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1699 - Pirate Captain William Kidd and his wife were placed in Stone Prison under solitary confinement and the condition of the imprisonment was so harsh that it almost drove Kidd into complete insanity. After almost a year of being imprisoned there, Kidd was finally deported to England to be held for questioning by the Parliament.1858 - The shoe manufacturing machine was patented by Lyman Blake of Abington, MA.
1885 - Louis Pasteur, famous for discovering the pasteurization process, made history by accomplishing the first effective rabies inoculation (on a boy bitten by an infected dog).
1905 - John Walker’s fingerprints were the first ones to be exchanged by police officials in Europe and America. Law enforcement units in London and St. Louis, MO completed the exchange.
1912 - Jim Thorpe gained fame as the world’s greatest athlete when the Olympic Games opened in Stockholm, Sweden. Thorpe, a full-blooded Indian, was known as Bright Path, his given Indian name. When the King of Sweden called Thorpe “the greatest athlete in the world,” Thorpe replied by saying, “Thanks, King.”
1919 - The British dirigible R34 landed (or was hauled in, as they say) at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, NY. It was the first airship to cross the Atlantic. The 600-foot-long airship, piloted by Royal Air Force Cmdr. G.H. Scott with a crew of 30, reached a top speed of 62 mph during the 108-hour trip from Scotland.
1920 - A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time on a U.S. Navy airplane near Norfolk, Virginia.
1928 - The New York Strand Theatre was the scene of a sneak, midnight preview of the film, The Lights of New York. The Warner Bros. film was the first talkie (a motion picture with audio). The film’s transitions were still a little bumpy, so 24 titles were used to explain them. The 6,000 feet of film in Lights of New York told a gangster tale and introduced the phrase, “Take him for a ride.”
1932 - U.S. Postage rates went from two cents to three cents for first-class mail.
1933 - Baseball’s best gathered together at Comiskey Park in Chicago, IL for the first All-Star Game. The American League won by a 4-2 score as Babe Ruth connected for the first home run in All-Star history. Comiskey Park was filled with 47,595 fans who saw the game.
1937 - The big band classic, Sing, Sing, Sing was recorded by Benny Goodman and his band. Sitting in on this famous Victor Records session was Gene Krupa, Ziggy Elman and Harry James.
1942 - Thirteen-year-old Anne Frank went into hiding in an annex over her father’s office in Amsterdam. She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months during World War II attempting to evaded capture by the Nazi regime of Germany. Anne Frank died of typhus nearly three years later at Germany’s Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1943 - Judy Canova, the ‘Queen of the Hillbillies’, began a weekly comedy show on CBS radio.
1944 - A fire engulfed a Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus big top in Hartford, CT. The fire, and an ensuing stampede in the main tent, combined to kill 169 people. Another 487 were injured. The tragedy became known as ‘the day the clowns cried..’
1947 - A hidden microphone eavesdropped on unsuspecting people for the first time, as Candid Microphone hit the airwaves. Allen Funt was the host of the ABC radio show, the forerunner of the long-running TV version, Candid Camera. Candid Microphone didn't have as long a run on radio, however, lasting one year on ABC, taking a two year hiatus and returning to CBS radio for another year. The radio format of Candid Microphone was slightly different than the TV version ... when one of the eavesdropees uttered words considered too colorful by the network, a soft woman's voice would say, “Censored,” and the program would continue with Don Hollenbeck as the narrator.
1948 - Frieda Hennock became the first woman to serve as commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. She was appointed to the post by President Harry S Truman.
1957 - Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women’s singles tennis title. Gibson was the first black tennis star to win the prestigious event.
1957 - The Harry S Truman Library was dedicated in Independence, Missouri.
1964 - Malawi (formerly Nyasaland), a landlocked country in southeast Africa just east of Zambia, declared its independence from the U.K. Hastings Banda was elected president.
1967 - The Biafran War erupted as Nigerial forces invaded. Some 600,000 people died during the two-and-a-half-year conflict.
1971 - Jazz great Louis Armstrong died in New York of a heart attack. He was 71. Armstrong’s biggest success was when he turned the title song from the Broadway show Hello Dolly! (1964) into a million-selling record. Armstrong learned to play the trumpet in a waifs’ home in New Orleans, and at the age of 18 joined the Kid Ory band. He later played with King Oliver before forming his own group in the late 1920s. Armstrong is credited with developing the role of the soloist in jazz, and of originating scat singing -- singing without lyrics.
1975 - The Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros (Islands) declared its independence from France; and has endured 19 coups or attempted coups since.
1976 - The U.S. Naval Academy admitted women for the first time, with the induction of eighty-one female midshipmen.
1981 - The Dupont Company of Wilmington, DE announced an agreement to purchase Conoco, Inc. (Continental Oil Co.) for seven billion dollars. The merger was the largest in corporate history (to that time). Bargaining continued until a final figure of $7.7 billion closed the deal for the chemical and oil giants. The merger created the seventh largest industrial company in the U.S.
1984 - Michael Jackson and his brothers started their Victory Tour in Kansas City, Missouri’s Arrowhead Stadium. The tour turned out to be a victory for the Jacksons when the nationwide concert tour concluded months later.
1990 - NATO leaders concluded two days of meetings in London, pledging to sharply reduce both nuclear and conventional defenses in Europe.
1991 - Steffi Graf won the women’s singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Gabriela Sabatini 6-4, 3-6, 8-6.
1994 - Fourteen firefighters were killed while battling a several-day-old blaze on Storm King Mountain in Colorado. John N. Maclean’s book Fire on the Mountain “weaves together a tense narrative of almost cinematic action, starring ballsy cowboy smokejumpers, frustrated federal middle managers, seasoned ‘hotshots’ flown in like commandos, pissed-off tanker pilots, and well-intentioned but spin-wary politicians. Maclean’s well-sketched personalities bring the action on the ground convincingly to life -- and knowing up front that many of his main characters won't survive South Canyon makes this tragic tale that much more compelling.”
1996 - The left engine of a Delta Airlines MD-88 blew apart during an aborted takeoff from Pensacola, FL, sending metal pieces ripping into the cabin, killing a mother and her son.
1996 - Steffi Graf won her seventh Wimbledon title, defeating Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 6-3, 7-5.
1997 - The rover Sojourner rolled down a ramp from the Mars Pathfinder lander onto the Martian landscape to begin inspecting the soil and rocks of the Red Planet.
1997 - Pete Sampras won his fourth Wimbledon title as he defeated Cedric Pioline of France.
1998 - A Cathay Pacific airliner touched down at Hong Kong’s new airport at Chek Lap Kok hours after the lights went out at the old, overcrowded Kai Tak runway.
1998 - Roy Rogers, ‘King of the Cowboys’, died at age 86 years of age in Apple Valley, CA. Rogers was born as Leonard Franklin Slye in Cincinnati where his father worked in a shoe factory. The singing cowboy starred in 87 movies and 101 episodes of his TV show.
1999 - Ehud Barak presented his government to the Knesset, assuming the office of Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Israel. Barak pledged to seek peace with neighboring Arab countries.
2000 - Venus Williams beat her sister, Serena, at Wimbledon. In one of the most eagerly anticipated Wimbledon matches in years, 18-year-old Serena was in tears after the final game. It was her fourth loss in five tennis matches to her 20-year-old sister.
2001 - Kiss of the Dragon opened in the U.S. The martial arts flick stars Jet Li, Bridget Fonda and Tcheky Karyo.
2001 - An Amnesty International report said that China had executed 1,781 people during the previous three months. The London-based group said China put people to death not just for violent crimes, but also for offences such as bribery, embezzlement and stealing gasoline.
2002 - Film director John Frankenheimer died in LA. He was 72 years old.
2003 - Roger Federer became the first Swiss man to win a Grand Slam title. He defeated Mark Philippoussis 7-6 (5), 6-2, 7-6 (3) in the Wimbledon final.
2003 - 95-year-old actor Buddy Ebsen died. Ebsen achieved stardom and riches in the TV series The Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones.
2004 - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry selected former rival John Edwards to be his running mate. Edwards was a freshman U.S. Senator from North Carolina.
2004 - The Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, OR filed for bankruptcy because of the financial impact of sexual abuse claims.
2005 - The city of London was awarded the 2012 Olympics, upsetting European rival Paris in the final round of voting. The games would return to the British capital for the first time since 1948.
2006 - 44-year-old Alan Newton of New York City was released from prison after DNA evidence cleared him of a 1985 rape conviction. He had served 21 years (in 12 New York prisons) of a 40-year sentence.
2007 - An emotionally distraught man opened fire on gamblers at the New York-New York casino in Las Vegas. The gunman wounded four people before he was tackled by a 24-year-old university student from North Dakota. Justin Lampert had been snacking at a New York-New York hot dog stand when the gunman, changing the clip in his gun, walked by. Lampert, who was also a North Dakota National Guard staff sergeant, grabbed the man before he could reload and held him in a choke hold until more help arrived.
2008 - South Korea reported that it was implementing a multi-stage plan aimed at reducing energy consumption. This because skyrocketing oil prices threatened to push Asia’s fourth-largest economy into a full-fledged crisis.
2008 - The United Arab Emirates canceled all its Iraqi debt and moved to restore a full diplomatic mission in Baghdad by naming a new ambassador.
2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama attended his first Moscow summit. Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev struck a preliminary deal to reduce stockpiles of nuclear warheads to as few as 1,500 for each counry. The levels were lower than those reached in any previous arms control agreement.
2010 - U.S. President Obama met with Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House. The two heads of state dismissed talk of a rift as wildly unfounded, and Netanyahu pledged to revive sluggish Mideast peace efforts with the Palestinians.
2011 - Septien debuted in New York. The mystery comedy drama stars Rachel Korine, Brian Kotzur, Robert Longstreet, John Maringouin and Mark Darby Robinson.
2011 - The U.S. and Mexico signed an agreement allowing each country’s trucks to traverse the other’s highways implementing a key provision in the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The accord, signed in Mexico City by U.S. and Mexican transportation officials, ended a 15-year-old controversy that on the U.S. side featured fears of unsafe Mexican trucks barreling along U.S. highways, driven by unprofessional Mexican truckers.
2012 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Savages, starring Taylor Kitsch, John Travolta, Blake Lively, Trevor Donovan, Emile Hirsch, Salma Hayek, Aaron Johnson, Benicio Del Toro; Collaborator, with Martin Donovan, David Morse, Olivia Williams, Melissa Auf der Maur, Eileen Ryan, Julian Richings and Katherine Helmond; Crazy Eyes, with Lukas Haas, Madeline Zima, Jake Busey, Tania Raymonde, Regine Nehy and Moran Atias; The Magic of Belle Isle, starring Morgan Freeman, Virginia Madsen, Madeline Carroll, Emma Fuhrmann, Nicolette Pierini, Kenan Thompson, Ash Christian, Jessica Hecht and Boyd Holbrook; The Pact, with Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, Agnes Bruckner, Mark Steger, Haley Hudson, Kathleen Rose Perkins and Sam Ball; and the documentary, The Queen of Versailles, with David Siegel and Jackie Siegel.
2012 - California lawmakers approved billions of dollars in construction financing for the initial segment of the first dedicated high-speed rail line in the U.S. The project would connect Los Angeles and San Francisco.
2013 - An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed after striking a seawall while landing at San Francisco International Airport. Two Chinese girls were killed (one after being run over by a fire truck) and 70 people were injured out of 290 passengers and 16 crew members on the jet. Another Chinese girl died in a San Francisco hospital on July 12. It was the first crash of a Boeing 777 that resulted in fatalities since its entry to service in 1995.
2014 - A 14-year-old girl was dragged into a forest in eastern India and raped. The action was ordered by a village leader in retaliation for a sex assault blamed on the girl’s brother.
2015 - A 2005 deposition testimony by former TV star Bill Cosby was unsealed in Philadelphia, PA. In it Cosby admitted that he had obtained quaaludes (sedative and hypnotic medication) to give young women before having sex with them. More than two dozen women had accused Cosby of sexual misconduct dating back more than 40 years.
2016 - Pfizer (PFE), the world’s second-biggest drug company, agreed to detail the risk of addiction to opioids. The painkillers, heavily marketed by pharmaceutical firms in recent years as a treatment for chronic conditions, were blamed for tens of thousands of fatal overdoses and for helping fuel a heroin epidemic in Chicago and other parts of the country. The new Pfizer policy was disclosed on this day in Chicago, a city that was suing five drug manufacturers for allegedly misleading consumers and physicians about the risks of their opioids.
2016 - And speaking of dangerous products, more than 500,000 hoverboards made by ten companies were recalled. The Consumer Product Safety Commission received at least 99 reports of the lithium ion battery packs that power hoverboards overheating, sparking, smoking, catching fire or exploding -- resulting in injuries and an estimated $2 million in property damage.
2017 - The Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City, NJ was stormed by memorabilia collectors and bargain hunters trying to get pieces of the place for themselves. The resort was set to be gutted to make way for the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Hard Rock bought the shuttered casino for $50 million in March 2017. Original construction costs of the Trump Taj Mahal were $1.2 billion.
2017 - Torrential rains battered southwest Japan for a second day, killing three people. 100,000 were ordered to evacuate their homes while thousands of rescuers, some in helicopters, searched for survivors.
2018 - Motion pictures debuting in U.S. theatres included: Ant-Man and the Wasp, starring Evangeline Lilly, Hannah John-Kamen and Walton Goggins; Bleeding Steel, starring Jackie Chan, Callan Mulvey and Tess Haubrich; Moss, with Mitchell Slaggert, Christine Marzano and Dorian Cobb; and Sorry to Bother You, with Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson and Jermaine Fowler.
2018 - Japan executed doomsday Aum Shinrikyo cult leader Shoko Asahara and six of his followers. Their 1995 poison gas attack on rush-hour commuters in Tokyo’s subway killed 13 people and sickened more than 6,000. Aum Shinrikyo, often shortened to Aum, believed that the end of the world was coming and that those outside the cult would go to hell - unless they were killed by cult members.
2018 - It was Scott Pruitt’s last day as EPA Administrator and he granted a loophole to allow an increase in the manufacturing of a diesel freight truck that produced as much as 55 times the air pollution as trucks that have modern emissions controls. Fitzgerald Glider Kits of Crossville, TN had donated tens of thousands to Representative Diane Black, R-Tenn., a candidate for state governor. She had asked Pruitt to reverse the annual cap on glider manufacturers. (On July 27 the action was reversed, and the loophole closed, by new Administrator Andrew Wheeler.)
2019 - João Gilberto, singer and composer who helped bossa nova gain global popularity, died in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was 88 years old. In 1963, Gilberto collaborated with American jazz musician Stan Getz on the album Getz/Gilberto which was released the following year. Gilberto’s then-wife Astrud performed the vocals in English while he sang in Portuguese. Although Astrud Gilberto was only in the recording studio to be with her husband, João requested her to sing on several of the tracks as he could not sing in English. This resulted in the duet between the two on the track The Girl from Ipanema which became the major hit from the album.
2019 - New York financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey after arriving by private jet from Paris. Epstein, a registered sex offender, was accused of paying underage girls for massages and molested them at his homes in Florida and New York. (Epstein died in his jail cell on Aug 10, 2019. A medical examiner ruled the death a suicide. Since his death precluded the possibility of pursuing criminal charges against him, a judge dismissed all charges on Aug 29, 2019.)
2020 - Uber agreed to acquire the food delivery start-up Postmates for $2.65 billion. This, as the ride-sharing company sought to increase its share of the world’s food delivery market.
2020 - Country singer, songwriter, fiddler Charlie Daniels died at 83 years of age. Daniels was best known for his number-one country hit The Devil Went Down to Georgia. He was inducted into the Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame in 2002, the Grand Ole Opry in 2008, the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009, and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2016.
2020 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that states can require presidential electors to back their states’ popular vote winner in the Electoral College.
2021 - The Pentagon canceled a $10 billion cloud-computing contract with Microsoft -- after Amazon accused the Trump administration of interfering with the bidding process.
2021 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared gun violence to be a statewide emergency and allocated $76 million to create jobs for at-risk youth.
2022 - A dramatic day in British politics: 50+ government ministers and aides withdraw their support from Prime Minister Boris Johnson and resigned, a 24 hour record. Johnson’s political demise was imminent.
2022 - In the first ever joint appearance by MI5 head Ken McCallum and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, a warning that China is the “biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security.”
2022 - Rihanna, 31, officially became the youngest female self-made billionaire in the United States. This, according to Forbes’ 2022 list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women. The singer’s net worth was $1.4 billion, putting her at No. 21 on the Forbes list. Rihanna was co-owner of Fenty Beauty and held a 30 percent stake in her lingerie line, Savage x Fenty. She co-owned Fenty Beauty with French luxury retailer LVMH, which accounted for a big part of her fortune. The company generated more than $550 million in revenue in 2020. Kim Kardashian, 41, was the nation’s second-youngest billionaire on the list.
2023 - Ameca, Grace, and Sophia, some of more than 50 robots attending the U.N.-driven AI for Good Global Summit, which opened in Geneva. As artificial intelligence (AI) sprouted powerful learning abilities, nations were working on strategies to govern it. This, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which hosted the two-day summit to showcase a bevy of new technologies, including a range of robots who handle everything from healthcare to rock music.
2023 - Meta's Threads app debuted, offering billions of users with an alternative to Twitter, amid growing frustration with the Elon Musk-owned social media service. And within hours, 10 million people had signed up for the service, according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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Birthdays on This Day July 6
1747 - John Paul Jones
American naval officer of the ship Bonhomme Richard, in battle against British frigate Serapis: “I have not yet begun to fight!”; died July 18, 17921781 - Sir Stamford Raffles
founded Singapore; discovered Rafflesia Arnoldi [w/Joseph Arnold], an East Indian fungus; died July 5, 18261884 - Harold (Stirling) ‘Mike’ Vanderbilt
capitalist: director of NY Central Railroad; sportsman: first owner to sail his sailboat in America’s Cup competition [winners: Enterprise: 1930, 1934; Ranger: 1937]; invented game of contract bridge [1925]; son of Cornelius Vanderbilt; died Jul 4, 19701910 - Dorothy Kirsten
opera singer; actress: The Great Caruso, Happy Days [1929], Mr. Music; died Nov 18, 19921916 - LaVerne Andrews
singer: contralto, group: The Andrews Sisters: Why Talk About Love, A Simple Melody, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön; died May 8, 19671918 - Sebastian Cabot
actor: Family Affair, Family Jewels, Johnny Tremain & the Sons of Liberty, The Time Machine, Twice-Told Tales, Omar Khayyam, Romeo and Juliet, Westward-Ho, the Wagons; died Aug 22, 19771921 - Nancy Reagan (Anne Robbins-Davis)
actress: Hellcats of the Navy, East Side, West Side; former First Lady: married to 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan; died Mar 6, 20161922 - William Schallert
actor: Dobie Gillis, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The Patty Duke Show, The Grace Kelly Story; died May 8, 20161924 - Louie Bellson
musician: drums, composer, bandleader: 1994 recipient of the American Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts; died Feb 14, 20091924 - Darrell Royal
College Football Hall of Famer: coach: Univ of Texas, Univ of Washington, Mississippi State Univ, CFL’s Edmonton Eskimos; quarterback: Univ of Oklahoma; inducted into College Football HOF [1983]; died Nov 7, 20121925 - Merv Griffin
singer: I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts [w/Freddy Martin’s Orchestra - 1949]; TV host: The Merv Griffin Show; game show developer: Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy; hotel mogul; died Aug 12, 20071925 - Bill Haley (William John Clifton Haley Jr.)
musician, singer: group: Bill Haley and His Comets: Rock Around the Clock, Mambo Rock, Dim, Dim the Lights, Shake, Rattle and Roll, Crazy Man Crazy, See You Later Alligator; died Feb 9, 19811927 - Janet Leigh (Jeanette Morrison Reames)
actress: Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate, Bye, Bye, Birdie, Houdini, Pete Kelly’s Blues, That Forsyte Woman; actress, Jamie Lee Curtis’ mother; died Oct 3, 20041927 - Pat Paulsen
comedian: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour; perennial U.S. Presidential candidate; died Apr 24, 19971931 - Donal Donnelly
actor: The Avengers, Godfather: Part III, The Dead, The Knack; died Jan 4, 20101931 - Della Reese (Delloreese Patricia Early)
singer: Don’t You Know, And That Reminds Me, Not One Minute More; actress: Della, Chico & the Man, The Royal Family, Touched by an Angel, Let’s Rock, Harlem Nights; died Nov 19, 20171935 - 14th Dalai Lama (Lhamo Thondup)
1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner: Tibetan spiritual leader1937 - Ned Beatty
actor: Deliverance, Homicide, Hear My Song, Friendly Fire, The Guyana Tragedy, Superman, Rudy, The Toy, The Silver Streak, Radioland Murders, Network, Gray Lady Down; died Jun 13, 20211937 - Gene Chandler (Eugene Dixon)
singer: Duke of Earl, Groovy Situation, Just Be True; record label owner: Mr. Chand1944 - Byron Berline
bluegrass musician: fiddle: group: Byron Berline Band: Faded Love, Roly Poly, My Dixie Darling, Rose of Old Kentucky, Sally Goodin’; The Flying Burrito Brothers: LPs: Last of the Red Hot Burritos (Live), Six Days On the Road: Live in Amsterdam; died Jul 10, 20211945 - Rik Elswit
musician: guitar, singer: group: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Sylvia’s Mother, [Freakin’ At] The Freaker’s Ball, Queen of the Silver Dollar, Ballad of Lucy Jordan, The Cover of Rolling Stone, When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman, Sharing the Night Together, Sexy Eyes, Better Love Next Time1945 - Bill Plager
hockey: NHL: Minnesota North Stars, St. Louis Blues, Atlanta Flames1945 - Burt Ward (Gervais)
actor: Batman, Beach Babes from Beyond Infinity, Robo-chic, Smooth Talker, Virgin High, Killcrazy1946 - George W. (Walker) Bush
43rd President of the United States [2000-2008]; married to Laura Welch Bush [twin daughters: Barbara and Jenna]; governor of Texas [1995-2000]; managing partner of Texas Rangers baseball club; son of 41st U.S. President [1989-1993] George [Herbert Walker] Bush1946 - Fred Dryer
actor: Hunter, Death Before Dishonor, The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins; football: NY Giants, LA Rams defensive end: Super Bowl XIV1946 - Sylvester Stallone
actor: Rocky series, Rambo series, Cliffhanger, Cobra, Demolition Man, Nighthawks, Oscar, Tango and Cash, The Specialist, Judge Dredd, Assassins, Cop Land, Tulsa King1946 - James Browning Wyeth
artist: Lester, Shorty, Halloween, Draft Age, Obelisk, The Red House, The Islander1947 - Shelley Hack
actress: Charlie’s Angels, King of Comedy, Annie Hall, A Casualty of War, The Stepfather1949 - Michael Shrieve
musician: drums: group: Santana: Black Magic Woman, Gypsy Queen, Jingo, Oye Como Va, Soul Sacrifice, Evil Ways1950 - Geraldine James
actress: Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes, The Battle for Rome, Calendar Girls, Crime and Punishment, Seesaw, No Worries1951 - Geoffrey Rush
Academy Award-winning actor: Shine [1996]; Shakespeare in Love, Quills, Swimming Upstream, A Little Bit of Soul, Elizabeth, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
1952 - Grant Goodeve
actor: Dynasty, Eight is Enough, Northern Exposure; TV host: Solid Gold Hits1954 - Allyce Beasley (Alice Tannenbaum)
actress: Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers, Motorama, Moonlighting, Rumpelstiltskin, Dream with the Fishes, Stuart Little1954 - Nanci Griffith
Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter: LP: Other Voices/Other Rooms [1993]; From a Distance, Love at the Five and Dime, Fly by Night, Daddy Said, Ford Econoline, LP: There’s a Light Beyond These Woods1954 - Willie Randolph
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates, NY Yankees, LA Dodgers, Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers, New York Mets1959 - Jon Keeble
musician: drums: group: Spandau Ballet: True, To Cut a Long Story Short, The Freeze, Musclebound, Chant No. 11961 - Kimberly Foster
actress: Dallas, One Crazy Summer, It Takes Two, Deadline, Love Bites, Broken Trust1966 - Brian Posehn
comedian, actor: Mission Hill, The Sarah Silverman Program, Sleeping Dogs Lie, Undead or Alive: A Zombedy, Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Comedy Central Presents: 2008 Breakout Comedians, Lloyd the Conqueror Andy, The Five-Year Engagement, Knights of Badassdom, Sym-Bionic Titan1966 - Glenn Scarpelli
actor: One Day at a Time, Jennifer Slept Here1967 - Patricia Kennedy
actress [1990-2002]: X-rated films: Lottery Lust, Female Persuasion, Eyewitness Nudes, Catalina Five-O: White Coral, Blue Death, Wild Goose Chase, The Love Doctor, Almost Home Alone, Sex Bandits, Beeping Miss Buffy1967 - Omar Olivares
baseball [pitcher]: St. Louis Cardinals, Colorado Rockies, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers, Seattle Mariners, Anaheim Angels, Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates1972 - Greg Norton
baseball: Chicago White Sox, Colorado Rockies, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox1974 - Steve Sullivan
hockey: NJ Devils, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks, Nashville Predators
1975 - Vanessa Chase
actress [1994-1996]: X-rated films: The Dinner Party, Young Nurses In Lust, No Tell Motel, Dr. Freckle & Mr. Jive, Beaver & Buttface, Double Decadence, Seymore Butts' Orgasmatic1975 - 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson)
rapper: In Da Club, 21 Questions, P.I.M.P., Blood Hound, Wanksta, How to Rob; TV actor: Power1976 - Chris Dingman
hockey: Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche, Carolina Hurricanes, Tampa Bay Lightning1976 - Alana Evans
actress [1998-2013]: X-rated films: Confessions of a Call Girl, Open Wide and Say Ahh! 4, The Violation of Kate Frost, Secret Suburban Sex Parties, XXX Training Day, Sick Girls Need Sick Boys, Tales from the Backside1978 - Adam Busch
actor: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, American Dreamz, Grey’s Anatomy, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, The Jury, All American Orgy, Men at Work1978 - Tamera Mowry
actress: Sister, Sister, Detention, Seventeen Again, Hollywood Horror; twin sister of Tia Mowry1978 - Tia Mowry
actress: Sister, Sister, Detention, Seventeen Again, Hollywood Horror; twin sister of Tamera Mowry1979 - Kevin Hart
comedian, actor: The Real Husbands of Hollywood, Think Like a Man, Grudge Match, Ride Along, About Last Night; comedy LPs: I’m a Grown Little Man, Seriously Funny, Laugh at My Pain1980 - Pau Gasol
basketball [power forward/center]: NBA: Memphis Grizzlies [2001–2008]; Los Angeles Lakers [2008–2014]: 2009, 2010 NBA champs; Chicago Bulls [2014–2016]; San Antonio Spurs [2016-2019]; Milwaukee Bucks [2019]1980 - Eva Green
actress: Casino Royale [2006], Cracks, Womb, Perfect Sense, Camelot, Dark Shadows [2012], 300: Rise of an Empire, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Penny Dreadful1982 - Brandon Jacobs
football [running back]: New York Giants [2005–2011]; 2008 Super Bowl XLII champs, 2012 Super Bowl XLVI champs; San Francisco 49ers [2012]; New York Giants [2013]1983 - Gregory Smith
actor: Leaping Leprechauns, Spellbreaker, The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space, The Patriot1987 - Matt O’Leary
actor: Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, Live Free or Die Hard, Fat Kid Rules the World1988 - Cody Fern
actor: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, American Horror Story: Apocalypse, House of Cards, The Great Darkened Days1990 - Jeremy Suarez
actor: The Bernie Mac Show, Jerry Maguire, Extreme Movie, Room to Grow, The Ladykillers, Chicago Hope2006 - Milly and Becky Rosso
twin sister actresses: The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Legally Blondes
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Hit Music on This Day July 6
1950Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered (facts) - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
My Foolish Heart (facts) - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
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