Born On This Day:

• Charlotte Corday, 1768
• Alexandre Dumas (fils), 1824
• Hilaire Belloc, 1870
• Selwyn Lloyd, 1904
• Leo Durocher, 1905
• Mario Del Monaco, 1915
• Keenan Wynn, 1916
• Norman Lear, 1922
• Brock Peters, 1927
• Robert Holmes à Court, 1937
• Bobbie Gentry, 1944
• Betty Thomas, 1948
• Peggy Fleming, 1948
• Maureen McGovern, 1949
• Alex Rodriguez, 1975

Died On This Day:

• King James I of Aragon, 1276
• Gertrude Stein, 1946
• António Salazar, 1970
• Shah Mohammad Pahlavi Iran, 1980
• William Wyler, 1981
• George Gallup, 1984
• James Mason, 1984
• Bob Hope, 2003

Today's Events:

• 1214 - German Emperor Otto IV is defeated by army of Philip II (the bastard) at Bouvines near Lille.
• 1586 - Sir Walter Raleigh imports first tobacco from USA to England.
• 1694 - English Parliament grants charter to the Bank of England.
• 1789 - Congress establishes the U.S. State Department.
• 1830 - July revolution breaks out in Paris.
• 1888 - First electric car demonstrated in Boston by inventor Philip W. Pratt; tricycle runs on batteries.
• 1900 - 100,000 Boxers attack Tientsin killing 1,500 foreigners. Boxer Rebellion in China.
• 1900 - H. J. Heinz Company incorporated.
• 1908 - Pilot Orville Wright and one passenger stays aloft for record one hour, 1 min. 40 seconds.
• 1933 - Circuit Court of Kansas City mandates death penalty for kidnapping.
• 1953 - Korean War Armistice signed at Panmunjom by UN, North Korean and Chinese.
• 1955 - Austria regains sovereignty.
• 1961 - Willette Murphy becomes first black woman to model clothes in a major American fashion magazine - Mademoiselle.
• 1967 - Sexual offenses act in Britain decriminalizes homosexual acts between consenting adults.
• 1974 - House Judiciary Committee votes Articles of Impeachment against President Richard Nixon.
• 1976 - First person dies of Legionnaire's disease in Philadelphia.
• 1990 - McMartin pre-school child molestation, longest U.S. criminal case, ends in mistrial after 7 yrs.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Celestine I
• Clement Slovensky
• Pantaleon
• The Seven Sleepers
• Aurelius and Natalia

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