July 1951 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1951 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
• 02 Jul 1951 Bill Veeck buys St. Louis Browns from Bill and Charlie DeWitt
• 03 Jul 1951 33rd PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Oakmont Country Club - Oakmont, Pennsylvania
• 05 Jul 1951 Dr William Shockley invents junction transistor
• 06 Jul 1951 65th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Dick Savitt beats Ken McGregor
• 07 Jul 1951 58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry
• 08 Jul 1951 Yankee Joe DiMaggio and mgr Casey Stengel feud
• 09 Jul 1951 US President Harry Truman asks US Congress to formally end state of war with Germany.
• 10 Jul 1951 18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
• 12 Jul 1951 Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero, Illinois
• 14 Jul 1951 Make a Wish closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 102 performances
• 16 Jul 1951 1st Dutchman to win Tour de France
• 17 Jul 1951 King Leopold II of Belgium gives up throne to son Boudouin I
• 18 Jul 1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution.
• 19 Jul 1951 2 in the Aisle opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 performances
• 20 Jul 1951 King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
• 21 Jul 1951 Dalai Lama returns to Tibet
• 22 Jul 1951 Gen Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal
• 26 Jul 1951 Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
• 28 Jul 1951 Kiss Me, Kate closes at New Century Theater NYC after 1077 performances
• 30 Jul 1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
• 31 Jul 1951 Japan Airlines is established.

Famous Birthday

• Robin Williams

  American actor who, after improv at L.A.

• Evelyne Leclercq
• Lynda Carter

  TV Actress.

• Brian Grazer

  American screenwriter and producer founded Imagine Entertainment.

• Anjelica Huston

  American third generation actress, granddaughter of actor Walter Huston, daughter of writer-director John Huston.

• Chris Cooper

  Kansas City, Missouri -- Actor (Thousand Pieces of Gold, Matewan).

• Jesse Ventura

  American politician, formerly a professional wrestler.

• Geoffrey Rush

  Australian actor.

• Elio di Rupo
• Cheryl Ladd

  TV Actress.

• Claude Bartolone

  French politician who has served as President of the National Assembly of France since June 2012.

• Philippe de Dieuleveult
• Evonne Goolagong

  Australian tennis champ with instant international celebrity on 7/02/1971 when she won the Women's single title at Wimbledon the first time...

• Jean-Claude Duvalier

  Ex-President of Haiti, son of François Duvalier "Papa Doc", he succeeded him after his death in 1971 and ruled Haiti until 1986.

• Lucie Arnaz

  American actress and member of a noted family, the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

• Marie-Noëlle Lienemann

  French politician, a Member of the European Parliament for the North West of France.

• Anne-Marie Idrac

  French politician, who served as a member of the Nouveau Centre political party, and was French Minister of State for foreign trade.

• Arlette Chabot

  French journalist and political commentator.

• Abel Ferrara

  American director producer and screenwriter.

• Sidney Toledano

  French business executive, the current CEO of Christian Dior Couture.

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Famous Deaths

• Earnest F Sauerbruch

  German Nazi / surgeon, dies at 75.

• Josef Huttel

  Composer, dies at 57.

• Jorgen Bentzon

  Composer, dies at 54.

• Max Ettinger

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Mustafa Shuqri Ashu

  Tailor / murderer of King Abdullah, shot to death.

• Robert Joseph Flaherty

  Documentary film maker.

• J of Oudshoorn [John K Feylbrief]

  Writer (Maze of Sentences).

• Henri Philippe Petain

  French leader of Vichy France (Born 1856).

• Robert J Flaherty

  American filmmaker (Born 1884).

• Arnold Schoenberg

  Austrian self-taught musician who composed for the violin at an early age.

• Harry Heilmann

  baseball hall of famer outfielder (Detroit Tigers), dies at age 56.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Andrews Sisters - I'm In Love Again
2. Doris Day - Shanghai
3. Dinah Shore - Sweet Violets
4. Rosemary Clooney - Come On-A My House
5. Les Baxter & His Orchestra - Because of You