Highlights in history
• In 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died of throat cancer in Mount Mcgregor, New York, at age 63.
• In 1914, Austria-hungary presented a list of demands to Serbia after the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; Serbia’s refusal to agree to the entire ultimatum led to the outbreak of World War I.
• In 1967, five days of deadly rioting erupted in Detroit as an early morning police raid on an unlicensed bar resulted in a confrontation with local residents that escalated into violence that spread into other parts of the city; 43 people, mostly Blacks, were killed.
• In 1982, actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Shin-yi Chen, were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for “Twilight Zone: The Movie.”
• In 1983, an Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel while flying from Montreal to Edmonton; the pilots were able to glide the jetliner to a safe emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba. (The neardisaster occurred because the fuel had been erroneously measured in pounds instead of kilograms at a time when Canada was converting to the metric system.)
• In 1999, Eileen Collins became the first woman to command a U.S. space flight when she blasted off aboard the space shuttle Columbia.
• In 2003, Massachusetts’ attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably had sexually abused more than 1,000 people over a period of six decades.
• In 2006, Tiger Woods became the first golfer since Tom Watson in 1982 and ’83 to win consecutive British Open titles.
• In 2011, singer Amy Winehouse, 27, was found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning.
Birthdays
• Concert pianist Leon Fleisher is 92 • Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is 84
• Actor Ronny Cox is 82
• Rock singer David Essex (“Rock On”) is 73
• Actor Woody Harrelson is 59
• Actor Eriq Lasalle is 58
• Rock guitarist Slash is 55
• Model/actress Stephanie Seymour is 52
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Marlon Wayans is 48
• Actress Kathryn Hahn is 47 • Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky is 47
• R&B singer Michelle Williams is 40 • Actor Daniel Radcliffe is 31 Source: Associated Press
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