bransonglobe.com HISTORY maneuver in a Chinese restaurant • 1983 US threatens action to preserve navigation in Persian Gulf • 1990 US President George H. W. Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act • 1993 Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km • 2005 Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission - Launch of Discovery, NASA’s first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003 • 2017 US President Donald Trump announces policy to ban transgender people from the military, overturning Obama era changes • 2017 Great Britain announces it will ban gasoline and diesel cars by 2040 • 2018 Facebook has the single worst day of any public company on the stock market - losing 19% or $119 billion market value Movies & TV • • 1896 Vitascope Hall, 1st permanent for-profit movie theatre, opens in New Orleans 1990 General Hospital records its 7,000th episode • Music • 1882 Richard Wagner’s opera “Parsifal” premieres in Bayreuth, Germany • 2018 Sir Paul McCartney performs a secret gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles began Sports • 1933 Joe DiMaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League • 1948 “Babe Ruth Story” premieres, Babe Ruth’s last public appearance • 1969 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific • 1970 Cincinnati Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive HRs • • off Philadelphia Phillies Steve Carlton 1984 Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,502nd single • 1988 Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies & NY Mets end that game at 2:13 AM Birthdays • 1856 George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist (Pygmalion, Nobel Prize for Literature 1925), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1950) • 1875 Carl Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist (founded analytic psychology), born in Kesswil, Switzerland (d. 1961) • 1894 Aldous Huxley, English author (Brave New World, Island), born in Godalming, Surrey (d. 1963) 1895 Gracie Allen, American comedian and actress (Burns & Allen), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1964) • 1909 Vivian Vance, American actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), born in Cherryvale, Kansas (d. 1979) • 1922 Jason Robards, American actor (A Thousand Clowns, Any Wednesday), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2000) 1928 Stanley Kubrick, American director (2001 A Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove, Lolita), born in The Bronx NY (d. 1999) • 1943 Mick Jagger, English rock vocalist (Rolling Stones), born in Dartford, Kent • 1945 Helen Mirren [Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironoff], English actress (The Queen, The Madness of King George), born in London, England • 1956 Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater (Olympic gold 1976), born in Chicago, Illinois • 1959 Kevin Spacey, American actor (American Beauty, House of Cards), born in South Orange, New Jersey • 1964 Sandra Bullock, American actress (Speed, The Blind Side), born in Washington, D.C. Deaths • 1863 Sam Houston, 1st President of Republic state, dies at 70 • 1925 William Jennings Bryan, American orator and statesman known as “The Great Commoner”, dies at 65 of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) who helped bring Texas into the United States as a constituent • 1952 Eva Perón [Evita], Argentine First Lady (1946-52) actress, suffragette, unionist and humanitarian who was inspiration for A.L. Webber’s July 26 - 28, 2020 • 23 musical “Evita”, dies of cancer at 33 • 1984 George Gallup, American survey sampling pioneer and inventor of the Gallup poll, dies of a heart attack at 82 • 2015 Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, dies in a coma at 22
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