Page 5: Historical Events In July - 14

1927  1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii   

1927  John William Chancellor, Chicago Ill, news anchor (NBC, VOA).   

1928  Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher.   

1929  George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher.   

1930  W H Ashley, cricketer (Test S Africa, 7 wkts), dies   

1932  Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders.   

1933  East European Jewish immigrants are stripped of German citizenship.   

1933  Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness.   

1934  C Jackson discovers asteroids #1325 Inanda and #1326 Losaka   

1934  NY Times erronously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time.   

1934  116°F (47°C), Orogrande NM (state record, broken on June 27, 1994).   

1936  1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front govt   

1938  In this year, Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifest   

1938  Robert Poore, cricketer (3 Tests for S Africa in 1895-96 series), dies.   

1940  Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps   

1940  Bill Howell, cricketer (18 Tests for Aust 1898-1905), dies.   

1941  6000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp   

1942  Captain Charles Hazlitt UPHAM 20 th NZ Battalion, won the second of two Victoria Crosses in Egypt   

1942  1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork.   

1942  Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Neth/French/Belgian painter's model, dies.   

1943  Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor, dies at 74%.   

1944  Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested   

1945  Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan   

1946  Dr Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" published.   

1947  C A Wirtanen discovers asteroid #1747 Wright   

1948  Israel bombs Cairo.   

1948  Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's CPI chairman, assassinated.   

1949  USSR explodes their 1st atom bomb.   

1949  Frank Hearne, cricketer (2 Tests for England, 4 Tests for S Afr), dies   

1950  RE Wayne awarded inaugural Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea   

1950  RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea   

1951  Citation is recorded as becoming inaugural horse to win $1000000 in races   

1951  The inaugural color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)   

1951  "Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater NYC after 37 performances   

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1454  Poliziano: Florentine humanist   

1486  Andrea del sarto: Italy, painter (recollets)   

1602  Jules mazarin: France, cardinal, french 1st minister (1642-61)   

1608  George goring: Lord goring, english royalist soldier   

1610  Ferdinand ii: Monarch of toscane   

1610  Ferdinando ii de' medici: Grand duke of tuscany   

1634  Pasquier quesnel: French jansenist theologian   

1671  Jacques d'allonville: French astronomer and mathematician   

0664  Death of Deusdedit of canterbury: Archbishop of canterbury   

0937  Arnulf: Duke of bavaria   

1223  Philippe ii augustus: King of france (1180-1223),   

1298  Jacob de voragine: Italian bishop/writer (golden legend),   

1575  Richard taverner: English bible translator   

1614  Camillus de lellis: Ital soldier/monastery founder/saint,   

1671  Death of Méric casaubon: English classical scholar (b. 1599)   

1711  Death of Johan willem friso: Prince of orange/(nassau-dietz), drowns at 23