Historical Events
1934 - Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig and Foxx in All star game
1936 - 110°F (43°C) at Runyon, New Jersey (state record)
1951 - Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
1972 - Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
1990 - Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall Show
2001 - 72nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Safeco Field, Seattle
Famous Birthdays
1682 - Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719)
1919 - Rusty Gill, St Louis Mo, singer (Polka Time)
1938 - Paul Andreu, French architect
1941 - Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk, Poland, cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18B, 30)
1941 - Ian Whitcomb, England, rocker (You Turn Me On)
1949 - Greg Kihn U.S. pop musician and radio personality.
Famous Deaths
1881 - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812)
1909 - Flooi Du Toit, cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892), dies
1937 - Johan[nes] B Schepers, Fries writer (Braga), dies at 71
1995 - Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman, dies at 74
2005 - Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin, airshow performers
2006 - Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
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