Un dia como hoy...

1900 vuela por primera vez un Zeppelin (el LZ-1).
1930 nace Carlos Saúl Menem.
1976 las dos Vietnam se unen en la República Socialista de Vietnam.
1989 muere Andrey Andreyevich Gromyko
1566 Muere el matemático y astrólogo Nostradamus.
1724 Nace el poeta Friedrich Gotthiebb Klopstock.
1778 Muere el escritor y filósofo Jean Jacques Rousseau.
1843 Muere el creador de la homeopatía, Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann.
1871 Nace el pintor Nicolás Raurich Petre.
1997 Muere el actor James Stewart.
1877.- Nace el escritor suizo de origen alemán, Hermann Hesse, premio Nóbel de Literatura 1946, autor de "El Lobo Estepario" (1927), "Juego de Abalorios" (1943), "Demián".
1915.- Muere desterrado en París, Francia, el general Porfirio Díaz Mori, ex-presidente de México durante más de treinta años.
1971- Muere el poeta, prosista, escritor, autor teatral y humorista Conrado Nalé Roxlo (1898-1971), autor de libros de poemas como El grillo.
1881 President James A. Garfield was fatally shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington railroad station; he died on Sept. 19.
1961 Author Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
1994 Colombian soccer player Andres Escobar was shot to death in Medellin, 10 days after accidentally scoring a goal against his own team in World Cup competition.
1997 Actor James Stewart died at age 89.
78 Brock Peters / Actor (''To Kill A Mockingbird'')
76 Imelda Marcos / Former Philippine first lady
75 Ahmad Jamal / Jazz pianist
74 Robert Ito /Actor (''Quincy'')
68 Polly Holliday / Actress
66 John Sununu / Former White House chief of staff
59 Ron Silver /Actor
58 Larry David / Writer-director (''Curb Your Enthusiasm,'' ''Seinfeld'')
58 Luci Baines Johnson / Daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson
57 Saul Rubinek / Actor
56 Roy Bittan / Rock musician (The E Street Band)
53 Gene Taylor / Rock musician (The Blasters)
49 Jerry Hall / Actress-model
44 Jimmy McNichol / Actor
40 Dave Parsons /Rock musician (Bush)
35 Yancy Butler /Actress
22 Michelle Branch /Rock singer
21 Vanessa Lee Chester /Actress
Historic Birthdays
Thurgood Marshall
7/2/1908 - 1/24/1993
American civil rights lawyer and first African-American Supreme Court justice
(Go to obit.)
66 Thomas Cranmer
7/2/1489 - 3/21/1556
English religious leader; first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury

73 Christoph Gluck
7/2/1714 - 11/15/1787
German composer

77 Richard Henry Stoddard
7/2/1825 - 5/12/1903
American poet, critic and editor

75 Frederick Gates
7/2/1853 - 2/6/1929
American philanthropist and businessman


73 Clarence Barron
7/2/1855 - 10/2/1928
American financial editor and publisher


85 Hermann Hesse
7/2/1877 - 8/9/1962
German novelist and poet; awared Nobel Prize for Literature (1946)


67 Hugh Dryden
7/2/1898 - 12/2/1965
American physicist and deputy administrator of NASA (1958-65)


70 Sir Tyrone Guthrie
7/2/1900 - 5/15/1971
English theatrical director


92 Sir Alec Douglas-Home
7/2/1903 - 10/9/1995
British prime minister (1963-4) and foreign secretary (1960-3, 1970-4)


37 Medgar Evers
7/2/1925 - 6/12/1963
American civil-rights activist; assassinated in 1963


35 Patrice Lumumba
7/2/1925 - 1/17/1961
Congolese independence leader and prime minister (1960)