This day in history...

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:53 pm

Religious History
1099 The Muslim citizens of Jerusalem surrendered their city to the armies of the FirstCrusade. The Crusaders then proceeded, through misguided religious zeal, to massacrethousands of unarmed men, women and children.
1779 Birth of Clement C. Moore, American Episcopal educator. His fame endures today,not as a theologian, but as the author of a completely mythical poem: 'Twas the Night BeforeChristmas' (1823).
1814 Birth of Edward Caswall, English clergyman and hymn translator. Today we stillsing Caswall's English versions of the hymns 'Jesus, The Very Thought of Thee' and 'WhenMorning Gilds the Skies.'
1823 In Rome, the church known as St Paul's Outside the Walls was destroyed by a fire.Its original edifice was erected in AD 324 by the Roman emperor Constantine.
1951 The First Southern Baptist Church to be constituted in the state of Wyoming wasformed in Casper by a group of families principally related to the oil industry.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:49 am

In 1979,Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.

In 2002,The Irish Republican Army issued an unprecedented apology for hundreds of civilian deaths over 30 years.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:31 am

Religious History
0431 The Council of Ephesus adjourned. This third of the 21 ecumenical councils of theChurch condemned Nestorianism and Pelagianism, and defined Mary's title as 'theotokos'('Bearer of God').
1505 Twenty-one-year-old future church reformer, Martin Luther entered the Augustinianmonastic order, at Erfurt, Germany.
1674 Birth of Isaac Watts, innovative pioneer of modern English hymnody. Among his manybeloved sacred compositions are: 'At the Cross,' 'Joy to the World,' 'Marching to Zion' and'When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.'
1836 Death of William White, 88, American patriarch of the Episcopalians. First bishopof American Anglicanism, it was White who coined the name 'Protestant Episcopal' for thenew denomination.
1942 New Tribes Mission was organized by founder Paul W. Fleming. Thisinterdenominational missions agency supports over 1,000 staff members in countries aroundthe world.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:39 pm

In 1918,Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.

In 1979,Nicaragua President Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled into exile in Miami.

In 2002,a double suicide bombing in Tel Aviv killed two foreign workers and one Israeli.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:12 am

Deaths which occurred on July 18:
1374 Francesco Petrarch Italian poet, dies at 69
1650 Christoph Scheiner German astronomer, dies at 74
1872 Benito Ju rez Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66
1899 Horatio Alger Jr American clergyman & author, dies
1966 Bobby Fuller rocker (I Fought the Law), found dead
1969 Barbara Pepper actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 57
1973 Jack Hawkins actor (Ben-Four Just Men), dies at 62
1984 James Oliver Huberty shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds
1989 Rebecca Schaeffer actress (My Sister Sam) is shot by a fan at 21
1990 Karl Menninger psychatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at 96 from cancer

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:45 am

Birthdates which occurred on July 19:

1966 Brad Friedman co-author of Powr2DAY! In History is Born!
1814 Samuel Colt inventor (colt revolver)
1817 Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke US, army nurse (union)
1834 Edgar Degas France, impressionist painter (Bouquet)
1846 Charles Edward Pickering pioneered American spectroscopist
1860 Lizzie Borden murderer, gave her mother forty whacks
1865 Charles Horace Mayo surgeon, cofounded Mayo Clinic
1896 A.J. Cronin England, author (Citadel, Shining Victory)
1898 Herbert Marcuse Berlin, communist philosopher (One-Dimensional Man)
19-- Anthony Edwards Santa Barbara Calif, actor (It Takes Two)
19-- James Morrison actor (Joey Moscini-General Hospital)
1905 Boyd Neel Blackheath, Kent England, conductor (Story of an Orch)
1906 Klaus Egge Gransherad, Telemark Norway, composer (Noregsonger)
1916 Phillip Cavaretta baseball player (NL MVP 1945)
1917 William W Scranton (Gov-R-Pa)
1919 Patricia Medina Liverpool England, actress (High-Low)
1920 Robert Mann Portland Oregon, violinist (String Quartet 1952)
1922 George McGovern (Sen-D-SD), pres candidate (D-1972)
1923 Pat Hingle Denver Colo, actor (Baby Boom, Norma Rae, Bloody Mama)
1926 Helen Gallagher Bkln, actress (Ryan's Hope, Strangers When We Meet)
1929 Sofia Muratova USSR, gymnist,(Olympic-6 gold/3 silv/4 bronze-1952-60)
1937 George Hamilton IV NC, actor (Evel Knievel, Love at 1st Bite)
1937 Larry Boxx founded Land B Computer Serv
1938 Richard Jordan NYC, actor (Dune, Old Boyfriends, Interiors)
1938 Vikki Carr El Paso Tx, singer (Let it Please Be Him)
1940 Dennis Cole Detroit, actor (Felony Squad, Brackens's World)
1941 Natalya Bessmertnova Moscow, dancer (Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970)
1943 Roy D Bridges Jr Atlanta Ga, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 51F, STS 61F)
1946 Ilie Nastase Bucharest Romania, tennis player (US Open 1972)
1947 Bernie Leadon guitarist/vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1947 Brian May guitarist (Queen-We are the Champions)
1947 Gerard Schwarz Weehawken NJ, trumpeter/conductor (LA Chamber Orch)
1948 Beverly Archer Oak Park Ill, actress (Iola-Mama's Family)
1948 Keith Godchaux keyboardist (Grateful Dead)
1952 Alan Collins guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1952 Howard Donald Saunders Danbury Ct, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1954 Kathleen Turner actress (Accidental Tourist, Jewel of Nile)
1956 Peter Barton Valley Stream LI, actor (Powers of Matthew Star)
1959 Terri Treas KC Kansas, actress (Hannah-7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1961 Suzi Schott Springfield Ill, playmate (August, 1984)
1963 Sandor Wladar Hungary, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1968 Carolie DeVonne Howe Chugwater Wyoming, Miss Wyoming-America (1991)
1976 RJ Williams actor (General Hospital, Full House)

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:12 pm

In 1553,15-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as Queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days.King Henry VIII's daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen.

In 1870,the Franco-Prussian war began.

In 1941,British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign in Europe.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:44 am

Deaths which occurred on July 20:
1609 Federico Zuccari Italian Mannerist painter, dies (birth date unknown)
1951 Abdullah Ibn Hussein Jordan's King assassinated in Jerusalem
1954 Blair Moody (Sen-Mich), dies at 52
1957 Phil Hanna singer (Once Upon a Tune), dies at 46
1974 Allen Jenkins actor (Fugitive from a Chain Gang), dies at 74
1983 Frank Reynolds news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies at 59
1986 Helen Craig actress (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 74

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:09 pm

In 1810,Colombia declared independence from Spain.

In 1871,British Columbis entered Confederation as a Canadian province.

In 1944, an attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb failed as the explosion at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters only wounded the Nazi leader.

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:23 pm

In 1831,leopold I was proclaimed king of the Belgians.

In 1844,American forces landed on Guam during World War II

In 1949,the U.S. Senate ratifieg the North Atlantic Treaty.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:18 am

Deaths which occurred on July 22:
1461 Charles VII king of France (1422-61), dies at 58
1802 Marie-Franâ€¡ois-Xavier Bichat a founder of histology, dies
1826 Giuseppe Piazzi discoverer of 1st asteroid, dies
1934 John Dillinger shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago
1953 Cy Kendall actor (Mysteries of Chinatown), dies at 55
1955 Joseph Foley actor (Mr Peepers), dies at 45
1967 Carl Sandburg poet (Abraham Lincoln: The Prarie Years), dies at 89
1979 Hope Summers actress (Clara-Andy Griffith Show), dies at 78
1988 Luigi Lucioni Italian, landscape painter (opera stars), dies at 87

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:53 am

Deaths which occurred on July 23:
1844 Christian Gobrecht 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office
1885 Ulysses S Grant 18th US pres, dies in Mount McGregor, NY, at 63
1951 Henri Philippe Pâ€štain dies
1955 Harry Haden actor (Harry-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 73
1968 Don Lillis NY Jet president
1971 Van Heflin actor (Great Adventure), dies at 60
1979 Keith Godchaux rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident at 32
1982 Vic Morrow killed during filming of "Twilight Zone" at 53
1984 Lloyd Gouch actor, dies of aortic aneurism at 77
1985 Kay Kyser (James King Kern Kyser) US bandleader, dies
1985 Mickey Shaughnessy actor, dies at 64 of heart failure
1990 Joe Turner jazz pianist, dies at 82 of cardiac arrest

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:31 am

Deaths which occurred on July 24:
1862 Martin Van Buren 8th pres, dies in Kinderhook NY
1954 Mary Church Terrell educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90
1966 Montgomery Clift actor, dies at 45
1972 Bobby Ramirez drummer (White Trash), killed at 23 in bar brawl
1974 Chris Chubbock newscaster shoots self on air
1979 Archie Duncan actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65
1980 Peter Sellers dies at 54
1991 Isaac Bashevis Singer Nobel prize winning author, dies at 87

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:07 pm

In 1783,Latin American revolutionary Simon Bolivar was born in Caracas,Venezuela.

In 1967, French President Charles de Gaulle stirred controversy during a visit to Montreal,Canada,when he declared,"Vive le Quebec libre!" (long live free Quebec!)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:32 am

Religious History
0325 The Council of Nicea closed. Regarded as the first 'ecumenical council,' its 300attending bishops drafted the Nicene Creed and fixed the formula for Easter Sunday.
1741 English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Your extremity shall beGod's opportunity.'
1845 Canadian-born Catholic missionary Franâ€¡ois Blanchet was consecrated bishop of thePacific Northwest. He devoted 45 years to planting churches, and is remembered today as the'Apostle of Oregon.'
1899 Birth of Stuart K. Hine. While an English missionary to the Ukraine, Hine pennedthe English words to an oft-sung Swedish hymn, known today as 'How Great Thou Art.'
1968 Pope Paul VI published the encyclical 'Humanae Vitae.' It restated the Catholicposition on the family, and condemned all artificial methods of birth control

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:32 pm

In 1943,Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy by Victor Emmanuel III,and placed under arrest.(However Mussolini was later rescued by the nazis,and reasserted his authority.)

In 1956,the Italian liner Andrea Doria collied with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm off the New England coast late at night and began sinking;at least 51 people were killed.(The Andrea Doria sank the following day,eleven hours after the crash.)

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:50 pm

In 1856,playwright George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin,Ireland

In 1945,Winston Churchill resigned as Britain's prime minister after his Conservative were soundly defeated by the Labour Party (Clement Attlee became the new prime minister.)

In 1952,Argentina's first lady,Eva Peron died in Buenos Aires at age 33.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:03 pm

In 1792,the French national anthem "La Marseilaise," by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle,was first sung in Paris by troops arriving from Marseille.

In 1980,the Israeli Knesset passed a law reaffirming all of Jeruselem as the capital of the Jewish state.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:29 pm

In 1934,German President Paul von Hindenburg died,paying the way for Adolf Hitler's complete takeover.

In 1990,Irag invaded Kuwait,seizing control of the oil-rich emirate

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:54 pm

In 1492,Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos,Spain,on a voyage that took him to the present-day America.

In 1914,Germany declared war on France at the onset of World War I.