On this day in...
1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
1914 – Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia rejects those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
1967 – 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city (43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned).
1984 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
Births
1892 – Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1975)
1940 – Don Imus, American talk radio host
1961 – Woody Harrelson, American actor
1965 – Slash, American guitarist (Guns N' Roses)
1973 – Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern
1974 – Terry Glenn, American football player
Not a real strong news day. I was happy to find the Vanessa Williams nugget. Vanessa, of course was married to my #1 man crush Rick Fox for a number of years. On the birthday front its a good day for entertainers. I was suprised to see that Woody is older than Slash.
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