Celebrity Birthdays and On-This-Day

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July 7th:

Chocolate day

1998 - A jury in Santa Monica, CA, convicted Mikail Markhasev of murdering Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby's only son, during a roadside robbery.
1984 - The song "Relax," by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, became the biggest selling single of all time in Britain.
1981 - U.S. President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1980 - The original lineup of Led Zeppelin gave its final show.
1973 - Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die" was released as the theme song to a James Bond movie.
1949 - "Dragnet" was first heard on NBC radio. In 1951, the series moved to TV.
1937 - Japanese forces invaded China, beginning WW2.
1930 - Construction began on Boulder Dam, later Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River.
1898 - The United States annexed Hawaii.
1885 - G. Moore Peters patented the cartridge-loading machine.
1865 - Four people were hanged in Washington, DC, after being convicted of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate U.S. President Lincoln.
1846 - U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.
1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.

Michelle Kwan (Olympic ice skater won the gold in 1998 and 2002) 1980
Robia LaMorte ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") 1970
Robin Weigert ("Deadwood") 1969
Jorja Fox ("CSI: Las Vegas") 1968
Mo Collins (known for playing Stuart's mother, among other characters, on "MADtv") 1965
Vonda Shepard (folk/rock singer had a recurring role as herself on "Ally McBeal") 1963
Ringo Starr (drummer for The Beatles) 1940
Doc Severinsen (Band leader and trumpet player for Johnny Carson's Tonight Show) 1927

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July 8th:

Chocolate Syrup on Ice Cream day

2000 - J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was released in the U.S. It was the fourth Harry Potter book.
1990 - The final episode of "Mr. Belvedere" aired on ABC. The sitcom had aired 117 episodes over 5 years.
1969 - The U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for the game "Twister."
1950 - General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea.
1889 - The Wall Street Journal was first published.
1881 - Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured chocolate syrup on ice cream in a dish. To this time chocolate syrup had only been used for making ice-cream sodas.
1879 - The first ship to use electric lights departed from San Francisco, CA.
1865 - C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun.
1630 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony celebrated Thanksgiving Day. The day is recognized as the first Thanksgiving.
1608 - The first French settlement at Quebec was established by Samuel de Champlain.

Alexis Dziena (Kira on the series "Invasion", also "Havoc", "Broken Flowers", "Fool's Gold") 1984
Elizabeth Del Mar (pornstar 2002-) 1983
Sophia Bush ("Nip/Tuck", "One Tree Hill", "John Tucker Must Die") 1982
Beck David Campbell (sang "Loser", "Where It's At", was on an episode of "Futurama") 1970
Billy Crudup ("Sleepers", "Almost Famous", "Big Fish", "MI3") 1968
Joan Osbourne (had a one-hit-wonder with "One Of Us") 1962
Toby Keith (country singer) 1961
Kevin Bacon ("Footloose", "The River Wild", "Wild Things", "Trapped", "Sleepers", "Mystic River") 1958
Angelica Huston ("The Witches", "The Adams Family", "Daddy Day Care") 1951
John D. Rockefeller (started the Standard Oil Company and became a billionaire) 1839

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July 9th:

Sugar Cookie day

1997 - Mike Tyson was banned from the boxing ring and fined $3 million for biting the ear of opponent Evander Holyfield.
1996 - Prince released the album "Chaos and Disorder." It was his first album to be almost exclusively rock music.
1993 - NBC aired "A Different World" for the last time. The "Cosby Show" spin-off ran 144 episodes over 6 seasons.
1956 - Dick Clark made his debut as host of "Bandstand" on a Philadelphia TV station. The name of the show was changed to "American Bandstand" when it went to ABC-TV.
1910 - W.R. Brookins became the first to fly an airplane a mile in the air.
1900 - The Commonwealth of Australia was established by an act of the British Parliament, uniting the separate colonies under a federal government.
1877 - Alexander Graham Bell, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Thomas Sanders and Thomas Watson formed the Bell Telephone Company.
1868 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
1850 - U.S. President Zachary Taylor died in office at the age of 55. He was succeeded by Millard Fillmore. Taylor had only served 16 months.
1816 - Argentina declared independence from Spain.
1789 - In Versailles, the French National Assembly declared itself the Constituent Assembly and began to prepare a French constitution.

Georgia Henley (Played Lucy in "Narnia") 1995
Nyomi Marcela (Indonesian-American pornstar 2001-) 1981
Fred Savage (Kevin Arnold on "The Wonder Years") 1976
Courtney Cox (singer for Hole, widow of Kurt Cobain, was in "Trapped" and "The People vs Larry Flynt") 1964
Kelly McGillis (Tom Cruise's girlfriend in "Top Gun") 1957
Tom Hanks ("Forrest Gump", "Big", "Castaway", "Catch Me If You Can", "Saving Private Ryan", "Philadelphia", "Toy Story", "The Terminal", "The Green Mile", "The Road to Perdition", "The DaVinci Code") 1956
Fred Norris (Howard Stern's long-time sidekick) 1955
Jimmy Smits ("LA Law", "NYPD Blue") 1955
John Tesh ("Entertainment Tonight" host also had a Christian music career) 1952
O.J. Simpson (Buffalo Bills football player was in the "Naked Gun" movies, and was on trial for murdering his wife) 1947
Richard Roundtree (played Shaft in 3 movies in the '70s) 1942

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July 10th:

2005 - Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.
1997 - Scientists in London said DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton supported a theory that all humanity descended from an "African Eve" 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev won re-election as the leader of the Soviet Communist Party.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.
1985 - Coca-Cola resumed selling the old formula of Coke, it was renamed "Coca-Cola Classic." It was also announced that they would continue to sell "New" Coke.
1979 - Chuck Berry was sentenced to four months in prison for income tax evasion.
1973 - Britain granted the Bahamas their independence after three centuries of British colonial rule.
1969 - The National League was divided up into two baseball divisions.
1968 - Eric Clapton announced that Cream would break up following a farewell tour.
1940 - The 114-day Battle of Britain began during World War II.
1938 - Howard Hughes completed a 91-hour flight around the world.
1929 - The U.S. government began issuing paper money in the small size known today.
1928 - George Eastman (founder of Kodak) first demonstrated color motion pictures.
1919 - The Treaty of Versailles, which ended WWI, was hand delivered to the U.S. Senate by President Woodrow Wilson.
1890 - Wyoming became the 44th state to join the United States.
1776 - The statue of King George III was pulled down in New York City.

Jessica Simpson (hot blond singer/actress) 1980
Sofía Vergara (Columbian actress) 1972
Fred Gwyne (played Herman Munster) 1926
Jake LaMota (professional boxer portrayed in the movie "Raging Bull") 1921

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July 11th:

Swimming Pool day

2000 - Lars Ulrich (Metallica) was the first witness to testify at a U.S. Senate hearing over copyright law issues concerning free sharing of music files on Web sites such as Napster and MP3.com.
1994 - Shawn Eckardt was sentenced in Portland, OR, to 18 months in prison for his role in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
1987 - Bo Jackson signed a contract to play football for the L.A. Raiders for 5 years. He also continued to play baseball for the Kansas City Royals.
1985 - Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros became the first major league pitcher to earn 4,000 strikeouts in a career.
1985 - Dr. H. Harlan Stone announced that he had used zippers for stitches on 28 patients. The zippers were used when he thought he may have to re-operate.
1977 - The Medal of Freedom was awarded posthumously to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a White House ceremony.
1969 - David Bowie's "Space Oddyssey" album was released.
1934 - The first appointments to the newly created U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) were made.
1918 - Enrico Caruso recorded "Over There" written by George M. Cohan. The song became a standard wartime song of WWI and WWII.
1914 - Babe Ruth debuted in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox.
1804 - The United States' first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, was killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel.

Li'l Kim (rapper) 1975
Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor in "Smallville" series) 1972
Kellita Smith (Aunt Wanda on "The Bernie Mac Show") 1969
Suzanne Vega (Sang "Tom's Diner" in 1987, a song about the same restaurant where later they hang out on "Seinfeld") 1959
Mark Lester (played Oliver in the movie musical) 1959
Richie Sambora (guitarist for Bon Jovi, ex-husband of Heather Locklear) 1959
Sela Ward (acted in three TV series: "Sisters", "Once and Again", and is currently on "House") 1956
Leon Spinks (boxer) 1953
Bruce McGill (played D-Day in "Animal House", and was on "MacGyver" TV series) 1950
Giorgio Armani (Italian clothes designer) 1934
Yul Brynner (bald actor in "The King and I") 1920
Elwyn Brooks (E.B.) White (Amrican author, wrote "Charlotte's Web", "Stuart Little", and "The Trumpet of the Swan") 1899
John Quincy Adams (6th US President, 1825-29) 1767

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July 12th:

2002 - The first episode of "Monk" began.
2000 - The movie "X-Men" premiered in New York.
1990 - The first episode of "Northern Exposure" aired on CBS.
1990 - Russian republic president Boris N. Yeltsin announced his resignation from the the Soviet Communist Party.
1976 - The TV game show "Family Feud" premiered with Richard Dawson as the host.
1970 - PBS began airing concerts by the Boston Pops Orchestra.
1969 - Blind Faith (including former Cream members Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker, and featuring Steve Winwood of Traffic) began their one and only tour with a sold-out show at New York's Madison Square Garden.
1960 - The first Etch-A-Sketch went on sale.
1957 - The U.S. surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reported that there was a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.
1954 - Elvis Presley signed his first recording contract and quit his job as a truck driver. The contract was with Sun Records.
1933 - The first minimum wage (25 cents an hour) was established in the U.S.

Erik Per Sullivan (Dewey on "Malcolm in the Middle") 1991
Michelle Rodríguez ("Lost" series) 1978
Topher Grace ("That '70s Show") 1978
Kristi Yamaguchi (American figure-skater, won gold medal in 1992) 1971
Lisa Nicole Carson ("ER" and "Ally McBeal" series) 1969
Robin Wilson (singer for Gin Blossoms) 1965
Dan Murphy (High School Social Studies teacher, guitarist for Soul Asylum) 1962
Sandi Patty (Christian/pop singer) 1956
Cheryl Ladd (Charlie's Angels) 1951
Richard Simmons (TV fitness host) 1948
Jay Thomas ("Mork and Mindy" and "Murphy Brown" series, and the football coach in "Mr. Holland's Opus" movie) 1948
Christine McVie (one of Fleetwood Mac's singers) 1943
Bill Cosby 1937
Milton Berle (early TV host) 1908
Oscar Hammerstein (wrote Broadway songs with Richard Rogers) 1895
George Washington Carver (African-American scientist who invented many uses for the peanut) 1861
George Eastman (founder of Kodak in Rochester, NY) 1854
Henry David Thoreau (wrote "Walden") 1817

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July 13th:

Puzzle Day

1985 - Live-Aid concerts took place in Philadelphia, PA, and London, England.
1985 - George Michael sang lead vocals to Elton John's performance of "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" at the Live Aid Concert. The duet went to #1.
1974 - Eric Clapton's "I Shot The Sheriff" was released.
1968 - Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" was released.
1863 - Opponents of the Civil War draft began three days of rioting in New York City, which resulted in more than 1,000 casualties.
1835 - John Ruggles received patent #1 from the U.S. Patent Office for a traction wheel used in locomotive steam engines. All 9,957 previous patents were not numbered.
1832 - Henry Schoolcraft was the first European to discover the source of the Mississippi River in Minnesota.
1585 - A group of 108 English colonists, led by Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island, NC.
1099 - The Crusaders launched their final assault on Muslims in Jerusalem.

Brooke Ballentyne (pornstar 2002-04) 1982
Tom Kenny (voices Sponge Bob) 1962
Cameron Crowe (directed "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", "Jerry McGuire", "Almost Famous", and "Vanilla Sky") 1957
Cheech Marin (1960s-70s drug humorist with partner Tommy Chong) 1946
Erno Rubik (Invented the Rubik's cube in 1980) 1944
Harrison Ford ("Star Wars", "Indiana Jones", and several Tom Clancy movies) 1942
Robert Forster (acted in "Like Mike", "Me Myself and Irene", "Jackie Brown", and "Mulholland Drive") 1941
Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard on "Star Trek: The Next generation", also "X-Men") 1940
Bob Crane ("Hogan's Heroes" series) 1928
Nathan Bedford Forrest (Confederate General who started the KKK shortly after the US Civil War) 1821

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July 14th:

Bastille Day (France)

2003 - Jerry Springer officially filed papers to run for the U.S. Senate from Ohio. He dropped out of the race before the election.
1987 - "U Got The Look" by Prince was released from the "Sign O' the Times" album. The album was Prince's 2nd best-selling album ever behind "Purple Rain."
1987 - Steve Miller got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1967 - The Who began their first U.S. tour as the opening act for Herman's Hermits.
1945 - American battleships and cruisers bombarded the Japanese home islands for the first time.
1933 - All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed.
1868 - Alvin J. Fellows patented the tape measure.

Matthew Fox ("Party of Five" and "Lost" TV series) 1966
Ellen Reid [Crash Test Dummies (yes, they do keep releasing albums)] 1966
Tommy Mottola (CEO of Sony Records, married Mariah Carey) 1949
Maulana Karenga (started the African-American celebration of Kwaanza) 1941
Gerald Ford (38th US President 1974-77) 1913
Woody Guthrie (Folk singer of "This Land is Your Land", "House of the Rising Sun", and "Red River Valley") 1912
William Hanna (along with partner Joe Barbera created "The Jetsons" and "The Flintstones") 1910

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July 15th:

Gummy Worm day
Hug Week

1997 - Gianni Versace was shot to death by Andrew Phillip Cunanan outside his home in Miami, FL. Cunanan was found dead eight days later.
1994 - Phil Collins announced that he was seeking a divorce from his wife Jill. They had 2 daughters.
1978 - Bob Dylan performed before the largest open-air concert audience (for a single artist). About 200,000 fans turned out at Blackbushe Airport in England.
1971 - U.S. President Nixon announced he would visit the People's Republic of China to seek a "normalization of relations."
1968 - ABC-TV premiered "One Life to Live".
1922 - The duck-billed platypus arrived in America, direct from Australia. It was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo in New York City.
1918 - The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I.
1916 - In Seattle, WA, Pacific Aero Products was incorporated by William Boeing. The company was later renamed Boeing Co.
1901 - Over 74,000 Pittsburgh steel workers went on strike.
1888 - "Printers’ Ink" was first sold.
1870 - Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.

Brian Austin Green ("Knots Landing" and "90210" TV series) 1973
Forrest Whitaker ("Platoon", "Good Morning Vietnam", "Panic Room", "Phone Booth", "Vantage Point") 1961
Joe Satriani (Blues/Rock guitarist) 1956
Jesse Ventura (Wrestler who was elected governor of Minnesota) 1951
Linda Ronstadt (folk/country singer, sang "Blue Bayou", "Different Drum", and "Somewhere Out There") 1946
Clement C. Moore (wrote the poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas" better known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas") 1779
Rembrandt Van Rijn (Dutch painter) 1606

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July 16th:

Spidy

2005 - J.K. Rowling's book "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was released. It was the sixth in the Harry Potter series. The book sold 6.9 million copies on its first day of release.
2004 - Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison for lying about a stock sale. She was also ordered to spend five months confined to her home and fined $30,000. She was allowed to remain free pending her appeal.
1999 - The plane of John F. Kennedy Jr. crashed off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, MA. His wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, were also on board the plane. The body of John Kennedy was found on July 21, 1999.
1981 - After 23 years with the name Datsun, executives of Nissan changed the name of their cars to Nissan.
1979 - Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq after forcing Hasan al-Bakr to resign.
1973 - Alexander P. Butterfield informed the Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair of the existence of recorded tapes.
1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.
1966 - The Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer In The City" was released.
1966 - In London, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker formed the band Cream. Their biggest hit was "White Room."
1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel, "The Catcher in the Rye," was first published.
1875 - The new French constitution was finalized.
1790 - The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government.

Jesse Jane (Pornstar 2002-) 1980
Justine Jolie (pornstar 2000-) 1980
Corey Feldman (1980s child star, "Gremlins", "Goonies", "Lost Boys") 1971
Larry Sanger (creator in 2001 of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia) 1968
Will Ferrell (SNL, "Old School", "Anchorman", "Elf") 1967
Quentin Leo Cook aka Fatboy Slim (techno musician of "The Rockafeller Skank" (Lyrics "Right about now, the funk soul brother. Check it out now.") 1963
Phoebe Cates ("Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Gremlins") 1963
Michael Flatley (Lord of the Dance) 1958
Stewart Copeland (drummer for The Police, he wrote the theme for the show "Dead Like Me") 1952
Buddy Merrill (guitarist on "The Lawrence Welk Show) 1936
Ginger Rogers (danced with Fred Astair in several movie/musicals) 1911
Orville Redenbacher (created several uses of corn and popcorn) 1907
Carmen Lombardo (together with his brother Guy Lombardo created a big-band "The Royal Canadians" in 1923) 1903
Joseph Jefferson "Shoeless Joe" Jackson (played baseball barefoot for Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox. While on the White Sox, he accepted money to throw the 1919 World Series. He was banned from baseball and the Hall of Fame) 1888
Roald Amundsen (led first expedition of the south pole) 1872
Mary Baker Eddy (founder of Christian Science) 1821

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July 17th:

1997 - After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 stores.
1996 - 230 people were killed when TWA Flight 800 exploded and crashed off Long Island, NY.
1987 - Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and rear Admiral John Poindexter begin testifying to Congress at the "Iran-Contra" hearings.
1976 - Rock band Heart's "Magic Man" was released.
1968 - The Beatles’ feature-length cartoon, "Yellow Submarine," premiered at the London Pavilion.
1967 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for The Monkees at The Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York. It was Jimmy Hendrix's first tour.
1955 - Disneyland opened in Anaheim, CA.
1954 - The Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team made history as the first major sports team with a majority of black players.
1821 - Spain ceded Florida to the U.S.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to the British at Rochefort, France.

J. Michael Straczynski (created "Babylon 5" TV series) 1954
David Hasselhoff (star of "Knight Rider" and "Baywatch") 1952
Camilla Parker Bowles (married Prince Charles of Wales) 1947
Donald Sutherland (acted in "The Great Train Robbery, and "MASH" movies, father of Keifer) 1934
Vince Guaraldi (Composer famous for the music of "Peanuts" cartoons) 1928
Phyllis Diller (commedian) 1917
Art Linkletter (TV host of "House Party" and "Kids Say the Darndest Things") 1912
Jimmy Cagney (acted in ganster films in 1930s-60s, and "Yankee Doodle Dandy") 1899
Erle Stanley Gardner (wrote 80 Perry Mason courtroom novels that spawned a decades long TV series and TV movies series) 1889

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July 18th:

Ice Cream day
Cow day

2003 - Kobe Bryant is charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year old woman.
1998 - A 23-foot tidal wave kills nearly 3,000 people in Papua New Guinea.
1992 - Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown were married.
1971 - New Zealand and Australia announced they would pull their troops out of Vietnam.
1970 - Ron Hunt of the San Francisco Giants was hit by a pitch for the 119th time in his career.
1969 - Apollo 11 makes preparations for landing on the Moon.
1964 - The Beatles album "A Hard Days Night" was released.
1960 - Hank Ballard and the Midnighters released "The Twist." The song didn't become a hit until later in the year when Chubby Checker covered it.
1960 - Elvis Presley's "It's Now Or Never" was released.
1927 - Ty Cobb set a major league baseball record by getting his 4,000th career hit. He hit 4,191 before he retired in 1928.
1925 - Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.

Veronica Jett (pornstar 2004-) 1983
Kristen Bell ("Veronica Mars" TV series) 1980
Cheyenne Silver (Pornstar 1997-04) 1978
Vin Diesel ("The Fast and the Furious", "The Pacifier", "XXX", "A Man Apart") 1967
Evan Stone (Straight male pornstar 1997-) 1964
Martha Reeves (singer for the Vandellas, sang "Heat Wave") 1941
Paul Verhoeven (directed "Robocop" and "Basic Instinct") 1938
Hunter S. Thompson (novelist, wrote "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas") 1937
John Glenn (astronaut) 1921
Nelson Mandela (political prisoner elected President of South Africa) 1918
Harriet Nelson (wife of Ozzie, mother of Rick, was in 1950s TV series "Ozzie and Harriet") 1914
Richard "Red" Skelton (commedian) 1914

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July 19th:

Nicaragua - National Liberation Day

1996 - HBO aired the final episode of "Tales from the Crypt."
1980 - Billy Joel earned his first gold record with "It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me"
1974 - The House Judiciary Committee recommended that U.S. President Richard Nixon should stand trial in the Senate for any of the five impeachment charges against him.
1960 - The pilot episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" aired.
1954 - Elvis Presley's first single was released by Sun Records. It was "That's All Right"

Vanessa Shaw ("The Hills Have Eyes", "Corky Romano", "40 Days and 40 Nights", and "Eyes Wide Shut") 1972
Anthony Edwards (ER) 1962
Brian May (Queen's lead guitarist, wrote "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions") 1947
George McGovern (South Dakota Senator who lost the US Presidency to Nixon in 1972) 1922
Lizzie Borden (rich girl who killed her mother) 1860
Edgar Degas (famous for painting ballerinas) 1834

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July 20th:

Chess Day

1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.

2007 - Fans partied at bookstores worldwide until midnight, when the final, 7th, Harry Potter book, "The Deathly Hollows", was released.
1965 - Lovin' Spoonful's first record, "Do You Believe in Magic," was released.
1965 - Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" was released.
1944 - An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.
1944 - U.S. President Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term of office at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1940 - "Billboard" magazine published its first listing of best-selling singles. 10 songs were on the list.
1917 - The US draft in World War I went into operation.
1810 - Colombia declared independence from Spain.

John Francis Daley (Sam Weir on "Freeks and Geeks" series) 1985
Gisele Bündchen (Victoria's Secret model) 1980
Elliott Yamin (3rd place finalist on the 2006 season of "American Idol") 1978
Josh Holloway ("Lost" series) 1969
Stone Gossard (guitarist for several early grunge/rock bands: Green River, Mother Love Bone, and most famously: Temple of the Dog and Pearl Jam) 1966
Chris Cornell (singer of: Temple of the Dog "Hunger Strike", Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun" "The Day I Tried to Live", solo "Can't Change Me", and Audioslave "Be Yourself") 1964
Terri Irwin (wife of Steve Irwin, co-host of "Crocodile Hunter", co-owns the Australian Zoo in Queensland, Australia) 1964
Radney Foster [country singer "Just Call Me Lonesome" and "Fine Line" (which became a hit for Hootie and the Blowfish)] 1959
Carlos Santana 1947
Sir Edmund Hilary (Climbed Mt. Everest) 1919

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July 21st:

Monkey Day
Guam Liberation Day (1944)

1999 - The missing plane of John F. Kennedy Jr. was found off of the coast of Martha's Vineyard, MA. The bodies of Kennedy, his wife Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette were found on board. The plane had crashed on July 16, 1999.
1990 - BBC's Radio One apologized to listeners after Madonna repeatedly cursed during a live concert broadcast.
1989 - Weird Al Yankovic's first, and only, movie, "UHF," opened.
1987 - Guns 'n Roses released their debut album, "Appetite For Destruction." Singles included: "Welcome to the Jungle", "Paradise City", and "Sweet Child of Mine."
1980 - Draft registration began in the United States for 19 and 20-year-old men.
1979 - Robert Palmer's "Bad Case Of Loving You" was released.
1969 - Duke Ellington and a portion of his band performed a 10-minute composition on ABC-TV titled, "Moon Maiden." The event took place just one day after Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon.
1954 - The Geneva Conference partitioned Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
1861 - The first major battle of the U.S. Civil War began. It was the Battle of Bull Run at Manassas Junction, VA. The Confederates won the battle.

Vanessa Lengies (Roxanne on "American Dreams" TV series, movies: "The Perfect Man", "Waiting", "Stick It") 1985
Josh Hartnet ("Black Hawk Down", "The Virgin Suicides", "Pearl Harbor") 1978
Emerson Hart (singer for Tonic, "If You Could Only See", "You Wanted More" "Take Me As I Am", solo: "If You're Gonna Leave", he also wrote the theme to "American Dreams") 1969
Jon Lovitz (SNL, "Rat Race") 1957
Michael Connelly (novelist who writes about the LAPD) 1956
Robin Williams ("Jack", "Mrs. Doubtfire", "What Dreams May Come", "One Hour Photo") 1952
Cat Stevens (sang "The First Cut is the Deepest", "Morning Has Broken", "Wild World") 1948
Ken Star (US Federal Investigator into President Clinton's activities which led to his impeachment) 1946
Tony Scott (directed "Man on Fire", "Top Gun", "Enemy of the State") 1944
Norman Jewison (Directed "In the Heat of the Night" starring Sidney Poitier, which won Best Picture in 1967, also directed "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Moonstruck") 1926
Don Knotts (Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show") 1924
Ernest Hemingway (wrote "The Old Man and the Sea") 1899