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July 13 is the 194th day of the year (195th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 171 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1174 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
• 1558 – Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
• 1573 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
• 1643 – English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down – In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller.
• 1787 – The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
• 1794 – Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria
• 1830 – The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
• 1854 – In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.
• 1863 – New York Draft Riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
• 1878 – Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman empire.
• 1919 – The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
• 1923 – The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
• 1941 – World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).
• 1967 – Maryport: Gerard Gilmour is born the second son of Michael and Mary Gilmour in Chagford Villas.
• 1973 – Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
• 1985 – The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow.
• 1985 – United States Vice President George H.W. Bush became the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan underwent surgery to remove polyps from his colon.

Births

• 100 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic(d. 44 BC)
• 40 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (d. 93)
• 1527 – John Dee, English scientist (d. 1609)
• 1579 – Arthur Dee, English physician (d. 1651)
• 1590 – Pope Clement X (d. 1676)
• 1607 – Václav Hollar, Bohemian-born artist (d. 1677)
• 1608 – Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657)
• 1745 – Robert Calder, British naval officer (d. 1818)
• 1770 – Alexander Balashov, Russian general (d. 1837)
• 1776 – Caroline of Baden, queen of Bavaria (d. 1841)
• 1793 – John Clare, English poet (d. 1864)
• 1798 – Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1860)
• 1821 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate cavalry officer, and founder of the original Ku Klux Klan (d. 1877)
• 1841 – Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (d. 1918)
• 1858 – Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)
• 1859 – Sidney Webb, British socialist (d. 1947)
• 1864 – John Jacob Astor IV, American entrepreneur (d. 1912)
• 1889 – Louise of Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden (d. 1965)
• 1894 – Isaac Babel, Soviet Jewish writer (d. 1940)
• 1895 – Sidney Blackmer, American actor (d. 1973)
• 1896 – Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992)
• 1898 – Julius Schreck, member of the Nazi party (d. 1936)
• 1900 – George Lewis, American musician (d. 1969)
• 1901 – Eric Portman, English stage and film actor (d. 1969)
• 1903 – Kenneth Clark, English art historian (d. 1983)
• 1905 – Alfredo M. Santos, First four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (d. 1990)
• 1913 – Dave Garroway, American television host (d. 1982)
• 1913 – Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish shipping magnate
• 1918 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver, and two-time F1 world champion (d. 1955)
• 1920 – Bill Towers, English footballer (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Git Gay, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2007)
• 1921 – Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Anker Jørgensen, Danish Prime Minister
• 1924 – Carlo Bergonzi, Italian singer
• 1924 – Michel Constantin, French film actor (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Simone Veil, French politician
• 1928 – Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Bob Crane, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1928 – Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz bassist
• 1929 – Sofia Muratova, Soviet gymnast (d. 2006)
• 1931 – Frank Ramsey, American basketball player
• 1932 – Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist
• 1933 – Patsy Byrne, English actress
• 1934 – Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate
• 1934 – Aleksei Yeliseyev, Soviet cosmonaut
• 1934 – Gordon Lee, English footballer and manager
• 1935 – Jack Kemp, American football player and politician (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist
• 1936 – Albert Ayler, American musician (d. 1970)
• 1940 – Patrick Stewart, English actor
• 1941 – Robert Forster, American actor
• 1941 – Jacques Perrin, French actor and filmmaker
• 1942 – Harrison Ford, American Actor
• 1942 – Roger McGuinn, American musician (The Byrds)
• 1944 – Ernő Rubik, Hungarian inventor
• 1946 – Cheech Marin, American actor
• 1948 – Catherine Breillat, French director and screenwriter
• 1948 – Tony Kornheiser, American sports journalist
• 1948 – Daphne Maxwell Reid, American actress
• 1950 – George "Pinky" Nelson, American astronaut
• 1950 – Ma Ying-jeou, President of the Republic of China, former mayor of Taipei, former chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT)
• 1951 – Rob Bishop, American politician
• 1951 – Didi Conn, American actress
• 1953 – Mila Mulroney, wife of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney
• 1954 – Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer
• 1954 – Rick Chartraw, American ice hockey player
• 1954 – Louise Mandrell, American musician
• 1954 – David Thompson, American basketball player
• 1956 – Claude Giroux, Canadian midget wrestler
• 1956 – Michael Spinks, American former boxer
• 1957 – Thierry Boutsen, Belgian racing driver
• 1957 – Cameron Crowe, American film director
• 1957 – Phil Margera, father of Bam Margera
• 1959 – Richard Leman, English field hockey player
• 1960 – Ian Hislop, English writer, editor of Private Eye
• 1961 – Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager
• 1961 – Tim Watson, Australian rules footballer
• 1962 – Tom Kenny, American voice actor
• 1962 – Rhonda Vincent, American singer
• 1963 – Neal Foulds, English snooker player
• 1963 – Spud Webb, American basketball player
• 1966 – Gerald Levert, American singer (d. 2006)
• 1966 – Natalia Luis-Bassa, Venezuelan Orchestral Conductor
• 1966 – Gil Birmingham, American actor
• 1967 – Benny Benassi, Italian disc jockey
• 1967 – Dean Barnett, American Conservative blogger (d. 2008)
• 1968 – Robert Gant, American actor
• 1968 – Christian Taylor, British screenwriter
• 1969 – Mark Greenway, British vocalist
• 1969 – Kakhi Kakhiashvili, Georgian-born Greek weightlifter
• 1969 – Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan politician and political scientist
• 1970 – Barry Pinches, English snooker player
• 1972 – Sean Waltman, American wrestler
• 1973 – Ariel Silvio Zárate, Argentine footballer
• 1974 – Deborah Cox, Canadian R&B singer
• 1974 – Jarno Trulli, Italian race car driver
• 1975 – Danni Boatwright, American model, sports caster, and Survivor contestant
• 1976 – Al Santos, American model and actor
• 1976 – Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Ashley Scott, American actress
• 1978 – Ryan Ludwick, American baseball player
• 1979 – Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer
• 1981 – Agnes Kovacs, Hungarian swimmer
• 1982 – Christopher Bauman, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
• 1982 – Joost van den Broek, Dutch keyboard player (After Forever)
• 1982 – Shin-Soo Choo, South Korean baseball player
• 1982 – Simon Clist, English footballer
• 1982 – Yadier Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1982 – Dominic Isaacs, South African footballer
• 1983 – Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdling athlete
• 1983 – Kristof Beyens, Belgian athlete
• 1985 – Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
• 1987 – Tulisa Contostavlos, British singer (N-Dubz)
• 1988 – Steven R. McQueen, American actor
• 1989 – Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
• 1990 – Matt Weinberg, American actor
• 1992 – Dylan Patton, American actor
• 1992 – Elise Matthysen, Belgian swimmer
• 1994 – Hayley Erin, American actress
• 1994 – Ridge Canipe, American actor
• 1997 – Leo Howard, American actor
• 2002 – Lucy Merriam, American actress

Deaths

• 574 – Pope John III
• 678 – Aisha bint Abu Bakr, Wife of the Prophet Muhammad.
• 939 – Pope Leo VII
• 1189 – Matilda of Saxony, Daughter of Henry II of England (b. 1156)
• 1205 – Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England
• 1357 – Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian jurist (b. 1313)
• 1399 – Peter Parler, German architect (b. 1330)
• 1402 – Jianwen Emperor of China (b. 1377)
• 1551 – John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)
• 1621 – Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (b. 1559)
• 1626 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (b. 1563)
• 1628 – Robert Shirley, English adventurer (b. 1581)
• 1629 – Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
• 1645 – Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. 1596)
• 1683 – Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
• 1693 – Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1636)
• 1705 – Titus Oates, English Protestant conspirator (b. 1649)
• 1755 – Edward Braddock, British general (b. 1695)
• 1760 – Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (b. 1696)
• 1761 – Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)
• 1762 – James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1693)
• 1789 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715)
• 1793 – Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (b. 1743)
• 1807 – Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)
• 1882 – Johnny Ringo, American gunfighter (b. 1850)
• 1889 – Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (b. 1830)
• 1890 – John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (b. 1813)
• 1896 – Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)
• 1921 – Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg scientist (b. 1845)
• 1922 – Martin Dies, Sr., American politician (b. 1870)
• 1946 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
• 1951 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
• 1954 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)
• 1955 – Ruth Ellis, British murderer, last woman to get the death sentence in Britain (b. 1926)
• 1960 – Joy Gresham, American writer (b. 1915)
• 1965 – Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (b. 1895)
• 1967 – Tom Simpson, British cyclist (b. 1937)
• 1967 – Tommy Lucchese, Sicilian-American mobsters (b. 1899)
• 1973 – Willy Fritsch, German film actor (b. 1901)
• 1974 – Patrick Blackett, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1976 – Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1884)
• 1976 – Joachim Peiper, German military leader (SS) (b. 1915)
• 1979 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (b. 1913)
• 1980 – Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana (b. 1921)
• 1983 – Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Davey Allison, American race car driver (b. 1961)
• 1995 – Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish toy manufacturer (Lego Group) (b. 1920)
• 1996 – Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (b. 1905)
• 1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)
• 2002 – Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born Armenian photographer (b. 1908)
• 2003 – Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (b. 1907)
• 2004 – Arthur Kane, American musician (b. 1949)
• 2004 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Red Buttons, American comedian (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Michael Reardon, Americian free climber
• 2008 – Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances

• Bahá'í Faith: Feast of Kalimát, first day of the seventh month of the Bahá'í calendar
• Parts of Japan First day of Bon Festival (date varies)
• Mongolia: Third day of Naadam
• Montenegro: Statehood Day

• Abd-al-Masih, Christian saint and martyr
• Abel of Tacla Haimonot in the Coptic Church

Roman Catholic Church:

• Saint Anacletus, pope, martyr
• Saint Clelia Barbieri – Catholic saint
• Saint Eugenius, bishop of Carthage, and companions, confessors
• Saint Silas, apostle northern France
• Saint Teresa of the Andes, nun carmelite Chilean

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. ~ G. K. Chesterton

• selected by Kalki

2005

I know that you personally do not fear giving up your own life in order to take others — that is why you are so dangerous. But I know you fear that you may fail in your long-term objective to destroy our free society and I can show you why you will fail. ~ Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London (responding to the subway bombings of 7 July 2005)

• proposed by Kalki

2006

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,
And empty shadow of what is to be;
Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,
And ends but only when our being ends.
~ John Clare ~ (born 13 July 1793)

• proposed by Kalki

2007

Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases. ~ Kenneth Clark

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. ~ Kenneth Clark

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

O how I feel, just as I pluck the flower
And stick it to my breast — words can't reveal;
But there are souls that in this lovely hour
Know all I mean, and feel whate'er I feel.
~ John Clare ~

• proposed by Kalki

 ;2010

Suggestions

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. ~ Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Star Wars IV: A New Hope

• Harrison Ford born that day.
• 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:01, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: I would also go for something from Indiana Jones, if anyone would choose something as recognizable. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 27 June 2005 11:28 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 21:01, 12 July 2005 (UTC) Good quote, but I prefer the Jedi view on things...
• 2 Jeff Q (talk) 10:53, 10 July 2006 (UTC). Concur with Kalki.
• 2 Here's a nice Star Wars quote but I still feel there are lots of better, more elegant and charming dark side quotes that haven't been used, by Darth Sidious, Darth Maul, Count Dooku, and Grand Moff Tarkin, to name a few. Zarbon 05:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The riddle nature could not prove
Was nothing else but secret love.
~ John Clare

• 3 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 08:23, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The ivyed oaks dark shadow falls
Oft picking up with wondering gaze
Some little thing of other days
Saved from the wreck of time.
~ John Clare

• 3 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 08:23, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich. ~ John Jacob Astor IV (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:35, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Serve the classes, live with the masses. Serve the masses, live with the classes. ~ John Jacob Astor IV (date of birth)

• 2 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
• 1 Zarbon 05:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:35, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man as does knowledge of the good arts and sciences. ~ John Dee (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 08:23, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

It is by the straight line and the circle that the first and most simple example and representation of all things may be demonstrated, whether such things be either non-existent or merely hidden under Nature's veils. ~ John Dee (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 20:59, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 08:23, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art. ~ Kenneth Clark (born July 13, 1903)

• 3 InvisibleSun 08:23, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 18:10, 12 July 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 2 Zarbon 05:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph. ~ Kenneth Clark

• 3 InvisibleSun 08:23, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 18:10, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

"What is too silly to be said may be sung" — well, yes; but what is too subtle to be said, or too deeply felt, or too revealing or too mysterious — these things can also be sung and can only be sung. ~ Kenneth Clark

• 3 InvisibleSun 08:23, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 18:10, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

We have not to fear anything, except fear itself. ~ Julius Caesar (born July 13)

• 3 and this is something that defines powerful characteristics. Fear nothing and success is but definite. I love this quote. Zarbon 06:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• I remain dubious as to the authenticity of this attribution, as I can only find internet sources ascribing it or its Latin version to Julius Caesar, and no earlier published sources which do so. ~ Kalki 22:18, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
• 0 pending better sourcing, if any. InvisibleSun 23:35, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves. ~ Kenneth Clark

• 3 Kalki 22:18, 12 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:35, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 15:10, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ~ Kenneth Clark

• 3 Kalki 22:18, 12 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:35, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Zarbon 15:10, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on July 13.

From Familypedia

July 13 is the 194th day of the year (195th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 171 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 982 - Otto II is defeated in Calabria by the Saracens, Pandulf II of Salerno and Landulf IV of Benevento killed in battle.
• 1174 - William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
• 1558 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
• 1573 - Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
• 1643 - English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down - In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller.
• 1772 - HMS Resolution, under the command of Captain James Cook, sets sail from Plymouth, England.
• 1787 - The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
• 1794 - Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria
• 1822 - Greek War of Independence: Greeks defeat Ottoman forces at Thermopylae.
• 1830 - Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
• 1832 - The source of the Mississippi River is discovered, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft.
• 1837 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom moves into the first Buckingham Palace in London and is the first British monarch to live there.
• 1854 - In the Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.
• 1863 - New York Draft Riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
• 1878 - Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman empire.
• 1900 - Boxer Rebellion: In China, Tientsin is retaken by European Allies from the rebelling Boxers.
• 1908 - Women compete in modern Olympics for the first time.
• 1909 - Gold discovered near Cochrane.
• 1912 - Leader of the Indian freedom movement and scholar, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad brought out his noted Urdu news journal, al-Hilal.
• 1914 - Simone Pianetti's mass murder action in Camerata Cornello, Italy
• 1919 - The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
• 1923 - The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.
• 1936 - A heat wave strikes the Midwestern United States. The all-time highest temperatures for the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana are all recorded on this date.
• 1941 - World War II: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers (Trinaestojulski ustanak).
• 1942 - World War II: German U-Boats sink three more merchant ships in Gulf of St. Lawrence.
• 1948 - The Coptic and Ethiopian Churches reach an agreement leading to the promotion of the Ethiopian church to the rank of an autocephalous Patriarchate.
• 1973 - Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
• 1977 - The New York City Blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours and results in looting and other disorder.
• 1978 - Ford Motor Company President Lee Iacocca is fired by chairman Henry Ford II, ending a long dispute between the men.
• 1985 - The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow.
• 1985 - Vice President George H.W. Bush became the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan underwent surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
• 2002 - A lightning strike sets off the Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, which had burned 499,570 acres (2,020 km²) when finally contained on September 5.
• 2005 - Three trains collide in the Ghotki rail crash in Ghotki, Pakistan, killing over 150 people.

Births

• 100 BC - Julius Caesar, Roman military and political leader (d. 44 BC) (born either July 12 or July 13)
• 40 AD - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (d. 93 AD)
• 1527 - John Dee, English scientist (d. 1609)
• 1579 - Arthur Dee, English physician (d. 1651)
• 1590 - Pope Clement X (d. 1676)
• 1607 - Václav Hollar, Czech-born artist (d. 1677)
• 1608 - Ferdinand III (d. 1657)
• 1745 - Robert Calder, British naval officer (d. 1818)
• 1770 - Alexander Balashov, Russian general (d. 1837)
• 1776 - Caroline of Baden, queen of Bavaria (d. 1841)
• 1793 - John Clare, English poet (d. 1864)
• 1798 - Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia (d. 1860)
• 1808 - Patrice MacMahon, President of France (d. 1893)
• 1821 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American founder of the original Ku Klux Klan (not the current one) (d. 1877)
• 1841 - Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (d. 1918)
• 1858 - Stewart Culin, American ethnographer (d. 1929)
• 1859 - Sidney Webb, British socialist (d. 1947)
• 1864 - John Jacob Astor IV, American entrepreneur (d. 1912)
• 1889 - Louise of Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden (d. 1965)
• 1894 - Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (d. 1940)
• 1895 - Sidney Blackmer, American actor (d. 1973)
• 1896 - Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992)
• 1898 - Julius Schreck, member of the Nazi party (d. 1936)
• 1900 - George Lewis, American musician (d. 1969)
• 1901 - Eric Portman, English stage and film actor (d. 1969)
• 1913 - Dave Garroway, American television host (d. 1982)
• 1918 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955)
• 1920 - Bill Towers, English footballer (d. 2000)
• 1921 - Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (d. 1999)
• 1921 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian poltitician (d. 2005)
• 1921 - Git Gay, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2007)
• 1922 - Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
• 1924 - Carlo Bergonzi, Italian singer
• 1924 - Michel Constantin, French film actor (d. 2003)
• 1927 - Simone Veil, French politician
• 1928 - Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz bassist
• 1928 - Bob Crane, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1928 - Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (d. 2000)
• 1929 - Alan Civil, English musician (d. 1989)
• 1929 - Sofia Muratova, Soviet gymnast
• 1931 - Frank Ramsey, American basketball player
• 1932 - Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist
• 1934 - Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate
• 1934 - Aleksei Yeliseyev, Soviet cosmonaut
• 1935 - Jack Kemp, American football player and politician
• 1936 - Albert Ayler, American musician (d. 1970)
• 1940 - Patrick Stewart, English actor
• 1941 - Robert Forster, American actor
• 1941 - Jacques Perrin, French actor and filmmaker
• 1942 - Harrison Ford, American actor
• 1942 - Roger McGuinn, American musician
• 1944 - Ernő Rubik, Hungarian inventor
• 1946 - Cheech Marin, American actor
• 1948 - Catherine Breillat, French director and screenwriter
• 1950 - George "Pinky" Nelson, American astronaut
• 1950 - Ma Ying-jeou, former mayor of Taipei, former chairman of the Kuomintang(KMT)
• 1951 - Rob Bishop, American politician
• 1953 - Mila Mulroney, wife of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney
• 1954 - Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer
• 1954 - Louise Mandrell, American musician
• 1954 - Rick Chartraw, American ice hockey player
• 1956 - Claude Giroux, Canadian midget wrestler
• 1956 - Michael Spinks, American former boxer
• 1957 - Phil Margera, father of Bam Margera
• 1957 - Cameron Crowe, American film director
• 1957 - Thierry Boutsen, Belgian racing driver
• 1959 - Richard Leman, English field hockey player
• 1960 - Ian Hislop, English writer, editor of Private Eye
• 1961 - Tim Watson, Australian rules footballer
• 1961 - Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer and manager
• 1962 - Rhonda Vincent, American singer
• 1962 - Tom Kenny, American voice actor
• 1963 - Neal Foulds, English snooker player
• 1963 - Spud Webb, American basketball player
• 1966 - Gerald Levert, American singer (d. 2006)
• 1967 - Benny Benassi, Italian disc jockey
• 1967 - Sandy Fox, American voice actress
• 1967 - Dean Barnett, American Conservative blogger
• 1968 - Robert Gant, American actor
• 1969 - Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan politician and political scientist
• 1969 - Mark Greenway, British vocalist
• 1969 - Kakhi Kakhiashvili, Georgian-born Greek weightlifter
• 1970 - Barry Pinches, English snooker player
• 1972 - Sean Waltman, American wrestler
• 1973 - Ariel Silvio Zárate, Argentine footballer
• 1974 - Jarno Trulli, Italian race car driver
• 1974 - Deborah Cox, Canadian R&B singer
• 1975 - Danni Boatwright, American model, sports caster, and Survivor contestant
• 1976 - Al Santos, American model and actor
• 1977 - Ashley Scott, American actress
• 1978 - Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 - Craig Bellamy, Welsh footballer
• 1982 - Joost van den Broek, Dutch keyboard player (After Forever)
• 1982 - Simon Clist, English footballer
• 1982 - Christopher Bauman, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
• 1982 - Yadier Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1983 - Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdling athlete
• 1985 - Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
• 1989 - Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
• 1992 - Dylan Patton, American actor
• 1994 - Ridge Canipe, American actor

Deaths

• 939 - Pope Leo VII
• 1189 - Matilda of England, daughter of Henry II of England (b. 1156)
• 1205 - Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England
• 1357 - Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian jurist (b. 1313)
• 1399 - Peter Parler, German architect (b. 1330)
• 1402 - Jianwen Emperor of China (b. 1377)
• 1551 - John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)
• 1621 - Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (b. 1559)
• 1626 - Robert Sidney, English statesman (b. 1563)
• 1628 - Robert Shirley, English adventurer (b. 1581)
• 1629 - Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
• 1645 - Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. 1596)
• 1683 - Arthur Capell, English statesman (b. 1631)
• 1693 - Hendrik Trajectinus, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1636)
• 1705 - Titus Oates, English Protestant conspirator (b. 1649)
• 1755 - Edward Braddock, British general
• 1760 - Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (b. 1696)
• 1761 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)
• 1762 - James Bradley, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1693)
• 1789 - Victor de Riqueti, French economist (b. 1715)
• 1793 - Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (b. 1743)
• 1807 - Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)
• 1882 - Johnny Ringo, American Gunfighter (b. 1850)
• 1889 - Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (b. 1830)
• 1896 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)
• 1921 - Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg scientist (b. 1845)
• 1922 - Martin Dies, American politician (b. 1870)
• 1946 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
• 1951 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
• 1954 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)
• 1955 - Ruth Ellis, last woman to get the death sentence in Britain (b. 1926)
• 1960 - Joy Gresham, American writer (b. 1915)
• 1965 - Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (b. 1895)
• 1967 - Tom Simpson, British cyclist (b. 1937)
• 1973 - Willy Fritsch, German film actor (b. 1901)
• 1974 - Patrick Blackett, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1976 - Joachim Peiper, German military leader (b. 1915)
• 1980 - Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana (b. 1921)
• 1983 - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909)
• 1993 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (b. 1961)
• 1995 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish toy manufacturer (Lego Group) (b. 1920)
• 1996 - Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (b. 1905)
• 1997 - Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)
• 2002 - Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born photographer (b. 1908)
• 2003 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (b. 1907)
• 2004 - Arthur Kane, American musician (b. 1951)
• 2004 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)
• 2006 - Red Buttons, American comedian (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances

• Kiribati - Independence Day, 2nd day (not a holiday)
• Mongolia - Naadam Holiday, 3rd day
• Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Kálimát (Words) - First day of the seventh month of the Bahá'í calendar
• Bon Festival - Buddhist festival to honor the dead (East Japan)

Liturgical observances

• Abd-al-Masih, Christian saint and martyr ^[1]
• Abel of Tacla Haimonot in the Coptic Church^[1]
• Saint Anacletus, pope, martyr [southern France, Franciscans]
• Saint Eugenius, bishop of Carthage, and companions, confessors (died 505)
• Saint Henry, Holy Roman Emperor, confessor [common] (died 1024)
• Saint Silas, apostle northern France
• Saint Willehad, bishop of Bremen, confessor (Ordination) Bremen
• Saint Margaret, virgin, martyr common

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada