Events in History

48 BC Caesar’s civil war: Battle of Pharsalus – Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.

378 Battle of Adrianople: Goth army defeats Roman forces under Emperor Valens, who is killed

1790 Robert Gray’s Columbia Rediviva returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st American ship to circumnavigate the Globe

1898 Rudolf Diesel of Germany obtains patent #608,845 for his internal combustion engine, later known as the diesel engine

1942 Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a “quit India” motion and campaign by the All-India Congress

1945 US drops second atomic bomb “Fat Man” on Nagasaki, Japan, destroying part of the city

1965 Singapore separates from the Federation of Malaysia and gains its independence

1974 Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States and Vice President Gerald Ford swears the oath of office to take his place as the 38th US President

2020 Disputed Belarusian presidential election sees long time dictator Alexander Lukashenko officially win 80% of the votes but unofficially lose 60-70% of the votes to main opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. Sparks widespread protests in Belarus and international condemnation.

Events in Flim and TV

1930 Animated character Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer’s cartoon “Dizzy Dishes”

1942 CBS radio broadcasts the debut of wartime series “Our Secret Weapon”

1963 Britains rock TV show “Ready Steady Go”, premieres

1967 KYAY TV channel 39 in West Monroe, LA (IND) begins broadcasting

1992 Revival of Tennessee Williams‘ play “A Streetcar Named Desire”, starring Alec Baldwin & Jessica Lange, closes at Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC, after 137 performances

Events in Music

1862 Hector Berlioz‘s opera “Beatrice et Benedict” premieres in Baden-Baden, Germany

1942 Dmitri Shostakovich‘s 7th Symphony, dedicated to city of Leningrad, performed in Leningrad by starving musicians and broadcast to German forces over loudspeakers during siege by Nazi forces

1966 The Beatles release their “Yellow Submarine” single and its album “Revolver” in the US

1969 Kander and Ebbs’ musical “Zorba” closes at Imperial Theater, NYC, after 305 performances

1973 Northern Irish guitarist Henry McCullough quits rock band Wings, founded by Paul McCartney

1986 “Honky Tonk Nights” closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 4 performances

1992 Revival of Tennessee Williams‘ play “A Streetcar Named Desire”, starring Alec Baldwin & Jessica Lange, closes at Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC, after 137 performances

1997 “Just to See You Smile” single released by Tim McGraw (Billboard Song of the Year 1998)

1999 The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru as the official national flag, and “Kimi Ga Yo” as national anthem.

2012 Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 10 premieres with the Orchestre Français des Jeunes conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence, France

2015 At Ferguson anniversary of the shooting of unarmed Michael Brown, a man is shot and a state of emergency declared

Events in Sports

1900 1st International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Boston, MA: Dwight Davis & Holcombe Ward beat Ernest Black & Herbert Roper Barrett 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to give US an unassailable 3-0 lead over British Isles

1908 Tour de France: French road cyclist Lucien Petit-Breton successfully defends his title beating François Faber of Luxembourg

1918 Cincinnati Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, and suspends him “for indifferent play”

1923 NY State Golf Association formed

1925 Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out

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Events in History

1401 Turko-Mongol ruler Tamerlane (Timur) destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000

1790 King Gustav III leads Swedish Naval forces to victory over the Russian Baltic fleet during the Second Battle of Svensksund, destroying or capturing one-third of the Russian ships and bringing an end to the Russo-Swedish War

1868 Louisiana and South Carolina are the last states to ratify the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing civil rights

1893 Surgeon Daniel Hale Williams performs the first successful open-heart surgery when he repairs the torn pericardium of knife wound patient James Cornish, without the use of penicillin or blood transfusion [1]

1917 British battleship HMS Vanguard explodes at Scapa Flow due to an internal explosion caused by faulty cordite, killing 804 crew members

1971 National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger secretly visits the People’s Republic of China to negotiate a detente between the US and China

2002 The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.

2017 Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proclaims victory over Islamic State forces in Mosul

Events in Flim and TV

1956 Dick Clark‘s 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand

1967 WRET TV channel 36 in Charlotte, North Carolina (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting

1968 BBC-TV broadcasts “Farewell”, folk-rock band The Seekers final performance, draws 10 million viewers

1981 Nintendo release arcade game “Donkey Kong” created by Shigeru Miyamoto in Japan (July 31 in the US)

Events in Music

1955 Bill Haley & His Comets “Rock Around the Clock” tops the billboards chart, one of the best-selling singles ever

Events in Sports

1904 US Open Men’s Golf, Glen View GC: defending champion Willie Anderson of Scotland wins the 3rd of his 4 Open titles, 5 strokes ahead of runner-up Gilbert Nicholls

1932 Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) formed

1932 Yanks’ Ben Chapman hits 2 inside-the-park HRs, tying record

1933 Philadelphia-based NFL team Frankford Yellow Jackets sold; rebranded Philadelphia Eagles

1937 British Open Men’s Golf, Carnoustie: Henry Cotton wins second of his 3 Open titles, 2 strokes ahead of fellow Englishman Reg Whitcombe

1939 A meeting of 6,000 Indians, held at the Indian Sports Ground in Johannesburg South Africa, launch the Passive Resistance Campaign against apartheid and racial policy in South Africa

1940 8th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-0 at Sportsman’s Park, St Louis

1946 13th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 12-0 at Fenway Park, Boston

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Events in History

1461 Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor

1714 The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy during the Great Northern War against Sweden

1933 The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.

1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan

1990 US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia beginning Operation Desert Shield

2015 US Presidential candidate Donald Trump says in a CNN interview that news anchor Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”

Events in Flim and TV

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Events in Music

1926 George S. Kaufman and Irving Berlin‘s musical “The Cocoanuts” starring the Marx Brothers closes at the Lyric Theatre, NYC, after 276 performances; later adapted as a film

1949 “All After Love” closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 121 performances

1954 Jerome Moross and John Treville Latouche’s “Golden Apple”, adapted from parts of Homer’s “Illiad” and “Odyssey”, closes at Alvin Theater, NYC after, 125 performances

1970 British keyboard playing singer-songwriter Christine McVie (née Perfect) joins rock band Fleetwood Mac

1977 Gary Geld and Peter Udell’s musical “Shenandoah”, based on the film of the same name, closes at Alvin Theater, NYC, after 1,050 performances and 2 Tony Awards

1980 John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin recording sessions for their “Double Fantasy” album at the Hit Factory, NYC

1983 Richard Levinson, William Link, Elmer Bernstein. and Don Black’s musical “Merlin”, starring magician Doug Henning and Chita Rivera, closes at Mark Hellinger Theater, NYC, after 199 performances

1984 Harmonica Frank [Floyd], American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player dies of lung cancer and diabetes complications at 75

1986 “Honky Tonk Nights” opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 4 performances

1993 “Camelot” closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 56 performances

1997 Garth Brooks performs a free concert in NYC’s Central Park for HBO, later releasing it as Garth: Live from Central Park

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Events in Sports

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1903 Tommy Corcoran sets MLB record for shortstops when he records 14 assists in Cincinnati’s 4 – 2 win v St. Louis Cardinals

1915 Dario Resta, driving a Peugeot, wins the first Champ Car race ever to average over 100mph at a 100-mile race in Chicago; average speed 101.8mph

1936 A Finnish quinella in the 5,000m final at the Berlin Olympics; Gunnar Höckert runs an Olympic record to beat teammate Lauri Lehtinen

1936 Argentina wins the polo gold medal beating Great Britain 11-0 in the final at the Berlin Olympics; final time the sport is contested at the Olympics

1936 Twenty-two nations line-up as the first basketball competition in the Olympics Games starts in Berlin; Estonia beats France 34-29 in the first game

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