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Birthday DOOM!
My 22nd birthday is coming up very soon. This year my birthday will fall on the same day of the week I was born. w00t for coincidental weekdays. What awaits me this Friday? Kristy is plotting something. I have no idea what it is other than getting underwear as a present, which I am sure she was kidding about. I get Friday off this weekend as well. Many great people were born on July 23rd, such as Monica Lewinski and Harry Potter (well, his Birthday is actually just "near the end of July"). How about the year I was born? What happened in 1982?
| In 1982 (the year you were born) | Ronald Reagan is president of the US
The space shuttle Columbia completes its first operational flight
Actor John Belushi is found dead of a drug overdose in a West Hollywood hotel
Automobile manufacturer John Delorean is arrested and charged with possession of 59 pounds of cocaine
The first artificial heart is implanted in American Barney Clark
The Cable News Network, or CNN, is launched
750,000 people rally against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park
Time Magazine's Man of the Year was for the first time given to a non-human, a computer
The first computer virus, written by Rich Skrenta, escapes into the wild
Kirsten Dunst and Elisha Cuthbert are born
St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series
San Francisco 49ers win Superbowl XVI
New York Islanders win the Stanley Cup
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is the top grossing film
Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off of a live bat thrown at him during a performance, later hospitalized with rabies
"I Love Rock 'N Roll" by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts spends the most time at the top of the US charts
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How about what happened in the last two millinia on July 23rd?
07/23/0636 - Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from Byzantine Empire
07/23/0685 - John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
07/23/0945 - Richarius, bishop of Luik (922-45), dies
07/23/1148 - Crusaders attack Damascus
07/23/1215 - Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
07/23/1253 - Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III
07/23/1298 - Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany
07/23/1298 - Rindfleish Persecutions-Jewish community Wurzburg Germany annihilated
07/23/1339 - Birth-Louis I, Duke of Anjou/King of Naples (Battle at Poitiers)
07/23/1373 - Birgitta van Sweden, Swedish saint, dies
07/23/1401 - Birth-Francesco Sfoza, soldier
07/23/1403 - Battle of Shrewsbury fought by Percys against King Henry IV
07/23/1403 - Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], killed in battle at 39
07/23/1431 - Council of Basel opens
07/23/1431 - G Cesarini opens Counsel of Basel (Ferrara/Florence)
07/23/1453 - Battle at Gavere: Philip the Good beats Gentse rebellion
07/23/1532 - Karel I & evangelical monarchy signs Peace of Neurenberg
07/23/1540 - Turkey recognizes J nos Sigismund Z polyai as vassal-king of Hungary
07/23/1558 - Battle at Grevelingen: Gen/earl Lamoraal van Egmont beat France
07/23/1562 - Gottfried/G”tz von Berlichingen, German Knight of kingdom, dies
07/23/1568 - Don Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip II, dies at about 23
07/23/1572 - Willem van Oranges troops occupy Roermond on the Spanjaarden
07/23/1581 - Georges Lalaing, viceroy of Friesland, dies
07/23/1594 - Groningen surrenders to earl Mauritius/Willem Louis
07/23/1599 - Caravaggio's 1st public commission for paintings
07/23/1645 - Aleksei Mihailovitch Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar
07/23/1645 - Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov, dies
07/23/1659 - Birth-Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer
07/23/1664 - 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of NY, arrive in Boston
07/23/1685 - Pietro Reggio, composer, dies at 53
07/23/1690 - Richard Gibson, minature painter, dies
07/23/1726 - Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia
07/23/1734 - Birth-Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini, opera composer [or Jun 14 1730]
07/23/1735 - Birth-Johannes Herbst, composer
07/23/1745 - Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides
07/23/1757 - Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (La Silvia), dies at 71
07/23/1764 - James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation
07/23/1769 - Birth-Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer
07/23/1773 - Birth-Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer
07/23/1775 - Birth-Fran‡ois-EugŠne Vidocq, British police detective
07/23/1793 - Birth-Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer
07/23/1793 - Thomas Mckean, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 72
07/23/1796 - Birth-Franz Adolf Berwald, Sweden, composer
07/23/1798 - Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
07/23/1803 - Arthur Wolfe, 1st viscount Kilwarden/Chief Justice of Ireld, murdered
07/23/1803 - Birth-Johann Vesque von Puttlingen, composer
07/23/1803 - Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin
07/23/1806 - Birth-Eduard Marxsen, composer
07/23/1812 - Battle of Mogilev Russia-Napolean fights Czar Alexander I
07/23/1816 - Birth-Charlotte Sanders Cushman, US, actress (Lady MacBeth)
07/23/1816 - Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration), dies at 68
07/23/1822 - Birth-Darius Nash Couch, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
07/23/1823 - Birth-Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, English poet
07/23/1824 - Birth-Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1906
07/23/1825 - Birth-Richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor
07/23/1827 - 1st US swim school opens (Boston Mass)
07/23/1827 - Birth-Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway)
07/23/1828 - Birth-Jonathan Hutchinson, surgeon/scientist
07/23/1829 - William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter)
07/23/1829 - Wojciech Boguslawski, composer, dies at 72
07/23/1834 - Birth-James "Cardinal" Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore
07/23/1834 - HMS Beagle anchors in Bay of Valparaiso
07/23/1838 - Birth-Edouard [Judas] Colonne, composer/violinist
07/23/1840 - Frantisek Max Knize, composer, dies at 55
07/23/1840 - Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper & Lower Canada
07/23/1841 - Birth-Edward John Armstrong, poet
07/23/1844 - Christian Gobrecht, 4th US chief engraver (1840-44), dies in office
07/23/1848 - Battle of Custoza-Italian War of Independence, starts
07/23/1849 - Birth-Geza Zichy, composer
07/23/1850 - 17th Postmaster General: Nathan K Hall of NY takes office
07/23/1851 - Birth-Charles Bannerman, Aussie cricket batsman (1st centurion)
07/23/1851 - Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians & US
07/23/1852 - 1st interment in US National Cemetery at Presidio
07/23/1853 - Birth-William H Gillette, actor (Sherlock Holmes on stage)
07/23/1856 - Birth-Arthur H Bird, composer
07/23/1856 - Birth-Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindi leader
07/23/1857 - Birth-French [M J Fran‡ois] Erens, lawyer/literary (Pursue Years)
07/23/1858 - Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
07/23/1861 - Birth-Alexander W F Idenburg, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1909-16)
07/23/1863 - Alexandra Park opens in North London
07/23/1864 - Battle of Woodstock, VA
07/23/1865 - Birth-Friedrich Aereboe, landhuishoudkundige
07/23/1866 - Birth-Francesco Cilea, composer
07/23/1866 - Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms
07/23/1866 - Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer, dies at 83
07/23/1870 - Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eug‚nie as Regent of France
07/23/1875 - Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63
07/23/1876 - Birth-William Gillies Whittaker, composer
07/23/1877 - 1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations
07/23/1877 - 1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii completed
07/23/1878 - Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer, dies at 70
07/23/1880 - 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Mich
07/23/1883 - Birth-Alan Francis Brooke, 1st viscount Alanbrooke fieldmarshal [or Jul 4]
07/23/1884 - Birth-Albert Warner, US producer (Warner Bros)
07/23/1884 - Birth-Apolinary Szeluto, composer
07/23/1884 - Birth-Emil Jannings, Germany, actor (Faust, Passion, Blue Angel)
07/23/1885 - Ulysses S Grant, 18th US pres, dies in Mount McGregor NY, at 63
07/23/1886 - Birth-Arthur Whitten Brown, aviator
07/23/1886 - Birth-John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist
07/23/1886 - Birth-Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, writer/diplomat
07/23/1886 - Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge
07/23/1888 - Birth-Gluyas Williams, SF, cartoonist (Fellows Citizen)
07/23/1888 - Birth-Milan Stoyadinovich, Serbia, fascist Yugoslavia PM (1935-39)
07/23/1888 - Birth-Raymond Chandler, writer
07/23/1888 - John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire
07/23/1890 - Jack Barrett carries his cricket bat for Australia at Lord's (67)
07/23/1891 - Birth-Maurus H Hulsman, Dutch priest/editor (Amigoe di Cura‡ao)
07/23/1892 - Birth-Haile Selassie, [Ras Tafari Makonnen], emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74)
07/23/1892 - Birth-Petros John Petridis, composer
07/23/1893 - Birth-Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic)
07/23/1894 - Birth-Arthur Treacher, Brighton England, announcer (Merv Griffin Show)
07/23/1895 - Birth-Florence Vidor, [Arto], Houston TX, actress (Jack Knife Man)
07/23/1898 - Birth-Mervyn "Red" Dutton, Manitoba, 2nd NHL pres (1943-46)
07/23/1899 - Birth-Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany
07/23/1900 - Pan-African Congress meets in London
07/23/1902 - Birth-Walter Burle Marx, composer
07/23/1903 - Ford Motor Co sells 1st Model A car
07/23/1904 - Birth-Adone Zecchi, composer
07/23/1904 - Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo
07/23/1904 - John Simon, public health pioneer, dies
07/23/1905 - Birth-Daniel M K "Daan" Inghelram, Flemish author (Ang‚lique)
07/23/1905 - Birth-Erich Itor Kahn, composer
07/23/1905 - Jean-Jacques, painter, dies
07/23/1906 - Birth-Clancy Cooper, actress (Enchanted Forest, Girls in Chains)
07/23/1906 - Birth-Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist
07/23/1906 - Pogroms against Jews in Oddessa
07/23/1907 - 7th Davis Cup: Australasia beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
07/23/1907 - Birth-Elspeth Josceline Huxley, English author
07/23/1908 - Birth-Karl Swenson, Bkln NY, actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie)
07/23/1909 - Ernest F Cambier, Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65
07/23/1909 - Zygmunt Noskowski, composer, dies at 63
07/23/1910 - Birth-Pimen, [Sergei Irzjekov], patriarch Russian-Orthodox Cathederal
07/23/1912 - Birth-Michael Wilding, England, actor (Courtney Affair, World of Suzie Wong)
07/23/1913 - Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine
07/23/1913 - Birth-Coral Browne, Melbourne Aust, actress (Margaret-Time Express)
07/23/1913 - Birth-Michael Foot, MP
07/23/1914 - Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia leading to WW I
07/23/1914 - Birth-Alastair Down, CEO (Burmah Oil)
07/23/1916 - Birth-Ben Weber, St Louis Missouri, composer (Thorne Music Award-1965)
07/23/1916 - Birth-Ronald Ridout, school textbook author
07/23/1916 - William Ramsey, chemist, dies
07/23/1917 - Birth-Charles Kerruish, president (Tyndwald Isle of Man)
07/23/1917 - Birth-John Stokes, MP
07/23/1917 - Birth-Kurt Kreuger, St Moritz Switz, actor (Fear, Unfaithfully Yours)
07/23/1917 - Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes
07/23/1919 - Birth-[Harold] Pee Wee Reese, Hall of Fame shortstop (Dodgers)
07/23/1920 - Birth-Malcolm Hughes, artist
07/23/1920 - Birth-Marcel Maeyer, [de Maeyer], Belgian sculptor/graphic artist
07/23/1920 - British East Africa renamed Kenya & becomes a British crown colony
07/23/1921 - Birth-Calvert DeForest, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Larry "Bud" Melman)
07/23/1921 - Birth-David Lawmn, CEO (Prestige Group)
07/23/1921 - Birth-Harry Hookway, pro-chancellor (Loughborough University)
07/23/1921 - Birth-Heinz Bennent, Aachen Germany, Actor (Possession)
07/23/1921 - Birth-Jerome Rosen, composer
07/23/1921 - Birth-Peter Twiss, test pilot
07/23/1921 - Chinese communist party forms under Henk Sneevliet
07/23/1921 - Edward Gourdin of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 2 3/4"
07/23/1922 - Birth-Moses Rosen, chief Rabbi of Romania
07/23/1924 - Birth-Betsy Haworth, deacon/minister
07/23/1925 - Birth-Donna Anderson, Akiak AK, actress (On the Beach
07/23/1925 - Birth-Gloria De Haven, LA, actress (Bog, Yellow Cab Man, Irene-Nakia)
07/23/1925 - Birth-Pierre Baugniet, Belgium, pairs ice skater (Olympic-gold-1948)
07/23/1925 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers
07/23/1926 - Belgian NMBS/SNCFB forms
07/23/1926 - Birth-Ludvik Vaculik, writer
07/23/1926 - France govt of Poincar‚, forms
07/23/1927 - Birth-Al[fred] A McCandless, (Rep-R-CA, 1983- )
07/23/1927 - Birth-Elliot McKay See Jr, Dallas Texas, astronaut
07/23/1927 - Saad Zaghlul, Egyptian parliament chairman, dies at 74
07/23/1928 - Birth-Leon Fleisher, SF Calif, pianist/conductor (Annapolis Symph 1973-77)
07/23/1929 - Birth-Andrew Rutherford, warden (Goldsmith's College)
07/23/1930 - Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed
07/23/1930 - Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer/airplane builder, dies at 52
07/23/1930 - Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with HRs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th)
07/23/1931 - Ashmore & Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia
07/23/1931 - Birth-Jan Torell, Limhamm Sweden, director (New Land, Emigrants)
07/23/1931 - Birth-Richard Searby, deputy-chairman (News Corp Ltd-Australia)
07/23/1931 - Birth-Viktor Korchnoi, chess champ
07/23/1931 - France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics
07/23/1932 - Birth-Alistair Graham, headmaster (Mill Hill School)
07/23/1933 - Birth-Bert Convy, St Louis Mo, actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw)
07/23/1933 - Birth-Richard Rogers, English architect
07/23/1933 - Max Schillings, German composer/conductor (Mona Lisa), dies at 65
07/23/1934 - Birth-Nicholas Barrington, high commissioner (Pakistan)
07/23/1934 - Bradman completes 304 at Headingley, 430 mins, 43 fours 2 sixes
07/23/1935 - Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building
07/23/1935 - Birth-Cleveland Dunkin, rocker (Penguins)
07/23/1936 - Anthony M Kennedy, Sacramento CA, Supreme Court Justice
07/23/1936 - Birth-Anthony M Kennedy, Calif, 106th Supreme Court justice (1988- )
07/23/1936 - Birth-Don Drysdale, Van Nuys Calif, pitcher (LA Dodgers-Cy Young 1962)
07/23/1937 - Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
07/23/1938 - Birth-Ronny Cox, Cloudcroft Mass, actor (St Elsewhere)
07/23/1938 - Bradman scores 103 in 178 mins on a Headingley sticky, 3rd Test
07/23/1940 - "Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins
07/23/1940 - Birth-Don Imus, radio disc jockey (WNBC)
07/23/1940 - Birth-Gary Stites, rock vocalist (Lonely For You)
07/23/1942 - Andrew Ducat, cricketer (England 1921), dies whilst batting at 56
07/23/1942 - Birth-John de Hont, Dutch guitarist (ZZ & Masks)
07/23/1942 - Birth-Madeline Bell, US singer (Black Nativity)
07/23/1942 - German troops conquer Rostow
07/23/1942 - Hitler's Directive #45: order to occupy Stalingrad
07/23/1942 - Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32
07/23/1942 - Treblinka Concentration Camp destroyed
07/23/1943 - Battle of Koersk, USSR ends in Nazi defeat (6,000 tanks)
07/23/1943 - Birth-Tony Joe White, rocker
07/23/1943 - Emanuel Querido, publisher (Sobibor), dies
07/23/1943 - Meijer de Hond, [Emanuel Querido], rabbi (Sobibor), dies
07/23/1943 - US 45th Infantry division occupies north coast of Termini
07/23/1944 - Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp
07/23/1944 - Birth-Dino Danelli, Jersey City NJ, rock drummer (Fotomaker, Young Rascals)
07/23/1944 - Birth-Judith A Bosch, Dutch radio/TV-hostess (Tweekamp, Zeskamp)
07/23/1944 - Chicago Cubs Bill Nicholson hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
07/23/1944 - Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin
07/23/1944 - Helmuth J von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed
07/23/1944 - Max HHR Nettlau, Austrian historian (Der Anarchismus), dies at 79
07/23/1944 - Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland
07/23/1944 - US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II
07/23/1944 - US troops occupy Pisa Italy
07/23/1945 - Birth-Harold W Hennep, Arubians/Dutch dancer/actor (Plus Echo)
07/23/1945 - Marshal Henri P‚tain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial
07/23/1946 - Birth-Andy MacKay, London, rock sax/oboe (Roxy Music-Dance Away)
07/23/1946 - Birth-Keith Ferguson, blues guy (Fabulous Thunderbirds)
07/23/1946 - James Maxton, politician, dies
07/23/1946 - Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel
07/23/1947 - 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, RI
07/23/1947 - Birth-David Essex, [Cook], London, rock vocalist/actor (That'll be the Day)
07/23/1947 - Birth-Spencer Christian, weatherman (Good Morning America)
07/23/1948 - D[avid] W[ark] Griffith, US director/producer, dies
07/23/1948 - Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President
07/23/1949 - Birth-Clive Rice, South African cricket all-rounder (WSC 1978-79, ODI 1991)
07/23/1949 - Test Cricket debut of Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days
07/23/1950 - Birth-Alan Turner, Aussie cricket left-handed opener (World Cup ton 1975)
07/23/1950 - Birth-Belinda J Montgomery, Winnipeg, actress (Man From Atlantis)
07/23/1950 - Birth-Blair Thornton, rock guitarist (Bachman-Turner-Overdrive)
07/23/1950 - Birth-Ian Thomas, rocker
07/23/1950 - Birth-Kaity Tong, news anchor (WABC-TV NYC)
07/23/1951 - Birth-Edie McClurg, Kansas City MO, actress (Cinderella-1985, Hogan Family)
07/23/1951 - Birth-Terry Davis, NYC, actress (Stacey Winthrop-Another World)
07/23/1951 - Henri Philippe P‚tain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime), dies
07/23/1951 - Robert Joseph Flaherty, documentary film maker, dies
07/23/1952 - Birth-Janis Siegel, NYC, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction)
07/23/1952 - Birth-Paul Hibbert, cricketer (one Test Aust v India 1977, scored 13 & 2)
07/23/1952 - General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (Natl Day)
07/23/1953 - Birth-Graham Gooch, cricketer (prolific England opener & captain)
07/23/1955 - Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Un soir de joie), dies at 55
07/23/1955 - Birth-Marisa DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family)
07/23/1955 - Cordell Hull, statesman, dies
07/23/1955 - Harry Haden, actor (Harry-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 73
07/23/1955 - NY Yankees Bob Cerv & E Howard are 1st to hit consecutive pinch HRs
07/23/1956 - Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
07/23/1956 - Joe Cronin & Hank Greenberg inducted into Hall of Fame
07/23/1957 - Birth-Harry Stefanki, Mento Park Cal, tennis star
07/23/1957 - G Tomasi di Lampedusa, writer, dies at 61
07/23/1958 - 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords
07/23/1958 - Birth-Kenneth J Green, Danbury CT, PGA golfer (1985 Buick Open)
07/23/1958 - Birth-Lydia Cornell, El Paso Tx, actress (Sara Rush-Too Close for Comfort)
07/23/1959 - VP Richard Nixon begins visit on USSR
07/23/1960 - 15th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
07/23/1961 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
07/23/1961 - Birth-Antoine Carr, NBA forward/center (Utah Jazz)
07/23/1961 - Birth-Martin Gore, rocker (Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough)
07/23/1961 - Birth-Woody Harrelson, Midland Tx, actor (Woody Boyd-Cheers)
07/23/1961 - Bricusse & Newley's musical "Stop the world I want to ...," premieres
07/23/1961 - Esther Dale, actress (Birdie-Ma & Pa Kettle), dies after surgery at 75
07/23/1962 - Birth-Eriq La Salle, Hartford CT, actor (Dr Peter Benton-ER)
07/23/1962 - Birth-Terry-Jo Myers, Ft Myers FL, LPGA golfer (1988 Mayflower Classic)
07/23/1963 - Birth-Siobodan Zivojinovic, Yugoslavia, tennis star
07/23/1964 - A's Bert Campaneris HRs on 1st pitch, hits a 2nd HR on 2nd at bat
07/23/1964 - Birth-Greg Best, Lynchburg VA, Equestrian athlete (Olympic-silver-88, 92)
07/23/1964 - Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage
07/23/1964 - Jan PML de Vries, Dutch germanist/folklorist, dies at 74
07/23/1965 - Beatles "Help" is released in UK
07/23/1965 - Birth-Brett Faryniarz, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
07/23/1965 - Birth-Slash, [Saul Hudson], England, guitarist (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child)
07/23/1965 - Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park
07/23/1966 - Birth-Micheal Williams, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
07/23/1966 - Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens
07/23/1966 - Donald Novis, singer/actor (Pajama Game), dies at 60
07/23/1966 - Douglass Montgomery, actor (Forbidden, Daybreak), dies at 56
07/23/1966 - John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m)
07/23/1966 - Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"
07/23/1966 - [Edward] Montgomery Clift, actor (From Here to Eternity), dies at 45
07/23/1967 - -27] 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
07/23/1967 - Birth-Nicole Jagerman, Netherlands, tennis star
07/23/1967 - Pirate Radio Swinging Scotland closes down for financial reasons
07/23/1968 - Birth-Amy Fruwirth, Cypress CA, LPGA golfer (1995 McCall's LPGA-4th)
07/23/1968 - Birth-Beth Ehlers, Queens NY, actress (Harley Cooper-Guiding Light, Hunger)
07/23/1968 - Birth-Christopher "Chris" Kerber, Collingswood NJ, rower (Olympics-1996)
07/23/1968 - Birth-Douglas Craft, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
07/23/1968 - Birth-Elden Campbell, NBA forward/center (LA Lakers)
07/23/1968 - Birth-Gary Payton, NBA guard (Seattle Supersonics)
07/23/1968 - Birth-Stefan Figliuzzi, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
07/23/1968 - Birth-Stephane Seymour, model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover-1988)
07/23/1968 - Don Lillis, NFL president (NY Jets)
07/23/1968 - Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt
07/23/1968 - Henry Hallett Dale, physiologist, dies
07/23/1968 - PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane
07/23/1968 - Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed
07/23/1969 - 40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Wash DC
07/23/1969 - All star MVP: Willie McCovey (SF Giants)
07/23/1969 - Birth-Andrew Cassels, Bramalea, NHL center (Hartford Whalers)
07/23/1969 - Birth-Dimitri Khristich, Kiev Ukr, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
07/23/1969 - Birth-Fernanda Ribeiro, Portugal, 10k runner (Olympics-gold-96)
07/23/1969 - Birth-Reyhan Agaoglu, WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
07/23/1969 - Deli Floyd, writer, dies
07/23/1969 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
07/23/1970 - Birth-Sam Waters, Camp Springs Md, singer (Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up)
07/23/1971 - Birth-Aimee Rinehart, Miss Missouri USA (1996)
07/23/1971 - Birth-Alison Krauss, Decatur Ill, country singer (2 Highways)
07/23/1971 - Van Heflin, actor (Great Adventure), dies at 60
07/23/1972 - 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
07/23/1972 - Birth-Marlon Wayans, comedian (Wayans Bros, In Living Color)
07/23/1972 - Birth-Oscar McBride, NFL tight end (Arizona Cardinals)
07/23/1972 - Birth-Seth Dittman, NFL offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colt, London Monarchs)
07/23/1972 - Birth-Trisha Fallon, Australian basketball forward (Olympics-bronze-96)
07/23/1972 - Eddy Merckx (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France
07/23/1972 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic
07/23/1973 - Birth-Darvin Ham, NBA forward (Wash Wizards)
07/23/1973 - Birth-Kyle Walters, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
07/23/1973 - Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot, dies at 82
07/23/1973 - Marius-Fran‡ois Gaillard, composer, dies at 72
07/23/1973 - Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St Louis-36 die
07/23/1973 - Pres Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
07/23/1973 - Qaboos bin Said Al Said, becomes Sultan & Prime Minister of Oman
07/23/1973 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
07/23/1974 - 45th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-2 at 3 Rivers Stadium, Pitts
07/23/1974 - All star MVP: Steve Garvey (LA Dodgers)
07/23/1974 - Birth-Maurice Greene, KC Kansas, 100m runner
07/23/1974 - Birth-Tara Williams, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury)
07/23/1974 - Greek military dictatorship collapses
07/23/1974 - Mary Forbes, actress (Nun-Les Miserables, Ivy), dies at 90
07/23/1975 - Alan Ayckbourn's "Absent Friends," premieres in London
07/23/1975 - LA Dodgers W Crawford & Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
07/23/1976 - 42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895)
07/23/1976 - Balt Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game
07/23/1976 - Birth-Inger Lise Ebeltoft, Miss Universe-Norway (1996)
07/23/1976 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
07/23/1976 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
07/23/1976 - Wilhelmina Von Bremen, 4X100 relay sprinter (Oly-gold-32), dies at 64
07/23/1976 - Wings release "Let 'em In"
07/23/1977 - Ren‚ de Vos, Dutch actor/composer (Jij Bent Mijn Leven), dies at 79
07/23/1977 - Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Moslems on hostage charges
07/23/1978 - 33rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
07/23/1978 - Israeli govt rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas
07/23/1978 - Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 78th pitcher to win 200
07/23/1978 - Reggie Jackson returns & helps Yankees win their 5th straight
07/23/1979 - George Brett gets his 1,000th hit
07/23/1979 - Keith Godchaux, rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident at 31
07/23/1980 - Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya
07/23/1980 - River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
07/23/1980 - Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6
07/23/1982 - Birth-Schottzie Schott, dog mascot of Cincinnati Reds
07/23/1982 - FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo
07/23/1982 - Intl Whaling Comn votes for total ban on coml whaling (starting 1985)
07/23/1982 - Vic Morrow, actor (Cimmaron), killed during "Twilight Zone" at 53
07/23/1983 - Georges Auric, French composer (It Always Rains on Sunday), dies at 84
07/23/1984 - KC Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save
07/23/1984 - Lloyd Gough, actor (Black Bart, Tolsa), dies of aortic aneurism at 77
07/23/1984 - Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984
07/23/1984 - Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude
07/23/1985 - Kay Kyser, bandleader (Kay Kyser's Kollege), dies at 79
07/23/1986 - Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson
07/23/1986 - Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, composer, dies at 73
07/23/1986 - King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres
07/23/1987 - Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record)
07/23/1987 - RNI (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
07/23/1987 - Red Sox waive Bill Buckner, the goat of last years World Series
07/23/1987 - Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39)
07/23/1988 - Jahangir Khan, cricketer (4 Tests for India 1932-36), dies
07/23/1988 - Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton
07/23/1989 - 118th British Golf Open: Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon
07/23/1989 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
07/23/1989 - FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America's Most Wanted)
07/23/1989 - Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas
07/23/1990 - Georges Flamant, actor (La Chienne), dies in Paris at 86
07/23/1990 - Joe Turner, jazz pianist, dies of cardiac arrest at 82
07/23/1990 - Robert Sommer, singer, dies of liver failure at 42
07/23/1990 - Rosie Jones, (St Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America
07/23/1990 - South-Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
07/23/1991 - Billie Carlyle
07/23/1991 - James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession
07/23/1991 - Rob Dibble back from 3-game suspension, is ejected for throwing at & hitting Cubs baserunner Doug Dascenzo Cubs win, 8-5
07/23/1992 - Arletty, French actress (Hotel, Longest Day), dies at 94
07/23/1992 - Bruce Springsteen begins a world tour
07/23/1992 - Emperor Haile Selassie, [Ras Tafari Makonnen] of Ethiopia's, funeral
07/23/1992 - Maxine Audley, Brit actress (Vikings, Our Man in Havana), dies at 69
07/23/1993 - Boon completes 17th Test Cricket century, 107 at Headingley
07/23/1993 - British Aerospace 147 crash at Yinchuan, 55 killed
07/23/1993 - Chinese B737 crash at Yinchuan, at least 66 killed
07/23/1993 - Chris Boardman bicycles world record 1 hour distance (52,270 km)
07/23/1993 - Jordan, father of Michael Jordan, murdered
07/23/1993 - NY Yankee Mark Hutton is 1st Australian to be a starting pitcher, He beats Angels 5-2; Yanks, Red Sox, Blue Jays 3 way tie for 1st
07/23/1994 - Aad Ivens, Dutch checkers player, dies at 80
07/23/1994 - All 40,000 ceiling tiles in Kingdome must be replaced
07/23/1994 - Amy Osmond, of Utah, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
07/23/1994 - Dancer Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
07/23/1994 - Don Mattingly becomes 6th NY Yankee to get 2,000 hits
07/23/1994 - Goodwill Games open in St Petersburg
07/23/1994 - Hans J Salter, Aust/US composer (Deanna-Durbin musicals), dies at 98
07/23/1994 - Henry William Collins, artist, dies at 84
07/23/1994 - Longest baseball rain delay (3:39) as Giants beat Mets 4-2 in NYC
07/23/1994 - Space shuttle STS-65: Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days 55 mins
07/23/1995 - "Hamlet" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 121 performances
07/23/1995 - 124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St Andrews Scotland
07/23/1995 - Bob Rundick, poet/DJ, dies at 52
07/23/1995 - Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 80
07/23/1995 - Miguel Indur ins wins his 5th Tour de France
07/23/1995 - Tracy Kerdyk wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
07/23/1996 - Aliki Vougiouklaki, actress (Madalena), dies at 63
07/23/1996 - Jessica Lucy Mitford, author, dies at 78
07/23/1996 - John Corner, scientist, dies at 80
07/23/1997 - Andrew Cunanan, serial killer (Gianni Versage), commits suicide
07/23/1997 - Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin & Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them
07/23/2000 - 129th British Golf Open: at Royal Lytham
07/23/2000 - 55th US Women's Open Golf Championship
DOOM!
Ah yes, because of the prophecy of my birth, created by an old hag in 562 AD, many events have occurred preparing the way for my entrance into this world and its eventual doom, carried out by myself. Do you think it was any coincidence that Earl Lamoraal van Egmont beat France on the exact same day I was born, 424 years beforehand? Or that so many Jews died on my birthday? Or that Aleksei Mihailovitch Romanov succeeds his father Michael as Czar on the same day as my birth a man who shares my middle name as his first? Also on my birthday, Wolfgang Gentner was born; he was a German nuclear physicist: If it was not for him, I could not go into the nuclear industry (see above for the end of the world). Do you not think it odd that Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia ultimately leading to WW I on my birthday? Can you place any connection between these seemingly unrelated events? The end is near for my birth has been foretold and it has already happened.
Belched up with tidings of comfort and joy by Joe
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