Today in History for 5th July 2013

[This Day In History]

Historical Events


1626 - Battle at Lenz: Rebel Austrian Boers defeated
1902 - Australia won the one and only Test Cricket played at Sheffield
1958 - 65th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Mortimer (86 62)
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 - 9th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Jan Stephenson
1992 - 106th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Agassi beats Ivanisevic (67 64 64 16 64)
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Famous Birthdays


1793 - Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer
1904 - Ernst Mayr, American biologist (d. 2005)
1936 - Shirley Knight, Goessei Kansas, actress (Endless Love, Secrets)
1951 - Keiko Fuji, Japanese enka singer
1970 - Maureen Lee, Melbourne Australia, golfer
1976 - Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
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Famous Deaths


1666 - Albert VI of Bavaria (b. 1584)
1894 - Betty Paoli, writer, dies
1904 - Abai Kunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet (b. 1845)
1935 - Daniel Plooy, Dutch new testament expert, dies at 58
1996 - Clyde Wiegand, physicist, dies at 81
2002 - Ted Williams, baseball hall of famer and last player to bat over.400 in a single season (Boston Red Sox) dies at 84
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