This Week in History

July 6 

Kathy McCormack was born.

Donald Gallagher was born.

Norrin Radd was born.

1535 – Sir Thomas More was beheaded after refusing to join Henry VIII and the Church of England.

1944 – A fire caused by inept fire-eaters in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers Circus in Hartford, Conn., killed over 160 people.

JULY 7

Maureen Blum Del Vecchio was born.

Eileen McLaughlin was born.

Christine Stengel Puma was born.

Michael Herman was born.

1946 – Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized, becoming the first American saint.

1981 – President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor for the Supreme Court.

JULY 8

Patty Marsibilio was born.

Thomas Thompson was born.

Laura Johnson-Rivera was born.

1950 – General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of the United Nations forces in Korea.

JULY 9

Tom Jodice was born.

Mary Lou Raaf was born.

Michael Burke was born.

1997 – Boxer Mike Tyson was temporarily banned from boxing for biting Evander Holyfield’s ear.

2002 – Baseball’s All-Star Game ended in a tie after 11 innings. Both sides had run out of pitchers.

JULY 10

Sherman Tank Von Dalton Vielandi was born.

Karen Zandalasini was born.

1973 – The Bahamas became independent from Great Britain.

JULY 11

Cathie O’Hanlon was born.

Sean T. Meier was born.

1804 – Former vice president Aaron Burr fatally wounded former secretary of the treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Hamilton died the following afternoon.

1914 – Babe Ruth made his major league baseball debut as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.

JULY 12

Brendan Lawler was born.

John Burke was born.

1960 – The first Etch-A-Sketch went on sale.

1984 – Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale became the first major-party candidate to choose a woman as a running mate, Geraldine Ferraro.