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1847 - Richard M. Hoe of New York City patented the rotary-type printing press.1849 - Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. presented its first Doctor of Music Degree -- to Professor John Casper Henry Dielman.
1933 - The first broadcast of The Romance of Helen Trent was heard on radio. The show continued on the air for 7,222 episodes and 27 years. Amazingly, Helen stayed at 35 years of age throughout the entire series! The Romance of Helen Trent used two Helen Trents over the years. The first Helen was played by Virginia Clark (for 11 years) and the second by Julie Stevens (for 16 years).
1933 - During his third Fireside Chat, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt showed why the homey, warm, comfortable discussion was, indeed, a fireside chat. The President stopped the discussion on the air (remember folks, this was radio) and asked for a glass of water, which he then sipped. Newsman Robert Trout is credited with coming up with the name, Fireside Chat, because of real moments like this.
1938 - Clarinet virtuoso and big band leader Artie Shaw recorded his now-classic, Begin the Beguine, for Bluebird Records in New York City.
1943 - Foreign Assignment, was first heard on Mutual radio. The title role of Brian Berry was played by Jay Jostyn, who also starred in another popular radio drama, Mr. District Attorney.
1944 - The first Nazi concentration camp was liberated. The Majdanek camp was freed by Russian troops.
1948 - Fiddler, singer, songwriter Roy Acuff announced his intention to run for governor of Tennessee. Jim Nance McCord, governor of Tennessee at the time, had complained that Acuff had given Nashville the reputation of the Hillbilly Capitol of the World. Taking exception to that attitude, Roy Acuff decided to run for Governor himself. He was unsuccessful. (Acuff had also run for governor -- and lost -- in 1944.)
1950 - The first rocket (the Bumper 8) was launched from Cape Canaveral.
1956 - After a decade together as the country’s most popular comedy team, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis called it quits this night. They did their last show at the Copacabana nightclub in New York City. The duo ended their relationship exactly 10 years after they had started it.
1959 - U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon, in Moscow to open the American National Exhibition, got into a debate with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on the merits of capitalism. The verbal clash became known as the Kitchen Debate and some said it enhanced Nixon’s stature.
1967 - Charles de Gaulle, visiting Montreal, delivered a speech which ended, “Vive le Quebec libre!”. The French president was promptly rebuked by Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson and forced to cut short his visit.
1969 - Hoyt Wilhelm, pitching for the Chicago White Sox, set a major-league baseball record by pitching in game number 907 of his career. Wilhelm went on to lead all major-league hurlers (number of games pitched) with 1,070 in his career (1952-1972).
1969 - The Apollo 11 astronauts, two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon, splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ordered President M. Richard Nixon to turn over 64 subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1978 - Billy Martin resigned. It was his first of three exits as manager of the New York Yankees baseball team. Martin would be canned in 1979 and again in 1983, each time by Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.
1983 - Kansas City Royals slugger George Brett slammed a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning to give the Royals a 5-4 lead over New York. Or did he? Seconds after Brett crossed home plate, New York Yankees Manager Billy Martin came out of the dugout to protest that the pine tar on Brett's bat was more than 18 inches up the bat handle. The umpires measured Brett's bat, using home plate as a measuring rod, and came to the conclusion that Martin was correct and called Brett out, erasing the Royals lead. Or did they? The president of the American League, Lee McPhail, later reversed the umpires' decision on the pine tar and ruled that the game was suspended -- with the Royals leading, 5-4. The game was completed 3 1/2 weeks later, on August 18, 1983, in Yankee Stadium. The outcome of the game? It only took 12 minutes to play the remainder of the contest with the Royals tarring the Yankees 5-4.
1984 - After 14 years and four Super Bowl championships with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Terry Bradshaw retired from the National Football League. Bradshaw, age 35, was forced to the sidelines by an elbow injury. Following a divorce from ice skater Jo Jo Starbuck, Bradshaw joined CBS, and later FOX, as a football TV analyst.
1985 - Walt Disney’s The Black Cauldron opened in movie houses around the country. The film was the 25th full-length cartoon produced by the Disney Studios in Burbank, CA and was its most expensive to that time. The Black Cauldron cost Disney $25 million to produce.
1987 - Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Affectionately known as ‘Grandma Whitney’ she successfully scaled 14,505-foot (4,421 m) Mount Whitney 23 times between the ages of 65 and 91. She had climbed 97 other peaks during this period. In 1990, an Act of Congress renamed Day Needle, one of the peaks in the Whitney area, to Crooks Peak in her honor.
1993 - Russia’s central bank announced a drastic reform of the monetary system, saying all ruble notes issued up to the end of 1992 would be withdrawn from circulation.
1994 - Miguel Indurain won his fourth consecutive Tour de France race.
1996 - A Time to Kill premiered in U.S. theatres. The drama stars Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Oliver Platt, Charles Dutton, Brenda Fricker, Donald Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland, Patrick McGoohan, Ashley Judd, Tonea Stewart, Rae'ven Kelly, Darrin Mitchell and LaConte McGrew.
1997 - William J. Brennan, retired Supreme Court Justice, died in Arlington, VA. He was 91 years old.
1998 - “In the last great invasion of the last great war, the greatest danger for eight men ... was saving one.” That one was one Private James Ryan and the story of the search for him, Saving Private Ryan, opened in U.S. theatres this day. Produced and directed by one Steven Spielberg, the movie earned $30.58 million the first weekend.
1998 - Also opening in the U.S.: Disturbing Behavior, starring James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl, Bruce Greenwood, William Sadler and Steve Railsback; and Jane Austen’s Mafia!, with Lloyd Bridges, Jay Mohr, Olympia Dukakis, Christina Applegate, Billy Burke, Pamela Gidley and Tony Lo Bianco.
1998 - A gunman opened fire in the Capitol in Washington, DC, killing two police officers -- Jacob Chestnut and John Gibson -- and wounding a tourist. Police shot the gunman, Russell Eugene Weston Jr., 41, who survived. (In April 1999, Weston was found incompetent to stand trial for the murders.)
2000 - Georgia Governor (Democrat) Roy Barnes appointed former Democratic Governor Zell Miller to the late Republican Paul Coverdell’s Senate seat. Try to follow along now: Although Miller was a Democrat, he was very conservative and went on to support Republican George Bush in the 2004 presidential election.
2001 - The city of Detroit, Michigan celebrated its 300th anniversary with a historical reenactment of city founder Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac landing on the shores of the Detroit River. Included in the tricentennial party, the unveiling of a statue of Cadillac: a gift of the French-American Chamber of Commerce to the city of Detroit. Happy birthday Motor City!
2001 - Larry Silverstein signed a $3.2 billion, 99-year lease for the New York City World Trade Center.
2002 - The U.S. House of Representatives expelled Ohio Congressman James Traficant. He had been convicted of bribery, racketeering and tax evasion. This was only the second time since the Civil War that a sitting member of the House had been banished. (Traficant was released from prison Sep 2, 2009, after serving a seven-year sentence; he died Sep 27, 2014, as the result of injuries sustained in an accident that occurred several days earlier when his tractor flipped over as he was driving it into his barn.)
2002 - Nine coal miners were trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in western Pennsylvania. The story had a happy ending some three days later with the rescue of all nine miners.
2003 - The U.S. House and Senate intelligence committees issued their final report on the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, citing countless blunders, oversights and miscalculations that prevented authorities from stopping the attackers.
2004 - Giovanna Guidoni became Italy’s 16th Miss Cicciona (Miss Chubby) in Forcoli, central Italy. To compete in Miss Cicciona, women have to weigh more than 220 pounds. Guidoni tipped the scale at 416 pounds.
2005 - 56 people died in Nigeria when a bus travelling from Lagos skidded off a bridge and into the Gadar Tamburawa River, just south of Kano. It is believed that the driver fell asleep as he drove.
2005 - American cyclist and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong won his seventh consecutive Tour de France -- and retired from the sport after the race. (In 2012, Armstrong was banned from sanctioned Olympic sports for life as a result of long-term doping offenses. As part of those sanctions, all results going back to August 1998, including his seven Tour wins, were voided.)
2006 - Power companies raced to restore electricity to thousands of customers throughout California as a scorching heat wave threatened to push the state into a power emergency with the potential for more blackouts.
2007 - The U.S. minimum wage rose 70 cents to $5.85 an hour. It was the first increase in the base wage in a decade.
2007 - Chinese officials said the FBI and Chinese police have busted two software piracy gangs and seized programs worth an estimated $500 million in a joint campaign that began in 2005.
2007 - Westinghouse Electric Co. signed deals to build four nuclear power plants in China and agreed to transfer technology for its newest reactor to a Chinese partner. The multi-billion-dollar contracts called for Westinghouse to hand over technology for the AP1000 to China’s government-owned State Nuclear Power Technology Corp.
2008 - Ford Motor Co. posted the worst quarterly performance in its history, losing $8.67 billion.
2008 - French giant automaker Renault announced its cutting of 5,000 jobs in Europe in an attempt to reduce costs by 10 percent.
2008 - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sued banking giant UBS for fraud, accusing it of marketing tens of billions of dollars of auction-rate securities as safe, when the company executives knew the investments were in trouble.
2009 - New movies in U.S. theatres: G-Force, starring Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan, Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Kelli Garner, Gabriel Casseus, Jack Conley, Penelope Cruz and Tyler Patrick Jones; Orphan, with Peter Sarsgaard, Vera Farmiga, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jimmy Bennett and Lorry Ayers; Shrink, starring Kevin Spacey, Saffron Burrows, Jack Huston, Griffin Dunne, Robin Williams, Pell James, Robert Loggia, Keke Palmer, Laura Ramsey, Gore Vidal, Dallas Roberts, Mark Webber, Jesse Plemons and Ashley Greene; The Answer Man, starring Jeff Daniels, Lauren Graham, Kat Dennings, Olivia Thirlby, Tony Hale and Nora Dunn; and The Ugly Truth, with Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Eric Winter, John Michael Higgins, Nick Searcy, Kevin Connolly and Cheryl Hines.
2009 - Wildfires raged across southern Europe burning sections of Spain, France, Italy and Greece with vacationers having been rescued from beaches and thousands of firefighters brought in to battle the flames.
2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama conceded his words, that a white police officer “acted stupidly” when he arrested a black university scholar in his own home, were ill-chosen. The President invited both men to visit him at the White House, saying he had personally telephoned both Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, MA police Sgt. James Crowley in an effort to end the rancor over the issue. Gates had been arrested by Crowley July 16th at the 2-story home Gates rented from Harvard University.
2010 - A human stampede at the Love Parade techno music festival in Duisberg, Germany ended with 19 young people dead and more than 300 injured. Within days the death toll rose to 21 as more died from their injuries.
2011 - Life in a Day opened in the U.S. The documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world served as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.
2011 - Cadel Evans won the Tour de France and was the first Australian to do so. After capturing cycling’s most prestigious title, Evans rode down the Champs Elysees with a glass of champagne in his hand and the yellow jersey on his back.
2012 - Typhoon Vicente roared into Hong Kong, disrupting dozens of flights to the regional hub. Some 129 people were injured by the storm. Government agencies received over 1000 reports of felled trees and flood damage. The city opened 24 temporary shelters where several hundred people sought refuge. Meanwhile, Beijing residents suffered through a 10-hour downpour that dumped 6.7 inches of rain in parts of the city and as much as 18 inches in the worst hit parts on the outskirts of the Chinese capital. It was the worst flooding in six decades.
2013 - The French government said it was closing down two more far-right militant groups. This, after the government outlawed three groups in response to the death of a militant left-wing student in June. The ban aimed to stop extreme groups who were emboldened by street marches led by conservatives and Catholics against the legalization of gay marriage.
2014 - Shimon Peres ended his term as president of Israel. He handed the ceremonial but high-profile presidency over to Reuven Rivlin, a legislator from the hawkish Likud Party.
2014 - Air Algérie Flight 5017 carrying 116 people from Burkina Faso to Algeria’s capital disappeared from radar in a massive, heavy thunder storm. Air navigation services lost track of the MD-83 about 50 minutes after takeoff from Ouagadougou. The plane had crashed in Mali, near Gossi. There were no survivors.
2015 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: Paper Towns, with Cara Delevingne, Nat Wolff and Halston Sage; Pixels, starring Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage, Adam Sandler, Ashley Benson, Sean Bean and Kevin James; Southpaw, with Rachel McAdams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomie Harris; American Heist, starring Hayden Christensen, Adrien Brody and Jordana Brewster; the documentaries Beyond the Brick: A LEGO Brickumentary", A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile; Dark Was the Night, with Steve Agee, Nick Damici and Kevin Durand; Phoenix, starring Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld and Nina Kunzendorf; and The Vatican Tapes, with Kathleen Robertson, Djimon Hounsou and Michael Peña.
2015 - France’s Constitutional Council approved a law giving its intelligence services sweeping new spying capabilities. Opponents of the law were quick to mock the government for vigorously protesting being surveilled by the U.S. while passing a law that gives its own intelligence services vast powers with little oversight.
2016 - A wildfire north of Los Angeles burning more than 20,000 acres had destroyed at least 18 homes. Evacuation orders remained in place for around 1,500 homes after the blaze grew to nearly 22,000 acres by Sunday afternoon from 11,000 acres the day before. And firefighters discovered a burned body outside a home on Iron Canyon Road in Santa Clarita, just north of L.A.
2016 - The head of the Democratic Party resigned amid a furor over embarrassing leaked emails. Lingering bitterness from the heated primary campaign between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders supporters erupted after more than 19,000 Democratic National Committee emails, leaked, some of which confirmed Sanders’ frequent charge that the party was favoring Clinton in the race. DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the best way for the party to accomplish its goal of putting Clinton in the White House was for her to step aside after the convention. Sanders had demanded earlier in the day that Wasserman Schultz resign.
2018 - The feud between POTUS Donald Trump and his onetime lawyer/fixer Michael Cohen escalated when Cohen released an audio recording of their 2016 pre-election conversation about a Playboy model’s silence. The tape, made just weeks before the 2016 election, appears to undermine Trump’s contention that he was not aware of a payment to former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, who had alleged she had an affair with the married future president.
2018 - The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled 2-1 that Americans have a constitutional right to carry guns. The case from Hawaii was expected to go to the Supreme Court. The court ruled that the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment guarantees a right to openly carry a gun in public for self-defense, finding that Hawaii overstepped its authority to regulate firearms possession outside the home.
2019 - Former special counsel Robert Mueller confirmed that his investigation did not exonerate POTUS Trump of obstruction of justice. Mueller said Trump wanted him fired because of his investigation...
2019 - A strike by Alaska’s ferry workers halted traffic for the Alaska Marine Highway System, the state-operated ferry system that serves 35 coastal towns, most of them without outside road access. Stranded passengers were getting tickets refunded, said John MacKinnon, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Transportation, and the state was trying to find alternative transportation for those who were partly through their route as the strike began. MacKinnon said stranded vehicles will be transferred to private shippers, such as Alaska Marine Lines. The state was reaching out to passengers to make sure they were taken care of, MacKinnon said.
2019 - Boeing posted its largest-ever quarterly loss, plunging nearly $3 billion into the red as it wrestled with a longer-than-expected grounding of its best-selling 737 MAX passenger jets -- after two fatal crashes.
2020 - Films scheduled to open on this day (many theatres were still closed by the Covid-19 crisis) included: Amulet, with Imelda Staunton, Alec Secareanu and Carla Juri; and Yes, God, Yes, starring Christian Adam, Susan Blackwell and Alisha Boe.
2020 - Psychologist and computer science researcher Ann Syrdal died at her home in San Jose, CA. She was 74 years old. She helped develop synthetic voices that sounded like women and laid the groundwork for such modern digital assistants as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa.
2020 - Legendary TV host Regis Philbin died in Connecticut at 88 years of age. Philbin became a household name in the 1980s cohosting Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee and later debuted -- and hosted -- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (1999-2002). Philbin was well known for making regular guest appearances on Late Show with David Letterman. He was often introduced by Letterman as “Regis Lee Philbin,” a play on his former morning co-host, Kathie Lee Gifford. He also appeared on other late-night talk shows; such as Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Philbin was known to have trouble handling new technology, and was frequently confused when operating electronics such as remote controls and DVD players. He did not usually use computers and did not own a cell phone until September 2008. It is often noted, however, that he did not completely reject technology; he simply had his wife make calls and send emails for him.
2020 - In Chicago two statues of Christopher Columbus that stood in local parks were taken down at the direction of Mayor Lori Lightfoot. This, a week after protesters trying to topple one of the monuments to the Italian explorer had clashed with police.
2020 - Russia dismissed U.S. and British claims that it had tested an anti-satellite weapon in space, declaring that the accusations served to justify Washington’s own plans to deploy weapons in orbit. Russia’s Defense Ministry previously stated that the July 15 event involved “a small space vehicle” that “inspected one of the national satellites from a close distance using special equipment.” Now, if you believe that one I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in...
2020 - The U.N. weather agency warned that average temperatures in Siberia were 10 degrees Celsius (18 Fahrenheit) above average. Exceptional heat had fanned devastating fires in the Arctic Circle and contributed to a rapid depletion in sea ice off Russia’s Arctic coast.
2021 - Serial killer Rodney Alcala died of natural causes at a hospital in San Joaquin Valley while awaiting execution. He was 77 years old. Alcala, who was responsible for as many as 130 murders, was nicknamed the ‘Dating Game Killer’ because of his appearance on the show in 1978 -- in the midst of his murder spree.
2021 - Water levels in the Great Salt Lake hit a historic low, as a megadrought gripped the region.
2022 - Pope Francis arrived in Edmonton, Canada, to begin “a penitential trip” to meet with -- and apologize to -- First Nation, Métis and Inuit communities for their treatment at church-run residential schools.
2022 - Singer-songwriter icon Joni Mitchell made a surprise concert appearance, joining Brandi Carlile, at the Newport Folk Festival. She had returned to public appearances in 2021 (after quitting touring in 2007), accepting several awards in person, including a Kennedy Center Honor.
2022 - Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard won the Tour de France, finishing the 21st and final stage of the race in Paris’ Champs-Elysees with a time of 79 hours 33 minutes and 20 seconds -- 2 minutes, 43 seconds ahead of Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar. Britain Geraint Thomas finished the three-week event in third, 7:22 behind the winner.
2023 - Israel’s parliament passed a controversial “reasonableness” bill, that took away the ability of the Supreme Court to declare government decisions unreasonable. It was the first bill in a plan to weaken the judiciary. The action came despite large, widespread public protests.
2023 - Citing humanitarian concerns, the Justice department sued Texas over a floating barrier the state had installed in the Rio Grande river between the U.S. and Mexico to keep migrants out. (Governor Greg Abbott had refused to remove the barrier.)
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Birthdays on This Day July 24
1783 - Simón Bolívar
South American liberator; died Dec 17, 18301802 - Alexandre Dumas (La Pailleterie)
playwright, novelist: The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers; died Dec 5, 18701897 - Amelia Earhart
aviator: 1st woman to fly solo across the Atlantic; 1st woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California; disappeared July 2, 1937 near Howland Island in the Pacific during a round the world trip from Florida to California1910 - Cootie (Charles) Williams
musician: trumpet: Echoes of Harlem, Concerto for Cootie, Carelessly [w/Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman]; band leader: Cootie Williams Sextet and Orchestra: Tess’ Torch Song, Cherry Red Blues; died Sep 15, 19851914 - Frank Silvera
actor: Valdez is Coming, Toys in the Attic, The High Chaparral; died June 11, 19701916 - Bob Eberly (Robert Eberle)
singer: The Breeze and I, Besame Mucho [w/Kitty Kallen]; sang w/Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra & on TV’s Top Tunes; brother of singer Ray Eberle; died Nov 17, 19811920 - Bella Abzug (Stavitsky)
feminist, attorney, U.S. Congresswoman; died Mar 31, 19981921 - Billy Taylor
jazz pianist: leader: Billy Taylor Trio, Orchestra; co-founder of Jazzmobile ’65; music director: The David Frost Show; jazz segments: Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt; died Dec 28, 20101929 - Peter Yates
film director: Bullitt, A Separate Peace, Curtain Call, The House on Carroll Street, An Innocent Man, Krull, The Dresser, For Pete’s Sake; died Jan 9, 20111930 - Jacqueline Brookes
stage and film actress: Losing Isaiah, The Good Son, The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, Sea of Love, License to Kill, An Invasion of Privacy; died Apr 26, 20131933 - Doug Sanders
golf champ: 21 victories on PGA & Senior PGA Tours; sponsored Doug Sanders International Jr Championship for top-ranked amateurs; hosts Doug Sanders Celebrity Classic in Houston; inducted into Florida, Georgia, Texas Sports Halls of Fame, Georgia Golf Hall of Fame; died Apr 12, 20201934 - Rudy Collins
musician: drums: group: Dizzy Gillespie quintet; died Aug 15, 19881934 - Willie Davis
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Grambling State Univ; NFL: Cleveland Browns, GB Packers; layed in two Super Bowls, five Pro Bowls; died Apr 15, 20201935 - Pat Oliphant
political cartoonist1936 - Ruth Buzzi
comedienne, actress: Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, The Entertainers, The Steve Allen Comedy Hour, That Girl, Sesame Street, Finders Keepers, Freaky Friday1939 - Walt Bellamy
Basketball Hall of Famer: NY Knicks, Detroit Pistons: individual NBA record for games played [88] in a season [1968-1969]; died Nov 2, 20131941 - Barbara Jean Love
singer: group: Friends of Distinction: Grazing in the Grass, Going in Circles, Love or Let Me Be Lonely1942 - Heinz Burt
musician: bass: group: The Tornados: Telstar, Globetrotter; solo: Just like Eddie; died Apr 7, 20001942 - Roger Lafreniere
hockey: Cincinnati Wings, Pittsburgh Hornets, Buffalo Bisons, Denver Spurs, St. Louis Blues1942 - Chris Sarandon
actor: The Princess Bride, Child’s Play, Deadly Temptress, The Nightmare before Christmas, The Guiding Light1944 - Jim Armstrong
musician: guitar: group: Them: Gloria, I Put a Spell on You, Just a Little Bit, I Can Only Give You Everything1946 - Gallagher (Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr)
comedian, prop comic known for smashing watermelons as part of his act1947 - Robert Hays
actor: Airplane!, Airplane 2, Take This Job & Shove It, Starman, FM, Angie1949 - Michael Richards
Emmy Award-winning actor: Seinfeld [1992-1993, 1993-1994, 1996-1997]; Fridays, Marblehead Manor, Airheads, Coneheads, UHF, Problem Child, Whoops Apocalypse1951 - Lynda Carter
actress: Wonder Woman, Partners in Crime, Hawkeye; Miss World-USA1951 - Lynval Golding
musician: guitar: groups: The Specials: Gangsters, A Message to You Rudy, Too Much Too Young, Ghost Town; Fun Boy Three: LPs: Fun Boy Three, Waiting1951 - Jim O’Malley
football: Notre Dame University, Denver Broncos1953 - Steve Grogan
football: New England Patriots quarterback: Super Bowl XX1953 - Garry Shider
musician [guitar], singer: group: Parliament-Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove, Atomic Dog, Flashlight, Maggot Brain, Cosmic Slop; died Jun 16, 20101957 - Pam Tillis
singer: After a Kiss, How Gone Is Goodbye, Blue Rose Is, Happy Ever After (Comes One Day at a Time), Drawn to the Fire, Real Man1962 - Kevin Butler
football: Chicago Bears kicker: Super Bowl XX1963 - Karl Malone
basketball: Louisiana Tech, Utah Jazz1964 - Barry Bonds
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants: [NL MVP: 1990, 1992-1993, 2001-2004; all-star: 1990, 1992-1998, 2000-2004, 2007)1965 - Paul Ben-Victor
actor: The Wire, Entourage, The Three Stooges, Monk, CSI, NYPD Blue, The Invisible Man, Las Vegas, In Plain Sight, Clear Lake, WI1965 - Kadeem Hardison
actor: A Different World, Vampire in Brooklyn, Renaissance Man, White Men Can’t Jump, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Beat Street, K.C. Undercover1965 - Joe Oliver
baseball: Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers, Seattle Mariners, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox1968 - Kristin Chenoweth
Tony Award-winning actress: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown [1999]; Epic Proportions, Encores!, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Wicked, The Apple Tree; films/TV: The West Wing, Pushing Daisies, You Again, Hit and Run, Family Weekend; voice actress: Rio 2, Tinker Bell film series, Space Chimps, Sit Down, Shut Up1968 - Laura Leighton (Miller)
actress: Melrose Place, Pretty Little Liars1969 - Rick Fox
basketball [forward]: Univ of North Carolina; NBA: Boston Celtics, LA Lakers, Boston Celtics; actor Holes, He Got Game1969 - Jennifer Lopez
actress: In Living Color, Selena, Hotel Malibu, Money Train, Anaconda, Angel Eyes1973 - Kevin Hardy
football [linebacker]: Univ of Illinois; NFL: Jacksonville Jaguars, Dallas Cowboys, Cincinnati Bengals1975 - Jamie Langenbrunner
hockey: Dallas Stars, NJ Nets
1975 - Eric Szmanda
actor: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Net, 100 Girls, Little Athens1978 - Andy Irons
pro surfer: 3 world titles [2002, 2003, 2004]; 3 Quiksilver Pro France titles [2003, 2004, 2005]; 2 Rip Curl Pro Search titles [2006, 2007]; 20 elite tour victories including the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing four times [2002-2006]; the only surfer to have won a title at every venue on the ASP [Association of Surfing] calendar; died Nov 2, 20101978 - Kylie G. Worthy
actress [2004-2012]: X-rated films: Knocked Up & Naughty, MILFs and Their Toys, Horny Trailer Park Mothers, 2 Big 2 Be True 161979 - Rose Byrne
actress: Marie-Antoinette, The Tenants, Troy, The Rage In Placid Lake, I Capture the Castle, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones1979 - Jerrod Niemann
singer: Lover, Lover, What Do You Want, Drink to That All Night, One More Drinkin’ Song, Shinin’ on Me1981 - Summer Glau
actress: Firefly, Serenity, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Cape1982 - Elisabeth Moss
actress: Mad Men, The West Wing, Picket Fences, Escape to Witch Mountain, Day Zero1982 - Anna Paquin
Academy Award-winning [Supporting] actress: The Piano [age 11]; X-Men, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Jane Eyre, Amistad, Almost Famous, Finding Forrester, Buffalo Soldiers, Tell It to the Bees, The Irishman1985 - Patrice Bergeron
hockey [center]: NHL: Boston Bruins [2003- ]: 2011 Stanley Cup champs; Olympic gold medalist: 2010 Vancouver, 2014 Sochi1985 - Teagan Presley
actress [2004-2011]: X-rated films: Innocence Little Secrets, Sinfully Sexy, Pretty Little Lesbians, Chick Flixxx1991 - Emily Bett Rickards
actress: Arrow, The Flash, Vixen, Supergirl, Funny Story, Legends of Tomorrow1998 - Cailee Spaeny
actress: Priscilla, Civil War, Pacific Rim Uprising, Bad Times at the El Royale, On the Basis of Sex, Vice, Devs, Mare of Easttown, The Craft: Legacy
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Hit Music on This Day July 24
1950Bewitched (facts) - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
Mona Lisa (facts) - Nat King Cole
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