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1861 - It isn't often that people are invited to a picnic to watch a war; but that's what happened on this day. It was the first major battle of the Civil War between the North and the South. U.S. Federal troops under the leadership of Major General Irwin McDowell attacked Confederate troops led by General Beauregard. It was the Battle of Bull Run Creek at Manassas Junction, Virginia. The Confederates, with the help of General E. Kirby Smith and General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson held back the Union troops like a stone wall. Many folks, dressed in their Sunday best, came to watch and picnic as 60,000 men fought for over ten hours. When a shell destroyed a wagon blocking the main road of retreat, panic sent Union troops and picnickers scurrying back to Washington D.C.
1873 - The first train robbery in America was pulled off by Jesse James and his gang. They took $3,000 from the Rock Island Express at Adair, IA. Stick ’em up. And don’t try to grab my mask!
1930 - The Veterans’ Administration of the United States was established this day.
1931 - Ted Husing was master of ceremonies for the very first CBS-TV program. The show featured singer Kate Smith, composer George Gershwin and New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker.
1944 - U.S. forces landed on -- and recaptured -- the island of Guam.
1944 - Harry S Truman accepted the Democratic party’s nomination for vice president of the U.S. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected for a fourth term that year -- with Truman as his VP. On April 12, 1945, Roosevelt died and Truman became president.
1948 - Mr. Chameleon, starring Karl Swenson, debuted on CBS radio. Mr. Chameleon was so named because he was known as ‘the man of many faces’.
1949 - The U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-to-13.
1952 - An earthquake registering 7.5 on the Richter scale jolted the Tehachapi area, southeast of Bakersfield, California. It was a major quake for sure, but there were no fatalities.
1957 - Althea Gibson became the first black woman to win a major U.S. tennis title. She won the Women’s National clay-court singles competition.
1958 - The last of Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts programs aired on CBS-TV. Many artists got their start on Talent Scouts, including Tony Bennett, Pat Boone, The McGuire Sisters and a singer named Connie Francis -- who not only sang, but played the accordion, as well.
1959 - A U.S. District Court judge in New York City ruled that D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover was not a dirty book. The ruling was upheld in U.S. appeals court one year later. The book, incidentally, has been called a literary work of art. We recommend pages 21, 46 and 319.
1960 - The country of Katanga proclaimed itself a republic in Africa.
1961 - Captain Virgil ‘Gus’ Grissom became the second American to rocket into a suborbital pattern around the Earth, flying on the Mercury 4 Liberty Bell 7.
1967 - Actor Basil Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes) died of a heart attack. He was 75 years old.
1968 - Arnold Palmer became the first golfer to make a million dollars in career earnings after he tied for second place at the PGA Championship. Palmer accomplished the feat in just 13 years and 2 months as a professional golfer. He won 52 golf tournaments during that period.
1969 - Just one day after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Duke Ellington and a portion of his band performed a 10-minute composition on ABC-TV titled Moon Maiden. The work featured piano, drums, bass and vocals.
1970 - The Aswan Dam in Egypt was formally inaugurated. Construction on High Dam had begun in January 1960.
1972 - U.S. Senator George McGovern, and his grandson, Matthew, were pictured on the cover of LIFE magazine
1973 - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown reached the top spot on the Billboard pop-singles chart, becoming Jim Croce’s first big hit. Croce died in a plane crash two months later (September 20, 1973).
1976 - An American Legion Convention in Philadelphia PA. began (it ran thru July 24). Over 200 people who attended later caught legionnaires disease. 29 died.
1979 - The National Women’s Hall of Fame, honoring the women important to U.S. history, was dedicated. It was founded to honor women whose contributions “have been of the greatest value in the development of their country.”
1982 - Dave Garroway (69), former TV host of the Today Show (1952-1961), committed suicide.
1985 - The 10 sexiest men in the U.S., according to Playgirl magazine, included comedian John Candy, New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Representative Jack Kemp.
1985 - Sandy Lyle became the first British golfer in 16 years to win the British Open golf title. Tony Jacklin was the previous winner from Great Britain (1969).
1985 - Race horse John Henry retired. The thoroughbred was originally purchased for $1,100. The 1984 Horse of the Year had career winnings of $6.5 million. John Henry won 39 of 83 races and was 10 years old when he retired.
1987 - TV personality Mary Hart of Entertainment Tonight made news as she had her legs insured by Lloyd’s of London for $2 million.
1989 - Former president Ronald Reagan was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in recognition of his role as George Armstrong Custer in The Santa Fe Trail (1940) and as host of TV’s Death Valley Days (1965-1966).
1990 - Some 250,000 people celebrated at the site where the Berlin Wall once stood in East Berlin. Included in the benefit concert was an all-star cast performing Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Artists who performed: The Band, The Scorpions, Ute Lemper, Thomas Dolby, Sinead O'Connor, Joni Mitchel, James Galway, Brian Adams, Jerry Hall, Van Morrison, Marianne Faithfull, Albert Finney. Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters (organizer of the concert) performed together with his group The Bleeding Heart Band. “Organizing this show was certainly a lot of hard work,” Waters said, “but it was excellent to work with Bryan Adams, Van Morrison, Cyndi Lauper and all the others.”
1994 - Singer Dorothy Collins, featured on television’s Your Hit Parade in the 1950s, died of a heart attack in Watervliet, New York. She was 67. Collins, born in Windsor, Ontario, began on the show by singing “Be happy, go Lucky” for the sponsor, Lucky Strike cigarettes. She later sang the weekly top hits on Your Hit Parade and became one of its stars. In the 1960s, Collins helped set up gags on unwitting victims for Allen Funt’s Candid Camera.
1994 - Britain’s Labor Party elected Tony Blair its new leader, succeeding the late John Smith, who had died in May 1994.
1996 - At the Atlanta Olympics, swimmer Tom Dolan gave the United States its first gold, in the 400-meter individual medley. The men’s 800-meter freestyle relay team also won.
1997 - The USS Constitution, which defended the U.S. during the War of 1812, set sail under its own power for first time in 116 years. The ship sailed from its temporary anchorage at Marblehead, MA for a one-hour voyage to mark the 200th anniversary of the Constitution.
1998 - U.S. Astronaut Alan Shepard died in Monterey, California. He was 74. Shepard was one of the original seven astronauts chosen by NASA for its Mercury program. He became the first American in space on May 5, 1961 when he rode the Freedom 7 capsule for a 15-minute sub-orbital flight.
1999 - U.S. Navy divers found the bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr, his wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, in the wreckage of Kennedy’s plane in the Atlantic Ocean off Martha’s Vineyard.
2000 - These films debuted in U.S. theatres: Loser, starring Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Greg Kinnear, Zak Orth, Tom Sadoski, Jimmi Simpson and Dan Aykroyd; Pokémon: The Movie 2000, with Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Ted Lewis, Eric Stuart, Addie Blaustein, Ikue Ootani, Stan Hart, Kayzie Rogers and Megan Hollingshead; and What Lies Beneath, starring Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diana Scarwid, Joe Morton, James Remar, Miranda Otto and Amber Valletta.
2000 - Special Counsel, former Republican senator John C. Danforth, issued a preliminary report on his investigation of the assault on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas in 1993. Danforth concluded “with 100 percent certainty” that the U.S. government was innocent of wrongdoing in the fire that killed 80 people.
2001 - Eleven people, mostly children, were killed on a crowded pedestrian bridge as they left a fireworks display in Akashi, Japan. Another 247 people were injured in the ensuing stampede.
2002 - Telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection. This action was taken about a month after WorldCom disclosed the fact that it had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive accounting.
2003 - Carlton Dotson Jr, the roommate of missing Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy, was arrested and charged with Dennehy’s murder.
2004 - Deaths on this day: Richard Block (78), co-founder of H&R Block, died in Kansas City; and Jerry Goldsmith (75), Academy Award-winning composer, died. He created the memorable music for scores of classic movies and television shows ranging from the Star Trek and Planet of the Apes series to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Dr. Kildare.
2005 - German President Horst Köhler agreed to dissolve parliament and called for elections in mid-September.
2006 - New films in U.S. theatres: Clerks II, with Brian O'Halleron, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Trevo Fehrman, Jennifer Schwalbach, Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith; Lady in the Water, starring Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Freddy Rodriguez, Sarita Choudhury, Jared Harris and Bill Irwin; Monster House, with Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Steve Buscemi, Nick Cannon, Matthew Fahey, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jon Heder, Kevin James, Jason Lee, Ryan Newman, Catherine O’Hara, Kathleen Turner and Fred Willard; and My Super Ex-Girlfriend, starring Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Eddie Izzard, Rainn Wilson and Wanda Sykes.
2006 - Residents of Queens (New York City) suffered through a fifth day of power blackouts. ConEdison power company said the outages had affected some 25,000 customers.
2007 - Dozens of people were rescued by helicopter following heavy rains and floods in England. The storms also forced thousands of motorists, homeowners and train passengers to spend the night in shelters.
2008 - A U.S. B-52 bomber that was due to fly in a Liberation Day parade in the U.S. territory of Guam crashed into the Pacific Ocean soon after take-off. The bomber’s six-man crew was killed in the crash.
2009 - Messengers 2: The Scarecrow opened in the U.S. The horror film stars Norman Reedus, Claire Holt, Richard Riehle, Matthew McNulty, Heather Stephens, Darcy Flowers and Kalina Green.
2009 - The U.S. Senate voted to stop production of the F-22 fighter plane, giving President Barack Obama the $1.75 billion reduction he wanted as he worked to rein in defense spending.
2009 - Torrential rains in southern Japan triggered floods and landslides that killed eight people, including elderly residents at a nursing home.
2010 - The Tamra Davis documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child opened in New York City. The film, about a New York painter, was first screened as part of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
2010 - China reported flood waters in 2010 had killed 701 people and left 347 missing. The overall damage had totaled 142.2 billion yuan ($21 billion). This, with almost half the year remaining.
2010 - U.S. President Barack Obama signed major financial overhaul legislation named after Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) and Representative Barney Frank (D-Mass). The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ushered in the most comprehensive financial regulatory overhaul since the Great Depression, aimed at stopping the risky behavior on Wall Street that imperiled the U.S. economy.
2011 - Eurozone leaders agreed to give Greece €109 billion ($156 billion) in new financing in a complex package that included loans, buybacks of Greek debt, and credit guarantees.
2011 - The space shuttle Atlantis glided to a landing at the Kennedy Space Center through a clear moonlit sky to complete a 13-day cargo run to the International Space Station -- and a 30-year odyssey for NASA’s space shuttle program.
2012 - Bomb experts in Aurora, Colorado disarmed the booby-trapped apartment of James Holms -- the suspect in the shooting murders of innocent moviegoers at the Century movie theaters the previous night.
2013 - Britain’s Chris Froome of Team Sky pedaled through the streets of Paris as winner of the 2013 Tour de France. Twenty-two teams had started the race on June 29.
2014 - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Cairo to try to end two weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting. The conflict had killed over 500 Palestinians and 20 Israelis and displaced tens of thousands of Gaza residents.
2015 - Japan-based Toshiba Corporation acknowledged a systematic cover-up, which had begun in 2008. Hisao Tanaka, Toshiba’s CEO, and eight other executives resigned to take responsibility for doctored books that inflated profits by 152 billion yen ($1.2 billion) over several years. The inflation of profits -- to meet targets -- was carried out not only on one or two projects, but across the board, sometimes because the projects weren’t breaking even. “There was intense pressure to produce results under ‘The Challenge’ initiative,” an investigative report concluded. “So employees felt cornered into resorting to inappropriate measures.”
2016 - On the final night of a convention that had been mired in plagiarism and a non-endorsement, Donald Trump painted a bleak picture of America and accepted the Republican party’s nomination for the presidency. His speech veered at moments into chanting and self-congratulation, but focused primarily on his highlighting of so-called problems facing the U.S., and his promises to “fix” them.
2016 - Roger Ailes, the founder and chief executive of Fox News, has resigned from his position under fire because of a sexual harassment scandal. The powerful executive was accused of harassment in a lawsuit filed by former network anchor Gretchen Carlson, who said Ailes pressured her for a sexual relationship in exchange for keeping her job as a host of a Fox News program. Since then, other women have come forward with allegations against Ailes, 76, some stretching as far back at the mid-1960s.
2017 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: Dunkirk, with Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy and Kenneth Branagh; Girls Trip, starring Jada Pinkett Smith, Kate Walsh and Tiffany Haddish; Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, with Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne and Clive Owen; The 4th, starring Andre Hyland, Anna Lee Lawson and Yasmine Kittles; Awaken the Shadowman, with James Zimbardi, Skyler Caleb and Jean Smart; The Black Prince, starring Jason Flemyng, Amanda Root and Atul Sharma; The Gracefield Incident, with Laurence Dauphinais, Juliette Gosselin and Lori Graham; Killing Ground, starring Harriet Dyer, Tiarnie Coupland and Aaron Pedersen; Kuso, with Hannibal Buress, George Clinton and David Firth; Landline, starring Jenny Slate, John Turturro and Finn Wittrock; Scales: Mermaids are Real, with Emmy Perry, Morgan Fairchild and Elisabeth Röhm; and The Untamed, with Kenny Johnston, Simone Bucio and Fernando Corona.
2017 - White House press secretary Sean Spicer resigned in protest of a major shake-up of POTUS Trump’s scandal-tainted administration. This, as pressure continued from a the investigation into the Trump campaign’ ties to Russia. Anthony Scaramucci, a New York financier, took over for Spicer. The next day he cleared up his Twitter trail of remarks in which he differed from Trump on illegal immigration, climate change, Islam and even gun control. Scaramucci lasted in the job for 10 days.
2017 - 71-year-old American film and TV actor John Heard died of a heart attack in a Palo Alto, CA hotel, where he had been recovering after minor back surgery. Heard had lead roles in several films, including Deceived, Chilly Scenes of Winter, Heart Beat, Cutter’s Way, Cat People, and C.H.U.D.. Heard also had many supporting roles in films such as After Hours, Big, Beaches, Awakenings, Rambling Rose, The Pelican Brief, My Fellow Americans Snake Eyes, and Animal Factory. He also played Peter McCallister in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, as well as George in Sharknado. Heard was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999 his guest starring role on The Sopranos.
2018 - Egypt complained that a new Israeli law giving Jews the exclusive right to self-determination in the country undermined the chances for peace in the Middle East -- and the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes.
2019 - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claimed victory in an upper house election, saying the vote showed acceptance for his plans to raise the sales tax and would open debate on making the first revisions to the country’s pacifist constitution.
2019 - More from our Russian injustice file: Elena Grigoryeva (41), an activist for LGBT rights, was fatally stabbed in St Petersburg on this day. Russia had outlawed “gay propaganda” in 2013, resulting in the intensifying of hostility toward the LGBT community. A Human Rights Watch report that was published in 2014 found a big increase in cases in which people described being threatened, harassed, attacked and abducted because of their sexuality and/or gender identity.
2020 - Reversing his previous position (that a miracle would stop COVID-19), POTUS Trump warned the pandemic would “get worse before it gets better.” The Trump turnaround came as the global number of people infected with the coronavirus neared 15 million - and more than 140,000 had died in the U.S. in five months.
2020 - Larry Householder, Republican speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, and four associates were arrested. They had been caught up in a $60 million federal bribery case connected to a taxpayer-funded bailout of Ohio’s two nuclear power plants.
2020 - Kevan Jones, a member of the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), published his report into Russian interference in British politics. Among other conclusions reached, the report said it was not possible to determine whether the Kremlin tried to influence the 2016 Brexit referendum, because the British government had not even tried to find out. The report also noted that London had become a money laundering hub for Russian elites — and that “Russian influence in the U.K. is the new normal."
2021 - 33-year-old Estonian Pavel Tsurkan pled guilty to computer fraud and abuse in a complex scheme that compromised roughly 1,000 routers globally. Among the victims were dozens of Alaskans who faced hundreds or thousands of dollars of increased charges for internet service as a result.
2021 - Russia launched a years-long-delayed lab module for the International Space Station intended to provide more room for scientific experiments and space for the crew.
2022 - Then-POTUS Donald Trump watched the Jan 6, 2021, Capitol attack on TV in his dining room and rejected pleas from aides to tell the mob of his supporters to stop the violence, members of the House select committee investigating the riot said at a hearing Thursday. Trump “chose not to act” during the 187 minutes between leaving a Stop the Steal rally and when he finally told the mob to disperse, said Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL).
2022 - Amazon bought health-care company 1LifeHealthcare, which operates primary-care practice One Medical, in a deal worth $3.9 billion. Acquiring One Medical was part of Amazon’s goal to reinvent healthcare, said Neil Lindsay, SVP of Amazon Health Services.
2023 - Movies released on this day included: Barbie, starring Margot Robbie, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Ryan Gosling; and Oppenheimer, with Josh Hartnett, Florence Pugh, Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr, Emily Blunt and Matt Damon.
2023 - In the ongoing battle between Republicans in the Alabama Legislature and the U.S. Supreme Court: Alabama lawmakers approved a redrawn map that carved out just one majority-Black congressional district in the state -- despite an order from the Supreme Court stating that Alabama had to draw at least two majority-Black districts. The new map, drawn by the Republican supermajority in the Alabama Legislature, increased the percentage of Black voters in one of the state’s six majority-white districts to 40%. However, the new map also dropped the percentage of Black voters in the state’s existing Black-majority district. (In September 2023, a lower court appointed a special master to draw a new congressional map with two majority Black districts. To emphasize its displeasure with the state, the three-judge panel refused to put its order on hold, noting that Alabama had already conducted one congressional election in 2022 with an “unlawful map.”)
2023 - Legendary singer Tony Bennett, known for his crooning voice and vintage songs, died at the age of 96. Bennett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016 but had continued performing live up until 2021. With a career spanning seven decades, Bennett was known as one of the most iconic singers in American history. After his breakthrough in the 1950s, Bennett went on to record more than 70 albums, with his most famous being the recording of I Left My Heart in San Francisco. He was also known for his more recent collaboration with pop singer Lady Gaga.
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Birthdays on This Day July 21
1864 - Frances Cleveland (Folsom)
wife of 22nd U.S. President Grover Cleveland; died Oct 29, 19471899 - Ernest (Miller) Hemingway
Pulitzer Prize [1953] & Nobel Prize-winning writer [1954]: The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls; died July 2, 19611911 - (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan
professor, writer: Understanding Media, The Medium is the Massage; “The medium is the message.”; died Dec 31, 19801920 - Isaac Stern
concert violin impresario: soundtrack: Fiddler on the Roof; died Sep 22, 20011922 - Kay Starr (Katherine Starks)
singer: Rock and Roll Waltz, My Heart Reminds Me, Wheel of Fortune, Side By Side; died Nov 3, 20161924 - Don Knotts
comedian, Emmy Award-winning actor: The Andy Griffith Show [1960-1961, 1961-1962, 1962-1963, 1965-1966, 1966-1967], Matlock, Three’s Company, The Don Knotts Show, The Steve Allen Show; died Feb 24, 20061926 - Paul Burke
actor: Anatomy of Terror, Valley of the Dolls, Francis in the Navy, Twelve O’Clock High, Noah’s Ark, Naked City, Hot Shots, Dynasty; died died Sep 13, 20091926 - Norman Jewison
director: Moonstruck, Agnes of God, And Justice for All, Jesus Christ, Superstar, Fiddler on the Roof, Rollerball; died Jan 20, 20241930 - Gene Littler
golf champion: U.S. Open [1961]; died Feb 15, 20191930 - Helen Merrill
singer: Arcangeli Twist, Helen’s Blues, Don’t Explain, ’S Wonderful, Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year, When I Fall in Love1931 - Gene Fullmer
International Boxing Hall of Famer: World Middleweight Champion [1957], NBA Middleweight Champion [1959-1962]; died Apr 27, 20151938 - Janet Reno
U.S. Attorney General (1993-2001); died Nov 7, 20161943 - Edward Herrmann
actor: Big Business, Beacon Hill, Reds, The Paper Chase, Mrs. Soffel, The Great Gatsby, Eleanor & Franklin; died Dec 31, 20141943 - Jerry McGee
golf: champ: Pensacola Open [1975], IVB-Philadelphia Classic [1977], Kemper Open [1979], Sammy Davis, Jr.-Greater Hartford Open [1979]; died Mar 29, 20211945 - Leigh Lawson
actor: Battling for Baby, O Pioneers!, Tears in the Rain, Tess, Love Among the Ruins, Brother Sun, Sister Moon1946 - Barry Whitwam
musician: drums: group: Herman’s Hermits: Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter, No Milk Today, End of the World, This Door Swings Both Ways, Just a Little Bit Better, I’m Henry the Eighth, I Am1948 - Cat Stevens (Stephen Demetre Georgiou, Muslim name: Yusuf Islam)
singer: Wild World, Moon Shadow, Peace Train, Oh Very Young1948 - Garry Trudeau
cartoonist: Doonesbury1949 - Al (Alan Thomas) Hrabosky
‘The Mad Hungarian’: baseball: pitcher: SL Cardinals, KC Royals, Atlanta Braves1951 - Robin Williams
Academy Award-winning actor: Good Will Hunting [1997]; comedian and/or actor: Mork and Mindy, Good Morning, Vietnam, Mrs. Doubtfire, Dead Poet’s Society, Popeye, The Fisher King, Hook, Comic Relief, Patch Adams, What Dreams May Come, Jumanji, Jakob the Liar; died Aug 11, 20141952 - Phil Russell
hockey : NHL: Chicago Blackhawks, Atlanta Flames, Calgary Flames, New Jersey Devils, Buffalo Sabres1956 - Michael Connelly
mystery writer: created LAPD detective Harry Bosch and defense attorney Mickey Haller; president of the Mystery Writers of America [2003-2004]1957 - Jon Lovitz
comedian, actor: Saturday Night Live, A League of Their Own, City Slickers: The Legend of Curly’s Gold1958 - Henry Priestman
singer: group: The Christians1960 - Lance Guest
actor: Lou Grant, Knots Landing, Life Goes On, The Wizard of Loneliness, Jaws: The Revenge, The Last Starfighter, Halloween II: The Nightmare isn’t Over1960 - Matt Mulhern
actor: Biloxi Blues, Major Dad1961 - Jim Martin
musician: guitar: group: Faith No More: We Care a Lot, Introduce Yourself, From Out of Nowhere, Epic, Falling to Pieces, Midlife Crisis1968 - Racquel Darrian
actress [1989-1999]: X-rated films: Nymphobrat, Racquel in Paradise, Backdoor to Hollywood 13, Sinderella, King Tung Meets Anal Woman, Blowin’ in the Wind, Lunar Lust, It’s a Vivid Girl Reunion1971 - Charlotte Gainsbourgh
actress: A Boy and His Shoe, I’m Not There, Aux yeux du monde, Une star internationale, The Intruder, Paroles et musique; goddaughter of late actor Yul Brynner1973 - Ali Landry
model: 1996 Miss USA, 1998 Doritos Girl; actress: Baywatch, Pensacola: Wings of Gold, Farmclub.com, Eve1974 - Geoff Jenkins
baseball [left field]: Univ of Southern California; Milwaukee Brewers1975 - Mike Sellers
football [running back]: Walla Walla Community College, Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns1977 - Paul Casey
golf champ: PGA Tour: 2009 Shell Houston Open, 2018 Valspar Championship; 13 European Tour wins1977 - Jaime Murray
actress: Warehouse 13, Hustle, Dexter, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, Devil’s Playground, The Rapture, The Deaths of Ian Stone, Demons, Animal1978 - Justin Bartha
actor: The Hangover film series, National Treasure, The New Normal, Teachers, CBGB, The Good Fight1978 - Josh Hartnett
actor: Pearl Harbor, Cracker, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, The Virgin Suicides, Black Hawk Down, 40 Days and 40 Nights, O, Penny Dreadful1978 - Sergei Varlamov
hockey: Calgary Flames, SL Blues1980 - CC (Carsten Charles) Sabathia
baseball [pitcher]: Cleveland Indians [2001–2008]; Milwaukee Brewers [2008]; New York Yankees [2009–2019]: 2009 World Series champs1981 - Paloma Faith
singer: LPs: Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?, Fall to Grace, Perfect Contradiction1983 - Kellen Winslow
football [tight end]: Univ of Miami; NFL: Cleveland Browns [2004–2008]; Tampa Bay Buccaneers [2009–2011]; Seattle Seahawks [2012]; New England Patriots [2012]; New York Jets [2013]1985 - Vanessa Lengies
actress: American Dreams, HawthoRNe, Glee, MyMusic, The Substance of Things Hoped For, Stick It, Foreign Exchange, This Might Hurt1986 - Diane Guerrero
actress: Orange Is the New Black, Are We There Yet?, Jane the Virgin, Love Comes Later, Peter and John, Super Clyde1989 - Rory Culkin
actor: Scream 4, Lords of Chaos, You Can Count on Me, Columbus, Signs; youngest brother of actors Macaulay and Kieran Culkin1989 - Chelsie Hightower
ballroom dancer, choreographer: ABC’s Dancing with the Stars1989 - Jasmine Cephas Jones
actress: Broadway: Hamilton; films/TV: Blindspotting, Monsters and Men, Dog Day, The Photograph1989 - Juno Temple
actress: Ted Lasso, The Other Boleyn Girl, Wild Child, Atonement, Dirty Girl, Kaboom, St Trinian’s, Little Birds, Killer Joe, The Dark Knight Rises, Afternoon Delight1992 - Rachael Flatt
figure skater: 2010 U.S. national champion1998 - Maggie Lindemann
singer-songwriter: Pretty Girl; EP: Paranoia; LP: Suckerpunch
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Hit Music on This Day July 21
1947Peg o’ My Heart (facts) - The Harmonicats
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder (facts) - Eddy Howard
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