bransonglobe.com HISTORY July 12 - 14, 2020 • 23 Today in History: Movies, music and more • 1191 English King Richard I the Lionheart and Crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine • 1690 Battle of Boyne: in Ireland, Protestant King William III defeats English Catholic King James II • 1790 French Revolution: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is adopted, putting the Catholic Church in France under the control of the state • 1804 Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a pistol duel by Vice President Aaron Burr • 1843 Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy • 1861 Wild Bill Hickok reputed to have shot and killed David McCanles, possibly his first kill. Hickok later acquitted after found he acted in self defense. • 1863 In New Zealand, British forces invade Waikato, home of the Maori King Movement, beginning a new phase of the wars between Maori and Colonial British • 1913 150,000 Ulstermen gather and resolve to resist Irish Home Rule by force of arms; since the British Liberals have promised the Irish nationalists Home Rule, civil war appears imminent • 1940 Frederick McKinley Jones receives a patent for an air conditioning unit for trucks, helping to change long-haul carriage of food and blood • 1943 World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka - Russians defeat German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles • 1951 Mob tries to keep black family from moving into allwhite Cicero, Illinois • 1954 President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system • 1957 US Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer • 1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic ocean on the raft Ra II, arrives in Barbados from Morocco after 57 days • 1972 Democrats nominated George McGovern for US president in Miami, Florida • 1982 FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail • 1990 Boris Yeltsin quits the Soviet Communist Party • 1993 Don Imus begins broadcasting to Boston on WEEI (590 AM) • 1998 South African President Nelson Mandela accompanies Queen Elizabeth II on a coach drive through the streets of London • 2013 Malala Yousafzai addresses the United Nations and calls for worldwide access to education • 2016 Bernie Sanders endorses fellow Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a speech in New Hampshire Movies & TV • 1976 1st “Family Feud” game show debuts on ABC hosted by Richard Dawson • 2018 “Misson: Impossible - Fallout”, directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg and Rebecca Ferguson, premieres in Paris Music • 1962 Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London) • 1993 Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Sunset Promenade” opens in London • 1990 “Les Miserables,” opens at National Theatre, Washington • 1995 Enrique Iglesias releases his first album, “Enrique Iglesias” Sports • 1901 Cy Young wins his 300th game • 1921 Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs • 1954 Major League Baseball Players Association founded • 1959 NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during Yankee-Red Sox game • 1979 “Disco Demolition Night” at Comiskey Park: fans go wild destroying disco records and cause the White Sox to forfeit second game of a doubleheader to the Detroit Tigers • 1996 Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million • 1997 Cubs play in their 5,000th consecutive game without being no-hit Birthdays • 1817 Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist and pacifist (Walden Pond), born in Concord, Massachusetts (d. 1862) • 1854 George Eastman, American inventor (Kodak camera, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company), born in Waterville, New York (d. 1932) • 1864 George Washington Carver, African-American agricultural scientist (studied the peanut), born in Diamond Grove, Missouri [or Jan 10] (d. 1934) • 1884 Louis B. Mayer, American film producer and creator of the star system (MGM), born in Minsk, Russian Empire (d. 1957) • 1895 Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers (Sound of Music), born in NYC, New York (d. 1960) • 1908 Milton Berle, Harlem • comedian (Uncle Miltie, Mr Television), born New York (d. 2002) 1943 Christine McVie, English rock vocalist (Fleetwood MacGot A Hold on Me), born in Bouth, England • 1951 Cheryl Ladd, American actress (Charlie’s Angels, Purple Hearts), born in Huron, South Dakota • 1978 Topher Grace, American actor • 1997 Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize recipient, born in Mingora, North-West Frontier Province in NYC,
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