July 27
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1775 - Benjamin Church began his service as the first Surgeon General of the Continental Army.1784 - Courier De L’Amerique became the first French newspaper to be published in the United States. The paper was printed in Philadelphia, PA for all the many Philadelphians who spoke French.
1789 - The Department of Foreign Affairs was established by the U.S. Congress and President George Washington. The agency later was named the Department of State -- or the State Department.
1866 - After a dozen years, Cyrus Field successfully completed the Atlantic Cable.
1909 - Orville Wright (one of the famous Wright Brothers, along with Wilbur) set a record for the longest airplane flight. Orville was testing the Army’s first airplane and kept it aloft for 1 hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds over Fort Myer, Virginia. He was so tired from the experience that he crash-landed the plane. He and his passenger (name unknown) were OK.
1918 - Socony 200, the first concrete barge, was launched on this day. The vessel was used to carry oil ... not concrete.
1940 - Billboard magazine published its first listing of best-selling singles. 10 tunes were listed.
1942 - Peggy Lee recorded her first hit record -- in New York City. With the backing of the Benny Goodman band, Miss Lee sang Why Don’t You Do Right for Columbia Records.
1945 - In what became known as the Potsdam Proclamation, Allied leaders meeting in Potsdam, Germany warned Japan to surrender unconditionally or face “prompt and utter destruction.”
1953 - The armistice agreement that ended the Korean War was signed at Panmunjon, Korea. The war lasted three years and 32 days. The truce negotiations between North Korean and U.S. delegates (representing South Korea) lasted two years and seventeen days.
1955 - Austria regained full independence after years of four-power occupation, and Allied troops began their withdrawal on this day.
1959 - Brothers, Santo and Johnny (Farina) of Brooklyn, NY saw their one and only hit record, the instrumental Sleepwalk released. Sleepwalk was number one for two weeks. Their next song, Tear Drop, only made it to number 23 on the pop charts. Such is life in the pop music biz.
1960 - Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
1967 - In the wake of rioting in major cities, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission, chaired by Illinois Governor Otto Kerner. The commission was charged with assessing the causes of urban violence. Black militant H. Rap Brown reacted by saying violence was “as American as cherry pie.”
1970 - Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar died. He was 81 years old. Salazar became prime minister in 1932 and ruled as dictator until suffering a stroke in 1968.
1972 - Pro hockey star Maurice ‘The Rocket’ Richard signed a one-year contract to coach the Quebec Nordiques of the World Hockey Association.
1973 - Secretariat broke two records while practicing at Saratoga Springs, NY. The legendary horse covered a mile in a speedy 1 minute, 34 seconds and ran a 1-1/8 mile distance in 1 minute, 47-4/5 seconds.
1974 - NBC-TV removed Dinah’s Place from its daytime programming roster. The move brought Dinah Shore’s 23-year association with the Peacock Network to a close.
1974 - John Denver’s biggest hit song reached the top of the Billboard singles chart. Annie’s Song, written for his wife, became the most popular song in the U.S. Denver had three other #1 songs: Sunshine on My Shoulders, Thank God I’m a Country Boy and I’m Sorry.
1976 - John Lennon finally had his request for permanent residency in the United States approved. Lennon’s immigration card number was A-17-597-321. The decision to allow Lennon to stay in the country ended a long struggle between the former Beatle and the U.S. Government.
1980 - Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi, the deposed Shah of Iran died at a military hospital near Cairo, Egypt. He was 60 years old. He became shah in 1941 and lost control of his country in the Islamic Revolution of 1979 led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1984 - Pete Rose passed Ty Cobb’s record for most singles in a career. Rose connected for his 3,053rd base hit. The baseball great was playing for the Montreal Expos at the time and led them to a win over one of his former teams, the Philadelphia Phillies.
1987 - Freeway shooting incidents were the talk of Los Angeles. Since June 18th there had been nine incidents involving vehicles and guns. Two motorists were actually shot to death and four others were injured. Police psychologists blamed “self-centered attitudes, violence in films and even the breakdown of family...” for the ‘road rage’. Authorities recommended that drivers avoid confrontation. In other words, don’t honk your horn, flash your headlights or wave your middle finger at that S.O.B.! It could be fatal.
1989 - 79 people were killed (including four on the ground) when a Korean Air DC-10 crashed while attempting to land in heavy fog at Tripoli airport in Libya.
1991 - Bryan Adams’ (Everything I Do) I Do It For You hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It topped the pop chart for 7 straight weeks.
1993 - Boston Celtics star Reggie Lewis died after collapsing on a Brandeis University basketball court during practice. He was 27 years old.
1995 - The Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. opened to the public on the 42nd anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War. U.S. President Bill Clinton and President Kim Young Sam of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) dedicated the memoirial. A plaque at the flagstaff reads, “Our nation honors her sons and daughters who answered a call to defend a country they never knew and a people they never met.”
1996 - An early-morning pipe-bomb blast in Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta killed Alice Hawthorne of Albany, Georgia and injured more than 100 other people as an overnight celebration erupted into chaos. Hawthorne, 44, died from bomb shrapnel that struck her in the head. Her 14-year-old daughter, Fallon Stubbs, was wounded by flying screws and nails. Eric Robert Rudolph eluded police until his capture May 31, 2003. In 2005, as part of a plea bargain, he pleaded guilty to the bombing and accepted four consecutive life sentences in exchange for avoiding a trial and a potential death sentence. He remains incarcerated at the ADX Florence Supermax prison near Florence, Colorado.
1998 - Novelist and screenwriter Noel Behn died at 70 years of age in Manhattan. His work included The Kremlin Letter, The Big Stick-Up at Brink’s and The Shadowboxer.
1999 - With Air Force Colonel Eileen Collins at the controls, space shuttle Columbia returned to Earth, ending its five-day mission. Collins was the shuttle’s first female commander.
2001 - These films debuted in the U.S.: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask, Andrea Martin, Miriam Shor, Rob Campbell, Michael Aronov, Theodore Liscinski and Michael Pitt; and Planet of the Apes, starring Mark Wahlberg Tim Roth Helena Bonham Carter Michael Clarke Duncan Kris Kristofferson Estella Warren Paul Giamatti Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa David Warner Lisa Marie.
2002 - A Ukrainian fighter jet crashed during an air show in Lviv, Ukraine killing 83 people. Another 116 people were injured.
2003 - Bob Hope, master of the one-liner and favorite comedian of servicemen and presidents alike, died at his home in Toluca Lake, CA. Throughout an extraordinary professional career of some seventy years, Bob Hope worked in almost every example of mass entertainment. He first earned fame on the vaudeville circuit, starred on the Broadway stage, moved over to movies and radio, then made generations laugh with five decades of television specials. He was a tireless stage performer, particularly when it came to military audiences. Hope was synonymous with entertaining U.S. troops, putting on shows during World War II, Korea, Vietnam and on through the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Bob Hope appeared in more than 75 films, starred in more than 475 TV programs and 1,000-plus radio shows.
2003 - American Lance Armstrong rode to his 5th straight Tour de France victory in a ceremonial final stage in Paris.
2004 - Barack Obama, U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois, delivered a rousing keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Other speakers included Ted Kennedy, Howard Dean, Ron Reagan and Teresa Heinz Kerry.
2005 - NASA postponed future launches of the Space Shuttle after a piece of insulating foam was seen breaking off of Discovery’s external fuel tank during the July 26 launch.
2005 - A French court in Bonneville found thirteen defendants guilty of manslaughter in the March 24, 1999 Mont Blanc Tunnel fire that killed 38 people. The head of security at the tunnel was given a six-month jail term.
2006 - U.S. President George Bush (II), joined by America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh, signed a law requiring convicted child molesters to be listed on a national Internet database. The law also forces sex offenders to face a felony charge for failing to update their whereabouts. The law was designed to help police find more than 100,000 missing sex offenders.
2006 - Sharman Networks Ltd., owner of Kazaa file-sharing software, said it would redesign its software and pay over $115 million in penalties to leading music and movie companies.
2007 - Films opening in U.S. theatres: I Know Who Killed Me, with Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond, Neal McDonough, Brian Geraghty, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Spencer Garrett, Gregory Itzin, Bonnie Aarons, Kenya Moore, Thomas Tofel, Rodney Rowland and David Figlioli; No Reservations, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Patricia Clarkson, Jenny Wade and Lily Rabe; and The Simpsons Movie, featuring the voices of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Albert Brooks, Minnie Driver and Erin Brockovich.
2007 - Two news helicopters covering a police chase on live television collided and crashed to the ground in Phoenix, AZ, killing all four people on board.
2008 - Iran hanged 29 people after they had been convicted of murder, drug trafficking and other crimes.
2009 - Daniel Patrick Boyd was arrested with his two sons and four other men in North Carolina. Prosecutors accused them of military-style training at home and plotting “violent jihad” through a series of terror attacks abroad.
2009 - European Union nations approved a ban on imports of seal products in an effort to force Canada to end its annual seal hunt.
2010 - Bangladesh raised the minimum wage for its millions of garment workers by 80 percent, following months of violent protests over pay and conditions. An emergency wage board committee of government officials, garment manufacturers and union leaders announced the minimum monthly wage would rise from 1,662 taka -- the lowest industry salary worldwide -- to 3,000 taka (43 dollars).
2010 - Serb lawmakers passed a resolution vowing that their country would never recognize Kosovo as an independent state, despite a U.N. court ruling backing the independence declaration by the former Serbian province.
2011 - After inflation, the price of a cow in Juba, South Sudan, was between $375 and $560. The price for a bride ranged from 150 to 400 cows. At those prices, some men who otherwise couldn’t afford a bride were turning to stealing livestock in order to buy a wife and gain status.
2012 - New motion pictures in the U.S.: The Watch, starring Jonah Hill, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Billy Crudup, Richard Ayoade, R. Lee Ermey, Rosemarie DeWitt and Will Forte; Step Up Revolution, with Adam G. Sevani, Kathryn McCormick, Ryan Guzman, Jordana DePaula, Stephen Boss, Jessica Guadix and Chadd Smith; the documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, a feature-length film about the internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist; Killer Joe, starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon, Scott A. Martin and Gralen Bryant Banks; and the documentary, Searching for Sugar Man, from director Malik Bendjelloul.
2012 - Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II declared the London Olympics to be open after playing a cameo role in a dizzying ceremony designed to highlight the grandeur and eccentricities of the nation that invented modern sport. More than 10,000 athletes from 204 countries would compete in 26 sports over 17 days of competition in the only city to have staged the modern Games three times.
2013 - Clashes erupted in Cairo, Egypt between security forces and supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. More than 80 people died in the violence.
2014 - The U.S. stepped up pressure on Moscow by releasing satellite images showing that rockets had been fired from Russia into neighboring eastern Ukraine -- and that heavy artillery for pro-Russian separatists had crossed the border.
2014 - Egypt’s army announced its destruction of 13 more tunnels (1,639 overall) connecting the Sinai Peninsula to the Gaza Strip.
2015 - The U.S. and Turkey agreed to work together to clear the Islamic State group from northern Syria.
2016 - Nerve opened in U.S. movie theatres. The mystery thriller stars Samira Wiley, Kimiko Glenn and Dave Franco.
2016 - People from Sacramento to Los Angeles to Las Vegas reported seeing mysterious lights streaking across the nighttime sky. The flashes of light spurred numerous calls to newsrooms and police stations and were eventually identified as Chinese space junk -- the remnants of a CZ-7 rocket body -- burning up upon re-entering Earth’s atmosphere.
2016 - POTUS Barack Obama, in his final address as president to the Democratic National Convention, passionately argued that America is already both great and strong. And that it’s on a track that should continue -- a stark contrast with the dark picture painted by Donald Trump the previous week at the Republican convention. The president also praised Hillary Clinton as the president who would keep America moving forward.
2017 - A South Korean court convicted Kim Ki-choon, a former presidential chief of staff, and Kim Jong-deok, the former culture minister, of perjury and abuse of power for blacklisting thousands of artists and denying them state support -- because they were believed to be unfriendly to ousted President Park Geun-hye. Jong-deok was sentenced to three years in prison and Jong-deok to two years.
2018 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: Mission: Impossible—Fallout, starring Tom Cruise, Vanessa Kirby, Rebecca Ferguson and August Walker; the animated action comedy, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, featuring the voices of Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Tara Strong and Will Arnett; 14 Cameras, with Kodi Saint Angelo, Neville Archambault and Jacob Browne; Hot Summer Nights, with Timothée Chalamet, Maika Monroe and Alex Roe; Our House, starring Thomas Mann, Nicola Peltz and Xavier de Guzman; Puzzle, with Austin Abrams, Mandela Bellamy and Myrna Cabello; and The Row, starring Colin Egglesfield, Lala Kent and Dylan Sprayberry.
2018 - POTUS Trump thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for “fulfilling a promise” to return the remains of U.S. soldiers killed in the Korean War. This, as a U.S. military plane made a rare landing in North Korea to retrieve 55 cases of remains. Close to 7,700 U.S. soldiers are still unaccounted for from Korean War (1950-1953), and about 5,300 of those were lost in North Korea.
2018 - CBS stock fell 6% after a New Yorker story detailed allegations of sexual misconduct by CEO Les Moonves. (Moonves resigned his position with CBS in Sep 2018.)
2019 - The Bully-in-Chief lashed out at U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings in a series of tweets, calling the Maryland congressman “a brutal bully” and the majority-black district he represented, “disgusting.” The Trump tweet blast at Cummings, who chaired the House Oversight Committee, appeared to be (but no one knew for sure) in response to Cummings’s criticism of policies at the border during recent hearings. It also followed Cummings calling on Americans to “pay attention to what is going on” and to protect democracy in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony about Trump’s shenanigans...
2020 - Governor Gavin Newsom said nearly 200 federal healthcare workers were deployed to California’s Central Valley agricultural area, where hospitals were overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases.
2020 - U.S. Homeland Security forces declared an “unlawful assembly” in Portland, Oregon, confronting protesters on the street and working for hours to clear the area. This, as some protesters, including members of Wall of Moms and Don’t Shoot Portland, were suing Trump for his violent and intimidating federal responses to nightly demonstrations against systemic racism and police brutality.
2021 - The head of the U.N. World Food Program said the agency would run out of food in Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Tigray region on July 30. This, while hundreds of thousands of people there faced the world’s worst famine crisis in a decade. The WFP said 170 trucks loaded with relief supplies were stranded in the Afar region, waiting for Ethiopian permission to travel to Tigray.
2021 - Triathlete Flora Duffy won the first ever Olympic gold medal for Bermuda -- in the women’s event at the Tokyo Games.
2022 - Actor Tony Dow, best known for playing Wally Cleaver on the classic TV show Leave It to Beaver, died of complications from liver cancer. He was 77 years old. His son, Christopher Dow, said, “Although this is a very sad day, I have comfort and peace that he is in a better place. He was the best Dad anyone could ask for. He was my coach, my mentor, my voice of reason, my best friend, my best man in my wedding, and my hero.”
2022 - The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point for the second straight month as it continued to aggressively fight inflation.
2023 - A heat wave continued in Arizona -- the 28th consecutive day of temperatures at or above 110°F (43.3°C) in Phoenix; and the overnight low fell below 90°F (32.2°C) for first time in 18 days. The high temperatures, combined with a lack of seasonal monsoons, had caused many saguaro cacti to become “highly stressed,” according to Chief Science Officer Kimberlie McCue of the Desert Botanical Garden.
2023 - Federal prosecutors announced new charges against former President Donald Trump over his hiding and mishandling of classified documents at his home in Florida. The sealed charges accused Trump and two aides of asking another Trump employee to delete security camera footage at the Mar-a-Lago Club to prevent the footage from being provided to a federal grand jury. Trump also faced an additional charge of illegally keeping national defense information after leaving office. A federal judge later said that investigators had “strong evidence” that the former president “intended” to hide classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
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Birthdays on This Day July 27
1824 - Alexandre Dumas
novelist: La Dame aux Camelias; playwright; died Nov 27, 18951880 - Joe Tinker
Baseball Hall of Famer: Chicago Cubs shortstop; playing manager: Cincinnati & Chicago; famous for Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double-play combination; died Jul 27, 19481905 - Leo ‘Lippy’ (Ernest) Durocher
Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Yankees [World Series: 1928], Cincinnati Reds, SL Cardinals [World Series: 1934/all-star: 1936], Brooklyn Dodgers [all-star: 1938, 1940]; coach: LA Dodgers; “Nice guys finish last.”; died Oct 07, 19911916 - Keenan (Francis Xavier Aloysius) Wynn
actor: Dr. Strangelove, Nashville, Finian’s Rainbow, Kiss Me Kate, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Absent-Minded Professor; died Oct 14, 19861922 - Norman Lear
Emmy Award-winning producer: All in the Family [1970-1971, 1971-1972, 1972-1973], Maude, Good Times, Sanford & Son, Powers that Be, The Nancy Walker Show, The Jeffersons, Hot L Baltimore, Fernwood 2-Night; died Dec 5, 20231927 - Bob Morse
singer: group: The Hi-Lo’s; died Apr 27, 20011929 - Harvey Fuqua
singer: founder of The Moonglows: Sincerely, See Saw, Ten Commandments of Love; record label executive: Motown, RCA Records; died Jul 6, 20101931 - Jerry Van Dyke
actor: Coach, My Mother the Car, The Judy Garland Show, The Headmaster, Accidental Family; brother of actor Dick Van Dyke; died Jan 5, 20181933 - Nick Reynolds
folk singer: group: The Kingston Trio: Tom Dooley, M.T.A., Tijuana Jail, A Worried Man, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Greenback Dollar, Reverend Mr. Black; died Oct 1, 20081937 - Don Galloway
actor: Ironside, Two Moon Junction, Demon Rage, Snowblind, Tom, Dick and Mary, Arrest and Trial; TV host: The Guinness Game; died Jan 8, 20091938 - Dean Hargrove
screenwriter, producer: Jane Doe: Vanishing Act, Melanie Darrow, Diagnosis Murder, The Return of the World’s Greatest Detective, Double Take, The Big Rip-Off, Columbo series, Perry Mason series1939 - James Victor
actor: Stand and Deliver, Fuzz, Zorro, Viva Valdez, Condo; died Jun 20, 20161942 - Barbara Ferris
actress: The Strauss Family, A Chorus of Disapproval, Nice Girl like Me, Children of the Damned1942 - John Pleshette
actor: Knots Landing, Doctors’ Hospital, Eye of the Stranger, Lies of the Twins, Burning Rage, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald; brother of actress Suzanne Pleshette1942 - Dennis Ralston
tennis: youngest Wimbledon champ [age 17]: men’s 1960 doubles [w/Rafael Osuna: 1960]1943 - Al Ramsey
musician: guitar: group: Gary Lewis & The Playboys: This Diamond Ring1944 - Bobbie Gentry
Grammy Award-winning singer [1967]: Ode to Billy Joe, All I Have to Do is Dream [w/Glen Campbell], I’ll Never Fall in Love Again1947 - Betty Thomas
Emmy Award-winning director: For Peter’s Sake [1992-1993], Dream On [1992-1993], actress: Hill Street Blues [1984-1985]; The Seventh Sign, When Your Lover Leaves, Troop Beverly Hills1948 - Peggy Fleming
figure skater: Olympic Hall of Famer: gold medalist [1968]; Ice Follies, Holiday on Ice, ABC sports commentator; International Women’s Sports Hall of Famer1949 - Maury Chaykin
actor: Cold Comfort, Dances with Wolves, WarGames, Mrs. Soffel, Def-Con 4, Meatballs III, Iron Eagle II, My Cousin Vinny, Cutthroat Island, The Mask of Zorro, Entrapment, A Nero Wolfe Mystery; died Jul 27, 20101949 - Andre Dupont
hockey: NHL NY Rangers, SL Blues, Philadelphia Flyers1949 - Maureen McGovern
singer: Different Worlds, The Morning After; actress: Pirates of Penzance1950 - Michael Vaughn
musician: guitarist: group: Paper Lace: The Night Chicago Died1952 - Bump (Elliott Taylor) Wills
baseball: Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs1963 - Karl Mueller
musician: guitar: group: Soul Asylum: Just Like Anyone, Cartoon, Somebody to Shove, Close, String of Pearls, Tied to the Tracks; died Jun 17, 20051963 - Donnie Yen
martial artist, actor: Once Upon a Time in China II, The Iron Monkey, Iron Monkey 2, Asian Cops - High Voltage, City of Darkness, Highlander: Endgame, Fist of Fury: The Sequel1967 - Kellie Waymire
actress: Six Feet Under, Star Trek: Enterprise, Seinfeld, Something More, Maniacts, Sunset Strip, Dig a Hole, Find a Finger, When the Cradle Falls; died Nov 13, 20031968 - Maria Grazia Cucinotta
actor: The World Is Not Enough, Maria Maddalena, Picking Up the Pieces, Just One Night1968 - Cliff Curtis
actor: Whale Rider, Once Were Warriors, Blow, Trauma, Missing, Body of Proof1968 - Tom Goodwin
baseball: Fresno State Univ; LA Dodgers, KC Royals, Texas Rangers, Colorado Rockies, SF Giants, Chicago Cubs, TB Devil Rays1968 - Julian McMahon
actor: Nip/Tuck, Charmed, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer1969 - Michael Paul LeVesque
pro wrestler/actor: WCW Saturday Night, WWF Warzone, Royal Rumble: No Chance in Hell, WWF Smackdown!, Armageddon, Fully Loaded, Wrestlemania X-Seven1970 - Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
actor: Game of Thrones, Virtuality, Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven, The Headsman, Headhunters, The Other Woman, A Second Chance1972 - Maya Rudolph
actress: Saturday Night Live, City of Angels, Chuck & Buck, Duets; daughter of singer Minnie Riperton1973 - Moochie Norris
basketball: West Florida Univ; Vancouver Grizzlies, Seattle SuperSonics, Houston Rockets1973 - Enrique Wilson
baseball: Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates, NY Yankees1975 - Álex Rodríguez
baseball: Seattle Mariners [1994–2000]; Texas Rangers [2001–2003]; New York Yankees [2004–2013, 2015–2016]: 2009 World Series champs)1976 - Seamus Dever
actor: Castle, JAG, Mystery Woman: Snapshot, Cold Case in the House, Without a Trace, Outside the Law, Monkey Love, Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix, Deep Cover, Crossing Jordan, Undressed, She’s No Angel, Shooting LA, Pensacola: Wings of Gold, Drop Dead Diva1977 - Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Golden Globe-winning actor: Elvis [2006]; Adina, Mission: Impossible III, Vanity Fair, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, Bend It Like Beckham, The Magnificent Ambersons, From Paris with Love1978 - Sandy Colton
singer, dancer, actress: Viva Laughlin, Fashion Rocks, Lou Rawls Parade of Stars, Boston Legal, MADtv1979 - André Gordon
actor: Gotta Make Them Angels, S.W.A.T., Like Mike, Mafia II, Precinct 331984 - Max Scherzer
baseball [pitcher]: Arizona Diamondbacks [2008–2009]; Detroit Tigers [2010-2014]: 2012 World Series, 2013 AL Cy Young Award; Washington Nationals [2015–2020]; Los Angeles Dodgers [2021]; New York Mets [2022- ])1984 - Taylor Schilling
actress: Orange Is the New Black, The Lucky One, Atlas Shrugged: Part I, Dark Matter, Mercy, Argo1990 - Indiana Evans
actress: Home and Away, H2O: Just Add Water, Blue Lagoon: The Awakening, Snobs, Secrets & Lies1993 - Sage Kotsenburg
snowboarder: 2014 Sochi Olympics: first ever men’s snowboard slopestyle gold medal winner1993 - Jordan Spieth
golf champ: 2013: PGA Tour Rookie of the Year, John Deere Classic; 2015: Masters, U.S. Open, John Deere Classic, FedEx Cup; 2017: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Travelers Championship, The Open Championship; second man (along with Tiger Woods) to win nine times on the PGA Tour before the age of 241996 - Ashlyn Sanchez
actress: Crash, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Happening, Universal Signs, Without a Trace
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Hit Music on This Day July 27
1944I’ll Be Seeing You (facts) - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
Swinging on a Star (facts) - Bing Crosby
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