July 10
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1866 - Edison P. Clark of Northampton, MA patented his indelible pencil.1890 - Wyoming, the state with the smallest population entered the Union this day. The 44th state was named after an Algonquin Indian word meaning ‘large prairie place’. Appropriately, the Indian paintbrush that covers much of the large prairie is the state flower and the meadowlark, frequently seen circling the prairie land, is the state bird. Another Indian term, Cheyenne, is also the name of the state capital. Wyoming is called the Equality State because it is the first state to have granted women the right to vote (1869).
1900 - One of the most famous trademarks in the world, ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Talking Machine Company and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine.
1913 - It’s summer in the northern hemisphere and while you are baking at the beach or lake, keep this factoid in mind: The highest temperature ever recorded -- anywhere in the world, as it now turns out -- was 134 degrees, which melted thermometers on this day in Death Valley, California. How did this tidbit sneak up on us, you ask? On Sep 13, 2012 the World Meteorological Organization disqualified the old record for the highest recorded temperature, exactly 90 years after it had been established at El Azizia, Libya, which was 58 C (136.4 F). So the official highest recorded temperature is now that 56.7 C (134 F) on Jul 10, 1913 at Death Valley.
1920 - One of the greatest horse races in America was run as Man o’ War defeated John P. Grier in the Dwyer Stakes. Man o’ War set a world-record time of 1 minute, 49-1/5 seconds in the 1-1/8 mile event.
1929 - The U.S. government began issuing paper money in the small size we currently carry.
1934 - Carl Hubbell threw three strikeouts in the first inning of the All-Star baseball game held at New York’s Polo Grounds. Hubbell faced the American League’s best power hitters: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Fox. In the second inning, Hubbell remained strong, fanning Al Simmons, Joe Cronin and Lefty Gomez. From then on, however, it was all up hill for the National League which lost by a score of 9-7. Hubbell’s nicknames, incidentally, were Meal Ticket and King Carl.
1936 - Billie Holiday recorded Billie’s Blues for Okeh Records in New York. Bunny Berigan, Artie Shaw and Cozy Cole supported Holiday, instrumentally, on the track.
1938 - Howard Hughes started his flight around the world. It took him 91 hours to complete the odyssey.
1943 - U.S., British, Canadian and French troops invaded Sicily, Italy in Operation Husky.
1944 - The Man Called X, starring Herbert Marshall, debuted on CBS radio.
1951 - Sugar Ray Robinson was defeated for only the second time in 133 fights. 7-2 underdog Randy Turpin took the middleweight crown from Robinson in a 15-round referee’s decision in London, England. (Sugar Ray took the title back September 12th at the Polo Grounds in New York.)
1954 - New York radio station WINS announced the hiring of DJ Alan Freed to be the host of their Rock ’n’ Roll Party. As he did on his earlier Moondog’s Rock ’n’ Roll Party Show on WJW in Cleveland, Freed programmed records by black R&B artists that many white teenagers had never heard before. Freed is often credited with coining the term rock ’n’ roll.
1962 - The Telstar communications satellite was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, FL. Telstar would usher in a new age of communication via telephone and TV, with voice and picture transmission from Europe to America and back. Signals were picked up by a 38-ton antenna in Andover, Maine. To commemorate the event, an instrumental hit by the Tornadoes, an English surf-rock group, made it to number one for three weeks in November, 1962. It was titled, Telstar, of course.
1964 - A Hard Day’s Night -- the single and album -- were released in Britain. The Beatles’ single was #1 for four weeks in the UK and the soundtrack album topped the charts for 21 weeks. Both single and LP also hit number one in North America.
1965 - The Rolling Stones, who took their name from a Muddy Waters song, hit the top spot on the Billboard chart. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction was their first time at the top. And as fate would have it, Betty Brenneman, music director at 93/KHJ, Los Angeles in 1965, had assigned the number ‘440’ to the KHJ control room copy of the single, Satisfaction. Just think ... our DJ database site, 440: Satisfaction, could have been named, 216: Satisfaction, had that number been next in line. It just wouldn’t have had the same ring to it, would it? Satisfaction, stayed at number one for 4 weeks. Considered by many to be the greatest rock band in the world, Satisfaction remains the Stones’ signature.
1967 - Kenny Rogers quit The New Christy Minstrels (along with three other Minstrels) to form the First Edition.
1968 - Guitarist Eric Clapton announced the disbanding of the rock music group Cream, the trio he had formed with bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. Cream played a farewell concert in London in November, and Clapton and Baker then formed Blind Faith.
1969 - The National League was divided into two baseball divisions (wacky as the realignment turned out to be). For example, the Atlanta Braves were placed in the West Division, while the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs were Eastern Division teams. Cincinnati was also placed in the National League West. The Chicago Cubs sued to stay out of the west and remain in the east in the 1990s, when three divisions were formed. They ended up in the new Central division.
1971 - Tony Conigliaro of the Boston Red Sox announced his retirement from major-league baseball. Conigliaro had suffered a vision impairment in his left eye after being hit in the head by a thrown fastball during a game. Despite efforts to make a comeback, Tony C. never regained the form he once brought to the game.
1979 - Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra for nearly 50 years, died at the age of 84. Fiedler built a strong bridge between popular and classical music, often including arrangements of pop and rock tunes in his concerts. His recordings sold more than 50-million copies during his lifetime. And Fiedler’s version of Jalousie (1938) became the first orchestral recording ever to sell a million.
1982 - Pope John Paul II named Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati to succeed the late Cardinal John Cody as head of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
1984 - Dwight ‘Doc’ Gooden of the New York Mets became the youngest player to appear in an All-Star Game as a pitcher. Gooden was 19 years, 7 months and 24 days old. He led the National League to a 3-1 win at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, CA.
1985 - The Coca-Cola Company announced that the former (regular) Coke was coming back to share shelf space with the New Coke, after a consumer furor. The original formula was renamed Coca-Cola Classic.
1985 - The 160-foot Greenpeace protest vessel, Rainbow Warrior, was bombed and sunk in New Zealand by French agents.
1989 - Mel Blanc, the ‘man of a thousand voices’, died in Los Angeles, CA at 81 years of age. Blanc was the voice of many cartoon characters, such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester and Tweety, Tazmanian Devil, Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner.
1991 - After 1,000 years, the Russian people were finally permitted to elect a president. Boris Yeltsin took the oath of office this day, after he had resoundingly defeated the Communist Party candidate.
1992 - A U.S. federal judge in Miami sentenced former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, convicted of drug and racketeering charges, to 40 years in prison. (The sentence was later cut by 10 years.)
1993 - Kenyan runner Yobes Ondieki became the first man to run 10,000 meters in less than 27 minutes (26:58.38).
1995 - ‘O.J. Simpson’s dream team’ of lawyers opened their defense at his murder trial in Los Angeles.
1997 - U.S. President Bill Clinton, visiting Poland, told a Warsaw square filled with cheering Poles, “Never again will your fate be decided by others.” The celebration followed the successful drive to bring Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic into NATO.
1997 - Scientists in London said DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton support a theory that all humanity descended from an African Eve 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1998 - Lethal Weapon 4 premiered, garnering $34,048,124 box-office bucks its opening weekend. Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) are on the hit list of the nasty Chinese Triads. Riggs and Murtaugh are helped(?) by Leo Getz (Joe Pesci) and Lee Butters (Chris Rock). Lorna Cole (played by Rene Russo) is Riggs’ sweetie this time around.
1998 - Two other films opened in the U.S.: Madeline, with Frances Mcdormand, Nigel Hawthorne, Hatty Jones and Kristian De La Osa; and the animated action adventure Small Soldiers, featuring (all or the voices of) Tommy Lee Jones, Frank Langella, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, George Kennedy, David Cross, Clint Walker, Bruce Dern, Christopher Guest, Michael Mckean, Harry Shearer, Sarah Michelle Gellar or Christina Ricci.
1999 - The U.S. women’s soccer team won the World Cup, beating the team from China in a 5-4 kick-off following a 0-0 tie after double overtime in Pasadena, CA.
2000 - A mountain of garbage at the Payatas garbage dump in Quezon City in the Philippines collapsed and then burst into flame. The avalanche destroyed about 100 squatters’ houses and killed at least 124 people. More than 800 people were left homeless.
2002 - The U.S. House approved a measure allowing airline pilots to carry guns to defend their planes against terrorists.
2003 - Framers of the European Union’s first constitution finalized their draft charter but failed to settle differences over how much power national governments would cede to Brussels.
2005 - Robert Luskin, lawyer for presidential advisor Karl Rove, acknowledged that Rove was connected to the leak that led to the revelation that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA.
2005 - Hurricane Dennis swamped homes and destroyed roofs, power lines and trees as it hurtled into northwest Florida and Alabama with 120-mph (190-kph) winds. Dennis killed at least 62 people, the majority in the Caribbean.
2006 - Kraft Foods Inc. said it would pay just over a billion dollars to acquire the Spanish and Portuguese units of United Biscuits. In the process the company would reclaim the rights to the Nabisco trademarks in the European Union, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
2007 - China executed the former head (1997-2006) of its State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) for approving untested medicine in exchange for cash. Zheng Xiaoyu had been convicted of taking cash and gifts worth $832,000 when he was in charge of the state agency.
2007 - Xanadu opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway. The musical comedy was based on the 1980 film of the same name, which was, in turn, inspired by the 1947 Rita Hayworth film Down to Earth, a sequel to the 1941 movie Here Comes Mr. Jordan, which was an adaptation of the play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall. Xanadu played for 512 performances, closing Sep 28, 2008.
2008 - U.S. President George Bush (II) signed into law a bill that changed government eavesdropping and granted immunity to telecommunications companies that help the U.S spy on Americans in suspected terrorism cases.
2008 - Rocky Aoki, founder of the Benihana steakhouse chain, died in New York at 69 years of age from complications of cancer. In addition to his restaurant business, Aoki was also a wrestler and avid balloonist.
2009 - New movies in the U.S.: Brüno, with Sacha Baron Cohen, Alice Evans, Candice Cunningham, Trishelle, Sandra Seeling, Ben Youcef, Emerson Brooks, David Hill and Alexander von Roon; I Love You, Beth Cooper, starring Hayden Panettiere, Paul Rust, Jack Carpenter, Lauren Storm and Lauren London; Soul Power, with Muhammad Ali, James Brown, Celia Cruz, B.B. King, Don King and Miriam Makeba; Weather Girl,starring Tricia O'Kelley, Patrick J. Adams, Ryan Devlin, Kaitlin Olson, Mark Harmon, Jon Cryer, Jane Lynch and Blair Underwood; and the documentary Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, featuring Norman Lear, Roberta Wallach, Sara Chase, Margaret Nagle, Gertrude Berg and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
2009 - As General Motors emerged from bankruptcy protection, CEO Fritz Henderson said the new GM would be faster and more responsive to customers than the old one. And he said the new company would make money and repay government loans faster than required.
2010 - Hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil were allowed to spew into the fouled waters of the Gulf of Mexico while BP engineers prepared to install a new containment system.
2012 - Spanish coal miners angered by huge cuts in government subsidies converged on Madrid for protest rallies. The miners had walked for nearly three weeks under the blazing sun from the pits where they worked.
2012 - Jordan announced that it had set up a camp to accommodate the growing numbers of refugees fleeing violence in neighboring Syria.
2013 - Washington DC passed a ‘living wage’ bill requiring large retailers to pay their workers a minimum of $12.50 per hour. This, a day after Wal-Mart warned that the law would jeopardize its plans for DC.
2013 - The U.S. Navy successfully landed an X-47B experimental drone aircraft on the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush off the coast of Virginia. Two of the fighter jet-sized craft had been built. Cost was $813 million.
2014 - The German government ordered the CIA’s top officer in Berlin to leave the country. It was an extraordinary escalation of a conflict between the two allies over U.S. espionage. Chancellor Angela Merkel said, “Spying on allies ... is a waste of energy. We have so many problems, we should focus on the important things.”
2015 - New movies in U.S. theatres on this day included: The Gallows, with Cassidy Gifford, Pfeifer Brown and Ryan Shoos; the animated, Minions, featuring the voices of Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Steve Coogan, Jennifer Saunders, Geoffrey Rush, Steve Carell, Pierre Coffin and Katy Mixon; Self/Less, starring Ryan Reynolds, Matthew Goode and Ben Kingsley; 10,000 Km, with Natalia Tena and David Verdaguer; the documentary Amy; Stations of the Cross, starring Lucie Aron, Anna Brüggemann and Michael Kamp; The Suicide Theory, with Steve Mouzakis, Leon Cain and Joss McWilliam; Tangerine, with Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor and Karren Karagulian; and What We Did on Our Holiday, starring Rosamund Pike, David Tennant and Billy Connolly.
2015 - Egyptian-born actor Omar Sharif died at 83 years of age. Sharif soared to international stardom in movie epics such as Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.
2016 - The Confederate battle flag flew again outside the South Carolina Statehouse — for several hours — during a rally that drew both supporters in Civil War garb and bullhorn-toting protesters. A year earlier, after a white man killed nine black people inside a Charleston church, the Confederate flag that had flown for years beside the Confederate Soldiers Monument was furled and sent to a museum. The monument remains, but the 30-foot pole the flag flew on was dismantled. So on this day, re-enactors hoisted a battle flag on a portable pole in the same spot.
2016 - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she didn’t want to think of the possibility of Donald Trump in the White House. “I can’t imagine what the country would be -- with Donald Trump as our president,” Ginsburg told The New York Times in an interview published on this day. “For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be -- I don’t even want to contemplate that.”
2017 - Russia confirmed that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had discussed forming a joint Russian-U.S. group on cyber security. The idea was greeted with incredulity by many, including senior Republicans who said Moscow was not to be trusted.
2018 - Alabama Governor Kay Ivey said the state would quit giving jail food funds to sheriffs after some kept large sums by skimping on jailhouse meals for prisoners. Wow! Whoever would have thought that might happen?
2018 - Tesla said it reached an agreement with the Chinese to build a battery and automobile factory in Shanghai -- Tesla’s first first plant outside the U.S.
2018 - A Russian cargo ship delivered a fresh load of fuel, food, and other supplies for the International Space Station -- in record time. The unmanned spacecraft docked at the station in automatic mode less than four hours after the launch.
2019 - Sir James Dyson, inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, bought the most expensive ‘super penthouse’ in Singapore for S$73.8m (£44 million, $54.8 million). Dyson announced plans in January to move his company’s head office from Britain to Singapore to be closer to its fastest-growing markets. His firm - whose products also include bladeless fans, air purifiers and hair dryers - plans to build its first electric car in Singapore. The 21,108 sq ft Singapore property features a 12-metre swimming pool, roof terrace, cabana, jacuzzi room, bar facilities, 600-bottle wine cellar, two kitchens, an entertainment room and boasts a 24-hour butler service.
2019 - The U.N. environment agency reported that networks and organizations representing more than 7,000 institutions of higher and further education around the world had signed a letter declaring “a climate emergency” and had committed to a three-point plan to tackle the emergency.
2020 - Movies scheduled to open on this day (many theatres were still closed by the Covid-19 crisis) included: Unhinged, starring Russell Crowe, Jimmi Simpson and Gabriel Bateman; Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, with Peter Elwell, Michael Martin and Shay Walker; Palm Springs, starring Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti and J.K. Simmons; We Are Little Zombies, with Keita Ninomiya, Mondo Okumura and Satoshi Mizuno; and Never Too Late, starring James Cromwell, Jacki Weaver and Dennis Waterman.
2020 - Record-breaking rains in southern Japan killed 62 people -- with floods and landslides. The extreme weather highlighted the vulnerability of nursing homes, as floodwaters killed 14 seniors at one location.
2020 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally reconverted Istanbul’s sixth-century iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque and declared it open to Muslim worship. The action came hours after a high court annulled a 1934 decision that had turned it into a museum. The news sparked deep dismay among Orthodox Christians. Hagia Sophia was originally built as a Christian cathedral.
2021 - A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was hoisted away from its place of prominence in Charlottesville, Virginia. This, years after its threatened removal became a rallying point for white supremacists.
2021 - After the coronavirus pandemic seemed to let up, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez overhauled his Cabinet, forming, “the government of the recovery.”
2021 - Wimbledon Women’s Tennis final went to World #1 Ashleigh Barty of Australia (her second major title). She beat Karolína Plíšková of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-7, 6-3.
2022 - Serbian pro Novak Đoković won his 4th straight -- and record equalling 7th Wimbledon singles title -- with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 win over Nick Kyrgios of Australia.
2022 - Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party won big in the parliamentary election after the previous week’s assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Early upper-house votes showed Abe’s governing party and its coalition partner, Komeito, winning at least 143 seats, a solid majority in the 248-member chamber. Abe was shot while stumping for a colleague.
2022 - Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder debuted with an estimated $143 million at the domestic box office. It was the third biggest opening of the year behind Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ $187 million and Jurassic World Dominion’s $145 million.
2023 - Heavy rains across New England and New York caused major flooding, especially in Vermont’s capital Montpellier. “Make no mistake, the devastation and flooding we’re experiencing across Vermont is historic and catastrophic,” Governor Phil Scott told reporters. The storm affected some two million people, and caused one death.
2023 - A panel of judges on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors to take effect. The decree blocked a statewide injunction put in place the previous month. The ACLU said the ruling marked the first time that a federal court had permitted a gender-affirming care ban to take effect.
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Birthdays on This Day July 10
1834 - James (Abbott McNeill) Whistler
artist: Whistler’s Mother [The Artist’s Mother], Arrangement in Gray, Black No. 1; died July 17, 19031839 - Adolphus Busch
brewer: founder of Anheuser-Busch, the world’s largest beer brewery; died Oct 10, 19131856 - Nikola Tesla
electrical/mechanical engineer, physicist: invented the electrical motor, arc lighting, AC power; died Jan 7, 19431871 - Marcel Proust
author: The Past Recaptured; died Nov 18, 19221875 - E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley
journalist, author: Trent’s Last Case; invented humorous voice form of two rhymed couplets of unequal length: the clerihew; died Mar 30, 19561899 - John Gilbert (Pringle)
silent film star: Bullets and Brown Eyes, The Merry Widow, The Big Parade; died Jan 9, 19361900 - Mitchell Parish
songwriter, lyricist: Sweet Lorraine, Stardust, Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady, Don’t Be That Way, Deep Purple, Moonlight Serenade, Stars Fell on Alabama, Sleighride, Volare; died Mar 31, 19931903 - John Wyndham
author, novelist: The Midwich Cuckoos, The Chrysalids, Trouble With Lichen, The Day of the Triffids, Chocky, The Kraken Wakes, Planet Plane; died Mar 11, 19691914 - Joe Shuster
comic book artist: co-creator of the character Superman; Joe Shuster Awards named for him; died July 30, 19921915 - Milt Buckner
musician: piano, organ, composer: Hamp’s Boogie Woogie, The Lamplighter, Count’s Basement; died July 27, 19771915 - Saul Bellow
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: Humboldt’s Gift [1976]; Nobel Prize for Literature [1976]; The Adventures of Augie March, Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, The Bellarosa Connection; died Apr 5, 20051916 - Dick Cary
jazz musician: trumpet, arranger; 1st pianist in Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars [1947-1948]; died Apr 6, 19941917 - Don Herbert
science teacher, actor: Mr. Wizard; died June 12, 20071920 - David Brinkley
TV journalist: The Huntley-Brinkley Report, This Week with David Brinkley; died June 12, 20031921 - Jeff (Jean Marie) Donnell
actress: The George Gobel Show, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Gidget Goes to Rome, My Man Godfrey; died Apr 11, 19881921 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver
member of the Kennedy family; founded Camp Shriver and the Special Olympics; wife of Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr, former U.S. Ambassador to France and the founder of the Peace Corps; sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Senator Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy; her daughter, journalist Maria Shriver, married actor and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; also was mother of politicians Robert and Mark Shriver; died Aug 11, 20091922 - Jake LaMotta
middleweight boxing champ: 82 wins [30 knockouts], 19 losses, 4 draws; died Sep 19, 20171923 - Earl Hamner Jr.
writer: Palm Springs Weekend, Spencer’s Mountain, The Homecoming: A Christmas Story; creator: Falcon Crest; executive producer, narrator: The Waltons; died Mar 24, 20161923 - Jean Kerr (Collins)
author: Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, Finishing Touches; died Jan 5, 20031925 - Don Costa
composer, music arranger, musician: guitar, orchestra leader: Never on Sunday, The Unforgiven; arranged for and worked with Frank Sinatra, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Sarah Vaughan, the Osmond Brothers and Sammy Davis, Jr.; died Jan 19, 19831926 - Fred Gwynne
actor: The Munsters, Car 54 Where are You?, My Cousin Vinny, Fatal Attraction, Pet Sematary, Ironweed; died July 2, 19931931 - Nick Adams
actor: The Rebel, Mister Roberts, Picnic, Our Miss Brooks, No Time for Sergeants, Hell Is for Heroes; died Feb 6, 19681933 - Jerry Herman
composer, lyricist: Hello, Dolly!, La Cage aux Folles, Mame, Dear World, Mack and Mabel; died Dec 26, 20191937 - Jumpin’ Gene Simmons
songwriter, singer: Haunted House; died Aug 29, 20061937 - Sandy Stewart (Galitz)
singer: My Coloring Book; vocalist: The Perry Como Show, Sing Along with Mitch1939 - Lawrence Pressman
actor: The Late Shift, Fire and Rain, The Hanoi Hilton, On Wings of Eagles, For Love or Money, The Winds of War, The Gathering series, Rich Man, Poor Man, The Man in the Glass Booth, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Mulligan’s Stew, Ladies’ Man, Doogie Howser, M.D.1939 - Mavis Staples
singer: group: The Staple Singers: I’ll Take You There, Marching Up Jesus, Tell Heaven, I’m Coming Home1941 - Robert Pine
actor: CHiPs, The Young Warriors, Lost in Space, Independence Day, CHiPs ’99, Black Scorpion, The Office, Parks and Recreation1941 - Ian Whitcomb
singer: You Turn Me On1943 - Arthur Ashe
International Tennis Hall of Famer: 33 career titles: Australian Open [1970], Wimbledon [1975], U.S. Open [1968]; author: A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete, Days of Grace; died Feb 6, 19931943 - Jerry Miller
musician: guitar: group: Moby Grape: LPs: Moby Grape, Wow, Grape Jam, Truly Fine Citizen, 20 Granite Creek, Grape Live; The Jerry Miller Band: LP: Life is like That1945 - Ron Glass
actor: Barney Miller, Deep Space, Houseguest; died Nov 25, 20161945 - Hal (Harold Abraham) McRae
baseball: Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1970, 1972], KC Royals [all-star: 1975, 1976, 1982/World Series: 1980, 1985]1945 - Virginia Wade
tennis champion: Australian Open [1972], Wimbledon [1977], U.S. Open [1968]1946 - Sue Lyon
actress: The Invisible Strangler, The Flim Flam Man, The Night of the Iguana, Lolita; died Dec 26, 20191947 - Arlo Guthrie
folk singer: The City of New Orleans, Alice’s Restaurant; son of legendary folk singer, Woody Guthrie1949 - Ronnie James Dio (Padavona)
singer, songwriter: groups: Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio: Mystery, Stars, LPs: Holy Diver, The Last in Line, Dream Evil1949 - Winston Rekert
actor: Agnes of God, Droids, Adderly, Glory! Glory!, Neon Rider, Moonlight Becomes You, Murder at the Cannes Film Festival; died Sep 14, 20121953 - Mindy Sterling
actress: Austin Powers film series, A.N.T. Farm, Chowder, The Legend of Korra, iCarly, My Own Worst Enemy, Desperate Housewives, Legit1954 - Andre (Nolan) Dawson
baseball: Montreal Expos [Rookie of the Year: 1977/all-star: 1981, 1982, 1983], Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991], Boston Red Sox, Florida Marlins1954 - Neil Tennant
singer: group: Pet Shop Boys: LP: What Have I Done to Deserve This, West End Girls, It’s a Sin, Always on My Mind, Heart1957 - Michael Woods
actor: Into the Arms of Danger, Double Edge, Omen IV: The Awakening, The Haunting of Sarah Hardy, War and Remembrance, Rage of Angels: The Story Continues, As the World Turns1958 - Fiona Shaw
actress: Harry Potter film series, True Blood, Three Men and a Little Lady, Super Mario Bros, The Avengers [1998], The Black Dahlia, Mother Courage and her Children, London Assurance, The Tree of Life, True Blood; Broadway: The Testament of Mary [2013]1960 - Roger Craig
football: SF 49ers, LA Raiders, Minnesota Viking1965 - Buddy Groom
baseball [pitcher]: Detroit Tigers, Florida Marlins, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks1966 - Mike Hurlbut
hockey [defense]: New York Rangers, Quebec Nordiques, Buffalo Sabres1967 - Lee Stevens
baseball [first base, outfield]: California Angels, Texas Rangers, Montreal Expos, Cleveland Indians1970 - Lisa Coleman
actress: The Story of Tracy Beaker, Casualty, The Bill, EastEnders: Perfectly Frank, Undercover Heart, The Scarlet and the Black, Travellers By Night, Loophole1970 - Gary LeVox
lead singer: Rascal Flatts: These Days, Mayberry, Bless the Broken Road, Fast Cars and Freedom, What Hurts the Most, My Wish, Stand, Take Me There, Here, Here Comes Goodbye, Why Wait, Banjo1970 - John Simm
actor: Life on Mars, Doctor Who, Cracker, The Lakes, Sex Traffic, State of Play, Crime and Punishment, Exile, Wonderland, Human Traffic, 24 Hour Party People1971 - Brent Alexander
football: Univ of Tennessee; NFL: Arizona Cardinals, Carolina Panthers, Pittsburgh Steelers, NY Giants1971 - Adam Foote
hockey: Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche1972 - Sofía Vergara
model, actress: Modern Family, Acapulco, cuerpo y alma, Big Trouble1975 - Alain Nasreddine
hockey: Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Canadiens, NY Islanders, Pittsburgh Penguins1976 - Adrian Grenier
actor: Entourage, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Hart’s War, The Devil Wears Prada, Off Hour, Adventures of Power1977 - Gwendoline Yeo
actress: Desperate Housewives, 24, General Hospital, Grounded for Life, NYPD Blue, JAG, The OC, Broken Trail, The Magic of Ordinary Days, The Jane Austen Book Club, I Do...I Did!, Night Skies, Broken Trail, Code, Perfect Girl; more1980 - Jesse Jane
actress [2003-2017]: X-rated films: Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding, Teagan Erotique, Jesse Jane: All-American Girl, World’s Biggest Sex Show 4, My Private Tutor, Pink Slip, Diary of a Perv; TV: Entourage1980 - Thomas Ian Nicholas
actor: Radio Flyer, A Kid in King Arthur’s Court, American Pie, Party of Five, Halloween: The Homecoming1980 - Jesse Foppert
baseball [pitcher]: Univ of San Francisco; San Francisco Giants1980 - Jessica Simpson
singer: I Wanna Love You Forever, Sweetest Sin, I Think I’m in Love with You, Irresistible; actress: That ’70s Show, Employee of the Month, The Dukes of Hazzard1988 - Antonio Brown
football [wide receiver]: NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers [2010–2018]: 1st NFL player to get 1,000 yards returning and receiving in the same season; Oakland Raiders [2019]; New England Patriots [2019]; Tampa Bay Buccaneers [2020–2021]: 2021 Super Bowl LV champs1993 - Carla Jeffery
actress: American Vandal, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Girl on the Edge, Teacher of the Year, Southland, Zombies2001 - Isabela Moner
actress: 100 Things to Do Before High School, Transformers: The Last Knight, Instant Family, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Splitting Adam, Legends of the Hidden Temple; more2007 - Viki Gabor
singer: Superhero, Time, Ramię w ramię, Getaway, Forever and a Night, Not Gonna Get It, Wznieść się chcę, Afera
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Hit Music on This Day July 10
1945Dream (facts) - The Pied Pipers
The More I See You (facts) - Dick Haymes
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