Today in History - History - July 23rd

1976Balt Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game

1978Reggie Jackson returns & helps Yankees win their 5th straight

2006135th British Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 270 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club

1961Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open

1946Menachem Begin's Zionist militant group Irgun bombs the King David Hotel, the then British administrative headquarters for Palestine

1979George Brett gets his 1,000th hit

1934Bradman completes 304 at Headingley, 430 mins, 43 fours 2 sixes

1995124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St Andrews Scotland

2000129th British Golf Open: Tiger Woods shoots a 269 at Royal Lytham

1980River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter

1961Woody Harrelson, Midland Tx, actor (Woody Boyd-Cheers)

1989Daniel Radcliffe, London, actor (Harry Pottter in the Harry Potter series of movies)

1973Monica Lewinsky, San Francisco California, American White House intern (improper relationship with Bill Clinton)

1967Philip Seymour Hoffman, Fairport, New York, American actor (Capote, Moneyball)

2011Amy Winehouse, British singer songwriter, dies from a alcohol intoxication at 27

1885Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President (1869-77) and Union general, dies of esophageal cancer in Mount McGregor NY at 63

1793Roger Sherman, American lawyer and Founding Father of the United States (Decl of Independence), dies of typhoid fever at 72

1948D.W. Griffith, American director/producer, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 73