July 22
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1796 - Cleveland (originally spelled Cleaveland) was founded by General Moses Cleaveland, who first landed on the eastern bank of the Cuyahoga river on this day.1926 - Babe Ruth proved that he could catch a baseball. In a stunt at Mitchell Field in New York, Ruth, a private in the National Guard, caught a baseball that was dropped from an airplane. The plane was at 250 feet and traveling at about 100 miles-per-hour. As the cowhide hit the leather of Ruth’s glove, the ‘Bambino’ said, “Eeeeeeeooooooowwwwwcccchhh!”
1933 - Aviator Wiley Post ended his first around-the-world flight on this day. Post traveled 15,596 miles in just over a week (7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes). His famous plane was called the Winnie Mae.
1933 - Caterina Jarboro became the first black prima donna of an opera company. The singer performed Aida with the Chicago Opera Company at the Hippodrome in New York City.
1934 - Public enemy number one, the notorious John Dillinger, was gunned down and mortally wounded by FBI agents at the Biograph Theatre in Chicago, IL.
1937 - Hal Kemp and his orchestra recorded the now-standard tune, Got a Date with an Angel, for Victor Records in Hollywood, California. The distinctive vocal on the tune is provided by Skinnay Ennis.
1942 - Gasoline rationing with coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard of the United States.
1943 - U.S. armed forces, led by General George S. Patton, captured Palermo, Sicily.
1944 - The Bretton Woods (New Hampshire) Conference created the International Monetary Fund on this day. The IMF is “...a cooperative institution that [many] countries have voluntarily joined because they see the advantage of consulting with one another in this forum to maintain a stable system of buying and selling their currencies so that payments in foreign money can take place between countries smoothly and without delay.” The IMF was based on the ideas of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Director of Monetary Research, Harry Dexter White, John Maynard Keynes of England and the IBRD (International Bank for Reconstruction & Development). The IMF began operations in Washington, D.C. in May 1946 with 39 member countries.
1955 - U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon chaired a cabinet meeting in Washington, D.C. It was the first time that a Vice President had carried out this task.
1963 - World Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston hung on to his boxing title by knocking out challenger Floyd Patterson in the first round of a bout in Las Vegas, NV.
1965 - Till Death Us Do Part debuted on England’s BBC-TV. The show was so popular that it became a TV series in Great Britain and was the forerunner of the 1971-1979 CBS-TV hit, All in the Family, starring Carroll O’Connor and Jean Stapleton.
1967 - The Billboard singles chart showed that Windy, by The Association, was the most popular record in the U.S. for the fourth straight week. The Los Angeles-based sextet would make way for Jim Morrison and The Doors a week later when Light My Fire became the hottest record of the mid-summer.
1972 - Venera 8 made a soft landing on the planet Venus. The Russian spacecraft sent back data for 50 minutes after the landing.
1975 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee had his U.S. citizenship restored by the U.S. Congress. Lee, like all other Confederates, had lost his rights as a U.S. citizen.
1977 - Tony Orlando announced his retirement from show business. Orlando was performing in Cohasset, MA when he said that he had finally decided to call it quits. Orlando had two solo hits in 1961 (Halfway to Paradise and Bless You) and 14 hits with his backup singers (known as Dawn) through the mid-1970s. He also hosted a weekly TV variety show with Dawn (Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent) from 1974-1976.
1979 - Frenchman Bernard Hinault won the Tour de France in 103 hours, 6 minutes and 50 seconds. It was the second time that the bicyclist had won the event. He took a little longer to complete the course the previous year, finishing in 108 hours and 18 minutes. Hinault won this event again in 1981, 1982 (his best time, 92 hours, 8 minutes and 46 seconds) and 1985.
1981 - Turkish extremist Mehmet Ali Agca was sentenced in Rome to life in prison for shooting Pope John Paul II. (Agca was pardoned by Italy in June 2000 and sent to Turkey to serve time for a killing that took place before his attack on the pope.)
1983 - Dick Smith completed the first solo helicopter flight around the world. It had taken eleven months.
1985 - Bruce Springsteen became the hottest ticket in the rock concert biz as 70,000 Cleveland fans lined up (in less than three hours) to grab tickets to see the ‘Boss’.
1987 - A jury in New York ruled that Morris Albert’s 1975 composition Feelings was plagiarised from Pour Toi, a song written in 1956 by French composer Lou Lou Geste. The jury ruled that Geste was owed at least $500,000. Albert’s own recording of Feelings was a million-seller, and many other versions of the tune have been recorded.
1989 - The youngest pilot to fly around the world, 11-year-old Tony Aliengena, completed his globe-circling trip. The 4th grader returned to John Wayne Airport in Orange County, CA, nearly seven weeks and 21,567 miles after taking off in a Cessina 210 Centurion.
1990 - Greg LeMond won his third Tour de France. He outdistanced all other cyclists by finishing in 90 hours, 43 minutes and 20 seconds. His time was slower than his past wins. LeMond won in 1986 and again in 1989 with his best time of 87 hours, 38 minutes and 35 seconds. It seems like you have to be French to win the Tour de France, you say? Wrong, bicycle breath! Greg LeMond represented the U.S.A.
1991 - Milwaukee police arrested Jeffrey Dahmer. The cops found eleven skulls, three headless torsos sealed in a vat, and other body parts in his apartment. Dahmer confessed to killing as many as seventeen men, placing some of the remains in a filing cabinet, refrigerator, freezer, and kettles, while the others he dumped into a trash bin.
1992 - Model Wayne McLaren (the Marlboro Man) died of lung cancer. He was 51 years old.
1994 - O.J. Simpson pleaded “absolutely, 100 percent not guilty” to charges he murdered his ex-wife, Nicole and restaurant worker, Ronald Goldman; and the case was assigned to Superior Court Judge Lance A. Ito in Los Angeles.
1995 - The soundtrack album from the movie Pocahontas was #1 in the U.S. The Walt Disney animated flick features some two dozen songs.
1997 - More than 2,000 people gathered in Milan, Italy, for a memorial Mass for slain fashion designer Gianni Versace. The mourners included Princess Diana and Elton John.
1998 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed a bill designed to mold the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) into a friendlier, fairer tax collector. Democrat and Republican lawmakers attended the bill-signing ceremony at White House. Now that it’s been a few years, what do you think of this fuzzy, warm IRS?
2000 - A court sentenced ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 14 years at hard labor and banned him from politics for 21 years on corruption charges.
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II), President of the Russian Federation Vladimir V. Putin, and other world leaders closed out a summit in Genoa, Italy with a vow to wage a united attack on global poverty and disease.
2001 - David Duval shot a 4-under 67 to win the British Open title, his first major championship.
2002 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 234.68 points to 7,784.58. The Nasdaq fell 36.50 points to 1,282.65. It was the third straight day of triple-digit selloffs. Called the crash of 2002, the DJIA was at its lowest level in some four years.
2003 - Months after her Iraqi prisoner-of-war ordeal, private first class Jessica Lynch returned home to a hero’s welcome in Elizabeth, WV.
2004 - Illinois Jacquet, jazz luminary known for his big sound on the tenor sax, died in New York City. He was 81 years old.
2005 - New movies in the U.S.: Bad News Bears, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear and Marcia Gay Harden; The Devil’s Rejects, with Bill Moseley, Sid Haig, Sheri Moon, Karen Black, Irwin Keyes, Robert Allen Mukes, Ken Foree, Michael Berryman, Tyler Mane, Danny Trejo, Natasha Lyonne, Rosario Dawson, M.C. Gainey and Leslie Easterbrook; Hustle and Flow, starring Terrence Dashon Howard, DJ Qualls, Ludacris, Taryn Manning, Anthony Anderson, Isaac Hayes, Taraji P. Henson, Elise Neal and Paula Jai Parker; The Island, with Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Michael Clarke Duncan, Steve Buscemi, Sean Bean, Shawnee Smith and Noa Tishby; and November, starring Courteney Cox, Anne Archer, James LeGros, Michael Ealy and Nora Dunn.
2005 - Insolvent British car company MG Rover Group was sold to the Chinese Nanjing Automobile Group for around 53 million pounds.
2005 - Microsoft announced that the former code-named Windows Longhorn would be officially known as Windows Vista.
2006 - In the continuing Lebanon War, Israeli tanks and troops moved in and out of Lebanon, taking over a village, entering a U.N. observation post and engaging Hezbollah militants by land, sea and air. Israeli warplanes blasted communications and television transmission towers in central and northern Lebanese mountains. Meanwhile, over 130 rockets struck northern Israel, hitting Karmiel, Kiriyat Shemona, Nahariya and smaller communities such as Bet Hilel, Mayan Baruch and Mashov Am. Five Israelis were wounded. The Lebanese health ministry reported 362 deaths in Lebanon in the onslaught. 34 Israelis also had been killed.
2006 - 3,000 people gathered at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas for the annual Lifestyles conference, a five-day, $700-per-couple event that offers a mix of seminars, socializing and sex.
2007 - The death toll from a heat wave in Romania rose to 15 after six more people died. Temperatures hovered around 40°C (104°F).
2007 - A bus carrying Polish pilgrims from a holy site in the French Alps plunged off a steep mountain road, crashed into a river bed and burst into flames, killing 26 people.
2008 - Actress Estelle Getty, the sarcastic octogenarian Golden Girl, died three days before her 85th birthday. The diminutive stage and TV actress had spent 40 years struggling for success before landing the role of Sophia on TV’s The Golden Girls in 1985.
2009 - Italian police seized some €200 million ($284 million) in assets and businesses owned by the ’Ndrangheta crime syndicate, including the Cafe de Paris of La Dolce Vita movie fame. 12 other restaurants, apartments and luxury cars were also impounded in the operation. ’Ndrangheta is the increasingly powerful criminal organization based in Calabria, at the toe of the Italian boot.
2010 - A Greyhound bus crashed just outside downtown Fresno, California killing six people and injuring nine. The bus had struck an overturned SUV. Three of the dead were women in the SUV. The 18-year-old driver of the SUV was later found to have a .11% blood alcohol level.
2011 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S.: Captain America: The First Avenger, starring Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Natalie Dormer, Stanley Tucci, Dominic Cooper and Tommy Lee Jones; Friends with Benefits, starring Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis, Patricia Clarkson, Jenna Elfman, Bryan Greenberg and Richard Jenkins; Another Earth, with William Mapother, Brit Marling, Jordan Baker, Flint Beverage and Robin Taylor; A Little Help, starring Jenna Fischer, Chris O’Donnell, Kim Coates, Lesley Ann Warren and Brooke Smith; Sarah’s Key, with Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup and Frédéric Pierrot.
2011 - President Barack Obama formally certified that gays would be able to serve openly in the U.S. military as the controversial 17-year policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” was repealed.
2011 - Temperatures soared and records tumbled on the U.S. East Coast. Newark, New Jersey saw an air temperature of 108°F (42°C), the highest recorded in the city since records began there in 1931, and the hottest reported by the National Weather Service on the East Coast. The temperature in New York City hit 104°F (40°C).
2012 - The U.S. gave $100 million in aid to Jordan. It was a contribution to help with the cost of hosting tens of thousands of Syrians who had fled the unrest back home and were taking refuge in Jordan.
2013 - Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge and wife of Prince William, gave birth to a baby boy. Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge weighed in at 8 pounds 6 ounces and became third in line to the British throne.
2014 - A Hamas rocket exploded near Israel’s main airport, prompting a ban on flights from the U.S., Europe and Canada. This, as aviation authorities reacting to the shooting down of a civilian jetliner over Ukraine.
2015 - Italian police seized assets worth €2 billion ($2.2 billion) and served 41 arrest warrants in raids on gambling companies in Italy and abroad run by the ’Ndrangheta mafia organization.
2016 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: the animated Ice Age: Collision Course, featuring the voices of Melissa Rauch, Adam Devine, Jennifer Lopez, Simon Pegg, John Leguizamo, Stephanie Beatriz, Nick Offerman, Seann William Scott, Max Greenfield, Josh Peck, Keke Palmer, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Ray Romano and Jesse Tyler Ferguson; Lights Out, with Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman and Alexander DiPersia; Star Trek Beyond, starring Anton Yelchin, Zoe Saldana and Idris Elba; Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, with Gwendoline Christie, Rebel Wilson and Jon Hamm; The Childhood of a Leader, starring Liam Cunningham, Robert Patt and Stacy Martin; Don’t Think Twice, starring Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacob and Mike Birbiglia; and Don’t Worry Baby, with John Magaro, Christopher McDonald and Dreama Walker.
2016 - 15 carmakers, comprising 98 percent of the vehicles on the road, said they had joined forces in the Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Auto-ISAC) to hold a “hacking attack drill”. Its purpose: to fight cyberinvaders who could literally take control of a steering wheel and use the vehicle to commit mayhem -- or simply steal the information contained in the estimated 70 computer systems in a modern car and use it against the owner.
2016 - A lone 18-year-old gunman went on a shooting rampage near a shopping center in Munich, Germany, killing nine people before later apparently killing himself, police said. Munich police chief Hubertus Andrä said that the shooting appeared to be a “classic shooting rampage” and not terrorism.
2016 - Criticism of Donald Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Conventions indicated not everyone was thrilled with the new Republican presidential nominee, saying it had undertones of fearmongering and demagoguery. In a piece headlined Donald Trump: The Candidate of the Apocalypse, The Washington Post Editorial Board said Trump’s speech embodied a “wishful, demagogic brand,” writing: “Mr. Trump took real challenges and recast them in terms that were not only exaggerated but also apocalyptic.” Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, tweeted: “I don’t know what I’m watching right now but I imagine this is the kind of speech Hitler would make.”
2017 - The U.S. Navy commissioned the $12.9 billion Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier at Norfolk, VA. Susan Ford Bales, the ship’s sponsor and daughter of the 38th president, whom the ship was named for, said, “There is no one, absolutely no one, who would be prouder of the commissioning of this mighty ship than the president of the United States, Gerald R. Ford. I am honored to give the command: ‘Officers and crew of the United States Gerald R. Ford, man our ship and bring her to life.’”
2018 - Thousands of people protested in Munich, Germany against what they called the “politics of fear” that was pushing public debate in the country to the right. Protestors braved the rain to protest the hardline immigration stance of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bavarian allies some three months before they faced a tough state election in Bavaria.
2018 - Typhoon Ampil hit Shanghai, China, bringing heavy rainfall and disrupting transport and shipping. More than 600 flights from the city’s two airports were canceled and high-speed rail services were also impacted.
2019 - The Washington Post reported that Huawei Technologies Co Ltd -- the Chinese company that was blacklisted by the U.S. because of national security concerns -- had secretly helped North Korea build and maintain its commercial wireless network over at least eight years.
2019 - India launched a spacecraft in an attempt to land a rover on the moon. It was India’s most ambitious mission in its effort to establish itself as a low-cost space power. (The moon landing failed Sep 6, 2019 when the lander deviated from its intended trajectory while attempting to land -- a crash caused by a “software glitch.”)
2020 - Joe Biden said Donald Trump was the first racist to win the presidency of the U.S. Biden also accused Trump of using race “as a wedge” to distract from his mishandling of the pandemic.
2020 - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the first U.S. emissions standards for commercial aircraft. The regulation would align the U.S. with 2016 International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards.
2021 - Senate Democrats raised concerns about the thoroughness of the FBI’s background investigation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The worries surfaced after the FBI revealed that it had received thousands of tips and had provided “all relevant” ones to the White House counsel’s office.
2022 - Nope was released to U.S. theatres on this day. The sci-fi mystery stars Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea, Michael Wincott, Steven Yeun and Wrenn Schmidt.
2022 - A jury found Steve Bannon guilty of contempt of Congress, after prosecutors accused the ex-adviser to former POTUS Donald Trump of deciding he was “above the law” by ignoring a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Capitol riot. “This case is not complicated, but it is important,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Molly Gaston said during closing arguments. “The defendant chose allegiance to Donald Trump over compliance with the law.” (Bannon was later sentenced to four months in prison and a $6,500 fine.)
2023 - Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Israel in continuing defiance of the government’s attempts to overhaul the country’s judiciary. The protesters marched in Jerusalem towards the Israeli parliament building, the Knesset. Satellite images showed thousands of people gathered along Jerusalem’s Route 1 highway, with hundreds of cars abandoned on the street by those who joined the march. The protests mark a watershed moment for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had continually pressed forward with the unpopular reforms which would greatly weaken Israel’s judicial system while also handing his government more power.
2023 - A Taylor Swift concert in Seattle shook the ground so hard it registered equivalent to a magnitude 2.3 earthquake. “The primary difference is the duration of shaking,” seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach explained. “The ‘Swift Quake’ was compared to the 2011 ‘Beast Quake,’ when Seattle Seahawks fans erupted after an impressive touchdown by running back Marshawn ‘Beast Mode’ Lynch. The ensuing celebration was detected on the same local seismometer as the Swift concert,” Caplan-Auerbach said. “Cheering after a touchdown lasts for a couple seconds, but eventually it dies down. It’s much more random than a concert. For Taylor Swift, I collected about 10 hours of data where rhythm controlled the behavior. The music, the speakers, the beat. All that energy can drive into the ground and shake it.”
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Birthdays on This Day July 22
1784 - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer and mathematician: first to triangulate the heavens by observing the parallax of the star 61 Cygni [the change in its angular position as the Earth moved between opposite extremes of its orbit]: Bessel estimated the distance of the star to be 10·1 light years [the Bessel function]; died Mar 17, 18461890 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
mother of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy; died Jan 22, 19951893 - Karl Menninger
psychiatrist: founded [w/brother & father] the Menninger Clinic and Foundation, Topeka, KS to care for people with emotional problems; died July 18, 19901898 - Stephen Vincent Benét
Pulitzer prize-winning poet: [1937], John Brown’s Body [1929], Western Star [1944]; author: The Devil and Daniel Webster; died Mar 13, 1943
1898 - Alexander (Stirling) Calder
sculptor: wood, bronze, mobiles; died Nov 11, 19761912 - Luana Walters
actress: The She-Creature, Superman [1948], Bad Men of the Hills, Lawless Plainsmen, No Greater Sin, The Range Busters, Honeymoon in Bali; died May 19, 19631921 - Jim (Manuel Joseph) Rivera
‘Jungle Jim’: baseball: Chicago White Sox [World Series: 1959], SL Browns, KC Athletics; died Nov 13, 20171922 - Dan Rowan
comedian: Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, The Dean Martin Summer Show, The Maltese Bippy; died Sep 22, 19871923 - Bob (Robert) Dole
politician: U.S. Senate majority leader, 1996 GOP candidate for president of U.S.; died Dec 5, 20211924 - Margaret Whiting
singer: Moonlight in Vermont, It Might as Well Be Spring, Now is the Hour, Far Away Places, A Tree in the Meadow, w/Jimmy Wakely: Slippin’ Around, Wedding Bells Will Soon Be Ringing; Jan 10, 20111926 - Bryan Forbes
actor: Restless Natives, The Guns of Navarone, The Key, Now and Forever, The Road, The Wooden Horse, The Small Back Room; died May 8, 20131928 - Orson Bean (Dallas Burroughs)
comedian, actor: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; game show panelist: To Tell the Truth, I’ve Got a Secret, Keep Talking; author: 25 Ways to Cook a Mouse; died Feb 7, 20201929 - Marcia Henderson
actress: The Aldrich Family, Thunder Bay, Naked Alibi, Deadly Duo; died Nov 23, 19871932 - Oscar de la Renta
fashion designer; died Oct 20, 20141934 - Louise Fletcher
actress: High School High, Two Moon Junction series, Nightmare on the 13th Floor, Final Notice, Flowers in the Attic, Invaders from Mars, A Summer to Remember, Natural Enemies, Lady in Red, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; died Sep 23, 20221937 - Chuck Jackson
singer: Any Day Now, I Don’t Want to Cry; died Feb 16, 20231938 - Terence Stamp
actor: Superman: The Movie, Far from the Madding Crowd, Alien Nation, Billy Budd, Wall Street, Young Guns, The Real McCoy1940 - Alex Trebek
game show host: Jeopardy, Concentration, The $128,000 Question; narrator: Heart of Courage; died [age 80, pancreatic cancer] Nov 8, 20201940 - Thomas Wayne (Perkins)
songwriter, singer: Tragedy; younger brother of Luther Perkins, lead guitarist for Johnny Cash; died Aug 15, 19711941 - Susie Maxwell Berning
golf champion: U.S. Open: [1968, 1972, 1973]1941 - George Clinton (aka Dr. Funkenstein, also Maggot Overlord)
singer: groups: The Parliaments: [I Just Wanna] Testify; Funkadelic: LP: Funkadelic, Maggot Brain, One Nation Under a Groove, Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome, Trombipulation, The Electric Spanking of War Babies; Parliament: Mothership Connection; Brides of Funkenstein; Parlet; Bootsy’s Rubber Band; solo: LP: Computer Games: single: Atomic Dog; Parliament/Funkadelic motto: Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Followomic Dog1943 - Bobby Sherman
singer: Little Woman, Julie, Do Ya Love Me; actor: Shindig, Here Come the Brides, Getting Together; founder of TAC-5, a paramedics group1944 - Estelle Bennett
singer: group: The Ronettes: Be My Baby, Baby I Love You, Do I Love You, [The Best Part Of] Breaking Up, Walking in the Rain; died Feb 11, 20091944 - Rick Davies
musician: keyboard, singer: group: Supertramp1944 - Sparky (Albert) Lyle
baseball: NY Yankees pitcher: Cy Young Award [1977]1946 - Danny Glover
actor: Lethal Weapon series, Silverado, Escape from Alcatraz, Chiefs, The Color Purple, Angels in the Outfield, Places in the Heart1946 - Paul Schrader
film writer, producer, director, actor: Bringing Out the Dead, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Mosquito Coast, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, Taxi Driver1947 - Albert Brooks (Einstein)
actor: Broadcast News, Lost in America, Private Benjamin, Taxi Driver1947 - Don Henley
drummer, singer: groups: Shiloh; The Eagles: Hotel California; solo: Dirty Laundry, All She Wants to Do is Dance, The End of the Innocence; songwriter: The Boys of Summer1947 - Cliff (Clifford) Johnson
baseball: Houston Astros, NY Yankees [World Series: 1977, 1978], Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, Toronto Blue Jays, Texas Rangers1955 - Willem Dafoe
actor: Platoon, Mississippi Burning, Clear and Present Danger, New York Nights, Shadow of the Vampire, Spider-Man1956 - Scott (Douglas) Sanderson
baseball: pitcher: Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics [World Series: 1990], NY Yankees [all-star: 1991], California Angels, SF Giants, Chicago White Sox1961 - Keith Sweat
songwriter, singer: I Want Her, Something Just Ain’t Right, Make It Last Forever, Don’t Stop Your Love, Make You Sweat, Merry Go Round1962 - Karen Summer
actress [1982-1988]: X-rated films: I Never Say No, Sex Busters, Naughty Angels, Head Waitress, Before She Says ‘I Do’, The Rocky Porno Video Show, Europe on Two Guys a Day1963 - Rob Estes
director, actor: Silk Stalkings, Melrose Place, Days of Our Lives, Aces: Iron Eagle III, Terror in the Mall, Outreach, Women’s Murder Club1963 - Joanna Going
actress: Search for Tomorrow, Another World, Dark Shadows, Wyatt Earp, Still Breathing, NetForce, Cupid & Cate1964 - Bonnie Langford
actress: Doctor Who, Wombling Free, Bugsy Malone, Dancing on Ice; stage: Peter Pan: The Musical, Cats, The Pirates of Penzance1964 - John Leguizamo
actor: The Fan, To Wong Foo: Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, Super Mario Bros., Carlito’s Way, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Casualties of War; actor, playwright: Mambo Mouth, Spic-O-Rama; comedian: House of Buggin’1964 - David Spade
writer, comedian, actor: Rules of Engagement, Saturday Night Live, Just Shoot Me, Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol, Coneheads, A Very Brady Sequel, 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, The Rugrats Movie, Lost & Found1965 - Shawn Michaels
pro wrestler/actor: WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Wrestlemania series, Royal Rumble series, Sunday Night Heat, WWF Smackdown!, Armageddon1965 - Patrick Labyorteaux
actor: JAG, Mame, Little House on the Prairie, Ghoulies 3: Ghoulies Go to College, 3 Ninjas, Redemption of the Ghost, Hollywood Palms1966 - Tim Brown
football [wide receiver]: Notre Dame Univ; NFL: LA/Oakland Raiders, TB Buccaneers1967 - Irene Bedard
actress: Crazy Horse, Grand Avenue, Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee, Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale; voice-over: Pocahontas1967 - Rhys Ifans
actor: Elementary, Notting Hill, Enduring Love, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, The Amazing Spider-Man, Anonymous, The Replacements, Berlin Station1970 - Sergei Zubov
hockey: NY Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Dallas Stars1972 - Colin Ferguson
actor: Eureka, We Were the Mulvaneys, More Tales of the City, The Opposite of Sex, Night Sins, Texas Graces, Crossing Jordan, Malcolm in the Middle, Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story, Coupling, Then Came You; played the appliance in Maytag ad campaign1972 - Keyshawn Johnson
football [wide receiver]: USC; NFL: NY Jets, TB Buccaneers, Dallas Cowboys1972 - Angela Little
Playboy Playmate [Aug 1998]; actress: My Boss’s Daughter, Rush Hour 2, Hefner: Unauthorized, Headless at the Fair, Walk Hard, American Pie: Band Camp1973 - Mike Sweeney
baseball: Kansas City Royals1975 - Scot Shields
baseball [pitcher]: Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels1976 - Diane Doll
actress [2001-2011]: X-rated films: Nasty Little Stripper Girls, Helpless Hog-Tied Prisioners, Lickalicious 2, Say Goodnight Dick!, Innocent Until Proven Filthy 3, Are You Smarter Than a Porn Star?, Orgy: The XXX Championship1978 - A.J. Cook
actress: Criminal Minds, The Virgin Suicides, Out Cold, Final Destination 2, Higher Ground, Night Skies, Bringing Ashley1980 - Scott Dixon
race car driver: IndyCar champ [2003, 2008]1989 - Keegan Allen
actor: Pretty Little Liars, The Hazing Secret, A Moving Romance, King Cobra, Zeroville, Walker1992 - Selena Gomez
actress: Wizards of Waverly Place, Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, Princess Protection Program, Ramona and Beezus; singer: Selena Gomez & the Scene: LPs: Kiss & Tell, A Year Without Rain, When the Sun Goes Down1998 - Madison Pettis
actress: Cory in the House, The Game Plan, Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Life with Boys, Phineas and Ferb
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Hit Music on This Day July 22
1948You Can’t Be True, Dear (facts) - The Ken Griffin Orchestra (vocal: Jerry Wayne)
Woody Woodpecker Song (facts) - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Gloria Wood & The Campus Kids)
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