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Daily Calendar for Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Died

  • Ulysses S. Grant (18th U.S. president) –
  • Sir William Ramsay (chemist & Nobel prize winner) –
  • D. W. Griffith (film director) –
  • Montgomery Clift (actor) –
  • Edward V. Rickenbacker (WWI flying ace) –
  • William Pierce (white supremacist whose book, The Turner Diaries, is believed to have inspired Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh) –
  • Chaim Potok (author) –
  • Ron Miller (songwriter; hits include Touch Me in the Morning and For Once in My Life) –
  • Amy Winehouse (singer) –
  • Sally Ride (astronaut; first American woman in space) –

Born

  • Raymond Thornton Chandler (author) –
  • Don Drysdale (baseball player) –
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman (actor) –
  • Nomar Garciaparra (baseball player) –
  • Daniel Radcliffe (actor) –

Events

  • America’s first swimming school opened by Francis Lieber in Boston, MA–
  • The first practical typographer (typewriter) was patented by William Burt–
  • Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada into one government–
  • Copyright for β€œAmerica the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates registered–
  • Boeing 767 turned into glider after fuel ran out due to metric conversion error, Gimli, Manitoba–
  • Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign when she relinquished her crown–
  • Disney’s Tarzan became the first all-digital film–
  • George Lee β€œSparky” Anderson inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame–

Weather

  • In his weather diary, George Washington described a big storm that passed over his home in Mount Vernon, Virginia. Historians often refer to this storm as George Washington’s Hurricane.–
  • Sheridan, Wyoming, got drenched by 4.41 inches of rain, which washed away some railroad tracks–
  • Rain delayed Giants/Mets baseball game 3 hours 39 minutes–
  • A hailstone broke through a deck in Vivian, South Dakota, during a severe thunderstorm. The hailstone weighed 1 pound 15 ounces and measured 8 inches in diameter, 18.6 inches in circumference. It was the heaviest and largest hailstone in diameter ever recovered in the U.S.–
  • Several counties in Kansas reported baseball size hail–

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