Born On This Day:

• Saint Philip Neri, 1515
• Paul Julius von Reuter, 1816
• Hart Crane, 1899
• Ernest Hemingway, 1899
• Marshall McLuhan, 1911
• Isaac Stern, 1920
• Don Knotts, 1924
• Norman Jewison, 1926
• Jonathan Miller, 1934
• Janet Reno, 1938
• Edward Herrmann, 1943
• Cat Stevens (Yusef Islam), 1947
• Garry Trudeau, 1949
• Robin Williams, 1952
• Jon Lovitz, 1957

Died On This Day:

• Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur), 1403
• Robert Burns, 1796
• Robert G. Ingersoll, 1899
• Ellen Terry, 1928
• Basil Rathbone, 1967
• Dave Garroway suicide, 1982
• Joseph E. Levine, 1987
• Robert Young, 1998
• David Ogilvy, 1999

Today's Events:

• 1403 - Henry IV defeats the Percys at the battle of Shrewsbury.
• 1595 - Marquesas Islands discovered by Alvaro Mendana.
• 1667 - Dutch cede New Netherland (America) to England ending the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
• 1798 - Napoleon becomes master of Egypt at Battle of Pyramids; invents divisional square tactic.
• 1831 - Prince Leopold I of Saxe-Coburg proclaimed first King of the Belgians as Belgium breaks from Netherlands.
• 1853 - 843 acres of central Manhattan set aside for Central Park.
• 1861 - First battle of Bull Run-indecisive Confederate victory in Civil War.
• 1873 - The American West's first authentic train robbery-James Younger gang near Adair Iowa.
• 1897 - Tate Gallery opens in London, 67 paintings of Sir Henry Tate on the site of Millbank prison by Thames.
• 1931 - RCA's television station W2RBX broadcasts first scheduled TV show: Kate Smith sings.
• 1944 - Americans occupy Guam.
• 1954 - End of France war in Indochina.
• 1960 - World's first woman premier sworn in: Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon.
• 1969 - Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong becomes first man to walk on moon at 02:56:15 GMT.
• 1972 - Bloody Friday in Belfast - IRA explodes 21 bombs killing 9 injuring 130; IRA apologizes 30 yrs later.
• 1976 - British ambassador to Ireland killed by land mine.
• 2007 - At 12:01 a.m. the seventh and final Harry Potter book is released around the world and becomes the fastest selling book in history.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Victor of Marseilles
• Lawrence of Brindisi

Holiday:

• National Independence Day Belgium (1831)
• Liberation Day celebrated in Guam

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