Born On This Day:

• James McNeill Whistler, 1834
• Emmeline Pankhurst, 1858
• Gustav Klimt, 1862
• Gustav Klimt, 1862
• Ken Murray, 1903
• Irving Stone, 1903
• Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1904
• Terry-Thomas, 1911
• Woody Guthrie, 1912
• Gerald Ford, 1913
• Jerome Lawrence, 1915
• Douglas Edwards, 1917
• Arthur Laurents, 1918
• Ingmar Bergman, 1918
• John Chancellor, 1927
• Polly Bergen, 1930
• Roosevelt (Rosie) Grier, 1932
• Jerry Rubin, 1938
• Joel Silver, 1952

Died On This Day:

• Philip II Augustus (France), 1223
• Madame Germaine de Stael, 1817
• Alfred Krupp, 1887
• Paul Kruger, 1904
• King Faisal Iraq murdered, 1958
• Adlai Stevenson, 1965
• Dr. Ernst Wynder, 1999

Today's Events:

• 1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France on the death of his dad, Philip II Augustus.
• 1789 - Destruction of the Bastille in Paris by French peasants starts French Revolution.
• 1795 - 'The Marseillaise' composed by Rouget de Lisle becomes the French National Anthem.
• 1867 - Dynamite first demonstrated in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey, England by inventor Alfred Nobel.
• 1868 - Patent granted on the tape measure.
• 1891 - John T. Smith of Brooklyn N.Y. receives patent on manufacturing corkboard.
• 1902 - 1,104 year-old Campanile in St. Marks' Square, Venice, collapses.
• 1914 - Professor Robert H. Goddard of Worcester, Mass receives patent on liquid-fuel rocket.
• 1921 - Sacco and Vanzetti found guilty of murder despite contradictory evidence.
• 1930 - 2 years after US, BBC TV broadcasts first play 'The Man with a Flower in His Mouth' by Pirandello.
• 1933 - Popeye in cartoon debut as guest star of a Betty Boop cartoon called 'Popeye the Sailor.'
• 1951 - Citation becomes first horse to win $1 million in races at Hollywood Park, CA.
• 1965 - First close-up photos of planet Mars taken by Mariner IV.
• 1966 - Eight nurses in New York killed by Richard Speck.
• 1986 - Soviet spy Richard Miller becomes first FBI agent ever convicted of espionage.
• 2009 - Liberian warlord Charles Taylor takes the stand in his 18 month old trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity including rape, torture, cannibalism, sex slavery and mutilation of civilians.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Camillus
• Magelgaire
• Phocas of Sinope (4th Century martyr)
• Bonaventure
• Nicodemus of Holy Mountain
• Ulric of Zell

Holiday:

• Bastille Day in France celebrates the French Revolution of 1789
• Nachi no Hi-Matsuri, fire festival in Japan

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