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1795 - Martin Academy in Washington, Tennessee changed its name to Washington College ... the first college to be named after George Washington.1805 - Bill Richmond, the first noted boxer in America, beat up Jack Holmes in round 26 of a bout in Cricklewood Green, England.
1856 - Charles E. Barnes of Lowell, MA patented the machine gun.
1881 - The first ice cream sundae was served -- by accident. Druggist Edward Berner of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, couldn’t serve the desirable, but scandalous (not allowed on the Sabbath) flavored soda water that a customer wanted. Mr. Berner compromised and put ice cream in a dish and poured the syrup on top (chocolate syrup was only used for making flavored and ice-cream sodas, at the time). Voila! An ice cream Sunday! (The spelling was later changed to ‘sundae’).
1889 - John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain in the last championship bare-knuckle fight. Good thing it was the last one, too, as the bout went on for 75 rounds! It took 2 hours, 16 minutes and 23 seconds to complete.
1889 - Vol 1, No 1 of The Wall Street Journal (then called Customer’s Afternoon Letter) was published.
1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld staged the first Ziegfeld Follies at the roof garden of the New York Theatre.
1923 - Warren G. Harding became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Alaska.
1946 - Actress Ava Gardner divorced bandleader Artie Shaw on this day; not quite a year after they were married.
1950 - Joel McCrea appeared in the lead role of Tales of the Texas Rangers. The soon-to-be-popular show debuted on NBC radio.
1958 - The first gold record album presented by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was awarded. It went to the soundtrack LP, Oklahoma!. The honor signified that the album had reached one million dollars in sales. The first gold single issued by the RIAA was Catch a Falling Star, by Perry Como, in March of 1958. A gold single also represents sales of one million records.
1960 - Storer Broadcasting Company purchased WINS radio in New York City for $10 million. It was the highest price paid for a radio station (to that time). Many great radio personalities including Murray the K, Bruce Morrow and Alan Freed were stars on WINS Radio. WINS, under Storer ownership, also aired some very clever promotions, including the time they drove the New York media crazy. It was a discovery (thought to be a rare find) in the back seat of a New York taxicab: a clay tablet that looked to be Egyptian and had carvings on it. Upon closer examination, it read, “Everybody’s mummy listens to 10-10 WINS!”
1963 - The U.S. banned all monetary transactions with Cuba as the Trading with the Enemy Act took effect.
1969 - U.S. troop withdrawal began in Vietnam.
1970 - The San Francisco Giants’ Jim Ray Hart hit for the cycle (a single, double, triple and home run in one game). Hart became the first National League player in 59 seasons to collect six runs batted in (RBI) during a single inning. The Giants walloped the Atlanta Braves 13-0.
1976 - Former president Richard M. Nixon was removed from the New York Bar Association. His license to practice law was revoked because of his obstruction of justice during the Watergate coverup.
1979 - Voyager 2 took the first-ever photo of Jupiter’s satellite Adrastea (J14).
1984 - John McEnroe made short work of Jimmy Connors at Wimbledon. Connors managed to win only four games and tied for the second lowest number of games won by a Wimbledon men’s singles finalist since 1922. McEnroe won the event in just 1 hour 20 minutes.
1985 - Pro Football Hall of Famer Jack Lambert of the Pittsburgh Steelers announced his retirement on this, his 33rd birthday. A 1974 second-round draft choice from Kent State University in Ohio, Lambert played 11 seasons with the Steelers. He racked up several awards including the NFL’s Rookie of the Year [1974], Defensive Player of the Year [1976]; and nine consecutive Pro Bowls [1975-1983]. Jack Lambert was a major chunk of the Steel Curtain and owns four Super Bowl rings to prove it.
1987 - Lt. Col. Oliver North became a daytime TV star, pulling in more viewers than many game shows and soap operas. He captured center stage as the Iran-Contra hearings were televised throughout the U.S.
1989 - Carlos Saul Menem was inaugurated as president of Argentina. It was that country’s first transfer of power from one democratically elected civilian leader to another in six decades.
1990 - Sweden’s Stefan Edberg beat Boris Becker of West Germany to capture his second men’s tennis championship at Wimbledon. West Germany won the World Cup soccer championship, defeating Argentina, 1-to-0.
1994 - A six-day preliminary hearing ended in Los Angeles. Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell ruled there was sufficient evidence for O.J. Simpson to stand trial on charges of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole, and her waiter-friend, Ronald Goldman.
1994 - Kim Il Sung died. He was 82 years old. Sung had been North Korea’s communist leader since its founding in 1948.
1996 - Hurricane Bertha slammed into the U.S. Virgin Islands with torrential rains and winds that gusted to 105 mph.
1997 - The Mayo Clinic and the U.S. government warned the diet-drug combination known as Fen-Phen could cause serious heart and lung damage.
1998 - A federal bankruptcy judge approved a settlement under which an estimated 170,000 women claiming silicone breast implants had made them sick, would get $3.2 billion dollars from Dow Corning Corp.
1999 - Astronaut Charles ‘Pete’ Conrad Jr., the third man to walk on the moon, died from internal injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident near Ojai, California. He was 69 years old.
2000 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire generated record-breaking sales. The fourth book in the Potter series quickly sold all 3.8 million first- edition copies and publisher Scholastic Inc. was ‘forced’ to quickly print two million additional copies.
2000 - Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport 6-3, 7-6 (3), becoming the first black women’s champion at Wimbledon since Althea Gibson in 1957-58. It was also the first Grand Slam title for Williams.
2001 - Cable operator Comcast mounted a $44.5 billion hostile bid to merge with AT&T Broadband. Although AT&T spurned the offer, the AT&T board eventually agreed to merge the cable unit with Comcast (for $47 billion).
2001 - Venus Williams won her second consecutive Wimbledon title, beating Belgian Justine Henin.
2002 - WorldCom and its former auditors, Arthur Andersen, clashed over responsibility for nearly $4 billion in accounting improprieties. WorldCom’s former finance chief, Scott Sullivan, refused to testify before a House panel investigating the mess.
2003 - A ferry sank at the confluence of the Padma, Meghna and Dakatia rivers about 40 miles south of the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka. Some 220 of the 750 people on board survived.
2005 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres: Dark Water, starring Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Pete Postlethwaite, Ariel Gade, Perla Haney-Jardine, Camryn Manheim and Shelley Duvall; and Fantastic Four, with Michael Chiklis, Ioan Gruffudd, Chris Evans, Jessica Alba, Julian McMahon, Maria Menounos, Kerry Washington and Hamish Linklater.
2005 - Hurricane Dennis approached Cuba, heading toward the Gulf Coast of the U.S. Dennis was the first major hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which turned out to be the most active in recorded history.
2006 - New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine issued an executive order that ended a weeklong state government shutdown. Slot machines sprang back to life as Atlantic City casinos reopened.
2006 - Golden Globe-winning American film and TV actress June Allyson died in Ojai, CA at 88 years of age. Allyson won her Golden Globe (best actress) for Too Young to Kiss in 1952. Her many other TV and film appearances include The Sailor Takes a Wife, High Barbaree, The Stratton Story, The Glenn Miller Story, Strategic Air Command, My Man Godfrey, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Dick Powell Show, Hart to Hart and Murder, She Wrote.
2007 - Boeing unveiled its first fully assembled 787 Dreamliner in Everett, WA. Boeing chose this day to unveil the new jetliner because it was July 8, 2007 — or 7/8/7.
2007 - From the Sounds Like Lots Of Fun dept.: Spain’s largest fighting bulls lived up to their fearsome reputation, goring two and crushing seven people as thousands of daredevils sprinted down narrow streets in Pamplona’s annual running of the bulls.
2008 - The U.S. and the Czech Republic signed a treaty in Prague allowing the U.S. to build part of a missile defense shield in the central European state.
2008 - Human Rights Watch reported that domestic workers in Saudi Arabia often suffer abuse that in some cases amounts to slavery, as well as sexual violence and lashings for spurious allegations of theft or witchcraft.
2008 - The Butte Lightning Complex Fire destroyed 41 homes overnight in and around Paradise, California. The following day 10,000 people were evacuated from the area.
2009 - Australian residents of rural Bundanoon, hoping to protect the earth and their wallets, voted to ban the sale of bottled water, the first community in the country to make the move. Environmentalist Jon Dee said, “Huge amounts of resources are used to extract, bottle and transport that bottled water, and much of the package ends up as litter or landfill.” And he said he believed Bundanoon to be the first town in the world to ban bottled water entirely.
2010 - Cleveland Cavaliers’ basketball star LeBron James announced that he was leaving Cleveland to join the Miami Heat. Once James had made the announcement on TV, Cleveland fans poured out of downtown bars and restaurants, and a few set fire to replicas of his #23 jersey, while others threw rocks at a 10-story-tall billboard of James.
2011 - New movies in the U.S.: Zookeeper, starring Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb, Ken Jeong, Donnie Wahlberg and Joe Rogan; Horrible Bosses, with Jason Bateman, P.J. Byrne, Steve Wiebe, Kevin Spacey, Charlie Day and Lindsay Sloane; the musical documentary, Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, with the Beastie Boys, Mary J. Blige, Common, Mike D and Phife Dawg; The Ledge, starring Patrick Wilson, Charlie Hunnam, Liv Tyler, Christopher Gorham, Terrence Howard and Jaqueline Fleming; the documentary Project Nim, with Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen, and Reagan Leonard; and The Ward, starring Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker, Laura-Leigh, Lyndsy Fonseca, Jared Harris and Sydney Sweeney.
2011 - Four stronauts rocketed into orbit on Atlantis for NASA’s last blast off -- after 30 years of launches for its storied fleet of space shuttles.
2012 - Donor nations meeting in Tokyo pledged $16 billion for Afghanistan to prevent the country from sliding back into turmoil when foreign combat troops depart. At the same time, the group called on those in power in Kabul to implement reforms to fight graft. The Tokyo conference hosted representatives from about 80 nations and international organizations in the gathering aimed at adopting the Tokyo Declaration, pledging support and cash to Afghanistan.
2013 - Egyptian soldiers and police fought with Islamists protesting the military’s ouster of President Mohammed Morsi. The bloodshed left 54 pro-Morsi protesters dead as well as four members of the security forces.
2014 - U.S. Bureau of Reclamation regional chief Terry Fulp said drought in the southwestern U.S. was about to deplete Nevada’s vast Lake Mead to levels not seen since the Great Depression in the 1930s.
2014 - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported that health researchers in Maryland had discovered vials of smallpox, declared eradicated in 1977, sitting in a forgotten fridge in an FDA storehouse. Authorities said the vials were transported to the CDC’s most secure containment lab in Atlanta, where testing confirmed that the vials did contain smallpox. Additional tests would be needed to determine if the smallpox was viable, after which the samples were to be destroyed.
2015 - An Iraqi court in Baghdad sentenced 24 members of the Islamic State terror group to death for their role in the massacre of hundreds of soldiers in June 2014. Some 1,700 soldiers, most of them Shia Muslim recruits, were killed when the jihadist group overran the Camp Speicher military base near Tikrit.
2015 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, with Zac Efron, Anna Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza; and the animated The Secret Life of Pets, featuring the voices of Jenny Slate, Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Kevin Hart, Albert Brooks, Dana Carvey, Eric Stonestreet, Tara Strong and Louis C.K.
2016 - Ten states sued the U.S. government over rules requiring public schools to allow transgender students to use restrooms conforming to their gender identity. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Nebraska and included nine other states: Arkansas, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota and Wyoming.
2016 - Six earthquakes, measuring from 2.8 to 4.4 magnitude, hit near Fairview, Oklahoma. The quakes were felt in a wide area of the state -- and neighboring Kansas. The U.S. Geological Survey has blamed the earthquakes on oil and gas drilling activity, particularly practices like hydraulic fracturing or fracking.
2017 - In San Antonio, TX Jorge Gonzalez found his 15-year-old son Isaiah hanging in a bedroom closet. A propped up cell phone next to him had broadcast the suicide, believed to be tied to an online spectacle known as the Blue Whale Challenge -- a ‘game’ that apparently originated in Russia.
2018 - One-time teen heartthrob singer and major film star Tab Hunter died in Santa Barbara, CA (cardiac arrest arising from complications related to deep vein thrombosis). He was 3 days shy of his 87th birthday. His films included Battle Cry and Damn Yankees! (1958). His recording of Young Love toped the Billboard pop chart for six weeks in 1957.
2018 - British Brexit minister David Davis resigned and launched a no-holds-barred attack on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan, calling it dangerous and one which would give too much away, too easily to European Union negotiators -- who would simply ask for more.
2019 - U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said that she was “deeply shocked” by conditions under which migrants and refugees were being held at U.S. detention centers. The inspection came following in response to reports of severe overcrowding and disease-ridden cells.
2020 - Glee TV star Naya Rivera disappeared at California’s Lake Piru. A boat rental employee found her boat floating with only son Josey (4) asleep inside and alerted authorities. Her body was recovered from the lake on July 13, following a five-day search.
2020 - Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s decision to bar international students from staying in the U.S. when taking classes entirely online. Facing those suits and other fierce opposition, the Trump administration dropped its ban the following week.
2021 - California lawyer Michael Avenatti was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening the company with bad publicity.
2021 - Olympic organizers made the decision to not allow spectators at most events. The games were set to open in two weeks in Japan and the crowd prohibition came after a sudden spike in coronavirus cases there.
2022 - Thor: Love and Thunder opened in the U.S. The action adventure comedy stars Chris Pratt, Taika Waititi, Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Sam Neill, Bradley Cooper and Melissa McCarthy.
2022 - Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot to death as he spoke at a fellow politician’s campaign event ahead of elections for the upper house of Japan’s parliament. Abe, 67, was rushed to a hospital showing no vital signs after being hit in the neck and chest. He was standing at an intersection outside a train station in the western city of Nara, speaking to a crowd as cars and vans passed behind his exposed back on the road where the assailant appeared.
2022 - President Biden signed an executive order aimed at protecting access to abortion and other reproductive health care services. The order directed the Health and Human Services Dept to expand access to abortion pills, fortify birth control coverage under Obamacare, and organize free legal services for those who have been criminally charged for seeking out or providing an abortion.
2023 - President Biden defended his “very difficult decision” to give cluster bombs to Ukraine. The U.S., Ukraine and Russia did not sign up to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which prohibits the production or use of cluster munitions and discourages their use. Both Moscow and Kyiv had already used the bombs during Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
2023 - A scooter-riding gunman killed an 87-year-old man and wounded three others in an apparent string of random shootings that stretched across two New York City boroughs. The New York Police Department pulled an image of the gunman from video and sent it to phones of officers, some of whom spotted the suspect about two hours after the first shooting. Thomas Abreu, 25, was taken into custody without incident. A 9 mm handgun with an extended magazine and the scooter were confiscated.
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Birthdays on This Day July 8
1830 - Frederick William Seward
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State [1861-1869, 1877-1879]; father was politician William Seward; brother was U.S. Civil War Brigadier General William H. Seward, Jr; died Apr 25, 19151839 - John D. Rockefeller
industrialist: founded Standard Oil Co; died May 23, 19371908 - Louis (Thomas) Jordan
musician: alto sax, singer: Is You or is You ain’t My Baby, Open the Door Richard, G.I. Jive, Baby It’s Cold Outside, Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens; actor: Five Guys Named Moe; Fuzzy Wuzzy, Beware, Swing Parade of 1946, Reet, Petite, and Gone, Look-Out Sister; died Feb 4, 19751908 - Nelson (Aldrich) Rockefeller
U.S. Vice President under Gerald Ford [1974-1977], Governor of New York [1958-1973]; died Jan 26, 19791910 - Sarah (Newcomb) McClendon
journalist: White House press corps; died Jan 8, 20031913 - Walter Kerr
Pulitzer Prize-winning drama critic: New York Herald Tribune, New York Times; playwright: Sing Out, Sweet Land, Song of Bernadette; director: King of Hearts; Broadway’s Ritz Theater renamed for him; died Oct 9, 19961914 - Billy Eckstine (William Clarence Eckstein)
bandleader, bass-baritone singer: Fools Rush In, Everything I Have is Yours, I Apologize, My Foolish Heart, Blue Moon, Body and Soul; died Mar 8, 19931917 - Pamela Brown
actress: Wuthering Heights, Cleopatra, Victoria Regina, Alice in Wonderland; died Sep 18, 19751917 - Faye Emerson
actress: Destination: Tokyo, Uncertain Glory; TV panelist: I’ve Got a Secret, What’s in a Word, Masquerade Party; host: The Faye Emerson Show, Author Meets the Critic; died Mar 9, 19831918 - Craig Stevens (Gail Shikles)
actor: Peter Gunn, Drums in the Deep South, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; died May 10, 20001923 - Harrison Dillard
Olympic Gold Medalist: 100 meter [1948], 110 meter hurdles [1952], 4x100 relay [1948, 1952]; Sullivan Trophy winner [1953]; National Track & Field Hall of Famer; died Nov 15, 20191924 - Johnnie Johnson
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer [piano player, arranger]: worked with Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, George Thorogood; died Apr 13, 20051926 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
psychiatrist, author: On Death and Dying [she wrote more than 20 books dealing with phenomenon of dying]; died Aug 24, 20041929 - Shirley Ann Grau
Pulitzer Prize-winning author: The Keepers of the House [1965]; The Black Prince and Other Stories; died Aug 3, 20201930 - Jerry Vale (Genaro Vitaliano)
singer: Innamorata [Sweetheart], You Don’t Know Me, Have You Looked Into Your Heart; died May 18, 20141931 - Roone Arledge
TV executive: president: ABC News; died Dec 5, 20021932 - Barbara Loden
actress: Wild River, Splendor in the Grass, The Glass Menagerie; directed, starred in: Wanda; wife of producer/director Elia Kazan; died Sep 5, 19801934 - Marty Feldman
comedian, actor: Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, Yellowbeard, Slapstick of Another Kind; died Dec 2, 19821935 - John David Crow
College Football Hall of Famer: Heisman Trophy winner: Texas A&M [1957]; NFL: Chicago/St. Louis Cardinals, S.F. 49ers; coach/athletic director: Northeast Louisiana U; died Jun 17, 20151935 - Steve Lawrence (Sidney Leibowitz)
singer: Go Away Little Girl, Party Doll, Pretty Blue Eyes, Footsteps, Portrait of My Love; songwriter: Two on the Aisle; actor: The Carol Burnett Show, The Lonely Guy, The Blues Brothers, Blues Brothers 2000; married to singer Eydie Gorme; died Mar 7, 20241939 - Tommy Mason
football: Tulane Univ., Minnesota Vikings [#1 draft pick: 1961]; died Jan 22, 20151942 - Phil Gramm
U.S. Senator [Texas]; presidential hopeful [1996]1944 - Jeffrey Tambor
Emmy Award-winning actor: Transparent [2015]; Big Bully, Radioland Murders, City Slickers, A Perfect Little Murder, Brenda Starr, Mr. Mom, A Gun in the House, Pals, The Larry Sanders Show, Hill Street Blues, The Ropers, 9 to 5, Mr. Sunshine, Max Headroom, Muppets From Space1944 - Jai (Jaimoe) Johanson
musician: drums: group: Allman Brothers Band: Whipping Post, Midnight Rider, Ramblin’ Man1947 - Kim Darby (Deborah Zerby)
actress: Rich Man, Poor Man, True Grit, The Grissom Gang, The Streets of San Francisco1948 - Raffi Cavoukian
singer, songwriter: children’s songs: Everything Grows1949 - Wolfgang Puck
celebrity chef-restaurateur: his empire includes dozens of restaurants; formerly chef of Hotel de Paris in Monaco, Maxim’s in Paris, Ma Maison in Los Angeles and Spago Hollywood; Wolfgang’s cookbooks: Modern French Cooking for the American Kitchen, The Wolfgang Puck Cookbook, Adventures in the Kitchen with Wolfgang Puck, Pizza, Pasta and More!, Live, Love, Eat)1949 - Colin Walker
musician: cello: group: Electric Light Orchestra [ELO]: Evil Woman, Showdown, Turn to Stone, Rockaria!, Sweet Talkin’ Woman1951 - Anjelica Huston
Academy Award-winning actress: Prizzi’s Honor [1985]; The Witches, The Grifters, The Addams Family1952 - A. Whitney Brown
comedian, comedy writer: Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show1952 - Jack Lambert
Pro Football Hall of Famer: see 1985 [above]1952 - Christopher G. Moore
writer: A Killing Smile, A Bewitching Smile, A Haunting Smile, Vincent Calvino Private Eye series1952 - Marianne Williamson
spiritual activist, lecturer, founder: The Peace Alliance, Project Angel Food; author: The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife, A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever1957 - Carlos Cavazo
musician: guitar: group: Quiet Riot: Cum on Feel the Noize, Bang Your Head, Slick Black Cadillac, The Wild and the Young, Mama We’re All Crazy Now, Party All Night1958 - Kevin Bacon
Golden Globe-winning actor: Taking Chance [2010]; Apollo 13, JFK, A Few Good Men, The River Wild, Footloose, Murder in the First, The Air Up There, The Guiding Light, Wild Things, My Dog Skip; more1959 - Robert Knepper
actor: Heroes, Prison Break, Good Night, and Good Luck, Hitman, Transporter 3, Mob City, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, Part 21960 - Valarie Pettiford
actress: Broadway: Fosse, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, He Hunts, The Wild Party, The Wiz; film/TV: Paris, Stomp the Yard, Why Am I Doing This?, Why Did I Get Married Too?, Jumping the Broom, Stars in Shorts1961 - Andy Fletcher
musician: group: Depeche Mode: Enjoy the Silence, New Life, Shake the Disease1961 - Graham Jones
musician: guitar: group: Haircut 1001961 - Toby Keith (Covel)
songwriter, singer: Should’ve Been a Cowboy, When We Were in Love, I’m So Happy I Can’t Stop Crying, How Do You Like Me Now?, You Shouldn’t Kiss Me Like This, I'm Just Talkin’ About Tonight, I Wanna Talk About Me, My List, Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue [The Angry American], Who’s Your Daddy?, Beer for My Horses, I Love This Bar; actor: Broken Bridges; also raises quarter horses; restaurant chain owner: I Love This Bar & Grill1962 - Joan Osborne
singer: One of Us, St. Teresa, Right Hand Man, Dracula Moon, Spider Web, Lumina, Righteous Love, My Love Is Alive, Grand Illusion, Joan of Arcadia theme1963 - Rocky Carroll
actor: NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Roc, Chicago Hope, The Agency, The Game1965 - Corey Parker
actor: The End of the Bar, Fool’s Paradise, Encino Woman, Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story, Grandpa’s Funeral1968 - Billy Crudup
Tony Award-winning actor: The Coast of Utopia [2007]; The Morning Show, The Elephant Man, The Pillowman; films: Almost Famous, Big Fish, Princess Mononoke, Dedication, Watchmen, Public Enemies1968 - Maya Hawke
actress: Stranger Things, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Fear Street Part One: 1994, Do Revenge, Asteroid City, Maestro, Inside Out 21968 - Michael Weatherly
actor: Bull, NCIS, Dark Angel, Loving, Significant Others, Charlie Valentine, Her Minor Thing, The Specials, The Last Days of Disco, Meet Wally Sparks1970 - Beck (Bek David Campbell)
multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer: Devil’s Haircut, He’s a Mighty Good Leader, Where It’s At, High Five, Truckdriving Neighbors Downstairs, Hot Wax, Lost Cause1971 - Joe Russo
film, TV director [w/brother, Anthony]: Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War; Arrested Development, Community1972 - Jay Bellamy
football [safety]: Rutgers Univ; NFL: Seattle Seahawks, NO Saints1972 - Karl Dykhuis
hockey: Chicago Blackhawks, Philadelphia Flyers, TB Lightning, Montreal Canadiens
1973 - Kathleen Robertson
actress: Beverly Hills, 90210, Scary Movie 21974 - Troy Garity
actor: Barbershop, Barbershop 2: Back in Business, A Soldier’s Girl, Bandits, Solomon Bernstein’s Bathroom, Conspiracy Theory, Inferno; son of actress Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden1974 - Billy Jenkins
football [strong safety]: St. Louis Rams, Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills1977 - Milo Ventimiglia
actor: Heroes, Opposite Sex, Gilmore Girls, The Bedford Diaries, American Dreams, Rocky Balboa, Chosen1977 - Brian Young
football [defensive end]: Texas-El Paso; NFL: St. Louis Rams, New Orleans Saints1977 - Wang Zhizhi
basketball [center]: Dallas Mavericks, LA Clippers, Miami Heat1979 - Melissa Reneé Martin
actress: Gridiron Gang, Last Call, The Guru Singh-Cinderelli, The Source, Final Stab, Eyeball Eddie, Dreams1981 - Shalane Flanagan
distance runner: holds American record in 3000m [indoor], 5000m [indoor], 10,000m; bronze medal in 2008 Olympics [10,000m]; bronze in 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships; second in 2010 New York City Marathon1980 - Eric Chouinard
hockey: Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, Minnesota Wild1981 - Ashley Blue (Oriana Small)
actress [2002-2010]: X-rated films: Violation of Ashley Blue, Naughty College School Girls 28, Missing and Exploited, Jenna Does Carmen, I’ve Been Sodomized 4, Private Gold 107: Cheating Hollywood Wives1981 - Lance Gross
actor: Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, Meet the Browns, Temptations: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, Our Family Wedding, Crisis, Sleepy Hollow1982 - Sophia Bush
actress: Nip/Tuck, Supercross, Learning Curves, Point of Origin, Van Wilder, John Tucker Must Die, The Hitcher, One Tree Hill1984 - Alexis Dziena
actress: Invasion, Entourage, Havoc, Broken Flowers, Stone Cold, Strangers With Candy, Wonderland, Bringing Rain, Season of Youth1986 - Kevin Chappell
golf champ: PGA: 2017 Valero Texas Open; Web.com Tour: 2010 Fresh Express Classic at TPC Stonebrae1986 - Jake McDorman
actor: Greek, Quintuplets, The Virgin, Live Free or Die Hard, Echoes of Innocence, Limitless1992 - Vic Beasley
football [outside linebacker]: Univ of Clemson; NFL: Atlanta Falcons 2015–2019]: 2017 Super Bowl LI; Tennessee Titans [2020]; Las Vegas Raiders [2020]1998 - Jaden Smith
actor: The Pursuit of Happyness, The Karate Kid [2010], After Earth, The Karate Kid 2 [2012]; son of actors Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith
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Hit Music on This Day July 8
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I’m Yours (facts) - Don Cornell
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