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2012 – At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia. 2013 – A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people. 2016 – Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is ...
1887 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (d. 1985) 1906 – William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d.1970) 1907 – Robert A. Heinlein (pictured), American science fiction writer (d. 1988) 1915 – Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985) 1940 – Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), English rock drummer and singer (The Beatles)
July 7. Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. 1456 – Joan of Arc was declared innocent of heresy in a retrial twenty-five years after her death. 1798 – Outraged by the XYZ Affair, the United States rescinded its treaties with France, resulting in the undeclared Quasi-War, fought entirely at sea.
July 2. James A. Garfield. 626 – Li Shimin led his forces to assassinate his rival brothers in a coup for the imperial throne of Tang China. 1644 – First English Civil War: The combined forces of Scottish Covenanters and English Parliamentarians defeated Royalist troops at the Battle of Marston Moor.
3. Malia Obama (1998), daughter of former U.S. President Barack Obama. Seems fitting for the daughter of a former president to be born on the most patriotic of U.S. holidays, the 4th of July!
The original Famous Birthdays website was created by Edward Morykwas, a Michigan schoolteacher, in 1996. [4] [5] [6]The site was updated to its current format in November 7, 2012, by Evan Britton, [7] who has since described the website as "Wikipedia for Generation Z".
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2001 - AbioCor self contained artificial heart created. July 3: 1672 - Death of Francis Willughby, English biologist (b. 1635) 1749 - Death of William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675) 1790 - Death of Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (b. 1736) 1844 - The last pair of Great Auks is killed.