Events in History

1521 Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés capture Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc in Tenochtitlan marking the end of the Aztec Empire

1536 Buddhist monks from Kyōto’s Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance. (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1536).

1642 Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers Mars’ southern polar cap

1788 Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90

1937 Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese forces begin the Battle of Shanghai, a conflict that will last 3 months and involve 1 million troops

1942 The ‘Manhattan Project‘ commences, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves: its aim – to deliver an atomic bomb

Events in Flim and TV

1944 Jackie Gleason Les Tremayne show premieres on NBC radio

1956 WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting

1967 “Bonnie and Clyde” crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, is released

1967 WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting

1972 Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th & last episode of American western series “Bonanza”

1981 Last broadcast of “The Waltons” on CBS-TV

1992 25th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at DoubleTree Hotel

1992 Revival of Tom Stoppard‘s play “The Real Inspector Hound” opens at Criterion Center Stage Right, New York, NYC; runs for 61 performances

1997 Animated TV sitcom “South Park” debuts on Comedy Central

1998 31st San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center

1999 32nd San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center

2019 Entertainment companies CBS and Viacom announce they will merge with a combined 28 billion revenue

Events in Music

1876 The Bayreuth Festspielhaus opens with the first complete performance of Richard Wagner‘s Ring Cycle

1952 Blues singer Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton records “Hound Dog” song, written a day earlier especially for her by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, at Radio Recorders Studio in Los Angeles, California

1956 Elvis Presley releases music single “Don’t Be Cruel”

1966 Longview, Texas radio station KLUE is struck by lightning the day after holding a “Beatles Bonfire”, knocking an engineer unconscious and causing extensive damage to equipment

1971 Paul & Linda McCartney release single “Back Seat of My Car”

1990 American soul singer Curtis Mayfield becomes paralyzed from neck down after stage lighting equipment falls on him at an outdoor concert at Wingate Field in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York; although unable to perform live, he continued to compose, sing, and record

1992 Revival of Tom Stoppard‘s play “The Real Inspector Hound” opens at Criterion Center Stage Right, New York, NYC; runs for 61 performances

2011 Farm Aid (25th Anniversary) held in Kansas City, Kansas; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Jason Mraz, Jamey Johnson, Jakob Dylan, and Billy Joe Shaver [1]

2013 “Crash My Party” 4th studio album by Luke Bryan is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2014)

2018 Ugandan politician and pop singer Bobi Wine arrested by the Ugandan army at a campaign rally in Arua and later allegedly tortured

Events in Sports

1902 English cricket team beats Australia by one wicket in a famous victory at The Oval, in London

1906 Chicago Cub’s pitcher Jack Taylor ends a string of completing 202 MLB games (187 complete, 15 relief) against Brooklyn Superbas in 3rd inning of an 11-3 win at Washington Park, NYC

1908 Future Baseball HOF pitcher Cy Young‘s career is celebrated with special day in his name in Boston; he pitches briefly for Red Sox against an All-Star team

1910 Brooklyn Superbas and Pittsburgh Pirates play “the game of perfect symmetry” in baseball to 8-8 tie, both have 8 runs, 13 hits, 2 errors, 12 assists, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 hit baseman, and 1 passed ball

1917 Milt Stock (2), Fred Luderus (2) and Possum Whitted of the Philadelphia Phillies steal 5 bases in an inning in 3-0 win against Boston at Braves Field

1919 American thoroughbred racehorse Man o’ War’s only defeat in 21 start career; Upset wins Sanford Memorial Stakes at Saratoga Race Course

1920 US Open Men’s Golf, Inverness GC: Isle of Jersey native Ted Ray pars the 18th, giving him a 1-stroke win over runners-up Harry Vardon, Jock Hutchison, Leo Diegel & Jack Burke Sr

1931 Cincinnati Reds second baseman Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6 in 17-3 rout of Boston at Braves Field

1932 Yankees hurler Red Ruffing becomes first MLB pitcher since 1906 to hit an extra-inning, game-winning home run in NY’s 1-0 win over the Senators in Washington

1933 Jacques van Egmond becomes world champion amateur cyclist

1933 PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Blue Mound CC: Gene Sarazen defeats Willie Goggin, 5 & 4 for 3rd of his 3 PGA C’ship titles; 6th of his 7 majors

1936 Americans Dorothy Poynton-Hil and Velma Dunn take the gold and silver medals in the 10m platform diving at the Berlin Olympics

1936 Nida Senff and Rie Mastenbroek make it a Dutch 1-2 in the women’s 100m backstroke final at the Berlin Olympics

1936 Rie Mastenbroek of the Netherlands swims an Olympic record 1:05.9 to win the women’s 100m freestyle at the Berlin Olympics, beating Jeannette Campbell of Argentina by 0:05

1939 Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A’s

1948 3 Finnish gymnasts dead heat for the gold medal in the pommel horse section at London Olympics; Paavo Aaltonen, Veikko Huhtanen & Heikki Savolainen all awarded gold

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Events in History

1121 Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David the Builder wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi

1480 Battle of Otranto – Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam

1851 American inventor Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine

1908 Henry Ford‘s company builds the first Model T car

1981 IBM introduces its first Personal Computer (PC & PC-DOS version 1.0)

Events in Flim and TV

1927 “Wings”, one of only two silent films – the other being The Artist in 2011 – to win an Oscar for best picture, opens starring Clara Bow (Outstanding Picture 1929)

1955 WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting

1956 KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting

1972 Revival of Stephen Sondheim‘s musical-comedy “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”, starring Phil Silvers, closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater, NYC, after 156 performances

1980 Warner Bros, Records releases “One-Trick Pony”, the fifth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon; it features the song “Late in the Evening” and was accompanied by a dramatic film of the same name, written by and starring Simon

1999 Shakira records her first live album in New York City, titled “MTV Unplugged”

Events in Music

1856 Anthony Faas, of Philadelphia Pennsylvania, is granted a second patent for improvements to the accordion (Patent No. 15511A)

1966 Last Beatle concert tour of North America begins with two shows at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois

1966 Longview, Texas radio station KLUE holds a “Beatles Bonfire” to burn Beatles records and memorabilia; station is struck by lightning the following day

1966 The Beatles hold press conference at the Astor Tower Hotel, in Chicago, Illinois; John Lennon apologizes for his “more popular than Jesus” remark

1972 “Oh! Calcutta!” closes at Belasco Theater in NYC after 1316 performances

1991 Heavy metal band Metallica release their 5th album “Metallica“; debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 chart

2015 US Postal Service issues a second postage stamp featuring rock singer Elvis Presley, as part of its Music Icon series; design is a black & white photograph taken by William Speer in 1955

2021 Britney Spear’s father says he will step down as her conservator after the singer called his conservatorship abusive, amid a #FreeBritney campaign

Events in Sports

1876 Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America’s Cup

1879 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)

1884 Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211 at The Oval

1886 W. G. Grace makes his highest Test Cricket score, scoring 170 vs Australia at The Oval

1896 Willem II soccer team forms in Tilburg

1928 IX Summer Olympic Games close in Amsterdam, Netherlands

1936 After 24 year absence a baseball demonstration game is played between 2 American teams at Berlin Olympics, World Champions beat US Olympics, 6-5

1936 American diver Marjorie Gestring wins 3m springboard gold at the Berlin Olympics, youngest Olympic gold medalist (13 years 268 days)

1936 The gymnastics competition at the Berlin Olympics concludes with Germany dominating, winning 6 of 9 gold medals including the men’s & women’s teams events

1948 Cleveland Indians get 29 hits in a 9 inning game

1948 Indian maestro Balbir Singh Dosanjh scores twice as India beats Great Britain 4-0 for the field hockey gold medal at the London Olympics; India’s 4th consecutive Olympic hockey title

1948 The canoeing program at the London Olympics concludes with Sweden (4) and Czechoslovakia (3) dominant, combining for 7 of the 9 gold medals

1949 16th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 38, All-Stars 0 (93,780)

1950 First international game by an NFL team, New York Giants beat CFL’s Ottawa Roughriders, 20-6 at Ottawa’s Lansdowne Stadium

1953 Ann Davison arrives in Miami in her 23 foot boat Felicity Ann, becoming the 1st woman to sail solo across the Atlantic

1960 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)

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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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Events in History

910 The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Æthelred

1305 Scottish resistance leader William Wallace is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution

1583 Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland for the British crown, the first English colony in North America and the beginning of the British Empire

1716 Battle of Petrovaradin [Peterwardein]: Habsburgs under Eugene of Savoy defeat the Ottomans in a decisive victory

1864 Battle of Mobile Bay, won by the Union Navy led by Rear Admiral David Farragut with the cry “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”

Events in Flim and TV

1921 KDKA Pittsburgh presents first radio broadcast of MLB; Pirates beat Phillies, 8-0; Harold Arlin first play-by-play broadcaster

1926 Harry Houdini stays in a coffin underwater for 1½ hours before escaping

1953 “From Here to Eternity” based on book by James Jones, directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1954)

1956 KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, Guam (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting

1956 WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting

1957 “American Bandstand” premieres on network TV (ABC)

1968 WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, TN (IND) 1st broadcast

1969 The UVF plant their first bomb in the Republic of Ireland, damaging the RTÉ Television Centre in Dublin

Events in Music

1964 Beatles record a cover of Little Willie John’s “Leave My Kitten Alone”; not released until 1995’s “Anthology 1”

1966 The Beatles release single “Yellow Submarine” with “Eleanor Rigby” in the UK

1966 The Beatles release their “Revolver” album in the UK

1972 Moody Blues re-issue their 1967 single “Nights in White Satin”, and it reaches #2 on US charts, higher than the initial release

1974 Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways in England

1975 Stevie Wonder signs a 7-year, 7 album, with $13 million advance contract with Motown Records

1979 Bert Keyes and Bob Larimer’s musical “But Never Jam Today”, based on the works of Lewis Carroll, closes at Longacre Theater, NYC, after 8 performances

1983 American rock singer David Crosby sentenced to 5 years in Texas state prison on drug and weapons convictions

Events in Sports

1901 Peter O’Connor of Ireland, sets the first officially recognised world long jump record at 24′ 11 3/4″ in Dublin, Ireland

1927 Phillies outfielder Cy Williams hits for cycle in just 4 at bats in 9-7 win v Pirates

1936 American athlete Jesse Owens wins the 200m in a world record time of 20.7 seconds, his third gold medal of the Berlin Olympics

1936 Italian athlete Ondina Valla runs a world record 11.6 in the semi finals of the 80m hurdles at the Berlin Olympics; wins final the next day but can’t match the time

1936 Ken Carpenter (50.48 Olympic record) and Gordon Dunn make it an American 1-2 in the men’s discus throw at the Berlin Olympics

1940 St Louis Brown’s pitcher John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings (rain shortened)

1948 A Jamaican 1-2 in the men’s 400m at the London Olympics with Arthur Wint (46.2) beating teammate Herb McKenley for the gold medal

1948 A Swedish sweep of the medals in the 3000m steeplechase at the London Olympics with Tore Sjöstrand taking gold ahead of teammates Erik Elmsäter & Göte Hagström

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Events in History

657 Battle of Siffin during the first Muslim civil war between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muawiyah I beside Euphrates River

1519 Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America

1533 Francisco Pizarro orders the death of the last Sapa Inca Emperor, Atahualpa

1803 The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world’s first public railway, opens in south London

1908 United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation)

1945 Declaration of Potsdam: US, Britain and China demand the unconditional surrender of Japan during WWII

1953 Fidel Castro leads a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, intended to spark a revolution in Cuba

Events in Flim and TV

1896 Vitascope Hall, 1st permanent for-profit movie theatre, opens in New Orleans

1938 1st radio broadcast of “Young Widder Brown” on NBC

1948 1st Black host of a network show – Bob Howard Show on CBS

1949 WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting

1954 WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting

1966 WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, NH (NBC) begins broadcasting

1972 Priscilla and Elvis Presley file for legal separation

1978 11th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel

1982 Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada, crowned 31st Miss Universe

1991 Actor Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) is arrested for exposing himself at an adult movie theater in Sarasota, Florida

2007 40th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center

Events in Music

1882 Richard Wagner‘s opera “Parsifal” premieres in Bayreuth, Germany

1973 Peter Shaffer‘s musical “Equus” premieres in London

1992 “Man of La Mancha” closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 108 performances

2018 Sir Paul McCartney performs a “secret” gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles began

Events in Sports

1914 12th Tour de France won by Philippe Thys of Belgium

1928 In only his second and final defense of his world heavyweight boxing title, Gene Tunney scores an 11-round TKO win over Tom Heeney at Yankee Stadium, NYC

1928 New York Yankees score 11 runs in 12th inning, beating Tigers 12-1 in Detroit

1931 25th Tour de France won by Antonin Magne of France

1931 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: Henri Cochet beats Fred Perry 6-4, 1-6, 9-7, 6-3 to give France 3-2 win over Great Britain and 5th straight title

1931 LPGA Western Open Women’s Golf, Midlothian CC: June Beebe beats Mrs. Melvin Jones, 3 & 2 for golf’s only major title

1933 Joe DiMaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League

1939 Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRs

1947 46th Men’s French Championships: Jozsef Asboth beats Eric Sturgess (8-6, 7-5, 6-4)

1948 “Babe Ruth Story” premieres, Babe Ruth’s last public appearance

1948 Leo Durocher returns to Ebbets Field as manager of New York Giants

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Events in History

1777 King Louis XVI of France and his Foreign Minister clandestinely agree to supply the United States with munitions during the American Revolution

1829 William Austin Burt patents America’s first typewriter, the typographer

1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada

1944 Bretton Woods Conference ends, establishes the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, later part of the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund

1995 Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later

Events in Flim and TV

1927 Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson’s stage comedy “Tommy”, starring Alan Bunce, Peg Entwistle, and Sidney Toler, closes at the Gaiety Theatre, NYC, after 232 performances

1966 Frank Sinatra‘s album “Strangers In The Night” hits #1 on the US charts, (Grammy for Record Of The Year and Best Male Vocal Performance)

1975 Alan Ayckbourn‘s play “Absent Friends” premieres in London

1981 14th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel

1984 Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984

1984 Vanessa Williams, 1st African American Miss America, resigns after Penthouse publishes unauthorized nude photos of her

1989 FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America’s Most Wanted)

1989 Ringo Starr‘s first All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include Joe Walsh, Nils Lofgren, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Clarence Clemons, Dr. John, Billy Preston, and Jim Keltner

Events in Music

1961 American opera singer Grace Bumbry becomes the first black singer to perform at the Bayreuth Festival, Germany, she earns 42 curtain calls

1965 The Beatles’ single “Help” is released in the UK

1976 Wings release single “Let ’em In”

1992 Bruce Springsteen begins a world tour, his first with musicians other than the E Street band

1995 “Hamlet” closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 121 performances

2010 One Direction is formed during the X Factor show as Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson join together

Events in Sports

1827 1st US swimming school opens (Boston, Massachusetts)

1866 Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms

1868 All England Lawn Tennis Club is founded as The All England Croquet Club; 1877 name changed to The All England Croquet & Lawn Tennis Club

1902 Dutch Excelsior soccer club is established in Rotterdam (Eerste Divisie winners 1973-4, 78-79, 2005-06)

1907 International Lawn Tennis Challenge (later Davis Cup) at Wimbledon: Norman Brookes beats Herbert Roper Barrett 6-2, 6-0, 6-3 to give Australasia a 3-2 win over British Isles

1921 American long jumper Edward Gourdin sets new world record of 7.69m (25 ft 2+3⁄4 in) at Cambridge, Massachusetts

1922 16th Tour de France won by Firmin Lambot of Belgium

1925 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers

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