Today in History for 14th July 2017:
Historical Events
1942 – 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork
1956 – Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1970 – All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox)
1985 – 40th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker
1987 – 58th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland-Alameda Stad
2015 – Scientists from the Large Hadron Collider announce the discovery of a new particle called the pentaquark
Famous Birthdays
1891 – Henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), born in London, England
1913 – Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP)
1916 – Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author (Family dictionary)
1952 – Stan Shaw, actor (Mississippi, Roots Next Generation), born in Chicago, Illinois
1964 – Barbara Chiu, Canada table tennis player (Oly-33-92, 96), born in Guangzhou, China
1971 – Mark LoMonaco, American professional wrestler
Famous Deaths
1742 – Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
1762 – Cornelis Hop, Amsterdams regent/diplomat, dies at 77
1816 – Francisco de Miranda, Venezuela freedom fighter, dies at 66
1881 – Billy the Kid, [William H Bonney], American frontier outlaw, dies of gunshot wounds at 21
1939 – Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter, decorative artist (b. 1860)
1996 – Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist, dies at 91