History Of Today - 7th July

1900 - Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory

1905 - 127°F (53°C), Parker Ariz (state record)

1908 - Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay

1911 - 28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby (60 60)

1911 - Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record

1913 - British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law

1914 - Balt Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore & Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty

1915 - A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.

1919 - Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game

1923 - 43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61)

1923 - Cleve Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning

1923 - University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)

1924 - Robert LeGendre of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 5½"

1928 - 41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 63)

1928 - Edward Hamm of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 11"

1928 - Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. It is described as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped".

1929 - Romania & Vatican sign concord

1930 - Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam

1932 - Bradman scores a cricket double century in Montreal

1934 - Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship

1936 - 4th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston

1937 - 5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash

1937 - Japanese & Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II

1939 - 52nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60)

1941 - Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono Lithuania

1941 - US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion

1941 - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.

1942 - Germany troop march into Woronezj

1942 - Milt all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0

1943 - -10] Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java

1943 - 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova

1943 - Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk

1943 - Liberator bombers sinks U-517

1943 - U-951 sunk

1944 - Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France

1944 - Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan

1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint

1947 - Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.

1948 - 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy

1948 - Cleveland Indians sign Leroy "Satchel" Paige

1948 - Indians sign Satchel Paige at 42

1949 - "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" opens at Broadway NYC for 76 perfs

1949 - "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 & 1967

1950 - 1st Farnborough airshow held

1950 - 64th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Budge Patty beats Sedgman (61 8-10 62 63)

1950 - 79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon

1951 - 58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (61 60)

1952 - SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40

1953 - 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Mich

1953 - Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.

1954 - T.A.N.U. party forms in Tanzania

1954 - Formation of the TANU in Tanzania

1955 - 1st LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson

1956 - 63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61)

1956 - Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres

1956 - 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 buildings

1956 - Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).

1957 - Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast

1958 - C A Milton scores 104* on Test Cricket debut, England v NZ Headingley

1958 - Pres Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood

1958 - William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows NY

1959 - 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh

1960 - Neth-US cemetery Margraten official opens

1960 - USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea

1961 - 75th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64)

1961 - James R Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters

1962 - 69th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (64 64)

1962 - Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races

1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1963 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open

1964 - 35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York

1964 - All star MVP: John Callison (Phila Phillies)

1965 - Otis Redding records "Respect"

1967 - 81st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61)

1967 - Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released

1967 - Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1

1967 - Beginning of the civil war in Biafra.

1968 - 23rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning

1968 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1968 - Rock group "Yardbirds" disband

1969 - Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English lang

1969 - Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal

1972 - 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley & Joanne E Pierce)

1972 - 79th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (63 63)

1972 - Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage

1973 - 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)

1973 - 80th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats C Evert (60 75)

1973 - 87th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jan Kodes beats Alex Metreveli (61 98 63)

1973 - All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels

1973 - Balt Orioles pull their 4th triple play (5-4-3 vs Oakland)

1973 - Glenda Reiser (Canada) sets record women's mile (4:34.9)

1973 - Shoelace Park in the Bronx named

1973 - 1st all-US women's Wimbledon, Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert

1974 - Brewer Don Money sets record of consec errorless games at 3rd (78)

1974 - Sue Roberts wins LPGA Niagara Frontier Golf Classic

1974 - West Germany beats Neth 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich

1975 - TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres

1976 - E Henry Knoche, becomes deputy director of CIA

1976 - Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1976 - Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars

1977 - 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City

1978 - 85th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (26 64 75)

1978 - Solomon Islands declares independence from UK

1979 - 93rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats R Tanner (67 61 36 63 64)

1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1980 - 1st solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel

1980 - Az Judge Sandra Day O'Connor 1st female nominated to Supreme Court

1980 - Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours

1980 - Larry Holmes TKOs Scott LeDoux in 7 for heavyweight boxing title

1980 - Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe

1980 - Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Univ) as 29th Miss USA

1980 - Institution of sharia in Iran.

1980 - The Safra massacre in Lebanon.

1981 - 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel

1981 - Ben Plucknett of US throws discus 72.34 m, but throw is disqualified

1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court

1982 - David Moorcroft of UK sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41

1982 - Steve Scott of US runs mile in a record 3:47.69

1983 - 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR

1984 - 5 die in a train crash in Williston Vt

1984 - 91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62)

1984 - Frankie Valli marries Randy Clohessy

1985 - 92nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (46 63 62)

1985 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship

1986 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released

1986 - It is reported Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction

1986 - Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices

1986 - Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law

1986 - US actress Deborah Hunter marries actor Michael Tylo

1987 - Alan & Colin Wells make 303* partnership for Sussex v Kent

1987 - Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women

1987 - Lt Col Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing

1987 - Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 & 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7

1988 - Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)

1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1990 - 97th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Z Garrison (64 61)

1990 - NJ Devils sign Russians Viacheslav Fetisov & Sergei Starikov

1991 - 105th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Michael Stich beats B Becker (64 76 64)

1991 - Alice Miller wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic

1991 - Nolan Ryan possible 8th no-hitter ends in the 8th inning

1993 - Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia

1993 - NY Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game (goes to 27)

1993 - Phila Phillies beat SF Giants 7-6 in 20 innings

1993 - Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers

1993 - Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500

1994 - "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo

1994 - Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert

1994 - North Yemenite troops occupy Aden

1995 - Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game (vs BC Lions)

1995 - Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), lands

1996 - 110th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: R Krajicek beats M Washington (63 64 63)

1996 - 17th US Seniors Golf Open: Dave Stockton

1996 - Joan Pitcock wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic

1996 - Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), lands

1997 - Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open

1997 - Tower Minn temps dip to 24°F

1998 - 69th All Star Baseball Game: at Coors Field, Denver

2002 - A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.

2003 - The United Communist Party of Armenia is formed.

2005 - Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike London's public transport system during the morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 700

History Of Today - 6th July

1903 - George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of SF

1905 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.

1908 - Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for north pole

1912 - 5th Olympic games in Stockholm opens

1912 - Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)

1917 - T E Lawrence captures Port of Agaba from Turkey

1919 - British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)

1919 - William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs president

1920 - Yankees score 14 in 5th inning & beat Washington Senators, 17-0

1922 - Dutch auto/airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy

1923 - 36th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (62 62)

1923 - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form

1924 - 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England

1928 - 1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY)

1928 - Worlds largest record hailstone 1.5 lbs (7 inchs in diameter)) at the time falls in Potter Nebraska

1929 - St Louis has 2, 10 run innings & beats Phillies 28-6

1931 - 35th US Golf Open: Billy Burke shoots a 292 at Inverness Club Ohio

1932 - 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents

1932 - Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli

1933 - 1st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at Comiskey Park, Chicago

1935 - 48th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats H Jacobs (63 36 75)

1935 - Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens

1936 - 114°F (46°C), Moorhead, Minnesota (state record)

1936 - 121°F (49°C), Steele, North Dakota (state record)

1936 - A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet into the River Irwell.

1938 - 6th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati

1939 - German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises

1941 - NY Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield

1942 - 10th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York

1942 - Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam

1942 - Von Hoth' IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj

1943 - 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed

1943 - US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched

1944 - 170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford Conn

1944 - French General De Gaulle arrives in Washington, DC

1944 - US General Patton lands in France

1945 - Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept UN Charter

1945 - Pres Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom

1945 - Wash Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games

1946 - "St Louis Woman" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 perfs

1946 - 53rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Louise Brough (62 64)

1946 - 60th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Yvon Petra beats G Brown (62 64 79 57 64)

1947 - The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.

1949 - Cin Red Walker Cooper gets 10 RBIs

1949 - Freak heat wave sent central coast of Portugal to 158°F for 2 minutes

1950 - German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland

1951 - 65th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Dick Savitt beats Ken McGregor (64 64 64)

1952 - Last tram ride in London

1954 - Elvis Presley records his 1st hit, "That's All Right"

1954 - KMOS TV channel 6 in Sedalia-Warrensburg, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting

1954 - Tunisian govt of M'zali, resigns

1956 - 70th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ken Rosewall (62 46 75 64)

1956 - 85th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 286 at Hoylake England

1956 - Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honor to outstanding pitcher

1956 - Indians' Jim Busby hits a grand slam in two consecutive at bats

1957 - 64th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard (63 62)

1957 - Beatle John Lennon 1st meets Paul McCartney

1957 - Harry S Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri

1958 - Adolfo Lopez Mateos elected pres of Mexico

1958 - Alaska becomes 49th state

1959 - 5th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls

1959 - Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic

1959 - WENH TV channel 11 in Durham, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting

1960 - Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC

1961 - Portuguese ship explode near Mozambique, kills 300

1962 - 76th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Martin Mulligan (62 62 61)

1962 - Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria

1962 - Mantle hits his 3rd & 4th consecutive homer

1962 - Nuclear test shot Sedan; part of Operation Plowshare.

1963 - 70th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Smith beats Billie J King (63 64)

1963 - 77th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: C McKinley beats Fred Stolle (97 61 64)

1963 - South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested

1964 - Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premieres in London

1964 - Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from UK

1965 - Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms

1966 - Malawi becomes a republic, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes pres

1967 - Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade

1968 - 75th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats J Tegart (97 75)

1968 - Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words"

1969 - Filming begins on "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger

1969 - Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao

1970 - California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law

1970 - Italian Rumor govt resigns

1971 - Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi

1971 - White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks

1974 - 88th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats K Rosewall (61 61 64)

1975 - Argentine government falls

1975 - Comoros declare independence from France (most of them)

1975 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes Sonate for alto opus 147

1975 - Susie McAllister wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic

1976 - Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station

1977 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1978 - Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut

1978 - The Taunton sleeping car fire occurred in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.

1979 - 86th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (64 64)

1979 - IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp

1980 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic

1980 - France performs nuclear test

1980 - Steve Carlton (14-4) pitches most strikeouts by a lefty (2,836)

1983 - 54th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-3 at Comiskey Park, Chicago

1983 - Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less

1983 - Fred Lynn of Angels hits All Star game 1st grand slam (AL wins 13-3)

1986 - 100th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (64 63 75)

1986 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship

1986 - Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a game

1986 - Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in Philippines

1986 - Premier Nakasones Liberal Democr Party wins Japan's election

1987 - 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India

1987 - Pakistan score their 1st innings win over England, at Leeds

1987 - USSR performs nuclear test

1988 - Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico

1988 - North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die

1988 - Wrestler Jake Roberts convicted of battery

1989 - Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star game

1989 - US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn

1990 - "Jetson's the Movie" with Tiffany, premieres

1990 - After pitching a no-hitter lose, NY Yankee Andy Hawkins pitches a complete 12 inn game & loses 2-0

1991 - 98th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats G Sabatini (64 36 86)

1992 - Fay Vincent realigns NL, putting Cubs, Cards & Rockies in West & Cards, Braves & Marlins in East

1993 - Graham Thorpe scores 114 on Test Cricket debut, England v Australia

1993 - John F Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan

1994 - Irina Privalova runs 100m European Record (10.77)

1994 - Lerou Burrell runs world record 100m (9.85)

1994 - Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL game (vs Ottawa)

1995 - Lottie Dod, 15, beats Blanch Bingley at Wimbledon

1996 - 103rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Graf beats Aranxta S Vicaro (63, 75)

1996 - Yankee John Weteland sets record of 20th cons saves en route to 24

1997 - "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," closes at Royale NYC after 109 perfs

1997 - 111th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats C Pioline (64 62 64)

1997 - Jamie Farr Kroger Classic

1997 - Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Classic

1997 - Montreal Expos retire Andre Dawson's uniform #10

1997 - Wimbledon Gigi Fernandez & Natasha Zvereva beat N Arendt & M Bollegraf

1998 - Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational.

1999 - U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams.

2003 - The 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to 5 stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri, HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris that will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, 2044 and 2049 respectively.

2006 - The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.