22 • July 31 - Aug. 1, 2020 HISTORY bransonglobe.com Today in History: Movies, sports and more • 30 BC Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves minor victory over Octavian, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to Octavian’s invasion of Egypt • 1620 Pilgrim Fathers depart Leiden, Netherlands for England on their way to America • 1917 World War I: Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres) begins, goes on to cause approximately 500,000 casualties • 1961 Israel welcomes its one millionth immigrant • 2007 Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end. Movies & TV • 1912 US government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights (censorship) • 1955 KRNT (now KCCI) TV channel 8 in Des Moines, Iowa (CBS) 1st broadcast • Understand car insurance • Ad by Dairyland • 1955 WHIS (now WVVA) TV channel 6 in Bluefield, West Virginia (NBC) 1st broadcast • 1960 KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast • 1969 KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting • 1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends “Huntley-Brinkley Report” • 1974 6th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel • 1984 Leeza Gibbon’s 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight • 1986 19th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hotel San Diego • 1995 Walt Disney announces the acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC for $19 billion; network of properties now consists of Disney, ABC Sports, ESPN and ESPN2 • 2018 Actor Alan Alda reveals he has had Parkinson’s disease for 3 years, in interview with CBS”s “This Morning” Music • 1948 “Brigadoon” closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 581 performances Sports • 1910 8th Tour de France: Octave Lapize of France wins by just 4 points from Team Alcyon team mate François Faber of Luxembourg • 1928 Halina Konopacka of Poland hurls discus world record 39.62m to win first gold medal in women’s Olympic athletics at the Amsterdam Games; American Lillian Copeland and Ruth Sveberg of Sweden take minor medals • 1928 American sprinter Elizabeth Robinson equals her own world record 12.2s to win 100m gold medal in Amsterdam, first women’s Olympic track event; Canadians Fanny Rosenfeld & Ethel Smith dead-heat (12.3s) Birthdays • 1143 Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165) • 1396 Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, born in Dijon, Burgundy (d. 1467) • 1443 Albrecht III of Saxon-Meisen, duke of Saxon • 1527 Maximilian II, German King/Emperor (1564-76) • 1835 Paul du Chaillu, French EXP. 7/31/20
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