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Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-11-19
Births
1660-07-24 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (d. 1718)
1725-07-24 - John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807)
1757-07-24 - Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (d. 1825)
1783-07-24 - Simón BolÃvar, South American liberator (d. 1830)
1786-07-24 - Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)
1794-07-24 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (d. 1865)
1802-07-24 - Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (d. 1870)
1803-07-24 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer (d. 1856)
1826-07-24 - Ivan Bloch, military theorist and peace activist (d. 1902)
1851-07-24 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1853-07-24 - William Gillette, American actor and author (d. 1937)
1856-07-24 - Charles Émile Picard, French mathematician (d. 1941)
1857-07-24 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
1860-07-24 - Alfons Mucha, Czech artist (d. 1939)
1864-07-24 - Frank Wedekind, German writer (d. 1918)
1874-07-24 - Oswald Chambers, Christian writer (d. 1917)
1878-07-24 - Lord Dunsany, Irish writer (d. 1957)
1880-07-24 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (d. 1959)
1880-07-24 - Kristian Hellström, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
1895-07-24 - Robert Graves, English author (d. 1985)
1897-07-24 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared 1937)
1899-07-24 - Chief Dan George, Meti actor (d. 1981)
1908-07-24 - Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (d. 1985)
1910-07-24 - Harry Horner, American art director (d. 1994)
1916-07-24 - John D. MacDonald, American novelist, (d. 1986)
1917-07-24 - Robert Farnon, Canadian-born conductor, composer, and arranger (d. 2005)
1918-07-24 - Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist
1919-07-24 - Ferdinand Kübler, Swiss cyclist
1920-07-24 - Bella Abzug, U.S. Congresswoman from New York (d. 1998)
1931-07-24 - Ermanno Olmi, Italian director
1931-07-24 - Éric Tabarly, French sailor (d. 1998)
1933-07-24 - Doug Sanders, American golfer
1935-07-24 - Pat Oliphant, Australian political cartoonist
1936-07-24 - Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian
1936-07-24 - Mark Goddard, American actor
1938-07-24 - Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist
1940-07-24 - Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
1942-07-24 - Chris Sarandon, American actor
1945-07-24 - Azim Premji, Indian businessman
1947-07-24 - Robert Hays, American actor
1947-07-24 - Peter Serkin, American pianist
1949-07-24 - Michael Richards, American comedian
1949-07-24 - Yves Duteil, French singer and songwriter
1951-07-24 - Lynda Carter, American actress
1951-07-24 - Chris Smith, British politician
1952-07-24 - Gus Van Sant, American film director
1955-07-24 - Andrzej Åuczak, Polish stucco decorator, painter, photographer
1957-07-24 - Pam Tillis, American singer
1961-07-24 - Kerry Dixon, former English footballer
1963-07-24 - Paul Geary, American musician (Extreme)
1963-07-24 - Julie Krone, American jockey
1963-07-24 - Karl Malone, American basketball player
1964-07-24 - Barry Bonds, American baseball player
1964-07-24 - PJ Phillips, British musician
1965-07-24 - Kadeem Hardison, American actor
1966-07-24 - Martin Keown, English footballer
1968-07-24 - Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and actress
1968-07-24 - Laura Leighton, American actress
1969-07-24 - Rick Fox, Canadian basketball player
1969-07-24 - Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer
1970-07-24 - Stephanie Adams, American model and author
1971-07-24 - John Partridge, English singer
1975-07-24 - Torrie Wilson, American wrestler
1975-07-24 - Eric Szmanda, American actor
1976-07-24 - Nate Bump, American baseball player
1976-07-24 - Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese Formula One driver
1977-07-24 - Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player
1979-07-24 - Stat Quo, American rapper
1979-07-24 - José Valverde, American baseball player
1980-07-24 - Gauge, American pornographic actress
1981-07-24 - Summer Glau, American actress
1982-07-24 - Anna Paquin, Canadian-born actress
1982-07-24 - Elise Crombez, Belgian supermodel
1983-07-24 - Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer
1984-07-24 - John Dhani Lennevald, Swedish singer (former A-Teens member)
1985-07-24 - Teagan Presley, American pornographic actress
1985-07-24 - Patrice Bergeron, Canadian hockey player
1986-07-24 - Justin Berry, American anti-child porn advocate
1987-07-24 - Mara Wilson, American actress
1990-07-24 - Daveigh Chase, American actress
1995-07-24 - Bindi Irwin, activist and daughter of Steve Irwin
Bizarre
2006-07-24 - Cousins Day
2006-07-24 - Emilia Earhart Day
2007-07-24 - Cousins Day
2007-07-24 - Emilia Earhart Day
Deaths
1115-07-24 - Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (b. 1046)
1129-07-24 - Shirakawa, Emperor of Japan (b. 1053)
1394-07-24 - Alexander Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan, Scottish prince (b. 1343)
1568-07-24 - Prince Don Carlos of Spain (b. 1545)
1594-07-24 - John Boste, Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1544)
1739-07-24 - Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1686)
1768-07-24 - Nathanial Lardner, English theologian (b. 1684)
1862-07-24 - Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782)
1910-07-24 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)
1927-07-24 - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)
1957-07-24 - Sacha Guitry, French actor, director, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1885)
1965-07-24 - Constance Bennett, American actress (b. 1904)
1969-07-24 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904)
1970-07-24 - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897)
1974-07-24 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
1980-07-24 - Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)
1986-07-24 - Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1991-07-24 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1992-07-24 - Sam Berger, Canadian football owner (b. 1900)
1992-07-24 - Arletty, French singer and actress (b. 1898)
1995-07-24 - George Rodger, British photojournalist (b. 1908)
1996-07-24 - Mohammed Farah Aidid, Somali warlord (b. 1934)
1997-07-24 - William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1906)
1997-07-24 - Saw Maung, Burmese dictator (b. 1928)
2001-07-24 - Georges Dor, French Canadien author, composer, singer and playwright (b. 1931)
2005-07-24 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (b. 1912)
Events
1979-07-24 - Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th career home run off of Oakland A's Mike Morgan at Fenway Park.
1983-07-24 - George Brett, batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".
1990-07-24 - Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait/Iraq border.
1991-07-24 - Government of India announces the New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms.
1998-07-24 - Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2001-07-24 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, was sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, and became the only monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
2001-07-24 - The Taiwan Solidarity Union is established.
2001-07-24 - Larry A. Silverstein signs a $3.2 billion, 99-year lease on the entire World Trade Center complex, 7 weeks before the September 11, 2001 attacks .
2002-07-24 - James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.
2002-07-24 - Alfred Moisiu becomes President of Albania.
2005-07-24 - Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
1132-07-24 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
1216-07-24 - Cencio Savelli is consecrated as Pope Honorius III.
1411-07-24 - Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles on Scottish soil.
1487-07-24 - Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer.
1534-07-24 - French explorer Jacques Cartier planted a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and took possession of the territory in the name of the King Francis I of France.
1567-07-24 - Mary Queen of Scots is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI.
1701-07-24 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
1814-07-24 - War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward Niagara to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
1823-07-24 - Slavery is abolished in Chile
1832-07-24 - Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass.
1847-07-24 - After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer Day Utah state holiday and the Days of '47 Parade.
1864-07-24 - American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown - Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep Yankees out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1866-07-24 - Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
1901-07-24 - O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1911-07-24 - Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu "the Lost City of the Incas".
1915-07-24 - Passenger ship Eastland capsizes in central Chicago, with the loss of 845 lives.
1923-07-24 - The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in the First World War.
1927-07-24 - The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
1929-07-24 - The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
1931-07-24 - A fire at a home for aged people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
1935-07-24 - The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
1935-07-24 - The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (44°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1937-07-24 - Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys."
1943-07-24 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000
1956-07-24 - At New York City's Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together which started on July 25, 1946.
1956-07-24 - Khartoum University College is awarded university status becoming the University of Khartoum.
1959-07-24 - At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate."
1964-07-24 - One criticality (nuclear) accident at Charlestown in Rhode Island (US), killing one. See List of civilian nuclear accidents.
1965-07-24 - Vietnam War: Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are the targets of antiaircraft missiles in the first such attack against American planes in the war. One is shot down and the other three sustain damage.
1966-07-24 - Michael Pelkey made the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping is now been banned from El Cap.
1967-07-24 - During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Qu
1969-07-24 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974-07-24 - Watergate Scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rule that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1974-07-24 - After the Turkish invasion of Cyprus the Greek military junta collapses and democracy is restored.
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2008-11-19
Discovery of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
Equal Opportunity Day (United States)
Flag Day (Brazil)
International Men's Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
Liberation Day (Mali)
Pilgrimage (United Arab Emirates)
The Liberation of the Sami People of the coast (Norway)
World Toilet Day (World)
2008-11-20
Anniversary of the Revolution (Mexico)
Brazilian's Conscience Day) (Brazil)
Edmund the Martyr (Church of England)
Teacher's Day (Vietnam)
Universal Children's Day (UNICEF)
Zumbi Day (Brazil)
wedding day of Queen Elizabeth II (United Kingdom)
2008-11-21
Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh (Bangladesh)
Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (R.C. Saints)
Our Lady of Apresentação Day (Brazil)
2008-11-22
Feast of Saint Cecilia (R.C. Saints)
Independence Day (Lebanon)
usually the first day of sun sign Sagittarius or the last day of Scorpio (Astrology)
2008-11-23
Kinro kansha no hi (Japan)
Pope Clement I (Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints)
Rudolf Maister Day (Slovenia)
St George's Day (Georgia)
2008-11-24
Cobh (Feast Day of Saint Colman of Cloyne)
Lac and other Vietnamese Martyrs (R.C. Saints)
2008-11-25
Independence Day (Suriname)
National Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Saint Catherine of Alexandria; Elizabeth of Reute (R.C. Saints)
2008-11-26
Pope Siricius; Sylvester Gozzolini; John Berchmans; celebration of the excellence of Saint Genevieve in Paris (R.C. saints)
Proclamation Day (Mongolia)
Saint Stylianos (Eastern Orthodoxy)
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