domingo, 3 de julio de 2011

En este día...


ON THIS DAY

On This Day: July 3

On July 3, 1863, the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ended after three days in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated.
On July 3, 1878, George M. Cohan, the great song and dance man of Broadway, was born. Following his death on Nov. 5, 1942, his obituary appeared in The Times.

On This Date

1608The city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain.
1775Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.
1878Broadway song-and-dance man George M. Cohan was born in Providence, R.I. (Cohan claimed to have been - as he wrote in one of his patriotic songs - "born on the Fourth of July.")
1890Idaho became the 43rd state.
1898The U.S. Navy defeated a Spanish fleet in the harbor at Santiago, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War.
1930Congress created the Veterans Administration.
1962Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.
1971Rock singer Jim Morrison of The Doors died in Paris at age 27.
1985The time-travel comedy "Back to the Future," starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, was released in movie theaters.
1986President Ronald Reagan presided over a ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
1988The USS Vincennes shot down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
2001Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic refused to enter a plea on war crimes charges in his first appearance before a U.N. tribunal at The Hague.
2005A NASA space probe, Deep Impact, hit its comet target as planned in a mission to learn how the solar system formed.
2009Sarah Palin announced she would resign as Alaska governor with 16 months left in her term.

Current Birthdays

Tom Cruise, Actor
Actor Tom Cruise turns 49 years old today.
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello
Patrick Wilson, Actor
Actor Patrick Wilson turns 38 years old today.
AP Photo/Peter Kramer
1916John Kundla, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 95
1930Pete Fountain, Jazz clarinetist, turns 81
1937Tom Stoppard, Playwright, turns 74
1939Jay Tarses, Writer, producer, turns 72
1940Lamar Alexander, U.S. senator, R-Tenn., turns 71
1940Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament, turns 71
1943Kurtwood Smith, Actor ("That 70s Show"), turns 68
1945Michael Cole, Actor ("The Mod Squad"), turns 66
1947Dave Barry, Humor writer, turns 64
1947Betty Buckley, Actress ("Eight is Enough," "Cats"), turns 64
1949Jan Smithers, Actress ("WKRP In Cincinnati"), turns 62
1956Montel Williams, Talk show host, turns 55
1962Thomas Gibson, Actor ("Dharma and Greg"), turns 49
1962Hunter Tylo, Actress ("The Bold and the Beautiful"), turns 49
1964Yeardley Smith, Actress ("The Simpsons"), turns 47
1966Moises Alou, Baseball player, turns 45
1970Audra McDonald, Singer, actress, turns 41
1980Shoshannah Stern, Actress, turns 31

Historic Birthdays

63Robert Adam 7/3/1728 - 3/3/1792
Scottish architect and designer
64Samuel Huntington 7/3/1731 - 1/5/1796
American colonial leader; signed the Declaration of Independence
77John Singleton Copley 7/3/1738 - 9/9/1815
American painter
55Dankmar Adler 7/3/1844 - 4/16/1900
German-born American architect and engineer
75Charlotte Gilman 7/3/1860 - 8/17/1935
American writer and women's rights advocate
40Franz Kafka 7/3/1883 - 6/3/1924
Czech-born German author
83M. F. K. Fisher 7/3/1908 - 6/22/1992
American food essayist and novelist
86Stavros Spyros Niarchos 7/3/1909 - 4/15/1996
Greek shipping magnate and art collector
52Dorothy Kilgallen 7/3/1913 - 11/8/1965
American columnist, journalist and panelist

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