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1715 - The first lighthouse in America was authorized for construction at Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts.1827 - The first swimming school in the U.S. opened in Boston, MA. Actually, the first lesson proved interesting: A student was suspended from a pole on a rope while “learning the use of his limbs.” Famous people who were former students: John Quincy Adams, James Audubon.
1829 - The first typewriter was patented -- by William Austin Burt of Mt. Vernon, MI. It didn’t work out as well as other practical models developed years later. The first problem was, people couldn’t get used to calling it a Burtwriter...
1877 - Texas outlaw Wes Hardin was captured near Pensacola, FL. And he thought no one would recognize a Texan in Florida...
1903 - In Detroit, Henry Ford sold his first production car, the Model A. The car featured a twin-cylinder internal combustion engine.
1934 - The program Home Sweet Home debuted on the NBC Red radio network. The principal characters were Fred, Lucy, Dick Kent and Uncle Will.
1941 - Sonny Dunham and his orchestra recorded the tune that was to become Mr. Dunham’s theme song. Memories of You was Bluebird record #11289.
1944 - Napalm was used by the U.S. on Japanese forces during pre-invasion air strikes on the island of Tinian, part of the Marianas island chain in the Pacific. It was the first use of Napalm.
1945 - The first passenger train observation car was placed in service by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
1950 - To the strains of Back in the Saddle Again, by Ray Whitley and Gene Autry, TV viewers were treated to the first performance of The Gene Autry Show. The singing cowboy made the transition from Hollywood films to the tube this night. Autry and his sidekick Pat Buttram maintained law and order in the U.S. Southwest for six years. And they did it in a most entertaining manner. Gene sang just like he did in the movies and his horse, Champion would do some amazing horse tricks, and Pat Buttram would invariably get into silly situations.
1952 - Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser launched a coup against King Farouk I.
1955 - Billboard magazine trumpeted the release of Chuck Berry’s Maybellene. The review described the song as “fine jockey and juke wax.”
1956 - Pilot Pete Everest set the world aircraft speed record. He zoomed in the Bell X-2 rocket plane to 1,900 mph, almost three times the speed of sound.
1962 - The Telstar communications satellite sent the first live TV broadcast to Europe. The bird was used to send TV programs between the United States and Europe.
1966 - Frank Sinatra hit the top of the pop album chart with his Strangers in the Night. It was the first #1 Sinatra LP since 1960. The album’s title song had made it to number one on the pop singles chart on July 2nd.
1969 - Three Dog Night received a gold record for the single, One. It was the first of seven million-sellers for the pop-rock group.
1972 - Eddie Merckx of Belgium won his fourth consecutive Tour de France bicycling competition.
1973 - Claiming executive privilege, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon refused to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation.
1973 - WW I fighter pilot Eddie Rickenbacker died at 82 years of age. Rickenbacker and several associates bought Eastern Airlines in 1938 and guided it to become one of the most profitable airlines in the postwar era.
1982 - The International Whaling Commission voted for a total ban on commercial whaling to take effect in 1985/1986.
1984 - From the Oh, THOSE Pictures File: Miss America, Vanessa Williams, turned in her crown. It had been discovered that she had posed nude for Penthouse magazine. Williams, the first black Miss America, relinquished her title to Suzette Charles, the pageant’s runner-up.
1987 - Billy Williams, Catfish Hunter and Ray Dandridge were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Joining the trio, St. Louis Cardinals/CBS radio announcer Jack Buck, who became the 11th person to receive the Ford Frick Award for broadcasters.
1990 - President George Bush (I) announced his choice of Judge David Souter of New Hampshire to succeed retiring Justice William J. Brennan on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1993 - U.S. Surgeon General-designate Joycelyn Elders reiterated her firm stands on sex education and AIDS prevention in her one-day confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill. (Elders was fired by U.S. President Bill Clinton in late 1994 for comments she made about masturbation.)
1995 - Inventure Place, home of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, opened in Akron, Ohio.
1995 - Two American amateur astronomers first reported the discovery of the comet bearing their names: Hale-Bopp. The comet enters the inner solar system every 3,000 years or so. It travels in an orbit perpendicular to the solar system in an elongated ellipse that is about 33 million miles from the sun at its farthest point.
1996 - U.S. women gymnasts clinched their first-ever Olympic team gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics. Kerri Strug made a heroic final vault despite torn ligaments in her left ankle.
1997 - The search for Andrew Cunanan, suspected killer of designer Gianni Versace -- and others -- ended when police found his body on a houseboat in Miami Beach, Florida; an apparent suicide.
1998 - Using a new and simpler technique, scientists at the University of Hawaii successfully cloned more than 50 mice. The technique promised to streamline efforts to clone other species and was said to be more reliable than the one used to create Dolly the sheep.
1999 - The Haunting, a remake of the 1963 classic, opened at theatres across the U.S. It brought it a not-so-spooky $33.44 million bucks the first weekend. The cast included the scary Lili Taylor, Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson and Bruce Dern.
1999 - Also debuting in the U.S.: Drop Dead Gorgeous, starring Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, Brittany Murphy, Allison Janney, Will Sasso and Amy Adams; and Inspector Gadget, featuring Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Michelle Trachtenberg, Michael G. Hagerty, Andy Dick, Rene Auberjonois, Dabney Coleman, Frances Bay and Cheri Oteri.
1999 - Morocco’s King Hassan II died of a heart attack after 38 years in power. He was 70 years old. The influential Arab leader was succeeded by his son, Mohammed.
2000 - Tiger Woods won the British Open at St. Andrews, Scotland to become the youngest player (24 years of age) to win the career ‘Grand Slam’ of golf (The Masters, PGA Championship, U.S. Open and British Open) and the first to win all four majors since Jack Nicklaus’ victory in the 1966. Woods not only was the youngest player to win the career Grand Slam, he completed it faster than any of the four greats who did it before him. The other players to win the Grand Slam were Gene Sarazen in 1935, Ben Hogan in 1953, Gary Player in 1965 and Jack Nicklaus in 1966 (age 26) at Muirfield. (Nicklaus went on to win the Grand Slam two more times.) Woods finished the British Open at 19- under-par 269, the best score ever at St. Andrews (Nick Faldo shot an 18- under in his 1990 win), and the lowest score ever at a major championship.
2000 - Lance Armstrong won the 21-day, 2,250-mile Tour de France for the second year in a row.
2001 - Pope John Paul II urged President George W. Bush (II) in their first meeting, held at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, to bar creation of human embryos for medical research.
2002 - Welsh archbishop Rowan Williams was elected the 104th archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the world’s Anglicans.
2003 - The Massachusetts attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably sexually abused more than 1,000 people over a period of six decades.
2004 - Films opening in U.S. theatres: The Bourne Supremacy, starring Matt Damon, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban and Franka Potente; Catwoman, with Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone and Lambert Wilson; and A Home at the End of the World, starring Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Sissy Spacek, Dallas Roberts, Harris Allan, Joshua Close, Wendy Crewson, Ryan Donowho, Matt Frewer, Brian Rhodes and Erik Smith.
2004 - Britain’s Prince Charles and other foreign dignitaries gathered in Bosnia to reopen the Mostar Bridge over the Neretva River. The original was built in 1566.
2005 - A magnitude-6.0 earthquake hit Tokyo. It was the strongest quake to strike in more than ten years, injuring some 27 people, rattling buildings and disrupting train and plane services.
2005 - A team of scientists from Britain and Australia announced that they has found high concentrations of arsenic in the hair of King George III of the United Kingdom. The scientist concluded that medication containing arsenic could have caused him bouts of madness.
2006 - Tiger Woods won his second consecutive British Open golf title. He closed with a 5-under-par 67 (and 2-shot edge over Chris DiMarco) to became the first player since Tom Watson in 1982-83 to win back-to-back Open titles.
2006 - The 654-foot Singapore-flagged cargo ship Cougar Ace, carrying 4,813 new cars from Japan to Canada, began listing to its port side late at night hundreds of miles off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. 23 crew members were rescued the next day. The ship was eventually righted after being towed to Unalaska Island (AK). Amazingly, the mishap did little or no damage to the many cars on board.
2007 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration directed people to throw away more than 90 different products -- from chili sauce to corned beef hash to dog food -- produced at a Castleberry plant in Augusta, GA because the plant had been linked to a botulism outbreak.
2008 - U.S. Presidential hopeful Barack Obama donned a Jewish skullcap at Israel’s Holocaust memorial on Wednesday and vowed to preserve America’s close ties with Israel in a dramatic visit to the Holy Land in which he also promised the Palestinians to push vigorously to win them a state.
2009 - Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle completed a perfect game (score was 5-0) against the Tampa Bay Rays in Chicago. Buehrle’s beauty was the 19th perfect game in the history of baseball and the 17th in a regular season.
2009 - Iceland formally applied to join the European Union, but officials said the country would not accept a “rotten deal” for its fishing industry, a key sector of the island nation’s troubled economy.
2010 - Three administrators in Bell, California agreed to resign after their huge salaries sparked outrage in this small blue-collar suburb of Los Angeles. Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo was being paid $787,637 a year. Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia made $376,288 a year, and Police Chief Randy Adams made $457,000. (On July 26 the City Council voted to slash salaries by 90%.)
2011 - English singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London home. She was 29 years old. On Oct 26 an inquest was told that Winehouse had begun drinking heavily after abstaining from alcohol for three weeks and that she was poisoned by the booze.
2011 - The collision of two high-speed trains on a viaduct in the suburbs of Wenzhou, China killed 40 people with 171 others injured. Rail officials later admitted that a Chinese-made signaling system was to blame and said the company that built the system had apologized. Three days after the crash legal authorities ordered lawyers not to take on cases from the families of victims. On Dec 28 a government report found 54 officials responsible for the crash.
2012 - The NCAA imposed penalties on Penn State and its football program as punishment for its cover-up of pedophile charges against former defensive coach Jerry Sandusky. The penalties included $60 million and the abdicating of all wins since 1998. Penn State president Rodney Erickson signed a binding consent decree that amounted to a Nittany Lions guilty plea.
2013 - Frenzied crowds of Roman Catholics mobbed the car carrying Pope Francis when he returned to his home continent for the first time as pontiff. The pope had embarked on a seven-day visit meant to fan the fervour of the faithful around the globe. During the pope’s first minutes in Brazil, ecstatic believers swarmed around the closed Fiat several times when it was forced to stop by heavy traffic on the drive from the airport to an official opening ceremony in Rio’s centre. A few security guards struggled to push the crowd back in scenes that at times looked alarming. A city official said the pope’s driver had turned into the wrong side of a boulevard and missed lanes that had been cleared.
2014 - Spanish police arrested 25 members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, including the group’s European leader, on the Mediterranean resort island of Mallorca. Police said the gang members were suspected of drug trafficking, trafficking in human beings, extortion and money laundering.
2015 - Turkey agreed to allow manned U.S. planes to stage air strikes against Islamic State militants from an air base at Incirlik, close to the Syrian border. U.S. drones were already being launched from that base. The agreement included a partial no-fly zone over the Turkish-Syrian border.
2016 - Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov broke the record for the fastest circumnavigation of the earth in a hot air balloon. Konyukhov landed near the small town of Bonnie Rock in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt and was embraced by ecstatic family members and friends. The 64-year-old beat the late Steve Fossett’s record by two days, making the 34,000km journey in just 11 days. “He beat the speed record, the distance record and he will be the first person to fly solo, non-stop around the world from the first attempt,” Konyukhov’s son Oscar said.
2016 - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton selected Tim Kaine, a centrist senator from Virginia, as her running mate. Mrs Clinton passed over more left-leaning candidates in favour of the 58-year-old senator, who was a strong supporter of free-trade agreements. Mrs Clinton described her running mate as having a relentless optimism, a much-needed attribute in an election season often described as dark because of the negative rhetoric of Donald Trump.
2017 - Eight people were found dead after emergency crews pulled dozens of smuggled migrants from a sweltering tractor-trailer found parked outside a Walmart in the midsummer heat of San Antonio, Texas. A ninth victim died at a hospital. Seventeen more were transported to hospitals with life-threatening injuries. Adan Lara Vega had been told the $5,500 he was being charged to be smuggled into the U.S. would include an air-conditioned truck ride. Instead, the Mexican laborer climbed with his friends into a pitch-black, metal tractor-trailer compartment that lacked ventilation. The driver was later charged under a federal law against knowingly transporting people who were in the country illegally.
2017 - 25-year-old Scott Blumstein of New Jersey won the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, NV. He became $8.1 million richer after eliminating Pennsylvania’s Daniel Ott on the 246th hand of the final table. Brigantine had a two of diamonds in his hand at the 48th annual series’ marquee no-limit Texas Hold ‘em main event when a two of hearts appeared as the last card in the ‘community hand’, making for the miracle win. “A normally inconsequential deuce just changed my life,” said Blumstein, the last player standing in a field that began two weeks earlier with 7,221 hopefuls.
2018 - Italy’s foreign minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi said Rome would allow migrants rescued by a European Union naval operation to land over the coming weeks while E.U. nations figured out how to divide up the new arrivals.
2018 - Japan recorded its all-time highest temperature (41.1 degrees Celsius/106 degrees Fahrenheit -- in Kumagaya) as a deadly heat wave continued to grip a wide swath of the country and nearby (South and North) Korea. Over the previous last two weeks more than 40 people had died in Japan and about 10 in South Korea.
2019 - POTUS Trump sued the House Ways and Means Committee and New York state officials in an effort to block disclosure of his state tax returns. The lawsuit came less than a month after the Ways and Means Committee sued the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service to obtain Trump’s federal returns. Trump’s legal action intervenes in that suit. Trump, apparently not wanting some/many facts known, had refused to show his tax documents, despite a longstanding tradition among modern presidential candidates to disclose their financial information.
2019 - The Justice Department said that four Chinese nationals and the Chinese company they worked for had been indicted on charges of money laundering and violating weapons of mass destruction safeguards tied to the banned export of sensitive equipment to North Korea. The four each faced up to 45 years in prison and US$1.75 million in fines.
2019 - A federal judge in North Carolina approved a settlement saying state agencies and universities could not ban transgender people from using the bathroom of the gender with which they identify.
2020 - Donald Trump, attempting to stoke the fears of white voters, revoked an Obama-era housing regulation designed to eliminate racial disparities in the suburbs. In a tweet addressed to “The Suburban Housewives of America,” Trump made his intended audience clear: “Biden will destroy your neighborhood and your American Dream,” he said. “I will preserve it, and make it even better!”
2020 - A federal judge specifically blocked U.S. agents from arresting or using physical force against journalists and legal observers at protests in Oregon’s largest city where POTUS Trump was testing the limits of his power.
2020 - Authorities across Spain introduced fresh coronavirus restrictions aimed at stamping out a surge in infections that was defying efforts at containment and was damaging tourism. Health ministry data showed 2,615 new cases across the country, compared with a daily average of just 132 in June.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: Old, with Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps andThomasin McKenzie; Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, starring Henry Golding, Andrew Koji and Samara Weaving; Fear and Loathing in Aspen, with Weston Cage Coppola, Blake Lindsley and Amaryllis Fox; Mandibles, starring Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais and Adèle Exarchopoulos; Midnight in the Switchgrass, starring Megan Fox, Sistine Rose Stallone and Bruce Willis; the animated The Ogglies, featuring characters voiced by Sema’j Alexander Cunningham, Kya Stein and Ben Young; and Settlers, with Sofia Boutella, Jonny Lee Miller and Nell Tiger Free.
2021 - Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech said the U.S. government had purchased 200 million additional doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to help with pediatric vaccination as well as booster shots. The deal came as the Delta variant of the coronavirus drove up infections, contributing to the debate over whether or not Americans would need a booster dose in the fall.
2021 - The Olympic opening ceremony with all the usual pomp and tradition played out in Tokyo in front of a COVID-19-emptied stadium.
2022 - California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency as a wildfire in Mariposa County had burned nearly 14,000 acres, forced more than 6,000 people to evacuate. Authorities scrambled to protect the giant sequoias in nearby Yosemite National Park as some 400 firefighters, along with several helicopters, fought the blaze.
2022 - The World Health Organization declared monkeypox to be a global emergency. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “Although I am declaring a public health emergency of international concern for the moment, this is an outbreak that is concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple sexual partners. That means that this is an outbreak that can be stopped with the right strategies,” Tedros said.
2023 - The Orthodox Savior Transfiguration Cathedral in the Ukrainian city of Odesa was badly damaged by a Russian missile strike. Officials described the cathedral as being destroyed and said the attack was a “war crime that will never be forgotten and forgiven.” People in the cathedral at the time of the attack reportedly survived, and workers were seen pulling an icon of the city’s patron saint out of the rubble. The strike killed one person and left 22 others injured.
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Birthdays on This Day July 23
1876 - Ginger (Clarence Howeth) Beaumont
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1900, 1903], Boston Doves, Chicago Cubs [World Series: 1910]; died Apr 10, 19561888 - Raymond Chandler
crime writer: Poodle Springs, The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, Lady in the Lake, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window; died Mar 26, 19591894 - Arthur Treacher (Veary)
actor: National Velvet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Little Princess, Heidi, David Copperfield, The Merv Griffin Show; Fish & Chips; died Dec 14, 19751908 - Karl Swenson
actor: The Hanging Tree, The Gallant Hours, North to Alaska, Brighty of the Grand Canyon, Vanishing Point; died Oct 8, 19781912 - Michael Wilding
actor: Waterloo, The World of Suzie Wong, The Glass Slipper, Under Capricorn, The Courtney Affair; died July 8, 19791913 - Coral Browne
actress: Auntie Mame, The Killing of Sister George, Eleanor, First Lady of the World, The Courtney Affair; wife of actor Vincent Price; died May 29, 19911914 - Carl Foreman
screenwriter: High Noon, When Time Ran Out..., Young Winston, The Guns of Navarone, The Bridge on the River Kwai; died June 26, 19841915 - Vincent Sardi Jr.
restaurateur: Sardi’s Restaurant, New York, NY; died Jan 4, 20071916 - Kurt Kreuger
actor: To Die in Paris, The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, The Enemy Below, Die Blaue Stunde, Spy Hunt; died Jul 12, 20061918 - Pee Wee (Harold) Reese
Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1941, 1946-1954/all-star: 1942, 1946-1954], LA Dodgers; coach: LA Dodgers; died Aug 14, 19991921 - Robert Brown
actor: The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, Ben-Hur, The Newcomers, The 300 Spartans, Billy Budd, Mystery Submarine, One Million Years B.C.; died Nov 11, 20031921 - Calvert DeForest
actor: Late Night with David Letterman: Larry ‘Bud’ Melman; Mr. Write, Leader of the Band, Heaven Help Us; died Mar 19, 20071925 - Gloria DeHaven
actress: Two Girls and a Sailor, Three Little Words, Summer Stock, Broadway Rhythm, Nakia; died Jul 30, 20161926 - Johnny (John Thomas) Groth
baseball: Detroit Tigers, SL Browns, Chicago White Sox, Washington Nationals, KC Athletics1929 - Billy Maxwell
golf: Texas Golf Hall of Famer: North Texas State University: 4 straight NCAA championships [1949-1952]; champ: U.S. Amateur [1951], Azalea Open [1955], Arlington Hotel Open [1956], Hesperia Open [1957], the Memphis Open [1958], Palm Springs Classic, Puerto Rico Open [1961], Dallas Open [1962]; died Sep 20, 20211933 - Bert Convy
TV host: Win, Lose or Draw, Tattletales, People Do the Craziest Things; actor: Love of Life, The Snoop Sisters; singer: group: Cheers: Black Leather Jacket and Motorcycle Boots; died July 15, 19911934 - Steve Lacy (Lackritz)
jazz musician: soprano sax: Ask Me Now, Pannonica; composer; died Jun 4, 20041935 - Cleve Duncan
singer: group: The Penguins: Earth Angel; died Nov 7, 20131936 - Don (Donald Scott) Drysdale
Baseball Hall of Famer [pitcher]: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1959], Los Angeles Dodgers [World Series: 1959, 1963, 1965, 1966/all-star: 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968/Cy Young Award-winner: 1962]; broadcaster: ABC Monday Night Baseball; writer: Once a Bum, Always a Dodger; died July 3, 19931936 - Anthony Kennedy
lawyer: U.S. Supreme Court Justice, sworn in February 18, 1988; retired July 31, 20181937 - Robert W. Morgan
radio DJ: KHJ, Los Angeles, CA; WWST, Wooster OH; KACY, Oxnard CA; KMBY, Monterey CA; KMAK, Fresno, CA; KROY, Sacramento CA; KEWB, San Francisco, CA; WIND, Chicago, IL; KIQQ, Los Angeles KMPC, Los Angeles KMGG, Los Angeles KMPC, Los Angeles KRTH, Los Angeles ; died May 22, 1998; more1938 - Ronny Cox
actor: Scissors, Total Recall, Loose Cannons, RoboCop, Beverly Hills Cop series, Some Kind of Hero, Taps, The Onion Field, Harper Valley P.T.A., Gray Lady Down, Bound for Glory, Deliverance, Sweet Justice, Spencer, Second Chances, St. Elsewhere, Cop Rock, Apple’s Way1939 - Nicholas Gage
writer: Eleni1940 - (John Donald) Don Imus
Radio Hall of Fame talker: Imus in the Morning; actor: Odd Jobs; died Dec 27, 20191940 - Gary Stites
singer: Lonely for You, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Starry Eyed1944 - Walt Garrison
football: Dallas Cowboys running back: Super Bowl V, VI1945 - Dino Danelli
musician: drummer: group: The (Young) Rascals: Good Lovin’, Groovin’, How Can I Be Sure, A Beautiful Morning, People Got to Be Free; group: Bulldog1946 - Andy Mackay
musician: saxophone, woodwinds: group: Roxy Music: Virginia Plain, Pyjamarama, Do the Strand, Editions of You, In Every Dream a Heartache, Street Life, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, All I Want is You, Out of the Blue, Dance Away, Angel Eyes, Jealous Guy; solo: LPs: In Search of Eddie Riff, Resolving Contradictions1947 - David Essex (Cook)
singer: Rock On, Lamplight, I’m Gonna Make You a Star; actor: Godspell, Evita, That’ll be the Day1947 - Larry Manetti
actor: Magnum P.I., Baa Baa Black Sheep, Exit, The Take1948 - Coby Dietrick
basketball [center]: San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls1950 - Belinda Montgomery
actress: Miami Vice, Man from Atlantis, Doogie Howser, M.D., Stone Fox, Tell Me That You Love Me1950 - Blair Thornton
musician: guitar: group: Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Takin’ Care of Business, You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet, Roll On Down the Highway1951 - Edie McClurg
actress: WKRP in Cincinnati, The Hogan Family, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, A River Runs Through It, Eating Raoul1953 - Lydia Cornell
actress: Venus Conspiracy, The Biggest Fan, Happy Holidaze From the Jonzes, Miss Supreme Queen, Quantum Leap; People’s Choice Award: Too Close for Comfort [ABC series]1954 - Annie Sprinkle
actress [1974-2005]: X-rated films: Sherlick Holmes, Once Over Nightly, Slippery When Wet, Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle, Consenting Adults, Debbie Does ’em All, Herstory of Porn: Reel to Real1961 - Antoine Carr
basketball [forward]: Wichita State Univ; NBA: Atlanta Hawks, SA Spurs, Utah Jazz, Houston Rockets1961 - Martin Gore
musician: guitar: group: DePeche Mode: Enjoy the Silence1961 - Woody Harrelson
Emmy Award-winning actor: Cheers [1988-89]; White Men Can’t Jump, Natural Born Killers, Indecent Proposal, The Cowboy Way, No Country for Old Men, Midway, The Man from Toronto, The Hunger Games1962 - Eriq La Salle
actor: ER, Another World, Coming to America, Under Suspicion, Color of Night1965 - Slash (Saul Hudson)
musician: guitar: group: Guns N’ Roses: Welcome to the Jungle, November Rain, Sweet Child o’ Mine, Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, Nightrain1967 - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Academy Award-winning actor: Capote [2006]; The Talented Mr. Ripley, Scent of a Woman, The Getaway, Twister, Boogie Nights, The Big Lebowski, Patch Adams, Magnolia, State and Main, Almost Famous; died Feb 2, 20141968 - Elden Campbell
basketball [forward]: Clemson Univ; NFL: LA Lakers, Charlotte/NO Hornets, Seattle SuperSonics, Detroit Pistons, NJ Nets1968 - Gary Payton
‘The Glove’: basketball [guard]: Oregon State Univ; NBA: Seattle SuperSonics, Milwaukee Bucks, LA Lakers, Boston Celtics1968 - Stephanie Seymour
super model1969 - Andrew Cassels
hockey [center]: Montreal Canadiens, Hartford Whalers, Calgary Flames, Vancouver Canucks, Columbus Blue Jackets1970 - Charisma Carpenter
actress: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Greek, Veronica Mars, Malibu Shores1971 - Alison Krauss
Grammy Award-winning bluegrass/country musician: fiddle; songwriter, singer: When You Say Nothing at All; LPs [w/Union Station: So Long So Wrong, New Favorite, Lonely Runs Both Ways, Paper Airplane; 27 Grammy Awards [41 nominations]1972 - Marlon Wayans
writer, actor: The Wayans Bros, Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2; brother of Damon Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Kim Wayans, Shawn Wayans1973 - Omar Epps
actor: Alfie, Against the Ropes, Big Trouble, Dracula 2000, Love and Basketball, In Too Deep, The Wood, The Mod Squad1973 - Nomar Garciaparra
baseball [shortstop]: Boston Red Sox; [1st/3rd base]: Oakland Athletics [1st/3rd base] Los Angeles Dodgers; [shortstop/3rd base]: Chicago Cubs; one of 13 players in major-league history to hit two grand slams during a single game [May 10, 1999: Red Sox vs.Seattle Mariners]1973 - Kathryn Hahn
actress: WandaVision, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Afternoon Delight, Private Life, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Transparent, I Love Dick, Mrs. Fletcher, This Much Is True1973 - Darvin Ham
basketball [forward]: Texas Tech; NBA: Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, Washington Wizards, Milwaukee Bucks, Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons1973 - Boo Weekley
golf champ: PGA Tour: 2007, 2008 Verizon Heritage, 2013 Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial1974 - Terry Glenn
football [wide receiver]: Ohio State Univ; NFL: NE Patriots, Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys1974 - Stephanie March
actress: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Head of State, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Rescue Me, Boy’s Life, Jesse Stone: Night Passage, The Invention of Lying1976 - Matt Birk
football [center]: Harvard Univ; NFL: Minnesota Vikings1980 - Michelle Williams
singer: group: Destiny’s Child: LPs: Destiny’s Child, The Writing’s on the Wall, Survivor, 8 Days of Christmas, Destiny Fulfilled, This Is the Remix; solo LPs: Heart to Yours, Do You Know, Unexpected1982 - Gerald Wallace
basketball [forward, guard]: Univ of Alabama; NBA: Sacramento Kings, Charlotte Bobcats; actor: The Lost Tribe1982 - Paul Wesley
actor: The Vampire Diaries, Fallen, 24, 8 Simple Rules, American Dreams, Army Wives, Cane, Everwood, Guiding Light, Smallville, The O.C., Wolf Lake, The Russell Girl, Beneath the Blue, The Baytown Outlaws1989 - Daniel Radcliffe
actor: Harry Potter film series, The Tailor of Panama, David Copperfield; Broadway: Equus, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [2011]1990 - Neil Perry
musician: drums, mandolin, accordion: group: The Band Perry: If I Die Young, You Lie, All Your Life, Better Dig Two
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Hit Music on This Day July 23
1949Some Enchanted Evening (facts) - Perry Como
Bali Ha’i (facts) - Perry Como
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