Born On This Day:

• Robert the Bruce King of Scotland, 1274
• Thomas Bowdler, 1754
• John Quincy Adams, 1767
• John Wanamaker, 1838
• Thomas Mitchell, 1892
• E.B. White, 1899
• Yul Brynner, 1915
• Tab Hunter, 1931
• Georgio Armani, 1934
• Bonnie Pointer, 1951
• Leon Spinks, 1953

Died On This Day:

• Alfred Dreyfus, 1935
• George Gershwin, 1937
• Aga Khan, 1957
• Robert Ryan, 1973
• Ross Macdonald, 1983
• Lord Laurence Olivier, 1989
• Lady Bird Johnson, 2007

Today's Events:

• 1302 - Battle of Golden Spurs at Courtrai, Flanders. Underdog weavers beat mounted knights.
• 1656 - First Quakers arrive in America-Ann Austin and Mary Fisher land at Boston from Barbados.
• 1690 - Battle of the Boyne ends. William III wins over James II.
• 1708 - Lord Marlborough and Prince Eugene beat the French at the Battle of Oudenarde.
• 1804 - Aaron Burr mortally wounds Alexander Hamilton in duel at Weehawken, New Jersey.
• 1860 - Massacre of Christians at Damascus ends.
• 1947 - Refugee ship President Warfield, later renamed Exodus 1947, sets sail from Sete, France at 01.00 hrs for Palestine with 4,554 concentration camp survivors aboard.
• 1962 - First TV transatlantic satellite transmission from US to London's BT Goonhilly Earth Station.
• 1972 - Former Beatle Paul McCartney debuts new band Wings at Toulon in the South of France.
• 1973 - Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in hyped TV tennis 'Battle of the Sexes' seen by 50 million.
• 1991 - Total solar eclipse.
• 2006 - Terrorists in Mumbai bomb seven trains killing 190.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Olga

Holiday:

• Saint Placidus Festival celebrated in Switzerland
• National Holiday in Mongolia

Non-Specific Holiday:

• JAGANNATH, RATHA YATRA, Hindu Festival of Car Procession of Vishnu
• CHI HSI, Festival of the Milky Way in China (seventh day of the seventh moon)
• CHUNG YÜAN, Festival of the Dead in China (fifteenth day of the seventh moon)
• NAGA PANCHAMI, Hindu Festival of the Serpent God
• RAKHI, Hindu Festival to Pledge Protection
• CHUNG-CH'IU, Mid-autumn festival, Harvest or Moon Festival (fifteenth day of the eighth moon)
• TISH'AH B'AB (Jewish) Anniversary of fall of Jerusalem and destruction of first & 2nd temples Ab 9
• NEBUTA, Japanese Festival at peak of summer to drive off lethargy
• SOMA NOMAOI, Japanese Festival of samurai equestrian displays