Happy B'day Jorjie.
A few birthday items for you to ponder on this day:
Other famous birthdays:
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02 - Jul - 1983 Michelle Branch
02 - Jul - 1964 José Canseco
02 - Jul - 1942 Vincente Fox
02 - Jul - 1937 Richard Petty
02 - Jul - 1922 Dan Rowan
02 - Jul - 1908 Thurgood Marshall
02 - Jul - 1877 Hermann Hesse
This day in history:
1298 An army under Albert of Austria defeats forces led by Adolf of Nassua.
1625 The Spanish army takes Breda, Spain, after nearly a year of siege.
1644 Oliver Cromwell crushes the Royalists at the Battle of Marston Moor.
1747 Marshall Saxe leads the French forces to victory over an Anglo-Dutch force under the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Lauffeld.
1776 The Continental Congress resolves that the American colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."
1822 Denmark Vesey is executed in Charleston, South Carolina, for planning a massive slave revolt.
1858 Czar Alexander II frees the serfs working on imperial lands.
1863 The Union left flank holds at Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg. Colonel Joshua Chamberlain.
1881 Charles J. Guiteau fatally wounds President James A. Garfield in Washington, D.C.
1926 Congress establishes the Army Air Corps.
1937 American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappears in the Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world.
1947 A craft of 30 meter diameter crashes on the Foster Ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. By July 8, the U.S. Army had cleared the land and declared it off limits. An Army press conference asserts the debris to be that of a weather balloon, but that explanation does not mesh well with witness observations.
1961 Novelist Ernest Hemingway commits suicide at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
1964 President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law.
1967 The U.S. launches Operation Buffalo in Vietnam.
1976 North and South Vietnam are officially reunified.
1980 President Jimmy Carter reinstates draft registration for males 18 years of age.
1982 Lawn chair balloonist reaches 16,000 feet.
1997 The Russian minister of Justice, Valentin Kovalyov, is fired from his position after photos of him romping naked in a nightclub sauna with a bevy of young naked women are published by the scandal newspaper Sovershenno Sekretno. |
