Bastille Day in France
Birthdays:
1977 ~ Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden. She is married to commoner, Daniel Westling. She is of the House of Bernadotte. She is the daughter of Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden and Silvia Sommerlath.
1960 ~ Jane Lynch (née Jane Marie Lynch), American actress. She was born in Evergreen Park, Illinois.
1953 ~ Martha Coakley (née Martha Mary Coakley), 58th Attorney General for the State of Massachusetts. She served as Attorney General from January 2007 through January 2015 during the governorships of Governors Charlie Baker and Deval Patrick. She was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
1952 ~ Jeff Lindsay (né Jeffry P. Freundlich), American author. He is best known for writing the series about Dexter Morgan, a sociopathic vigilante crime fighter. He was born in Miami, Florida.
1940 ~ Susan Howatch (née Susan Elizabeth Sturt), British novelist, known for writing historical sagas.
1938 ~ Jerry Rubin (né Jerry Clyde Rubin; d. Nov. 28, 1994), American political activist. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He died at age 56 of injuries sustained after having been struck by a vehicle while crossing a street in Los Angeles, California.
1934 ~ Lee Elder (né Robert Lee Elder; d. Nov. 28, 2021), African-American tenacious golfer who desegrated the Masters. In 1975, he became the first Black golfer to compete in the Masters golf tournament. He was born in Dallas, Texas. He died at age 87 in Escondido, California.
1932 ~ Rosey Grier (né Roosevelt Grier), American football player. He was born in Cuthbert, Georgia.
1930 ~ Polly Bergen (née Nellie Pauline Burgin; d. Sept. 20, 2014), American actress and star who shown in Hollywood and business. She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. She died at age 84 in Southbury, Connecticut.
1927 ~ John Chancellor (John William Chancellor; d. July 12, 1996), American journalist and news anchor. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He died of stomach cancer 2 days before his 69th birthday in Princeton, New Jersey.
1926 ~ Harry Dean Stanton (d. Sept. 15, 2017), American actor. He was born in West Irving, Kentucky. He died at age 91 in Los Angeles, California.
1923 ~ Frances Lear (née Evelyn Loeb; d. Sept. 30, 1996), American social activist and wife of television producer Norman Lear. She was born in Hudson, New York. She died of breast cancer at age 73 in New York, New York.
1921 ~ Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (d. Sept. 26, 1996), English chemist and recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 75 in London, England.
1918 ~ Ingmar Bergman (né Ernst Ingmar Bergman; d. July 30, 2007), Swedish film director and playwright. He was born in Uppsala, Uppland, Sweden. He died 2 weeks after his 89th birthday in Fårö, Gotland, Sweden.
1914 ~ Kenneth B. Clark (né Kenneth Bancroft Clark; d. May 1, 2005), African-American educator psychologist and civil rights activist who, along with his wife, Mamie Phipps Clark (1917 ~ 1983), fought segregation. He was born in the Panama Canal Zone. He died at age 90 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. His wife was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas and she died at age 66.
1913 ~ Gerald Ford (né Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; d. Dec. 26, 2006), 38th President of the United States and only president who was never elected by the populous. Prior to becoming President, he had served as the 40th Vice President of the United States under President Richard Nixon, as he assumed that office following the resignation of Spiro Agnew. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He died at age 93 in Rancho Mirage, California.
1912 ~ Woody Guthrie (né Woodrow Wilson Guthrie; d. Oct. 3, 1967), American folksinger and musician. He was born in Okemah, Oklahoma. He died of complications of Huntington’s disease at age 55 in New York, New York.
1910 ~ William Hanna (né William Denby Hanna; d. Mar. 22, 2001), American cartoon animator and co-founder of Hanna-Barbera. He was born in what is now Melrose, New Mexico. He died of throat cancer at age 90 in Los Angeles, California.
1906 ~ Tom Carvel (né Athanasios Thomas Karvelas; d. Oct. 21, 1990), Greek-American businessman and founder of the Carvel brand of Ice Cream. He was bornin Athens, Greece. He died at age 84 in Pine Plains, New York.
1903 ~ Irving Stone (né Irving Tennenbaum; d. Aug. 26, 1989), American writer. He is best known for his biographical novels such as The Agony and the Ecstasy about the life of Michelangelo. He was born in San Francisco, California. He died at age 86 in Los Angeles, California.
1868 ~ Gertrude Bell (née Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell; d. July 12, 1926), English archaeologist, writer, and spy. She died 2 days before her 58th birthday of an overdose of sleeping pills in Baghdad, Iraq. Her death may have been a suicide.
1862 ~ Gustav Klimt (d. Feb. 6, 1918), Austrian painter and graphic artist. He died at age 55 during the flu epidemic in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
1861 ~ Kate M. Gordon (d. Aug. 24, 1931), American women’s rights activist. She was born and died in New Orleans, Louisiana. She died at age 71 of a cerebral hemorrhage.
1785 ~ Mordecai Manuel Noah (d. May 22, 1851), Jewish-American writer, playwright, and journalist. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died at age 65 in New York, New York.
1671 ~ Jacques d’Allonville (né Jacques Eugene d’Allonville; d. Sept. 10, 1732), French mathematician and astronomer. The crater Louville on the moon is named in his honor. He died at age 61.
1610 ~ Ferdinando II de’Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. May 23, 1670). He served as the Grand Duke of Tuscany from February 1621 until his death in May 1670. He was married to Vittoria della Rovere. He was of the House of Medici. He was the son of Cosimo II de’Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria. He died at age 59.
Events that Changed the World:
2018 ~ A jaguar escaped it cage at the New Orleans Audubon Zoo and killed a total of 8 animals. It initially killed 4 alpacas, an emu and a fox. A 5th alpaca and a 2nd fox died within 2 days of the attack.
2016 ~ In Nice, France, a terrorist drove his truck into a crowd of people during Bastille Day celebrations, killing 86 individuals and injuring over 400 others.
2015 ~ Harper Lee’s second novel, Go Set a Watchman, was published.
2014 ~ The Church of England voted to allow women to be consecrated as bishops. In 1994, the Church of England allowed women to become priests.
2013 ~ A statue of Rachel Carson (1907 ~ 1964) was dedicated in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
1976 ~ Canada was abolished capital punishment.
1969 ~ The United States officially withdrew the $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills from circulation.
1966 ~ Eight student nurses were brutally murdered when Richard Speck (1941 ~ 1991) broke into their residence to rob and strangle them. One student escaped by hiding under her bed.
1965 ~ The Mariner IV spacecraft took the first close-up photographs of Mars.
1957 ~ Rawya Ateya (1926 ~ 1997) became the first women parliamentarian in the Arab world to be elected when she took her seat in Egypt’s National Assembly.
1943 ~ The George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond, Missouri became the first United States Monument to honor an African American.
1933 ~ All political parties in Germany were outlawed except the Nazi Party.
1902 ~ The Campanile in St. Mark’s Square in Venice, Italy, collapsed. It was reconstructed 10 years later.
1874 ~ The Great Chicago Fire of 1874 burned down over 47 acres of the city, killing at least 20 individuals and destroying more than 800 buildings.
1853 ~ The first major world’s fair opened in New York City and was billed as the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations.
1798 ~ The Sedition Act became law in the United States, which made it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States Government. The Act expired in 1800.
1789 ~ French citizens stormed the Bastille, a royal fortress and prison, in an act that marks the start of the French Revolution.
1771 ~ Father Junípero Serra (1713 ~ 1784) founded the Mission San Antonio de Padua in what is now the state of California.
1223 ~ Louis VIII (1187 ~ 1226) became King of France following the death of his father, Philip II, King of France (1165 ~ 1223).
1099 ~ During the First Crusade, knights from Europe captured Jerusalem after seven weeks of siege and began massacring the Jewish and Muslim population.
Good-Byes:
2017 ~ Maryam Mirzakhani (b. May 12, 1977), Iranian mathematician prodigy who shattered math’s glass ceiling. In 2014, she was awarded the prestigious Fields Medal. She was born in Tehran, Iran. She died of cancer at age 40 in Stanford, California.
2015 ~ Marlene Sanders (b. Jan. 10, 1931), American reporter who blazed a trail for newswomen. She was the mother of writer Jeffrey Toobin. She was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She died of cancer at age 84 in Manhattan, New York.
2014 ~ John Parker (né John Victor Parker; b. Oct. 14, 1928), United States District Judge for the Middle District of Louisiana. He was born and died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He served as Judge from October 1998 until his death at age 85.
2011 ~ Leo Kirch (b. Oct. 21, 1926), German who build and lost a media empire. He founded the Kirch group. He was born in Volkach, Germany. He died at age 84 in Munich, Germany.
1998 ~ Richard McDonald (b. Feb. 16, 1909), American businessman and co-founder along with his brother Maurice James McDonald (1902 ~ 1971) of McDonald’s. Richard was born in Manchester, New Hampshire and died in Bedford, New Hampshire. He was 89 at the time of his death. The story of the McDonald’s origin was depicted in the 2016 movie The Founder.
1980 ~ Felix Berezin (b. Apr. 25, 1931), Russian mathematician. He was born in Moscow, Russia. He drowned at age 49 in the Kolyma River.
1966 ~ Julie Manet (b. Nov. 14, 1878), French artist and model. She was the niece of painter Édouard Manet. She was born and died in Paris, France. She died at age 87.
1965 ~ Adlai Stevenson, II (né Adlai Ewing Ferde Stevenson, II; b. Feb. 5, 1900), American politician and 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations. He was the Democratic candidate for President in the 1952 presidential campaign. He had previously served as the Governor of Illinois. He was born in Los Angeles, California. He died of a massive heart attack at age 65 in London, England.
1958 ~ Faisal II of Iraq (b. May 2, 1935), last king of Iraq. He was executed in a coup d’état during the July 14 Revolution. He was 23 years old.
1954 ~ Jacinto Benavente (né Jacinto Benavente y Martínez; b. Aug. 12, 1866), Spanish writer and recipient of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born and died in Madrid, Spain. He died a month before his 88th birthday.
1953 ~ Richard von Mises (né Richard Edler von Mises; b. Apr. 19, 1883), Ukrainian -born mathematician. He was of Jewish ancestry and with the rise of the Nazi party, he fled Austria and ultimately moved to the United States. He was born in Lviv, Ukraine. He died in Boston, Massachusetts at age 70.
1907 ~ Sir William Henry Perkins (b. Mar. 12, 1838), British chemist best known for his accidental discovery of the first aniline dye, which is a purple mauveine. He was attempting to synthesize quinine as a treatment for malaria, when he discovered the dye. He was born and died in London, England. He died of pneumonia at age 69.
1904 ~ Paul Kruger (né Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger; b. Oct. 10, 1824), President of the South African Republic. He was President from May 1882 until September 1900. The currency of South Africa, the Krugerrand, was named after him. He died at age 78.
1881 ~ Billy the Kid (né Henry McCarty; aka William Bonney, Jr.; b. 1859), American outlaw who was shot and killed by lawman Pat Garrett. The exact date of his birth is unknown. He was 21 years old.
1865 ~ Benjamin Gompertz (b. Mar. 5, 1779), British mathematician and actuary. He was a self-educated mathematician. He is best known for his Gompertz law of mortality. He was born and died in London, England. He died at age 86.
1817 ~ Germaine de Staël (née Anne Louise Germaine Necker; but known as Madame de Staël, b. Apr. 22, 1766), French author. She was born and died in Paris, France. She died at age 51.
1486 ~ Margaret of Denmark (b. June 23, 1456), Queen consort of Scotland and wife of James III, King of Scotland. She was of the House of Oldenburg. She was the daughter of Christian I, King of Denmark and Dorothea of Brandenburg. She died of an illness 3 weeks after her 30th birthday.
1223 ~ Philip II, King of France (b. Aug. 21, 1165). He reigned from 1190 until his death in July 1223. He is known for expelling the Jews from France. He was married three times. His first wife was Isabella of Hainault. She died young in childbirth. His second wife was Princess Ingeborg of Denmark. He tried to have this marriage annulled, and married Agnes of Merania. His third marriage was annulled, on the grounds that he had never formally been divorced from his second wife. He was of the House of Capet. He was the son of Louis VII, King of France and Adela of Champagne. He died at age 57.
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