sábado, 23 de julio de 2011

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ON THIS DAY

On This Day: July 23

On July 23, 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to World War I.
On July 23, 1892, Haile Selassie I, the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, was born. Following his death on August 26, 1975, his obituary appeared in The Times.

On This Date

1829William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Mich., received a patent for his typographer, a forerunner of the typewriter.
1885Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63.
1945French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason.
1952Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk I.
1967Rioting that claimed some 43 lives erupted in Detroit.
1984Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine.
1986Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. (The couple divorced in 1996.)
2000Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to complete a career Grand Slam when he won the British Open at age 24.
2001Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty died in Jackson, Miss., at age 92.
2003Massachusetts' attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably sexually abused more than 1,000 people over six decades.
2009Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox pitched the 18th perfect game in major league history, a 5-0 win over Tampa Bay.

Current Birthdays

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor (“Harry Potter” movies)
Actor Daniel Radcliffe ("Harry Potter" movies) turns 22 years old today.
AP Photo/Jonathan Short
Alison Krauss, Country singer, musician
Country singer-musician Alison Krauss turns 40 years old today.
AP Photo/Dave Martin
1925Gloria DeHaven, Actress, turns 86
1936Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court justice, turns 75
1940Don Imus, Radio personality, turns 71
1948John Hall, Singer (Orleans), former U.S. congressman, turns 63
1961Woody Harrelson, Actor, turns 50
1962Eriq La Salle, Actor ("ER"), turns 49
1965Slash, Rock musician (Guns 'n' Roses), turns 46
1967Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor ("Capote"), turns 44
1968Stephanie Seymour, Model, turns 43
1970Charisma Carpenter, Actress ("Angel," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), turns 41
1970Sam Watters, R&B singer, turns 41
1972Marlon Wayans, Actor, comedian, turns 39
1973Nomar Garciaparra, Baseball player, turns 38
1974Stephanie March, Actress, turns 37
1980Michelle Williams, R&B singer (Destiny's Child), turns 31

Historic Birthdays

64Francesco Sforza 7/23/1401 - 3/8/1466
Italian condottiere and duke of Milan
86Sir Thomas Brisbane 7/23/1773 - 1/27/1860
English soldier and astronomical observer
84Sir Jonathan Hutchinson 7/23/1828 - 6/26/1913
English medical researcher
92S. H. Kress 7/23/1863 - 9/22/1955
American retail businessman and art collector
91Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons 7/23/1874 - 3/11/1966
American racehorse trainer
65Emil Jannings 7/23/1884 - 1/2/1950
Swiss-born German stage and screen actor
62Sir Arthur Whitten Brown 7/23/1886 - 10/4/1948
English aviator; co-captained the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic
70Raymond Chandler 7/23/1888 - 3/26/1959
American author of detective stories
66Harry Cohn 7/23/1891 - 2/27/1958
American co-founder of Columbia Pictures
57Elio Vittorini 7/23/1908 - 2/13/1966
Italian novelist, translator and literary critic
79Pimen 7/23/1910 - 5/3/1990
Russian Orthodox patriarch of Moscow and Russia

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