Today in History for 28th July 2017:
Historical Events
1609 – Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda
1964 – Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures
1983 – NASA launches Telstar-3A
1985 – 13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
1991 – 29th Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Nottingham England (2-1)
1991 – Juli Inkster wins LPGA Bay State Golf Classic
Famous Birthdays
1902 – Karl Popper, Austro-British philosopher (Logic of Forschung), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1994)
1923 – Michio Watanabe, politician
1925 – Kenneth M Stewart, euro MP for Merseyside West
1971 – Stephen Lynch, American musician
1985 – Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
1988 – Ayla Brown, American singer
Famous Deaths
1794 – Maximilien Robespierre, Fr revolutionary/avocat (1781), guillotined
1818 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
1984 – Bess Flowers, actress (View from Pompey’s Head), dies at 85
1987 – James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism), dies at 81
1996 – Roger Tory Peterson, ornithologist/artist, dies at 87
2013 – William Scranton, American politician, dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 96