Born On This Day:

• Thomas Cranmer first Protestant Archbishop Canterbury, 1489
• Christoph Gluck, 1714
• Hermann Hesse, 1877
• Zelda Fitzgerald, 1900
• Tyrone Guthrie, 1900
• Olav V Norway, 1903
• Sir Alec Douglas-Home, 1903
• René Lacoste, 1904
• Thurgood Marshall, 1908
• Robert W. Sarnoff, 1918
• Patrice Lumumba, 1925
• Medgar Evers, 1925
• John Sununu, 1939
• Ron Silver, 1946
• Larry David, 1947
• Cheryl Ladd, 1951
• Jerry Hall, 1956
• Jose Canseco, 1964
• Lindsay Lohan, 1986

Died On This Day:

• Saint Swithun, AD 862
• Nostradamus, 1566
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1778
• Sir Robert Peel, 1850
• Joseph Chamberlain, 1914
• Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 1917
• King Manual II of Portugal, 1932
• Amelia Earhart disappears, 1937
• Ernest Hemingway suicide, 1961
• Betty Grable, 1973
• Vladimir Nabokov, 1977
• Michael Bennett AIDS, 1987
• Andrei Gromyko, 1989
• Lee Remick, 1991
• Fred Gwynne, 1993
• Jimmy Stewart, 1997
• Mario Puzo, 1999
• Beverly Sills, 2007

Today's Events:

• 1644 - Parliamentarians under Cromwell victorious over Royalists at Battle of Marston Moor; 4,000 dead.
• 1777 - Vermont becomes first territory (not yet a State) to abolish slavery.
• 1819 - Factory act in Britain - don't hire kids under 9 in textiles; under 16s can't work more than 12 hrs.
• 1860 - Queen Victoria fires first shot at inaugural meeting of British National Rifle Association.
• 1881 - President Garfield shot in Washington D.C. by Charles Guiteau.
• 1890 - Sherman Anti-Trust Law enacted in U.S.
• 1900 - First Zeppelin Trial flights.
• 1919 - First dirigible (R 34) to cross Atlantic takes off from Scotland with crew of 31
• 1921 - First prizefight with million-dollar gate held at Jersey City. Dempsey KO's Carpentier in 4th.
• 1926 - U.S. Army Air Corps established.
• 1932 - Democratic candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt pledges 'New Deal' for Americans.
• 1937 - Amelia Earhart's plane disappears near Howland Island in South Pacific.
• 1940 - German sub torpedoes Blue Star liner Arandora Star transporting 714 German and Italian prisoners.
• 1957 - 7.4 earthquake in northeast of Tehran, Iran kills 2,500.
• 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act prohibiting racial discrimination into law.
• 1990 - 1,400 Muslim pilgrims suffocated, crushed to death in stampede in tunnel leading to city of Mecca.
• 2002 - Steve Fosset becomes first person to fly balloon alone around the world after 5 failures.

Holiday:

• Festival of the Palio in Sienna, Italy
• Festival of the Visitation of Virgin Mary to Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist

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