July 15
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971 - Sometime in the late 800s-900s, there lived a man named Swithun or Swithin. He was the Bishop of Winchester in Old England. For some unknown reason - since Bishop Swithin was not particularly famous - his remains were transferred to Winchester Cathedral on this day. It so happened that there was a heavy rainfall on this same day. Some say Bishop Swithin was angry about the move and caused the downpour. From then on, according to an old English adage, if it should rain on July 15th, it will rain for forty days thereafter. “St. Swithin’s day, gif ye do rain, for forty days it will remain; St. Swithin’s day, an ye be fair, for forty days ’twill rain nae mair.”
1853 - After years of debate, the New York State Legislature authorized the city of New York to build Central Park. The legislature authorized the City to use the power of eminent domain to acquire more than 700 acres, consisting mostly of swamps, bluffs and rocky outcroppings, extending from Fifth to Eighth avenues and from 59th to 106th streets. In 1858, a design by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux was chosen. The first tree was planted in October of that year, and Central Park opened to ice skaters in December.
1876 - George Washington Bradley pitched the first no-hitter in baseball by leading St. Louis to a 2-0 win over Hartford.
1904 - The first Japanese Buddhist temple in the United States was established in Los Angeles, CA.
1912 - Jim Thorpe won the decathlon in the Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden.
1922 - The duck-billed platypus arrived in America, direct from Australia. It was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo in New York City. For those of you who have never seen this unusual mammal, it has webbed feet, a duck’s bill, a beaver’s tail; is seal-like, yet hairy and it lays eggs. Go figure...
1933 - Aviator Wiley Post, flying a Lockheed Vega called Winnie Mae, left New York for the first solo flight around the world. It took him 7 days, 18 hours, and 49 1/2 minutes to complete the trip.
1940 - Robert Wadlow was 8 feet, 11-1/10 inches tall and weighed 439 pounds when he died this day -- at the age of 22.
1942 - Glenn Miller and his band recorded the classic Jukebox Saturday Night for Victor Records.
1948 - President Harry S Truman was nominated for another term of office by the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia; his running mate, Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, was nominated by acclamation.
1952 - Singer Patti Page made her TV debut in a summer replacement series for Perry Como. The 15-minute program spotlighted Patti three times each week on CBS.
1954 - The first commercial jet transport airplane built in U.S. was tested. The Boeing 707 prototype, model 367-80, made its maiden flight from Renton Field, south of Seattle, Washington.
1958 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered U.S. Marines to Lebanon. The troop move was in response to a request by that Lebanon’s president, Camille Chamoun, in the face of threats by Muslim rebels.
1960 - Launching his New Frontier, Senator John F. Kennedy accepted the democratic nomination for president. The convention was held in the Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles.
1964 - Senator Barry M. Goldwater (“extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice”) of Arizona was nominated for president by the Republican national convention, meeting in San Francisco.
1965 - The Mariner IV spacecraft sent back the first close-up pictures of the planet Mars.
1965 - Comedy star Joan Rivers married Edgar Rosenberg. Edgar became a favorite target in her comedy routine on stage, TV and in recordings.
1966 - Singer Percy Sledge earned a gold record for When a Man Loves a Woman. It was his only song to make it to number one (5/28/66) and the only one of five to break into the top ten.
1968 - ABC-TV first presented the serial, One Life to Live.
1968 - Commercial air travel began between the United States and the U.S.S.R. with the first plane, a Soviet Aeroflot jet, landing at Kennedy International Airport in New York.
1972 - Elton John landed at the top spot on the Billboard album chart for the first time as Honky Château made it to the top for a five-week stay.
1972 - The temperature rose to 128 degrees in Death Valley, Calfornia. What was the highest temperature ever in Death Valley? 134 (56.7 C) degrees on July 10, 1913. That is also now the hottest temperature in recorded history -- anywhere in the world.
1973 - For the first time in two decades, a baseball pitcher won two no-hitters in a season. Nolan Ryan of the California Angels did the trick with his second no-hit victory of the season, a 6-0 romp over the Detroit Tigers. Ryan pitched his first no-hitter of the season against the Kansas City Royals on May 15th.
1978 - Bob Dylan performed before the largest open-air concert audience (for a single artist). Some 200,000 fans turned out to hear Dylan and Eric Clapton perform at Blackbushe Airport in England.
1981 - Steven Ford, son of former President Gerald R. Ford, appeared in the much publicized seduction scene of The Young and the Restless on CBS-TV. Ford played the part of Andy, the macho maverick.
1985 - Baseball players voted to strike on August 6th if no contract was reached with baseball owners. The strike action turned out to be just a one-day interruption.
1990 - Singer Bobby Day, famed for his 1958 hit Rockin’ Robin, died of cancer in Los Angeles. He was 58 years old. Day also wrote and recorded the original version of Little Bitty Pretty One, but Thurston Harris had the big hit in 1957. The Jackson Five revived Little Bitty Pretty One in 1972, and lead singer Michael Jackson took an update of Rockin’ Robin to number two on the Billboard chart that same year.
1991 - Actor and game-show host Bert Convy died in Los Angeles of a brain tumor. He was 57. Early in his career, Convy was a member of a singing trio named The Cheers. Their Black Denim Trousers was a top-ten hit (1955).
1992 - Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in New York City. Clinton went on to defeat Republican President George Bush and independent challenger Ross Perot in 1992 with 43 percent of the popular vote and 370 electoral votes.
1994 - Microsoft Corp. reached a settlement with the Justice Department, promising to end practices it used to corner the market for personal computer software programs. In a consent decree with the Justice Dept. Microsoft agreed to change contracts with PC makers and other software companies ending the government's antitrust investigation.
1996 - Microsoft & NBC created MSNBC, a 24-hour news, talk network. The cable TV net and MSNBC.com on the Internet, debuted this day. (Microsoft divested its stake in the MSNBC channel in 2005, and divested its stake in msnbc.com in July 2012.)
1997 - Former Miller Brewing Company executive Jerold Mackenzie was vindicated by a jury in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mackenzie had brought a suit against Miller after the company fired him from his $95,000-a-year job for sexual harassment. He had been commenting on the Seinfeld episode, The Junior Mint, where Seinfeld’s TV character can’t remember the name of his new girlfriend -- only that it rhymes with a female body part. One of Mackenzie’s female co-workers complained to the Miller human resources director after she heard Mackenzie joking about the show.
1997 - Fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot to death on the steps of his mansion in Miami Beach, Florida. Police believe Andrew Phillip Cunanan shot Versace. Cunanan committed suicide a week later on a houseboat about two miles north of the Versace mansion. Cunanan is suspected of killing four other men in a cross-country shooting spree.
1998 - There’s Something About Mary opened in U.S. theatres. The romantic comedy stars Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Chris Elliott, Lin Shaye, Lee Evans, Jeffrey Tambor, W. Earl Brown, Markie Post and Keith David.
1998 - Direct flights between the U.S. and Cuba resumed after two years.
1999 - The Seattle Mariners played their first game in their new home, Safeco Field, losing to the San Diego Padres, 3-to-2.
2000 - Former Rhode Island governor and longtime U.S. senator John O. (Orlando) Pastore died at the age of 93.
2000 - Lennox Lewis retained his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles in London, stopping Francois Botha at 2:39 of the second round.
2001 - China’s President Jiang Zemin arrived in Russia to sign a friendship treaty with Russian President Vladimir Putin —- the first between the former Communist rivals in more than 50 years.
2002 - John Walker Lindh, a U.S. citizen who had fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty to two felonies in a deal sparing him life in prison.
2002 - A Pakistani judge convicted four Islamic militants in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl. Sheik Omar Saeed was sentenced to death; three other religious militants were found guilty of helping in the conspiracy to kidnap Pearl and were sentenced to 25-year prison terms.
2003 - Scott McClellan assumed his duties as White House Press Secretary, succeeding Ari Fleischer.
2003 - Tex Schramm died in Dallas, TX at 83 years of age. Schramm was president/GM of the Dallas Cowboys (1960-1989) as they became known as ‘America’s Team’. His Cowboys teams played in five Super Bowls, winning two, had 20 consecutive winning seasons and 18 playoff appearances.
2004 - A 1.1km section of the Las Vegas Monorail opened -- linking the MGM Grand and Bally's hotels. The monorail begins at the MGM Grand Hotel near the south end of the Strip, and runs roughly parallel to the Strip on its eastern side, passing next to the Convention Center and the Las Vegas Hilton, both with stations, before ending at the Sahara hotel at the north end of the Strip. The ride takes about 14 minutes to travel its total distance of 3.9 miles (about 6.3 km).
2005 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, AnnaSophia Robb, Jordan Fry, Julia Winter and Philip Wiegratz; Happy Endings, starring Tom Arnold, Jesse Bradford, Bobby Cannavale, Sarah Clarke, Steve Coogan, Laura Dern, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lisa Kudrow, Jason Ritter and David Sutcliffe; The Warrior, with Irfan Khan, Puru Chibber, Aino Annuddin, Manoj Mishra, Nanhe Khan, Chander Singh, Hemant Maahaor, Mandakini Goswami, Sunita Sharma, Shauket Baig and Gori Shanker; and Wedding Crashers, starring Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Christopher Walken, Will Ferrell, Isla Fisher and Jane Seymour.
2005 - Jack Nicklaus played his last hole of competitive golf during the Open Championship at St Andrews, Scottland -- finishing with a birdie.
2006 - Israeli warplanes pounded Hezbollah’s south Beirut stronghold and roads around the country killing at least 33 people. And Hezbollah expanded its rocket fire, hitting northern Israel. At least 88 people had died in Lebanon, most of the them civilians, in the four-day Israeli offensive, sparked by Hezbollah’s capture of two Israeli soldiers. On the Israeli side, at least 15 were killed, four civilians and 11 soldiers.
2007 - A second bridge opened across the Tacoma Narrows, linking Tacoma with the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington.
2008 - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress the fragile economy was facing “numerous difficulties” including persistent strains in financial markets, rising joblessness and housing problems — despite the Fed’s aggressive interest rate reductions and other fortifying steps.
2008 - General Motors said it would lay off salaried workers, cut truck production, suspend its dividend and borrow $2-$3 billion to weather a severe downturn in the U.S. automobile market.
2008 - Volkswagen announced that it would build a $1 billion car plant in Chattanooga, TN. The company said it would build a vehicle designed specifically for the North American market at the new factory.
2009 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opened in U.S movie houses. the fantasy action adventure stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, David Bradley, Jim Broadbent, Jessie Cave, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Frank Dillane, Tom Felton, Michael Gambon, Matthew Lewis, Evanna Lynch, Helen McCrory, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Natalia Tena, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Julie Walters, David Thewlis and Bonnie Wright.
2009 - A Russian-made Caspian Airlines TU-154 passenger jet carrying 169 people crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran, Iran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport. The plane was headed to the Armenian capital of Yerevan. All 154 passengers and 15 crewmembers on board died.
2010 - Goldman Sachs Group Inc. agreed to pay $550 million and change its business practices to settle U.S. regulatory claims that it misled investors in collateralized debt obligations linked to subprime mortgages.
2010 - BP Oil stopped oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since an April 20 explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed 11 workers. The explosion had unleashed the huge spill some 5,000 feet beneath the surface of the water.
2010 - India unveiled a symbol for its rupee currency that it hoped would become as globally recognized as signs for the dollar, yen, pound and euro. The symbol (see wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee_sign) was designed by research student Udaya Kumar, who earned $5,300 for his pains.
2011 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, starring Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson; Winnie the Pooh, featuring the voices of Craig Ferguson, John Cleese and Jim Cummings; Salvation Boulevard, with Jennifer Connelly, Pierce Brosnan, Marisa Tomei, Isabelle Fuhrman, Ed Harris and Ciarán Hinds; Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, starring Bingbing Li, Gianna Jun, Vivian Wu, Hugh Jackman and Archie Kao; and the Sarah Palin biopic, The Undefeated.
2011 - Saudi authorities beheaded a man who had been convicted of attacking a woman and snapping nude photos of her in order to blackmail her for sex.
2011 - A 26-foot-tall statue of Marilyn Monroe was unveiled in Chicago’s magnificent Mile. Sculptor Seward Johnson was inspired by Monroe’s famous scene in the film The Seven Year Itch, where a blast of air catches her dress as she passes over a subway gate.
2013 - India reported that 5,748 people were still missing a month after flash floods had ravaged large parts of the northern state of Uttarakhand.
2015 - California’s Water Resources Control Board approved emergency regulations allowing local law enforcement and water agencies to impose maximum $500-a-day fines on ‘water wasters’. The regulations were approved the same day state data showed water use statewide had increased 1 percent over the previous three years, despite calls from Governor Jerry Brown for Californians to cut their water use by 20 percent during the ongoing drought.
2015 - The California Public Utilities Commission ordered ride-share company Uber to pay a $7.3 million fine and hand over required information about safety and accessibility -- or shut down in the company’s home state.
2016 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Ghostbusters, starring Chris Hemsworth, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Charles Dance, Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray, Leslie Jones, Elizabeth Perkins, Annie Potts, Dan Aykroyd, Michael Kenneth Williams and Andy Garcia; Café Society, with Steve Carell, Sheryl Lee and Todd Weeks; and Tulip Fever, starring Alicia Vikander, Cara Delevingne and Christoph Waltz.
2016 - Donald Trump announced that he has chosen Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate, ending months of speculation. Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta responded quickly to the news, calling the conservative Pence “the most extreme [vice presidential] pick in a generation.”
2017 - Actor Martin Landau died at UCLA Medical Center. He was 89 years old. Landau won an Oscar for his portrayal of aging horror movie star Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood (1994). He is also remembered for the Mission Impossible TV series, Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest and Tucker: The Man and His Dream.
2018 - Croatia lost to France 4-2 in the FIFA World cup final played at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia.
2018 - Gunmen burst into a funeral home in Zacatecas state, Mexico killing five people and wounding 17. The victims were gathered in Fresnillo for a funeral service for a man killed in a recent shooting at a local bar.
2019 - A $12 million California deal was announced whereby Delaware North, the former concessionaire of Yosemite National Park, agreed to relinquish its claimed ownership of park names and other intellectual property. Deleware North had asserted various intellectual property rights, including such names as Ahwahnee, Curry Village, Wawona and other historic names it acquired when it purchased the Yosemite Park & Curry Company in 1993 -- with NPS approval.
2019 - 22-year-old James Fields Jr., a white supremacist who killed Heather Heyer with his car in 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia was sentenced to a second term of life in prison -- plus 419 years. Fields had received a life sentence on 29 U.S. hate crime charges in June 2019 as he had also injured others during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017.
2020 - A U.S. judge sentenced former Honolulu police officer John Rabago to four years in prison for forcing a homeless man to lick a public urinal. The judge told the officer to imagine someone doing that to his two young daughters.
2020 - Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt announced that he had tested positive for the coronavirus. This, just weeks after attending a campaign rally for POTUS Trump in Tulsa.
2020 - Coronavirus cases in Venezuela had jumped in recent weeks, triggering warnings from health workers that the pandemic might overwhelm the country’s healthcare system.
2021 - Los Angeles County announced that it was requiring masks to be worn indoors regardless of vaccination status, as the highly contagious Delta variant continued to spread throughout California.
2021 - Rabbi Yoel Kahn, a leading disciple of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the revered leader of the Lubavitch Hasidim, died in Manhattan. He was 91 years old. Kahn was famous for his uncanny ability to memorize virtually verbatim the grand rabbi’s hour-long speeches and discourses, which he then compiled into roughly 150 published volumes.
2022 - Movies scheduled to open in the U.S. included: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, starring Jason Isaacs, Lesley Manville and Anna Chancellor; the animated action comedy Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, featuring characters voiced by Michael Cera, Ricky Gervais, George Takei, Gabriel Iglesias and Mel Brooks; and Where the Crawdads Sing, with Daisy Edgar-Jones, Garret Dillahunt and Harris Dickinson.
2022 - President Biden met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a trip to Saudi Arabia. Video showed the two sharing a fist bump -- as Biden wanted to avoid shaking hands. The meeting itself was controversial given that U.S. intelligence has concluded Mohammed bin Salman approved the 2018 murder of former Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
2022 - The International Olympic Committee reinstated Jim Thorpe as the gold medal winner of the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States. After winning both events by wide margins, Thorpe was hailed by King Gustav V of Sweden as “the greatest athlete in the world” and received a ticker-tape parade upon returning to the U.S.. He was stripped of the medals months later after it was discovered that he had violated the Olympics’ amateurism rules by taking a paycheck to play minor league baseball over two summers. (Thorpe died in 1953.)
2023 - Torrential rain (some 300mm [11.8in]) across South Korea led to 40 deaths. Flooding in a tunnel in Osong trapped 15 vehicles.
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Birthdays on This Day July 15
1606 - Rembrandt Van Rijn
artist: 300 etchings, 1,400 drawings, 600 paintings: The Night Watch, Man with a Magnifying Glass, The Anatomy Lesson of Professor Tulp,Descent from the Cross, Rape of Ganymede; died Oct 4, 16691779 - Clement Clarke Moore
poet, author: ’Twas the Night before Christmas [A Visit from St. Nicholas]; died July 10, 18631850 - Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (Mother Cabrini)
first American citizen to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church; died Dec 22, 19171867 - Maggie Lena Walker
first woman bank founder and president: opened St. Luke Penny Savings Bank [Richmond VA: Nov 2, 1903]; women's rights/black pride advocate; died Dec 15, 19341905 - Dorothy Fields
Songwriters’ Hall of Famer; lyricist: w/Cy Coleman: Sweet Charity, Seesaw; w/Jimmy McHugh: I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, I’m in the Mood for Love, On the Sunny Side of the Street; daughter of comedian Lew Fields; died Mar 28, 19741910 - Ken Lynch
actor: The Winds of War, W, Bad Charleston Charlie, Jigsaw, P.J., Hotel, Days of Wine and Roses, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Star Trek; died Feb 13, 19901913 - Cowboy (Lloyd) Copas
country singer: Alabam, Goodbye Kisses, Signed, Sealed and Delivered; killed in plane crash with singer, Patsy Cline Mar 5, 19631925 - Philip Carey
actor: The Great Sioux Massacre, Philip Marlowe, Laredo, One Life to Live, The Time Travelers, Mister Roberts; died Feb 6, 20091927 - Nan Martin
actress: Matters of the Heart, Goodbye Columbus, For Love of Ivy; died Mar 4, 20101931 - Clive Cussler
author: Raise the Titanic, Deep Six, Sahara, Cyclops; died Feb 24, 20201933 - Julian Bream
musician: classical guitar, lute; died Aug 14, 20201935 - Donn (Alvin) Clendenon
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Expos, NY Mets [World Series: 1969], SL Cardinals; died Sep 17, 20051935 - Alex (Alexander G.) Karras
football: Univ of Iowa line backer: Outland Trophy [1957], Detroit Lions defensive tackle: All-Pro [1960-1962]; sportscaster: Monday Night Football [1974-1976]; actor: Blazing Saddles, Against All Odds, Victor/Victoria, Webster; died Oct 10, 20121935 - Ken Kercheval
actor: Dallas, Search for Tomorrow, Corporate Affairs, Calamity Jane; died Apr 21, 20191939 - Mike (Thomas Michael) Shannon
‘Moonman’: baseball: St. Louis Cardinals; sportscaster1939 - Patrick Wayne
actor: Chill Factor, Young Guns, McClintock, Big Jake; John Wayne’s son1940 - Roy Winston
football: Minnesota Vikings line backer: Super Bowl IV, VIII, IX, XI; died Mar 5, 20221943 - Billy Truax
football: Dallas Cowboys tight end, Super Bowl VI1944 - Jan-Michael Vincent
actor: Airwolf, The Winds of War, Indecent Behavior, The World’s Greatest Athlete, Hooper, Born in East L.A.; died Feb 10, 20191945 - Peter Lewis
musician: guitar, singer: group: Moby Grape: LPs: Moby Grape, Wow, Grape Jam, Truly Fine Citizen, 20 Granite Creek, Grape Live1946 - Linda Ronstadt
singer: group: The Stone Poneys: Different Drum; solo: Blue Bayou, You’re No Good, When Will I Be Loved, It’s So Easy, Ooh Baby Baby, Hurt So Bad; actress Pirates of Penzance1948 - Artimus Pyle
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician: drums: group: Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama, Gimme Three Steps, Simple Man, Saturday Night Special1950 - Arianna Huffington (née Stassinopoulos)
author, syndicated columnist, founder of The Huffington Post1951 - Rick Kehoe
hockey: NHL: Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins: player, scout, assistant coach1951 - Jesse Ventura
pro wrestler: WWF/WCW/AWA; Governor of Minnesota [1999-2003]; actor: 20/20 Vision, Batman and Robin, Major League II, Demolition Man1952 - Jeff Carlisi
musician: lead guitar: group: .38 Special: Rockin’ into the Night, Stone Cold Believer, Hold on Loosely, Wild-Eyed Southern Boys, Fantasy Girl, Caught Up In You1952 - David Pack
singer: group: Ambrosia: The Biggest Part of Me1952 - Terry O’Quinn
actor: Lost, Old School, Hometown Legend, American Outlaws, Semper Fi, The X-Files, Murder in a Small Town, Alias, Hawaii Five-0 [2011]1952 - John Stallworth
Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver: Pittsburgh Steelers: [1974-1987]: 4× Super Bowl champ [IX, X, XIII, XIV]; more1953 - Alicia Bridges
singer: I Love the Nightlife [Disco Round]1956 - Marky Ramone
musician: drums: group: The Ramones: I Wanna Be Sedated, Teenage Lobotomy, Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue1960 - Willie Aames
actor: Eight Is Enough, Charles in Charge, Frankenstein, Zapped!1960 - Kim Alexis
supermodel: has appeared on some 500 magazine covers; actress: Holy Man, A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Wicked Wives, Body Bags; TV host: Family Channel1961 - Lolita Davidovich
actress: Now and Then, Indictment: The McMartin Trial, For Better or Worse, Cobb, Boiling Point, Raising Cain, The Inner Circle, Recruits1961 - Forest Whitaker
Academy Award-winning actor: The Last King of Scotland [2007]; Battlefield Earth, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Phenomenon, Ready to Wear, The Enemy Within, Body Snatchers, Jason’s Lyric, The Crying Game, Bird, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon, The Color of Money, Fast Times at Ridgemont High; director: Waiting to Exhale, Strapped1963 - Brigitte Nielsen
actress: Galaxis, Body Count, Chained Heat 2, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Cobra, Rocky 4, Red Sonja1963 - Steve Thomas
hockey: Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks, NY Islanders, NJ Devils, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Detroit Red Wings1964 - Shari Headley
actress: All My Children, Johnson Family Vacation, The Preacher’s Wife, Kojak: Ariana, Coming to America1966 - Irène Jacob
actress: The Double Life of Véroniqu, Three Colors: Red, N?©s de la m?®re du monde, Londinium, My Life So FaR, U.S. Marshals, All Men Are Mortal, Claude, La Passion Van Gogh, Au revoir les enfants1967 - Phillip ‘Fish’ Fisher
musician: drums: group: Fishbone: Freddie’s Dead, Fight the Youth, Sunless Saturday1967 - Carnell Lake
football [safety]: UCLA; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Baltimore Ravens1968 - Eddie Griffin
actor: Malcolm & Eddie, Undercover Brother, The Meteor Man, Deuce Bigalow film series, Double Take, John Q, Scary Movie 3, Norbit, Urban Justice1968 - Stan Kirsch
actor: General Hospital, The Flunky, Home Song, Please, God, I’m Only Seventeen1969 - Lorenzo Williams
basketball [center]: Boston Celtics, Orlando Magic, Charlotte Hornets, Dallas Mavericks, Washington Wizards1971 - James Baldwin
baseball [pitcher]: Chicago White Sox, LA Dodgers, Seattle Mariners, Minnesota Twins, NY Mets1972 - Rickey Dudley
football: Ohio State Univ; NFL: Oakland Raiders, Cleveland Browns, TB Buccaneers1972 - Scott Foley
actor: Scandal, Felicity, Below, Scream 3, Forever Love, Crowned and Dangerous, A.U.S.A., Whiskey Cavalier1972 - Bryan Helmer
hockey: SL Blues, Phoenix Coyotes, Vancouver Canucks, Detroit Red Wings1973 - Brian Austin Green
actor: Knots Landing, Beverly Hills 90210, An American Summer1975 - Wilson Delgado
baseball: SF Giants, NY Yankees, KC Royals, SL Cardinals, Anaheim Angels, NY Mets, Florida Marlins1976 - Diane Kruger
actress: Copying Beethoven, Joyeux Noel, National Treasure, Narco, Wicker Park, Troy, Michel Vaillant1977 - Lana Parrilla
actress: Once Upon a Time, Spin City, 24, Windfall, Swingtown, Miami Medical, Boomtown, One Last Ride, The Double Life of Eleanor Kendal1981 - Taylor Kinney
actor: Chicago Fire, Trauma, Fashion House, House, Chicago PD, Zero Dark Thirty, The Other Woman1981 - Jordi Vilasuso
actor: Guiding Light, America’s Most Wanted, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Unsolved Mysteries, Arrest and Trial, The Lost City, Heights, Angels Don’t Sleep Here, The Last Home Run, Fashion House1990 - Alexander Calvert
actor: Supernatural, Arrow, The Returned, Bates Motel, The Blackburn Asylum, The Edge of Seventeen, The Package, Good Boys1990 - Damian Lillard
basketball [point guard]: NBA: Portland Trail Blazers [2012– ]1998 - Tanner Maguire
actor: Letters to God, Saving Sarah Cain, Janie, Days of Our Lives, The Hangover Part II2008 - Iain Armitage
actor: Young Sheldon; character voice: young Shaggy Rogers in Scoob!, and police puppy Chase in PAW Patrol: The Movie
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Hit Music on This Day July 15
1950Bewitched (facts) - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Mary Lou Williams)
My Foolish Heart (facts) - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
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