Today in History for 1st August 2017:
Historical Events
1934 – 2nd Venice Film Festival opens
1958 – US atomic submarine USS Nautilus begins 1st transit of North Pole “operation Sunshine”
1964 – ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation
1982 – Beth Daniel wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1994 – 99.9°F (37.7°C) in Berlin-Dahlem: record
2012 – Typhoon Saola kills 82 people and displaces over 150,000 in the Philippines, Taiwan and China
Famous Birthdays
1313 – Emperor Kogon of Japan (Ashikaga Pretenders)
1630 – Thomas Clifford, Ugbrooke, English statesman (1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh)
1837 – Mother Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
1926 – Karl Kohn, American composer, born in Vienna, Austria
1933 – Ko Un, South Korean poet, born in Gunsan, North Jeolla Province
1971 – Lisa Flood, Scarborough Ontario, 100m Breaststroker (Olympics-96)
Famous Deaths
1965 – Kiyoshi Nobutoki, composer, dies at 77
1988 – John Cardinal Dearden, US cardinal, dies at 80
1993 – Ewing Kaufman, founder/owner (KC Royals), dies of lung cancer at 76
1993 – Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, Dut author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72
1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
2009 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (1986-92), dies of colon cancer at 76