July 1909 calendar

Events

• 12 Jul 1909 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes).
• 15 Jul 1909 Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park HRs
• 16 Jul 1909 Detroit and Washington play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings
• 19 Jul 1909 Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play
• 24 Jul 1909 Brooklyn Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates
• 25 Jul 1909 August 2 ampndash quotTragic Weekquot: The city of Barcelona experiences a workers' uprising.
• 27 Jul 1909 Orville Wright tests first US Army airplane, flying 1h12m.
• 30 Jul 1909 Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army

Famous Birthday

• Algeria independence
• Stavros Niarchos

  Greek entrepreneur who was an international shipping magnate, as well as an art collector.

• Jean Hamburger

  French doctor of nephrology and President of the Academy of Science.

• Paul Ricard

  French inventor of the famous Ricard pasties and anisette in 1932.

• Mireille Balin
• Léon Jozeau-Marigné
• Phil Andros

  American writer, a gay pornographer, a tattoo artist and a literate and good looking hustler.

• Vivian Vance

  Actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies of cancer at 67.

• Albert Prouvost
• C Northcote Parkinson

  British historian and writer (Born 1909).

• Andrei Gromyko

  Belarusian-Russian economist and politician Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1989).

• Irene Hervey
• Anton Giulio Majano
• Chester Himes

  American-Spanish author (d. 1984).

• Madge Evans

  Manhattan NYC, New York -- TV panelist (Masquerade Party).

• Jean Bruno

  French librarian at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris from 1936.

• Gianandrea Gavazzeni

  Italian conductor, composer and artistic director of the Milano Scala, 1966-'68 as well as permanent guest conductor.

• Juan Carlos Onetti

  Uruguayan writer (La vida breve), dies at 85.

• James Cormack
• Pierre Guiral

  French educator, a secondary school teacher then university professor, 1947-'55.

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Famous Deaths

• Emil Bohn

  Composer, dies at 70.

• D v Liliencron

  Writer, dies at 65.

• Ernest F Cambier

  Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65.

• Zygmunt Noskowski

  Composer, dies at 63.

• Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet

  French Minister of War (1899-1900), dies at 79.

• Kasimir Felix Badeni

  Premier of Polish / Austria (1895-97), dies at 62.

• Simon Newcomb

  Canadian astronomer who, on September 15, 1877, became director of the Nautical Almanac Office in Washington, D.C.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Blanche Ring - Yip-I-Addy-I-Aye
2. Ada Jones - Beautiful Eyes
3. Arthur Pryor's Band - 1812 Overture
4. Cal Stewart & Len Spencer - Uncle Josh's Trip to Coney Island
5. Ada Jones & Billy Murray - Isn't Love a Grand Old Thing?