July 20
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1801 - A 1,235 pound cheese ball was pressed by itinerant Baptist preacher John Leland and his congregation in western Massachusetts to celebrate President Thomas Jefferson’s recent election victory over rival John Adams. The huge ball of cheese was later transported by sloop and sleigh and presented to President Jefferson at the White House. Mr. Jefferson was heard to say, “That’s one small bite for man, one giant cheese for mankind.”1859 - Brooklyn and New York played baseball at Fashion Park Race Course on Long Island, New York. The game marked the first time that admission had been charged for spectators to see a ball game. It cost $.50 to get in and the players on the field received no salary (until 1863). Hot dogs were $18.50, just like today.
1868 - Legislation that ordered U.S. tax stamps to be placed on all cigarette packs was passed this day.
1935 - NBC radio debuted G-men. The show was later renamed Gangbusters and stayed on the air until 1957.
1942 - The first members of the WAACS, the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps began training at Fort Des Moines, IA. In 1943, the name was changed to WACS (Women’s Army Corps) and the organization became a part of the U.S. Army. All WAACS were given the choice of joining the new WACS (and joining the army) or returning to civilian life (75% stayed on).
1944 - A bomb was placed by Colonel Graf Claus von Stauffenberg under Adolph Hitler’s conference table at his headquarters in East Prussia. The attempt to overthrow the government failed when Hitler was not killed (an oak support shielded him). Thousands of officers were arrested, tortured and/or executed.
1951 - Jordan’s King Abdullah Ibn Hussein (Abdullah I) was assassinated in Jerusalem.
1954 - An armistice for Indo-China was agreed to. Vietnam was divided, North from South.
1958 - Pitcher Jim Bunning threw a no-hitter and led the Detroit Tigers to a baseball win over the Boston Red Sox. The no-hitter was the last by a Tiger pitcher until Jack Morris did the same 26 years later. This turned out to be a major-league record for time between no-hitters.
1961 - Stop the World, I Want to Get Off opened in London. The show went to Broadway in 1962.
1963 - Ray Conniff received two gold-record awards -- for the albums, Concert in Rhythm and Memories Are Made of This -- on Columbia Records. Conniff recorded dozens of albums of easy listening music for the label. He had been a trombonist and arranger with Bunny Berigan, Bob Crosby, Harry James, Vaughn Monroe and Artie Shaw.
1963 - Surf City hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song by Jan & Dean was recorded in a converted garage beneath their apartment in Bel Air, California. Jan Berry and Dean Torrence had converted the garage into a music room complete with a piano and two Ampex reel-to-reel tape recorders. Jan had found a way to create a delay echo effect by using the two tape recorders at the same time.
1965 - Bob Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone was released. It was his first big hit. And for a real Like a Rolling Stone experience see video.bobdylan.com.
1969 - Singer Roy Hamilton (Unchained Melody [1955], Don’t Let Go [1958]) died of a of a heart attack. He was 40 years old. Hamilton’s powerful baritone voice was also featured on such hits as You’ll Never Walk Alone (1954) and You Can Have Her (1961).
1969 - With “...one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” astronaut, Neil Armstrong, pilot of the lunar spacecraft, the Eagle, made the first footsteps on the surface of the moon at 10:56 p.m. EDT. Which foot did Armstrong use to step on the grainy, grayish, lunar soil? His left. So incredible were the TV images of Armstrong and (15 minutes) later, Buzz Aldrin, exploring the lunar surface, people around the world stopped and collectively held their breath. The words “Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed...” gave instant impact to the drama of watching human beings reach something so far away so successfully. And all were able to breathe once again.
1971 - Karen and Richard Carpenter hosted the summer series, Make Your Own Kind of Music, on NBC-TV.
1976 - Viking I, the U.S. robot spacecraft made a successful, first-ever landing on Mars at Chryse Planitia, and began transmitting pictures. The Viking spacecraft was launched August 20, 1975.
1977 - A flash flood hit “Flood Free” Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The “500-year event” killed 80 people and caused $350 million in damage.
1983 - Frank Reynolds, anchor of the nightly ABC News, died at the age of 59. He was replaced by ABC News correspondent, Peter Jennings. Through his years at ABC, Reynolds was noted for being temperamental. That personality came through on the air from time to time. During the assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan, Reynolds scolded staff members while he was on camera. Reynolds had to retract previously broadcast statements that Reagan’s Press Secretary James Brady had been killed in the attack. The misinformation embarrassed Reynolds, causing the on-air reaction.
1985 - Treasure hunters began hauling off $400 million in coins and silver ingots from the sea floor in the biggest underwater jackpot in history. The bounty came from the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha. The Spanish galleon sank 40 miles off the coast of Key West, Florida in 1622. It was located by treasure hunter Mel Fisher. The 40 tons of gold and silver and was the richest treasure find since the opening of King Tut’s tomb in the 1930s.
1992 - Václav Havel, the playwright who had led the ‘Velvet Revolution’ against Communism, stepped down as president of Czechoslovakia.
1993 - White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster, Jr. was found shot to death in a park near Washington DC. His death was ruled a suicide.
1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton named federal judge Louis Freeh to replace William Sessions as FBI director. (Clinton had fired Sessions the previous day.)
1993 - The Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings into the U.S. Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (Ginsburg was confirmed on Aug 3, 1993.)
1994 - O.J. Simpson offered a $500,000 reward for the capture of his wife’s “real killer.” And Simpson attorney Robert Shapiro activated a toll-free number for leads.
1996 - Blue, the very first major-label (Curb Records) album by Country singer LeAnn Rimes (13 years old), debuted at number one on Billboard’s Country music chart and number four on the Pop album chart. The title track from Blue went on to became a signature song for Rimes. The album went on to go multi-platinum.
1998 - Russia won an $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help avert the devaluation of its currency.
1999 - After 38 years at the bottom of the Atlantic, the Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule was brought to the surface. The capsule had taken U.S. astronaut Gus Grissom on a 15-minute space trip July 21, 1961. After a successful mission and splashdown, the capsule’s hatch had mysteriously blown off, causing it to take on water and sink. It was found at a depth of 15,000 feet -- 3,000 feet deeper than the Titanic.
2000 - G8 leaders gathered for the annual summit -- on Japan’s Okinawa island. U.S. President Bill Clinton arrived and went directly to the Cornerstone of Peace Memorial where the names of 237,318 people, who died in the battle of Okinawa, are inscribed.
2001 - These motion pictures opened in the U.S.: America’s Sweethearts, starring Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack, Hank Azaria, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin and Seth Green; and Lost and Delirious, with Piper Perabo, Jessica Pare, Mischa Barton, Jackie Burroughs and Michael Pitt.
2001 - Long-time fugitive Ira Einhorn was flown from France and handed over to Philadelphia police. In 1993, Einhorn had been convicted in absentia for the beating death of his girlfriend, Helen ‘Holly’ Maddux.
2002 - Twenty-nine people died in a blaze started by bartenders who were doing tricks with fire at the Utopia, an unlicensed night club in Lima, Peru.
2003 - Ben Curtis, a PGA Tour rookie in his first major championship, won the British Open.
2004 - Microsoft Corporation announced a one-time dividend payment of $32 billion. The company also was buying back up to $30 billion in outstanding stock.
2005 - James Doohan, the actor best known for playing Scotty on Star Trek, died at his home in Redmond, WA. He was 85 years old.
2006 - The U.S. released postage stamps featuring Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Supergirl and a half dozen other superheroes.
2006 - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger authorized $150 million in loans to the state’s stem cell agency, a day after President George Bush (II) vetoed legislation that would have expanded U.S. federal funding for stem cell research.
2007 - A heat wave that had killed 13 people was sweeping across central and southeastern Europe, with soaring temperatures sparking forest fires, damaging crops and prompting calls to ban horse-drawn tourist carriages.
2007 - Tammy Faye Messner died in Missouri of colon & lung cancer at 65 years of age. As Tammy Faye Bakker she had helped her husband, Jim, build PTL, a multimillion-dollar evangelism empire that collapsed in disgrace.
2008 - A new airport opened in Najaf, Iraq in what the prime minister called a key step in the reconstruction of a country devastated by war. And the government said an oil refinery in Iraq’s western desert has resumed production.
2008 - Beijing started its most drastic pollution-control plan, restricting car use and limiting factory emissions. It was a last-minute push to clear smoggy skies for the August Olympics.
2009 - The United States and India agreed on a defense pact, eventually allowing the sale of sophisticated U.S. arms to India as it modernized its military.
2009 - A U.N. war crimes court in the Hague convicted two Bosnian Serb cousins for a ‘callous’ 1992 killing spree that included locking scores of Muslims in two houses and burning them alive in Visegrad.
2010 - The Paris-based International Energy Agency said China had overtaken the U.S. as the world’s largest energy consumer. The IEA said China’s 2009 consumption of energy ranging from oil and coal wind and solar power was equal to 2.265 billion tons of oil, compared to 2.169 billion tons for the U.S.
2011 - The city of Los Angeles passed a law intended to protect bicyclists from harassment by motorists. The law made it a crime for drivers to threaten cyclists verbally or physically, and allowed victims of that harassment to sue in civil court without waiting for the city to press criminal charges.
2011 - Brooklyn, New York authorities reported that a high-end prostitution ring had been busted. High Class NY by peddling women referred to as models through several Web sites and various advertisements. The ring appealed to Wall Street clients, who would spend over $10,000 for a night of bingeing on sex and cocaine. Rendezvous rates ranged from $600 to $3,400 an hour.
2012 - Staff Sgt. Luis Walker was found guilty on 28 charges, including rape and sexual assault. He was among twelve Lackland Air Force Base instructors who had been investigated for sexual misconduct toward at least 31 female trainees. Walker was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
2012 - Films opening in U.S. theatres: The Dark Knight Rises, starring Tom Hardy, Christian Bale, Liam Neeson, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard and Gary Oldman; and the documentary, The Queen of Versailles, with David and Jackie Siegel.
2012 - During a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in one of the Century movie theaters in Aurora, Colorado, a wacko gunman opened fire on moviegoers. Dressed in tactical military clothing, he set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms, murdering 12 people and injuring 58 others. Sole suspect James Eagan Holmes was arrested outside the cinema minutes later.
2013 - An Italian court convicted five employees of an Italian cruise company over the Costa Concordia shipwreck in Jan 2012 that killed 32 crew and passengers. The court handed down a maximum sentence of two years and 10 months reached in plea bargains. The ship’s captain, Francesco Schettino, was denied a plea bargain and was tried separately on charges of manslaughter and causing the loss of the ship.
2014 - Organizers and attendees at the world’s largest AIDS conference in Melbourne, Australia honored six colleagues who died in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, saying the six would want them to continue the fight against the deadly disease. Noted AIDS researcher Joep Lange, an internist and professor of infectious diseases at the University of Amsterdam, was among those who died.
2015 - Lockheed Martin bought Sikorsky, maker of the Black Hawk helicopter for the U.S. Army, from United Technologies in a $9 billion deal.
2015 - The U.S. and Cuba formally restored ties and reopened embassies in each other’s capitals -- after 54 years of diplomatic estrangement.
2015 - English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking launched the biggest-ever search for intelligent life in the universe in a 10-year, $100-million (143-million-euro) project to scan the heavens. The Breakthrough Listen project was backed by Russian Silicon Valley entrepreneur Yuri Milner.
2016 - Ted Cruz was booed off the stage during his Republican convention speech. As it became clear that Cruz would not endorse Trump, many in the arena booed. There were shouts of “honor your pledge!” at pro-Cruz delegates, and heckles of Cruz’s wife Heidi, who was escorted off the floor. Before Cruz had finished speaking, Trump himself emerged and walked down to the VIP box, applause for him mixing with boos for Cruz, and nearly drowning out the senator from Texas.
2017 - The U.S. Treasury Department hit Exxon Mobil Corporation with a $2-million fine for violating Russia sanctions while U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson served as CEO.
2017 - 70-year-old O.J. Simpson was granted parole after more than eight years in prison for a Las Vegas hotel-room heist. Simpson successfully made his case for freedom in a televised hearing that reflected the enduring fascination with the former football star. Simpson was freed on October 1, 2017.
2017 - Germany’s president signed legislation legalizing gay marriage, clearing the way for it to take effect on 1 October 2017.
2017 - Movies opening in U.S, theatres included: The Equalizer 2, starring Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington and Bill Pullman; Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, starring Lily James, Amanda Seyfried and Meryl Streep; Unfriended: Dark Web, with Rebecca Rittenhouse, Betty Gabriel and Chelsea Alden; Broken Star, starring Analeigh Tipton, Tyler Labine and Lauren Bowles; Damascus Cover, starring Olivia Thirlby, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and John Hurt; the animated Duck Duck Goose, featuring the voices of Jim Gaffigan, Zendaya, Lance Li, Greg Proops, Natasha Leggero, Diedrich Bader, Reggie Watts, Carl Reiner, Stephen Fry, Craig Ferguson, Jennifer Grey and Rick Overton; Occupation, with Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison and Stephanie Jacobsen; Pin Cushion, starring Lily Newmark, Joanna Scanlan and Loris Scarpa; Relaxer, with Joshua Burge, David Dastmalchian and Andre Hyland; and Zoe, starring Léa Seydoux, Rashida Jones and Ewan McGregor.
2018 - POTUS Donald Trump continued his criticism the U.S. Federal Reserve. His verbal tirade was another in a long line of breaks by Trump of long-standing traditions. This one held that presidents should avoid any influence, real or perceived, on the independence of the U.S. central bank.
2018 - Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned the U.S. that higher tariffs on auto imports would backfire and harm not only America’s jobs and economy but also devastate the global economy. Abe told a news conference that Japan’s auto and auto parts industry has never threatened America’s national security and it never will. Abe said he would keep explaining that to POTUS Trump.
2019 - Tens of thousands gathered in Hong Kong voicing support for the police and calling for an end to violence. This, after a wave of protests against an extradition bill had triggered clashes between police and activists and plunged the city into crisis. Under the terms of the handover from Britain in 1997, Hong Kong was allowed to retain extensive freedoms not enjoyed on the mainland under a “one country, two systems” formula, including an independent judiciary and the right to protest. But many feared the new extradition bill, which would allow extraditions to the mainland, would be used to silence dissent -- and was the latest step in a relentless march toward mainland China control of Hong Kong.
2019 - More from our repression files: 10,000+ people took to the streets of Moscow, Russia to protest the exclusion of most opposition-minded candidates from an election for the city’s legislature. Election officials barred some 30 candidates, mostly opposition-leaning, from running for the 45-seat legislature on the grounds they failed to garner enough genuine signatures from voters to qualify. However, the barred candidates said they had secured the required number of signatures, but that they had been excluded because they were challenging the control over the legislature exercised by those loyal to President Vladimir Putin.
2020 - The British government suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong and blocked arms sales to the former British territory following China’s imposition of a still another national security law.
2020 - A United Arab Emirates spacecraft began its journey to Mars following blastoff from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center. The probe, named Amal (Hope), reached Mars on Feb 9, 2021. The U.A.E. was the first Arab country -- and the fifth country -- to reach Mars. It was the second country to successfully enter Mars’ orbit on its first try (India being the first with its 2014 Mars Orbiter Mission).
2021 - Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said the Delta variant of COVID-19 was the cause of more than 80% of new cases in the U.S., but the authorized COVID-19 vaccines in the country were more than 90% effective in preventing hospitalizations -- and deaths.
2021 - Powered by a Blue Origin rocket, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos lifted off from West Texas with three other people, fulfilling a key goal of his private rocket company. Bezos and the passengers experienced about four minutes of free fall in the New Shepard capsule. The flight lasted some 10 minutes.
2022 - The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform found that the Trump administration had pushed to add a citizenship question to the last census to discourage non-citizens from participating in the count. The goal of the Trump skullduggery was to cause heavily Democratic areas to be undercounted and change congressional apportionment -- to benefit Republicans.
2023 - A multiple shooting in the center of Auckland, just hours before the opening of the Women’s World Cup, rattled the city. Tens of thousands had gathered to watch New Zealand play Norway in the first game of the tournament. Three people died in the attack -- including the gunman.
2023 - Video of a mob assault on two women in the Indian state of Manipur “shamed India”, claimed Prime Miniser Narendra Modi. Violence between Meitei and Kuki communities had killed 130 people.
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Birthdays on This Day July 20
1890 - Verna Felton
actress: Picnic, The Oklahoman; died Dec 14, 19661919 - Sir Edmund Hillary
explorer: first to climb Mt. Everest; died Jan 11, 20081920 - Tommy Prothro Jr.
football coach: Oregon State Univ., UCLA, Los Angeles Rams, San Diego Chargers; died May 14, 19951921 - Ted Schroeder
tennis champ: U.S. Open [1941], Wimbledon [1949]; died May 26, 20061924 - Lola Albright
Emmy-winning supporting actress: Peter Gunn; Kid Galahad, Les Felins, The Way West, Lord Love a Duck, The Impossible Years, Terraces, The Impossible Years, How I Spent My Summer Vacation, A Cold Wind in August, The Tender Trap; died Mar 23, 20171929 - Mike Ilitch
entrepreneur: owner of Detroit Red Wings, Little Caesar’s Pizza franchises; died Feb 10, 20171930 - Chuck Daly
basketball: coach: Duke Univ, Boston Colleg, Univ of Pennsylvania; NBA: Philadelphia 76ers, Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons, New Jersey Nets, Orlando Magic; died May 9, 20091930 - Sally Ann Howes
actress: Dead of Night, The History of Mr. Polly, Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang, Nicholas Nickleby; died Dec 19, 20211932 - Dan Rooney
football: owner, chairman: Pittsburgh Steelers; son of team founder and former owner Art Rooney; died Apr 13, 20171933 - Buddy (Wayne) Knox
singer: Party Doll, Rock Your Little Baby to Sleep, Hula Love, Somebody Touched Me; died Feb 14, 19991936 - Fred Butch Baird
golf: champ: PGA: Waco Turner Open Invitational [1961], 1976 San Antonio Texas Open [1976]; champ: Senior PGA: Cuyahoga Seniors [1986], Northville Long Island Classic [1989]1938 - Tony (Pedro Lopez) Oliva
baseball: Minnesota Twins [3-time AL batting champion/Rookie of the Year: 1964/all-star: 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971/World Series: 1965]1938 - Diana Rigg
Tony Award-winning actress: Medea; King Lear, Witness for the Prosecution, The Avengers, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, In Trust and Follies; hostess: PBS’ Mystery; died Sep 10, 20201938 - Natalie Wood (Natasha Nikolaevna Gurdin)
actress: From Here to Eternity, West Side Story, Splendor in the Grass, Rebel Without a Cause, Marjorie Morningstar, Gypsy, Love with the Proper Stranger; died Nov 29, 19811942 - Pete Hamilton
auto racer: Daytona 500 winner [1970]; died Mar 21, 20171942 - Mickey (Mitchell Jack) Stanley
baseball: Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1968]1943 - Chris Amon
auto racer: “...the New Zealander led lots of races, started from pole yet never ever managed to win a Grand Prix.”1943 - Wendy Richard
actress: EastEnders, Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time, Carry On Girls, Bless This House, On the Buses, No Blade of Grass, The Making of Jericho; died Feb 26, 20091944 - T.G. Sheppard (William Bowder)
singer: I Loved ’Em Every One, Make My Day [w/Clint Eastwood], Last Cheater’s Waltz1945 - Betty Burfeindt
golf champion: LPGA [1976]1945 - Kim Carnes
Grammy Award-winning singer: Bette Davis Eyes [1981]; w/Kenny Rogers: Don’t Fall in Love With a Dreamer, What About Me; co-wrote score: Flashdance1945 - John Lodge
musician: bass; singer: group: The Moody Blues: Go Now, Tuesday Afternoon [Forever Afternoon], Nights in White Satin, Ride My See-Saw, Voices in the Sky, Question, The Story in Your Eyes; Blue Guitar [w/Justin Hayward]1946 - John Almond
musician: reeds, keyboards, vibes: group: Johnny Almond and the Music Machine; died Nov 18, 20091947 - Carlos Santana
Grammy Award-winning musician: LP: Supernatural [9 Grammys in 2000]; group: Santana: Evil Ways, Black Magic Woman, Oye Como Va; more1948 - Muse Watson
actor: NCIS, Sommersby, Something to Talk About, Assassins, Dead Birds, Rosewood, I Know What You Did Last Summer, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, American Gothic, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Cold Case, Matlock, JAG, Walker, Texas Ranger, Criminal Minds, Ghost Whisperer, The Mentalist, Prison Break1954 - Jay Jay French
musician: guitar, founder of group Twisted Sister We’re Not Gonna Take It, I Wanna Rock, Be Chrool To Your Scuel, Hot Love, Leader of the Pack, The Kids are Back1956 - Paul Cook
musician: drums: group: The Sex Pistols: Anarchy in the U.K., God Save the Queen, Holidays in the Sun, My Way, Road Runner1957 - Donna Dixon
actress: Wayne’s World, Speed Zone, Beverly Hills Madam, Dr. Detroit, Bosom Buddies, Berrenger’s1958 - Mick MacNeil
musician: keyboards: group: Simple Minds: Changeling, Premonition, The American, Love Song, Don’t You [Forget About Me]1958 - Billy Mays
‘King of Infomercials’: TV pitchman: OxiClean, Orange Glo, Mighty Putty; died Jun 28, 20091960 - Brian Keith Allen
actor: The Meeting, True Brit, Loser, Western Avenue, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit1964 - Chris Cornell
Grammy Award-winning musician: guitar, singer, songwriter: groups: Soundgarden: Spoonman [1994], Black Hole Sun [1994]; Audioslave; died May 17, 20171964 - Murray Craven
hockey [center]: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Philadelphia Flyers, Hartford Whalers, Vancouver Canucks, Chicago Blackhawks, San Jose Sharks1964 - Adrian G. Griffiths
actor: Big and Hairy, Futuresport, Nick Fury: Agent of Shield, Dad’s Week Off, Stargate SG-1, Smallville1964 - Dean Winters
actor: Battle Creek, Oz, Rescue Me, 30 Rock, Law & Order: SVU, Devil You Know, Brooklyn Bound, Hellraiser: Hellseeker, Bullet in the Brain, Undercover Angel, Lifebreath; plays the nasty character Mayhem in Allstate Insurance commercials1966 - Stone Gossard
musician: guitar: founding member of Pearl Jam: LPs: Ten, Vs., Vitalogy, No Code, Yield, Binaural, Riot Act, Pearl Jam, Backspacer, Lightning Bolt1967 - Reed Diamond
actor: Homicide: Life on the Streets, Dollhouse, Spider-Man 2, Scared Silent, The Breed, Madison, Her Hidden Truth, Memphis Belle, The Summer of the Swans1968 - Michael Park
actor: As the World Turns, Ned1969 - Josh Holloway
actor: Lost, Sabretooth, Cold Heart, Mi amigo, Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service1971 - Sandra Oh
actress: Killing Eve, Grey’s Anatomy, Ramona and Beezus, Falling, 3 Needles, Big Fat Liar, Bean, The Journey Home1973 - Omar Epps
actor: House, Major League II, Juice, Higher Learning, Scream 2, The Wood, In Too Deep, Love and Basketball, ER1973 - Peter Forsberg
hockey: NHL: Quebec Nordiques [1994-1995]; Colorado Avalanche [1995-2004, 2007-2008, 2010-2011]: 1996, 2001 Stanley Cup champs; Philadelphia Flyers [2005-2007; Nashville Predators [2006-2007]1974 - Simon Rex
actor: Pledge This!, Scary Movie 3, 4, The Forsaken, Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth, Monarch Cove1975 - Ray Allen
basketball [guard]: Univ of Conneticut; NBA: Milwaukee Bucks [1996–2003], Seattle SuperSonics [2003–2007], Boston Celtics [2007–2012], Miami Heat [2012–2014]; member of two NBA championship teams [2008, 2013]; 10× NBA All-Star [2000–2002, 2004–2009, 2011]; NBA all-time leader in 3-pointers made1975 - Judy Greer
actress: Arrested Development, Archer, The Wedding Planner, 13 Going on 30, 27 Dresses, Love and Other Drugs, The Descendants1978 - Pavel Datsyuk
hockey [two-way forward]: NHL: Detroit Red Wings [Stanley Cup 2002, 2008; he won the Frank J. Selke Trophy [2007–2008, 2008–2009, 2009–2010; won four consecutive Lady Byng Memorial Trophies 2006-2009]; captain of Russia’s 2018 Olympic gold medal-winning hockey team1980 - Gisele Bündchen
model: one of the highest-paid in the world -- her contract with Victoria’s Secret was the biggest in the fashion industry1985 - John Francis Daley
actor: View from the Top, Allerd Fishbein’s in Love, Regular Joe, The Geena Davis Show, Freaks and Geeks, Judging Amy1988 - Julianne Hough
professional ballroom dancer: professional champ of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars; singer: LPs: Julianne Hough, Sounds of the Season: The Julianne Hough Holiday Collection; actress: Footloose [2011], Safe Haven1991 - Andrew Shaw
hockey [center]: NHL: Chicago Blackhawks [2011- ]: 2013, 2015 Stanley Cup champs1992 - Paige Hurd
actress: Everybody Hates Chris, Peep Game, Crosstown, 17th Street, City 141993 - Alycia Debnam-Carey
actress: The 100, Fear the Walking Dead, Into the Storm, The Devil’s Hand, Friend Request, McLeod’s Daughters, Dream Life, Next Stop Hollywood1994 - Maia Shibutani
ice dancer [w/brother Alex Shibutani]; 2018 Olympic bronze medalist, 3-time World medalist, 2016 Four Continents champion, two-time U.S. national champion [2016, 2017]1997 - Billi Bruno
actress: According to Jim, Eloise in Paris
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Hit Music on This Day July 20
1946The Gypsy (facts) - The Ink Spots
They Say It’s Wonderful (facts) - Frank Sinatra
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