Born On This Day:

• Inigo Jones, 1573
• Rembrandt, 1606
• Frances X. Cabrini, 1850
• Marie Tempest, 1864
• Iris Murdoch, 1919
• Julian Bream, 1933
• Ken Kercheval, 1935
• Alex Karras, 1935
• Jan-Michael Vincent, 1944
• Sultan of Brunei, 1946
• Linda Ronstadt, 1946
• Jesse Ventura, 1951
• Jean-Bertrand Aristide, 1953
• Forest Whitaker, 1961

Died On This Day:

• King Rudolph I Germany, 1291
• Duke of Monmouth executed, 1685
• Billy the Kid (Henry Bonney) shot, 1881
• General Tom Thumb, 1883
• Anton Chekhov, 1904
• General John Pershing, 1948
• Paul Gallico, 1976
• Eddie Foy Jr., 1983
• Margaret Lockwood, 1990
• Bert Convey, 1991
• Gianni Versace shot, 1997
• Celeste Holm, 2012
• Martin Landau, 2017

Today's Events:

• 1099 - Jerusalem captured by the Crusaders after 5 week siege; thousands of Muslims & Jews massacred.
• 1783 - Paddle wheel steamboat first exhibited in France.
• 1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike begins expedition to explore American Southwest. Nov. 15 finds peak in CO.
• 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders to the captain of the HMS Bellerophon.
• 1834 - Inquisition ends in Spain after 600 years of state-sanctioned death for heresy.
• 1857 - 180 women and children murdered by mutinous Indians at Bibigarh following the Siege of Cawnpore.
• 1870 - Franco-Prussian war begins.
• 1904 - America's first Buddhist temple established in Los Angeles.
• 1916 - Boeing Company founded to manufacturing flying machines.
• 1933 - First solo round the world flight takes off piloted by Wiley Post.
• 1953 - Musical comedy film 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell opens.
• 1954 - Maiden flight of Boeing 707 in Seattle; cruises at 600 mph; can carry 219 passengers.
• 1965 - First close-up photos of another planet, Mars, received on earth from Mariner IV.
• 1968 - First landing of Aeroflot airliner at Kennedy Airport, New York inaugurates U.S. to U.S.S.R. flights.
• 1974 - Macarios government in Cyprus temporarily overthrown.
• 1982 - 4,150 followers of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon are married in mass ceremony at Madison Square Garden.
• 1996 - Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorce final; she receives £17 million and Kensington Palace apts.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Edith of Tamworth
• James of Nisibus
• Vladimir (died 1015 AD)
• Edith of Polesworth
• Swithin
• Henry II

Holiday:

• St. Swithin's Day celebrated

Non-Specific Holiday:

• JAGANNATH, RATHA YATRA, Hindu Festival of Car Procession of Vishnu
• CHI HSI, Festival of the Milky Way in China (seventh day of the seventh moon)
• CHUNG YÜAN, Festival of the Dead in China (fifteenth day of the seventh moon)
• NAGA PANCHAMI, Hindu Festival of the Serpent God
• RAKHI, Hindu Festival to Pledge Protection
• CHUNG-CH'IU, Mid-autumn festival, Harvest or Moon Festival (fifteenth day of the eighth moon)
• TISH'AH B'AB (Jewish) Anniversary of fall of Jerusalem and destruction of first & 2nd temples Ab 9
• NEBUTA, Japanese Festival at peak of summer to drive off lethargy
• SOMA NOMAOI, Japanese Festival of samurai equestrian displays