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1789 - This was the day the French Revolution began -- at the fall of the Bastille. It is still celebrated in many countries throughout the world and is a public holiday in France; generally called Bastille Day or Fete National. It is considered the day freedom was born in France.

1868 - Alvin J. Fellows of New Haven, CT patented the tape measure. Alvin’s measurements: 40-46-42.

1908 - The Adventures of Dolly opened at the Union Square Theatre in New York City. It was the first film release for director D.W. Griffith.

1911 - For the first time, a pilot flew an airplane onto the lawn of the White House! Harry N. Atwood flew in to accept an award from President William Taft. There wasn’t a National Airport at the time, you see. Today, if you land a plane on the White House lawn, you do so at your own risk. If you don’t get shot out of the sky first, you’ll probably receive a hail of bullets from the Secret Service as a welcoming salute. It’s not that people don’t keep trying. In 1994, a small plane crashed on the lawn and slammed into the White House, killing the pilot.

1914 - Robert H. Goddard of Worcester, MA patented liquid rocket fuel on this day.

1942 - Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly sang their last duet together as they recorded the famous Brazil with the Jimmy Dorsey band.

1945 - The battleship U.S.S. South Dakota became the first ship to bombard Japan. The South Dakota was also the Navy’s most decorated ship of World War II.

1946 - Dr. Benjamin Spock’s Baby and Child Care was first published. The book became one of the most widely-discussed books ever published -- and one of the most widely sold. In fact, Dr. Spock’s baby book has sold more copies than any book other than the Bible. Features Spotlight

1951 - In his last race, Citation became the winningest thoroughbred in horse racing as he won the Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park. Citation earned a total of $1,085,760 in his career.

1951 - The first sports event to be shown in color was the Molly Pitcher Handicap at Oceanport, New Jersey. The historic event was seen over CBS-TV this day, but not by many. A color TV system for wide use wouldn’t be available until the 1960s.

1957 - Funnyman Stan Freberg debuted a new weekly comedy program on CBS radio beginning this night. Freberg was a late entry into the radio program race, though he was well known for many famous radio commercials over the years. The Freberg show only lasted a short time and that newfangled contraption, television, was blamed for the show’s quick demise.

1958 - The Iraqi army overthrew the royal monarchy. Brigadier Abd al Karim Qasim and Colonel Abd as Salaam Arif led the way to replace the monarchy with a republic.

1962 - Bobby Vinton’s Roses are Red became the top song in the U.S. The song stayed at the top for four weeks and was the first of four #1 hits for Vinton. The others were: Blue Velvet, There! I’ve Said It Again and Mr. Lonely. Roses are Red was also Vinton’s first million-seller. He had two others: I Love How You Love Me (which made it to #9 in 1968) and My Melody of Love (which hit #3 in 1974.)

1965 - Adlai E. Stevenson collapsed and died in London. Stevenson was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency twice. He lost to Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956.

1967 - Eddie Mathews of the Houston Astros hit career homer #500.

1967 - The Who began their first American tour -- as the opening act for Herman’s Hermits on their U.S. tour.

1968 - Hank Aaron hit his 500th career home run -- in Atlanta, GA -- leading the Braves to a 4-2 win over the San Francisco Giants. (In April of 1974, Hammerin’ Hank eclipsed the old home-run mark [714] held by Babe Ruth.)

1972 - The U.S. State Department criticized actress Jane Fonda for making anti-war radio broadcasts in Hanoi, calling them “distressing.”

1973 - The Everly Brothers called it quits during a concert at the John Wayne Theatre in Buena Park, CA. Phil Everly walked off the stage in the middle of the show and brother Don said, “The Everly Brothers died ten years ago.” The duo reunited a decade later for a short time.

1976 - Jimmy Carter won the Democratic presidential nomination by an overwhelming margin at the party’s convention in New York City.

1981 - The All-Star Game was postponed because of a 33-day-old baseball players strike. Still, some 15,000 fans showed up to boo the players and to see an imaginary game! The 52nd All-Star classic was not held until August 9th (in Cleveland Municipal Stadium).

1985 - Baltimore defeated Oakland, 28-24, to clinch their second consecutive United States Football League championship. The game was also significant, in that it brought the curtain down on the league’s spring schedule. Total losses were estimated at $63 million for all 14 teams. The USFL quickly faded away when owners refused to incur further losses. Plans calling for the league to resume play in the fall of 1986 never materialized.

1987 - The second-longest game in All-Star Game history was played as the National League defeated the American League in a 2-0 shutout in 13 innings. The game was played in Oakland, CA and lasted 3 hours, 39 minutes.

1989 - The sixteenth James Bond movie, License to Kill, premiered. Timothy Dalton is Bond, James Bond.

1997 - Two million people took to the streets across Spain to mourn the death of Miguel Angel Blanco, a popular member of the Blanco town council, and to condemn the Basque separatist guerrillas who killed him.

1999 - Muppets from Space opened in the U.S. The family flick stars Dave Goelz as Gonzo the Great and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew; Bill Barretta as Pepe the Prawn (and others); Jerry Nelson as Sergeant Floyd Pepper (and others); Brian Henson as Dr. Phil Van Neuter, Sal Minella and Talking Sandwich; Kevin Clash as Clifford; Frank Oz as Miss Piggy (and others); Jeffrey Tambor as K. Edgar ‘Ed’ Singer and Ambassador Zongo; and others.

2000 - A jury ordered the U.S. tobacco industry to pay $145 billion in punitive damages to sick Florida smokers. It was a “record-shattering verdict” that the cigarette companies claimed would amount to a death warrant.

2000 - in the U.S.: X-Men debuted in U.S. theatres. The sci-fi thriller stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian Mckellen, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Halle Berry and Anna Paquin.

2001 - Katharine Graham, the 84-year-old chairman of the executive committee of the Washington Post Company, suffered a head injury in a fall at Sun Valley, Idaho. She died three days later. (Graham had been attending a conference of media executives at Sun Valley.)

2002 - Joaquin Balaguer, ruler of the Dominican Republic for 22 years, died at age 95.

2003 - In a column published on this day, Robert Novak identified Valerie Plame as a CIA ‘operative on weapons of mass destruction’. Former Ambassador Joe Wilson, Plame’s husband and an outspoken critic of the Bush (II) administration’s Iraq policy, later blamed the White House for disclosing to Novak that his wife was a CIA operative.

2004 - The U.S. Senate voted down a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. 48 senators voted to advance the measure -- 12 short of the 60 needed. 50 voted to block it.

2005 - The 7th World Games opened in Duisburg, Germany. More than 3000 athletes competed in 39 non-olympic sports.

2006 - The Sawtooth Complex fire in southern California merged with one called the Millard fire, creating a 69,000-acre blaze. About 1,800 firefighters were battling the fire which had destroyed 45 homes.

2007 - The Los Angeles Catholic archdiocese agreed to a landmark $660 million clergy abuse settlement. Some 500 claimants would get an average payout in excess of $1.3 million.

2008 - Etihad Airways, the national carrier of the United Arab Emirates, said it had agreed to buy 45 Boeing passenger jets worth 9.4 billion dollars (5.9 billion euros). Airbus beat Boeing to the top order from the national airline of the UAE, inking a deal for 55 planes worth $11 billion on the first day of the week-long Farnborough International Airshow outside London.

2008 - The editor of The New Yorker magazine defended a satirical cover by cartoonist Barry Blitt, which depicted Senator Barack Obama in Muslim garb and his wife as an Afro-sporting gun packer.

2009 - Episcopalians meeting in Anaheim, New York, declared gays and lesbians eligible for any ordained ministry.

2010 - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice opened in U.S. movie houses. The action adventure comedy stars Jay Baruchel, Nicolas Cage, Monica Bellucci, Alfred Molina and Toby Kebbell)

2010 - An Air India passenger jet from New York became the first commercial flight to land at New Delhi’s new Terminal 3, part of a $2.7-billion airport upgrade.

2010 - Violet (78) and Allen Large (75), who lived in a modest home in Lower Turo, Nova Scotia, Canada, scooped up the Lotto 649 jackpot winning $11.2 million. In the months that followed, they gave most of their winnings away to charity.

2011 - Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill making California the first state in the U.S. to add lessons about gays and lesbians to social studies classes in public schools.

2013 - Asiana Airlines said that its reputation had been damaged by a report on a San Francisco TV station that used bogus and racially offensive names for four pilots on its plane that crashed July 6, 2013 at San Francisco International Airport. A KTVU co-anchor had reported the pilot’s names as “Captain Sum Ting Wong”, “Wi Tu Lo”, “Ho Lee Fuk” and “Bang Ding Ow”. Asiana later announced that it had accepted KTVU’s on-air apology (delivered immediately after the mistaken reporting) and would not pursue legal action.

2014 - The Space X company launched a Falcon rocket from Cape Canaveral. It was the fifth launch of the Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle and carried six Orbcomm OG2 telecommunication satellites, which were all successfully deployed.

2014 - China’s state media reported that teachers were being banned from receiving gifts from students and their parents. This, to curb the buying of favors, often in exchange for giving students special treatment.

2015 - The U.S. Justice Department shut a huge English-language malware forum. It was an online marketplace called Darkode where cybercriminals bought and sold hacked databases, malicious software and other products that could cripple or steal information from computer systems.

2016 - Firefighters at Walt Disney World were warned to stop feeding alligators at one of the resort’s fire stations two months before an alligator killed a toddler. According to emails obtained by the Orlando Sentinel, Reedy Creek Emergency Services admonished firefighters for feeding at least one of two alligators at a station less than a half-mile from Seven Seas Lagoon where 2-year-old son Lane Graves was killed (June 14) after being pulled into the water by a gator.

2016 - A a 19-ton cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France. The truck killed 86 people and injured 434. Witnesses say the lorry swerved in an apparent attempt to hit more people. The driver was Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian resident of France. The attack ended following an exchange of gunfire, during which Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was shot and killed by police.

2017 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: War for the Planet of the Apes, starring Andy Serkis, Toby Kebbell, Judy Greer, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Ty Olsson, Amiah Miller, and Sara Canning; The Big Sick, with Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan and Holly Hunter; Blind, starring Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin and Dylan McDermott; Lady Macbeth, with Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank and Cosmo Jarvis; Swallows and Amazons, starring Kelly Macdonald, Andrew Scott and Rafe Spall; and Wish Upon, with Sherilyn Fenn, Joey King and Elisabeth Röhm.

2017 - France’s President Emmanuel Macron and POTUS Donald Trump watched U.S. and French soldiers march together through Paris in a double celebration marking 100 years since the U.S. entered World War One -- and France’s annual Bastille Day holiday.

2017 - Three people were killed and two were injured as a fire consumed several floors of the 36-story Marco Polo condominium tower in Honolulu. For hours, thick black smoke poured from the building as orange flames raged on several floors and debris fell from windows in images streamed by bystanders.

2018 - Haiti Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant announced his resignation following days of violent protests sparked by a now-abandoned plan to raise fuel prices. The unrest started after the government unveiled a proposal to eliminate fuel subsidies which would have hiked fuel prices: 38 percent for gasoline, 47 percent for diesel and 51 percent for kerosene.

2019 - Emmanuel Macron presided over a show of European force at France’s annual Bastille Day military parade, calling for a “Europe of defence.” This, as he wathced the show alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and other leaders from the continent.

2019 - Among highly racist, inflammatory comments tweeted by POTUS Trump this day, he said that four newly elected congresswomen (of color) should “go back to their broken and crime infested countries...” The four newly elected Democratic women were Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Three of the four congresswomen were born in the U.S., with Omar having been born in Mogadishu, Somalia (her family imigrated to the U.S. in 1995 and she became a U.S. citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old.)

2020 - Florida reported a record new 132 deaths bringing the COVID-19 fatality total to 4,513, with 12,624 new cases. 40 states had reported an upward trend test-positivity rate over the previous week.

2020 - Reta Mays (46), a former Veterans Affairs nursing assistant at a West Virginia hospital, pleaded guilty in federal court to killing seven hospital patients in 2017-2018 by injecting them with unnecessary insulin and assaulting another patient with intent to murder.

2021 - Data showed a record number of Americans had died of drug overdoses in 2020 as pandemic lockdowns made getting treatment difficult and dealers laced more drugs with a powerful synthetic opioid. Drug overdoses accounted for roughly one-quarter as many deaths as COVID-19 did in 2020, using the CDC’s number of 375,000 pandemic deaths.

2021 - Danish toymaker Lego said it had told Provo, Utah-based Culper Precision gun company to stop producing a toy gun that made the pistol look like it was covered with Legos.

2022 - U.S. President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid signed a joint pledge to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons. Biden aimed to get Iran to rejoin the nuclear deal brokered by the Obama administration, and reiterated in Israel that using force was a “last resort” (this, in a split with Israel). The pledge stated that the U.S. was “prepared to use all elements of its national power to ensure” Iran did not acquire nukes. Lapid said that warning was crucial, because “the only way to stop a nuclear Iran is if Iran knows the free world will use force.”

2023 - Psycho-Pass Providence was set to open in U.S. theatres on this day. The anime science fiction crime film features character voiced by Kana Hanazawa, Noriko Hidaka and Takako Honda.

2023 - The SAG-AFTRA actor’s union went on strike with picket lines in L.A. and New York. Lasting until Nov 9, 2023, it was the longest strike in SAG-AFTRA history. The combined impact -- along with the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike -- resulted in the loss of 45,000 jobs, and an estimated $6.5 billion loss to the economy of Southern California. The “harshest pain” was felt among the below-the-line workers who had to sell or mortgage their homes, and spend IRAs to survive.

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Jump to Top Birthdays on This Day    July 14

1862 - Florence Bascom
geologist: first woman geologist appointed to the U.S. Geological Survey and first to be elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America; associate editor: American Geologist; educator: Bryn Mawr, Ohio State; 1st woman to receive a doctorate degree: Johns Hopkins University [1893]; died June 18, 1945

1898 - Happy Chandler
baseball executive: ommissioner through 6 turbulent years [1945-1951], including the debut of Jackie Robinson, the raiding of the Majors by the Mexican League and charges of monopoly against the game; died Jun 15, 1991

1901 - George Tobias
actor: The Phynx, The Glass Bottom Boat, A New Kind of Love, Silk Stockings, The Seven Little Foys, The Glenn Miller Story; died Feb 27, 1980

1903 - Ken Murray (Don Court)
actor: Follow Me, Boys!, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Marshall’s Daughter; died Oct 12, 1988

1903 - Irving Stone (Tennenbaum)
novelist: Lust for Life, Love is Eternal, The Agony and the Ecstasy; died Aug 26, 1989

1906 - Olive Borden
actress [‘The Joy Girl’]: Three Bad Men, The Yankee Senor, Chloe, Love Is Calling You, Leave It to Me, Hello Sister, Sinners in Love, Gang War, The Joy Girl, Yellow Fingers; died Oct 1, 1947

1910 - William Hanna
cartoonist: half of Hanna-Barbera team: The Flintstones; died Mar 22, 2001

1911 - Terry-Thomas (Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens)
actor: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River; died Jan 8, 1990

1912 - Woody (Woodrow Wilson) Guthrie
‘father of modern American folk music’: singer, songwriter: This Land is Your Land, Hard Travelin’, Union Maid, So Long It’s Been Good to Know Yuh, Dirty Overhalls, Pretty Boy Floyd, The Sinking of the Reuben James, more than 1,000 original songs; father of folk singer Arlo Guthrie; died Oct 3, 1967

1913 - Gerald R. Ford (Leslie King, Jr.: changed name to Gerald Ford after his adoptive father)
38th U.S. President [1974-1977]; married to Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Bloomer [three sons, one daughter]; nickname: Jerry; first non-elected vice president and president: Vice President under President Richard Nixon, assumed presidency upon resignation of Nixon; one of seven left-handed Presidents [others were/are: James A. Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry S Truman, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton]; died Dec 26, 2006

1917 - Douglas Edwards
TV’s first evening news anchor: CBS; TV panel moderator: Masquerade Party; host: F.Y.I., The Eyes Have It, Armstrong Circle Theatre; died Oct 13, 1990

1918 - Ingmar Bergman
Academy Award-winning director: Through a Glass Darkly [1961]; The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander; died July 30, 2007

1918 - Arthur Laurents
playwright: Home of the Brave, Summertime, Gypsy, The Turning Point, The Way We Were, Anastasia; died May 5, 2011

1923 - Frances Lear
magazine publisher: Lear’s; married to TV producer Norman Lear; died Sep 30, 1996

1923 - Dale Robertson
actor: The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang, Melvin Purvis: G-Man, Kansas City Massacre, Son of Sinbad, Tales of Wells Fargo, J.J. Starbuck, Death Valley Days; died Feb 27, 2013

1926 - Harry Dean Stanton
actor: Down Periscope, Never Talk to Strangers, Against the Wall, Wild at Heart, Twister, The Last Temptation of Christ, Red Dawn, Christine, Paris, Texas, Repo Man, Young Doctors in Love, Escape from New York, Private Benjamin, Death Watch, The Rose, Alien, The Godfather, Part 2, Kelly’s Heroes, Cool Hand Luke, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Two-Lane Blacktop; died Sep 15, 2017

1927 - John (William) Chancellor
radio/TV newscaster: NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor; commentaries: The Huntley-Brinkley Report, Chicago Sun Times, WMAQ radio, Today; director: Voice of America; died July 12, 1996

1928 - Nancy Olson
actress: Sunset Boulevard, The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, Snowball Express

1930 - Polly Bergen (Nellie Burgin)
Emmy Award-winning actress: Playhouse 90: The Helen Morgan Story [1958]; The Winds of War, Cry-Baby, Escape from Fort Bravo; TV panelist: To Tell the Truth; died Sep 20, 2014

1931 - Robert Stephens
actor: The Secret Rapture, Chaplin, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Henry V, Empire of the Sun, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, A Taste of Honey; died Nov 12, 1995

1932 - Roosevelt ‘Rosey’ Grier
football: one of the LA Rams ‘Fearsome Foursome’ [w/Deacon Jones, Lamar Lundy and Merlin Olsen]; actor: Sophisticated Gents, The Big Push, The Seekers; minister

1933 - Del (Franklin Delano) Reeves
singer: Slow Hand, Be Quiet Mind, The Girl on the Billboard, Looking at the World through a Windshield, The Philadelphia Phillies; films: Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar, Forty Acre Feud; died Jan 1, 2007

1934 - Lee Elder
golf: 5-time United Golf Association Champion, PGA winner: Monsanto Open [1974], Houston Open [1976]; died Nov 28, 2021

1939 - Sid Haig
actor: House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects, Batman, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, The Rockford Files, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Fantasy Island, Sledge Hammer!, The A-Team, The Fall Guy, MacGyver, Night of the Living Dead 3D, Brotherhood of Blood, Dark Moon Rising, The Lords of Salem; died Sep 21, 2019

1941 - Maulana Karenga
professor of Africana Studies, activist, author, best known as the creator of the pan-African and African American holiday of Kwanzaa

1944 - Lynn Loring
actress: Kansas City Massacre, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

1946 - Cubby O’Brien
actor: The Mickey Mouse Club; musician: drums: played for The Carpenters during tours

1947 - Steve (Steven Michael) Stone
baseball: pitcher: SF Giants, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1979/Cy Young Award: 1980/all-star: 1980]; sportscaster

1948 - Earl (Craig) Williams
baseball: Atlanta Braves [Rookie of the Year: 1971], Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos, Oakland Athletics

1949 - Tommy Mottola
music executive: co-owner of Casablanca Records, CEO of Sony Music Entertainment; talent manager: Hall & Oates, Carly Simon, John Mellencamp, Diana Ross, Taylor Dayne, Mariah Carey [his second wife], Gloria Estefan, Shakira, Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Lopez

1952 - Chris Cross (Allen or St. John)
musician: bass, synthesizer: group: Ultravox: Vienna, All Stood Still, The Thin Wall, The Voice, Reap the Wild Wind, Hymn, Visions in Blue

1952 - Jerry Houser
actor: A Very Brady Christmas, Slap Shot, Class of ’44, Summer of ’42

1952 - Stan Shaw
actor: Detonator, Snake Eyes, Houseguest, Rising Son, When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn, Body of Evidence, Fried Green Tomatoes

1960 - Ray Herndon
musician: guitar, songwriter, singer: Gotta Get Your Heart Right, Is This Lonely, My Dog Thinks I’m Elvis, Livin’ the Dream, Bloodshot Eyes/Take the a Train, Me and You

1960 - Jane Lynch
Emmy Award-winning supporting actress: Glee [2010]; Two and a Half Men, Best in Show, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Role Models, The Three Stooges

1961 - Jackie Earle Haley
actor: Little Children, All the King’s Men, Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence, Prophet of Evil: The Ervil LeBaron Story, Dollman, The Zoo Gang, Every Stray Dog and Kid

1966 - Matthew Fox
actor: Lost, Party of Five, A Token for Your Thoughts, Behind the Mask, If I Die Before I Wake, My Boyfriend’s Back, We Are Marshall

1966 - Ellen Reid
musician: piano, keyboards and accordion; singer: group: Crash Test Dummies: Keep a Lid on Things, Get You in the Morning, Superman’ Song, Androgynous, The Ghosts That Haunt Me, Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

1967 - Robin Ventura
baseball: Oklahoma State Univ; Chicago White Sox, NY Mets, NY Yankees, LA Dodgers

1969 - Jose Hernandez
baseball: Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs, Atlanta Braves, Milwaukee Brewers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado Rockies, LA Dodgers

1970 - Missy Gold
actress: Little Mo, Benson, Twirl

1970 - Josh Miller
football [punter]: Univ of Arizona; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, NE Patriots

1974 - Erick Dampier
basketball [center]: Mississippi State Univ; Indiana Pacers, Golden State Warriors, Dallas Mavericks

1974 - Nathan Dempsey
hockey: Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks, LA Kings

1975 - Tim Hudson
baseball [pitcher]; Univ of Auburn; Oakland Athletics, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants

1975 - Taboo (Jaime Luis Gomez)
rapper: group: Black Eyed Peas: Let’s Get It Started, Hey Mama, Where Is the Love, Shut Up, Request Line, Weekends; actor: Dirty, Be Cool

1978 - Jerry Porter
football [wide receiver]: Univ of West Virginia; NFL: Oakland Raiders

1979 - Scott Porter
actor: Friday Night Lights, Bandslam, Caprica, The Good Wife, Hart of Dixie, 10 Years, The To Do List, Scorpion

1985 - Darrelle Revis
football [cornerback]: NFL: New York Jets [2007–2012]; Tampa Bay Buccaneers [2013]; New England Patriots [2014]: 2015 Super Bowl XLIX champs; New York Jets [2015–present]

1986 - Peta Murgatroyd
dancer: Broadway: Burn the Floor; TV pro: Dancing with the Stars

1987 - Sara Canning
actress: The Vampire Diaries, Black Field, The Hunt for the I-5 Killer, Primeval: New World, Remedy

1987 - Dan Reynolds
singer: group: Imagine Dragons: Radioactive, Believer, Demons, I Bet My Life, Sucker for Pain, Thunder

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Jump to Top Hit Music on This Day    July 14

1949Some Enchanted Evening (facts) - Perry Como
Bali Ha’i (facts) - Perry Como
Again (facts) - Gordon Jenkins
One Kiss Too Many (facts) - Eddy Arnold

1958The Purple People Eater (facts) - Sheb Wooley
Hard Headed Woman (facts) - Elvis Presley
Poor Little Fool (facts) - Ricky Nelson
Guess Things Happen that Way (facts) - Johnny Cash

1967Windy (facts) - The Association
Little Bit o’ Soul (facts) - The Music Explosion
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You (facts) - Frankie Valli
All the Time (facts) - Jack Greene

1976Afternoon Delight (facts) - Starland Vocal Band
Kiss and Say Goodbye ' (facts) - The Manhattans
I’ll Be Good to You (facts) - Brothers Johnson
The Door Is Always Open (facts) - Dave & Sugar

1985A View to a Kill (facts) - Duran Duran
Raspberry Beret (facts) - Prince & The Revolution
The Search is Over (facts) - Survivor
Forgiving You was Easy (facts) - Willie Nelson

1994I Swear (facts) - All-4-One
Any Time, Any Place (facts)/And On and On (facts) - Janet Jackson
Don’t Turn Around (facts) - Ace of Base
Wink (facts) - Neal McCoy

2003Miss Independent (facts) - Kelly Clarkson
Crazy in Love (facts) - Beyoncé Knowles featuring Jay-Z
I Know What You Want - Busta Rhymes & Mariah Carey featuring The Flipmode Squad
Beer for My Horses (facts) - Toby Keith (with Willie Nelson)

2012Call Me Maybe (facts) - Carly Rae Jepsen
Payphone (facts) - Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa
Somebody That I Used to Know (facts) - Gotye featuring Kimbra
Drunk on You (facts) - Luke Bryan

2021Butter (facts) - BTS
Good 4 U (facts) - Olivia Rodrigo
Kiss Me More (facts) - Doja Cat featuring SZA
Forever After All (facts) - Luke Combs

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