July 15: Significance, Events, and How to Celebrate Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1914  Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe.   

1915  Alexander Durie, vice president (British AA)   

1915  Ludwik Grossman, composer, dies at 80   

1916  22.22" of rain falls in Altapass NC   

1916  American airline manufacturer Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing), opens its doors.   

1916  22.22" (56.4 cm) of rain falls in Altapass NC (state record)   

1916  George Maduro, Antillian resistance fighter (Willemsorde/Madurodam).   

1917  Robert Conquest, English author (Back to Life)   

1918  2nd Battle of Marne began during WW I   

1918  Lord Buxton of Alsa, CEO (ITV).   

1919  Iris Murdoch, English writer is born   

1919  Iris Murdoch, Dublin Ireland, novelist (Severed Head, Unicorn)   

1920  Ruth ties his record of 29 HRs in a season   

1920  Eldon Rudd, (Rep-R-AZ, 1977- ).   

1921  Jack Hamilton Beeson, composer   

1922  The inaugural duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at NY zoo.   

1922  1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at NY zoo   

1922  Jef Houthuys, chairman Belgian labor union (ACV 1968-87)   

1923  27th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 296 at Inwood CC in NY.   

1924  David Cox, warden (Nuffield College, Oxford).   

1925  Phil Carey, Hackensack NJ, actor (Asa Buchanan-One Life to Live).   

1926  VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms   

1926  John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer.   

1927  62nd British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 285 at St Andrews.   

1927  Ann Jellicoe, theater director/playwright (Knack)   

1928  Carl Woese, American microbiologist   

1929  The inaugural airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca.   

1929  1st airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca   

1929  Larry Lamb, newspaper editor.   

1929  Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright/poet, dies   

1930  Jacques Derrida, French philosopher is born   

1930  Charles Kelly, chief constable (Staffordshire England).   

1930  Leopold von Auer, Hungarian/US violinist, dies   

1931  Clive Cussler, writer (Raise The Titantic, Sahara)   

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