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Saturday, 04 July 2026
1916 Eduard Napravnik, composer, dies at 77 
1917 George O'Hanlon, Bkln NY, actor (Calvin-Life of Riley, George Jetson)
1919 Claudio Santoro, composer.
1920 Chalmers P Wylie, (Rep-R-OH, 1967- ).
1920 Mohammed ibn Addoellah, Somalian resistances leader "Mad Molla", dies.
1921 Pres Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes.
1921 Hein J Roethof, lawyer/Dutch MP (PvdA).
1922 Manuel Fraga Iribarne, president of Spanish Galicia.
1923 German army commander Gen Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD.
1923 Angelo John Novarese, record company founder
1926 Noel Coward's "This Was a Man," premieres in NYC
1926 Frederic Ayers, composer, dies at 50.
1927 S Przybyszewski, writer, dies.
1929 Shirley Booth and Ed Gardner were married on this day. Miss Booth was famous for her television acting role ("Hazel");.
1930 NY Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage
1931 Nationally Crisis Committee forms in Hague.
1931 Evert Cornelis, Dutch conductor/pianist, dies.
1932 Percy Pitt, composer, dies at 63.
1934 An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lay well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis
1936 The inaugural issue of LIFE magazine debuted. It was an immediate sellout. The cover of that famous magazine showed an obstetrician slapping a baby and the caption read, “LIFE begins”.
1936 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce.
1937 Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy," premieres in NYC
1937 Louis Victor Saar, composer, dies at 68
1938 Bob Hope and Shirley Ross recorded a song for the film, The Big Broadcast of 1938. Thanks for the Memory became Decca record number 2219. It also became Hope’s theme song.
1938 August TC Kiehl, actor (Hope of Blessing), dies at 84.
1939 Wearing distinctive armband, "Judenstern" (Jewish star) is recorded as becoming obligatory for all Jews in Central Poland
1939 Nazi Gov of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star
1940 1st edition of illegal "The Truth" publishes
1940 Catherina van Rennes, composer, dies at 82.
1941 German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow
1942 Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
1942 Steward Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat was torpedoed.
1942 The V-173, a full-scale model of a fighter aircraft with an almost circular wing, made its inaugural flight at the Vought-Sikorsky plant, Stratford, Conn. A military version of this aircraft, the XF5U-1, was constructed later but never flown.
1942 3rd and 5th Romanian army corp surrenders.
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