July 28
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1586 - The first potatoes arrived in England from Colombia, brought by Sir Thomas Harriot.1866 - Although its use was not required, the metric system was legalized by the U.S. Congress for the standardization of weights and measures throughout the United States. And we still don’t have it figured out. How many yards in a meter or quarts in a litre?
1896 - The community of Miami, was incorporated. The city had a population of 260. Today, the Miami area boasts a population of more than 6,000,000.
1914 - World War I started as a local European conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. Austria declared war on Serbia. When Austria’s Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated on Serbian soil, war broke out. On Aug 1, 1914, Russia entered on the side of the Serbs and Germany entered on the side of Austria. Eventually, the war became global, involving thirty-two nations.
1933 - The singing telegram was introduced on this day. The first person to receive a singing telegram was singer Rudy Vallee, in honor of his 32nd birthday.
1939 - Judy Garland sang one of the most famous songs of the century with the Victor Young Orchestra. The tune became her signature song and will forever be associated with the singer-actress. Garland recorded Over the Rainbow for Decca Records. It was the musical highlight of the film, The Wizard of Oz.
1942 - L.A. Thatcher of Stamford, CT received a patent by mail. Appropriately, Mr. Thatcher had patented a coin-operated mailbox. When money was inserted, a meter stamped the envelope.
1945 - A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the fog-shrouded Empire State Building in New York City. Fourteen men and women were killed.
1951 - The Walt Disney film Alice in Wonderland was released by RKO pictures.
1954 - The Crew Cuts reached the top spot of the Billboard pop singles chart with Sh-Boom (Life Could Be a Dream). It became the fastest-moving record to hit the music charts, making it to the top ten in only three weeks. The tune stayed atop the pop music listing for seven weeks.
1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis made his TV debut with the first of three appearances on the Steve Allen Show. The performance showcased the now-familiar Lewis trademarks of kicking the piano stool across the stage and pounding out notes with the heel of his shoe. His appearance on the show boosted sales of his single, Whole Lot of Shakin’ Goin’ On.
1958 - Three years after his Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White reached number one, Cuban-born bandleader Perez Prado captured the top spot again, with Patricia. Prado was known as the Mambo King for his popular, Latin-flavored instrumentals.
1959 - In preparation for statehood, Hawaiians voted to send the first Chinese-American, Hiram L. Fong, to the U.S. Senate and the first Japanese-American, Daniel K. Inouye, to the U.S. House of Representatives. Fong served in the Senate until 1977. Inouye was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1962 and was reelected 8 times. He served until his death on Dec 17, 2012.
1962 - 19 people were killed in a train derailment at Steelton, PA (outside Harrisburg). A faulty section of track was responsible for the crash. The ‘Baseball Special’ train (from Harrisburg to Philadelphia for a baseball game between the Phillies and the Pittsburg Pirates) left the track near Steelton and rolled into the Susquehanna River.
1964 - NASA launched Ranger 7 on its way to the moon. The spacecraft sent back 4,308 TV pictures on its way down to the lunar plain.
1965 - The American Football Conference set a new record. More reporters showed up in Lowell, MA to cover an exhibition game than were on hand to cover the AFC championship game the year before. The preseason game between the New York Jets and the Boston (now New England) Patriots attracted all the attention because the Jets sported a new quarterback who had caught everyone’s fancy: Joe Namath.
1965 - U.S. President Johnson announced he was increasing the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000; and monthly draft calls would be doubled to 35,000.
1973 - On this day, exactly a year after their first date, TV’s Six Million Dollar Man, Lee Majors, married one of Charlie’s Angels, Farrah Fawcett. The new Farrah Fawcett-Majors was named one of the 10 most beautiful women on the campus of the University of Texas. Farrah, famous for her blonde mane and brilliant smile, and Majors were divorced February 16, 1982.
1976 - One of the worst earthquakes on record devastated northern China. The 7.8 quake killed 242,000 people.
1984 - The 23rd Summer Olympic Games opened at the Los Angeles Coliseum in Southern California. Peter V. Uberroth, head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, welcomed 7,800 athletes from 140 nations during the 3-1/2 hour opening ceremonies.
1985 - Lou Brock, Enos Slaughter, Hoyt Wilhelm and Arky Vaughn were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York. Wilhelm of the Chicago White Sox was the first relief pitcher to make the Hall of Fame. Vaughn was the first player named Arky to make it...
1989 - Songstress Anne Murray opened the Anne Murray Centre in her hometown of Springhill, Nova Scotia. Packed with awards, photographs, memorabilia and audio-visual highlights of her life and career, the Centre is open every day from mid-May to mid-October.
1991 - National League teams Montreal and Los Angeles played ball and Dennis Martinez pitched. And, did he ever! It was the 13th perfect game in major league baseball. Martinez’ Montreal Expos won, 2-0.
1994 - Several coincidences occurred in major league baseball on this day. Kenny Rogers -- not the singer, but the pitcher -- threw the 14th perfect game in the history of major league baseball. It was three years to the day since the last time this event occurred. This time it was an American League game with Texas beating California, 4-0. Ten years earlier (9-30-84), the same two teams were playing when the 11th perfect game was hurled. The pitcher was Mike Witt and the winning team was reversed.
1995 - These films opened in the U.S.: The NET, starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller, Diane Baker, Ken Howard, Ray Mckinnon, Robert Gossett and L. Scott Caldwell; Operation Dumbo Drop, with Danny Glover, Ray Liotta, Denis Leary, Doug E. Doug and Corin Nemec; and Waterworld, starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter, Gerard Murphy and R.D. Call.
1996 - Marge Ganser, a member of the 1960’s group the Shangri-Las, died in New York of breast cancer. She was 48 years old. The Shangri-Las were formed at Andrew Jackson High School in Queens in 1964 by two sets of sisters, twins Marge and Mary-Ann Ganser and Mary and Betty Weiss. Their top-ten hits include Remember (Walkin’ in the Sand), I Can Never Go Home Anymore and Leader of the Pack (number one in 1964).
1997 - A flash flood hit Fort Collins, CO following torrential rains. Five people were swept away and killed. 40 more were injured. The 14.5" of rain over quail hollow in 30 hours was the greatest rainfall in recorded history over an urban area of Colorado.
1998 - Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp. announced a $52.88 billion stock-swap deal to create the second-biggest telephone company -- behind AT&T. The resulting mega-corporation -- later to be named Verizon Communications -- would begin with 63 million local telephone lines in 38 states and revenue of $53 billion.
1999 - U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher declared suicide a serious national threat, saying, “People should not be afraid or ashamed to seek help.”
2000 - Nutty Professor II: The Klumps debuted. Eddie Murphy is (most of) the Klumps: Professor Sherman Klump, Buddy Love, Cletus ‘Papa’ Klump/Young Cletus Klump, Anna Pearl ‘Mama’ Jensen Klump, Ida Mae ‘Grandma/Granny’ Jensen, Ernie Klump Sr., and Lance Perkins. Though complaints abounded about too much “bathroom humor”, the funny, if not filthy, flick did $42.52 million at U.S. box offices the first weekend.
2001 - Joan Finney, Kansas’ 42nd -- and the first woman -- governor died at 76 years of age.
2002 - Speaking publicly on the church abuse scandal for the first time, Pope John Paul II told young Catholics in Toronto that sexual abuse of children by priests “fills us all with a deep sense of sadness and shame.”
2002 - Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset, PA, were rescued after 77 hours underground.
2002 - Lance Armstrong won his fourth straight Tour de France.
2003 - Aaron Bell, jazz bassist with Duke Ellington, died in New York City. Bell was 82 years old.
2004 - She Hate Me opened in New York and Los Angeles theatres. The comedy drama stars Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, Jim Brown, Sarita Choudhury, Ossie Davis, Brian Dennehy, Woody Harrelson, Bai Ling, Lonette McKee, Paula Jai Parker, Dania Ramirez, Q-Tip and John Turturro.
2004 - Democrats in Boston voted John Kerry their nominee for president, with John Edwards as the vice-presidential nominee, promised the country “hope is on the way.”
2005 - Seven people were killed (38 injured) in an explosion on a moving passenger train in India. The cause of the explosion was traced to a bomb using the explosive RDX.
2006 - New movies in the U.S.: The animated The Ant Bully, featuring the voices of Nicolas Cage, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti, Lily Tomlin, Cheri Oteri, Alan Cumming, Regina King, Ricardo Montalban and Zach Tyler Eisen; John Tucker Must Die, with Jesse Metcalfe, Brittany Snow, Ashanti Douglas, Sophia Bush, Arielle Kebbel and Jenny McCarthy; and Miami Vice, starring Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Gong Li, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds and Justin Theroux.
2006 - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced the sale of its 85 German stores to Metro, the local market leader. The move ended Wal-Mart’s losing business venture in Germany and came just just two months after it sold all of its stores in South Korea.
2007 - The Liberian government said it had lifted a six-year moratorium on the diamond trade, put in place after former President Charles Taylor was accused of using ‘blood diamonds’ to fuel civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone.
2008 - Hernan Arbizu, former JPMorgan Chase & Co executive, was arrested in Argentina following his indictment on charges of embezzling $5.4 million. He fled to Argentina before being fired in June 2008.
2008 - Richard Branson and Burt Rutan unveiled their White Knight Two, the launch vehicle (or mothership) of the SpaceShip Two passenger rocket, at the Mohave Air & Space Port in Kern County, California.
2009 - Green Lantern: First Flight debuted in the U.S. The animated action adventure stars Christopher Meloni, Victor Garber, Tricia Helfer and Michael Madsen.
2009 - A majority of people in Britain viewed the Afghan war as impossible to win. This, according to a poll taken amid steeply rising casualties and growing government emphasis on finding a political solution to the conflict.
2010 - An Airblue (a private airline) Airbus A321 passenger jet crashed in poor weather into a hill overlooking Islamabad, Pakistan. All 152 on board were killed.
2010 - A band of some 100 masked people staged a violent environmental protest in a quiet Moscow, Russia suburb, hurling Molotov cocktails and fireworks at city hall. The crowd objected to plans for clearing a local forest for highway construction.
2011 - Australian farmer Steve Marsh launched legal action against neighbor Michael Baxter after genetically modified canola blew onto Marsh’s farm, prompting authorities to strip him of his organic license.
2012 - Searchers in Peru found the bodies of two U.S. mountaineers who fell to their deaths off a ridge after climbing a glacier-capped peak. Gil Weiss (29) and Ben Horne (32) fell plunged 300 meters (nearly 1,000 feet) off a ridge after reaching the west summit of Palcaraju in the Cordillera Blanca range in mid-July.
2013 - An armed robber stole some 100 million euro ($136 million) worth of diamonds and other gems from the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes. The thief threatened security guards and sales staff and left moments later with a briefcase containing 72 pieces, including jewels, rings, pendants and diamond-encrusted earrings, from a collection belonging to diamond specialist Leviev.
2013 - Israel released 104 Arab prisoners in a move to facilitate the restart of peace talks with the Palestinians and end nearly three years of diplomatic standstill.
2014 - Israel eased its offensive in the Gaza Strip and Palestinian rocket fire from the enclave declined sharply in a 24 hour truce to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid. Palestinian cross-border attacks killed 10 Israeli soldiers. A rocket strike on Gaza’s Shifa hospital killed 10 and injured scores. The lull appeared to be fragile amid diplomatic tension between Israel and its main sponsor, the U.S.
2015 - Scientists and tech experts, including professor Stephen Hawking and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, issued a forecast of a global arms race involving weapons using artificial intelligence.
2016 - When asked if Donald Trump was not smart enough to be president, former Attorney General Eric Holder said, “You know, I sometimes think that [Trump] hides behind a certain bravado to hide a lack of substance that he has. A person this far along in the process, I think we would know a little more about what his plans are,” he reasoned. “We’d know more about who his mentors might have been, who his intellectual guides might be. And I don’t have any sense that there is any of that to him. He seems like -- he seems to me to be a very shallow man.”
2016 - With her speech formally accepting the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton defended the strength of the American spirit and outlined the general election argument against Republican nominee Donald Trump. “America is once again at a moment of reckoning,” Clinton said. “Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart. Bonds of trust and respect are fraying. And just as with our founders, there are no guarantees: it truly is up to us.” Throughout the speech, she took aim at her Republican rival, casting him as capitalizing on fear to divide the country and saying he lacked the temperament to be president. “He’s taken the Republican Party a long way, from ‘Morning in America’ to ‘Midnight in America.’ He wants us to fear the future and fear each other,” she said.
2017 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Atomic Blonde, starring Sofia Boutella, Charlize Theron and James McAvoy; the animated The Emoji Movie, featuring the voices of T.J. Miller, Anna Faris, Sofía Vergara, Patrick Stewart, James Corden, Jennifer Coolidge, Maya Rudolph, Jake T. Austin, Christina Aguilera, Steven Wright and Thom Bishops; From the Land of the Moon, with Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel and Alex Brendemühl; A Family Man, starring Alison Brie, Gerard Butler and Willem Dafoe; Menashe, with Menashe Lustig and Yoel Falkowitz; Mubarakan, starring Anil Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor and Ileana D’ruz; Person to Person, with Michael Cera, Abbi Jacobson and Philip Baker Hall; and Strange Weather, starring Holly Hunter, Carrie Coon and Ransom Ashley.
2017 - The U.S. Senate approved stiff financial sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea. POTUS Trump signed the bill, but never implemented the sanctions. It was not clear whether Trump was breaking the law by not implementing the sanctions. Congress doesn’t have a lot of viable options to force the president’s hand on foreign policy — other than confrontational ones such as suing or impeaching him.
2017 - Tesla launched its Model 3 at its Fremont, CA plant and delivered the new small car to its first 30 customers — all employees. CEO Elon Musk said he planned to produce 500,000 Model 3s in 2018.
2018 - Fire swept through the Cosmo Motel in Sodus Township, (southwestern) Michigan killing five children and their mother. Her husband and a 1-year-old child survived. All eight were in the same room. The two-story motel was a place for people with low incomes to “get back on their feet,” according to police. The motel was off Interstate 94, some 100 miles (160 kilometers) from Chicago. Authorities said 90 percent of the property was damaged.
2018 - Thousands of Nicaraguans marched through the capital city of Managua in a show of support for the country’s bishops whom President Daniel Ortega had accused of aiding an attempted coup against him. The demonstrators were armed with slogans such as “Nicaragua loves her priests,” “Bishop my friend, the people are with you!” and “Thanks to the courageous bishops for being with the people.”
2019 - A gunman killed three people, including a 6-year-old boy, in a mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival south of San Jose, California. The 19-year-old gunman was shot dead by police officers within minutes of his opening fire. Officials later said the gunman killed himself after officers shot him multiple times.
2019 - Circe Baez (36) and Alexis Morales (38) were arrested at a Charlotte, North Carolina hotel. FBI investigators said the pair robbed four banks in what was dubbed the “Pink Lady Bandit” robberies along the East Coast.
2020 - The U.S.-based cybersecurity firm Recorded Future reported that the Vatican and the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong had been the targets of Chinese state-backed hackers. The activity was centered on upcoming talks on renewal of the landmark 2018 deal that helped thaw diplomatic relations between the Vatican and China.
2020 - Florida reported 191 new deaths due to the coronavirus. Cases in the state had jumped to over 441,900.
2020 - Minneapolis police said they had identified the man who helped spark weeks of violence after the death of George Floyd — and that protesting racism and police brutality was not his intent. Police said the so-called Umbrella Man was a white supremacist and a member of the Hell’s Angels biker gang and was intent on sparking violence and inflaming racial tensions.
2021 - The Biden administration issued legal guidance aimed at curbing voting rights abuses in states such as Arizona, where Republican officials had launched a contentious audit in a failed bid to reverse former POTUS Trump’s 2020 election loss.
2021 - Facebook, Google and Netflix all began requiring many employees to be vaccinated for Covid-19, with limited exceptions for medical or religious reasons. The companies joined Morgan Stanley, The Washington Post and several other high-profile private employers that were requiring vaccinations.
2021 - Dusty Hill, the bearded bass player for more than 50 years for ZZ Top, died in his sleep at his home in Houston, TX. He was 72 years old. ZZ Top’s first single was released in 1969. Their first concert, with Hill included, was in 1970 and the next year their first album was released.
2021 Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus won the women’s 200m freestyle in an Olympic Record time of 1:53.50 in Tokyo; she had beaten American superstar Katie Ledecki in 400m two days earlier. And Japanese golden girl Yui Ohashi won the women’s 200-meter individual medley final in a time of 2 minutes, 8.52 seconds -- her second IM title of the Tokyo Olympics.
2022 - President Biden and President Xi Jinping of China discussed Taiwan in a two-hour video call. The conversation came as tensions rose ahead of a visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that had angered China. This was the first time Biden and Xi had spoken directly in several months.
2022 - At least eight people died in flooding caused by heavy rains in eastern Kentucky. Parts of the state got eight to 12 inches of rain early in the day. “This is by far the worst flooding disaster at least in my lifetime in Kentucky,” Gov. Andy Beshear said. “It has wiped out what we believe are hundreds of homes.” Flood alerts remained in place in areas that were home to four million people in Kentucky, southern Ohio, West Virginia and soutwestern Virginia.
2022 - Amazon shares jumped more than 12 percent in after-hours trading after the online retail giant reported better-than-expected quarterly sales and strong, continuing growth from Amazon Web Services.
2023 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: The First Slam Dunk, with Luis Bermudez, Paul Castro Jr and Masaya Fukunishi; Haunted Mansion, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Winona Ryder, Jared Leto, Rosario Dawson, Danny DeVito and Owen Wilson; and Talk to Me, with aSophie Wilde, Joe Bird and Alexandra Jensen.
2023 - For the first time, scientists genetically engineered female animals to reproduce without a male. The scientists used genetically engineered fruit flies to undergo parthenogenesis, also known as virgin birth or asexual reproduction. And, after asexual reproduction was induced, the ability was inherited by subsequent generations. The findings provided valuable insights into the genetics of asexual reproduction and were of special interest to researchers studying crop pest reproduction.
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Birthdays on This Day July 28
1866 - Beatrix (Helen) Potter
children’s stories author: Peter Rabbit books; died Dec 22, 19431887 - Marcel Duchamp
painter: Nude Descending a Staircase, Box in a Valise, The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), Monte Carlo Bond; died Oct 2, 19681892 - Joe E. (Evan) Brown
comedian, actor: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Around the World in 80 Days, Show Boat, Some like It Hot; died July 6, 19731901 - Rudy (Hubert Prior) Vallee
singer: My Time is Your Time; actor: Live a Little, Love a Little, The Admiral was a Lady, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Second Fiddle; died July 3, 19861914 - Carmen Dragon
classical music conductor, bandleader; father of singer, ‘Captain’ Daryl Dragon; died Mar 28, 19841915 - Frankie Yankovic
Grammy Award-winning musician: accordion: Just Because, Blue Skirt Waltz; bandleader: polka band; died Oct 14, 19981929 - Ted (Thaddeus Stanley) Lepcio
baseball: Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox, Minnesota Twins; died Dec 11, 20191929 - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
First Lady: wife of 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy; wife of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis; editor: Doubleday Publishing; died May 19, 19941931 - Darryl Hickman
actor: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis [as Dobie’s older brother, Davey], The Americans; executive producer: Love of Life; by the time he was 21, Darryl Hickman had appeared in over 100 motion pictures; brother of actor, Dwayne Hickman [who played Dobie Gillis]; died May 22, 20241934 - Jacques d’Amboise
ballet dancer: New York City Ballet: Irish Fantasy, Tschaikovsky Suite No. 2; died May 2, 20211937 - Peter Duchin
pianist, bandleader; son of musician, Eddy Duchin; Board of Directors: Harlem Dance Theatre, NY State Council on Arts1938 - George Cummings
musician: guitar: group: Dr. Hook: Sylvia’s Mother, The Cover of Rolling Stone, [Freakin’ At] The Freakers’ Ball, A Little Bit More, Only Sixteen, When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman, Sharing the Night Together, Sexy Eyes, Better Love Next Time1940 - Phil Proctor
actor: Running Mates, The Independent, Bio-Dome, Bad Attitudes, Night Life, Cyber-C.H.I.C., Everything You Know Is Wrong1943 - Bill Bradley
Basketball Hall of Famer: Princeton Univ., Olympic gold medalist [men’s basketball: Tokyo/1964], NY Knicks; politician: US Senator [New Jersey: elected 1978, 1984, 1990]; author: Life on the Run, Time Present, Time Past1943 - Rick Wright
musician: keyboards: group: Pink Floyd: Another Brick on the Wall; died Sep 15, 20081945 - Jim Davis
cartoonist: Garfield, Tumbleweeds, U.S. Acres1946 - Jonathan Edwards
singer: Sunshine, Everybody Knows Her, Cold Snow, Athens County, Everything Takes Time, One Day Closer1946 - Linda Kelsey
actress: Lou Grant, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Day by Day, The Babysitter’s Seduction, Murder, She Wrote1947 - Barbara Ferrell
National Track & Field Hall of Famer: Olympic medalist: silver: 100 meter dash, gold: 4x100 meter relay [1968]; gold medalist: Pan American Games: 100 meters [1967]; tied world record twice: 100 meters [11.1 seconds, 1967]; head coach: UNLV women‘s track and field/cross country program1947 - Sally (Ann) Struthers
Emmy Award-winning actress: All in the Family [1971-72, 1978]; Five Easy Pieces, The Odd Couple; promoter of the Christian Children’s Fund1948 - Georgia Engel
actress: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Betty White Show, Goodtime Girls, Jennifer Slept Here, Coach; died Apr 12, 20191949 - Vida (Rochelle) Blue
baseball: pitcher: Oakland Athletics [Cy Young Award: 1971/all-star: 1971, 1975, 1977/Baseball Writer’s Award: 1971/World Series: 1972, 1973, 1974], SF Giants [all-star: 1978, 1980, 1981], KC Royals1949 - Peter Doyle
singer: group: The New Seekers: I’d like to Teach the World to Sing, Look What They’ve Done to My Song Ma1949 - Simon Kirke
musician: drums: groups: Free: All Right Now; Bad Company: Can’t Get Enough, Ready for Love, Feel like Makin’ Love1952 - Clint Longley
football: Dallas Cowboys quarterback1953 - Steve Duncan
musician: drums: group: The Desert Rose Band: Love Reunited, One Step Forward, He’s Back and I’m Blue, She Don’t Love Nobody, Summer Wind, I Still Believe in You1954 - Bruce Abbott
actor: House of Re-Animator, Trance, Dillinger, Out of Time, Interzone, Tag: The Assassination Game1954 - Steve Morse
musician: guitar: group: Deep Purple: Hush, Kentucky Woman, Black Night, Speed King, Child in Time, Strange Kind of Woman, Fireball1957 - Scott Pelley
TV news journalist: 60 Minutes; CBS Evening News [anchor, managing editor]1958 - Terry Fox
Marathon of Hope runner: 22 yr.-old cancer-victim with artificial leg completed 3,328 miles of 5,200 planned miles, raising $24 million for cancer research; died June 28, 19811964 - Lori Loughlin
actress: The Night Before, Back to the Beach, Rad, Secret Admirer, The New Kids, Amityville 3: The Demon, The Edge of Night, Full House1968 - Rachel Blakely
actress: Neighbours, Blue Heelers, Tales of the South Seas, Flipper, Xena-Warrior Princess, Counterstrike, Max Knight: Ultra Spy, Tribe, One Way Ticket, Yatgo ho yan, The Feds: Deception1972 - Elizabeth Berkley
actress: Saved by the Bell, The First Wives Club, Random Encounter, Any Given Sunday, Africa, The Elevator, Soulmates1977 - Manu Ginóbili
basketball [shooting guard]: NBA: San Antonio Spurs: NBA champs [2003, 2005, 2007, 2014]; All-Euroleague First Team [2002]; helped his Argentina national team win the gold medal during the 2004 Olympics; one of only two players (with Bill Bradley) to have won a Euroleague title, an NBA championship and an Olympic gold medal1977 - Dexter Jackson
football [safety]: Florida State Univ; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Arizona Cardinals, Cincinnati Bengals1981 - Billy Aaron Brown
actor: Jeepers Creepers II, Holiday in the Sun, 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, Undressed1982 - Cain Velasquez
mixed martial artist: UFC Heavyweight Champ; #1 heavyweight in the world [Sherdog: 2013]1983 - Kelvin Hayden
football [cornerback]: NFL: Indianapolis Colts [2005-2010]: 2007 Super Bowl XLI champs; Atlanta Falcons [2011] Chicago Bears [2012-2014]1984 - Ali Krieger
footballer [defender]: FFC Frankfurt: UEFA Women’s Champions League champs [2008]; captain: Washington Spirit [U.S. National Women’s Soccer League]; U.S. women’s national soccer team: 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup champs; more1986 - Nolan Gerard Funk
actor: Glee, Awkward, Counterpart, Berlin, I Love You, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; Broadway: Bye Bye Birdie revival1990 - Soulja Boy (DeAndre Cortez Way)
rapper: Crank That [Soulja Boy], Kiss Me Thru the Phone, Turn My Swag On [iSouljaBoyTellem], Pretty Boy Swag1998 - Nelly Korda
golf champ: 2024 Chevron Championship; 2021 Women’s PGA Championship; 2020 Olympic gold; represented U.S. at 2019 Solheim Cup, 2021 Solheim Cup, 2023 Solheim Cup
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Dream (facts) - The Pied Pipers
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