National Hot Dog Day falls each year on the third Wednesday in July … which makes sense; it’s only a few weeks after one of our favorite hot dog–eating holidays: The Fourth of July!
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Wednesday, July 19, 2028
Born
- Samuel Colt (inventor) –
- Edgar Degas (painter) –
- Lizzie Borden (accused murderess) –
- Charles Horace Mayo (surgeon) –
- A.J. Cronin (writer) –
- Vikki Carr (singer) –
- Ilie Nastase (tennis player) –
- Anthony Edwards (actor) –
- Scott Walker (hockey player) –
- Benedict Cumberbatch (actor ) –
- Jared Padalecki (actor) –
Died
- Margaret Fuller (writer) –
- Rose Alnora Hartwick Thorpe (poet) –
- Elwyn Marshall Meader (plant breeder) –
- Mervyn Hugh Cowie (African conservationist; died in Ipswich, Suffolk, England) –
- James Aparo (illustrator; drew Batman and other DC Comics heroes) –
- Jack Warden (actor) –
- Frank McCourt (Pulitzer Prize-winning author) –
- James Garner (actor) –
- Garry Marshall (director, producer, actor) –
Events
- Lady Jane Grey was replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having the title for only nine days –
- Bloomers (long, loose, trousers) were introduced to delegates of the first Women’s Right’s Convention in Seneca Falls, New York –
- Morris Nourse earned a Carnegie Medal by saving a drowning boy in Des Moines, Iowa –
- Fiberglass sutures were first used, by Dr. Roy Scholz in St. Louis, Missouri –
- N.Y.C. subway’s first air-conditioned cars began service –
- Canada and United States agreed to transfer certain prisoners who wish to finish sentence in own country –
- New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe was selected to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle –
- 26th Summer Olympics began in Atlanta, Georgia –
- Don Gorske of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin ate his 20,000th Big Mac sandwich at a local McDonald’s restaurant. He already had made the Guinness World Records book for eating a record number of Big Macs before he hit number 19,000 in March 2003 –
Weather
- The third hurricane within a month hit the northern Florida peninsula –
- Saguenay flood began in Quebec, Canada –