** Former SS Captain Erich Priebke is retried ; on July 22 he is sentenced to 5 years in prison.

** Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.

** Former Senator John Tower and 22 others are killed in an airplane crash in Brunswick, Georgia, United States.

** Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke wins a spot in the runoff election for governor of Louisiana, ultimately losing to Edwin Edwards.

** Former Dutch queen Wilhelmina buried at the New Church in Delft.

** Former U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson dies at his Stonewall, Texas ranch, leaving no former U. S. President living until the resignation of Richard M. Nixon in 1974.

** Former California Governor Ronald Reagan enters the race for the Republican presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.

** Former King Chang of Goryeo ( assassinated )

** Wang Jian ( Former Shu )

** Former U. S. President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a 5-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first U. S. President, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

** Former King Gongyang of Goryeo ( b. 1345 )

** Chen Chien-Chou 陳建洲 / 陈建洲 ( Blackie 黑人 ) ( 1977 -; ancestral Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan ; Hakka pronunciation: Chin Kian Zhiu ), Compere ; Former national basketball player, Chinese Taipei national basketball team

** Former Edmonton Oiler Chris Pronger for being a " turncoat "

** Former local electricity supply authorities established as energy companies

** Former Shu ( 前蜀 ), one of the divisions of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period ( 907 – 925 )

** Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc .: Former American holding company, formerly Konami of America Inc., Konami Corporation of America.

** Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH: Former holding company Europe, formerly Konami Limited, Konami Corporation of Europe B. V .. On March 31, 2003, Konami of Europe announced it would be renamed as Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH at the start of Konami ’ s new financial year ( 2003-04-01 ).

** Former Senior Vice President, Operations – Greg Emmer

** People's Self-Defense Political Party ( Former Forward, Ukraine!

** 3rd Field Hospital ( Former 3rd Casualty Clearing Station )

** 5th Field Hospital ( Former 5th Casualty Clearing Station )

** Former OLT owners incl.

** Former Saint Joseph's Institution, now a museum in Singapore

** Former name of Chervona Ukraina light cruiser

** Commonwealth of Massachusetts

** Answers from Delaware, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York ( also to Kentucky ), Connecticut, New Hampshire ( also to Kentucky ), and Vermont.

** Ted Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts

** Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol.

** Shoppers World ( one the first shopping malls in the U. S .) opens in Framingham, Massachusetts.

** Cocoanut Grove fire: A fire in the Cocoanut Grove night club in Boston, Massachusetts, kills 491.

** Twelve paintings, collectively worth $ 100 to $ 300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers.

** At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs, when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain ( the only tie until 2002 in MLB All-Star Game history ).

** The N class blimp ZPG-3W of the U. S. Navy is destroyed during a storm over Massachusetts.

** Boston Molasses Disaster: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.

** Edward Brooke, Senator from Massachusetts

** Deval Patrick, African American Governor of Massachusetts

** Winthrop M. Crane, Governor of Massachusetts and Senator ( b. 1853 )

** Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 – 3 not to hear a case by the state of Massachusetts, about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

** Curtis Guild, Jr., Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1915 )

** Editors of the Harvard Lampoon steal the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts from the State House ( it is returned two days later ).

** Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts, killing 94.

** The covenant of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts is first signed.

** The Success, last ship of the Winthrop Fleet, lands safely at Salem harbor, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

** John Winthrop, influential Puritan in the history of Massachusetts ( d. 1649 )

** John Oldham, early Burmese settler in Massachusetts ( died 1636 )

** Massachusetts Avenue State Bank, Indianapolis, Indiana, of $ 21, 000 on September 6, 1933 ;

** Leyden, Massachusetts, USA