Saturday, July 23, 2005

Saturday, July 23

This Day In History

  • 1715   The first lighthouse in America was authorized for construction at Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts.
  • 1827   The first swimming school in the U.S. opened in Boston, MA.
  • 1829   William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Mich., received a patent for his typographer, a forerunner of the typewriter.
  • 1885   Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63.
  • 1904   By some accounts, the ice cream cone was invented by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.
  • 1938   The first federal game preserve, some 2,000 acres of land located in Utah, was approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
  • 1945   French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason.
  • 1952   Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew King Farouk I.
  • 1967   Rioting that claimed some 43 lives erupted in Detroit.
  • 1984   Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, because of nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine.
  • 1986   Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. The couple divorced in 1996.
  • 1997   Police found the body of Andrew Cunanan, the suspected killer of designer Gianni Versace and others, on a houseboat in Miami Beach, Fla., an apparent suicide.
  • 2000   Tiger Woods, at age 24, became the youngest golfer to win the career Grand Slam with a record-breaking performance in the British Open.
  • 2001   Pope John Paul II urged President George W. Bush in their first meeting, held at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, to bar creation of human embryos for medical research.
  • 2001   Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Eudora Welty died in Jackson, Miss., at age 92.
  • 2003   Massachusetts' attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably sexually abused more than 1,000 people over a period of six decades.
Happy Birthday To
  • 1918   Pee Wee (Harold) Reese (Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop)
  • 1936   Don (Donald Scott) Drysdale (Baseball Hall of Famer)
  • 1940   (John Donald) Don Imus (radio DJ & talk-show host: syndicated program)

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