Thursday, 31 July 2014

Today in History for 31st July 2014

Historical Events


1942 - U-boats sank 96 allied ships this month: 476,000 ton

1954 - Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hrs, 1 double)

1961 - 31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston

1965 - Cigarette advertsing banned on British TV

1983 - B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, and W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame

2007 - Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.


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Famous Birthdays


1598 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)

1880 - Munshi Premchand, Indian Author (d. 1936)

1918 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1929 - Don Murray, California, actor (Bus Stop, Advise and Consent, Endless Love)

1953 - Hugh McDowell, chelloist (ELO-Telephone Line)

1959 - Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist


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Famous Deaths


1726 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)

1953 - Robert Taft, (Sen-R-Oh) "Mr Republican", dies in NY at 63

1981 - Gen Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash

1992 - G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72

1994 - Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66

2004 - Laura Betti, Italian actress (b. 1927)


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