^B{^#!16!8 July^N! Feast day of St Adrian III, pope, St Raymund of Toulouse, Saints Aquila and Prisca or Priscilla, St Kilian and his Companions, St Sunniva and her Companions, St Withburga, St Grimbald, and St Procopius of Caesarea.
^B{1497^B} Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama left Lisbon for a voyage on which he discovered the Cape route to India. ^B{1709^B} Charles XII of Sweden was defeated by Peter the Great's army at the Battle of Poltava, crushing Sweden's territorial ambitions. ^B{1884^B} The National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) was founded in London, UK. ^B{1907^B} Ziegfeld's Follies opened for the first time, on Broadway. ^B{1943^B} Jean Moulin, the French Resistance leader known as 'Max', was executed by the Gestapo. ^B{1948^B} General Mc Arthur was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the UN forces in Korea. ^B{1978^B} Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler became the first to climb Everest entirely without oxygen. ^B{1991^B} Iraq admitted to the UN that it had been conducting clandestine programs to produce enriched uranium, a key element in nuclear weapons.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Jean de la Fontaine, French writer, ^B{1621^B}; Joseph Chamberlain, British statesman, ^B{1836^B}; John D Rockefeller, US millionaire, ^B{1839^B}; Arthur Evans, English archeologist, ^B{1851^B}; Percy Grainger, Australian composer, ^B{1882^B}; Billy Eckstine, US singer, ^B{1915^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, ^B{1822^B}; Anthony Hope, British novelist, ^B{1933^B}; Henry Havelock Ellis, English physician and author, ^B{1939^B}; Vivien Leigh, English film actress, ^B{1967^B}; Michael Wilding, English film actor, ^B{1979^B}; Judith Chrisholm, British aviator, ^B{1988^B}; Fred Weick, US aeronautical engineer, ^B{1993^B}.
