owner of a furniture store in Chicago, Illinois. Her claim to fame is that she was the first Black Woman to receive a patent. In an effort to help people maximize their limited space, Goode invented a Folding Cabinet Bed. The Cabinet Bed when folded up resembled a desk which included compartments for stationary and writing instruments. Goode received her patent on July 14, 1885.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Goode
1891 The first US patent was issued for pure corkboard to John T. Smith of Brooklyn, NY. Manufacture was begun in Brooklyn in 1894 by Stone and Duryea. Cork covering was produced first, followed by the manufacture of pure corkboard. (No. 456,068) He described a process whereby to subject "cork in a more or less fine state in a closed vessel to heat, so as to melt and volatilize the resinous matter contained in it, permitting some of the vapor to escape from the vessel and cementing the cork particles together by the condensation of the remaining vaporized resinous matter." The patent commented on the value of the product in life-preservers for being less dense and more waterproof after this treatment.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_(material)
1892 The Baptist Young People’s Union held its first annual national convention in Detroit, Michigan. Organized the previous year, this new denominational organization for young people was inspired by the founding of the first official organization for church youth, called the Christian Endeavor Society, in 1881. It had been established by Francis E. Clark, pastor of the Congregational Church of Portland, Maine.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/history-of-the-baptist-young-peoples-union-of-america-john-wesley-conley/1103329334?ean=9781152170292
www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc12/htm/ii.xxviii.ix.htm
Bust of Perry in Shimoda, Shizuoka
1893 Commodore Perry arrives in Japan. Aboard a black-hulled steam frigate, he ported Mississippi, Plymouth, Saratoga, and Susquehanna at Uraga Harbor near Edo (modern Tokyo) on July 8, 1853, and was met by representatives of the Tokugawa Shogunate who told him to proceed to Nagasaki, where there was limited trade with the Netherlands and which was the only Japanese port open to foreigners at that time. Perry refused to leave and demanded permission to present a letter from President Millard Fillmore, threatening force if he was denied. The Japanese government accepted Perry's coming ashore and on July 14, presented the letter to delegates present and left for the Chinese coast, promising to return for a reply.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Matthew_Perry
1900 Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion. Lieutenant Georg Ludwig von Trapp, made famous in the musical The Sound of Music, was decorated for bravery aboard the SMS Kaiserin und Königin Maria Theresia during the rebellion
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-Nation_Alliance
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Ludwig_von_Trapp
1911 Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright Brothers lands his airplane at the South Lawn of the White House. He is later awarded a Gold medal from U.S. President William Howard Taft for this feat. Harry N. Atwood flew in to accept the award from President William Taft. The flights of Harry N. Atwood from Boston to Washington and from St. Louis to New York, and C. P. Rodgers from New York to Los Angeles were the most important events of the kind in this country. The St Louis to New York flight was a distance by air route, 1,266 miles, took 12 days, the net flying time, 28 hours 53 minutes. The average daily flight was 105.5 miles with an average speed of 43.9 miles per hour.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Birds_of_Aviation
1912 Eduard Louis Arndt (1864–1929) was commissioned as the first LCMS missionary to China by the Evangelical Lutheran Mission for China (which he helped found earlier the same year).
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Robert Goddard, bundled against the cold New England weather of March 16, 1926, holds the launching frame of his most notable invention — the first liquid-fueled rocket.
1914 Robert Hutchins Goddard patents a liquid-fuel rocket motor. Goddard first obtained public notice in 1907 in a cloud of smoke from a powder rocket fired in the basement of the physics building in Worcester Polytechnic Institute. School officials took an immediate interest in the work of student Goddard. They, to their credit, did not expel him. He thus began his lifetime of dedicated work. In 1914, Goddard received two U.S. patents. One was for a rocket using liquid fuel. The other was for a two or three stage rocket using solid fuel. At his own expense, he began to make systematic studies about propulsion provided by various types of gunpowder.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hutchins_Goddard
Delville Wood in 1916 (left) and in 2009 (right)
1916 Start of the Battle of Delville Wood as an action within the Battle of the Somme, which was to last until 3 September 1916.
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1933 Gleichschaltung: in Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party. Gleichschaltung, meaning "coordination", "making the same", "bringing into line", is a Nazi term for the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control and tight coordination over all aspects of society. The historian Richard J. Evans translated the term as "forcible-coordination" in his most recent work on Nazi Germany. Among the goals of this policy were to bring about adherence to a specific doctrine and way of thinking and to control as many aspects of life as possible.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung
1933 A sterilization law was passed in Nazi Germany, known as Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses (Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring), to be effective 1 Jan 1934. Any German was a target if suffering from any of the following mental conditions that were expected to be hereditary: congenital mental deficiency, schizophrenia or manic-depressive insanity. Other expected herediatry conditions included: epilepsy, Huntington’s chorea, blindness, deafness, any severe hereditary deformity or even severe alcoholism. Within a few years, up to an estimated 400,000 Germans were involuntarily sterilized in pursuit of this national goal of “racial hygiene,” to eliminate handicapped descendants. Most operations, often by female tubal ligations or male vasectomies, were done in 1934-37
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_for_the_Prevention_of_Hereditarily_Diseased_Offspring
1934 NY Times erronously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time.
1936 Thermometer hits 116° in Collegeville, IN
1943 HITS ARCHIVE: Brazil - Jimmy Dorsey (Bob Eberly & Helen O’Connell, vocal)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lurX5s28pUU
1942 Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly recorded "Brazil" with the Jimmy Dorsey band. O'Connell was a big-band vocalist of the 1940's who, duetting with singer Bob Eberly for the bandleader Jimmy Dorsey, was responsible for such million-selling recordings as "Green Eyes" and "Tangerine" as well as hit solo performances for Dorsey like "Six Lessons from Madame LaZonga." This vivacious blonde appeared with Dorsey and his orchestra in a few early-40's films and later became a TV personality.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_O%27Connell
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Dorsey
1943 In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American. George Washington Carver National Monument was established in 1943 and dedicated on July 14, 1953. The park consists of 210 of the original 240 acre Moses Carver farm. George Washington Carver National Monument was established as a public memorial to George Washington Carver in recognition of his outstanding achievements as a scientist, educator and humanitarian.
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1944 General Omar Bradley inspected the invention of Sgt. Curtis G. Culin, the heavy steel, tusklike prongs welded on the front of a Sherman tank in the 2nd Armored Division. During the Normandy campaign in France, the advance of the U.S. Sherman tanks had been seriously obstructed by the local terrain (called bocage in French). Hedgerows between small fields were tall, very thickly overgrown banks. Only with the prongs, dubbed the Rhinoceros, could the tanks ram through without the front end rising high and exposing their vulnerable underbelly to shells from the enemy hidden by hedgerows. Impressed by the demonstration, Bradley ordered emergency construction of many more using steel beams from the German beach defenses
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_G._Culin
1946 Dr. Benjamin Spock's "Baby and Child Care" was first published. "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" (often referred to simply as "Baby and Child Care"), written by Dr. Benjamin Spock, was first published in 1946, and is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. By 1998, it had sold more than 50 million copies. It has been translated into 39 languages.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Common_Sense_Book_of_Baby_and_Child_Care
Hubert Humphry 1948 Democratic National Convention
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1948 Hubert Humphry 1948 Democratic National Convention speech.
www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/huberthumphey1948dnc.html
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1950 Korean War: North Korean troops initiate the Battle of Taejon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taejon
1951 Citation becomes first horse to win $1,000,000 in races. Wins in the Century and American Handicaps brought him within less than $15,000 of Wright's hoped-for million. On July 14, 1951, Citation went out a winner with a victory in the Hollywood Gold Cup in Inglewood. It pushed his earnings past $1 million and signaled the end of his racing career.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_(horse)
1954 State record high temperature of 117° in E. St. Louis, IL . State record high temperature of 118° in Warsaw and Union, MO.
Rawya Ateya used her military experience as a political asset during her 1957 electoral campaign, hence her appearance in uniform at rallies.
1957 Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
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1959 First atomic powered cruiser, the Long Beach, Quincy Mass.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Long_Beach_(CGN-9)
1960 Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall
1965 The Mariner 4 satellite sent a transmission of the first close-up photograph of Mars. It consisting of 8.3 dots per second of varying degrees of darkness. The transmission lasted for 8.5 hours and depicted the regions on Mars known as Cebrenia, Arcadia, and Amazonis. The satellite was 134 million miles away from earth and 10,500 miles from Mars. The 574-pound spacecraft had been launched at 9:22am on 28 Nov 1964, from Cape Canaveral, FL, by a two-stage Atlas-Agena D rocket. In addition to its camera with digital tape recorder (about 20 pictures), it carried instruments for studying cosmic dust, solar plasma, trapped radiation, cosmic rays, magnetic fields, radio occultation and celestial mechanics.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_program
1967 Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR. Eddie Mathews becomes the 7th member of the 500-HR club, connecting off loser Juan Marichal as the Astros beat the Giants, 8-6.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Matthews
1968 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR. Curt Simmons once said, "Trying to throw a fastball by Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster." Someone forgot to tell San Francisco pitcher Mike McCormick that and during the third inning Hank Aaron made him pay, smacking his 500th career home run to become the eighth player in history to reach the milestone. Braves won 4-2.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Aaron
1969 The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_currency#Banknotes
1976 Capital punishment is abolished in Canada.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Canada
1987 Montreal, Canada, is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal Flood of 1987.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Flood_of_1987
1987 Montreal, Canada, is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal Flood of 1987.
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1987 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound_Bus
2000 A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day_event
2001 The Pentagon scored a hit with a missile interceptor that soared into space from a tiny Pacific isle and destroyed its target, a mock nuclear warhead.
2003 Washington Post columnist Robert Novak reveals that Valerie Plame is a CIA "operative".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Novak
1602 Cardinal Mazarin, French-Italian politician and diplomat (d 1661)
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1785 Mordecai Manuel Noah, (d 1851) American playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian. He was born in a family of Portuguese Sephardic ancestry. He was the most important Jewish lay leader in New York in the pre-Civil War period, and the first Jew born in the United States to reach national prominence.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_Manuel_Noah
1800 Matthew Bridges, Anglican clergyman. In 1848 he converted to Catholicism,under the influence of the Oxford Movement in England. He is remembered today for authoringthe hymn, 'Crown Him with Many Crowns.'
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/r/i/bridges_m.htm
1829 Edward White Benson, (d 1896) Archbishop of Canterbury
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1830 John Michael Steck, pioneer Lutheran pastor in Ohio and Pennsylvania (b. 5 Oct 1756)
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1842 Charles Benjamin Dudley (d 21 Dec 1909, 67) American chemical engineer who was an early supporter of standardisation and material testing in industry. From 1875, as a chemist for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, he researched the metallurgy of steel rail tracks because their breakage was a serious hazard at that time. When he discovered enormous variation in the quality of steel and published his results (1878), the manufacturers were at first uncooperative. However, Dudley insisted on continuing testing, and rigorous standards for fuels, lubricants, paints, lighting devices and various mechanical parts of locomotives and rolling stock. He co-founded (1898) the American Society for Testing and Materials, and was its president from 1902 until his death
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1857 Frederick Louis Maytag (d Mar 26, 1937) American industrialist who with three other men in 1893 started a farm implement business in Newton, Iowa. They made threshing machine, band-cutter and self-feeder attachments invented by one of the founders, George Parsons. By 1902, the firm was the world's largest manufacturer of threshing machine feeders. However, the company later moved into the production of washing machines due to the seasonal nature of the farm industry. Its first washing machine was the Parson's Pastime hand-powered wood tub (1907-08). By 1909, Maytag took charge of his own industry, the Maytag Company to maintain his control of quality in the planning and production of washing machines.
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1858 Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette (d 1928)
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1860 Owen Wister, American novelist, "father" of western fiction (d 1938)
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1862 Florence Bascom (d 18 Jun 1945, 82) American geologist who was the first woman to receive a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. Two years later she launched the geology department at Bryn Mawr. Bascom was the first woman to work as a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey and to be made a fellow of the Geological Society of America. Bascom was an expert in crystallography, mineralogy, and petrography. She is known for inventing techniques that used microscopic analysis in the study of the oil-bearing rocks. She was of Huguenot and Basque ancestry.
1864 Louis Wessel, a professor at Concordia Theological Seminary (Springfield, Illinois), at Saint Louis, Missouri (d 31 Jan 1933).
1865 Arthur Capper, American newspaper publisher and politician (d 1951)
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1882 Teddy Billington, American racing cyclist (d 1966)
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1893 Clarence J. Brown, Sr. (d Aug 23, 1965) was an American newspaper publisher who represented Ohio as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives from 1939 to 1965.
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1893 Dave Fleischer, (d 1979) American animator, film director and film producer
1898 Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
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1903 Irving Stone, American writer (d. 1989)
1906 Tom Carvel, Greek-born American businessman and inventor (d. 1990)
1906 William H. Tunner, (d 1983) American general
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1910 William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)
1912 Woody Guthrie, (d 1967) American folk musician, singer-songwriter and folk musician whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. His best-known song is "This Land Is Your Land."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie
1913 Gerald Ford, (d 2006) 38th President of the United States
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1918 Jay Wright Forrester American electrical engineer and management expert. In 1944-51 he supervised the building of the Whirlwind computer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for which he invented the random-access magnetic core memory, the information-storage device employed in most digital computers. He also studied the application of computers to management problems, developing methods for computer simulation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wright_Forrester
1918 Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and theatre director (d. 2007)
1918 Arthur Laurents, American playwright, novelist, and director (d. 2011)
1922 Robin Olds, American World War II and Vietnam War ace fighter pilot (d. 2007)
1923 Dale Robertson, American actor
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1923 Willie Steele, American long jumper (d. 1989)
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1926 Harry Dean Stanton, American actor
1927 John Chancellor, (d 1996) American television commentator
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1927 Peggy Parish, American author (d. 1988)
1928 Nancy Olson, American actress
1930 Polly Bergen, American actress
1932 Roosevelt Grier, American football player, actor, singer, Christian minister. After Grier's professional sports career he worked as a bodyguard for Robert Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign and was guarding the senator's wife, Ethel Kennedy, during the Robert F. Kennedy assassination. Although unable to prevent that killing, Grier took control of the gun and subdued the shooter, Sirhan Sirhan.
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1936 Pema Chödrön, American-born Buddhist nun and author
1936 Robert F. Overmyer, (d. 1996) American test pilot and astronaut
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Overmyer
1938 Jerry Rubin,(d 1994) American social activist and businessman
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1938 Richard Rust, (d 1994) American actor
1939 Sid Haig, American actor
1939 George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer
1941 Maulana Karenga, American writer and political activist, the creator of Kwanzaa
1944 Billy McCool, American baseball player
1946 Vincent Pastore, American actor
1947 Claudia Kennedy, U.S. Army officer
1949 Tommy Mottola, American music executive
On the left, with his father Billy Graham
1952 Franklin Graham, American evangelist and missionary. He is the president and CEO of both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) and the international Christian relief organization Samaritan's Purse.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Graham
1952 Eric Laneuville, American director, actor and producer
1952 Joel Silver, American film producer
1952 Bob Casale ("Bob 2"), American guitarist (Devo)
1953 Martha Coakley, American politician
1953 Bebe Buell, American model
1955 L. Brent Bozell III, American writer and pundit
1958 Robert Jensen, American journalist and activist
1958 Joe Keenan, American screenwriter, television producer and novelist
1960 Jane Lynch, American actress, comedian and singer
1961 Jackie Earle Haley, American actor
1962 Jeff Olson, American percussionist (Trouble)
1963 Phil Rosenthal, American newspaper columnist
1966 Juliet Cesario, American actress
1966 Tanya Donelly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Throwing Muses, Belly)
1966 Matthew Fox, American actor
1966 Ellen Reid, Canadian pianist and vocalist (Crash Test Dummies)
1966 Brian Selznick, American author and illustrator
1967 Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler
1967 Patrick J. Kennedy, American politician
1967 Robin Ventura, American baseball player
1970 Nina Siemaszko, American actress
1971 Mark LoMonaco (Bubba Ray Dudley), American professional wrestler
1971 Joey Styles, American wrestling commentator
1973 Paul Methric, American rapper
1973 Adam Quinn, American bagpipes player
1974 Erick Dampier, American basketball player
1975 Tim Hudson, American baseball player
1975 Jamey Johnson, American country music artist
1975 Taboo, American rapper
1979 Scott Porter, American actor
1982 Dmitry Chaplin, Russian-born American dancer, So You Think You Can Dance finalist
1984 Renaldo Balkman, American basketball player
1984 Erica Blasberg, American golfer (d. 2010)
1985 Darrelle Revis, American football player
1989 Sean Flynn, American actor
664 Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (birth year unknown)
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1435 Blessed Angelina di Marsciano (b 1377), an Italian nun and abbess and a beata of the Roman Catholic Church. She founded a Third Order of Religious, known today as the Franciscan Sisters of Blessed Angelina.
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1575 Richard Taverner (b ca 1505) English translator of the Bible. The Most Sacred Bible whiche is the holy scripture, conteyning the old and new testament, translated into English, and newly recognized with great diligence after most faythful exemplars by Rychard Taverner, commonly known as Taverner's Bible.
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1792 The Reverend Samson Occom (1723 – July 14, 1792; also misspelled as Occum and Alcom) member of the Mohegan nation, from near New London, Connecticut, who became a Presbyterian cleric. Occom was the first Native American to publish his writings in English, and also helped found several settlements, including what ultimately became known as the Brothertown Indians. Together with the missionary John Eliot, Occom became one of the foremost missionaries who cross-fertilised Native American communities with Christianized European culture.
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1809 Nicodemus the Hagiorite, (b. 1749) Greek Orthodox saint
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This lithograph of Little Turtle is reputedly based upon a lost portrait by Gilbert Stuart, destroyed when the British burned Washington, D.C. in 1814
1747 Little Turtle, or Mihšihkinaahkwa (in Miami-Illinois) (c.1747—July 14, 1812), a chief of the Miami people, and one of the most famous Native American military leaders of his time. Historian Wiley Sword calls him "perhaps the most capable Indian leader then in the Old Northwest." Mihšihkinaahkwa led his followers in several major victories against United States forces in the 1790s during the Northwest Indian Wars, also called Little Turtle's War. In 1791, they defeated General St. Clair, who lost 900 men, the most decisive loss by the US against Native American forces ever.
In historic records, his name was spelled in a variety of ways, including Michikinikwa, Meshekunnoghquoh, Michikinakoua, Michikiniqua, Me-She-Kin-No-Quah, Meshecunnaquan and Mischecanocquah. Mihšihkinaahkwa is the correct phonemic spelling of the name in the Miami-Illinois language.
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1834 Edmond Charles Genêt, (b. 1763) French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution
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1875 Simeon B. Marsh (b 1 Jun 1798), American Presbyterian chorister.
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1881 Billy the Kid, Henry McCarty and also as William H. Bonney (b. 1859) American outlaw
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1918 Quentin Roosevelt, (b 1897) American aviator, son of Theodore Roosevelt
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1926 Charles Albert Coffin, 81 (b 30 Dec 1844) American industrialist who was a leader in the electrical industry. In 1892, he merged his firm, the Thomas-Houston Company, with the Edison Electric Company to create the General Electric Company. He was first GE president, and then its board chairman (1913-1922). He had little technical knowledge about electricity himself, but he had a keen ability for organization and brought to the company the best technical men. In 1901, he supported the establishment of a research laboratory responsible for both applications to electrical development and pure science. In his years as head of the firm, GE experienced substantial growth, and became one of the most important companies to the economy of the U.S. During WW I, Coffin created the War Relief Clearing House and worked for the Red Cross
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1930 Gustav Adolf Faudrey, a Lutheran pastor in the Midwest and president of Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa and Other States.
1953 Richard von Mises , 70 (b 19 Apr 1883) Austrian-American mathematician and aerodynamicist who notably advanced statistics and the theory of probability. Von Mises' contributions range widely, also including fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, and aeronautics. His early work centred on aerodynamics. He investigated turbulence, making fundamental advances in boundary-layer-flow theory and airfoil design. Much of his work involved numerical methods and this led him to develop new techniques in numerical analysis. He introduced a stress tensor which was used in the study of the strength of materials.Von Mises' primary work in statistics concerned the theory of measure and applied mathematics. His most famous, yet controversial, work was in probability theory.
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1954 Jackie Saunders, (b 1892) American silent screen actress
1965 Adlai Stevenson, (b 1900) United States politician and Presidential candidate
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1966 Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, 61 (b 27 Jul 1904) American physicist at Harvard University who did work on cyclotron research. His precise measurements of mass differences between nuclear isotopes allowed him to confirm Albert Einstein's mass-energy equivalence concept. He was the Director of the Trinity test of the Manhattan Project, which took place July 16, 1945. Bainbridge called the Trinity explosion a "foul and awesome display" and remarked to J. Robert Oppenheimer immediately after the test, "Now we are all sons of bitches." This marked the beginning of his dedication to ending the testing of nuclear weapons and to efforts to maintain civilian control of future developments in that field.
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1970 Preston Foster, (b 1900) American stage and film actor
1974 Carl Spaatz, (b 1891) American Air Force general
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1982 John Daniel (b. 8 Oct 1912) He graduated from Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) in 1936. From 1951 to 1961 he served as president of the Eastern District Pastoral Conference of the Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church. From 1960 to 1968 he was president of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America.
1984 Ernest Tidyman, (b 1928) American writer
1986 Raymond Loewy, 92 (b 5 Nov 1893) French-born American inventor and design engineer, known as the "Father of Streamlining." Famous examples of his designs include the Studebaker1947 Starlight Coupe, the 1953 Starliner Coupe and the 1961 Avanti - designs that generated a public interest and acceptance far out of proportion to the company's relative size in the industry; the 1947 line of Hallicrafter radio receivers that conveyed a crisp precision far ahead of their time; the 1929 Gestetner duplicating machine, the 1934 Sears Coldspot Refrigerator and the S-1 Steam locomotive for the Pennsylvania Railroad - all landmark designs influential in establishing higher design standards in their respective design areas. He also designed such smaller items as toothbrushes, razors, furniture and the Coca Cola Bottle.
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1994 César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (b 1940)
1996 Jeff Krosnoff, (b 1964) American racing driver
1998 Richard McDonald, (b 1909) American fast food pioneer
2000 William Roscoe Estep, (b 1920) American Baptist historian and professor. He was considered an authority on the Anabaptist movement.
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2000 Meredith MacRae, (b 1944) American actress
JOE HARNELL & HIS ORCHESTRA - FLY ME TO THE MOON (BOSSA NOVA)
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2005 Joe Harnell, (b 1924) American musician, composer and arranger
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Gene Ludwig - The Vamp
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2010 Gene Ludwig, (b 1937) American jazz organist
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2012 Barton Biggs, American investor and businessman (b 1932)
2012 Don Brinkley, American screenwriter, director, and producer (b 1921)
Holidays and observances
Bastille Day (France and French dependencies)
Christian Feast Day:
Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, Lily of the Mohawks, virgin (United States)
Camillus de Lellis (Roman Catholic Church, except in the United States)
Francis Solanus
Idus of Leinster
Libert of Saint-Trond
Ulrich of Zell
July 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Aquila of the Seventy Apostles
Repose of Venerable Nicodemus the Hagiorite
Saint Ellius of Egypt (4th century)
Saint Onesimus of Magnesia, monk (4th century)
Saint Stephen of Makhrishche in Vologda, abbot (1406)
Martyr Justus at Rome (1st century)
Saint Marcelinus of the Netherlands, priest
Martyr Aquila
Martyr Hilary
Martyr Peter the New
Martyr Heraclius
Saint Joseph of Thessalonica, archbishop
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There are 170 days remaining until the end of the year.
Days until elections:
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U.S. Debt Clock: www.usdebtclock.org/
1519 The third session of the Leipzig Debate between Johann Eck (1486–1543) and Martin Luther began.
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1769 An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolà establishes a base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).
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1771 Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
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1773 The first annual conference of the Methodist Church in America convened at St. George's Church in Philadelphia, PA.
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www.historicstgeorges.org/museum
1775 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'The knowledgeof God cannot be attained by studious discussion on our parts; it must be by revelation on His part.'
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East view of the Bastille
1789 French Revolution: citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and release the seven prisoners inside.
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1789 Alexander Mackenzie finally completes his journey to the mouth of the great river he hoped would take him to the Pacific, but which turns out to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.
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The oath of La Fayette at the Fête de la Fédération, 14 July 1790. Talleyrand, then Bishop of Autun can be seen on the right. The standing child is the son of La Fayette, the young Georges Washington de La Fayette. French School, 18th century. Musée Carnavalet.
1790 French Revolution: citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
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La Marseillaise personified on the Arc de Triomphe.
French National Anthem - "La Marseillaise" (FR/EN)
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1795 "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem
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Text of the Aliens Act
1798 The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government. The first three acts took aim at the rights of immigrants. The period of residency required before immigrants could apply for citizenship was extended from five to 14 years, and the president gained the power to detain and deport those he deemed enemies. However, the fourth act, the Sedition Act, was put into practice and became a black mark on the nation's reputation. In direct violation of the Constitution's guarantee of freedom of speech, the Sedition Act permitted the prosecution of individuals who voiced or printed what the government deemed to be malicious remarks about the president or government of the United States. Fourteen Republicans, mainly journalists, were prosecuted, and some imprisoned, under the act.
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1798 First direct federal tax on the states-on dwellings, land & slaves. The United States Congress, under the Act of July 14, 1798 (1 Stat. 597) created the first property tax of its citizens. The provides ownership, rental and descriptive information for every house then existing. The purpose of the tax was to raise a war chest for the threatened conflict with France. The amount to be raised was 2 million dollars.
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1833 Anglican clergyman John Keble preached his famous sermon on national religious apostasy. It marked the beginning of the Oxford Movement, which sought to purify and revitalize the Church of England.
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1835 The Catholic Apostolic Church, a millenarian religious community, was organized.
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1845 First postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC. Placed on sale on July 14, 1845, this was the nation's first provisional stamp to be issued by a local post office in response to the congressional postal reform act that had taken effect two weeks earlier. That law, passed on March 3, 1845, standardized nationwide mail rates, with the result that the use of stamps became a practical and reliable method of postal prepayment.
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1849 Theodor Fliedner (1800–1864) established a deaconess home in Pittsburgh, signaling the beginning of Lutheran deaconess work in the U.S.
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1850 First public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration. In 1850, the first public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration in the U.S. took place during a dinner at the Mansion House, Apalachicola, Dr. John Gorrie produced blocks of ice the size of bricks. He installed his system in the U.S. Marine Hospital in Apalachicola. He obtained the first mechanical freezer patent on May 6, 1851, for an "improvement in the process for the artificial production of ice."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gorrie
New York Crystal Palace
1853 President Franklin Pierce opens the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City. In 1853, the first US World's Fair opened in New York. Born of a desire to recreate and, if possible, surpass the British Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851, it was promoted by New York businessmen, including Horace Greeley. Modeled after London's impressive structure, the iron and glass New York Crystal Palace was an octagonal form, with Greek-cross superstructure abutting a round dome at the center and tall minarets at the outer angles. The building housed 4,854 exhibitors, of whom about half came from 23 foreign nations. The roof of the ill-fated Crystal Palace leaked and heavy rains ruined exhibits and soaked visitors.
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1857 First Methodist Baptism in China. "What are you doing, Ting? What are you doing to our gods?"
If anyone had asked Ting Ang that question, he would have replied, "These images are not real gods. I have just learned of the true God. He is invisible and not made by human hands."
Ting Ang was a tradesman in Fuchau, China.
He had been listening to the "foreign devils" and realized he must walk in a new way. Ting Ang began to hold secret prayer with his family.
Ten years earlier, the first Methodist missionaries to China had arrived in Fuchau. They included J. D. Collins, from the state of Michigan in the United States, who had been so eager to carry the gospel to the great Asian nation that he even offered to work his way there as a common sailor! With him were M.C. White and Mrs. White.
Fuchau means "Happy Region." But to these first Methodist missionaries, it was not a particularly happy place. The people were friendly, but the missionaries suffered serious illness and saw no converts for ten years.
And yet Ting Ang and his family worshipped secretly.
The Methodists constructed their first church sanctuary in 1855. Built outside the city walls, it was on a main road. They capped the building with a cupola (one of those tiny buildings you see atop a roof) and put a bell in it. The Chinese called the church "Ching Sing Tong," which, according to one historian, means "Church of the True God."
The missionaries heard of Ting Ang and visited him. They prayed with him in his home--the first prayer they were able to offer in a Chinese house. What a joyful day that must have been!
Jesus commanded his disciples to go out and make more and to baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
When 47-year-old Ting Ang was baptized on this day, July 14, 1857, he was the first Methodist convert in China. He partook of the Lord's Supper, the rite by which the Methodist's remember Jesus. It was a significant breakthrough for the mission, and converts came more frequently after that. However, ten years later only 450 of Fuchau's 600,000 people had become Christians.
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1867 Alfred Nobel demonstrates dynamite. In 1867, Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey. In 1866 Nobel produced what he believed was a safe and manageable form of nitroglycerin called dynamite. He established his own factory to produce it but in 1864 an explosion at the plant killed Nobel's younger brother and four other workers. Deeply shocked by this event, he now worked on a safer explosive and in 1875 came up with gelignite. Other inventions followed including ballistite, a form of smokeless power, artificial gutta-percha and a mild steel for armour-plating.
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1868 Alvin J. Fellows of New Haven, Connecticut recieved the first U.S. patent for a spring tape measure. The tape measure was enclosed in a circular case with a spring click lock to hold the tape at any desired point. (No. 79,965). Earlier, a machine to print ribbon for the supple sewing tape measures had already been patented on 3 Sep 1847, after four years of research by the French fashion designer, Lavigne. Further, however, Sheffield, England claims to be not just the home of stainless steel, but also where the spring tape measure was invented.
todayinsci.com/F/Fellows_Alvin/FellowsTapeMeasurePatent.htm
Blockade of engines at Martinsburg, West Virginia, 16 July 1877
1877 The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 begins in Martinsburg, West Virginia, US, when Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers have their wages cut for the second time in a year.
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Billy the Kid
1881 Billy the Kid (William Henry McCarty, Jr.) was killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. On the night of July 14, the Sheriff and his two deputies approached the dusty old Fort now converted to living quarters. The residents were sympathetic to the Kid and the lawmen could extract little information. Garrett decided to seek out an old friend, Peter Maxwell, who might tell him the Kid's whereabouts. As chance would have it, the Kid stumbled right into the Sheriff's hands.
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1885 Sarah Goode became the first black woman to receive a U.S. patent. Sarah E. Goode was the owner of a furniture store in Chicago, Illinois. Her claim to fame is that she was the first Black Woman to receive a patent. In an effort to help people maximize their limited space, Goode invented a Folding Cabinet Bed. The Cabinet Bed when folded up resembled a desk which included compartments for stationary and writing instruments. Goode received her patent on July 14, 1885.
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1891 The first US patent was issued for pure corkboard to John T. Smith of Brooklyn, NY. Manufacture was begun in Brooklyn in 1894 by Stone and Duryea. Cork covering was produced first, followed by the manufacture of pure corkboard. (No. 456,068) He described a process whereby to subject "cork in a more or less fine state in a closed vessel to heat, so as to melt and volatilize the resinous matter contained in it, permitting some of the vapor to escape from the vessel and cementing the cork particles together by the condensation of the remaining vaporized resinous matter." The patent commented on the value of the product in life-preservers for being less dense and more waterproof after this treatment.
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1892 The Baptist Young People’s Union held its first annual national convention in Detroit, Michigan. Organized the previous year, this new denominational organization for young people was inspired by the founding of the first official organization for church youth, called the Christian Endeavor Society, in 1881. It had been established by Francis E. Clark, pastor of the Congregational Church of Portland, Maine.
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Bust of Perry in Shimoda, Shizuoka
1893 Commodore Perry arrives in Japan. Aboard a black-hulled steam frigate, he ported Mississippi, Plymouth, Saratoga, and Susquehanna at Uraga Harbor near Edo (modern Tokyo) on July 8, 1853, and was met by representatives of the Tokugawa Shogunate who told him to proceed to Nagasaki, where there was limited trade with the Netherlands and which was the only Japanese port open to foreigners at that time. Perry refused to leave and demanded permission to present a letter from President Millard Fillmore, threatening force if he was denied. The Japanese government accepted Perry's coming ashore and on July 14, presented the letter to delegates present and left for the Chinese coast, promising to return for a reply.
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1900 Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion. Lieutenant Georg Ludwig von Trapp, made famous in the musical The Sound of Music, was decorated for bravery aboard the SMS Kaiserin und Königin Maria Theresia during the rebellion
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Ludwig_von_Trapp
1911 Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright Brothers lands his airplane at the South Lawn of the White House. He is later awarded a Gold medal from U.S. President William Howard Taft for this feat. Harry N. Atwood flew in to accept the award from President William Taft. The flights of Harry N. Atwood from Boston to Washington and from St. Louis to New York, and C. P. Rodgers from New York to Los Angeles were the most important events of the kind in this country. The St Louis to New York flight was a distance by air route, 1,266 miles, took 12 days, the net flying time, 28 hours 53 minutes. The average daily flight was 105.5 miles with an average speed of 43.9 miles per hour.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Birds_of_Aviation
1912 Eduard Louis Arndt (1864–1929) was commissioned as the first LCMS missionary to China by the Evangelical Lutheran Mission for China (which he helped found earlier the same year).
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Robert Goddard, bundled against the cold New England weather of March 16, 1926, holds the launching frame of his most notable invention — the first liquid-fueled rocket.
1914 Robert Hutchins Goddard patents a liquid-fuel rocket motor. Goddard first obtained public notice in 1907 in a cloud of smoke from a powder rocket fired in the basement of the physics building in Worcester Polytechnic Institute. School officials took an immediate interest in the work of student Goddard. They, to their credit, did not expel him. He thus began his lifetime of dedicated work. In 1914, Goddard received two U.S. patents. One was for a rocket using liquid fuel. The other was for a two or three stage rocket using solid fuel. At his own expense, he began to make systematic studies about propulsion provided by various types of gunpowder.
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Delville Wood in 1916 (left) and in 2009 (right)
1916 Start of the Battle of Delville Wood as an action within the Battle of the Somme, which was to last until 3 September 1916.
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1933 Gleichschaltung: in Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party. Gleichschaltung, meaning "coordination", "making the same", "bringing into line", is a Nazi term for the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control and tight coordination over all aspects of society. The historian Richard J. Evans translated the term as "forcible-coordination" in his most recent work on Nazi Germany. Among the goals of this policy were to bring about adherence to a specific doctrine and way of thinking and to control as many aspects of life as possible.
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1933 A sterilization law was passed in Nazi Germany, known as Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses (Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring), to be effective 1 Jan 1934. Any German was a target if suffering from any of the following mental conditions that were expected to be hereditary: congenital mental deficiency, schizophrenia or manic-depressive insanity. Other expected herediatry conditions included: epilepsy, Huntington’s chorea, blindness, deafness, any severe hereditary deformity or even severe alcoholism. Within a few years, up to an estimated 400,000 Germans were involuntarily sterilized in pursuit of this national goal of “racial hygiene,” to eliminate handicapped descendants. Most operations, often by female tubal ligations or male vasectomies, were done in 1934-37
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1934 NY Times erronously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time.
1936 Thermometer hits 116° in Collegeville, IN
1943 HITS ARCHIVE: Brazil - Jimmy Dorsey (Bob Eberly & Helen O’Connell, vocal)
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1942 Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly recorded "Brazil" with the Jimmy Dorsey band. O'Connell was a big-band vocalist of the 1940's who, duetting with singer Bob Eberly for the bandleader Jimmy Dorsey, was responsible for such million-selling recordings as "Green Eyes" and "Tangerine" as well as hit solo performances for Dorsey like "Six Lessons from Madame LaZonga." This vivacious blonde appeared with Dorsey and his orchestra in a few early-40's films and later became a TV personality.
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1943 In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American. George Washington Carver National Monument was established in 1943 and dedicated on July 14, 1953. The park consists of 210 of the original 240 acre Moses Carver farm. George Washington Carver National Monument was established as a public memorial to George Washington Carver in recognition of his outstanding achievements as a scientist, educator and humanitarian.
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1944 General Omar Bradley inspected the invention of Sgt. Curtis G. Culin, the heavy steel, tusklike prongs welded on the front of a Sherman tank in the 2nd Armored Division. During the Normandy campaign in France, the advance of the U.S. Sherman tanks had been seriously obstructed by the local terrain (called bocage in French). Hedgerows between small fields were tall, very thickly overgrown banks. Only with the prongs, dubbed the Rhinoceros, could the tanks ram through without the front end rising high and exposing their vulnerable underbelly to shells from the enemy hidden by hedgerows. Impressed by the demonstration, Bradley ordered emergency construction of many more using steel beams from the German beach defenses
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1946 Dr. Benjamin Spock's "Baby and Child Care" was first published. "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" (often referred to simply as "Baby and Child Care"), written by Dr. Benjamin Spock, was first published in 1946, and is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. By 1998, it had sold more than 50 million copies. It has been translated into 39 languages.
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Hubert Humphry 1948 Democratic National Convention
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1948 Hubert Humphry 1948 Democratic National Convention speech.
www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/huberthumphey1948dnc.html
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1950 Korean War: North Korean troops initiate the Battle of Taejon.
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1951 Citation becomes first horse to win $1,000,000 in races. Wins in the Century and American Handicaps brought him within less than $15,000 of Wright's hoped-for million. On July 14, 1951, Citation went out a winner with a victory in the Hollywood Gold Cup in Inglewood. It pushed his earnings past $1 million and signaled the end of his racing career.
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1954 State record high temperature of 117° in E. St. Louis, IL . State record high temperature of 118° in Warsaw and Union, MO.
Rawya Ateya used her military experience as a political asset during her 1957 electoral campaign, hence her appearance in uniform at rallies.
1957 Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
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1959 First atomic powered cruiser, the Long Beach, Quincy Mass.
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1960 Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall
1965 The Mariner 4 satellite sent a transmission of the first close-up photograph of Mars. It consisting of 8.3 dots per second of varying degrees of darkness. The transmission lasted for 8.5 hours and depicted the regions on Mars known as Cebrenia, Arcadia, and Amazonis. The satellite was 134 million miles away from earth and 10,500 miles from Mars. The 574-pound spacecraft had been launched at 9:22am on 28 Nov 1964, from Cape Canaveral, FL, by a two-stage Atlas-Agena D rocket. In addition to its camera with digital tape recorder (about 20 pictures), it carried instruments for studying cosmic dust, solar plasma, trapped radiation, cosmic rays, magnetic fields, radio occultation and celestial mechanics.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_program
1967 Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR. Eddie Mathews becomes the 7th member of the 500-HR club, connecting off loser Juan Marichal as the Astros beat the Giants, 8-6.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Matthews
1968 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR. Curt Simmons once said, "Trying to throw a fastball by Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster." Someone forgot to tell San Francisco pitcher Mike McCormick that and during the third inning Hank Aaron made him pay, smacking his 500th career home run to become the eighth player in history to reach the milestone. Braves won 4-2.
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1969 The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
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1976 Capital punishment is abolished in Canada.
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1987 Montreal, Canada, is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal Flood of 1987.
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1987 Montreal, Canada, is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal Flood of 1987.
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1987 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
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2000 A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
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2001 The Pentagon scored a hit with a missile interceptor that soared into space from a tiny Pacific isle and destroyed its target, a mock nuclear warhead.
2003 Washington Post columnist Robert Novak reveals that Valerie Plame is a CIA "operative".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Novak
~~~~~BIRTHS~~~~~
1602 Cardinal Mazarin, French-Italian politician and diplomat (d 1661)
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1785 Mordecai Manuel Noah, (d 1851) American playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian. He was born in a family of Portuguese Sephardic ancestry. He was the most important Jewish lay leader in New York in the pre-Civil War period, and the first Jew born in the United States to reach national prominence.
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1800 Matthew Bridges, Anglican clergyman. In 1848 he converted to Catholicism,under the influence of the Oxford Movement in England. He is remembered today for authoringthe hymn, 'Crown Him with Many Crowns.'
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/r/i/bridges_m.htm
1829 Edward White Benson, (d 1896) Archbishop of Canterbury
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1830 John Michael Steck, pioneer Lutheran pastor in Ohio and Pennsylvania (b. 5 Oct 1756)
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1842 Charles Benjamin Dudley (d 21 Dec 1909, 67) American chemical engineer who was an early supporter of standardisation and material testing in industry. From 1875, as a chemist for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, he researched the metallurgy of steel rail tracks because their breakage was a serious hazard at that time. When he discovered enormous variation in the quality of steel and published his results (1878), the manufacturers were at first uncooperative. However, Dudley insisted on continuing testing, and rigorous standards for fuels, lubricants, paints, lighting devices and various mechanical parts of locomotives and rolling stock. He co-founded (1898) the American Society for Testing and Materials, and was its president from 1902 until his death
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Benjamin_Dudley
1857 Frederick Louis Maytag (d Mar 26, 1937) American industrialist who with three other men in 1893 started a farm implement business in Newton, Iowa. They made threshing machine, band-cutter and self-feeder attachments invented by one of the founders, George Parsons. By 1902, the firm was the world's largest manufacturer of threshing machine feeders. However, the company later moved into the production of washing machines due to the seasonal nature of the farm industry. Its first washing machine was the Parson's Pastime hand-powered wood tub (1907-08). By 1909, Maytag took charge of his own industry, the Maytag Company to maintain his control of quality in the planning and production of washing machines.
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1858 Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette (d 1928)
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1860 Owen Wister, American novelist, "father" of western fiction (d 1938)
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1862 Florence Bascom (d 18 Jun 1945, 82) American geologist who was the first woman to receive a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. Two years later she launched the geology department at Bryn Mawr. Bascom was the first woman to work as a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey and to be made a fellow of the Geological Society of America. Bascom was an expert in crystallography, mineralogy, and petrography. She is known for inventing techniques that used microscopic analysis in the study of the oil-bearing rocks. She was of Huguenot and Basque ancestry.
1864 Louis Wessel, a professor at Concordia Theological Seminary (Springfield, Illinois), at Saint Louis, Missouri (d 31 Jan 1933).
1865 Arthur Capper, American newspaper publisher and politician (d 1951)
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1882 Teddy Billington, American racing cyclist (d 1966)
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1893 Clarence J. Brown, Sr. (d Aug 23, 1965) was an American newspaper publisher who represented Ohio as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives from 1939 to 1965.
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1893 Dave Fleischer, (d 1979) American animator, film director and film producer
1898 Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
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1903 Irving Stone, American writer (d. 1989)
1906 Tom Carvel, Greek-born American businessman and inventor (d. 1990)
1906 William H. Tunner, (d 1983) American general
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1910 William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)
1912 Woody Guthrie, (d 1967) American folk musician, singer-songwriter and folk musician whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. His best-known song is "This Land Is Your Land."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie
1913 Gerald Ford, (d 2006) 38th President of the United States
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1918 Jay Wright Forrester American electrical engineer and management expert. In 1944-51 he supervised the building of the Whirlwind computer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for which he invented the random-access magnetic core memory, the information-storage device employed in most digital computers. He also studied the application of computers to management problems, developing methods for computer simulation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wright_Forrester
1918 Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and theatre director (d. 2007)
1918 Arthur Laurents, American playwright, novelist, and director (d. 2011)
1922 Robin Olds, American World War II and Vietnam War ace fighter pilot (d. 2007)
1923 Dale Robertson, American actor
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1923 Willie Steele, American long jumper (d. 1989)
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1926 Harry Dean Stanton, American actor
1927 John Chancellor, (d 1996) American television commentator
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1927 Peggy Parish, American author (d. 1988)
1928 Nancy Olson, American actress
1930 Polly Bergen, American actress
1932 Roosevelt Grier, American football player, actor, singer, Christian minister. After Grier's professional sports career he worked as a bodyguard for Robert Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign and was guarding the senator's wife, Ethel Kennedy, during the Robert F. Kennedy assassination. Although unable to prevent that killing, Grier took control of the gun and subdued the shooter, Sirhan Sirhan.
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1936 Pema Chödrön, American-born Buddhist nun and author
1936 Robert F. Overmyer, (d. 1996) American test pilot and astronaut
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1938 Jerry Rubin,(d 1994) American social activist and businessman
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1938 Richard Rust, (d 1994) American actor
1939 Sid Haig, American actor
1939 George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer
1941 Maulana Karenga, American writer and political activist, the creator of Kwanzaa
1944 Billy McCool, American baseball player
1946 Vincent Pastore, American actor
1947 Claudia Kennedy, U.S. Army officer
1949 Tommy Mottola, American music executive
On the left, with his father Billy Graham
1952 Franklin Graham, American evangelist and missionary. He is the president and CEO of both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) and the international Christian relief organization Samaritan's Purse.
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1952 Eric Laneuville, American director, actor and producer
1952 Joel Silver, American film producer
1952 Bob Casale ("Bob 2"), American guitarist (Devo)
1953 Martha Coakley, American politician
1953 Bebe Buell, American model
1955 L. Brent Bozell III, American writer and pundit
1958 Robert Jensen, American journalist and activist
1958 Joe Keenan, American screenwriter, television producer and novelist
1960 Jane Lynch, American actress, comedian and singer
1961 Jackie Earle Haley, American actor
1962 Jeff Olson, American percussionist (Trouble)
1963 Phil Rosenthal, American newspaper columnist
1966 Juliet Cesario, American actress
1966 Tanya Donelly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Throwing Muses, Belly)
1966 Matthew Fox, American actor
1966 Ellen Reid, Canadian pianist and vocalist (Crash Test Dummies)
1966 Brian Selznick, American author and illustrator
1967 Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler
1967 Patrick J. Kennedy, American politician
1967 Robin Ventura, American baseball player
1970 Nina Siemaszko, American actress
1971 Mark LoMonaco (Bubba Ray Dudley), American professional wrestler
1971 Joey Styles, American wrestling commentator
1973 Paul Methric, American rapper
1973 Adam Quinn, American bagpipes player
1974 Erick Dampier, American basketball player
1975 Tim Hudson, American baseball player
1975 Jamey Johnson, American country music artist
1975 Taboo, American rapper
1979 Scott Porter, American actor
1982 Dmitry Chaplin, Russian-born American dancer, So You Think You Can Dance finalist
1984 Renaldo Balkman, American basketball player
1984 Erica Blasberg, American golfer (d. 2010)
1985 Darrelle Revis, American football player
1989 Sean Flynn, American actor
~~~~~DEATHS~~~~~
664 Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (birth year unknown)
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1435 Blessed Angelina di Marsciano (b 1377), an Italian nun and abbess and a beata of the Roman Catholic Church. She founded a Third Order of Religious, known today as the Franciscan Sisters of Blessed Angelina.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_di_Marsciano
1575 Richard Taverner (b ca 1505) English translator of the Bible. The Most Sacred Bible whiche is the holy scripture, conteyning the old and new testament, translated into English, and newly recognized with great diligence after most faythful exemplars by Rychard Taverner, commonly known as Taverner's Bible.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Taverner
1792 The Reverend Samson Occom (1723 – July 14, 1792; also misspelled as Occum and Alcom) member of the Mohegan nation, from near New London, Connecticut, who became a Presbyterian cleric. Occom was the first Native American to publish his writings in English, and also helped found several settlements, including what ultimately became known as the Brothertown Indians. Together with the missionary John Eliot, Occom became one of the foremost missionaries who cross-fertilised Native American communities with Christianized European culture.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Occom
1809 Nicodemus the Hagiorite, (b. 1749) Greek Orthodox saint
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This lithograph of Little Turtle is reputedly based upon a lost portrait by Gilbert Stuart, destroyed when the British burned Washington, D.C. in 1814
1747 Little Turtle, or Mihšihkinaahkwa (in Miami-Illinois) (c.1747—July 14, 1812), a chief of the Miami people, and one of the most famous Native American military leaders of his time. Historian Wiley Sword calls him "perhaps the most capable Indian leader then in the Old Northwest." Mihšihkinaahkwa led his followers in several major victories against United States forces in the 1790s during the Northwest Indian Wars, also called Little Turtle's War. In 1791, they defeated General St. Clair, who lost 900 men, the most decisive loss by the US against Native American forces ever.
In historic records, his name was spelled in a variety of ways, including Michikinikwa, Meshekunnoghquoh, Michikinakoua, Michikiniqua, Me-She-Kin-No-Quah, Meshecunnaquan and Mischecanocquah. Mihšihkinaahkwa is the correct phonemic spelling of the name in the Miami-Illinois language.
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1834 Edmond Charles Genêt, (b. 1763) French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution
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1875 Simeon B. Marsh (b 1 Jun 1798), American Presbyterian chorister.
www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/m/a/r/marsh_sb.htm
1881 Billy the Kid, Henry McCarty and also as William H. Bonney (b. 1859) American outlaw
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1918 Quentin Roosevelt, (b 1897) American aviator, son of Theodore Roosevelt
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1926 Charles Albert Coffin, 81 (b 30 Dec 1844) American industrialist who was a leader in the electrical industry. In 1892, he merged his firm, the Thomas-Houston Company, with the Edison Electric Company to create the General Electric Company. He was first GE president, and then its board chairman (1913-1922). He had little technical knowledge about electricity himself, but he had a keen ability for organization and brought to the company the best technical men. In 1901, he supported the establishment of a research laboratory responsible for both applications to electrical development and pure science. In his years as head of the firm, GE experienced substantial growth, and became one of the most important companies to the economy of the U.S. During WW I, Coffin created the War Relief Clearing House and worked for the Red Cross
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_A._Coffin
1930 Gustav Adolf Faudrey, a Lutheran pastor in the Midwest and president of Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa and Other States.
1953 Richard von Mises , 70 (b 19 Apr 1883) Austrian-American mathematician and aerodynamicist who notably advanced statistics and the theory of probability. Von Mises' contributions range widely, also including fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, and aeronautics. His early work centred on aerodynamics. He investigated turbulence, making fundamental advances in boundary-layer-flow theory and airfoil design. Much of his work involved numerical methods and this led him to develop new techniques in numerical analysis. He introduced a stress tensor which was used in the study of the strength of materials.Von Mises' primary work in statistics concerned the theory of measure and applied mathematics. His most famous, yet controversial, work was in probability theory.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Mises
1954 Jackie Saunders, (b 1892) American silent screen actress
1965 Adlai Stevenson, (b 1900) United States politician and Presidential candidate
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II
1966 Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, 61 (b 27 Jul 1904) American physicist at Harvard University who did work on cyclotron research. His precise measurements of mass differences between nuclear isotopes allowed him to confirm Albert Einstein's mass-energy equivalence concept. He was the Director of the Trinity test of the Manhattan Project, which took place July 16, 1945. Bainbridge called the Trinity explosion a "foul and awesome display" and remarked to J. Robert Oppenheimer immediately after the test, "Now we are all sons of bitches." This marked the beginning of his dedication to ending the testing of nuclear weapons and to efforts to maintain civilian control of future developments in that field.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Tompkins_Bainbridge
1970 Preston Foster, (b 1900) American stage and film actor
1974 Carl Spaatz, (b 1891) American Air Force general
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Spaatz
1982 John Daniel (b. 8 Oct 1912) He graduated from Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) in 1936. From 1951 to 1961 he served as president of the Eastern District Pastoral Conference of the Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church. From 1960 to 1968 he was president of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America.
1984 Ernest Tidyman, (b 1928) American writer
1986 Raymond Loewy, 92 (b 5 Nov 1893) French-born American inventor and design engineer, known as the "Father of Streamlining." Famous examples of his designs include the Studebaker1947 Starlight Coupe, the 1953 Starliner Coupe and the 1961 Avanti - designs that generated a public interest and acceptance far out of proportion to the company's relative size in the industry; the 1947 line of Hallicrafter radio receivers that conveyed a crisp precision far ahead of their time; the 1929 Gestetner duplicating machine, the 1934 Sears Coldspot Refrigerator and the S-1 Steam locomotive for the Pennsylvania Railroad - all landmark designs influential in establishing higher design standards in their respective design areas. He also designed such smaller items as toothbrushes, razors, furniture and the Coca Cola Bottle.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Loewy
1994 César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (b 1940)
1996 Jeff Krosnoff, (b 1964) American racing driver
1998 Richard McDonald, (b 1909) American fast food pioneer
2000 William Roscoe Estep, (b 1920) American Baptist historian and professor. He was considered an authority on the Anabaptist movement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Roscoe_Estep
2000 Meredith MacRae, (b 1944) American actress
JOE HARNELL & HIS ORCHESTRA - FLY ME TO THE MOON (BOSSA NOVA)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvf-TsHSxhM
2005 Joe Harnell, (b 1924) American musician, composer and arranger
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Gene Ludwig - The Vamp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRPbcHCQOGY
2010 Gene Ludwig, (b 1937) American jazz organist
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Ludwig
2012 Barton Biggs, American investor and businessman (b 1932)
2012 Don Brinkley, American screenwriter, director, and producer (b 1921)
Holidays and observances
Bastille Day (France and French dependencies)
Christian Feast Day:
Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, Lily of the Mohawks, virgin (United States)
Camillus de Lellis (Roman Catholic Church, except in the United States)
Francis Solanus
Idus of Leinster
Libert of Saint-Trond
Ulrich of Zell
July 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Aquila of the Seventy Apostles
Repose of Venerable Nicodemus the Hagiorite
Saint Ellius of Egypt (4th century)
Saint Onesimus of Magnesia, monk (4th century)
Saint Stephen of Makhrishche in Vologda, abbot (1406)
Martyr Justus at Rome (1st century)
Saint Marcelinus of the Netherlands, priest
Martyr Aquila
Martyr Hilary
Martyr Peter the New
Martyr Heraclius
Saint Joseph of Thessalonica, archbishop
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lutheranhistory.org/history/tih0714.htm
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