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1909 - The first unassisted triple play in major-league baseball was made by Cleveland Indians shortstop Neal Ball in a game against Boston. “Yer out! Yer out! And you, sir, are out number three!”1914 - Boston began what was called its miracle drive as the Braves went from worst to first in the National League. They won the pennant and the World Series as well.
1938 - Paul Whiteman and his orchestra recorded Aunt Hagar’s Blues for Columbia Records. Jack Teagarden provided the vocal on the session recorded in Chicago, IL.
1942 - The Seventh Symphony, by Shostakovich, was performed for the first time in the United States by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra.
1946 - Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test. She passed it with flying colors and was signed to her first contract with Twentieth Century Fox Studios. The first of her 29 films was Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!
1948 - Our Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden and Gale Gordon, debuted on CBS radio. Arden played the role of Connie Brooks. The program stayed on radio until 1957, running simultaneously on TV from 1952 to 1956. Miss Brooks taught English at Madison High School. Her pal, the bashful, biology teacher Philip Boynton, was played by Robert Rockwell. The crusty, blustery principal of Madison High, Osgood Conklin, was none other than Gale Gordon. Supporting Eve Arden was Jane Morgan as Miss Brooks' landlady, Mrs. Davis. The main problem child in the classroom, the somewhat dimwitted Walter Denton was Richard Crenna.
1949 - Singer Harry Belafonte began recording for Capitol Records on this day. The first sessions included They Didn’t Believe Me and Close Your Eyes. A short time later, Capitol said Belafonte wasn’t “commercial enough,” so he signed with RCA Victor (for a very productive and commercial career).
1951 - Famous thoroughbred race horse Citation retired from racing.
1957 - The AIR-2 Genie, the first air-to-air missile with a nuclear warhead, was fired during Operation Plumbbob at Yucca Flat, Nevada.
1960 - Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants became the first pitcher to get a one-hitter in his major-league debut. Marichal allowed just one hit (a double in the eighth inning) as the Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies.
1966 - Frank Sinatra married actress Mia Farrow this day. Sinatra, 50, married the 20-year-old actress and was photographed after the ceremony by 14 motion-picture cameras and 37 still cameras.
1975 - Country singer Lefty Frizzell died in Nashville after suffering a stroke. He was 47 years old. Frizzell’s honky-tonk style made big hits of If You've Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time (1950), Always Late (1951) and Saginaw, Michigan (1964).
1980 - Billy Joel earned his first gold record with It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me, which reached the top of the Billboard pop music chart. He would score additional million-sellers with Just the Way You Are, My Life, Uptown Girl (for girlfriend and later, wife and supermodel Christie Brinkley) and We Didn’t Start the Fire. Joel reached the top only one other time, with Tell Her About It in 1983.
1984 - Geraldine Ferraro was nominated by the Democratic Party to become the first woman from a major political party to run for the office of U.S. Vice President. Ferraro, age 48, campaigned with presidential hopeful Walter ‘Fritz’ Mondale of Minnesota. Both lost in a landslide to the GOP ticket of Ronald Reagan and George Bush.
1985 - Two years after its initial release, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial grossed an additional $8.8 million in its first three days in rerelease. The film placed second in popularity that weekend to another Steven Spielberg film, Back to the Future.
1987 - Don Mattingly of the New York Yankees tied the major-league record of Dale Long (set in 1956) by failing to get a home run after hitting round-trippers in eight consecutive games. Despite rumors as such, Mattingly was not taken behind the dugout and whipped by the team’s owner...
1989 - 181 out of 293 passengers and crew survived the crash of a United Airlines DC-10. The pilot Captain Al Haynes of Flight 232, bound for Chicago, reported trouble to the Sioux City, Iowa airport half an hour before it slammed into the Sioux City runway. Prepared emergency personnel were credited with helping many to survive the fiery crash.
1990 - Baseball’s all-time hits leader Pete Rose was sentenced in Cincinnati to five months in prison and fined $50,000 for filing false income tax returns. Rose, who spent 25 years in the majors with 4256 hits, 1314 RBIs and a lifetime average of .303, was released from prison Jan 7, 1991.
1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton fired FBI Director William Sessions. Just the day before, Sessions had resisted White House suggestions he step down, saying he would resign only if Clinton asked him to. Sessions FBI demise came as the result of charges that he had regularly abused FBI resources.
1996 - The Centennial Olympics opened in Atlanta, Georgia. In the biggest Olympics staged in the 100-year history of the Games, 197 nations marched in the opening ceremonies. Montreal singer Celine Dion sang The Power of the Dream, written by David Foster, Kenneth (Babyface) Edmonds and Linda Thompson -- and commissioned for the Olympics. Former heavyweight champ and Atlanta native Evander Holyfield carried the Olympic torch into the stadium. Holyfield handed off to American swimmer Janet Evans Evans, who ran up the aisle with the torch and lighted the torch of heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali. (Evans also swam the 800m in the Olympics and was talking with a German TV crew when the infamous Olympic Centennial Park bomb exploded.)
1996 - These films were new in the U.S.: Fled, starring Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin, Salma Hayek, Will Patton and Robert John Burke; The Frighteners, with Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Dee Wallace Stone, Jeffrey Combs and Jake Busey; and Trainspotting, with Ewan Mcgregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin Mckidd, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald.
1997 - Daniel Komen of Kenya broke the 8-minute barrier for the 2-mile run while setting a new world record of 7:58.61 at the Hechtel Night of Athletics in Hechtel, Belgium. Komen actually ran two sub-4-minute-miles in this race, running his first mile in 3:59.2, then turned in a second mile of 3:59.4.
1999 - U.S. officials said radar data showed the plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Junior dropped 11,000 feet in just 14 seconds (on July 16, 1999). Senator Edward Kennedy released a statement saying, “We are filled with unspeakable grief and sadness by the loss of John and Carolyn and of Lauren Bessette.”
1999 - Carleton ‘Carly‘ Fiorina (44) was named president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Co. She was brought over from Lucent Technologies and became the third woman running a Fortune 500 company.
2000 - The In Crowd opened in U.S. theatres. The thriller stars Susan Ward, Lori Heuring, Matthew Settle, Nathan Bexton, Ethan Erickson, Laurie Fortier, Kim Murphy, Katharine Towne and Daniel Hugh Kelly.
2000 - U.S. President Bill Clinton shuttled between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his own experts during peace talks at Camp David. Clinton had delayed his departure for an economic summit in Japan to help with the peace efforts in the Middle East.
2001 - Circus animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams died in Venice, FL. He was 66 years old.
2002 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: K-19: The Widowmaker, made possible by the talents of Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard and Christian Camargo; and Tadpole, a romantic (adventure) comedy starring Sigourney Weaver, Aaron Stanford, John Ritter, Bebe Neuwirth and Robert Iler.
2004 - The Philippines announced that it had completed the withdrawal of its peacekeeping contingent from Iraq.
2005 - President George Bush (II) nominated federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts Jr. to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court.
2006 - U.S. President George Bush (II) used his first veto to underscore his stand against federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. The action put Bush at odds with many members of his own (Republican) party and a majority of the U.S. public.
2006 - Great Britain faced one of its hottest July days on record as a heat wave swept much of Europe. The temperature hit a record 36.5 degrees Celsius (97.7 Fahrenheit) in Wisley, Surrey (south of London). A new record was set on July 1, 2015 at Heathrow Airport. But because temps run warmer around the asphalt runways of an airport, some experts insist that this July 19 temperature is the hottest July day ever recorded in Great Britain.
2007 - Pratibha Patil (72) was elected as India’s first female president, defeating her nearest rival (Bhairon Singh Shekhawat) by over 300,000 votes. Patil’s election was seen as a victory for the hundreds of millions of Indian women who contended with widespread discrimination.
2007 - The DJIA rose 82.19 to a record 14,000.41. It was the Dow’s first close over the 14,000 mark.
2008 - U.S. Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama began a campaign-season tour of combat zones and foreign capitals, visiting with U.S. forces in Kuwait and then Afghanistan.
2009 - Without warning, a mystery object struck Jupiter this day. An amateur astronomer in Australia detected the new scar that covered some 73 million square miles, a larger area than the Pacific ocean.
2010 - A speeding train rear-ended another train at the Sainthia station in Birbhum district, 190 kilometres from Kolkata in West Bengal state (eastern India). Both trains were on the same track, which should not have happened. 63 people were killed and scores more were injured.
2011 - Harvard University fellow Aaron Schwartz, a student of ethics, was charged with hacking into the MIT computer network and trying to steal some 5 million academic articles from JSTOR (short for Journal Storage), the online system of archived academic journals.
2011 - 15,000 underprivileged Indonesian newlyweds from various faiths got married at a mass wedding. They received free marriage certificates that they otherwise could not afford. The Jakarta government, the Pondok Kasih Foundation and B Channel TV station organized the nuptials.
2012 - India’s biggest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki, suspended production at a plant near New Delhi after a manager was burned to death and scores of others injured in a riot by angry workers. 88 workers were arrested to face charges from murder to rioting to arson. Union officials said the riot began when a supervisor insulted an employee because of his caste.
2013 - New movies in U.S. theatres: The Conjuring, with Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor, Ron Livingston, Shanley Caswell, Hayley McFarland, Joey King, Mackenzie Foy and Kyla Deaver; RED 2, starring Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich, David Thewlis, Neal McDonough and Byung-hun Lee; R.I.P.D., starring Ryan Reynolds, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Bacon, Marisa Miller, Robert Knepper and Stephanie Szostak; Blackfish, with Samantha Berg, Dave Duffus, Dean Gomersall, Carol Ray, Tilikum and Jeffrey Ventre; Evidence, with Stephen Moyer, Nolan Gerard Funk, Harry Lennix, Torrey DeVitto, Radha Mitchell, Caitlin Stasey and Dale Dickey; Girl Most Likely, starring Kristen Wiig, Matt Dillon, Darren Criss, Annette Bening, Natasha Lyonne, June Diane Raphael, Mickey Sumner and Michelle Hurd; and Only God Forgives, with Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Yayaying Rhatha Phongam, Vithaya Pansringarm, Tom Burke and Byron Gibson.
2013 - China announced that it was ending its controls on bank lending rates in an effort to create a market-oriented financial system to support economic growth. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said that it was removing its floor on lending rates for commercial banks, meaning that banks would be able to cut rates as much as they saw fit to attract borrowers.
2014 - Actor James Garner died in Los Angeles at 86 years of age. His whimsical style in the 1950s TV Western Maverick was the prelude to a stellar career in TV and films. Garner’s TV series The Rockford Files ran for six seasons and he received an Academy Award nomination for best actor in Murphy’s Romance.
2014 - Israel pounded Hamas rocket launchers, uncovered more than a dozen cross-border tunnels and fought gunbattles with Palestinian militants on the second day of its open-ended ground operation in Gaza, as the Palestinian death toll there topped 310.
2015 - A University of Cincinnati police officer shot and killed a motorist after stopping him for a missing front license plate. The officer was charged with murder and voluntary manslaughter and was fired from the university police department. On Jan 18, 2016 the family announced a $5.3 million settlement with the university.
2016 - Authorities said a couple vacationing in Colorado helped guide to safety a local family that had become lost in the wilderness. The La Plata County Sheriff’s Office said Mike and Laura Hampshire, of Flagstaff, Arizona, came across 33-year-old Dustin Beaver and his three children in the Weminuche Wilderness and hiked out with them to a trailhead. Sheriff’s spokesman Dan Bender says other hikers had been lost in the area before and searchers looking for the family had trouble keeping their bearings in the dense vegetation and steep terrain there. The wilderness area, the largest in Colorado, is three-quarters the size of Rhode Island.
2016 - Waste-water flooded the Los Angeles River when a pipe ruptured and over a million gallons of raw sewage was released. The spill centered near Boyle Heights in Downtown L.A. and the runoff prompted beach closures in Long Beach and nearby Seal Beach.
2016 - Donald Trump became the Republican Party’s presidential nominee after a roll call vote overshadowed by dissent and apathy atypical of what was traditionally a celebration of the party’s White House candidate.
2017 - Britain’s publicly funded BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) was forced by Britain’s government to publish the names and salaries of its on-air talent, including the highest-earning actors and presenters. The numbers had previously been secret. The information was sensitive because the BBC is funded directly by taxpayers through a 147-pound (about $190) annual levy on every household that owns a television or watches the BBC online. The list showed that the BBC pays 96 on-air personalities at least 150,000 pounds ($195,000) a year, more than Britain’s Prime Minister.
2018 - A ‘duck boat’ sank in a storm on Table Rock Lake outside of Branson, Missouri killing 17 people. The amphibious vehicle was filled with 31 passengers. The boat’s captain, Kenneth Scott McKee, was charged with 17 counts of misconduct, negligence or inattention to duty by a ship’s officer, resulting in death. According to the indictment, McKee “failed to properly assess incoming severe weather both prior to and after entering the water” of the lake and he “entered the vessel onto the water while there was severe weather, including high winds and lightning approaching the area.” In June of 2019, Curtis P. Lanham, general manager of Ride the Ducks Branson, and Charles V. Baltzell, operations supervisor who was acting as manager on duty, were indicted by a federal grand jury for multiple felonies related to the sinking.
2018 - Facebook said it would begin removing misinformation that could lead people to being physically harmed. The action came in response to episodes Sri Lanka, Myanmar and India, in which rumors spread on Facebook led to real-world attacks on ethnic minorities. Hours earlier, CEO Mark Zuckerberg had defended the rights of Holocaust deniers to post on Facebook.
2019 - New on U.S. theatre screens: The animated The Lion King, with characters voiced by Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, Donald Glover, John Kani, James Earl Jones, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Billy Eichner, Amy Sedaris, Beyoncé, Alfre Woodard, Eric André, JD McCrary, John Oliver, Shahadi Wright Joseph and Florence Kasumba; Bottom of the 9th, starring Sofía Vergara, Joe Manganiello and Denis O’Hare; A Faithful Man, with Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta and Lily-Rose Depp; Into the Ashes, starring Luke Grimes, Frank Grillo and Marguerite Moreau; Rosie, with Sarah Greene, Moe Dunford and Ellie O’Halloran; and Supervized, starring Tom Berenger, Ned Dennehy and Fionnula Flanagan.
2019 - Dutch film actor Rutger Hauer died at his home in the Netherlands. He was 75 years old. His films included Turkish Delight (1973), Nighthawks (1981) Blade Runner (1982), Ladyhawke (1985), Escape from Sobibor (1987), Sin City (2005), Batman Begins (2005) and The Hitchhiker (2006).
2019 - César Pelli, internationally known architect based in Connecticut, died in New Haven. He was 92 years old. His work included the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco and the three-block-long transit center next to it. Pelli also designed the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and Canary Wharf in London.
2019 - A massive heat wave that had enveloped the U.S. Midwest pushed into the Northeast, ushering in temperatures 100+ degrees (38+ degrees C) in Washington. The heat prompted utilities to take steps to prevent power outages.
2019 - Continuing his anti-presidency, POTUS Trump selected Eugene Scalia, the son of late Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia, as the U.S. secretary of labor. Eugene had a long record of representing Walmart and other companies that pushed back against unions and tougher labor laws.
2019 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized POTUS Trump’s comments about Democratic lawmakers of color, saying his comments ran counter to what she considered “the strength of America” and expressing solidarity with the women. Trump had targeted four freshman Democratic lawmakers -- Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley -- saying the congresswomen should “go back” to their own countries if they don’t like America. All of the congresswomen are Americans, and three of them were born in the U.S. “People of very different nationalities have contributed to the strength of the American people, so these are ... comments that very much run counter to this firm impression that I have,” said Merkel. “This is something that contradicts the strength of America.”
2020 - A gunman murdered the son of a federal judge at her home in New Jersey. Esther Salas was home at the time of the shooting at her residence in North Brunswick, but was not injured. Her son, Daniel, a college student, died in the shooting and her husband, Mark Anderl, was wounded. The gunman, a self-proclaimed anti-feminist lawyer, committed suicide the following day. He had written disparagingly about several female judges, including Salas, the first Latina to serve on the federal bench in New Jersey, who had presided over one of his cases.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)POTUS Trump “pledged” that the coronavirus was coming under control. 2)Arizona’s totals for the coronavirus rose to 2,761 deaths and more than 143, 600 infections. 3)The state of Florida had over 350,000 cases of coronavirus with another 12,478 reported today. Officials reported another 87 deaths, bringing the statewide total to 5,089. 4)Kentucky reported 979 new coronavirus cases, for a total of 23,161. A 30-day statewide mask mandate went into effect on July 10. 5)Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards warned citizens that there is a “statewide epidemic” of COVID-19. Louisiana had had 91,706 cases of COVID-19 and 3,433 deaths. 6)India, with more than 1 million coronavirus infections, reported a 24-hour record of 38,902 new cases.
2021 - Paul A. Hodgkins, the first person to plead guilty to storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 with the intention of stopping the certification of the Electoral College vote, was sentenced to eight months in federal prison and two years of supervised release.
2021 - Twitter suspended Georgia U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from its service after she posted messages that violated its policy against sharing misleading information about the coronavirus. This 12-hour suspension -- and three other short-term shutdowns -- apparently did not get thru to Greene. She was banned permanently from Twitter in January 2022.
2022 - In the 92nd Major League Baseball All Star Game at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles: The American Legue won their ninth straight beating the National League, 3-2.
2022 - A heat wave in Europe brought temperatures of 104.5 degrees Fahrenheit to the United Kingdom, shattering the country’s record for its highest temperature. Britain’s record high had been 101.7 degrees, set in 2019. Stephen Belcher, the chief scientist at Britain’s Met Office weather agency, said such extreme temperatures would be “virtually impossible” without climate change, and he warned that similar heat waves could hit Europe every three years unless carbon-emissions were cut.
2023 - Scientists discovered that metals could “self-heal,” after observing them cracking and fusing back together. The surprising observation came during an experiment to evaluate how cracks formed and spread through a nanoscale piece of platinum using a specialized electron microscope technique. The discovery raised hopes for a future full of self-healing structures and vehicles.
2023 - A bus carrying 41 migrants from Texas arrived in Los Angeles. Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had sent thousands of migrants to Democratic-led states in protest of the Biden administration’s immigration and border security efforts, which they had slammed as inadequate. The arriving migrants were greeted by an immigration coalition and community groups that provided them with food, clothes and consultations with legal immigration attorneys. Many nonprofits that were helping migrants were calling on Washington to provide protection for asylum seekers.
2024 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Oddity, with Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken and Tadhg Murphy; and Twisters, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell and Anthony Ramos.
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Birthdays on This Day July 19
1834 - Edgar Degas
artist; Impressionist: noted for his paintings of dancers in motion; died Sep 27, 19171860 - Lizzie Borden
accused of axe murder of her parents; acquitted in a highly public trial; died Jun 1, 19271865 - Charles Mayo
surgeon: founded Mayo Clinic & Mayo Foundation with his brother; died May 26, 19391896 - A.J. (Archibald Joseph) Cronin
author: The Citadel, Keys of the Kingdom; died on Jan 9, 19811913 - Charles Teagarden
trumpeter, bandleader, brother of Jack; died Dec 10, 19841914 - Lou Krugman
actor: Jigsaw, Irma la Douce, Hong Kong Confidential, Sabaka, Where the Sidewalk Ends, To the Ends of the Earth; died Aug 8, 19921916 - Phil (Philip Joseph) Cavarretta
baseball: Chicago Cubs [World Series: 1935, 1938, 1945/all-star: 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947/Baseball Writer’s Award: 1945], Chicago White Sox; died Dec 18, 20101921 - Rosalyn Yalow
medical investigator, Nobel Prize-winner for Physiology/Medicine [1977]: medical applications of radioactive isotopes: developed RIA; died May 30, 20111922 - George McGovern
U.S. Senator and 1972 presidential contender; died Oct 21, 20121923 - Alex Hannum
Basketball Hall of Famer: player: Syracuse Nationals; coach: only coach to win titles in both NBA [Philadelphia ’76ers] and ABA [Oakland Oaks]; died Jan 18, 20021926 - Helen Gallagher
actress: All My Children, Ryan’s Hope, One Life to Live, Neptune’s Rocking Horse1924 - Pat Hingle
actor: Batman, The Grifters, Splendor in the Grass, On the Waterfront, Norma Rae, Of Mice and Men; died Jan 3, 20091925 - Sue Thompson (Eva McKee)
singer: Norman, Sad Movies [Make Me Cry]; died Sep 23, 20211927 - Billy (William Frederick) Gardner
‘Shotgun’: baseball: NY Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins, NY Yankees [World Series: 1961], Boston Red Sox; manager: California Angeles, Minnesota Twins; died Jan 3, 20241935 - Philip Agee
CIA agent; author: Inside the Company: CIA Diary; died Jan 7, 20081937 - George Hamilton IV
singer: A Rose and a Baby Ruth, Why Don’t They Understand, Abilene, The Teen Commandments [w/Paul Anka & Johnny Nash], She’s a Little Bit Country; died Sep 17, 20141938 - Richard Jordan
actor: Captains and the Kings, The Bunker, The Hunt for Red October, Dune, Logan’s Run, Rooster Cogburn; died Aug 30, 19931940 - Dennis Cole
actor: The Young and the Restless, The Barbary Coast; died Nov 15, 20091940 - Dave Fisher
singer, musician: guitar: founding member, lead singer: group: The Highwaymen: Michael, Cotton Fields, The Gypsy Rover; died May 7, 20101941 - Natalya Bessmertnova
prima ballerina: Bolshoi ballet; died Feb 19, 20081941 - Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta deCasilla Martinez Cardona)
singer: It Must be Him, With Pen in Hand, The Lesson1945 - Craig Cameron
hockey: Minnesota North Stars, NY Islanders1946 - Alan Gorrie
musician: bass, singer: group: Average White Band: Pick Up the Pieces, Work to Do, Let’s Go Around Again; solo: LP: Sleepless Nights1946 - Ilie Nastase
tennis champion: French Open [1973], U.S. Open [1972]1947 - Bernie Leadon
musician: guitar: group: The Eagles: Take It Easy, Best of My Love, One of these Nights1947 - Brian Harold May
musician: guitar: group: Queen: Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Another One Bites the Dust1948 - Keith Godchaux
musician: keyboards: group: The Grateful Dead: Dark Star, Anthem of the Sun, Touch of Grey, Workingman’s Dead, Skulls and Roses, American Beauty; died July 23, 19801952 - Allen Collins
musician: guitar: group: Lynyrd Skynyrd: Freebird, Sweet Home Alabama; died Jan 23, 1990 of respiratory failure due to a 1986 car crash which killed his girfriend and left him paralyzed1953 - Howard Schultz
businessman: CEO of Starbucks [1986-2000, 2008-2017], owner of Seattle SuperSonics [2001-2006]1956 - Peter Barton
actor: Baywatch, Vanity Fair, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Hell Night, Sunset Beach1961 - Campbell Scott
actor: The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Loverboy, Saint Ralph, The Secret Lives of Dentists, Roger Dodger1962 - Anthony Edwards
actor: ER, Northern Exposure, It Takes Two, The Client, Pet Sematary 2, Delta Heat, El Diablo, Summer Heat, Revenge of the Nerds series, Top Gun, Fast Times at Ridgemont High1965 - Clea Lewis
actress: Ellen, Flying Blind, The Rich Man’s Wife1973 - Christopher Jaymes
actor: It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Trying, The Reel, Dogs of Woods Hole, Father’s Day, Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story1973 - Scott Walker
hockey [right wing]: Vancouver Canucks, Nashville Predators, Carolina Hurricanes1976 - Benedict Cumberbatch
actor: Sherlock, Hawking, Amazing Grace, Atonement, War Horse, Parade’s End, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Star Trek Into Darkness, The Fifth Estate, 12 Years a Slave, The Imitation Game1976 - Vinessa Elizabeth Shaw
actress: The Hills Have Eyes, Two Lovers, Hocus Pocus, Ladybugs, House M.D., Stag Night, 3:10 to Yuma, Eyes Wide Shut, L.A. Without a Map, Coyote Summer1976 - Todd Washington
football [center]: Virginia Tech Univ; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Houston Texans1977 - Laura Maxwell
actress: Robbers, Happy Hour, Chelsea Walls1978 - R.J. (Robert Jackson) Williams
actor: Full House, The Big Five, The Price of Life, The Night They Saved Christmas, American Anthem, The Other Woman, Passions, General Hospital1982 - Jared Padalecki
actor: Supernatural, Gilmore Girls, Supernatural, New York Minute, House of Wax, Friday the 13th, Flight of the Phoenix, Young MacGyver, Silent Witness1983 - Trai Byers
actor: 90210, Selma, Empire, Americons1990 - Steven Anthony Lawrence
actor: Even Stevens, That’s So Raven, Married with Children, ER, Frasier, The Amanda Show, Cheaper by the Dozen, Kicking & Screaming, Rebound1995 - Mali Obomsawin
Abenaki-American jazz and folk bassist, singer-songwriter: LP: Sweet Tooth
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Hit Music on This Day July 19
1945Dream (facts) - The Pied Pipers
The More I See You (facts) - Dick Haymes
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