Actor Humphrey Bogart was born in New York City.
His father was a heart surgeon and mother a commercial illustrator whose work was highly valued. He served in the Navy in World War One and turned to acting in 1922.
He died in 1957 at age 57.
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To Harald, May God forgive you and forgive me too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him. – Lupe.
How could you, Harald, fake such a great love for me and our baby when all the time, you didn't want us? I see no other way out for me, so goodbye, and good luck to you, Love Lupe.
Ramond confessed confusion, declaring that even after their recent break up he had promised to marry her. In spite of the official ruling of suicide, there has been ongoing speculation about her death.
She had, at one time, been married to Johnny Weismuller.
May God rest her soul, and that of her child.
The Japanese murdered 150 Allied Prisoners of war near Puerto Princesa in the Philippine province of Palawan to prevent their liberation by American troops.
The Japanese attempted, but failed, to mount a large scale air attack on the U.S. Navy's invasion task force heading to Mindoro. The U.S. Navy hit airfields on Luzon.
The HMS Aldenham was sunk in the Adriatic by a mine. It was the last Royal Navy destroyer lost in World War Two.
Congress authorized the five start senior officer rank to address American commanders technically being junior to high ranking British ones.
The Germans banned the use of electricity in Holland.
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US radio stations stood silent between 10:00 and 11:00, EST, for international broadcasting tests. Radio broadcasts from the UK, France and Spain were heard as far west as the American Midwest.
The USS Los Angeles was commissioned.
Lita Grey (Lillita Louise MacMurray), actress, age 16, married Charlie Chaplin, age 35. She was pregnant. Grey was his second wife, and it was the second time he's married a teenager, Mildred Harris of Cheyenne Wyoming being 17 when they wed following a pregnancy scare.
Had the couple not married, Chaplin faced the possibility of being arrested for statutory rape.
They would have two children during their troubled marriage.
She'd go on to have three more marriages before dying in 1995 at the age of 87.
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Actor David Harris, best known for his role as "Cochise" in The Warriors, has passed away at age 75 from cancer. Fans of war movies will recall he had the role as Pvt. Smalls, a major character, in A Soldier's Story.
It was the first such media event in U.S. Presidential politics and was calculated to counteract Coolidge's dour personality.
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A Hungarian delegation signed a ceasefire agreement in Moscow agreeing to abandon territory gained since 1937 and to declare war on Germany. Hungary was enduring turmoil in its government over this general topic.
The obscure Tuvan People's Republic was absorbed by the Soviet Union.
The U.S. Army Air Force bombed Okinawa.
To Have and Have Not premiered. It was Lauren Bacall's premier film.
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Gilligan's Island premiered on CBS.
UPI critic Rick Dubrow commented: "It is impossible that a more inept, moronic or humorless show has ever appeared on the home tube."
As a kid, I'd often watch the show, already in syndication, when I got home from school.
Rebels in the Congo rounded up of all foreigners trapped in Stanleyville and Paulis.
The "High National Council" was installed to function as the legislature for South Vietnam.
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Jim Bottomley of the St. Louis Jim Cardinals set a major league baseball record for RBIs in a single game with 12, during a 17–3 win over the Brooklyn Robins. In 1993 the record was tied, but it has never been beaten.
Betty Joan Perske, known on the screen as Lauren Bacall, was born in the Bronx.
Both of her parents were of Eastern European Jewish ancestry, with her mother having been born in Romania. Her mother had adopted the maiden name of Bacall, that she later adopted as a screen name. Her parents divorced when she was five, and she no longer saw her father. She uniformly came across as a highly intelligent, graceful, figure on the screen.
She married Humphrey Bogart in 1947 when she was 20 and he was 45. It was his fourth, and last, marriage. She'd marry Jason Robards after Bogart's death, but her second marriage would end in divorce.
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Georgians rebelled against the Soviet Union in the August Uprising.
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The Third Army crossed the Loire. Hitler refused a request by Field Marshal Kluge to withdraw from positions at Mortain. Local commanders began withdrawing anyway.
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US forces landed near Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea.
Tinian town was taken on Tinian. Actor Lee Powell, who had joined the Marine Corps, died on the island on that day, but from drinking an improvised alcoholic beverage that contained Methanol during a celebration of the battle's end.
He had played the Lone Ranger.
The Soviet Narva Offensive ended.
The US 1st Army seized Granville and entered Avranches.
Sections of German protestantism, which was not united, issued a declaration as it became clear that members of the German "Confessing Church" had participated in the July 20 plot.
Declaration of Loyalty by the German Protestant Church
Attempt on the Führer’s Life
With indignation and disgust, the German people turn away from the deed of July 20, which, in an hour requiring the utmost in unity, undertook to overthrow the Reich in turmoil of incalculable proportions by means of murder and treachery. From the bottom of our hearts, we thank the Almighty for the salvation of the leader and ask Him to continue to keep him under His protection. This request comes with a pledge of renewed loyalty and the resolution to submit ourselves even more earnestly than before to the relentless demands of this time, to which the Fuehrer is restlessly devoting himself entirely.
After the attempt on the life of the Führer, the German Protestant Church Chancellery and the Spiritual Council of the German Protestant Church expressed their gratitude to God for his gracious protection in telegrams of loyalty to the Führer. At the same time, the Spiritual Council of Confidence noted that on the Sunday after the assassination attempt, prayers for the Führer were said in Protestant services all over the Reich.
Source: Das Evangelische Deutschland. Kirchliche Rundschau für das Gesamtgebiet der Deutschen Evangelischen Kirche, Nr. 30-31/1944, p. 74.
The Confessing Church was a protestant movement that had resisted efforts to unify, and Nazify, German Lutheranism. It's efforts were fairly successful in that goal.
The U-250 was sunk in the Gulf of Finland by the Soviet Navy.
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President Roosevelt addressed the French people on it being Bastille Day:
July 14, 1944
Once again I salute, on Bastille Day, the heroic people of France.
July 14 this year is different, for we hope that it is the last fourteenth of July that France will suffer under German occupation. With full confidence, I look forward that the French people on July 14, 1945, will celebrate their great national fete on French soil, liberated alike from the invader and from the puppets of Vichy.
For the great battle of liberation is now engaged. It is a battle resolutely waged by the American, British, and Canadian forces, together with the valiant fighters of the home French, who have already contributed so greatly to the success of the operations. At the same time gallant French fighting forces are carrying on the victorious struggle in Italy, joined in traditional unity with their comrades of the American Fifth Army and the British Eighth Army.
Here, on this side o.[ the Atlantic, the fourteenth of July, 1944, offers an equally great spectacle of the indissoluble unity and the deep friendship of the American and French peoples.
Together, the French and American peoples stand today, united as they have always been when the cause of freedom was endangered.
Together, we shall win, and France shall be free!
U.S. Navy frogman began to recon Guam.
The Red Army captured Pinsk. Vilnius was fully occupied, and Operation Ostra Brama by the Polish Home Army concluded. Internment of the Polish partisans would start on July 15.
Sarah Sundin's blog has some interesting entries today, including that Japan started conscripting women and girls down to age 12 for war work.
The funeral of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. occured in France.
The 10th was still training in the US at the time.
Druze actress and singer Amal al-Atrash (آمال الأطرش) known by her stage name Asmahan (أسمهان) died in a tragic car wreck when the car in which she was a passenger crashed into the Suez Canal. Her professional life had been spent in Egypt.
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Caesar Cardini, Italian restaurateur living in Tijuana, Mexico, created the first Caesar Salad in response to being unprepared for the huge number of booze seeking American tourists/border crossers in his restaurant for the July 4, weekend.
A new Progressive Party, unrelated to the one that collapsed a decade prior, nominated Robert M. LaFollette as its Presidential candidate.
It was President Coolidge's birthday.
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