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Updated July 22, 2012, 2:28 pm
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.
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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. 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.) 2000 Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to complete a career Grand Slam when he won the British Open at age 24. 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 six decades. 2009 Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox pitched the 18th perfect game in major league history, a 5-0 win over Tampa Bay. Current Birthdays
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Actor Daniel Radcliffe (“Harry Potter” movies) turns 23 years old today.
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Country singer-musician Alison Krauss turns 41 years old today.
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1925 Gloria DeHaven, Actress, turns 87 1936 Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court justice, turns 76 1940 Don Imus, Radio personality, turns 72 1948 John Hall, Singer (Orleans), former U.S. congressman, turns 64 1961 Woody Harrelson, Actor, turns 51 1962 Eriq La Salle, Actor (“ER”), turns 50 1965 Slash, Rock musician (Guns ‘n’ Roses), turns 47 1967 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor (“Capote”), turns 45 1968 Stephanie Seymour, Model, turns 44 1970 Charisma Carpenter, Actress (“Angel,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), turns 42 1970 Sam Watters, R&B singer, turns 42 1972 Marlon Wayans, Actor, comedian, turns 40 1973 Nomar Garciaparra, Baseball player, turns 39 1974 Stephanie March, Actress, turns 38 1980 Michelle Williams, R&B singer (Destiny’s Child), turns 32
Historic Birthdays
Haile Selassie I 7/23/1892 – 8/26/1975 Ethiopian emperor from 1930 to 1974.Go to obituary »
64 Francesco Sforza 7/23/1401 – 3/8/1466
Italian condottiere and duke of Milan86 Sir Thomas Brisbane 7/23/1773 – 1/27/1860
English soldier and astronomical observer84 Sir Jonathan Hutchinson 7/23/1828 – 6/26/1913
English medical researcher92 S. H. Kress 7/23/1863 – 9/22/1955
American retail businessman and art collector91 Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons 7/23/1874 – 3/11/1966
American racehorse trainer65 Emil Jannings 7/23/1884 – 1/2/1950
Swiss-born German stage and screen actor62 Sir Arthur Whitten Brown 7/23/1886 – 10/4/1948
English aviator; co-captained the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic70 Raymond Chandler 7/23/1888 – 3/26/1959
American author of detective stories66 Harry Cohn 7/23/1891 – 2/27/1958
American co-founder of Columbia Pictures57 Elio Vittorini 7/23/1908 – 2/13/1966
Italian novelist, translator and literary critic79 Pimen 7/23/1910 – 5/3/1990
Russian Orthodox patriarch of Moscow and Russia
Updated July 22, 2012, 2:28 pm
On July 22, 1934, a man identified as bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents in Chicago.
On July 22, 1849, Emma Lazarus, the American poet best known for her words inscribed at the Statue of Liberty, was born. Following her death on November 19, 1887, her obituary appeared in The Times.
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1587 A second English colony, also fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances, was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. 1796 The city of Cleveland was founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland. 1933 American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 1/2 hours. 1937 The Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court. 1943 American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily. 1981 Turkish extremist Mehmet Ali Agca was sentenced in Rome to life in prison for shooting Pope John Paul II. (He served 19 years.) 1991 Police in Milwaukee arrested serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 men and boys. 1994 O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent to the slaying of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. 1995 Susan Smith was convicted by a jury in Union, S.C., of first-degree murder for drowning her two sons. (She is serving life in prison.) 1998 Iran tested a medium-range missile capable of reaching Israel or Saudi Arabia. 2003 Saddam Hussein’s sons Odai and Qusai were killed when U.S. forces stormed a villa in Mosul, Iraq. 2004 The Sept. 11 commission issued a report saying America’s leaders failed to grasp the gravity of terrorist threats before the 9/11 attacks. 2006 Israeli tanks, bulldozers and armored personnel carriers knocked down a fence and barreled over the Lebanese border as forces seized the village of Maroun al-Ras from Hezbollah. Current Birthdays
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Actor Danny Glover turns 66 years old today.
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Actor Willem Dafoe turns 57 years old today.
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1923 Bob Dole, Former Senate majority leader, presidential candidate, turns 89 1928 Orson Bean, Actor, turns 84 1932 Oscar de la Renta, Fashion designer, turns 80 1934 Louise Fletcher, Actress (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”), turns 78 1938 Terence Stamp, Actor, turns 74 1940 Alex Trebek, Game show host (“Jeopardy”), turns 72 1941 George Clinton, Funk singer, turns 71 1943 Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. senator, R-Texas, turns 69 1943 Bobby Sherman, Actor, singer, turns 69 1947 Albert Brooks, Actor, director, turns 65 1947 Don Henley, Rock singer (The Eagles), turns 65 1954 Al Di Meola, Jazz guitarist, turns 58 1963 Rob Estes, Actor, turns 49 1963 Emily Saliers, Folk musician, singer (Indigo Girls), turns 49 1964 John Leguizamo, Actor, turns 48 1964 David Spade, Actor, comedian (“Saturday Night Live”), turns 48 1973 Rufus Wainwright, Rock singer, turns 39 1974 Franka Potente, Actress, turns 38 1978 A.J. Cook, Actress, turns 34 1992 Selena Gomez, Actress, turns 20
Historic Birthdays
Emma Lazarus 7/22/1849 – 11/19/1887 American poet and essayist.Go to obituary »
67 Jacques-Germain Soufflot 7/22/1713 – 8/29/1780
French architect61 Gregor Mendel 7/22/1822 – 1/6/1884
Austrian botanist72 Thomas Pendergast 7/22/1872 – 1/26/1945
American politician84 Edward Hopper 7/22/1882 – 5/15/1967
American painter88 Gustav Hertz 7/22/1887 – 10/30/1975
German Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1925)64 Ely Culbertson 7/22/1891 – 12/27/1955
American Contract Bridge expert and peace activist72 Oskar Maria Graf 7/22/1894 – 6/28/1967
German novelist and poet78 Alexander Calder 7/22/1898 – 11/11/1976
American sculptor44 Stephen Vincent Benet 7/22/1898 – 3/13/1943
American poet, novelist and short story writer73 Charles Weidman 7/22/1901 – 7/15/1975
American dancer and choreographer66 Amy Vanderbilt 7/22/1908 – 12/27/1974
American journalist and authority on etiquette
‘When I was just as far as I could walk
From here to-day,
There was an hour
All still
When leaning with my head against a flower
I heard you talk.
Don’t say I didn’t, for I heard you say–
You spoke from that flower on the window sill-
Do you remember what it was you said?’
‘First tell me what it was you thought you heard.’
‘Having found the flower and driven a bee away,
I leaned my head
And holding by the stalk,
I listened and I thought I caught the word–
What was it? Did you call me by my name?
Or did you say–
Someone said “Come” — I heard it as I bowed.’
‘I may have thought as much, but not aloud.’
“Well, so I came.’
The Ann Arbor Art Fair is held from Wednesday, July 18 through Saturday July 21, 2012. Each year, more than a half a million people converge on the streets of Ann Arbor to enjoy the works of more than a thousand artists.
Each artist has been selected by an independent jury, consisting of professional artists, professors and gallery owners. As tradition has it, the Art Fair will feature a wide variety of art media, including 2D and 3D-mixed media, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, ceramics, fiber, glass, jewelry and works in metal, stone and wood.
Guests will also be treated to a number of live performances, children’s activities, artist demonstrations and sidewalk sales from Ann Arbor businesses. One of Michigan’s greatest traditions returns this summer with one of the most renowned art fairs in the nation – The Ann Arbor Art Fair, throughout Downtown Ann Arbor and Around The Central Campus of The University of Michigan.
For more than 50 years, artists from all over the world have returned to the streets of Ann Arbor, exhibiting their creative talents to more than 500,000 people each year. The Ann Arbor Art Fair is composed of four independently juried art fairs taking place simultaneously and contiguously throughout Ann Arbor. This includes Ann Arbor’s South University Art Fair; Street Art Fair, the Original; State Street Area Art Fair; and, Summer Art Fair, and the State Street Area Art Fair. The event is an art lovers destination of original works of art, street performances, culinary treats and a variety of shops featuring sidewalk sales.
Updated July 20, 2012, 2:28 pm
On July 21, 1925, the ”monkey trial” ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.)
On July 21, 1899, Ernest Hemingway, the American novelist and short story writer, was born. Following his death on July 2, 1961, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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1831 Belgium became independent as Leopold I was proclaimed King of the Belgians. 1861 The first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Va., during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory. 1899 Author Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Ill. 1944 The Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominated Sen. Harry S. Truman to be vice president. 1949 The U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty. 1954 France surrendered North Vietnam to the Communists. 1961 Capt. Virgil “Gus” Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth, flying on the Liberty Bell 7. 1969 Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module. 1988 Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Atlanta. 1998 Astronaut Alan Shepard died at age 74. 2002 Telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection after disclosing it had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive accounting. 2007 “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the final volume in the book series by J.K. Rowling, went on sale. 2008 Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s top war crimes fugitives, was arrested in a Belgrade suburb by Serbian security forces. 2010 President Barack Obama signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of U.S. lending and high finance rules since the 1930s. 2011 The space shuttle program came to an end after 30 years as Atlantis landed at Cape Canaveral, Fla.. Current Birthdays
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U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., turns 71 years old today.
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New York Yankees pitcher C.C. Sabathia turns 32 years old today.
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1922 Kay Starr, Singer, turns 90 1926 Norman Jewison, Director (“Moonstruck”), turns 86 1938 Janet Reno, Former attorney general, turns 74 1939 John Negroponte, Former national intelligence director, turns 73 1943 Edward Herrmann, Actor, turns 69 1948 Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens), Singer, songwriter, turns 64 1948 Garry Trudeau, Cartoonist (“Doonesbury”), turns 64 1951 Robin Williams, Actor, comedian, turns 61 1953 Eric Bazilian, Rock musician (The Hooters), turns 59 1955 Dan Malloy, Governor of Connecticut, turns 57 1957 Jon Lovitz, Actor, comedian (“Saturday Night Live”), turns 55 1968 Brandi Chastain, Soccer player, turns 44 1978 Sprague Grayden, Actress, turns 34 1978 Josh Hartnett, Actor, turns 34 1981 Blake Lewis, Singer (“American Idol”), turns 31 1983 Kellen Winslow, Football player, turns 29 1985 Vanessa Lengies, Actress (“American Dreams”), turns 27
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Ernest Hemingway 7/21/1899 – 7/2/1961 American Nobel Prize-winning (1954) novelist and short story writer.Go to obituary »
79 Saint Philip Neri 7/21/1515 – 5/26/1595
Italian priest and mystic87 John Weaver 7/21/1673 – 9/24/1760
English dancer73 Georg Brandt 7/21/1694 – 4/29/1768
Swedish chemist82 Paul Julius Reuter 7/21/1816 – 2/25/1899
German-born English founder of Reuters news agency80 Sir John Gilbert 7/21/1817 – 10/5/1897
English painter and illustrator57 Louise Blanchard Bethune 7/21/1856 – 12/18/1913
American architect66 Lovis Corinth 7/21/1858 – 7/12/1925
Russian-born German Impressionist painter59 Jacques Feyder 7/21/1888 – 5/25/1948
French film director32 Hart Crane 7/21/1899 – 4/27/1932
American poet69 Marshall McLuhan 7/21/1911 – 12/31/1980
Canadian communications theorist and educator
