July 26
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1603 - James VI of Scotland was crowned King James I of England. Among his many acts affecting English religious life (it is he for whom the King James Version is named) was the issuing of the Book of Sports, approving sports on Sunday.1775 - A postal system was established by the 2nd Continental Congress of the United States. The first Postmaster General was the same gentleman who graces the U.S. $100 bill and who flew a kite with a key attached in a thunderstorm -- Benjamin Franklin. Mr. Franklin was paid $1,000 a year for his job as Postmaster General.
1788 - New York, the 11th state, entered the United States of America this day. New York City, one of the most famous cities in the world, was once the capital of the Empire State, but that ended in 1796. Albany, once called Fort Orange, has been the capital of the State of New York ever since. The beautiful rose is the official state flower with the colorful bluebird taking the honorable title of New York’s state bird.
1859 - The first intercollegiate regatta began in Worcester, MA. Harvard University defeated both Yale and Brown on Lake Quinsigamond.
1893 - Commercial production of the Addressograph started in Chicago, Illinois.
1903 - Horatio Nelson Jackson, a 31-year-old San Francisco physician and auto enthusiast, completed the first successful automobile drive across the United States -- in a slighly used Winton. Jackson was accompanied by Sewall Crocker, who served as mechanic and backup driver on the cross-country trip. The trip took 63 days, 12 hours, and 30 minutes (they had left San Francisco on May 23); cost $8,000; and left a transcontinental trail littered with broken parts, tools, clothes, flat tires and tears. At the time, there were no gas stations and less than 150 miles (240 kilometers) of paved roads between coasts.
1939 - Sixteen-year-old singer Kay Starr got a big break. She recorded Baby Me with Glenn Miller and his orchestra on Victor Records. Starr was filling in for Marion Hutton who, at the last minute, was unable to attend the recording session.
1942 - Judy Garland joined Gene Kelly to record For Me and My Gal for Decca Records. The song is featured in the movie of the same name.
1947 - The National Security Act of July 26, 1947 was passed into law. It established the National Security Council and provided for all armed forces in the U.S. to be under the control of the National Military Establishment. That office is now called the Department of Defense.
1947 - The Abe Burrows Show premiered on CBS radio. Burrows was a humorist, author, and director (radio and stage).
1948 - Babe Ruth was seen by the public for the last time as he attended the New York City premiere of the the motion picture, The Babe Ruth Story. Ruth died three weeks later.
1948 - President Harry S Truman signed Executive Order 9981, calling for the end of discrimination and segregation in the U.S. armed forces.
1952 - Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president by the Democratic national convention in Chicago. Also on that day, John J. Sparkman was nominated for vice president.
1953 - Fidel Castro began his ‘26th of July Movement’ revolt against the regime of Fulgenico Batista. The unsuccessful attack on an army barracks in eastern Cuba failed. Castro did finally oust Batista in 1959.
1956 - Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser seized control of the Suez Canal from the French and the British.
1963 - An earthquake hit Skopje, Yugoslavia destroying some four-fifths of city. 1,011 people were killed and 3,350 injured.
1964 - Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and six others were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the handling of a union pension fund.
1969 - Sharon Sites Adams, at age 31, achieved her goal of becoming the first woman to sail solo across the Pacific Ocean. Adams sailed 5,618 miles in her 31-foot Sea Harp from Yokohama, Japan to San Diego, California in 74 days (she left Yokohama on May 12).
1975 - Van McCoy and The Soul City Symphony reached the top spot on the Billboard record chart for the first -- and only -- time. The disco hit The Hustle became the top record in the U.S. The instrumental remained in the reflection of the disco mirror ball for only one week ... though plenty of other disco hits followed. Keep that white suit handy. Disco may just come back!
1979 - An estimated 43" (109cm) of rain fell in Alvin, TX (national record). Tropical storm Claudette was the culprit.
1984 - Purple Rain, the film creation of Prince, premiered in Hollywood. Attending the gala at the Palace Theatre were Eddie Murphy, Lionel Richie and Stevie Nicks. MTV presented live coverage of the events.
1987 - Robert Wrenn set a record for the Buick Open. He won the golf tourney with a 26-under-par 262, a seven-stroke victory. Wrenn just missed the PGA Tour record of 27-under-par at the tourney, which was held at Grand Blanc, MI.
1991 - Comedian/actor Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman, was arrested for indecent exposure at an adult movie theater in Sarosota, Florida. Reubens was the star of the children’s series Pee-wee’s Playhouse and two successful movies. Following the arrest, toy stores across the U.S. removed Pee-wee toys, and his kiddie-show career was ruined.
1992 - Patty Sheehan defeated Juli Inkster in a playoff to win the 47th U. S. Women’s Open at the Oakmont (PA) Country Club.
1992 - Singer Mary Wells, one of Motown’s first big stars, died in Los Angeles of cancer. She was 49. Wells had Motown’s first number-one record, My Guy, in 1964. Like most of her hits, it was written and produced by Smokey Robinson. Her other top-ten hits included The One Who Really Love You, You Beat Me to the Punch and Two Lovers.
1996 - Motion pictures debuting in U.S. theatres: The Adventures of Pinocchio, with Martin Landau, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Genevieve Bujold, Udo Kier, Bebe Neuwirth, Rob Schneider, Corey Carrier, Marcello Magni, Dawn French and David Doyle; Joe’s Apartment, starring Jerry O’Connell, Megan Ward, Jim Sterling, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Jim Turner, Sandra Denton (a.k.a Pepa), Robert Vaughn and Don Ho; Kingpin, with Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Vanessa Angel and Bill Murray; and Supercop, starring Jackie Chan, Michelle Khan, Maggie Cheung, Bill Tung, Ken Tsang and Yuen Wah.
1996 - Amy Van Dyken became the first American woman to win four gold medals at a single Olympics as she captured the 50-meter freestyle in Atlanta.
1997 - U.S. President Bill Clinton visited Lake Tahoe, NV and announced that the Forest Service would allot 350 acres to the Washoe Indian tribe for a cultural center and give tribal members access to the edge of lake Tahoe. He also issued an executive order to improve the water quality of Lake Tahoe. And he brought with him $26 million worth of postal trucks and sewage pipes to help preserve the lake.
1998 - Hale Irwin birdied the 18th hole for a 69 to win the U.S. Senior Open by one stroke over Argentina's Vicente Fernandez at Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades CA.
2000 - U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel (in federal court, San Francisco CA) issued a preliminary injunction against online music service Napster. The judge ordered Napster to stop distributing copyrighted songs on the Web. Although Napster fought the ruling for months, this was the beginnning of the end for the Internet music distribution site.
2001 - Hewlett-Packard announced that it would eliminate 6,000 jobs in an effort to save $500 million annually. “Economies around the world continue to weaken as we move through the quarter,” said Carly Fiorina, HP chairman and chief executive officer.
2002 - These movies were new in the U.S.: Austin Powers in Goldmember, starring Mike Myers (as Austin Powers, Fat Bastard & Goldmember), Michael Caine, Beyonce Knowles, Michael York, Seth Green, Robert Wagner, Verne Troyer, Fred Savage, Nobuyuki ‘Nobu’ Matsuhisa, Aaron Himelstein, Josh Zuckerman; The Country Bears, with Christopher Walken, Stephen Tobolowsky, Daryl ‘Chill’ Mitchell, M.C. Gainey, Diedrich Bader, Alex Rocco, Eli Marienthal and Haley Joel Osment; and Who is Cletis Tout?, starring Christian Slater, Tim Allen, Portia De Rossi, Richard Dreyfuss, Peter Macneil, Shawn Doyle and Rupaul Charles.
2002 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted 295 to 132 to create the Homeland Security Department. It was the biggest government reorganization in decades.
2002 - The San Francisco-based Texas Pacific Group agreed to buy Burger King from Diageo PLC for $2.26 billion.
2003 - Historian John Higham died at 82 years of age. His books include Hanging Together: Unity and Diversity in American Culture.
2004 - The Democratic National Convention opened in Boston with an estimated 35,000 visitors. Speakers included Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Hillary and Bill Clinton.
2005 - STS-114 blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. George Diller, NASA’s launch control voice, announced, “3... 2... 1... and liftoff of Space Shuttle Discovery, beginning America’s new journey to the Moon, Mars and beyond..." STS-114 was NASA’s first orbiter mission since the Columbia disaster on Feb 1, 2003.
2006 - Chicago’s City Council voted to require big-box stores like Wal-Mart to pay employees at least $10 per hour plus benefits.
2008 - U.S. Democratic Party presidential hopeful Barack Obama met Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London. The two discussed key foreign policy issues facing both countries, particularly Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama also met with Tory leader David Cameron and Middle East envoy Tony Blair.
2009 - India launched the first nuclear-powered submarine built on its soil. India joined 5 other countries that could design and construct such vessels. The 367-foot (112-meter) submarine, named Arihant, or Destroyer of Enemies, was sent for sea trials at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
2009 - Merce Cunningham, avant-garde dancer and choreographer, died at his home in Manhattan. He was 90 years old. Throughout much of his life, Cunningham was considered one of the greatest creative forces in American dance.
2010 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it had ok’d the practice of ‘jailbreaking’ a cell phone. Jailbreaking, the practice of unlocking a phone (particularly an iPhone), so it could be used on another network and/or run applications other than those approved by the parent company (particularly Apple), had been technically illegal for years.
2010 - Computer programmer and Internet activist Julian Assange promised that the release of some 91,000 secret U.S. military documents on the Afghanistan war was just the beginning. He said that his WikiLeaks Web site still has thousands more Afghan files to post online. Pakistan’s most powerful spy agency lashed out at the trove of leaked U.S. intelligence reports that alleged close connections between it and Taliban militants fighting NATO troops in Afghanistan, calling the accusations malicious and unsubstantiated.
2011 - The United Nations refugees agency said some 40,000 famine-hit people had fled to the Somali capital Mogadishu over the previous month in search of food and water. An estimated 3.7 million people in Somalia, around a third of the population, were on the brink of starvation and millions more in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda had been affected by the worst drought in the region in 60 years.
2012 - The Indian government rushed in more troops in the northeastern state of Assam after some 40 people were killed (another dozen were missing) in violence between Bodo tribals and Muslim settlers. The killing of four Bodo men the previous week set off violent attacks by Bodo tribespeople on Muslim villages.
2013 - New movies in the U.S.: The To Do List, with Aubrey Plaza, Johnny Simmons, Bill Hader, Alia Shawkat, Sarah Steele, Scott Porter and Rachel Bilson; The Wolverine, starring Hugh Jackman; Blue Jasmine, with Cate Blanchett, Alden Ehrenreich, Peter Sarsgaard, Alec Baldwin, Michael Stuhlbarg, Bobby Cannavale, Louis C.K., Sally Hawkins, Max Casella and Andrew Dice Clay; Stranded, starring Christian Slater, Brendan Fehr, Amy Matysio, Michael Therriault, Mark D. Claxton, Ryland Alexander and Lyndon Bray; and The Time Being, with Wes Bentley, Sarah Paulson, Jeremy Allen White, Corey Stoll and Ahna O’Reilly.
2013 - Israel blocked the European Union from aiding tens of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank. The action was taken in retaliation for a E.U. ban on financial assistance to Israeli organizations in the occupied territories.
2014 - A U.S. federal judge ruled that a ban on citizens carrying handguns in public in the U.S. capital of Washington DC was unconstitutional.
2015 - Baron John Sewel, Britain’s 69-year-old deputy speaker of the House of Lords, resigned his position after publication of photos and a video showing him using cocaine with prostitutes.
2016 - Two Good Samaritan vessels rescued 46 people after they abandoned their sinking fishing boat in the Bering Sea off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. There were no reports of injuries as the crew members were transferred from life rafts to the merchant ships, in a fairly calm seas, Coast Guard Petty Officer Lauren Steenson said. The ships then embarked on a 13-hour voyage to Adak, Alaska, a port in the Aleutians.
2016 - Former President Bill Clinton took the stage at the Democratic convention, calling Hillary “the best darn change maker I ever met in my entire life” and saying that she was never satisfied with the status quo. Clinton addressed the differences between what was being said in Philadelphia and what the Republicans said in Cleveland the previous week. “What’s the difference in what I told you and what they said? How do you square it? You can’t. One is real, the other is made up!”
2017 - The FBI searched the Virginia home of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, looking for tax documents and banking records. Manafort was reported to have owed pro-Russia Ukrainians $17 million shortly before he was hired by candidate Trump. The FBI said it had probable cause to believe Manafort might not willingly hand over all relevant records tied to the ongoing Russia/Trump investigation.
2018 - Ethiopian Prim Minister Abiy Ahmed oversaw the reunification (in Washington DC) of feuding wings of the Orthodox Tewahedo Church, one of the world’s oldest Christian churches. The two synods were reunited into one Holy Synod after 27 years of being at odds with each other.
2018 - The leaders of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) bloc of emerging economies, meeting in the wake of tariff threats by POTUS Donald Trump, signed a declaration supporting an open and inclusive multilateral trading system under World Trade Organization rules.
2018 - Films showing for the first time in U.S. theatres included: Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie; See You Soon, with Harvey Keitel, Poppy Drayton, Liam McIntyre; Astronaut, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Lyriq Bent and Colm Feore; The Mountain, starring Tye Sheridan, Jeff Goldblum and Hannah Gross; and Tel Aviv on Fire, with Kais Nashif, Lubna Azabal and Yaniv Biton.
2019 - The Supreme Court allowed POTUS Trump (in a 5-4 ruling) to redirect $2.5 billion in money approved by Congress for the Pentagon to help build his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border -- while litigation was ongoing. This, even though lawmakers refused to provide funding.
2019 - South Korea’s central bank said North Korea’s economy shrank in 2018 for a second straight year, and the most in 21 years. North Korea continued to be battered by international sanctions aimed at stopping its nuclear program -- and by drought.
2020 - Olivia de Havilland, golden age Hollywood actress, died in Paris -- at 104 years of age. de Havilland won Oscars for To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1950). She was the sister of actress Joan De Haviland, aka Joan Fontaine, who died in 2013. Olivia’s other films included Captain Blood (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Gone With the Wind (1939) and Lady In a Cage (1964).
2020 - Israeli police arrested more than a dozen Israelis in country-wide protests that drew thousands of people in a growing and persistent show of force against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his handling of the coronavirus crisis. Barricading of the area near the Damascus Gate in East Jerusalem’s walled Old City -- a popular gathering place for Palestinians during the holy month of Ramadan -- was included in the blame for several nights of tensions.
2021 - The remains of the last victim of the collapsed Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida were identified, bringing the final death toll to 98.
2021 - A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook and Microsoft was reported to be significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database -- aiming to crack down on attacker manifestos and other material from white supremacists and far-right militias. The tech platforms had long been criticized for failing to police violent extremist content, though they also faced concerns over censorship.
2022 - Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz became the first athlete from the Philippines to win gold at the Olympics -- in the 55kg class at the Tokyo Games.
2022 - Russia announced it was leaving the International Space Station at the end of 2024 -- to focus on building its own orbiting facility. The space station was jointly run by the space agencies of Russia, the U.S., Europe, Japan and Canada. The first piece was put in orbit in 1998. It is used to conduct scientific research in zero gravity and test out equipment for future space journeys.
2022 - Former POTUS Trump never ordered troops deployed to protect the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller testified in a video the Jan 6 committee released on this day. “I was never given any direction or order or knew of any plans of that nature,” Miller said. His comment contradicted claims by Trump that he requested troops because he had a feeling “the crowd was going to be very large” as lawmakers were meeting to certify the results of the 2020 election.
2023 - Actor Kevin Spacey was cleared of sex assault charges at a court in London. Spacey’s two days of testimony had culminated with him choking up as he spoke of his six years without work since the sex abuse allegations against him surfaced in 2017. Three men had accused Spacey of aggressively grabbing their crotches, describing him as “vile” and a “slippery, snaky” predator. A fourth, an aspiring actor, said he awoke to the actor performing oral sex on him after falling asleep or passing out in Spacey’s London apartment where he had gone for career advice. “My world exploded,” Spacey testified. “There was a rush to judgment and before the first question was asked or answered, I lost my job, I lost my reputation, I lost everything in a matter of days.”
2023 - The U.S. Congress is being kept in the dark about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP or UFOs), claimed retired military intelligence officer David Grusch. Major Grusch (who had gone from being part of the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force to becoming a whistleblower) told the House Oversight Committee’s national security subcommittee that he had been denied access to some government UFO programs but that he knows the “exact locations” of UAPs in U.S. possession. Grusch alleged that the U.S. has retrieved non-human biological matter from the pilots of the crafts, adding, “That was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the [UAP] program I talked to, that are currently still on the program.”
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Birthdays on This Day July 26
1796 - George Catlin
artist: of North [Catlin’s Indian Gallery] and South American natives; died Dec 23, 18721856 - George Bernard Shaw
playwright: Pygmalion; died Nov 2, 19501875 - Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist: founder of analytical psychology; one of the best known researchers in the field of dream analysis and symbolization; died Jun 6, 19611892 - ‘Sad’ Sam Jones
baseball: pitcher: Cleveland Naps, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1918], NY Yankees [World Series: 1922, 1923, 1926], SL Browns, Washington Nationals, Chicago White Sox; died July 6, 19661894 - Aldous (Leonard) Huxley
philosopher, satirist, author: Brave New World, Crome Yellow, Point Counter Point; died Nov 22, 19631902 - Gracie Allen
vaudeville, radio, TV, stage actress w/husband, George Burns: The Burns and Allen Show; College Swing, Honolulu, Two Girls and a Sailor, We’re Not Dressing; died Aug 27, 19641909 - Vivian Vance (Vivian Roberta Jones)
Emmy Award-winning actress: I Love Lucy [1953]; The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, Lucy in Connecticut, The Lucy Show; died Aug 17, 19791912 - Buddy Clark
singer: I’ll Dance at Your Wedding, Linda, How are Things in Glocca Morra?, Ballerina, Peg o’ My Heart, Love Somebody, Rosalie; in films; died Oct 1, 19491914 - Erskine Hawkins
‘20th Century Gabriel’: musician: trumpet: bandleader: Dolemite, No Soap, Uptown Shuffle; composer: Tuxedo Junction [w/Julian Dash, Bill Johnson]; died Nov 11, 19921918 - Marjorie Lord
actress: The Danny Thomas Show, Sweet Surrender, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!, Riding High, Sherlock Holmes in Washington; died Nov 28, 20151921 - Jean Shepherd
radio personality, story teller: WOR [NY City]; author: The America of George Ade, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories, and Other Disasters, A Fistful of Fig Newtons, The Ferrari in the Bedroom, American Playhouse [PBS]; screenwriter: A Christmas Story, Ralphie, My Summer Story; film narrator: A Christmas Story; died Oct 16, 19991922 - Blake Edwards (McEdwards)
director: The Pink Panther, 10, Victor/Victoria, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Days of Wine and Roses, Switch, Peter Gunn; died Dec 15, 20101922 - Jason Robards Jr.
Obie Award-winning actor: The Ice Man Cometh; Long Day’s Journey into Night, A Boy and His Dog, The Adventures of Huck Finn, Philadelphia, All the President’s Men, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre; son of actor Jason Robards Sr.; died Dec 26, 20001923 - (James) Hoyt Wilhelm
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: NY Giants [all-star: 1953/World Series: 1954], Cleveland Indians, SL Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles [all-star: 1959, 1961, 1962], Chicago White Sox, Atlanta Braves [all-star: 1970], California Angels, Chicago Cubs, LA Dodgers; pitched more games than any other pitcher in the major leagues [1,070]; died Aug 23, 20021924 - Louie Bellson (Balassoni)
musician: drummer: Duke Ellington Band: drum solo: Skin Deep; composer: The Hawk Talks, I Need Your Key, Carnaby Street; music director for wife Pearl Bailey; also played with Dorsey Brothers and Count Basie bands; died Feb 14, 20091926 - James Best
actor: The Dukes of Hazzard, Ode to Billy Joe, The Naked and the Dead, Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair; died April 6, 20151928 - Stanley Kubrick
director: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange, Lolita, Paths of Glory; died Mar 7, 19991938 - Bobby Hebb
Grammy Award-winning songwriter: A Natural Man [1971]; singer: Sunny; Grand Ole Opry at age 12; died Aug 3, 20101939 - Bob Lilly
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle: Super Bowl V, VI1940 - Dobie Gray (Leonard Ainsworth)
singer: Drift Away, Look at Me, Loving Arms, You Can Do It; singer, songwriter: The ‘In’ Crowd; died Dec 6, 20111940 - Bobby Rousseau
hockey: NHL: Montreal Canadiens, Minnesota North Stars, NY Rangers1941 - Darlene Love
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer: Christmas [Baby Please Come Home], [Today I Met] The Boy I’m Gonna Marry, He’s Sure the Man I Love; worked with Sam Cooke, Dionne Warwick, The Beach Boys, Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, Sonny and Cher; back-up group: Darlene and the Blossoms: sang back-up vocals on the Shelley Fabares hit Johnny Angel, Johnny Rivers hits, including Poor Side of Town1943 - Mick (Michael) Jagger
singer: group: The Rolling Stones: 41 hits [1964-89], 5 gold records, 8 number one hits [U.S.]: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, Get Off of My Cloud, Paint It, Black, Ruby Tuesday, Honky Tonk Women, Brown Sugar, Angie, Miss You; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer1944 - Micki (Maxine) King
International Women’s Sports Hall of Famer; Olympic gold medalist: diver [1972]; Air Force Academy diving coach1944 - Kiel Martin
actor: Hill Street Blues, Second Chance, Panic in Needle Park, Convicted: A Mother’s Story; died Dec 28, 19901945 - Helen Mirren (Ilyena Lydia Mironoff)
Academy Award-winning actress: The Queen [2007]; Prime Suspect, The Hawk, White Knights, The Hundred-Foot Journey1949 - Roger Taylor (Meadows-Taylor)
musician: drums: group: Queen: Seven Seas of Rhye, Killer Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody, You’re My Best Friend, Somebody to Love, Another One Bites the Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Radio Ga-Ga; solo: LPs: Fun in Space, Strange Frontier1950 - Susan George
actress: Straw Dogs, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde [the musical], Jack the Ripper, Mandingo, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry1951 - Rick Martin
hockey: NHL: Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings; died Mar 13, 20111951 - Bobby Wadkins
golf champ: Lightpath Long Island Classic [2001], Ford Senior Players Championship [2006], Boeing Championship at Sandestin [2006]1954 - Vitas Gerulaitis
tennis champ: Australian Open [1977]; killed by carbon monoxide from a faulty heater Sep 17, 19941956 - Dorothy Hamill
Olympic Hall of Famer, Olympic Gold Medalist ice skater [1976]; U.S. Ice Skating Champion [1974-1976]; developed new skating move: Hamill camel; Ice Capades; married Dean-Paul Martin, son of singer Dean Martin1957 - Wayne Grady
golf champ: Westlakes Classic [1978], German Open [1984], Australian PGA Championship [1988], Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic [1989], PGA Championship [1990], Australian PGA Championship [1991]; chairman: Australasian PGA Tour [2000]1959 - Kevin Spacey
Academy Award-winning actor: American Beauty [1999]; Academy Award-winning supporting actor: The Usual Suspects [1995]; A Time to Kill, Outbreak, Consenting Adults, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Lost in Yonkers, Henry and June, Working Girl, The Ref, Wiseguy, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, L.A. Confidential, Beyond the Sea, K-Pax, Pay It Forward, House of Cards1964 - Sandra Bullock
Academy Award-winnning actress: The Blind Side [2010]; Speed, Speed 2: Cruise Control, The Net, While You Were Sleeping, A Time to Kill, Hope Floats, Forces of Nature, Miss Congeniality, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous, Fool Proof, Exactly 3:30, The Chambermaid, Premonition1965 - Jeremy Piven
actor: The Larry Sanders Show, Ellen, Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, Kiss the Girls, Cupid, Serendipity, Highway, Black Hawk Down1966 - Jennifer Ashe
actress: As the World Turns1967 - Jason Statham
actor: The Transporter film series, Snatch, War, Death Race, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Revolver, The Italian Job, Crank, Death Race, The Bank Job, The Expendables, The Fast and the Furious film series, Spy1968 - Olivia Williams
actress: Peter Pan [2003], Lucky Break, Jason and the Argonauts, Dead Babies, The Sixth Sense, Rushmore, The Postman, The Speaker of Mandarin1969 - Greg Colbrunn
baseball: Montreal Expos, Florida Marlins, Minnesota Twins, Atlanta Braves, Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers1971 - Chris Harrison
TV host: The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Bachelor Pad, Bachelor in Paradise, Bachelor Live, The Bachelor Winter Games, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?1973 - Kate Beckinsale
actress: Pearl Harbor, One Against the Wind, Much Ado About Nothing, Haunted, Shooting Fish, Brokedown Palace, Alice Through the Looking Glass1974 - Moe Williams
football [running back]: Univ of Kentucky; NFL: Minnesota Vikings, Baltimore Ravens1975 - Joe Smith
basketball [forward]: Univ of Maryland; NBA: GS Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks1977 - Joaquin Benoit
baseball [pitcher]: Texas Rangers1978 - Chris Claiborne
football [linebacker]: USC; NFL: Detroit Lions, Minnesota Vikings, SL Rams1982 - Kristin Adams
actress: Beach Girls, Blackout, Dear America: A Line in the Sand, At the Mercy of a Stranger, Falling Angels1982 - Delilah Strong
actress [2004-2012]: X-rated films: Naughty College School Girls 35, Angels of Debauchery 4, My Slutty Valentine, RefleXXXions, Masturbation Nation 61983 - Kelly Clark
snowboarder: Olympic gold medal [2002]1986 - Monica Raymund
actress: Lie to Me, The Good Wife, Chicago Fire, Brahmin Bulls1987 - Miriam McDonald
actress: Degrassi: The Next Generation, Sea Beast, Poison Ivy: The Secret Society1993 - Taylor Momsen
actress: How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Prophet’s Game, We Were Soldiers; cover girl
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Hit Music on This Day July 26
1952I’m Yours (facts) - Eddie Fisher
Walkin’ My Baby Back Home (facts) - Johnnie Ray
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